Who was the Book of John Addressed to?

[jeremiah1five]

The above is what I feared and you did go down that rabbit hole.

That skewy wabbit!

I thought we were discussing the New Covenant.
The above would have to be cut down and answered at separate times due to the length.
I ran thru it quick, but there's just too much.

I'm not superficial. My positions are well thought out and based on Scripture.

John was the last OT prophet.

Jesus was the last Prophet under the Law. He is "a prophet like unto Moses" and born after John Baptist.

Jesus was a Prophet, a King, and a Priest.
I don't know why we'd want to get into this.

Jesus Christ has more titles than those three.

See my post no. 386.
I've come to understand that you don't believe Gentiles can be part of the New Covenant.
I'd like to go over scripture regarding this.

What Scripture records is that beginning in the Garden God has invoked a plan to save a people from sin and as Scripture unveils itself, we see the plan of God revealed. This plan was contemplated in the Mind of God with the support of the Word and the Spirit. Each Person of the Trinity has a function towards God's goal of saving a people to Himself and He does it through covenant, even as that covenant in history traverses centuries and with many major individuals that play a key role in that plan of saving man. It begins with Abraham and his seed (offspring), with Isaac, Jacob, and Jacob's twelve sons, a people identified as the children of Jacob/Israel. Phase one is the Abraham Covenant. Phase two is the Mosaic Covenant. Phase three is sending God's own Son to fulfill the requirements of God's Righteousness - something mere man could not do - concluding with the life, death, and resurrection of a Substitutionary sacrifice made under the Law in order to save those under the Law in a fashion fit for Creator God. The whole of Hebrew history up to the first century AD has one people in view and the Hebrew Scripture records the history of this people singled out by God in order to save this preordained people whose end is to return to God from whence they were first contemplated. The bottom line is that God saves through covenant - something the rest of mankind does not have outside of the Hebrew people through Abraham.

For instance....also please answer this: (after post 386)
WHO were the other sheep Jesus had to tend to?
John 10:16
15 even as the Father knows Me and I know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep.
16 "I have other sheep, which are not of this fold; I must bring them also, and they will hear My voice; and they will become one flock with one shepherd.

They are mixed heritage Hebrews. Covenant Israel is called in Scripture "sheep" and this "other sheep" can only be Abraham's seed mixed with Gentiles the same way mixed heritage Samaritans (called by Jews "Samaritan" and not seen as Jews by Jews), the same is also of mixed heritage Hebrews but of the two southern kingdom tribes that remained in Gentile lands and did not return with the remnant in 522 BC. From 522 BC to Jesus Christ in the first century AD the Jews called these mixed heritage Hebrews "Gentile" because they were so heavily influenced by Gentile and Greek culture that they were among those Christ called the LOST sheep of the House of Israel. These Hebrews of mixed heritage grew up as Gentiles and lost their Hebrew heritage through approximately 15-20 generations from 522 BC, even 722 BC when the northern kingdom tribes were conquered and assimilated into Assyrian and later, Babylonian culture and way of life. It was a major shift from living under the Mosaic Law of God to mingling with Gentiles and learning their ways, something God had always warned the children of Israel not to do. But their Diaspora was not short term (count the years and kings after Solomon died and his kingdom split.)
Gentiles are called "goat" and it doesn't mean "Greatest Of All Time."

And who are the following?
Matthew 22:8-10
8 "Then he said to his slaves, 'The wedding is ready, but those who were invited were not worthy.
9 'Go therefore to the main highways, and as many as you find there, invite to the wedding feast.'
10 "Those slaves went out into the streets and gathered together all they found, both evil and good; and the wedding hall was filled with dinner guests.

Those who were invited are the Jews who rejected the Messiah.
So who were those on the main highways?

Jews didn't reject Messiah. Of ALL Hebrews alive including mixed heritage Hebrews who lived in Gentile lands the population in Jerusalem who were witness of the crucifixion were only in the thousands, maybe in the tens of thousands because of the increase of pilgrimages to the Holy Land for Passover, while Jews and mixed heritage Jews in Gentile lands were in the millions and were oblivious of what took place in Jerusalem.

Matthew 22:1-14 is difficult to interpret. It may not even refer to Israel because of certain terms out of place with what actually occurred in Israel and beyond. First, it's not talking about a crucifixion but a marriage and marriage supper. The biblical doctrine of salvation and qualified to be at the end of time marriage supper has Israel "locked in" to attend with no one lost. Nor does "outer darkness" refer to "hell" or the "Lake of Fire." The "evil and good" is problematic. In the Old Testament Israel is called a "great congregation" - and beside Israel being the Bride this son who is getting married is getting married to Israel for they will be present at their own marriage between the son and Israel, so the people that refuse to attend cannot be Israel. Israel will be there by covenant. And those in the byways and highways cannot be Gentiles for nowhere in the Old Testament are Gentiles having covenant with God if God is the father. There are too many inconsistencies in the text to refer to either Israel and/or Gentiles. I think it's merely a parable for parables' sake and has no significance to reality.

Biblically, Israel is called Bride (of God) in the Old Testament. Saul says, "ALL ISRAEL shall be saved," so the one without a garment cannot be any of the Bride (Israel) for at the biblical marriage supper Israel is there by covenant. I know of no Scripture that says Gentiles will be present at the marriage supper of Israel and the son.

 

[jeremiah1five]

Nope, your are not the defense, you are the accuser.

You believe and actively promote that only those with Jewish DNA may receive salvation and eternal life and the rest of the humanity will rot in hell.

And Scripture proofs you wrong.

Jesus said [Hebrew] Scripture cannot be broken.
If there is no covenant in the Hebrew Scripture between God and non-Hebrew Gentiles, then any claims of such a covenant outside of Scripture is to be rejected.
God has covenant with Abram the Hebrew (Gen. 14:13) and his Hebrew seed. This is the Abraham Covenant and no Gentiles are named or mentioned or included in this covenant. And since the Scripture has been closed for nearly three thousand years any adding to the Bible after the fact is just wrong.

There are no non-Hebrew Gentiles named, mentioned, or included in the Mosaic Covenant, a covenant in which God commanded a yearly sacrifice to atone for the sins of the Hebrew people. The high priest was commanded to offer sacrifices and sprinkle the collected blood of the sacrifice and sprinkle the children of Israel with it. You will not find any Scripture under the Law in which the high priest offered sacrifice to atone for the sins of the Gentile people. When Jesus arrived, He fulfilled every aspect of the Law of Moses, including as High Priest offered Himself as sacrifice to atone finally and eternally the sins of the children of Israel thus fulfilling the requirements of the New Covenant, a Covenant signed, sealed, and delivered in His blood.

The Holy Spirit Falls on the Gentiles [ESV]

Acts 10:44 While Peter was still saying these things, the Holy Spirit fell on all who heard the word.
Acts 10:45 And the believers from among the circumcised who had come with Peter were amazed, because the gift of the Holy Spirit was poured out even on the Gentiles.
Acts 10:46 For they were hearing them speaking in tongues and extolling God. Then Peter declared,
Acts 10:47 “Can anyone withhold water for baptizing these people, who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have?”
Acts 10:48 And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to remain for some days.

Acts 11:1 Now the apostles and the brothers who were throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God.
Acts 11:18 When they heard these things they fell silent. And they glorified God, saying, “Then to the Gentiles also God has granted repentance that leads to life.”

Acts 13:46 And Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, saying, “It was necessary that the word of God be spoken first to you. Since you thrust it aside and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we are turning to the Gentiles.
Acts 13:47 For so the Lord has commanded us, saying, “‘I have made you a light for the Gentiles, that you may bring salvation to the ends of the earth.’”
Acts 13:48 And when the Gentiles heard this, they began rejoicing and glorifying the word of the Lord, and as many as were appointed to eternal life believed.

Acts 14:27 And when they arrived and gathered the church together, they declared all that God had done with them, and how he had opened a door of faith to the Gentiles.

If these people are truly non-Hebrew Gentiles and the seed of both Japheth and Ham and have received the Spirit of Promise, Joel said God promised to Israel, then Scripture is broken, and Jesus and God the Father are liars.

