The Old Testament Kingdom Program

[SFC Retired]

God promised the people of Israel a Land,a King, and a Kingdom. Their nation was to eventually become a nation of priests to bring salvation to the Gentile nations. In the Old Testament, it was no mystery that Israel would someday spread the Word of God to all nations. But, it was prophesied to be after the Messiah had come and set up His kingdom centered in Jerusalem. The people of Israel would then be sent to all nations to lead the Gentiles to their God in Jerusalem. But all Israel did not receive and has not received Him yet. So the fulfillment of the old program has been postponed. The mystery was that God planned to go to the Gentiles (through the apostle Paul) when Israel rejected the kingdom. After this dispensation of grace (sometimes called the "church age") ends at the rapture, God will resume the old program.

[Kosherboy]

I know some people in Rome that would dissagree with that , they Peter is the apostle of the gentiles, ?????????

[Vizsla Vince]

That's never been my understanding of it. Peter is the Rock, Paul was the apostle to the Gentiles. That's what I was always taught by the sisters...