With warm regards It is a tremendous blessing to have you back pastor Bob, and so generously supplying us with Biblical truth and historical accurate truth. I have spent hours printing and pouring over the doctrinal accurate teachings from your amassed knowledge. 

    I did notice , as I have written before, that you believe that the church, the body of Christ, revealed by Paul, is the same church that was formed by the jewish Apostles in early Acts, and their Epistles encompass Hebrews thru Jude. I recommend everyone should read Keith R. Blades book, "Properly handling the word of truth", as well as Dr. Ken Blue's book, " commentary on the book of Acts ".

    There are countless verses that support that what the jewish Apostles taught was Christ's atonement PLUS works meet for repentance, a continuation of Jesus' specific commandments during His earthly ministry. Paul , admittedly , while he was Saul of tarsus, confessed to persecuting this church even unto strange cities. James Epistles specifically targets the twelve tribes scattered abroad. Some of these undoubtedly scattered by the persecution against the early church. In Acts it states, "⁵ And when Silas and Timotheus were come from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in the spirit, and testified to the Jews that Jesus was Christ.

⁶ And when they opposed themselves, and blasphemed, he shook his raiment, and said unto them, Your blood be upon your own heads; Iam clean: from henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles.

⁷And he departed thence, and entered into a certain man's house, named Justus, one that worshipped God, whose house joined hard to the synagogue.

⁸ And Crispus, the chief ruler of the synagogue, believed on the Lord with all his house; and many of the Corinthians hearing believed, and were baptized.

⁹ Then spake the Lord to Paul in the night by a vision, Be not afraid, but speak, and hold not thy peace:

¹⁰ For I am with thee, and no man shall set on thee to hurt thee: for I have much people in this city.

¹¹ And he continued there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.

¹² And when Gallio was the deputy of Achaia, the Jews made insurrection with one accord against Paul, and brought him to the judgment seat,

¹³ Saying, This fellow persuadeth men to worship God contrary to the law. Acts 18: 6-13

The baptism was sign of repentance which would enable the jews to be saved ..a requirement, Paul states that he came not to baptize. Paul's objective was to roll jews AND GENTILES INTO ONE CHURCH. Peter and the Apostles taught righteousness by adherence to obedience to Jesus commandments by faith. Paul taught salvation by Christ crucified and justification by grace thru faith of Christ.James and Peter cements this in Acts 15 " ⁶ And the apostles and elders came together for to consider of this matter.

⁷ And when there had been much disputing, Peter rose up, and said unto them, Men and brethren, ye know how that a good while ago God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel, and believe.

⁸ And God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as he did unto us;

⁹ And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.

¹⁰ Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?

¹¹But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they.

¹² Then all the multitude kept silence, and gave audience to Barnabas and Paul, declaring what miracles and wonders God had wrought among the Gentiles by them.

¹³ And after they had held their peace, James answered, saying, Men and brethren, hearken unto me:

¹⁴ Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.

¹⁵ And to this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written,

¹⁶ After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up:

¹⁷ That the residue of men might seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, saith the Lord, who doeth all these things.

¹⁸ Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.

¹⁹ Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God:

²⁰ But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and fromblood.

By Peters own admission he states the Jews will be saved as the gentiles . This is a special revelation that Paul exclusively brings, which ultimately culminated in todays church by the end of the 1st century. But the jewish and jewish proselytes Christian church was being phased out by God's design, and will be resumed after the rapture and the church, the body of Christ is snatched away. The Prophets confirm this. The salvation will be of the jews in the tribulation for those who bless Israel and endure to the end as the Jewish Apostles taught. Zech. 8:20-23 " ²⁰ Thus saith the LORD of hosts; It shall yet come to pass, that there shall come people, and the inhabitants of many cities:

²¹ And the inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, Let us go speedily to pray before the LORD, and to seek the LORD of hosts: I will go also.

²² Yea, many people and strong nations shall come to seek the LORD of hosts in Jerusalem, and to pray before the LORD.

²³Thus saith the LORD of hosts; In those days it shall come to pass, that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you: for we have heard that God iswith you.

This is the church Saul of Tarsus persecuted, the same way it will be in the tribulation. Unlike today in this dispensation of Grace, God will be actively anointing and protecting and empowering those saved saints that obey and trust him..a provision not afforded to us knowingly evident today. As with the 144,000 Jewish virgins, and the 2 witnesses, Jews will have the preeminence. The same signs wonders and heavenly interaction will be prevalent then as was in the early Acts period. Rev. 12:6 " ⁶ And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.

The confusion between Paul and Peter's two differing gospels is dispelled at a counsel between them in Galations 2 "

¹ Then fourteen years after I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took Titus with me also.

² And I went up by revelation, and communicated unto them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to them which were of reputation, lest by any means I should run, or had run, in vain.

³ But neither Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised:

⁴ And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:

⁵ To whom we gave place by subjection, no, not for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.

⁶ But of these who seemed to be somewhat, (whatsoever they were, it maketh no matter to me: God accepteth no man's person:) for they who seemed to be somewhat in conference added nothing to me:

⁷ But contrariwise, when they saw that the gospel of the uncircumcision was committed unto me, as the gospel of the circumcision wasunto Peter;

⁸ (For he that wrought effectually in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, the same was mighty in me toward the Gentiles:)

⁹And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we should go unto the heathen, and they unto the circumcision.

¹⁰ Only they would that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was forward to do.

¹¹ But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed.

¹² For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision.

¹³ And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation.

¹⁴ But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?

Just because Paul had Apostolic signs and was a Jew does not mean he preached the same message as peter and the saved remnant. Paul was the embodiment of the one new man, Jew nor Gentile, Jew and Gentile, a gross sinner saved by grace, justified by grace thru faith, and was beset by resistance from even Peter initially. By them confirming their different ministries, even Luke the writer of Acts recognized Paul superseded their message . As the Jew as a nation was temporarily set aside, even to this day. 

Sincerely in Christ, 

Alan T