Here is a good example as to what Im saying.
Let us remember.......who is being addressed?
5And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven. 6Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language. 7And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans? 8And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born? 9Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia, 10Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes, 11Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God. 12And they were all amazed, and were in doubt, saying one to another, What meaneth this? 13Others mocking said, These men are full of new wine.
Acts 2:5-13
People back in
THE FIRST CENTURY of differing nationalities heard the preaching of the Apostles to themselves. When the Apostles preached the message
WE WERE NOT THERE. Peter told
THEM the following.
37Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren,
what shall we do? 38Then Peter said
unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. 39For the promise is unto
you, and to
your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call. 40And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from
this untoward generation.
So the Apostles told the men of
THAT UNTOWARD GENERATION to repent be baptized and receive the Holy Ghost. Then he said this promise was
FOR THEM and their children and people who were far off.
So there (according to Pret logic) we can safely contend that what Peter told the crowd that day was
ONLY FOR THEM AND THEIR CHILDREN! It was only for
THAT UNTOWARD GENERATION.
So as Yeshua said in Matt 24
THIS generation shall not pass the Prets claim it is limited to the generation he spoke it to. They must now accept that the preaching of Acts chapter two as being limited to
THAT UNTOWARD GENERATION.
See how this works Dom? So you really have no authority to tell anyone to do what Peter told
THAT GENERATION AND THEIR CHILDREN to do.
So since the people that followed Peters instructions went to Heaven in 70 ad
WHO ARE WE? Has Yeshua's teachings of salvation any meaning to us?
For us to try to claim
Acts 2 as being for us 20 centuries after the coming of Yeshua taking his people back to Heaven would be like someone in the first century Apostolic Church looking at Moses teachings and telling everyone they must follow
his teachings for salvation. It would not have applied at that time.
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