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What about this?
Matthew 15:22-26
"And behold a woman of Canaan came . . . but he answered and
said, I am not sent but to the lost
sheep of the House of Israel . . . It is not meet to take the children's
bread, and cast it to the dogs."
Do you not believe your Bible? Here He
actually stated in so many words his mission was to the HOUSE OF ISRAEL
only. The woman from Caanan, although a
Gentile, was an exception because of her great
faith.
His mission to the Samaritans was due to the
large amount of the blood of Israel in that group of people. The
Samaritans were a mixture of Israelite bloodlines and Babylonian
bloodlines--they were descendants of those Jews who were not taken captive
in the Babylonian Captivity, and who intermarried with the Babylonians who were
sent from Babylon to occupy the land. Because the Jews would not recognize
their Israelite heritage, they even had a separate temple, alter, priests,
etc. But Jesus, knowing all things, knew many of them were also
Israelites. This was not a contradiction to his stance that
he was sent "but to the House of Israel."
Not only that, but if his mission was "but
to the House of Israel," what about those Israelites--ten tribes of them--who
had already been taken captive many years earlier into the "Northlands" by
Assyria? How was he to minister to them? The Jews were
basically two tribes only--Judah and Benjamin--and parts of a third tribe,
Levi. The other ten tribes had been taken captive years earlier and
were never heard from again. They are even today referred to as the "Lost
Ten tribes." So what about them? Did THE SAVIOR NOT CARE ABOUT
THEM?
In a message dated 1/1/2006 8:48:23 A.M. Mountain Standard Time,
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