1. I knew that but I just wanted to make sure you were clear since you were big on plain statements.
2. I am sorry to inform you that you are wrong.
Matthew 18:22-23; Peter didn’t have a clue about the plan of redemption was about the cross and that is why Jesus rebuked him and said he didn’t savor the things of God.
He was also rebuking Satan for he was using Peter. This is a double reference.
John 6:50-58 show the disciples didn’t understand eating Christ flesh and drinking his blood meant his crucifixion.
They only knew he had the words to eternal life.
I don't know what Bible you are reading; probably a Scofield. But that is totally anti-biblical conclusions.
There's a big difference between being ignorant and not
fully getting it. What is more, there's a big difference between ignorance and
not wanting to accept the inevitable. His death was central to his earthly ministry and to His kingdom assignment. Pretribber ignore this because it is one of 10,000 matters that refute the doctrine. Your continued avoidance on every subject reinforces that truth to those watching on. Your failure to quote Scripture confirms that. The reader will see the post after post remains unaddressed.
Dispensationalists wrongly argue that Christ’s overriding purpose for coming to this earth at His first advent was to set up a physical earthly kingdom in Israel. In that kingdom, they believe, the Lord would reign upon the earth on the literal physical throne of David in which He would rule over all His enemies. They say that when the Jews rejected His overtures, His plans were thwarted and He thus was forced to abandon His initial desire. They argue that His plans have now been postponed from the resurrection until ‘the rapture’, when He will finally realise and implement His Divine desire.
Jesus said, in Matthew 20:28,
“the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.”
Jesus said in Luke 19:10,
“For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.”
Jesus said in Luke 9:56,
“For the Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them.”
Jesus said, in Luke 9:22,
“The Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be slain, and be raised the third day.”
Jesus succinctly said in Luke 24:46,
“Thus it is written, (and thus it behoved) Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day.”
Christ’s death was not an accident, or a kind of ‘plan b’, no, but the foreordained eternal plan of God for lost-sinners. Christ would thus perfectly fulfil that with which God had fully ordained! Jesus said, prior to Calvary, in Luke 22:22,
“truly the Son of man goeth, as it was determined.”
Contrary to some interpreters, God eternal plan could not be thwarted. Christ came to save a particular people by the shedding of His blood – and this He did. He was foreordained for such an end; without which, no man – Jew or Gentile could have been saved. John says of this matter, in chapter 1 verses 11-13,
“He came unto his own, and his own received him not. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.”
Jesus said, in Matthew 12:40,
“For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.”
Matthew records, in 16:21-23,
“From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day. Then Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far from thee, Lord: this shall not be unto thee. But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.”
Jesus said in John 3:14-15,
“as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up. That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.”
Christ, Himself, knew that He would be rejected by the broad base of the Jewish people, such was in the prevailing plan of God. However, He also ordained that the Gospel would be opened to all nations through His life, death and resurrection. In fact He prophesied such in John 9:39, saying,
“For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind.”
Jesus said, in John 10:15-18,
“I lay down my life for the sheep…No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.”
Jesus said, in John 12:31-33,
“Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out. And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me. This he said, signifying what death he should die.”
Israel wilful rejection of God’s only provision for sin and uncleanness was God’s means for reaching the nations. Jesus intimated such, whilst speaking to the Jews, in Matthew 21:42-44, asking, “Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes? Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof. And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.”
The Bible tells us that Christ came into the world to save sinners. 1 Timothy 1:15 declares,
“This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.”
The writer of the book of Acts 2:23 stated,
“Him (Christ),
being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain.”
Thirdly, if Christ had not come into this world and took the sinners place by shedding His blood no one within the old or the new economy could have realised salvation. Hebrews 9:22 says,
“without shedding of blood is no remission.”
Acts 13:28-30 says,
“And though they found no cause of death in him, yet desired they Pilate that he should be slain. And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a sepulchre.”
At the time of Christ’s first Advent, the nation of Israel had been in rebellion against God for many hundreds of years. When the Redeemer came they were in such blindness that the nation as a whole largely rejected Him and His message. Their rebellion was such that they took it upon themselves to crucify the Son of glory – their only hope of salvation. This was in no way a shock to God and in no way precipitated a change in the Divine plan. Christ was
“the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world” (Revelation 13:8). He was predestined to come into this world as a substitutionary sacrifice – without which no man would be saved.
1 Corinthians 15:3-4 says,
“Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures.”
1 Peter 1:18-20 confirms this Divine plan and purpose,
“Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you.”
God in His Sovereignty sent a provision to this sin-cursed world in the form of His dear Son – the Lord Jesus Christ. For all that would truly believe – of all kindred’s, peoples and nations.