Fullness of Gentiles (8/20-25)

20-25 August 2015 -Fullness of the Gentiles – Manna by Dorothy Callies

Romans 11:25 KJV, “. . . until fullness of the Gentiles be come in.”

First, the fullness of time was about God sent His Son at the right time. Now the fullness of the Gentiles be comes in. In NLT, “. . . until the complete number of Gentiles comes to Christ.” What does that means?

My dear friends, there’s a lot of issue (point of debate) to cover what Paul wrote from the whole Chapter Romans 11. For this Manna, my key subject will be about the Gentiles. [I have been working on this for several days.]  

It is now August 21, 2015 and I realized that there were many references that covers this theme. So I Google and found that all three were put together: Rapture, the Bride of Christ and the Fullness of the Gentiles. No wonder! That made sense to me why those references were in that connections. So I had to stop and think. What got me to start about “the Gentiles”? What actually inspired me? I don’t want to remove all the references and start over. So I set aside and called it, “The References of the Gentiles.”

It started with story of Joseph: Joseph was given a wife, “And Pharaoh called Joseph’s name Zaphnathpaaneah; and he gave him to wife Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On. And Joseph went out over all the land of Egypt” (Genesis 41:45). Asenath was a Gentile and Joseph married her. Then eventually, the famine came which brought Joseph’s brother to buy food … soon after the second time, Joseph revealed himself to them. In the movie, Joseph’s wife, the Gentile stood at the high balcony and saw the great rejoicing time of “Joseph’s reunion with his brothers.” Joseph’s brothers were already his family.

Joseph’s wife became a family of the Jews. [From this movie, it thrilled me to realize that in the future, we, the Gentile will get to see the great reunion time of Christ and the Jews who will finally realize that it was “The Pierced One” … see Aug. 1-7 Manna.] So Joseph was the type of Christ who will marry the wife, the Gentile so that the Gentiles could become a family, officially.

Also I have heard of one preacher from Texas, preached about the body of Christ, the Church age, the Gentile. He said, “Any Jews who have accepted Christ are already His family. The Gentiles are the ones that need “to be married to Christ” so that we, who are Gentiles, could become a family and become God’s people, the Jews and the Gentiles alike.

So the “fullness of the Gentiles” means when the body of Christ, the Church Age is full and complete, at the right time the Rapture comes and the next thing will be  “…for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready” (Rev. 19:7). Oh boy, this is what Paul meant, “To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles which is Christ in you, the hope of glory” (Col. 1:27). 

May the Lord bless you and enrich you in Christ. Amen!