The many sinners now that are saved much later ...

The 'broad way' leads, through destruction in death, to God ... by turning to lovingness in the next life...

Jesus in fact says that he was sent , not to the Jews, but to the lost House of Israel, the scattered Northern kingdom who rejected Judaism and worshipped idols ,even after they were scattered and became lost as a people amongst the gentiles [unlike the Jews who were held together as a people by Judaism:-

Matthew 15:24 But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

Deuteronomy 28:64 And the LORD shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone.

One will not find any Jews worshipping idols of wood and stone , so Israel is still a divided nation, the Messiah was sent to unite them but not in THIS world :-

John 18:36 Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world:

Thus most Jews and Christians and Muslims all have it wrong according to the scriptures ... Jesus was sent to begin gathering the House of Israel's descendants out from amidst the gentiles, where they have been living as gentiles for three millenia ...

It is these few gathered by Jesus and the apostles and their disciples in turn, who will make the Jews jealous with knowledge of the Messiah the Jews mostly still await

Deuteronomy 32:21 ... I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

Again we may note in the new covenant of grace that says that it is ONLY with those whose fathers broke the old covenant [Heb 8:8-12], that it is with both the Jews [House of Judah] and this lost nation, the House of Israel, living as gentiles for so long that they likely believe they are gentiles , and so do the Jews !

1 Peter 2:9 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
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.

Note that only the House of Israel fits this description, and they are forgiven by the new covenant with Israel...

So why does God take only the remnant few of these two divided kingdoms when Jesus returns? [Rev 7:3-8 confirms that only those of Israel are taken first, but 144,000 is just a tiny remnant , not the whole of Israel]

The answer was revealed long ago to Moses by God , God decided to show His power by naming who would be His priests when His kingdom is established on earth for all men [but not this earth, as we have seen above] and the one's He happened to name are Israel :-

Exodus 19:6 And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.

The irony of course is that Jews and Christians and Muslims all have respect for Moses as a prophet, yet this prophecy of God goes ignored by almost all men even today ... Israel has NEVER YET been a nation of priests , never yet been united under one king since it was divided on religious grounds, the Jews rejecting Ephraim and the House of Israel and holding fast to Judaism whilst these worshippers of pagan gods were scattered by God ...

Ezekiel 37:22 And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all:

The gospel of the kingdom and of the Christ is thus this ancient prophecy of a king who will unite Israel again into a nation of priests...

BUT the nation of priests is only a priesthood in order to serve, and those they serve are the masses of the gentiles [Rev 7:9-10]... thus the many are redeemed through the redemption of Israel FIRST as a perfect ministry by the whole nation God chose from the beginning and states in His new covenant of grace with only them [Jer 31:31-34]

Romans 11:26 And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:

Thus ALL the Jewish, Moslem, and Christian sinners of THIS world will be ministered to by a perfected Israel in the next life and be redeemed to God there, not at Jesus' return

Many of Israel died sinners in disbelief , they too cannot be redeemed until after the second resurrection because they died sinners, they cannot be translated to spirit because they did not perfect their love in this life, so they will be amongst the first redeemed in the new earth kingdom of God since God requires all Israel as priests eventually, takes only a few to begin establishing the kingdom at Jesus' return

2 Timothy 2:19 Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.

Thus God does not require more than His few .who find the narrow strait way ,saved in this earth , the kingdom is not even ready for the whole of Israel until after the second resurrection, more than a thousand years from now ...

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