You are so right!
Dr. Bullinger is so timly for today.
You could take Dr. Bullinger, A. Custance, McClain and others... add a few years self searching study and be Glorly Bound.
Only beacause they all pointed the way to Him!
People who hold to early Acts positions must take into account that in Acts 28:28 it is said:
"sent to the Gentiles"
and a word study on the meanings of "sent" makes clear the full impact of this pivotal verse.
Derek wrote:
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Because Israel during the Acts period did not repent, this "postponment" occured many years later at the close of the Acts period (note Mr. Bullinger's reference to Acts 28:25-28). The commission given then at Matt 28:19-20 was operable as long as Israel was given the opportunity to "Repent, therefore, and be converted" (Acts 3:19)and as long as Israel remained the focus of God's channel for blessing. Once Israel "departed" (Acts 28:25 - this word means "put away" or divorced), they and their hope ("hope of Israel" see Acts 28:20) were set aside and God began the "dispensation of grace" (Eph 3:2), where there is "neither Greek nor Jew" (Col 3:11). The church of the one body has now a different calling and a different hope than Israel. The church today has a calling in the super-heavens. This is not an earthly calling nor is it an earthly hope. The earthly belong to Abraham and those that are of the faith of Abraham.
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