IF Torah will be taught from Jerusalem in the messianic age , then why would anyone think that gentiles should be taught anything less now? Why only are gentiles to worship God in 7 ways and deprive them of all the blessings made for mankind?
No one, to my knowledge, has said at any point that Torah will not be taught from Jerusalem in the Messianic Age. What is known, however, is that there is and can never be any escaping the reality of how Torah progressed over time and what was taught in one age (Torah) will NOT be taught in another on all aspects (still Torah).
To assume such would be a false scenario and imposing more on the Messianic Age than it actually speaks of - as well as assuming we know better than the Lord because He chose to do things differently than we'd like. There was never anything at any point saying that the Torah taught from Jerusalem was in accordance with the mindset of Gentiles doing everything that Hebrews did since the Mosaic Torah never advocated that in the first place - thus making it a matter of Gentiles never being taught to do "less" than what will occur in the future.
As said
best elsewhere from Jewish Virtual Library (for brief excerpt):
Ancient Israel was acquainted with two classes of strangers, resident aliens and foreigners who considered their sojourn in the land more or less temporary. The latter were referred to as zarim (זָרִים
or nokhrim (נָכְרִים
, terms generally applied to anyone outside the circle the writer had in view (e.g., Ex. 21:8; 29:33). They retained their ties to their original home and sought to maintain their former political or social status. On occasion they came as invaders (II Sam. 22:45–46; Obad. 11). More often they entered the land in the pursuit of trade and other commercial ventures. The usual laws were not applicable to them, and they were protected by folk traditions concerning the proper treatment of strangers (cf. Job 31:32) and by special conventions resulting from contractual arrangements between the Israelites and their neighbors (cf. I Kings 20:34). In the legislation of Deuteronomy, an Israelite may charge a foreigner usury though he may not do so to a fellow Israelite (Deut. 23:21), and the septennial remission of debts does not apply to the debts of foreigners (Deut. 15:3). On the other hand, barred from the cult (Ex. 12:43), the foreigner was also not bound by the ritual laws, and it was permissible to sell him animals that had died a natural death (Deut. 14:21). The fact that Deuteronomy includes a special prohibition against foreigners' ascending the throne (Deut. 17:15) and that Solomon specifically requested that God listen to their prayers (I Kings 8:41) may indicate the important position some foreigners occupied during the age of the monarchy.
In contrast with the foreigner, the ger (גֵּר
, the resident alien, lived more or less permanently in his adopted community. Like the Arabic jār, he was "the protected stranger," who was totally dependent on his patrons for his well-being. As W.R. Smith noted, his status was an extension of that of the guest, whose person was inviolable, though he could not enjoy all the privileges of the native. He, in turn, was expected to be loyal to his protectors (Gen. 21:23) and to be bound by their laws (Num. 15:15–16). Prior to the Exodus, resident aliens as a class were unknown in Israel. On the contrary, the Israelites themselves were gerim (Ex. 22:20) as were their ancestors (Gen. 15:13; cf. 23:4; Ex. 2:22). Aliens were apparently attracted to their ranks when they left Egypt (Ex. 12:38, 48), and their numbers were further augmented during the time of the conquest of Canaan (Josh. 9:3ff.). By far the greatest number of gerim consisted of the earlier inhabitants of Canaan, many of whom were neither slain as Deuteronomy commands (cf. e.g., 7:2) nor reduced to total slavery (cf. I Kings 5:29; II Chron. 2:16–17). Immigrants also were numbered among them – foreigners who sought refuge in times of drought and famine (cf. Ruth 1:1) and refugees who fled before invading armies.
We know that all of the landed property belonged to Israelites ( Lev. 25:23–24) - and that the Gentiles present were largely day laborers and artisans (Deut. 24: 14–15, Deuteronomy 29:10) - showing them to be those who were dependent (Ex. 23:12) and the Decalogue referred to them as "your stranger" ( Ex. 20:10, Deut. 5:14), showing how they were not equals in society according to Mosaic Code. It was because of the vulnerability foreigners had that the Israelites were reminded of how the Lord had concern for the weak (Ex. 22:21–22 and Deut. 10:17–19) and were not to harm them (Ex. 22:20) or abuse them (Deut. 24:14) - and in regards to the law and justice, they were to receive equal treatment before the law (Deut. 1:16, Deuteronomy 24:17-19) - the entire context of having "one standard for stranger and citizen alike" (Lev. 24:22).
And the special treatment of them was done in light of the background the Hebrews had coming out of Egypt themselves as foreigners (Lev. 19:34, Deut. 10:19) - and this was to be done for all.
Of course we see mixture occurring with Gentiles and Hebrews - as noted directly in
Leviticus 24:10 when there was the example of an Israelite woman's son, whose father was an Egyptian, and who went out among the people of Israel harming his parents. The Egyptian father didn't deserve to be cursed alongside his Israelite wife - and the son himself was rebellious toward his parents, even though the Egyptian father could not be a member of the congregation, as, according to the subsequently promoted law (Deuteronomy 23:8), the descendant of an Egyptian could not be admitted till the third generation - and thus, he seemed to have committed two offenses which led up to his great crime.
