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What percentage of Israel do you think 3000 represents?
What does that matter?
1 Kings 19:18 (cf. Romans 11:4)
Yet I have reserved seven thousand in Israel, all whose knees have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth that has not kissed him.”
What percentage of Israel do you think these 7000 represented?
Whatever percentage it was, it was all that was needed, no?
No, they are remnant believing Israel who stayed put and faithfully followed Israel's Messiah.Do you think the Jews that were part of the church, are the ones "broken off" the vine?
Or, do you think the VAST majority of the Jews are what Paul is discussing in Rom 11, and that the VAST majority did NOT accept Jesus?
The Vast Majority in 1 Kings Bowed to Baal, but Israel FULLY continued through the Tiny Remnant of 7000, no?
As always, the continuation of Israel in times of Apostasy is carried on through the FAITHFUL REMNANT only.
The rest are Destroyed and have NO INHERITANCE.
TRUE Israel is carried on not through the lineages of the wicked sons but rather through the OBEDIENT FEW (called the "remnant"), such as was true in Moses' Day (Acts 7:37-38), Isaiah's day (Romans 9:27-29) Elijah's day (Romans 11:3-5). and Paul's Day (Romans 11:5)
Your attempt to spin the term "fullness" ignores ALL the other texts on the subject.
I'm not spinning anything... I'm using scripture to interpret scripture.
Why don't you take the "fulness" verses I cited and show me why they do not mean what I contend?
Lets try an replace "fulness" in those verses with your spin of "full number" and see how it works out:
John 1:16
And of his full number have all we received, and grace for grace.
Romans 11:12 Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their full number?
Romans 15:29 And I am sure that, when I come unto you, I shall come in the full number of the blessing of the gospel of Christ.
Ephesians 1:23 Which is his body, the full number of him that filleth all in all.
This is the way you interpret these verses??
And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shallbe led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
Times of the Gentiles does not = Fulness of the Gentiles.
No scripture teaches what you are claiming.
In the Parallel verse in Revelation, we see that the "Time of Gentile trampling" was ordained to last exactly 42 months after it began:
Revelation 11:2
But leave out the court which is outside the temple, and do not measure it, for it has been given to the Gentiles. And they will tread the holy city underfoot for forty-two months.
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