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As it's already been brought up, the passages written in present tense (written almost 2,000 years ago) seem to be getting ignored in order to hold onto a futurist belief. This is one of those passages getting pushed to the side and ignored:
Acts 2Please read full context here to see Peter’s answer
5Now there were dwelling(b) in Jerusalem God-fearing Jews from every nation under heaven.
6And when this sound rang out, a crowd came together in bewilderment, because each one heard them speaking his own language
7Astounded and amazed, they asked, “Are not all these men who are speaking Galileans? 8How is it then that each of us hears them in his own native language? 9Parthians, Medes, and Elamites; residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,c 10Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya near Cyrene; visitors from Rome, 11both Jews and converts to Judaism; Cretans and Arabs—we hear them declaring the wonders of God in our own tongues!”12Astounded and perplexed, they asked one another, “What does this mean?”
This is true and I agree 100% with this. It is the Word of God after all. But it doesn't fulfill the terms of the new covenant declared by god:
Jeremiah 31:31-34
King James Version
31 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the Lord:
33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
If one reads carefully, one does not see God saying I will make a new covenant with SOME of the house of Israel and with SOME of the house of Judah!
Then in verse 34 it says "ALL show know me" not MOST or MANY or SOME or just a REMNANT.
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