3 Resurrections
That's 666 YEARS, folks
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SB, you are speaking of HOW salvation is achieved, not about HOW MANY and WHAT PERCENTAGE of all mankind finally ends up achieving salvation, which is actually the subject of the post originally.
Both Matthew 7 and Luke 13 record the very same conversation that Christ had when discussing a judgment after the resurrection. But Luke goes further and describes just which particular group of people out of all those other ones that Christ would be addressing on that occasion. That particular group out of all the other ones would be protesting their own rejection from entering God's kingdom. Their protest of "Lord, Lord..." would be based on the fact that they had personally sat down to eat and drink with Christ while He was on earth, and had personally experienced Him teaching in their streets. That tells you exactly who that segment of rejected ones actually was going to be, and it would be the Pharisees and the Jews who had rejected Jesus as the Christ after seeing Him minister among them during the first century.
These rejected ones would be thinking that they were entitled to acceptance into God's kingdom merely because they had brushed shoulders - literally - with the Messiah. But mere physical proximity and a personal viewing of Christ as a fellow Jew like themselves would not be enough, as you are stating yourself. They may have been born as a Jewish tribal member, with a shared Jewish heritage just like Christ, but it required being "born again" by the Spirit of God to be accepted in the judgment as a member of God's family.
There would only be a comparatively small "remnant" of Jews at that time who "received" Christ as being their own prophesied Messiah. That is why Christ said there would be "few" of His own people that would find that "narrow gate" in those first-century days. But this temporary "narrow gate" limitation on the number of those coming to salvation certainly did not persist forever. The prophets predicted that the success of gospel evangelism would explode among the nations of the Gentile world, and so it did after those first-century days, in large measure due to the Apostle Paul's evangelistic endeavors. That success has continued to grow among all nations, just as the prophets like Daniel had predicted. The "narrow gate" limitation for that Jewish nation and that single generation is a thing of the past. Since then, God has brought and will bring "MANY sons unto glory". The vast majority of all mankind will experience God's grace in salvation, or there would be no reason to call it a "WHEAT" harvest - it would instead be called a "TARES" harvest for the resurrection of the dead.
Both Matthew 7 and Luke 13 record the very same conversation that Christ had when discussing a judgment after the resurrection. But Luke goes further and describes just which particular group of people out of all those other ones that Christ would be addressing on that occasion. That particular group out of all the other ones would be protesting their own rejection from entering God's kingdom. Their protest of "Lord, Lord..." would be based on the fact that they had personally sat down to eat and drink with Christ while He was on earth, and had personally experienced Him teaching in their streets. That tells you exactly who that segment of rejected ones actually was going to be, and it would be the Pharisees and the Jews who had rejected Jesus as the Christ after seeing Him minister among them during the first century.
These rejected ones would be thinking that they were entitled to acceptance into God's kingdom merely because they had brushed shoulders - literally - with the Messiah. But mere physical proximity and a personal viewing of Christ as a fellow Jew like themselves would not be enough, as you are stating yourself. They may have been born as a Jewish tribal member, with a shared Jewish heritage just like Christ, but it required being "born again" by the Spirit of God to be accepted in the judgment as a member of God's family.
There would only be a comparatively small "remnant" of Jews at that time who "received" Christ as being their own prophesied Messiah. That is why Christ said there would be "few" of His own people that would find that "narrow gate" in those first-century days. But this temporary "narrow gate" limitation on the number of those coming to salvation certainly did not persist forever. The prophets predicted that the success of gospel evangelism would explode among the nations of the Gentile world, and so it did after those first-century days, in large measure due to the Apostle Paul's evangelistic endeavors. That success has continued to grow among all nations, just as the prophets like Daniel had predicted. The "narrow gate" limitation for that Jewish nation and that single generation is a thing of the past. Since then, God has brought and will bring "MANY sons unto glory". The vast majority of all mankind will experience God's grace in salvation, or there would be no reason to call it a "WHEAT" harvest - it would instead be called a "TARES" harvest for the resurrection of the dead.
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