Peter’s Vision About The Gentiles
(Non-Jewish Believers)
Acts
10:34-45
Then Peter opened His (Peter’s) Mouth and said: “In TRUTH,
I (Peter) PERCEIVE that GOD (GOD Almighty) SHOWS NO Partiality. BUT in
Every Nation WHOEVER (Believers) Fears Him (GOD Almighty) and Works Righteousness
IS ACCEPTED BY Him (GOD Almighty). The WORD
(The Gospel of Jesus Christ), which GOD (GOD
Almighty) SENT to
The Children of Israel, Preaching Peace THROUGH Jesus Christ, He (Jesus Christ)
IS LORD of ALL, THAT WORD (The Gospel of Jesus Christ) YOU (Believers) KNOW,
which was PROCLAIMED throughout All Judea, and began from Galilee AFTER The Baptism,
which John (John, The Baptist) Preached: how GOD (GOD Almighty) ANOINTED Jesus of Nazareth,
WITH The Holy Spirit and WITH Power, Who went about Doing Good and Healing All,
who were OPPRESSED by the devil, for GOD (GOD Almighty) was WITH Him (Jesus
Christ). And We
(Jesus Christ’s Disciples and Followers) ARE Witnesses of All Things, which He
(Jesus Christ) DID, BOTH in The Land of The Jews and in Jerusalem, whom They
(Unbelievers) KILLED by Hanging (Jesus Christ’s Crucifixion) on a Tree (The
Cross). Him
(Jesus Christ), GOD (GOD Almighty) RAISED UP (Jesus Christ’s Resurrection) on
The Third Day, and SHOWED Him (Jesus Christ) OPENLY (ALIVE), NOT to All The People, BUT to Witnesses CHOSEN BEFORE
by GOD (GOD Almighty), even to Us (Jesus Christ’s Disciples and
Followers) who ate and drank WITH Him (Jesus Christ) AFTER He (Jesus Christ) AROSE
(ALIVE) from The Dead. And He (Jesus Christ)
Commanded Us (Jesus Christ’s Disciples and Followers) to PREACH to The People,
and to TESTIFY that IT IS He (Jesus Christ) who was ORDAINED BY GOD (GOD
Almighty) to be JUDGE of The Living AND The Dead. To Him
(Jesus Christ) All The Prophets WITNESS that, THROUGH His (Jesus Christ’s) Name,
WHOEVER (Believers) BELIEVES IN Him (Jesus Christ) Will RECEIVE Remission
(Cleansing) of sins.”
While Peter was still
speaking These WORDS, The Holy Spirit FELL UPON All Those (Believers) who HEARD
The WORD. And Those of The Circumcision
(Jewish Believers) who BELIEVED were astonished, as many as came with Peter,
because The GIFT (GOD Almighty’s FREE GIFT of Salvation) of The Holy Spirit had
been POURED OUT ON The Gentiles (Non-Jewish Believers) also.
Acts
11:1-18
Now, The Apostles (Jesus
Christ’s Disciples) and Brethren (Believers) who were in Judea HEARD that The
Gentiles (Non-Jewish Believers) had also RECEIVED The WORD (The Gospel of Jesus
Christ) of GOD (GOD Almighty). And when Peter came up to Jerusalem,
Those of The Circumcision (Jewish Believers) CONTENDED with Him (Peter), saying, “YOU (Peter) went
in to Uncircumcised Men (The Gentiles) and ate with Them (Uncircumcised Men/The
Gentiles)!”
But Peter explained it to Them (Jewish
Believers) in order from the beginning, saying: “I (Peter) was in The City
of Joppa praying; and in a TRANCE I (Peter) SAW A VISION, an Object Descending
LIKE a Great Sheet, Let Down FROM Heaven by Four Corners; and it (The Great
Sheet) CAME to me (Peter). When I (Peter) OBSERVED it (The Great
Sheet) intently and considered, I (Peter) SAW Four-Footed Animals of The Earth,
Wild Beasts, Creeping Things, and Birds of The Air. And I (Peter) HEARD A (GOD Almighty’s)
VOICE SAYING to me (Peter), ‘Rise, Peter; Kill and Eat.’ BUT I (Peter) said, ‘NOT so, LORD (GOD
Almighty)! For NOTHING Common OR Unclean
has at ANY TIME entered My (Peter’s) Mouth.’ BUT The (GOD Almighty’s) VOICE ANSWERED me
(Peter) again FROM Heaven, ‘What GOD (GOD Almighty) HAS CLEANSED, YOU
(Peter) MUSE NOT Call, common.’ Now THIS was DONE Three
Times, and All were DRAWN UP again INTO Heaven.
At That Very Moment,
Three Men stood before the house where I (Peter) was, having been SENT to me (Peter)
from Caesarea. Then The Spirit (The Holy
Spirit) TOLD me (Peter) to GO with Them (The Three Men), DOUBTING NOTHING. Moreover, These Six Brethren accompanied me
(Peter), and We entered The Man’s (Cornelius’) House. And He (Cornelius) told Us how He (Cornelius)
had SEEN an Angel (GOD Almighty’s Holy Angel) STANDING in His (Cornelius’)
House, Who said to Him (Cornelius), ‘SEND Men to Joppa, and CALL for Simon,
whose Surname is Peter, Who will TELL YOU (Cornelius) WORDS by
which YOU (Cornelius) and All Your (Cornelius’) Household will BE SAVED.’ And as I (Peter) began to SPEAK, The Holy
Spirit FELL UPON Them (Cornelius and His Household), as UPON Us (Jesus Christ’s
Disciples and Followers) at The Beginning (Pentecost). Then, I (Peter) Remembered The WORD of The
LORD (Jesus Christ), HOW He (Jesus Christ) SAID, ‘John (John, The Baptist)
INDEED Baptized WITH water, BUT YOU (Jesus Christ’s Disciples and Followers) Shall
BE BAPTIZED WITH The Holy Spirit.’ IF therefore, GOD (GOD Almighty) GAVE Them
(The Gentiles/Non-Jewish Believers) The SAME GIFT (GOD Almighty’s FREE GIFT of
Salvation) as He (GOD
Almighty) GAVE Us (Jewish Believers) when We (Jewish
Believers) BELIEVED on The LORD Jesus Christ, who was I (Peter) that I (Peter)
Could WITHSTAND GOD (GOD Almighty)?”
