You prove that you don't even understand the most elemementary things about this subject. The fact of the matter is that by Acts 21 national Israel had been temporarily set aside from her previous position as being "a special people unto the LORD, above all people who are on the face of the earth" because Paul spoke of that nation in the following way:
"I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy. Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?" (Ro.11:11-12).
According to your ignorance the following applied to that fallen nation at Acts 21:
"Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people."
One of these days you will get something right but so far no cigar!
Ouch!
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Genesis 28:10 And Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran. 28:11 And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep. 28:12 And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it. 28:13 And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I am the LORD God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed; 28:14 And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed. 28:15 And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of.
When was that to have been?
John 1:11 He came unto his own, and his own received him not. 1:12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: 1:13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
Who were these of His Own who did receive Him?
People like those the Twelve...
1:45 Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith unto him, We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph. 1:49 Nathanael answered and saith unto him, Rabbi, thou art the Son of God; thou art the King of Israel.
The Lord's reply?
His mention of those coming days of Jacob's ladder.
1:51 And he saith unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Hereafter ye shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man.
An understanding that continued into Early...
Acts 1:1 The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach, 1:2 Until the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen: 1:3 To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God:
Yep - Jacob's Ladder: Things pertaining to ISRAEL'S Promised, Restored Kingdom of God, one day.
Acts 1:6 When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel? 1:7 And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power.
1:8 But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.
Never mind what He had said to THEM about how that will...turn out...
Matthew 10:19 But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak. 10:20 For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you.
10:22 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved. 10:23 But when they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another: for verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come.
When will that, now on hold with Paul, be?
Acts 1:9 And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight. 1:10 And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel; 1:11 Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven. 1:12 Then returned they unto Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is from Jerusalem a sabbath day's journey.
A Sabbath days' journey, ay?
Sure, Jerry, Body members - if you say so.
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I'll simply post this about the ever obvious, very basis of your many errors.
For there is no reasoning with you.
Due to the following.
Perhaps someone else might benefit from it's warning.
Too late for your kind to heed it, Jerry.
Your blunder is that you have sorted out too much, too soon, and too long ago.
At the same time, it is ever obvious that your Acts 2 Dispensationalism / Acts 13 Dispensationalism Hybrid (or mix), is an even worse confusion than that of the Acts 9 / Acts 28 Hybrid that various people on here assert is Mid-Acts Dispensationalism.
The root of your error, Jerry, is exactly the same as theirs - conclusions arrived at too soon in your approach, due to said, ever obvious, poor study approach, to begin with.
Conclusions arrived at by your kind, absent of the whole of Scripture on a thing.
That is why you cannot see that those Law keeping Israelites, as an assembly of God in Matthew 16, and coming Twelve Princes over Israel's Twelve Tribes, mentioned by the Lord in Matthew 19; that God then continued the forward movement of in Early Acts, but then temporarily put on hold, Romans 9-11, just as He had planned to, was not, and is not, the Body of Christ First begun with Paul, in Acts 9, see, 1 Timothy 1, but that you, in your decades old, long set in your ever obvious incompetence, put them into, with Paul.
You're dumb, Jerry. Plain and simple.
Made so by your above mentioned decades old approach.
There is no reasoning with your kind.
Never was.
Your kind are forever reading the dumbest of things into a thing.
Well, at least in your case, Jerry, your skin is often as thick as your head.
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Rom. 5:6-8.