Jesus Christ only for Israel

The Gospel Coalition
Why Did Jesus Say He Came Only for Israel?
JANUARY 28, 2013 | Trevin Wax

Ever notice the dissonance?

The early Christians saw their mission as global in scope, but during his earthly ministry, Jesus explicitly declared his mission to be focused only on Israel (Matt 15:24).

When traced backwards, the flow of universal mission of the early church runs into the rocks of Jesus’ striking particularity. What gives?

Here’s my brief attempt at giving an answer.

Jesus the Nationalist

The Gospels reveal a Jesus focused on Israel. In fact, his ministry appears to be focused so relentlessly on the Jewish people that many scholars have debated whether Jesus was concerned with outsiders at all. When taking into consideration the nations-focused mission of the early church as directed by the risen Jesus that was so prominent in Christian thinking, it is striking to discover that this global impulse appears to be absent from Jesus’ earthly ministry.

Furthermore, the Gospels record Jesus as being up front about his nationalistic intentions. He claimed that his mission was only to the “lost sheep of the house of Israel” (Matt 15:24), a statement made upon his initial refusal of a Gentile woman who asked for healing for her daughter.

It is interesting to note the parallel between the global vision of the risen Jesus as manifested in the actions of the early church and the nationalistic vision of Jesus’ earthly ministry as manifested in the disciples’ avoidance of Gentile towns in favor of “the lost sheep of Israel” (Matt 10:5-6, 23).

Other statements reinforce Jewish priority during the ministry of Jesus, including his decision to choose twelve disciples (corresponding, most likely, to the twelve tribes of Israel) and the fact that the “God of Israel” received the glory when Jesus did engage in brief ministry in Gentile territory (Matt 15:31).

The Wrong Answer

Because of the apparent discrepancy between Jesus’ ministry focus and that of the early church, some scholars assume the evangelists had ulterior motives in the way they portrayed Jesus’ interactions with others.

For example, the Jesus Seminar chooses to pit Mark’s intentions against those of Matthew, postulating that Mark’s account of Jesus’ healing of a Gentile woman’s daughter is meant to justify the church’s Gentile mission, whereas Matthew’s account is “an effort to reinstate a narrower scope for Jesus’ activity.” While it is undeniable that each evangelist chose particular emphases in shaping the Jesus stories, this kind of speculation is wrongheaded. After all, both accounts show Jesus answering the request, and both Gospels also include an emphasis on global mission. (We could make the case that Matthew envisions the Gentile mission even more clearly than Mark does.)

Regardless of how one interprets the evangelists’ different accounts of the same event, it is clear that Jesus’ focus was on reforming Israel, not bringing his kingdom message to the rest of the world. His focus on Israel can be seen in his prophecies and pronouncements of judgment on the nation. Through symbolic, prophetic actions like cursing the fig tree (Mark 11:12-14, 20-25; Matt 21:18-22) and cleansing the temple (Mark 11:15-19; Matt 21:12-17; Luke 19:45-48, John 2:13-16), as well as strong prophetic denunciations (Matthew 24; Mark 13; Luke 21, 13:6-9), Jesus made his particular focus on Israel clear.

Christ’s Mission to Israel for the World

The messianic identity of Jesus, formed and shaped by the Old Testament promises and the Jewish prophets, leads in a direction that simultaneously complicates and resolves the issue. Instead of seeing Jesus’ messianic mindset in terms of either or, one ought to see his mission as to Israel on behalf of the nations. In other words, in narrowing his focus to Israel, Jesus does the work necessary for the entire world to be blessed.

If Jesus saw himself as Israel’s Messiah, the one who will constitute a new Israel, and if he purposefully acted in ways that fulfill the role of the Suffering Servant in Isaiah and the vocation of Israel as the light of the world, then it is no surprise that he would focus his ministry squarely on his Jewish contemporaries.

Jesus’ ministry was to the lost sheep of the house of Israel precisely, because he is the good shepherd come to gather the renewed Israel around himself and to launch their trajectory into the world with the healing grace God always intended to flow through his chosen people. Jesus ministered to the Jews for the Gentiles.