When They (Jewish Believers) HEARD These Things They (Jewish Believers) became
SILENT; and They (Jewish Believers) GLORIFIED GOD (GOD Almighty), saying, “Then
GOD (GOD Almighty) has also GRANTED to The Gentiles Repentance TO LIFE
(Everlasting Life).”
Saul’s
(Paul’s) Conversion and His Revelation FROM Jesus Christ
Acts 26:12-18
“While thus occupied, as
I (Saul) journeyed to Damascus with Authority and Commission from The Chief Priests, at Midday, O King (King Agrippa), along the road
I (Saul) SAW A LIGHT FROM Heaven, BRIGHTER than The Sun, SHINING around me (Saul)
and Those who journeyed with me (Saul). And when
We All had fallen to the ground, I (Saul) HEARD A (Jesus Christ’s) VOICE SPEAKING
to me (Saul) and SAYING in The Hebrew Language, ‘Saul, Saul, why are YOU PERSECUTING Me
(Jesus Christ)? It is HARD for YOU
(Saul) to kick AGAINST the goads.’ So I (Saul)
said, ‘Who are YOU, LORD (Jesus Christ)?’
And He (Jesus Christ) SAID, ‘I AM Jesus, Whom YOU (Saul) ARE
PERSECUTING. But RISE and STAND on
Your (Saul’s) Feet; for I (Jesus Christ) have APPEARED TO YOU (Saul) for THIS PURPOSE,
to MAKE YOU (Saul) A Minister and A Witness BOTH of The Things which YOU (Saul)
HAVE SEEN and of The Things which I (Jesus Christ) Will yet REVEAL TO YOU
(Saul). I (Jesus
Christ) Will DELIVER YOU (Saul) FROM The Jewish People, as well as from The Gentiles, to whom I (Jesus Christ) NOW SEND YOU (Saul), TO OPEN Their (The Gentiles) Eyes, IN ORDER TO TURN Them (The
Gentiles) FROM
darkness TO LIGHT, and FROM the power of Satan TO GOD (GOD Almighty), that
They (The Gentiles) May RECEIVE Forgiveness of sins and an INHERITANCE among Those
(Believers) who are SANCTIFIED BY FAITH IN Me (Jesus Christ).’
Galatians 1:11-12, 15-19
But I (Paul, once known
as Saul) MAKE KNOWN to YOU, Brethren, that The Gospel (The Gospel of Jesus
Christ), which was PREACHED by me (Paul) is NOT according to Man. For I (Paul)
NEITHER RECEIVED IT (The Gospel of Jesus Christ) from Man, NOR was I (Paul)
TAUGHT IT
(The Gospel of Jesus Christ), but IT (The Gospel
of Jesus Christ) CAME THROUGH
The REVELATION of Jesus Christ.
But when it PLEASED GOD
(GOD Almighty), Who SEPARATED me (Paul) from My (Paul’s) Mother’s Womb and CALLED me (Paul) THROUGH His (GOD
Almighty’s) GRACE, TO REVEAL
His (GOD Almighty’s) Son (Jesus Christ) IN me (Paul), that I (Paul) might PREACH
Him (Jesus Christ) AMONG The Gentiles, I (Paul) did NOT immediately CONFER with
Flesh and Blood (Mankind), NOR
did I (Paul) go up to Jerusalem to Those who were Apostles (Jesus Christ’s Disciples) BEFORE
me (Paul); but I (Paul) went to Arabia, and returned again to Damascus. Then after Three Years, I (Paul) went up to
Jerusalem to SEE Peter, and
remained with Him (Peter) Fifteen Days. But I (Paul)
SAW NONE of The Other Apostles (Jesus Christ’s Disciple), EXCEPT James, The
LORD’s (Jesus Christ’s) Brother (Half Brother).
Fellow Believers, did YOU
(Believers) KNOW that it was NOT Officially Ordained (by GOD Almighty) to PREACH
The Gospel of Jesus Christ to The Uncircumcised (The Gentiles), until AFTER
Jesus Christ’s Resurrection and AFTER Jesus Christ’s Ascension. Peter was TOLD in a VISION, FROM GOD
Almighty, while Saul (Paul) was TOLD, THROUGH A Revelation FROM Jesus Christ. Paul became The Main Disciple of Jesus Christ
to The Gentiles, this is NOT to say that The Other Disciples did NOT Preach The
Gospel of Jesus Christ to The Gentiles.
It’s believed that during Paul’s RECEIVING His (Paul’s) Revelation FROM
Jesus Christ, He (Paul) RECEIVED The Knowledge of “The Being Caught Up
Together”, which He (Paul) calls, A Mystery, and He (Paul) WRITES about what He
(Paul) LEARNED in His (Paul’s) Epistles, especially in His (Paul’s) Letters to
The Corinthians and The Thessalonians.
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