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Is 56:
6 “Also the foreigners who join themselves to the Lord,
To attend to His service and to love the name of the Lord,
To be His servants, every one who keeps the Sabbath so as not to profane it,
And holds firmly to My covenant;
7 Even those I will bring to My holy mountain,
And make them joyful in My house of prayer.
Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be acceptable on My altar;
For My house will be called a house of prayer for all the peoples.”
8 The Lord God, who gathers the dispersed of Israel, declares,
“I will yet gather others to them, to those already gathered.”
The liturgy of worship in the OT included animal sacrifices... since Christ had not yet been crucified.
A lot of Christians today will admit to this Bible fact.
No wonder then that we see gentiles worshiping in the house of God - in synagogues "Sabbath after Sabbath" in Acts 13, in Acts 17 and in Acts 18:4
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IN Matt 21 Jesus addresses the bartering and cheating going on the temple court with money changers and those who sold animals for sacrifice at extortion prices - His claim is that Is 56 is making the house of God - a house of prayer for all nations "not just Jews" and they should not be extorting people in the court of the temple because it is a house of prayer... and not just for Jews to pray.
You may have to think about it for a few more minutes in that case... start by reading Acts 13, 17 and 18.
Nothing in those chapters says that gentiles are to join in prayer in God's house UNTIL Jesus comes and dies for their sins at which point God rejects them.
Rather they are welcomed in worship in the Lord's house EVEN AFTER the resurrection of Christ - just as the Acts 18:4 text shows... (i.e. all the details you seem to be ignoring in your response - which is odd since you already admit to this condition for gentiles under the gospel. Have you thought your post through??? or are you not really interested in the point you appear to make - at first??)
Acts 18Rather they are welcomed in worship in the Lord's house EVEN AFTER the resurrection of Christ - just as the Acts 18:4 text shows...
He reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath and persuaded Jews and Greeks.
The house of God in Isaiah 56 is the temple in Jerusalem, not a synagogue.
"I will bring these to my holy mountain"
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