THAT WAS REFERRING TO THE ELECT OF ISRAEL NOT THE WHOLE WORLD. THE ELECT HAD TO GET GRACE AND THEN SEALED BEFORE THEY COULD GO OUT AND BRING IN THE GENTILES. HENCE MY INITIAL POST, THE NEW TESTAMENT IS SIMPLY TELLING YOU WHAT IT TOOK FOR THE ELECT TO GO OUT AND BRING THE GENTILES INTO THE LAW. YOU HAVE TO REMEMBER THAT THE GENTILES ARE THE BEASTS OF THE FIELD. VERY VIOLENT AND HENCE THE SAYING, WHY DO THE HEATHENS RAGE ? SO FOR THE ELECT TO BE SAVED FROM THE HEATHENS RAGE THEY HAD TO BE GIVEN GRACE AND THEN SEALED >>> LUKE I VS 71 That we should be saved from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us;
LUKE 1 VS 74 That he would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve him without fear