Episode 150: Acts 11: 19-24 - The New Covenant - One New House (Man) - Tower of Babel - 3rd Angelic Fall

GENTILE REVIVAL BEGINS - AD 41

Acts 11:19-26 - 19 Now those who were scattered because
of the persecution that arose over Stephen (AD 34-5) traveled as
far as Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch, speaking the
word to no one except Jews. 20 But
there were some of them, men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who on coming
to Antioch spoke to the Hellenists also, preaching the Lord
Jesus. 21 And the hand of the Lord was with
them, and a great number who believed turned to the
Lord. 22 The report of this came to the
ears of the church in Jerusalem, and they sent Barnabas to
Antioch. 23 When he came and saw the grace of
God, he was glad, and he exhorted them all to remain
faithful to the Lord with steadfast purpose,
24 for he was a good man, full of the Holy
Spirit and of faith. And a great many people were added to the
Lord. 25 So Barnabas went to Tarsus to look for
Saul, 26 and when he had found him, he brought
him to Antioch. For a whole year they met with the church
(where?) and taught a great
many people. And in Antioch the disciples were first
called Christians. 



**God’s Intention of the New Covenant = Jews &
Gentiles**

THE NEW COVENANT'S INTENTION - ONE NEW HOUSE/MAN
•AD 41 – Still “speaking the word to no
one except Jews” (Acts 11:19) – 11 years AFTER
Pentecost!!! 



•A new name emerges – “Christian” – a new
era/day, the full intent of Messiah’s mission, in a new city
(Antioch – center of “CHRISTIAN-ity”)



•WHY PAUL? former Pharisee who had been
“un-pharisee-ized”) – would have had his “leaven” removed. 3
years in “Damascus” (Essenes)

Prophecy found amongst the Dead Sea Scroll



Testament of Benjamin - “I will no longer be
called a ravening wolf on account of your ravages, but a worker
of the Lord, distributing food to them that work what is good.
One will rise up from my seed in the latter times, beloved of the
Lord, hearing His voice on the earth, enlightening with new
knowledge all the Gentiles, bursting in on Israel for salvation
with the light of knowledge, and tearing it away from them like a
wolf, and giving it to the synagogue of the Gentiles. Until the
consummation of the ages, he will be in the synagogues of the
Gentiles, and among their rulers, as a strain of music in the
mouth of all; and he will be inscribed in the holy
books, both his work and his word, and he will be a
chosen one of God forever; and because of him my father Jacob
instructed me, saying, ‘He will fill up that which lacks from
your tribe.’” 


 


Paul learned of his “Prophetic destiny” - Life
& Ministry, Writings = Scripture, Gentile MissionTribe of
Benjamin (Phil 3:5)/ “Apostle of the Gentiles” (Rom. 11:13; 1
Tim. 2:7; 2 Tim. 1:11) - His Epistles – expound the new
law, the Law of Christ (Galatians 6:2 – “…so
fulfill the Law of Christ) = the Law of the New
Covenant. 





Ephesians 2:12-21 - 11 Therefore remember that
at one time you Gentiles in the flesh, called “the
uncircumcision” by what is called the circumcision, which is made
in the flesh by hands— 12 remember that you were
at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the
commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise,
having no hope and without God in the world. 13
But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been
brought near by the blood of Christ. 14 For he
himself is our peace, who has made us both one
and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility
15 by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in
ordinances, that he might create in himself one
new man in place of the two, so making peace,
16 and might reconcile us both to God in one
body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility.
17 And he came and preached peace to you who
were far off and peace to those who were near.
18 For through him we both have access in one
Spirit to the Father. 19 So then you are no
longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the
saints and members of the household of God, 20
built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ
Jesus himself being the cornerstone, 21 in whom
the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy
temple in the Lord. 22 In him you also are being
built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit.



NEW COVENANT'S INTENTION (continued) - UNDOING the
Effects of the Tower of Babel and the 3rd Angelic Fall

Genesis 11:1-9 – Tower of Babel incident, God’s judgment
= disinheriting the nations (i.e. the Gentiles) -
disinherited/divorces the nations (before this God was in
covenant w/ ALL of Noah’s descendants (Gen 9:1) – God’s judgment.
Gen 12 – calls Abram OUT OF MESOPOTAMIA.



3RD ANGELIC FALL – the Fall of Sons of God put over the
Nations  – (Deut. 32/Psalm 82) 



Deuteronomy 32:8–9 - When the Most High gave to the
nations their inheritance, when He divided mankind, He fixed the
borders of the peoples according to the number of the
sons of God/angels of God. 9 - But the LORD’s portion is
his people, Jacob his allotted heritage.



“Deuteronomy 32:8–9 informs us that the act of judgment enacted
on humanity at Babel resulted not only in dividing and scattering
them but assigning them to members of Yahweh’s heavenly
host-council.”



