[smvoice]

Let me ask you this: how will the Gentile Nations be blessed during the Millenial reign of Christ? Or do you believe there will be actual Nations on this earth for Christ’s 1000 year Kindgom? And just what does the covenant God made with Abraham mean? One more question: Why twelve disciples? Why not 11 or 15? Or when Judas betrayed Christ and went to his own, why was he replaced by Matthias? Why was it necessary to replace him when they did?

[Natural Law]

"Let me ask you this: how will the Gentile Nations be blessed during the Millenial reign of Christ?"

The Church does not teach, nor do I believe in Millennialism.

[aruanan]

And just what does the covenant God made with Abraham mean?

God always had a single plan for the whole world through Abraham, the father of faith, that culminated in the faithful servant Israel, in the person of the Messiah, Jesus, giving his life to ransom all who, throughout history, have put their faith in God, believed him, and had it credited to them as right standing with God. This is the gospel. There is no gospel without the covenant God made with Abraham. Period.

I think the choice of Matthias to replace Judas was just another example of worldly thought, "Well, dang, we gotta do something, right?" WRONG. What they did was along the same lines as imagining that it should have been Esau, the elder, rather than Jacob, the younger, receiving the blessing of Isaac, or Jacob, crossing his hands and blessing the younger over the older of Joseph's two sons. God had other plans. This was demonstrated throughout the scriptures again and again and again. And again with Paul, whom Jesus chose as his apostle to the Gentiles. It was Jesus who chose the apostles, one of whom was a betrayer, not Peter and the rest through some bureaucratic need to do something. It was Jesus who filled the gap Judas Iscariot's departure left.