patman said:
"An Era of Grace to the Gentiles" those words all belong together. Jesus and the 12 did not preach a message of Grace only, but works and faith. "Be baptized to be saved," is a work. Not grace.
God always wanted the Gentiles, he said that all along. But he wanted them to follow the law, and the idea that your salvation depends on nothing (this is what Grace is) is a new idea in scripture. So this is the Mystery. I think you missed that point when you posted the above.
Jesus taught that all men of every sort were to be called into the "house" of Israel, so that the Father's "House would be full, because those who refused who were first invited to come in when the feast was prepared for them -to come to the wedding- would never taste His banquet.
The House is "Israel", not Moses', and not "paul's".
Christ is the Living Spirit who is come as Israel, the New Man. If you want to be a part of the Father's kingdom of heaven then you must be born again into the Living Spirit.
This is the Day of invitation to all nations to come in and be made partakers of the great feast [His Sabbath Feast of Finished Works for our Salvation]
prepared for all men. on His "Holy Mountain".
Isa 25:6 ¶ And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all NATIONS*** a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.
Isa 25:7 And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over all nations.
Isa 25:8 He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken [it].
The message is over the reach of those blinded by false doctrine's, as all who refuse to learn of Him are blinded by Him, on purpose, and they have no understanding that the Rest of His Day was promised from the beginning to all seed of Adam who lost the son-ship the dominionm, the rule, and the glory, by being cut off, made dead in spirit, in Adam, and who are all called to come into son-ship by the New and Living Way, His Mercy Seat body, which He came in to be the Revelation/Light to all nations.
Isa 28:12 To whom he said,
This [is] the rest [wherewith] ye may cause the weary to rest; and this [is] the refreshing: yet they would not hear.
The message of the Living Oracles was the Rest of YHWH, the ceasing from our dead works and by His blood made acceptable and given the power to be called the sons of God, and made acceptable by His “Acceptable Sabbath Rest of His Finished Works” -all Gentiles are called to come into His kingdom in this Day of Rest =Salvation from dead works.
He came unto His own, and His own received Him not, but to as many as received Him [of all nations] to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name. -long before Paul heard the story of the “Grace” born into the world who was come to bring all men back to the Father, men and angels proclaimed the Salvation to all nations freely offered by the “Acceptable Season of YHWH” .
The power to be sons of God was given to all who believed/received His name for Salvation for themselves. The thief on the cross confessed his own sins and asked the LORD to remember him when He came into His kingdom, and the LORD granted him the power to be “son of God” that day, and to enter in.
Ceasing from our own works and entering into His Sabbath Rest of finished works is His Acceptable Season for Jews and for Gentiles.
The keepers of the Living Oracles were offered the Rest of finished works in His Atonement first. The Gentiles last.
Guess who came to give this “Good Pleasure of the Father to all nations? -Jesus did; but you who follow the doctrine of Mad would bypass the LORD of Glory and grant unto a pseudo paul “all but dying on the cross” [as another wise man said on another board], but Paul of Scripture rebukes your doctrine for claiming the name of any man, for only the LORD of Glory has come to die for your sins and adopt you into His New Man Living human being house for the Father’s Glory to indwell in the regeneration of all things.
Grace! Grace! shouted the angels, when His New Man “Headstone” body of the second creation House for the Father‘s Glory was brought into the world.
Simeon and Paul only repeated what Isaiah and also Enoch wrote.
BTW -Paul called Enoch Scripture, which I wrote previously on this thread, and Jesus called the writings of Enoch the “Wisdom of God”, which Enoch also said was given him to write for all men.
And Paul laboured more abundantly than all to prove his own acceptability [so he thought anyway, but the Day of revealing of the secrets of every man’s hearts will declare if Paul actually did
more works than “they all”.
And all in Adam were brought into the world to do good works prepared for them to walk in for the Glory of the Father before the foundation of the world.
His Rest is entered into by all Jews and Gentiles who are born of His Spirit and become obedient to His commands.
Isa 25:6 ¶ And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.