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To: topcat54; Quix
It was egotistical of the Jews to see the "restoration" purely in terms of national Israel. The disciples in Acts one fell into their old pattern of thought, as evidenced by their question about the kingdom and Israel. But once the Holy Spirit was poured out on Pentecost a short time later, they thought patterns changed and they say the fulfillment in terms of the entire world. Never again did they make mention of the restoration of national Israel.

Until the Council of Jerusalem in 49 AD which affirmed that Jesus would return after the times of the Gentiles to restore Jerusalem and set up the kingdom from there in Acts 15:

"Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name. And to this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written, After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up: That the residue of men might seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, saith the Lord, who doeth all these things."

Some things I guess were just hard to forget for those Jewish apostles, especially when filled with the Holy Spirit at Pentecost.

746 posted on 10/31/2007 7:13:02 PM PDT by Uncle Chip (TRUTH : Ignore it. Deride it. Allegorize it. Interpret it. But you can't ESCAPE it.)
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To: Uncle Chip; Lord_Calvinus
Some things I guess were just hard to forget for those Jewish apostles, especially when filled with the Holy Spirit at Pentecost.

Actually, if you read the passage in Acts 15 very carefully you will see that what James is referring to is the then present calling of the gentiles, since it was the nature of that calling that was the present dispute before the council (whether gentiles needed to convert to Judaism after coming to faith in Christ). If was not the future, but the present that was James and Peter’s concern. As was their custom, the interpret the OT prophecy and apply it to Christ and the present, not the far distant future (the lone habitation of the dispensationalist).

Once again your futurist presuppositions cloud the plain reading of the text.

754 posted on 10/31/2007 8:12:43 PM PDT by topcat54 ("Friends don't let friends listen to dispensationalists.")
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