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SCOT: Brother, I wish I knew. I read Acts and I sometimes think that offering almost for his people is about the collection and other times I\u2019m not sure, and it is the absence of Jewish help for Paul when in prison in Caesarea Maritima and it makes me wonder if they rejected his collection. I believe Paul was in tension with some Jerusalem leaders from the outset of his gentile mission and so when I think they may have rejected his collection, I think, \u201cWell, I\u2019m not surprised.\u201d When I think of this through the grid of Paul\u2019s amazing vision of bringing gentiles into the covenant, I think \u201cThey should have embraced that collection as a man of good faith.\u201d I wish I knew but the evidence of Acts doesn\u2019t convince me either way, and Romans 15 suggests he\u2019s not 100% confident.<\/p>\n

BEN: Do you think when Paul speaks of a mysterion <\/em>in Romans 11, he is referring to a vision he had which reversed the order of things Jews assumed when it came to the end things?? Jewish belief was based on Zechariah and Isaiah etc. They assumed Diaspora Jews would come streaming up to Zion and Gentiles begging to go with them grabbing their coat tails. No says Paul, the full number of Gentiles will be saved first, and then when the Redeemer returns from heavenly Zion \u2018he will turn away the impiety of Jacob\u2019 and all Israel will be saved\u2026. By grace through faith in Jesus. Comments?<\/p>\n

SCOT: I\u2019m not sure I could say the mystery is a vision but a conceptual understanding of the inclusion of gentiles in the one people of God. On the flocking of gentiles to Zion, the discussion of missionary literature is whether it is flowing to and that Paul reversed it to a flowing toward them. So, I think your point has merit.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"