Here GWH, have a look yourself at the text.
Matthew 15:21-24
Jesus went away from there, and withdrew into the district of Tyre and Sidon. And a Canaanite woman
from that region came out and
began to cry out, saying, “Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David; my daughter
is cruelly demon-possessed.”
But He did not answer her a word. And His disciples came and implored Him,
saying, “
Send her away, because she keeps shouting at us.” But He answered and said, “
I was sent only to
the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”
Are these surrounding verses telling you anything?
Jesus was the promised messiah
ONLY sent to covenant Israel.
If you say otherwise then your directly contradicting Jesus.
Stop bending what Jesus stated.
Apparently I needed to highlight a couple of words, so here it is again:
Jesus was sent
to fulfill the Jewish OT law
for the potential salvation of both Jews and Gentiles.
Gen. 12:3b. All people on earth will be blessed through Abraham. About 2,000 B.C., Abraham became a monotheist and moved from Ur to Canaan, where he became the patriarch of the Hebrews, who became the Israelites after the Exodus and eventually the Jews by the time of Jesus, who fulfilled God’s promise made to Abraham by completing His mission as Messiah or the Savior of all humanity who accept Him as Lord. This covenant is restated in Gen. 17:1-14, 18:18-19 & 22:15-18. Abraham is also claimed as the patriarch of the Arabs through Ishmael (Gen. 16:12, 17:19-21 & 21:9-21), who are part of the people who would be blessed by accepting God’s Messiah.
Gen. 15:6. Abraham’s faith in the Lord was credited to him as righteousness. This was a major theme of the teaching of the apostle Paul in his epistle to the Romans (Rom. 4:3,9-12&16-17). This is why Paul teaches that a true Jew is one whose “circumcision is of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the written code” (Rom. 2:29). Thus, all who become one with Jesus are spiritual Jews and God’s chosen people (Eph. 2:13-3:6), although it is possible that the political nation of Israel may play a further role in history before the eschaton.
Gen. 22:8. These words of Abraham to Isaac may be viewed as
the first prophetic reference to Jesus (John 1:29), although they had an immediate fulfillment (in v.13). Many years later, Moses instituted the sacrificial system that also portrayed the future messianic atonement. Jesus instituted the observance of the Lord’s Supper as a remembrance of the fact that His death fulfilled this system, so that Believers no longer need to practice it.
Isa. 9:2&7. These verses are cited in the NT as prophecies about Messiah (servant/chosen one), as is
Isa. 42:1-9, in which
Messiah will be “a light for the Gentiles” as well as for the Jews. This teaching is expressed also in Isa. 45:22-23, “Turn to me and be saved, all you ends of the earth… Before me every knee will bow; by me every tongue will swear.” A third statement is found in Isa. 49:6, “…I will also make you a light for the Gentiles, that you may bring my salvation to the ends of the earth.” And again in Isa. 60:3, “Nations will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your dawn.” Finally, in Isa. 66:23, “All mankind will come and bow down before me, says the Lord.” Paul wrote about this “new thing” in Eph. 2:11-3:13.
Jer. 4:4. “
Circumcise your hearts”. This emphasis on the inner spiritual faith rather than on the outward physical circumstances is found in the writings of Paul, who even went so far as to say that spiritual faith is the essence of what it means to be Jewish or chosen by God. Rom. 2:28-29 says that “A man is not a Jew if he is only one outwardly, nor is circumcision merely outward and physical. No, a man is a Jew if he is one inwardly; and circumcision is circumcision of the heart, by the Spirit…” Again in Rom. 3:29, Paul asks, “Is God the God of Jews only: Is he not the God of Gentiles too? Yes, of Gentiles too, since there is only one God, who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised by that same faith.” And finally in Rom. 4:11-16 we find, “So then, [Abraham] is the father of all who believe… who also walk in the footsteps of the faith… He is the father of us all.” This teaching in JR & RM is foundational for the mystery of the Gospel of salvation for all humanity, both Jews and Gentiles, that Paul revealed in Eph. 2:11-3:13.
Jer. 31:31. Here we find mention of the coming
new covenant (NT).
