Post by Questor on Aug 6, 2014 14:48:15 GMT -8
James M Pyles is a Gentile who is searching for his place in the Messianic world, and has two very well thought out blogs, asking questions that he is trying to find answers to as a Gentile seeking a Jewish Yehoshua. He and His wife were agnostics, sought G-d briefly in a Christian Setting, then found a Messianic Home for a time. His wife, Yaffa, a Jew, retreated from Messianic belief as she sought out her heritage from a 
Rabbi, while James at this time, withdrew from the Messianic congregation, yet continues to seek Yehoshua at home in a Messianic manner, and support his wife's search within the Jewish Community. As he does not have time to join us here, being a professional writer as well as duking it out with other major Messianic Blog writers, I asked him if I could use his words to provoke study here, and he granted that to me.
"Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold, but he who stands firm to the end will be saved. And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come. "-Matthew 24:12-14
"Yeshua doesn't seem to be saying that the whole world will accept "the gospel of the kingdom", just that it will be preached to the whole world as a "testimony to all the nations" and then after that, "the end will come". I suppose, in context, the meaning of "testimony to all the nations" is a testimony of the Messiah himself and that the salvation he offers, he offers to everyone."
Printed by Permission, James M. Pyles, <searchingforthelightonthepath.blogspot.com/2010/09/what-did-jesus-teach-about-gentiles.html>
In this one case, I am going farther than James in this very brief quote from his first year of writing four years ago, about the testimony to the nations being only about Salvation and the testimony about Yehoshua, for I wonder, if anyone is still teaching the Gospel of the Kingdom that both John the Immerser taught, and that Yehoshua taught...that the King of G-d was at hand, and available for access then and now. That in doing teshuva, and being blessed with the indwelling of the Ruach haKodesh, we can live spiritually in the Kingdom now, receive the blessings now, if not the heritage, or an incorruptible body to work within. Was that not what Yehoshua was saying to the Jews at the time?
Rabbi, while James at this time, withdrew from the Messianic congregation, yet continues to seek Yehoshua at home in a Messianic manner, and support his wife's search within the Jewish Community. As he does not have time to join us here, being a professional writer as well as duking it out with other major Messianic Blog writers, I asked him if I could use his words to provoke study here, and he granted that to me."Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold, but he who stands firm to the end will be saved. And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come. "-Matthew 24:12-14
"Yeshua doesn't seem to be saying that the whole world will accept "the gospel of the kingdom", just that it will be preached to the whole world as a "testimony to all the nations" and then after that, "the end will come". I suppose, in context, the meaning of "testimony to all the nations" is a testimony of the Messiah himself and that the salvation he offers, he offers to everyone."
Printed by Permission, James M. Pyles, <searchingforthelightonthepath.blogspot.com/2010/09/what-did-jesus-teach-about-gentiles.html>
In this one case, I am going farther than James in this very brief quote from his first year of writing four years ago, about the testimony to the nations being only about Salvation and the testimony about Yehoshua, for I wonder, if anyone is still teaching the Gospel of the Kingdom that both John the Immerser taught, and that Yehoshua taught...that the King of G-d was at hand, and available for access then and now. That in doing teshuva, and being blessed with the indwelling of the Ruach haKodesh, we can live spiritually in the Kingdom now, receive the blessings now, if not the heritage, or an incorruptible body to work within. Was that not what Yehoshua was saying to the Jews at the time?
