[chette777]

Brandon did't write the Post you quoted Gophgetter I did and I am not him.

Yeah he was speaking to People who were alive at that time. Jewish people Peter beleived of the immenant return of Christ which would be proceeded by the TRIBULATION. It wont compute to you cause you don't rightly divided.

I never said his ministry was ONLY to the Jews I said always to the Jews. Peter was to confirm that The Gospel was meant for all men including Gentiles that is the whole point if Acts 10 and his testimony in Acts 11. but you never again see Peter ministring to The Gentiles in the church Age. By Acts 13 Peter is no where to be found. after this you never Read of peter anywhere doing ministry to the Gentiles nor is he in Rome.

the Jews were given the exceeding great and precious promises The us meaning they the Jews and Gentile converts that beleived Jesus would return and establish the Kingdom. At acts 2 the body is being built (even though you don't see it), so they were given the divine nature which is the Holy Spirit presently and completed in a future time. the only promises this age gets is Eternal Life in Christ by faith alone and you can't lose it, a new body and rewards. the promisses to Israel were teh great and preceious promises of a King who would rule in rigteousness over all the world and that with a rod of Iron.

but the Gentiles weren't scattered in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, that always was their lands, the Jews however were scattered in those lands as Peter adresses them and they are not appointed to return until the last days and in that sense they are strangers in the land they dwelt. You may have taken a cew from Ruckman on that one. I love that guy but sometimes he is wrong.

If you try to make the scattering the tower of Babel then you have to remove it from the context which is the scattering of the Tribulation. again a cultic practice of taking verse out of context.

the Strangers of Peter and Paul are different you have blended them to be all Gentiles. but as stated above the Gentile possessed those lands only Israel was scattered throughout them by the Roman Armies who destroyed their temple in 70ad. Peter was thinking they were in the Tribulation when he wrote his letters.

what agrees with Paul in teaching is for us. but just because they both use the word strangers don't make them the same thing. Again you took the verse(in this case the word) out of context.

Peter did minster to both Gentile and Jew and he is writiing to both in the tribulation. I did say that the above lesson of How to divide rightly of which you didn't care to learn from in the first place was not exhaustive. and we only addressed the verse Stephen quoted. and the context of this Post which is Loss of Salvation.