Therefore, we should say the mission of Jesus is first to Israel (through his own ministry) and then to the Gentiles (through the actions of his apostles), but this trajectory should not be reduced merely to salvation-historical terms. Instead, the mission of Jesus to the Gentiles (through his apostles) should be seen as contingent upon the success of his mission to the Jews.

Mission to the nations depends upon Jesus’ accomplishment of his mission to Israel. The particularity of Jesus’ earthly ministry serves the universality of God’s ultimate vision for the world.

Conclusion

Creating too strong a dichotomy between Jesus’ mission to the Jews and the church’s mission to the Gentiles is unhelpful. As the long-awaited Messiah who fulfills Israel’s vocation, Jesus accomplishes the mission of Israel through his own life and work, thereby bringing the blessing of Abraham to the nations, as was promised in the Old Testament.

The mission to the Gentiles was not at the expense of mission to Israel, nor was it merely an extension. Instead, Israel was to be the catalyst through which God would accomplish his promises to the world.

Jesus was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel in order that through his regathering and reconstituting the true Israel, the blessing of salvation would be released to flow from Israel and into all the world, just as God promised in the Old Testament.

Monster Hunter movie script

Diablos!

{\an8}Falcon Main, this is Bravo Team.

Falcon Main, this is Bravo Team.
Do you copy?

Storm incoming. Zero visibility.
Request immediate support.

Falcon Main, something’s in here with us.
Send immediate support.

Falcon Main, this is Bravo Team.
Send immediate support.

Ma’am. Ma’am.

– Marshall.
– Link found something half a klick ahead.

– Bravo Team?
– Think so.

Axe.

– With Steeler. Man the 50.
– Yes, boss.

All right, ladies.

Saddle up.

She’s a woman, but she still manages
to make that sound like an insult.

Get used to it.

Captain.

– You see those markers?
– Yeah, I see them.

Do you have any idea what they are?

Sergeant Davis, I’m a Ranger,
not an archeologist.

Copy that.

– Axe!
– What?

– What are you listening to?
– George Jones.

Who the hell’s that?

You’re a philistine, Steeler.

Yes. Yes, I am.

Damn, Marshall. You got hella reflexes.

Fifteenth casualty today.

– Killing them.
– Take no prisoners, Davis.

– Link, what’d you find?
– It’s definitely Bravo Team.

But the tracks end here.

– What were Bravo Team traveling in?
– Up-armored Humvee and a M-ATV.

That’s ten tons of armored vehicle.
They don’t just disappear.

Boss, we’ve got something.

Incoming. On your 12.

– Where did that come from?
– Came out of nowhere.

Bravo Team reported a storm
in their last transmission.

– Hostiles using it for cover?
– An ambush. Like in Helmand?

Let’s not find out.

REDCON-1.

If there are hostiles hiding
behind that storm,

things might get kinetic.

Copy that.

Marshall, what are you doing, bro?

In case I get my head blown off,
they can still tell who I am.

Hardcore shit, cabrón.

Damn!

Goddamn, that shit’s close.

Link, you ever seen lightning
like this before?

No. Never.

But I feel pretty secure here
in this big steel box,

holding my metal gun.

Dash, on your 12!

Look at those markers!

What the hell is that?

– Watch out!
– Damn it!

Brace yourselves!

Shit!

Where the hell are we?

And what happened to the storm?

What the hell just happened?

– Hey!
– Guys!

You okay?

– I’ll survive.
– Did we just get hit by lightning?

– Steeler, you good?
– Never better.

Where did all this sand come from?

This isn’t right, none of it.

What the hell is that?

I don’t see any structures or mountains
marked on this map.

According to this,
the nearest sand dune is 20 klicks away.

– How’s that possible?
– Where the hell are we?

– How did we get so far from the road?
– I don’t know.

Axe, get on one of those dunes

– and set up an observation point.
– Yes, boss.

– Steeler!
– DPV will run. She’s had worse.

– Marshall?
– GPS is fried, boss.

Radio and sat. All I get is static.

Even the compass is screwed up.
Must have been the lightning.

Well, what do you wanna do?

Go analog. Navigate by the sun.

Make it back to base.
We hoof it if we have to.

Boss, that’s a long hike.

Yeah, well,
we keep going till we get comms.

Then AWACS will call in support.
They’ll send helos, maybe armor.

– Nice.
– Back in business.

– Boss.
– Send it.

There’s something you got to see.

Up-armored DPV and a M-ATV.

It’s Bravo Team.

V-formation. Move out.

What do we do about them?

When we get comms, we’ll call in
recovery assets to retrieve the bodies.

– What happened to them?
– Flamethrowers.

I don’t think so.

Never seen a flamethrower
do this to a man.

– Not even napalm burns that hot.
– Ma’am?

It’s glass.

Glass?

When sand melts, it turns to glass.

How do you melt sand?

I don’t know.

This shit is officially above
my pay grade.

Looks like they made a stand.

– Let off a lot of rounds.
– They didn’t hit anything.

There’s no bodies.

Maybe they took the bodies with them?

– I’ve seen that before.
– Yeah.

– Well, that’s just the thing.
– What do you see, Link?

Nothing.

No tracks anywhere.

Whoever did this,
they didn’t leave a mark.

We need to get moving. Move out!

Dark Star to Falcon.
Dark Star to Falcon, over.

Damn it. Lightning really messed up
the electronics, huh?

Not just electronics.

– What do you mean?
– This isn’t right.

Nothing about this is right.

That lightning, it did something to us.

Captain knows what she’s doing, all right?

They say that in the army
The pay is mighty fine

They say that in the army
The pay is mighty fine

They give a hundred dollars
And take back 99

They give a hundred dollars
And take back 99

Oh, how I wanna go

But they won’t let me go

Home

They say that in the army
The shoes are mighty fine

You ask for size 11
They give you size nine

You ask for size 11
They give you a size nine

Oh, Lord, I wanna go
But they won’t let me go

Home

Jesus.

– It has to be a dinosaur, right?
– Saw a dinosaur in a museum one time.

It wasn’t that big.

Hostile, 12 o’clock, 300 meters!

Cease fire! Cease fire!

– What’s going on?
– It’s just chalk.

Chief?

Diablos.

On our 6!

What the hell is that?

Link, back in the vehicle.

Dash, Steeler, move, move, move!

Fire!

It’s gaining on us!

You’re caught.

– Come on, get out of here!
– No way!

– One…
– Holy…

…two, three!

Fire!

Give me your hand. Come on!

Dash! Come on!

I’m trying!

Steeler!

– Got it, got it, got it!
– Marshall, get in!

Let’s go, big boy!

Give me your hand!

Get inside!

Link, get the RPG!

Oh, my God.

Fall back! Fall back!

Run for cover!

Captain.

Come on!

Come on, boss!

I got it, I got it! Move, move!

Reloading!

What was that thing? What is that?

I told you. I told you.
That light, it took us somewhere.

We need to get back.
We need to get back home.

– Stow it, Sergeant Davis.
– Oh, my God. We’re gonna die here.

Shut that shit up right now, soldier.
That’s an order.

– You see what it did to Steeler and Axe?
– Dash, hey.

I got three. You?

– What?
– Three mags left.

What does it matter? Did you see that?

It matters because we’re soldiers.
And this is what we do. We fight.

– Am I right?
– Rangers lead the way.

– You with me?
– Always, boss.

You’re all crazy.

You know, I don’t care
what the hell that thing is.

We do what we do best.
We fight and we survive.

No matter what the odds. You got it?

– Yes, ma’am.
– Yes, ma’am.

You got it?

Loud and clear, ma’am.

Now, I got three left. What about you?

Med pack!

– CPR, Marshall.
– On it.

– It’s too late.
– Bullshit!

Don’t die on me, Ranger. Come on.

– Lack of pulse.
– Unacceptable. Try it again.

– I’m sorry.
– Shit! There’s more of them!

Come on! We have to go!

