Post by MoGrace2U on Mar 31, 2010 9:54:04 GMT -5
I hadn't listened to any of Alan's audios before he started this new series "Are you nuts?" They are very good.
blog.messiahreformed.com/categories/Are%20You%20Nuts.aspx
Near the end of the 2nd podcast on "What did the Apostles teach?", he said something that at first I thought was an error. He said that 1 Peter was writing to Jewish converts. But right there in the opening of his epistle he says:
1 Pet 1:1 - Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,...
So I decided I would check this out as to why it just might be Jewish converts who were these "Gentile elect". And my search led me to the book of Hosea.
1 Pet 2:10 - Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
Hosea 1:9 - Then said God, Call his name Loammi: for ye are not my people, and I will not be your God.
Hosea 1:10 - Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God.
If you read 1 Peter with your finger on Hosea - you will find these children of Ephraim (10 tribes) is exactly who Peter is writing to. And that the other 'Gentiles' who are mocking them for turning to the Lord are the children who continued in idolatry.
And Peter is writing to them much as James was - calling them back to their Jewish roots with their knowledge of the OT Law and prophets and hope in Messiah - which was the gospel that had been preached to their fathers.
blog.messiahreformed.com/categories/Are%20You%20Nuts.aspx
Near the end of the 2nd podcast on "What did the Apostles teach?", he said something that at first I thought was an error. He said that 1 Peter was writing to Jewish converts. But right there in the opening of his epistle he says:
1 Pet 1:1 - Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,...
So I decided I would check this out as to why it just might be Jewish converts who were these "Gentile elect". And my search led me to the book of Hosea.
1 Pet 2:10 - Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
Hosea 1:9 - Then said God, Call his name Loammi: for ye are not my people, and I will not be your God.
Hosea 1:10 - Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God.
If you read 1 Peter with your finger on Hosea - you will find these children of Ephraim (10 tribes) is exactly who Peter is writing to. And that the other 'Gentiles' who are mocking them for turning to the Lord are the children who continued in idolatry.
And Peter is writing to them much as James was - calling them back to their Jewish roots with their knowledge of the OT Law and prophets and hope in Messiah - which was the gospel that had been preached to their fathers.
