Okay let's straighten this out.
The question at hand is one of priority and sequence: Who came first in terms of the redemption in Christ?
(Acts 2:1-4)
Israel came first (all 120 in the upper room were of pure Israelite stock)
(Acts 2:41, Acts 6:1) Israelites and gentile proselytites keepers of the law of Moses (assuming some of the 3000 were indeed proselytes)
(Acts 8) Then Samaritans
(Acts 10)
Then straight up gentiles....who did not keep the law of Moses.
Acts ch 15 Council of Jerusalem officially sanctioned the
INCLUSION of the gentiles, those who are not circumcised nor keep the law of Moses.
Nevertheless the debate/conflict about the inclusion of the gentiles
continued
all the way to Acts 21...!
Those of the replacement theology HERESY
have it backwards. Israel did NOT reject their Messiah completely they were those FIRSTLY CHOSEN of the true Church! The mystery of Ephesians ch 3 is one of demonstrating that which was hitherto completely unknown. Which is that is that gentiles are being redeemed......grafted in.
Which Paul elaborates upon in Romans 11.....
Gentiles are grafted in....to Israel which came first!
https://www.blueletterbible.org/search/search.cfm?Criteria=Grafted&t=NKJV#s=s_primary_0_1
I agree 100% with what you said above. Please indicate where I have said anything to the contrary.
Both Jewish Christian (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Christian ) believers, and Gentile Christian believers, are and have been, both part of the Christian Church as the Body of Christ Yeshua's believers.
You've got the cart before the horse my friend.
Please refer to what cart I presumably put before what horse brother?
Jesus did in fact go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel first. And redeem them to Himself first.
Romans 11 (New King James Version)
5Even so then, at this present time there is a remnant according to the election of grace. ...
7What then? Israel has not obtained what it seeks; but the elect have obtained it, and the rest were blinded.
8Just as it is written:
“God has given them a spirit of stupor,
Eyes that they should not see
And ears that they should not hear,
To this very day.”
25For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own
[f]opinion, that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.
26And so all Israel will be
[g]saved
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Zionism : "As of September 2007, churches in the USA that have criticized Christian Zionism include the
United Methodist Church, the
Presbyterian Church (USA),
[90] and the
United Church of Christ.
[91] " - But hey, the Judaic false messiah has to have a temple in Jerusalem, Israel, to enter into to proclaim himself the only god to be worhipped, so this third temple has to be built, for the real Christ Yeshua to return three-and-a-half years or 42 months of 1260 days later.... So should we as Christians main goal be to help this Judaic false messiah to attain this goal of having to enter a temple in Jerusalem, Israel, to proclaim himself the only god to be worshiped, or should we as Christians goal rather be to bring the Gospel of Christ Yeshua, to all the nations of the world, including the Jews? As Christ Yeshua had commanded His followers, to bring His Gospel to all the nations of the world, before He ascended to Heaven, when He promised to return, when this command of ours to proclaim His Gospel to the whole world, would have been accomplished.
2 Thessalonians 2 (New King James Version)
The Great Apostasy
1Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, we ask you,
2not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the day of
[a]Christ had come.
3Let no one deceive you by any means; for
that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition,
4who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits
[c]as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.
Is Christian zionism not putting the cart in front of the horses, trying to restore a false kingdom to Israel themselves, under a false messiah, without Christ Yeshua in the picture, and with the eight and two half tribes of Ephraimites as Israelites excluded from this zionist Israel for Judahite Israelite Jews only, in the absence of Christ Yeshua as only King over Israel?
Acts 1 (New King James Version)
6Therefore, when they had come together, they asked Him, saying, “Lord, will You at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?”
7And He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has put in His own authority.
8But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be
[c]witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”
Matthew 24 (New King James Version)
14And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come.
Ezekiel 37 (New King James Version)
One Kingdom, One King
16“As for you, son of man, take a stick for yourself and write on it: ‘For Judah and for the children of Israel, his companions.’ Then take another stick and write on it, ‘For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and
for all the house of Israel, his companions.’
17Then join them one to another for yourself into one stick, and they will become one in your hand.
21“Then say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God: “Surely I will take the children of Israel from among the nations, wherever they have gone, and will gather them from every side and bring them into their own land;
24“David My servant
shall be king over them, and they shall all have one shepherd; they shall also walk in My judgments and observe My statutes, and do them.
25Then they shall dwell in the land that I have given to Jacob My servant, where your fathers dwelt; and they shall dwell there, they, their children, and their children’s children, forever; and My servant David
shall be their prince forever.
Revelation 20 (New King James Version)
The Saints Reign with Christ 1,000 Years
4And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was committed to them. Then
I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the word of God, who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received
his mark on their foreheads or on their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ for
[a]a thousand years.
5But the rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were finished. This
is the first resurrection.
6Blessed and holy
is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over such the second death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with Him a thousand years.
If you and the resurrected dead, as believers,
do not meet Him in your glorified bodies, at your rapture in the clouds, next time you see a Judaic messiah,
it ain't the real Messiah, Christ Yeshua!! Because the next time we believers see Christ Yeshua here in the vicinity of earth, it will be together with the resurrected dead, in our glorified bodies, ascending to the clouds, at our rapture, at Christ Yeshua's return with Him descending to the clouds, after the believers' great tribulation, under the rule of the false messiah from the temple in Jerusalem, Israel, where he will declare himself the only god to be worshipped: