It may just be semantics (we do a lot of that here), but why wouldn't the Jews and Gentiles who realize that Jesus is the Christ and believe in him be Christians. Also, during the 1,000 yr reign not everyone is a believer, but I'm assuming some become believers, wouldn't they also be Christians.
No, the term Christian is a very specific term for a believer at a particular time.
A Christian is someone is part of Christ's body and His Bride.
No other people, anytime in the Bible are said to be individually the Temple of God and have the Holy Spirit permentally indweling them.
No other group of people were individually each considered priests.
No other group of people cease being considered either a Gentile or Jew once saved except during the church age dispensation.
After the Rapture and the close of this Dispensation, a saved person will go back to the way saved people were before the Church age began, no indwelling Holy Spirit, a return to being either a saved Jew or Gentile, but not a 'Christian'.
David was not a Christian, Abraham wasn't, Moses wasn't, Noah wasn't, Abel wasn't, they were Jews and Gentiles.
The failure to understand this comes from confusing the family of God with the Church of God.
But the criteria doesn't change. You are either washed by the blood of Jesus or not.
David was not a Christian, Abraham wasn't, Moses wasn't, Noah wasn't, Abel wasn't, they were Jews and Gentiles.
But they lived by faith.
Hebrews 11:39-40 And all these, having obtained a good testimony through faith, did not receive the promise, God having provided something better for us, that they should not be made perfect apart from us.
In dispensationalism is there a belief that those of the old testament period did not have to have Faith in the coming Messiah to be saved?