That transgressed and repented not.
Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
After Jesus' resurrection. He now saves any that repent with faith toward God.
And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:
And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.
Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;
At His death on the cross, no man believed He was both Lord and God, and all men that sinned were condemned as His killers, not just the ones doing the unjust hands-on work.
And not only all the sinners of Jesus' day, but all sinners of past, present, and future are condemned as enemies of God by slaying His dear Son Jesus.
Only by His resurrection does He now grant unconditional surrender with repentance and free mercy.
True. Many are called by hearing of the gospel unto repentance and salvation, but only a few repent for salvation.
7000 was literal in the natural kingdom of Israel, and is now figurative in the everlasting kingdom of Christ.
No Israelite Jew continued believing Jesus was the Christ, when He was arrested and crucified on the cross. Especially not Peter. None of the women coming to His tomb, came to see His resurrection, but only to dress His dead body.
The OT promise to natural Israel ended at the cross, and the NT promise to all men begins with His resurrection.
For three days the whole world of sinners was void of faith toward God, even as the earth was once void of light.
True.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;
This is up for debate. Since God no longer divides His people between Jew and Gentile, then any present or future 144,000 saints sealed by the Spirit, are of course Christian members of the body of Christ.
Unless of course you want to place Rev 7 in Roman history with the Jews. But they certainly are Christian saints sealed by the Holy Ghost.
But, since the tribes are not listed accurately in Rev 7, to be those on the breastplate of Aaron, then they cannot be only natural Israelite Christians. The history and prophecy do not agree. And so the prophecy cannot be only for historical Israel after the flesh.
Ok. So long as they are all sealed Christian saints. Of course, just by historical analysis, I'm not convinced of any interpretation of prophecy.
There were of course many thousands of sealed Christian saints at the time of Jerusalem's sack, and most of them were already scattered abroad by persecution from Jews in Jerusalem.
Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ:
James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.
I don't entertain any past return of Jesus Christ a second time to earth. Whether 'spiritually only' nor physically in Person. His Spirit is now shed upon all flesh on earth to convict and draw all men to repentance, but His second coming is only with resurrected body and power through the air, and is seen by all men on earth.
The only teaching of Jesus already coming again to earth, or comes again unknown 'by stealth' is for false christs only.
Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.
For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
The first bride of Christ is since the resurrection of Jesus, until the first resurrection of His church at His second coming in the air.
There will be multitudes more newborn Christians during His thousand year reign, and they will be much more than before His coming again.
The kingdom of heaven on earth will truly be fulfilled in the kingdom of the resurrected King Jesus on earth, after His second coming.
Well, He did need to become a learning child, rather than just a babe. Afterall, He did come in the flesh conceived and born of a woman.
He knew all things before that:
Now are we sure that thou knowest all things, and needest not that any man should ask thee: by this we believe that thou camest forth from God.
The Revelation given Him by God, was after His resurrection.
God did know all things coming to pass in the beginning, by the eyewitness of the Word watching all those things coming to pass from the beginning.
His omniscience of all things coming to pass from the beginning, is revealed by the mystery of the Godhead: That God the Word was with God in the beginning, and was testifying with God, while watching all things come to pass.
He's watching now. But not as an objective observer only, but also working to fulfill His will in them that love Him.
