Hello
@CoreIssue,
Matthew 28-29, records what the Lord Jesus said following His resurrection.
* Were they? How do you account for the reaction of the believing Jews to Peter in Acts 11:1-3.
* Was it? How do you account for the words of James in Acts 21:20?
* Did they? Are you referring to the Lord sending out a further seventy in Luke 10?
* Did it? Before the rapture? The Lord said that,
'The Gospel of the Kingdom' would be preached in all the world for a witness, before the end comes (
the end of that dispensation): but that will be the role of restored Israel now, as Priests unto God, because that promise was dependent on the nation of Israel's repentance, but they refused, and went out into blindness and unbelief (temporarily), so the end (
and Christ's return) as promised through Peter in Acts 3, did not take place.
*Was it? That is not what the record reveals.
* Didn't He? What about Matthew 10:5
* The door of the kingdom was not opened to the Gentiles until approximately forty years after the Lord's ascension, in Acts 10.
* Of course the gospel message is on the lips of most believers, but this commission is very obviously directed to the eleven particularly.
Thank you
In Christ Jesus
Chris