Ac, what is the Ac28 position on what the following is referring to?
Galatians 3:8 And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.
Just wondering what the Ac28 position is on it.
Hopefully, you won't deflect again, lol.
Proverbs 27: 17
Rom. 14:5; Rom. 5:6-9.
Gal 3:8 was for another people, for another time. Of course, Gal was applicable during Acts and, since everything in Paul's Acts writings was based on the OT (Acts 26:22), Gal was also. Gal 3:8 backs that up. Paul's after-Acts writings, however, were totally brand new and nothing concerning them ever appeared in the OT. Everything in the after-Acts epistles was a mystery hid in God since the world began. The word "Abraham" and the phrase,"it is written", don't appear once after Acts, although they appear in Paul's 6 Acts epistles 19 and 31 times, respectively. Totally different dispensation today - different hope, different Calling. Nothing in Gal 3:8 applies directly to anyone today, since it is found in the OT and the only blessings the Gentiles ever heard of in the OT were future promises THROUGH Israel. The Gentiles NEVER had anything of their own until Paul revealed the Mystery in Eph. We're in a state of pure grace today. During all of Acts, the Gentiles in the church were grafted into Israel and were therefore part of Israel, with 4 ordinances they had to keep from Ac 15. It was far from pure Grace, during Acts, for the Gentiles.
Paul, in Acts, was doing the same thing at the end as he did at the beginning of his ministry. Going to the Jew first and healing, as late as Acts 28, and he said in Acts 28:20 that he was bound for the hope of Israel - not Gentiles. The ONLY purpose of Acts was to convert Israel, as a nation, to accept Christ as the promised Messiah. That's why Paul went to the Jew first. That was what the gifts were all about and that's the ONLY reason that Gentiles were allowed to be part of the all-Israel church, so they would provoke Israel to jealousy. Christ said in Mt 23:39 that Israel would never see Him again until they accepted Him - also see Ac 3:19-21 and those verses that talk about John the Baptist being Elijah, had Israel repented.
RIGHT DIVISION
I believe that, since everything before the end of Acts was all based on OT scripture and nothing after Acts was based on the OT, the verses about right division and testing things that differ, both of which appear after Acts, only apply to something that's different after Acts as opposed to before the end of Acts. Of course, the most obvious difference is that, during Acts and before, everything was all-Israel. After Acts, nothing is Israel - everything today is, in essence, Gentile. The things Israel was given during Acts and before are totally different than what the Gentiles are given after Acts, i.e., New Jerusalem vs Heaven where Christ now sits; The Rapture vs the Appearing; Gifts vs No Gifts; Chosen since the world began vs Before the world began, Etc., etc, etc. Combined together, Acts and after-Acts scripture would be full of contradictory things. If we believe both are about us and TO us, things are confusing and we are forced to pick and choose. That's why we have a jillion denominations and why confusion runs rampant in Christendom. That's why we are approved unto God if we RIGHTLY divide and remove all this Jewish stuff from our doctrine
I think that rightly dividing (make a straight cut, correctly cut, correctly dissect) God's Word is only meant to be used once, for the sole purpose of eliminating all those things given ONLY to Israel from our doctrine. Just a single cut in the correct place will do it. Logically, the cut must be in a place where 100% Israel is on one side of the cut and ZERO PERCENT Israel is on the other side of the cut. There's only one place in the Bible where that will work - after ALL-Israel Acts has ended and NO-Israel after-Acts has started. Acts 2 is certainly not the place to make this single cut, since the first Gentile to be in the church was Cornelius, 8 years after Pentecost. Also, Acts 2 was prophesied - remember Joel? Acts 9 won't work because, just like before Acts 9, there is no change after Acts 9. As late as Acts 28, Paul still goes to the Jew first, still has the Gifts, only preaches on things based on the OT, and is bound solely for the hope of Israel. After Acts, it is a completely different story - Israel, as a nation, no longer exists; There are no Gifts; Nothing is based on the OT. I sometimes think that we in the after Acts church, the only ones said to be chosen BEFORE the world began, were actually there in Heaven with Christ, before the world began.
I also believe that the reason A9D always like to debate with A28D is that we're the only ones you can never convince, once we thoroughly understand that any interpretation method other than A28D is totally impossible, for the truthseeker. A28D is the only method that totally works and totally eliminates contradictions and pick-and-choose Christianity. If the Denominational System were to suddenly all rightly divide at the only possible place, at the end of Acts, there would be no need for all these denominations. Everybody would be preaching the same thing, the ONLY truth TO and ABOUT those of us living today, Paul's 7 post-Acts books - only 31 total pages in my Bible.
To those who are not dispensationalists: Dispensationalism doesn't mean that books of the Bible are taken away from you. I spend more time reading and studying those all-Israel 59 books than I do with the only books written directly to me, Paul 7 post-Acts epistles. Ezekiel is my main interest right now. All 66 books are extremely valuable for our learning. The only things that dispensationalism removes are those things from your mind that were given to Israel, but never given to Gentiles. You never had those things anyway, you just thought you did. Israel were God's chosen people for nearly 2000years, while the Gentiles, during that time, received absolutely nothing, unless they were blessed through Israel by becoming a proselyte. During Acts, for the first time since Gen 12, the Gentiles shared in just a few of Israel's blessings, by being grafted into Israel. However, until the end of Acts, the Gentiles never had anything of their own - never! About half of the things you think you have, all belong to Israel and you will NEVER get them, no matter what you believe. Your true Gentile blessings for today, as found ONLY in Paul's post-Acts books, are infinitely better anyway. Why do you want or need that Jewish stuff?
