God chose His election before the foundation of the world (in the first earth age).I think you might be getting hung up on two little words: free will.
Did Jesus Die on The Cross for The Just/Elect/Saved Whose Names Are Written in The Book of Life OR
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Do you believe the Exodus account is typological rendition of spiritual redemption?
Jer 23:1-4
23:1 "Woe to the shepherds who are destroying and scattering the sheep of my pasture !" declares the LORD. 2 Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says to the shepherds who tend my people: "Because you have scattered my flock and driven them away and have not bestowed care on them, I will bestow punishment on you for the evil you have done," declares the LORD. 3 "I myself will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the countries where I have driven them and will bring them back to their pasture, where they will be fruitful and increase in number. 4 I will place shepherds over them who will tend them, and they will no longer be afraid or terrified, nor will any be missing," declares the LORD.
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That’s not really what I said, though. Read the scripture again (Revelation 2:9) and do a little research on it.
I’m not talking about spiritual Jews. Read Revelation 2:9, please…and do a study on it.
I believe I will stay "hung up" on These Two Best Words Ever!:I think you might be getting hung up on two little words: free will.
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Jesus is speaking of the Jews who plagued that church in verse 9. Nowhere is that claiming all Jews.
They are still sinners. They were called sheep before following Him. Can you share a verse that says sheep changed from something else into sheep?
I already know you cannot, and the reason is because things are created after their own kind. What we are created, we remain. Goats don't become sheep. Lost sheep are found. Tares don't become wheat. They simply become differentiated as they grow.
Where does it say those who come from Jacob are not Jews?
It does when speaking of Esau, but not Jacob.
Right.
There were some who declared themselves to be from the tribe or land of Judah but were not; they were imposters of “the synagogues of Satan.”
The sheep Jesus is talking about in John 10 are already in the pen.
2 But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.
3 To him the gatekeeper opens. The sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.
Lost sheep aren't in pens. Do they hear His voice when He goes seeking?
Where does Paul, who is Apostle for the GENTLES, call you sheep?
Jesus is talking about the Jews here to the Pharisees.
He answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel.”
Yes, Jesus was only sent to Israel, the Gentiles were grafted in much later.
Jesus did comment on the Gentiles below.
John 10:16
And I have other sheep that are not of this fold; I must bring them also, and they will listen to My voice; and they will become one flock, with one shepherd.
Rom 9:1-13
9:1 I speak the truth in Christ — I am not lying, my conscience confirms it in the Holy Spirit— 2 I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. 3 For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, those of my own race, 4 the people of Israel. Theirs is the adoption as sons; theirs the divine glory, the covenants, the receiving of the law, the temple worship and the promises. 5 Theirs are the patriarchs, and from them is traced the human ancestry of Christ, who is God over all, forever praised! Amen.
6 It is not as though God's word had failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel. 7 Nor because they are his descendants are they all Abraham's children. On the contrary, "It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned." 8 In other words, it is not the natural children who are God's children, but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as Abraham's offspring. 9 For this was how the promise was stated: "At the appointed time I will return, and Sarah will have a son."
10 Not only that, but Rebekah's children had one and the same father, our father Isaac. 11 Yet, before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad — in order that God's purpose in election might stand: 12 not by works but by him who calls — she was told, "The older will serve the younger." 13 Just as it is written: "Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated."
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And have you forgotten the Abrhamic Covenant and God's promise to Abraham that he would be made the father of many nations (Gen 17:5. Isn't that also what Paul taught (Rom 4:11, 16)?
Didn't Jesus say He had sheep in another fold?
And why didn't Paul say lots of things Jesus said? Perhaps he is not the good Shepherd. Perhaps he wasn't sent to seek and to save. Perhaps they aren't his sheep.
Neither was I. The context to my post to which you're replying were the metaphors of shepherds and sheep. It's absolutely mind-boggling of how so many people ignore so many metaphors in scripture and instead substitute their own presuppositions upon the text, thereby perverting the meaning of scripture.