...And for poor DJC49 who said this;

To (A) I respond: Of course he meant it! And where were they destroyed from among the people? [Take a wild guess, JD] In the SAME place that ALL those who hear the gospel and reject Jesus Christ: in hell -- where God is able to destroy both body AND soul. Fear Him!

Your reading skills are now in complete doubt.

Here is what our text says:

"destroyed from among the people"

Here is what DJC49 read into it:

Take a wild guess, JD] In the SAME place that ALL those who hear the gospel and reject Jesus Christ: in hell -- where God is able to destroy both body AND soul. Fear Him!

I am not into guessing, I am into reading and believing what the text says.

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Well, did he mean it or not? Where were they destroyed?

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But then again, YOU can take Acts 3:23 and RATIONALIZE that since those among Peter's immediate audience who did not believe in Jesus were not physically destroyed on the spot, then Peter -- by quoting Moses -- must have been speaking about some future time prior to the Millennium and not about the very moment in time in which he gave his call to repentance among the Jews.

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Uh, Yes! But I did not say it, the text does. Please pardon me here for a moment while I praise the Lord for the ability he has given me to read!

9 Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;
20 And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you:
21 Whom the heaven 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.

Do you understand presence, and send, and until, and restitution, and all, and prophets?

I think not!

There is nothing in the text about losing covenant blessings but there is something in the text about recieving specific covenant blessings.

25 Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.
26 UNTO YOU FIRST God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities.

The covenant promise of the covenant was to all kindreds of the earth but we find here that it is to the Jew first because it was given specifically through them.

This provision of the Abrahamic covenant is fulfilled through the promised seed and now we know it took his death and being RAISED for it to be realized.

18 But those things, which God before had shewed by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled.

19 Repent ye therefore, and be converted,

Acts 3 is strictly a Jewish context.

25 Ye are the children of the prophets, Ye are the children of the Abrahamic covenant.

26 Unto you (Jews) first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, (How) in turning away EVERY ONE OF YOU from his iniquities.

What if every one of them does not turn?

23 And it shall come to pass, that EVERY SOUL, which will not hear that prophet, SHALL BE destroyed from among the people.

Lets review this verse.

1)It shall come to pass - What does that mean? Right! It is am undefined period of time not defined in the verse.

2) Every soul that will not hear that prophet. That would include the people Peter was speaking to.

3) Shall be destroyed from among the people. Question: Were any unbelievers destroyed? Answer: No.
Logic: The time for destroying those who will not hear that prophet must not have come to pass.

Are we told by the text when that time will be? Answer: Yes! V 19-the presence of the Lord - 20 And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you:
21 Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things

Observation Post wrote:
DJC49,
It's too bad the context of Deut 18:15-22 doesn't point to the second coming as Casob seem to think Acts 3:18-21 demands v 22-23 be interpreted. Nope... it just isn't there.

To demonstrate how gracious I am, I am going to pretend like I did not read the above statement because of how ridiculous it would make the author of it to appear. Please, try again and this time, be serious! There is a limit to my covering for you.

DJC49 wrote
Act 3:24 "Yea, and all the prophets from Samuel and those that follow after, as many as have spoken, have LIKEWISE FORETOLD OF *****THESE DAYS*****." (enough stars for ya, JD?)

I don't suppose there is any way I could trick you into reading the whole context so you could see that "these days" refers to the days when Jesus suffers & comes again. Nah, I already know I can't!

Going backwards:
21 Whom the heaven 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.

20 And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you:

18 But those things, which God before had shewed by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled.

No! Faith is accepting evidence from a credible source and acting upon it as if it were true. That is why God justifies all that WILL believe because one certainly does not have to accept anything if he chooses not to.

And I can not tell you how silly and frightened you will be when you present yourself at the judgment and try to defend the utter foolishness that you men put forth here. I am warning you not to show up before God to answer for such claims. It will not bode well for you! Beware! I am trying to help you here.

Now for your question. No, he is going to destroy those who will not believe. Did you read the passage that you quoted to me?

Ac 3:23 And it shall come to pass, [that] every soul, which WILL NOT hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people.

Did you get that? "And it shall come to pass, [that] every soul, which WILL NOT "

Rogerent, I did not read your comment so don't worry about it. We are all passionate about our beliefs once in a while. I am traveling today but will answer you questions later.

Here is a false view of interprtation, I think!

Ac 3:22 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.

DJC would accept this as literal and believe that Christ fulfilled it.

