The majority of Jews stayed in Gentile lands. Only a remnant returned to Israel.
Many stayed abroad and many stayed in the Judaean province of Rome. They were all still Israelites after the flesh, but no longer Israelites ruling over their own nation.
The zealots continued calling it their own nation, for which they had Jesus crucified,
If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him: and the Romans shall come and take away both our place and nation.
They then fulfilled their own prophecy and were mostly wiped out, while getting their great city Jerusalem sacked worse than the Babylonians did.
They were the same hard hearted unrepentant Jews that refused to go to Babylon.
Your Jewish history from the unrepentant zealots view, is as corrupt as your pseudo-Jewish Christianity.
When Christ ascended He sent His disciples to the majority in Gentile lands
When Christ ascended after commanding them to do so, they hung around waiting for His
immediate return in the air, and had to be shooed on to Jerusalem by angels sent by Him.
They stayed put in Jerusalem only ministering to fellow Jews in Jerusalem, until Stephen was martyred by the Jews, hey were scattered by Jewish persecution.
But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.
The commandment from Jesus to bear witness of Himself as Christ, was the same of His commandment to repent:
to all men every where.
He says nothing of being witnesses unto whom, but only where.
I see we still have zealot Jews in the Christian ranks, of the same sort as before among the people of Israel, who proudly boast that God is only calling themselves unto repentance and salvation of the risen God of Israel.
It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
This is when many of the Jewish disciples turn back from Jesus. They didn't mind a
Jewish Messiah commanding them to repent, for indeed there have been many Jewish messiahs before and after Jesus Christ, that come and go commanding
only Jews to repent.
to herald to the majority in Gentile lands that their Messiah had come.
And to the Athenians in Gentile Athens.
Now I see why you forsake common grammatical intelligence, in order to insist your Jews-only messiah only calls your Jewish people to repentance.
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
You preach just another tired old Jews-only messiah, where their is neither Gentile nor
any Greek at all.
The Jews' messiah only comes for Jews after the flesh. The Son and Christ of God of the Bible, that says no such flesh matters in the NT of the risen God of Israel, is still anathema to Jewish genealogical 'inheritance'.
It's the main reason the hardened hearts of the children still blaspheme His gospel message from heaven today, even as their forefathers had Him crucified on earth.
Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.
Then out of 3000 Jews born-again on the Day of Pentecost they went back home and shared Jesus where they went. More Jews were saved.
At the end of four decades 40,325,000 (that's million) Jews were saved
If you say so. And like the zealot unrepented Jews of old, it's still all about a proud listing of numbers of flesh, not about names written in the Lamb's book of life.
Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do.
Beasts are all about numbers of men and women.
Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man.
and Christ built His Church.
Built? Not building?
I read nothing about Jesus having already built His church, but about still building on His Rock of confessing Him Lord Jesus:
For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.
Contradiction #8
Jesus has stopped building His church on earth. He certainly has with reprobates. First you preach a christ justifying your sinning, and now you preach Jesus Christ has stopped building you in His church and body:
But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost, Keeping yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
As I said, you have added several new ones for the record book of error. I have never heard anyone say Jesus 'has stopped'.
Nor have I heard Jews after the flesh claiming they are the only ones called to Christ.
You must still circumcise on the 8th day by law. Afterall, that's the only way to be a
real Jew, which you say is the only ones called unto your christ.
This is amazingly profound: you are a zealot Jew after the flesh, according to the law, in Christian form. You preach only a Jew's messiah
only coming to Israel after the flesh, and now has rounded up all the Jews on earth that he wants, and 'has stopped'.
And now what are we all waiting for? I tell you now exactly what
you are waiting for: You are waiting for your messiah to come again only to you christ-Jews. And when he does come in the flesh again
as from the dead, he will finally demonstrate his great power over all men and the earth.
And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,
So long as he is comes only
a Jews' christ, that's all that matters to you. Many such have of course already come and still come today. But the last great one will come to deceive all men ever where (everywhere), not just
Jews-only messianics at heart.
(I like that. Many times some of the best pithy sayings come in accurate response to outlandish errors, both of Jews and Christians alike)
