Hi Earburner,
A question . . . the sort no one has ever answered to me . . . maybe this time would be different.
IF God were to want to say, JUST IF, God wanted to tell us that He was planning to have angels place a sealing mark on 12,000 Jewish men from the tribe of Judah, how would He say it? What words would He use?
Much love!
Thanks for your sincere question.
Let's be real, God wanted all the Jews to have faith in the Promise of the first appearance of His Son. The 70 weeks of Daniel is loaded with
that promise.
For all of Israel, there was only a remnant out of each tribe and generation, who maintained that faith, while the remainder went off track in and with their Religion, that they fabricated.
All of the faithful, towards the Promise, died in faith believing of the Messiah to come. We see that faith in Simeon. Luke 2:25-32.
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Now, as much as Simeon declared the Lord's Truth, the Holy Spirit was
ONLY upon him,
and NOT within him. That is the exact situation for all faithful Jews prior to Simeon, who had also waited for that Promise of the Messiah to come.
IOWs, the Holy Spirit could not be freely Given to anyone of faith, permanently, until the shedding of the Blood of Jesus. Only by the Blood of His Sacrifice, could there be the
REMOVAL of all sins. Up until then,
sin was only forgiven, and then only upto the length of one year.
In the death and resurrection of Jesus, the Holy Spirit could now be freely Given, and is now, ever since Pentecost, is
permanently installed/deposited in every believer, who by faith accepts Jesus as their Sacrificial Lamb and Savior.
So what about all the faithful Jews, in all previous generations and tribes? Did they also receive the Holy Spirit, on the Day of Pentecost, though now dead?
YES!
It's found in Rev. 6[
9] And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:
[
10] And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
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11] And
white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.