Saul and Barnabas "turned to the Gentiles" because that where the majority of Jews lived.
God, through the prophet Joel promised His Spirit to Israel - NOT Gentiles. If non-Hebrew Gentiles in the New Testament are true, non-Hebrew Gentiles, then God lied to Israel, the apple of His eye. You don't see a problem there? You don't see a problem with God who for nearly six centuries spent His time dealing with Abraham and his seed, defended the Hebrew people, fed the Hebrew people, prospered the Hebrew people, raised up prophets to and for the Hebrew people who carried God's Word to this people, gave them His Law to lead and guide this people, and yet when His only begotten Son was sacrificed as the lamb of God for the Hebrew people, that as soon as Jesus ascended His first words after resurrection and ascension is to non-Hebrew Gentiles?

To say that the "Gentiles" in the New Testament are non-Hebrew Gentiles who were being born again by God's Spirit, a Spirit never promised to Gentiles, Gentiles who were not only the enemy of Israel but an enemy to Him, that Gentiles are being saved without a covenant, without a personal, interactive history with them, and soon to be "raptured" into heaven and who are to enjoy eternal life? There are too many problems with this belief.

Tell me if Samaritans are the offspring of the ten northern kingdom tribes and Gentiles, then where are the offspring of the two southern kingdom tribes and Gentiles mentioned in the New Testament? Where is the evangelical outreach to herald to these two southern kingdom tribes their Messiah had come? The majority of Jews alive when Nehemiah took a remnant (10%) with him back to the Holy Land to rebuild their stolen lives had remained in Gentile lands heavily influenced by Greek culture. How does the God of Israel get His message to them that their Messiah had come, and that salvation is in Him? Or are we to only focus on the ten northern kingdom tribes while Judah and Benjamin got nothing coming to them of God. Where in the Old Testament is a covenant between God and non-Hebrew Gentiles - the seed of Japheth and Ham?

But you prefer to stick with the Jews who rejected the will of God as (for instance) stipulated in Acts 14

Acts 14:1 Now at Iconium they entered together into the Jewish synagogue and spoke in such a way that a great number of both Jews and Greeks believed.
Acts 14:2 But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brothers.
Acts 14:3 So they remained for a long time, speaking boldly for the Lord, who bore witness to the word of his grace, granting signs and wonders to be done by their hands.
Acts 14:4 But the people of the city were divided; some sided with the Jews and some with the apostles.
Acts 14:5 When an attempt was made by both Gentiles and Jews, with their rulers, to mistreat them and to stone them,

Acts 14:19 But Jews came from Antioch and Iconium, and having persuaded the crowds, they stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.

Enough Scripture for one day.

You are on the wrong side my friend, still stuck in 2000 years old Jewish beliefs, come into God's reality, salvation is for everyone who believes, not limited to Jews only.

God saves through covenant. God spent nearly four thousand years raising up Abraham and his seed and then to enjoin his seed, a people called the children of Israel, to give this people His Law to govern their lives, commands of the Ceremonial Law which described Israel's yearly atonement through animal sacrifice, where in the whole of the Scripture is the God-Gentile covenant in order to save Gentiles with a Jewish Messiah. Where is this covenant between God and Gentiles in Scripture?

God saves through covenant. Show me a salvation covenant between God and Gentiles, the same as the covenant God has with the children of Israel.
Show me a Gentile Messiah and Gentile Scripture recording God's interaction with Gentiles, raising up Gentiles with Gentile prophets that would speak to the Gentile people, and show me Scripture of God giving His Law to Gentiles along with a mechanism through ceremony of a Gentile Son of God who would take away the sin of the Gentile people. Show me the Gentile Scripture that has Jesus Christ as their promised Messiah, Lord, and King of the Gentiles.

If you can't prove God loving and saving Gentiles through Gentile Scripture, then the identity of "Gentiles" in the New Testament cannot be non-Hebrew because to begin with God made no salvation covenant with Gentiles the same as He made salvation covenant with His Church and Bride, the apple of His eye Israel.

17 All nations before him are as nothing;
And they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.
Isaiah 40:17.

To believe that Gentiles are included in the salvation provided to Israel has too many doctrinal problems, but you don't study, only regurgitate from other people's bible studies, and quote Gentile theology books. If there is any "strong delusion" God is promised to send upon the world then this false teaching of Gentile inclusion into the Hebrew covenants would probably be the one He would send upon the world.