I think I might go on the web and see what other reformed writers have said about it.

Okay, I am back:

Matt Henry

(Read Acts 3:19-21)

The absolute necessity of repentance is to be solemnly charged upon the consciences of all who desire that their sins may be blotted out, and that they may share in the refreshment which nothing but a sense of Christ's pardoning love can afford. Blessed are those who have felt this. It was not needful for the Holy Spirit to make known the times and seasons of these dispensations. These subjects are still left obscure. But when sinners are convinced of their sins, they will cry to the Lord for pardon; and to the penitent, converted, and believing, times of refreshment will come from the presence of the Lord. In a state of trial and probation, the glorified Redeemer will be out of sight, because we must live by faith in him.

At least he made an effort to comment on this text.

How do I get you to deal with the text?

Maybe asking questions about the text will help. I will try it.

1) Who was the speaker
2) Who was the audience
3) Had the Messiah already been crucified and raised from the dead when this was spoken
4) Is there a future element to the passage beginning from, say v 19
5) Does presence of the Lord mean, well, presence
5) Does he really mean that he will send Jesus Christ who he says is now in heaven v 20
6) Does the phrase "shall come to pass" V 23 project a future event
7) Does the context demand that the destoying at that time is when God sends Jesus Christ which was before preached unto them
7) Does the context show that one provision of the Abrahamic covenant, the blessing of all nations, is being fulfilled to all nations V24-26

You all are trying to interpret this passage through the lens of your erroneous systematic theology system and the context testifies against you.

Now, let me continue to help you. The nation of Israel has an eternal future and your denying it will not change it. It will just continue to cause you problems like you are having now.

The subject line of this thread is covenants and the context of Acts 3 is the blotting out of the sins of Israel and the destoying of everyone of them who will not obey that prophet whom the heaven must receive UNTIL the times of restitution of all things and whom God will send for that purpose.

None of you fellows have even commented on the covenants and you have scoffed and denied and went into your hyena mode because you cannot deal with the context and still present yourselves as having any intelligence and understanding of God.

You have responded wrong. The correct response would be to hunble yourselve and admit that you know nothing and repent and ask the Lord to deliver you from a religious group that has caused you to be in the condition you are in.

Look at Rogerant. He has read all my comments, and yours, and he is reduced to attempting to ask me silly questions that the Scriptures have already answered instead of presenting his own case from the context of Acts 3 and Deut 30 and explaining what they mean. He does not do it because he can't do it.

Have you not been reading my comments? Must I address someting directly to you before you think you have been answered? Very well, I will address you.

You quote all Israel will be saved. How
will God save all of Israel?

By preaching!

1Co 1:18 For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.

Mt 24:14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end (of the tribulation) come.

Is He going to work on their heart and
cause them to believe? Is He going to make them willing?

The gospel of the kingdom is a gospel of deliverance from the Satanic indwelt man of sin who is trying to attempting to exterminate them from the earth in the last 3 1/2 years of the trib.

What about "free will"?

Not all will believe but all that will believe will be saved.

How is God going to
save all of them while respecting their "free will".

The same as he does now. Did you not read Acts 3. Those who will not hear that prophet shall be destroyed from among the people.

Are they going to
be saved apart from believing in Christ?

No!

Progressive dispensationalism is just another Red Herring. In other words, it is a ploy of Satan to appeal to the intellectuals among the dispensationalists that care more about what the other bible deniers think about them than what God thinks!

Putting it simply, it is another way to not believe and add confusion and it is not of God!

Now, I want you to speak with MurrayA about the law of double application where more than one event is included in the same prophecy. He knows this principle but I am not sure he embraces it, but I don't think you have a clue. This principle is used often in the word of God. Remember, I told you that you must think like God thinks to understand him and he only allows those who have the Spirit to think like him. I am not saying that you do not have the Spirit, only that you speak as one who doesn't.

But go ahead and use this language that is unique to the "elect" if it improves your self esteem and helps you identify yourself among the surfs.

In the strictly Jewish passage of Mt 24:
Mt 24:13 But he (the Jew) that shall endure unto the end (of the tribulation), the same shall be saved.

The tribulation is called a "refiners fire"!

Mal 3:2 But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he [is] like a refiner’s fire, and like fullers’ soap:

Compare these verses for edification!

Ac 15:14 Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.
6 After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up:

5 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery,

There have been several instances in history when God has came down and intervened in the course of human affairs. When he has done that it was because of the failure of humanity to obey him. His ultimate goal in doing that was to sagegaurd the highway through humanity of the SEED of the woman who would be the savior of the world and for the restitution of all things Adam lost by his sin.

Some instances of change because of failure.

Adam cast out of the garden. Different circumstance existed and different instructions. No one in his right mind could deny that!

The flood and God's appearance to Noah establishing Human government for the firt time in 1657 years of human history and instructions to divide up and fill the whole world. This was different, even a different world!

The tower of Babel when God came down after the great failure of one world government and godless religion resulting in God calling Abraham and raising up his own nation through which he would preserve the highway for the seed of the woman. This was different!

You proceed on the assumption that "all" does not means "every last one", in this case for judgment.

Let me remind you that the CONTEXT of this passage under discussion in Acts 3 is not when Jerusalem falls in AD 70 according to Daniel's prophecy but it is when God sends Jesus Christ which before was preached unto them, the Jews, and who, the heavens must receive UNTIL the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.

I have read those prophets and I know what he has in mind and he does mean every single unbelieving Jew will be destroyed from among the people.

I declare, I can't understand why you men who pump election and sovereignty of God in salvation rebels so at the notion that God has a time when every single Israelite will be saved and elect. That is what he said!

Isa 13:9 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land (Palestine) desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.

John Baptist promised a future baptism of fire.

Of course!! Have you not heard of the events of A.D. 70? Thousands of Jews perished; many more were carried to other parts of the Empire and sold as slaves; and the city and Temple were utterly destroyed.
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Now, MurrayA, lets you and me read this passage together:

22 For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you. 23 And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people.

How many souls will be destroyed from among the people? EVERY soul that will not hear that prophet shall be destroyed.

Was every soul destroyed in AD 70? No! Were beleiving Jews dispersed as well as non believers? Yes!

I should not have to prove this MurrayA, but I will. John wrote all his 5 works after AD70 and was still warning about false Jewish teachers as late as AD 91 when he wrote 1,2,3 John.

Lets read one warning together:

1Jo 2:18 Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.

The palestinian covenant promised that Israel would be dispersed from their land as the curse for disobedience. While the details of that dispersion were not given in the covenant, history and writing prophets whom God sent to them filled in the details. The same covenant that promised they would be dispersed promised also that God would bring them back at his very own discretion and in his own time. Again, we have the prophetic word as well as ongoing history to teach us that God cannot and will not fail to keep his word.

DE30:1 And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath driven thee,
2 And shalt return unto the LORD thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul;
3 That then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee.

There is additional information about this by the great apostle James who knew a few things about eschatology;