“In terms of a human perspective, while Yahweh’s judgment was
harsh, it was not final. When God chose to raise up a new human
family (Israel) in the wake of Babel, he left room for the
salvation of the forsaken nations in his covenant with Abram. It
would be through Abram’s descendants that all the nations of the
earth would be blessed (Gen 12:1–3). The promise would, of
course, be fulfilled in Christ (Gal 3:16: “Now the promises were
made to Abraham and to his offspring. It does not say, ‘And to
off-springs,’ referring to many, but referring to one, ‘And to
your offspring,’ who is Christ”). Prior to the coming of the
Promised One, gentiles had to join themselves to Israel (i.e.
proselytes/circumcision), forsaking other gods, to be in right
relationship to the true God. Israel was to be a kingdom of
priests bearing witness to the goodness of life with Yahweh as
their God, but there was no overt attempt to evangelize the
inhabitants of the nations. They were under judgment.” 



NEW COVENANT'S INTENTION - Dealing with the 3rd Angelic
Fall

Psalm 82:1-6, 8 – the corruption of those Gods!
(Describes their fall!)



1 God [elohim] has taken his place/stands in the
divine council; in the midst of the gods [elohim] he holds
judgment: 2 “How long will you judge unjustly
and show partiality to the wicked? Selah 3 Give
justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the
afflicted and the destitute. 4 Rescue the weak
and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.”
5 They have neither knowledge nor understanding,
they walk about in darkness; all the foundations of the earth are
shaken. 6 I said, “You are gods [elohim], sons
of the Most High [beney elyon], all of you;  7
nevertheless, like men you shall die, and fall like any
prince.”  8 Arise, O God, judge the earth;
for you shall inherit all the nations! (Through
Messiah!)


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Commentary - “The gods charged with the rule of the nations
became corrupt administrators and, in so doing,
sowed chaos in the heavenly realm as well. Yahweh created a world
characterized by righteousness (ṣedāqâ) and well-being (šālôm).
In Psalm 82, “The gods are condemned to death for their failure
to carry out justice in the human realm.…”



The concept that the nations of the world were allotted to lesser
gods as a punishment at Babel and that those gods sowed chaos on
earth and were hostile to Yahweh and his people can be seen in a
variety of Second Temple [Jewish] texts.”



God disinherited humanity (the Gentiles) at the Babel event,
assigning the nations to ‘lesser gods’ (angels/sons of God) who
sowed chaos amongst their charge. “The notion that different
nations were allotted to different gods or heavenly beings was
widespread in the ancient world…The origin of this idea is to be
sought in the ancient Near Eastern concept of the Divine
Council.

3 CHARACTERISTICS OF THE NEW COVENANT

1. New Covenant – for who? Displaces the Old Covenant, obsolete
(AD70 – End of Temple Judaism) – Why the Apostle
Paul? 



Jeremiah 31:31-34 - 31 “…I will make a new
covenant with the house of Israel and the house of
Judah, 32 not like the covenant
[Mosaic] that I made with their fathers on the day when I took
them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my
covenant that they broke,…33 For this is the
covenant that I will make with the house of
Israel after those days,… (Why it took them so long to
get the “gentile part” of the memo?)



Ephesians 2:15 - 15 by abolishing the law of commandments
expressed in ordinances – Now? Christ’s commandments…“a
new commandment I give you”



Hebrews 8:13 - 13 In speaking of a new covenant, he makes
the first one [Mosaic] obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete
and growing old is ready to vanish away. (AD 70
approaching)



Hebrews 9:9-10 - 9 According to this
arrangement [the Mosaic Covenant], gifts and sacrifices
are offered that cannot perfect the conscience of the worshiper,
10 but deal only with food and drink and various
washings, regulations for the body imposed until the time
of reformation.


God thus shows that the ancient covenant [Mosaic] is
temporary only, when He indicates its change. Also, when
He promises that it will be followed by an eternal one
[New Covenant]. …The epistle that we also allow to be
the most decisive against Judaism, is that in which the apostle
[Paul] instructs the Galatians. For we fully admit the
abolition of the ancient Law. We hold that it actually
proceeds from the dispensation of the Creator. ...Christ
marks the period of the separation when He says, “The Law and the
Prophets were until John.” [Lk. 16:16] He thus made the
Baptist the boundary between the two dispensations of the old
things that were then terminating and the new things that were
then beginning.  Tertullian (AD 207)



**Not Replacement Theology – “One New House (Man) under
the Priesthood and Law of Christ” Theology**



2. Reversing the Tower of Babel Judgment on
mankind – from disinheritance to remarrying the nations
(the Gentiles)! - Testimony - “God wants to put a ring on your
finger”



3. Disempowerment of those “gods” over the
nations – = our empowerment - prayer,
EVANGELISM - preaching the Gospel (setting captives free),
exorcism, healing, gifts of the Spirit, discernment, enforcing
their original (pre-fallen) mandate (justice, etc.)  -
Where? in the 1st Heavens (on Earth)