:juggle:In Zech 14, it is God, the Father, who stands on the mount of olives....not the Messiah.
Romans 9:6 is very easy to understand, but many (like yourself) get it COMPLETELY backwards.
The CONTEXT of Romans 9-11 is ISRAEL. It is NOT gentiles.
Paul is explaining that the promises that God made with Israel only apply to BELIEVING ISRAEL.
Paul is EXCLUDING UNBELIEVING ISRAEL from the promises that God made to THEM!
The first FIVE verses clearly show the CONTEXT of what Paul is about to write:
Rom 9:1-5 (AKJV/PCE)(9:1) I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, (9:2) That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. (9:3) For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh: (9:4) Who are Israelites; to whom [pertaineth] the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service [of God], and the promises; (9:5) Whose [are] the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ [came], who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.
How can you MISS IT? Because you have OTHER PLANS for the text, what's why!
That's my point EXACTLY! The New Testament CANNOT even BEGIN until the DEATH of the TESTATOR. That does NOT happen until the VERY END of the "four gospels".
Let's NOT skip Revelation for now. It's TOTALLY and COMPLETELY Israelite start to finish.
Rev 21:22-27 (AKJV/PCE)(21:22) And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. (21:23) And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb [is] the light thereof. (21:24) And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it. (21:25) And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there. (21:26) And they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations into it. (21:27) And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither [whatsoever] worketh abomination, or [maketh] a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life.
Compare this is the prophet of ISRAEL that spoke about the SAME EXACT THING.
Isa 60:16-22 (AKJV/PCE)(60:16) Thou shalt also suck the milk of the Gentiles, and shalt suck the breast of kings: and thou shalt know that I the LORD [am] thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob. (60:17) For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron: I will also make thy officers peace, and thine exactors righteousness. (60:18) Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise. (60:19) The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the LORD shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory. (60:20) Thy sun shall no more go down; neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for the LORD shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended. (60:21) Thy people also [shall be] all righteous: they shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified. (60:22) A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the LORD will hasten it in his time.
PROVE IT!
P.S. Bonus question: Why does one writer of thirteen epistles in what you claim is ALL NT, never ONCE refer to Jesus as the Lamb of God?
Romans 9:6 is very easy to understand, but many (like yourself) get it COMPLETELY backwards.
The CONTEXT of Romans 9-11 is ISRAEL. It is NOT gentiles.
Paul is explaining that the promises that God made with Israel only apply to BELIEVING ISRAEL.
Paul is EXCLUDING UNBELIEVING ISRAEL from the promises that God made to THEM!
The first FIVE verses clearly show the CONTEXT of what Paul is about to write:
Rom 9:1-5 (AKJV/PCE)(9:1) I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, (9:2) That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. (9:3) For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh: (9:4) Who are Israelites; to whom [pertaineth] the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service [of God], and the promises; (9:5) Whose [are] the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ [came], who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.
How can you MISS IT? Because you have OTHER PLANS for the text, what's why!
That's my point EXACTLY! The New Testament CANNOT even BEGIN until the DEATH of the TESTATOR. That does NOT happen until the VERY END of the "four gospels".
Let's NOT skip Revelation for now. It's TOTALLY and COMPLETELY Israelite start to finish.
Rev 21:22-27 (AKJV/PCE)(21:22) And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. (21:23) And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb [is] the light thereof. (21:24) And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it. (21:25) And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there. (21:26) And they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations into it. (21:27) And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither [whatsoever] worketh abomination, or [maketh] a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life.
Compare this is the prophet of ISRAEL that spoke about the SAME EXACT THING.
Isa 60:16-22 (AKJV/PCE)(60:16) Thou shalt also suck the milk of the Gentiles, and shalt suck the breast of kings: and thou shalt know that I the LORD [am] thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob. (60:17) For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron: I will also make thy officers peace, and thine exactors righteousness. (60:18) Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise. (60:19) The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the LORD shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory. (60:20) Thy sun shall no more go down; neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for the LORD shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended. (60:21) Thy people also [shall be] all righteous: they shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified. (60:22) A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the LORD will hasten it in his time.
PROVE IT!
P.S. Bonus question: Why does one writer of thirteen epistles in what you claim is ALL NT, never ONCE refer to Jesus as the Lamb of God?
