How are you doing?
Its been a while...
Ok, let me show you this....
You have a New Testament, and you have 9 authors.
Now, why do some verses tend to SEEM to contradict?
Why do some apostles seem to not have the same INFORMATION, at the same time?
Well, its because the NT, just like the entire Bible, is a work of God that is showing us HIS= Progressive revelation.
Its always going to the next thing.....the next season, the next, reveal.
To break it down simply.......you had Adam and Eve, and you had no Law.
Then you had Moses who gave us God's Law and commandments.
So, do you see you went from one situation to the next. ?????
God was changing things, and He continues to do it, as He brings the entire revelation of the Bible, to the END.
Then the next change or Revelation came......You have the CROSS..
The Cross ends, what was before..
The Cross replaces the OLD COVENANT, with the New Testament.
Out went the blood of animals that could not eternally deal with sin, and IN CAME THE BLOOD OF JESUS that is a ONE TIME SACRIFICE FOR ALL TIME.
So, thats that next reveal.
And we are currently in this reveal.... that started with Christ on the Cross and will end when The Great Trib Starts.
So, those are all DIFFERENT situations, all different REVELATIONS and different rules apply... where God is showing you that He deals with mankind differently at different times.
In the Great Trib, the GRACE OF GOD will end, and God will stop dealing with the Gentiles and take up His dealing with the Jews, again.
Now, just as not all Christians are up to speed regarding all this that im showing you.......and YET we live in the INFO AGE where you can WIKIPEDIA everything.., yet you have believers who are stuck in the Old Testament, .. stuck in Acts 2:38... Stuck in the Law and Commandments.....etc.
This means that WE are not all ON THE SAME PAGE, theologically, so, we are not going to be on the same level Spiritually.
Understand.?
My job here is to show you what to SEE, but i can't see it for you.
I show it, i reveal it, i position it, i offer the LIGHT< but God has to impart the reveal into your spirit man.
And that won't happen, unless you are able to receive the Light.
So, READER, if you are determined to only know what you know, then that is all you will know.
Pride refuses Light.
So, in the NT, with the Apostles......Not all of them have the same INFO at the same time.....as they were ALL learning to come to the full reveal of God's Grace, as given by Paul.
And until they had it, for example.... you have Peter preaching "repent and be dunked", which was John the Baptist's message to the JEWS...before Jesus was Crucified.
Later, in Acts 10, Peter is brought up to speed , to a point, regarding God's Grace, as even 10 yrs after Christ was back in Glory Peter still does not know that GENTILES can be saved..
So, here is an Apostle, who is in the "Time of the Gentiles' and does not even KNOW IT YET, as of Acts 10, and that is a decade after the Cross.
Paul revealed this to him but it was YEARS after Paul knew it, and God had to start the revelation in Acts 10, as Peter had no clue.
So, my point is.....
You have to go with Paul, to get the "up to date" revelation that guides us in the "time of the Gentiles", as if you don't understand this then you'll end up with some info that an Apostle gives who is lacking the Revelation that Jesus Gave to Paul.