But the Lord was serious about application of the Law/mercy for others within it. In fact, as noted in the appendix of civil-damage laws ("law of retaliation" - also noted in Exodus 21:23-25 and Deuteronomy 19:21), Leviticus 24:15-22 notes how those laws even applied to the stranger - and that was one of the great moral achievements of the legislation preserved in Leviticus. For every distinction is eradication, not only between the powerful and the helpless, but even between the Israelite and the non-Israelite - and the interpolation of these civil statues, with their emphasis upon the resident alien, was due to the legal status of the half-Israelite offender whose father was Egyptian.
And yet even with this, it did not change the fact that there were still other laws throughout the Mosaic Torah that had clear-cut distinctions between Gentiles (of all categories) and Jews.
Torah spoke of relationship with Gentiles in the Land of Israel (both those who left from Egypt with the Hebrews/were at the mountain...and those who came to live in Israel/Sojourn there as foreigners) - there were those who became voluntarily one with the People of Israel (like a Ruth the Moabite or a Rahab the Prostitute) and others who didn't but still had relationship with the Lord/did work with Israel (as with Jethro the Midianite Priest in Exodus 18/Exodus 2-3 or his brother-in-law Hobab son of Reuel in Numbers 10:28-36, who helped to guide the Israelites) ...and laws within the Torah were made explictly for both. Never did the Hebrews have room to think "Well, the Gentiles get away with LESS!!!" when the Lord said noted how laws given to Israel in the Torah do not necessarily apply to non-Jews as evident from Deuteronomy 14:21 when it says "Do not eat anything you find already dead. You may give it to an alien living in any of your towns, and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner."
And there are many other laws besides that - Torah had sub-laws and differing categories - so if that was taught even in the time of Moses, then there's no reason to assume any less would be taught in the Messianic time.......nor would there be room to assume that what occurred with the Noahide Laws based on the sub-laws in the Torah were a matter of having "less blessing for Gentiles" since even the Lord knew that the instructions He gave for the variety of Gentiles in Israel were a matter of blessing for them.
And as it is, we don't say there's "less of a blessing" because we're not taught on
polygamy within a male-dominated society/the provisions for a man having
Two or more wives (or how some slaves were beaten)- or
how to handle slaves and the issue of capital punishment for a host of reasons - because what was taught in the Mosaic Code is not what will be taught in the Messianic Age when those things are no longer present...
As noted in
#75 and
#79, it is the case that Israel itself (during the Messianic age) will be akin to an Empire ruling the world with other vassal nations it works alongside who will support it - Gentiles present in those nations and following the Lord, just as there will be Gentiles within Israel akin to the Physical Israelites (when they identify fully) - but there will be variation. Just as King Solomon's kingdom did trade/connections with nations all round it (I Kings 5:12 being a prime example) and wisdom was shared from all over the world (I Kings 4) while Israel had a GLOBAL reach in its kingdom, so it'll be with Israel. The Law of God that Israel was given by the Lord will be the dominant rule gone by globally in the Millenial Kingdom - the way we treat our neighbors and walking in love for Messiah being what matters above all else - but as it concerns different cultural expressions and dress, that will still vary in the times to come. It will be in many ways like the Persian Empire in its diversity (as Daniel and Esther experienced) - or tributary systems.
As an aside, even before the Messianic Kingdom will begin (and prior to the time of Christ), it was never the case that Gentiles never knew of who the Lord was - all have the Law of God written on their hearts (Romans 1-2) when it comes to understanding many things which are basic and common grace. And thus, when the Lord was noted to have spoken on the Mountain to Israel in Exodus 19-20, it was not necessarily the case that it was the FIRST TIME He ever spoke to people. He already spoke to Job (who was not a Hebrew and yet a follower of the Lord) - and historically, it has been shown all over the world where there have been concepts well known in other cultures that confirmed what was noted to the Israelites.
God spoke to the Hawaiians and the Native Americans - and he also spoke to those in the Asian world, as well as other places
His dealings with other nations outside of Israel (just as his dealings with other disciples outside of the 12 that Jesus noted in Mark 9 with one casting out demons in his name - with the 12 offended they didn't know and he wasn't with them).....that is between the Lord and others he works with. As
mentioned elsewhere, there are excellent studies on the matter ...one of them being C
hrist the Eternal Tao and another being an excellent book on the subject I've been blessed by known as
"Faith of Our Fathers: God in Ancient China" by
Dr. G. Wright Doyle - more discussed in
The One True God In Ancient China - Journey To Orthodoxy. It's truly amazing considering what many other Chinese have noted when it came to the differing religions of their cultures - and how MONOTHEISM was already present in the ancient history of China....with the other religions that developed later losing sight of the roots that were always present - and those new religions all having aspects of early truth that as lost.