RD wrote:
The CONTEXT of Romans 9-11 is ISRAEL. It is NOT gentiles.
Paul is explaining that the promises that God made with Israel only apply to BELIEVING ISRAEL.
Paul is EXCLUDING UNBELIEVING ISRAEL from the promises that God made to THEM!
I don't need to be told what the topic is, but thanks.
If God's promises apply only to believing Israel, what about 'all Israel will be saved'? Hmmm. But ch 9 tells us that there is an "us" to whom this all applies and it is both Jew and Gentile. 9:26.
You are not that far off, making the distinction you have made, but I bet you don't count any Gentiles in the seed of Abraham as you should, as ch 9 and Gal 3-4 do. You'll need to work on that.
RD was seeking proof of the OT passages that say the land promises were fulfilled.
You really need to read your OT clearly. Joshua has several. 21:45.
Psalms have several. 48, 50, 68, 78.
The chronicler says I Chr 29:14+
Haggai refers to the post-exile fulfillment but laments that it was so diminished.
Calm down, do some homework with biblegateway.com, and you won't look so silly saying things like PROVE IT!!!!
Danoh wrote:
Romans 11:26's "all Israel" was not only already identified by Paul as all the BELIEVING remnant of Israel in Isaac, you incompetent, but "as it is written."
But he says it includes Gentiles 9:26 with 4 proofs from the OT. I win again.
No, o clueless one.
In Romans 9 he is asserting...
God's right to do as He wills in His sovereignty...
1 - how that He has once more delayed His Prophesied wrath as to Israel...
2 - during their Prophesied disobedience....
3 - that He might first do something else...
4 - prior to His unleashing of His Prophesied wrath unto them
5 - followed by His Prophesied return unto them in His Prophesied mercy unto them.
He is relating that said delay is because God is doing something else first.
And he cites several examples from Israel's past where all that had also been the case.
This here, you incompetent....
Romans 9:25 As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved. 9:26 And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God.
Is NOT a reference to this here...
Romans 9:24 Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
Rather, 9:25-26 are one more example cited by Paul of a time in Israel's past wherein God had "ALSO" delayed His pending, Prophesied wrath as to Israel during their Prophesied disobedience, that He might do something else, prior to His Prophesied return unto them in His Prophesied mercy unto them.
Romans 9:22 What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: 9:23 And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory, 9:24 Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
That is why He has delayed His Prophesied wrath unto them during their Prophesied disobedience, prior to His pouring out of said Prophesied wrath unto them, prior to His Prophesied return unto them in His Prophesied mercy unto them.
Paul then cites other times in Israel's history where this same recurrent pattern of God's had ALSO been the case.
Example 1:
Romans 9:25 As he saith ALSO in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.
Romans 9:26 AND it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God.
Then ALSO, God had not been through with Israel.
Example 2:
Romans 9:27 Esaias ALSO crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:
Romans 9:28 FOR HE WILL finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: BECAUSE a short work WILL the Lord make upon the earth.
Nope, you and I do not hold to the same God.
Yours is the Promise breaker of Preterism and that fool Holford.
One More:
Romans 9:29 AND AS ESAIS SAID BEFORE, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha.
What then has happened concerning Israel that God has delayed all the above - during their Prophesied disobedience, once more?
Romans 9:30 What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith. 9:31 But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness. 9:32 Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone; 9:33 As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.
Romans 10 continues this same theme.
Romans 11 summarizes it.
Always your silly, unscriptural responses. So tiring.... What about the New Jerusalem? It's pretty important.The reason the Isaiah passage is the source of the Rev 21 passage is because it is about the NHNE, not another episode in Judea.
I explained the CONTEXT and MEANING of Romans 9 to you, but you're too dumb to understand it.The Revelation is "totally and completely Israelite" because it is about what would happen in the mid-1st century there. I was avoiding it because it is so symbolic, and starts over, and does not compute, and is not in normal language like those passages. It is not about a distant future, the 1st page says. It is not a good idea to base anything on the Rev that is not entirely clear elsewhere, and you are a scratch on Rom 9, so you'll really have to work on it.
I explained the CONTEXT and MEANING of Romans 9 to you, but you're too dumb to understand it.