{"id":514,"date":"2013-06-22T20:22:48","date_gmt":"2013-06-23T00:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bethadonai3.web802.discountasp.net\/wordpress\/?page_id=514"},"modified":"2013-06-22T22:05:22","modified_gmt":"2013-06-23T02:05:22","slug":"f-messianic-judaism-was-strictly-jewish-at-first-how-did-gentiles-come-into-the-faith","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/bethadonai.com\/?page_id=514","title":{"rendered":"If Messianic Judaism was strictly Jewish at first, how did Gentiles come into the faith?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Question:<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">If Messianic Judaism was strictly Jewish at first, how did Gentiles come into the faith?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><b>Answer:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>It was always God\u2019s will for the Gentile nations to also receive His Salvation (Is. 49:6, 42:6). \u00a0God told Abraham, that through him all the nations of the earth would be blessed (Gen. 12:1-3). \u00a0At first, the early Messianic Jews did not understand that this was God\u2019s will and proclaimed the Good News of the Messiah only to Jewish people.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, the big controversy in the first century was not if it was Jewish to believe in Yeshua (naturally it was) but whether Gentiles could come in without having to \u201cbecome Jewish!\u201d \u00a0When Messianic Jews finally recognized that God\u2019s Salvation was also for the Gentiles, they began to share the Messiah with non-Jews as well as with Jews. \u00a0As a result, many Gentiles throughout the Roman Empire began to come into this Messianic faith (Acts 15:1-31).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: If Messianic Judaism was strictly Jewish at first, how did Gentiles come into the faith? Answer: It was always God\u2019s will for the Gentile nations to also receive His Salvation (Is. 49:6, 42:6). \u00a0God told Abraham, that through him all the nations of the earth would be blessed (Gen. 12:1-3). \u00a0At first, the early [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":180,"menu_order":12,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bethadonai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/514"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bethadonai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bethadonai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bethadonai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bethadonai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/bethadonai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":603,"href":"http:\/\/bethadonai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/514\/revisions\/603"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bethadonai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bethadonai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}