Ac 3:23 And it shall come to pass, [that] every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people.

But he does not take this passage literally and assumes that because it was not fulfilled at the same time that God did not really mean what he said. The unbelievers not only were not destroyed but some of them actually became the opposers of the gospel message. Now, since it WAS NOT fulfilled literally, it CANNOT be fulfilled literally!

But, will God ever keep this word? Did he mean what he said?

Ps 119:100 I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts.

See, DJC49, you are exposing yourself. You do not know how to think like God and I am not holding that against you. You are the man who has been taught to bracket the term "everlasting" into a time period and you have fallen for it. You have added words to the Scriptures that are not there and taken away words that are there and redefined words that do not agree with your perferred theology. Why should I listen to any man who does that?

Lets just be honest with one another. You and I are worlds apart on the fundamentals of the Christian faith and if the foundation is wrong (which in your case it is) how sturdy will the building be?

DJC49. this is as plain as I can say it; You are deceived!

That is silly! In the parable they are all sheep. It is just that some are his sheep and they are the sheep that hear his voice. If that were not so, the parable would not make sense. They are his sheep because they came to him and believed in him and chose him as their shepherd. Read John 6 here.

The Lone Wolf wrote:
Casob,
Bottom line, do you deny any "spiritual" relationship between God and Israel in the Old Testament?
Yes or No?

God led Israel through the wilderness. he was the Shekinah glory cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night. He spoke face to face with Moses and made covenants with the patriarchs. He was the King of Israel during the times of Joshua and the judges.

1Sa 8:7 And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.

He appeared in vision to the prophets of Israel and manifested his presence to them in various ways and I am surprised at a question like this.

According to Casob they don't need it as they belong to the national Israel and will all be saved whether they believe in Christ or not.

No one can read my posts and quote me saying anything similar to that. I have come to expect MurrayA to grasp at any straw within reach to justify his disagreement with plain words and so I am not surprised when he applauded Jago's blatant dishonesty and made it his own.

We want to know how you come deal with inhabiting the land forever, and your doctrine of only inhabiting the land for 1000 years.
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I am going to guess at what you mean here.

The rule of Jesus Christ, the son of David, in time has been predicted from 2 Sam 7 when the covenant was given to David through Nathan the prophet. The length of that rule was not known until the Revelation was given. We know that after a righteous rule by our Lord, he will deliver up the kingdom to the Father and the Father, and the Son will rule from the New Jerusalem where they will abide with the church, the body of Christ which is the temple of the Holy Spirit and the only temple in the eternal state.

It is not an accident that the angel said he would show John the bride, the Lambs wife and then proceeded to show him the Eternal City of God, New Jerusalem coming down from heaven.

This will be the time of the fulfillment of these words: 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. This will take place in the future and by the time Jesus Christ comes back, most of those of Israel that would not hear him will have been destroyed and when Jesus sets up his kingdom in fulfillment of the Davidic covenant, ALL Israel literally will be saved and will never be lost again. The Davidic, the New and the Palestinian covenants will be realized for Israel at the second coming of Jesus Christ in glory and this all in fulfillment of the Abrahamic covenant that was the basis all these things.

Now, God had planned before the foundation of the world for this to be the time when he would form his church, a separate entity from Israel, yet partakers of specific parts of the covenants he has made with Israel. Since the church would be a spiritual entity and have a heavenly inheritance, and completely separate from Israel and with Israel having no national identity during this time, all the physical promises of these covenants are suspended while this takes place with members of Israel having the same responsibility and privilege as anyone else to become a member of this church.

Let me say this again. Everything God is doing in the world at this time is in view of keeping his covenants. Today, the blessing of all the families of the earth through Abraham’s seed of the woman, Jesus Christ is being fulfilled literally. It took nearly 2000 years after the covenant was given for this to begin to take place. It was at the same time that the New Testament was instituted at the resurrection of Jesus Christ. However, for the gathering of Israel back into their land in total as provided for by the Palestinian covenant to take place, all Israel must be regenerated (called there the circumcision of the heart) and when that takes place every single Israelite must be saved from the least to the greatest. Since Israel refused when it was first offered by her national leaders, this became the opportunity for the rest of the world and God began to evangelize the gentile nations and offering the spiritual blessings of the New Covenant which is forgiveness of sins and the Holy Spirit through faith in Jesus Christ. The believers become the children of God by the indwelling Spirit and have a heavenly inheritance