[boatbums]

Also, only the true Messiah would have GENTILES that follow him. Many people through the millennia have proclaimed themselves falsely to be THE Messiah, but why is it ONLY Jesus of Nazareth that the Gentiles of the world (2 Billion)have believed in for two thousand years?

[wesagain]

Jesus said..."the sheep will know the voice of the Shepherd." He told the disciples to go find the lost sheep of the "House of Israel." The lost sheep and the house of Israel both referred to the scattered Northern tribes of Ephraim....not the captive Jews which were the southern tribes.

Scattered Israel was lost and among the rest of the family of mankind. Remember the blessing of the "multitudes" of descendents of Abraham (the stars of the sky and the sand of the seas) went to Joseph's son Ephraim and not to Jacob's son Judah.

Later at the time of Solomon's great sin of taking foreign wives(he was so wise?) and the splitting of the kingdom Judah and Benjamin were given into the hand of Rehoboam in Jerusalem and continued the family line that was the Jews. The rest of Jacob's tribe (all Israel) were not Jews but were the lost sheep.