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.
cd: Then does that mean that gentiles cannot
be saved? If his words were for the "House of Israel" only then why are we
told to live by those same words that Jesus spoke to the Jews? If so then
the message that Jesus carried were for all men-this was foretold as the
Jews had to first be offered the truth with the understanding that they
would reject that truth-it was also foretold that Jesus would die for the
sins of the whole world-so he was also here for the whole world not just the
Jews. We then are grafted into the tribes- and in a sense become a
part of the promise given to Abraham and are actually grafted into Israel
(ie. Romans 11:17)
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."
cd: The Samaritans were more
correctly termed half-Jews (ie mixture of gentile and Jewish blood) as such
they were outcasts to which the Jews would have no part of-nor any dealing
with-as a half Jew is regarded as a gentiles-It is my view that Jesus helped
those whom asked for help-Jew or Gentile.After the Babylonian
captivity Ezra separated those that inner married with those Gentiles
mentioned and the Jewish blood line remained pure (ie. see Ezra 10: 6-17).
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?
cd: In Bible prophecy we are told to look
for Israel to become a nation again as a sign of the last days of the
Gentile world rule-to wit the Messianic Jews and the converted Gentiles will
rule the world under the leadership of Jesus Christ (ie. King of Kings)
at this same time there is a seven year time of testing and the outpouring
of Gods wrath-within this same time period God seals 12,000 from each tribe
of Israel equaling 144,000 and each tribe is mentioned as being present in
Israel (ie. Rev.7,14). The nation of Israel came into existence May 14,1947
and was ratified in 1969-This has never happened in the history of the
world-no nation has ever ceased to exist for 2,000 years and returned-yet
Israel has done so. The Jews have returned and all the tribes are present-so
therefore logic would dictate there are no "lost tribes".The sheep of
another fold was the Gentiles.