They’re everywhere!

I’m sorry.

Master sergeant!

– Link!
– All right, on me!

Let’s move out!

Fall back, fall back!

Dash!

Come on! Keep moving!

Marshall!

Go, go, go!

No!

Link.

Dash.

Dash.

Dash.

Come on.

– You’re alive.
– Link.

What is it? What is it?

Pain in my chest!

I can’t feel my arm.

Some sort of poison.

You just gotta work through it.
Come on. Let’s move. Come on.

All right.

Oh, God.

Oh, no.

Captain.

All right, it’s just a little further.
Let’s go.

I can’t move.

Okay, let me see.

Let me see what it is.

Go!

Oh, my God!

God, Link! No!

You gotta go!

Link!

Damn you.

Damn you!

But I’m coming home.

Nerscylla.

– Nerscylla!
– Get off me.

Nice life you’ve…

See how you like it.

Cheers.

Oh, you spiteful little bastard.

Hey. How about that?

Yeah. You don’t like that, huh?
Not so funny now, huh?

I’ll kill you.

Come on!

Push! Push!

Here.

I’m not your enemy.

Wait, wait. Wait.

One second. Look. Look.

Here.

Food.

Food. Here. Take it.

Here, give it to me.

Look, look.

So good.

It’s good, right?

Slow down. Okay, it’s good.

It’s chocolate.

– Chocolate.
– Chocolate.

Yeah, chocolate.

Chocolate.

Chocolate.

– Choco…
– Chocolate!

– Chocolate!
– I don’t have any more.

No, no more, no more, no more.
Look, look. Nothing.

I’m sorry.

Oh, my God. Thank you so much.
Oh, my God.

Thank you.

Hey.

Wait! Where are you going?

Wait!

Me and you go out there?

Yes. That lightning,
I think that’s what brought me here.

I need to go there. I need to get home.

That thing is still out there.

– Diablos.
– Diablos.

Hey, over there…

I have weapons.

Diablos…

What?

Ni trovi Nerscylla.

– What?
– Nerscylla.

No. We don’t need to go back in there.

We need to go out there. Diablos.

Diablos.

Diablos.

Nerscylla.

Diablo…

We poison it.

Smart.

To kill a monster, you need a monster.

But how are we gonna get
one of those things?

What?

They say that in the army
The coffee’s mighty fine

It looks like muddy water
And tastes like turpentine

Oh, Lord, I wanna go
But they don’t let me go

Home

They say that in the army
The men are mighty fine

To me they look like hunchbacks
And sound like Frankenstein

Oh, Lord, I wanna go
But they won’t let me go

Home

Come on!

Yes! Got it!

Next time, you’re bait!

"Ranger."

That’s me.

Ranger.

Yeah. Yeah.

Hunter.

Hunter. Ranger.

– Yeah. Yes.
– Hunter?

Velcro.

Velcro.

Yeah.

Velcro. Velcro.

Okay. All right, all right.
That’s enough. That’s enough.

Oh, man.

Really trying to get in here, huh?

Is that your family?

Are you gonna see them?
Are you gonna go home?

Home?

I’m sorry.

Rathalos.

Let’s do this.

Never mind. Let’s go.

Ready!

Yeah!

What is that?
You gotta tell me about that.

You can’t just do that to somebody.

Any second now.

Stop!

Bait!

Shit!

Come on!

Watch over him!

You’re welcome.

Apceros.

Apceros.

– Apceros.
– Yeah.

Okay. Okay. They eat grass.

Water. Water.

Bait.

Bait?

You’re funny.

Know what I’m gonna do
next time you’re dying in the desert?

Nothing.

That smells good.

– Catch Cephalos.
– I’ll eat anything at this point.

Home.

Yeah. My way home.

I hope.

Chocolate.

Chocolate.

So good.

What’s that?

All right.

Chocolate.

No, no, no.

– Chocolate.
– Not chocolate.

– What’s going on?
– Rathalos.

You said that before.
What the hell is a Rathalos?

Thank you.

Thank you.

Don’t thank me yet.

Enjoying the show?

This one must have come from the sky.

What?

What is that?

Palico.

My friend tells me I misjudged you.

I may even owe you an apology.

Just don’t hold your breath.

Why did you put me in chains?

What are you so afraid of?

Your world…

and what it could do to mine.

You aren’t the first to cross over
from your world. There were others.

Long time ago.

That’s how you speak my language?

– I made a study of it.
– What happened to me?

How did I get here?

I believe that the answers
we both seek lie here.

At the peak of that mountain lies
the Sky Tower.

Remnants of an ancient civilization.

Very advanced. Very dangerous.

It is said that the Ancients knew
how to travel between both worlds.

I believe that is the purpose
of the Sky Tower.

That is what brought you here.

What happened
to this ancient civilization?

They destroyed themselves.
Their technology turned on them.

You think my world had something
to do with it.

I suspect. But an open gateway
between our two worlds

was catastrophic once.

I intend to make sure
that doesn’t happen again.

We were on our way
to investigate the Sky Tower

when we strayed into the Diablos.

That’s where I lost my friend here.

Tending to the wounded and repairing
the ship was our first priority.

But now we resume our mission.

The Ancients would guard their technology
with the most fearsome of creatures,

a Rathalos.

Almost impossible to kill.

Their only weakness is
just before they breathe fire.

You help us with the battle ahead,
perhaps we can help you get home.

What’s the matter?

You don’t have cats in your world?

Hey!

You been drinking from my mug again?

We leave at dawn.

And don’t keep me waiting.

I hate waiting.

So? You ready?

We got a hard climb ahead of us.

Come on!

We believe that the lava powers
the machinery within the tower.

It’s controlling the storm.

Exactly.

It’s creating a gateway to your world,
but it looks unstable.

Let’s go.

It’s glass.

Estas bone Rathalos.

Rathalos.

Prepare yourself. Remember, they’re weak
just before they breathe fire.

Hey, ugly!

It’s okay! It’s okay.
You’re safe now! Get the medic!

Captain Artemis?

Let’s get her inside! Up!

Let’s go! Let’s go!

Captain, we’ve been searching for you.

What the hell is she wearing?

Falcon Main, this is Red Wolf.

We’ve made contact with Dark Star.

We have a lone survivor.

I say again, a lone survivor.
Ground forces are securing the area.

Copy that, Red Wolf.

Captain.

Can you hear me?

Can you hear me?

Captain?

Captain Artemis?

Where are the rest of your men?

– My men?
– Yes.

Where are the rest of Alpha Team?

Copy that.

We’re under attack!

Aim for the belly!

A Rathalos.

Load!

Fire!

No! No!

No!

It’s coming right for us!

Evade!

We’re on Channel 5. Interference is…

My God.

Come on!

I got you.

My friend.

Thought you might need a little help.

Yeah, I…

still don’t understand you, man.

Oh, yeah.

Friends.

Yeah, thank you.

Min misa chocolate?

I don’t have any more chocolate.

Think fast.

– You’re here.
– We came to help.

We can’t have monsters from my world
attacking yours.

It’s starting again.

We don’t have much time.

There’s going to be another attack.

We have to get back.

We have to shut the Sky Tower down.

– Let’s try to live through this first.
– Copy that.

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$1,400 stimulus checks

CNMI starts sending $1,400 stimulus checks this week
Guam will soon see $1,400 stimulus checks after its plan was approved
BY JERICK SABLAN | PACIFIC DAILY NEWS | 1 hour ago

Because of the coronavirus pandemic, 2020 may be a tax year like no other. Here are answers to some of your top questions.
STAFF VIDEO, USA TODAY
Residents eligible for the third round stimulus checks of $1,400 will soon receive it after Guam’s plan was approved by federal officials.

The Department of Revenue and Taxation announced in a release early Saturday morning that Guam’s plan was approved by the Internal Revenue Service and the U.S. Treasury.

The third round of stimulus checks, or economic impact payments, was authorized by the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 which was signed into law by President Joe Biden on March 11.

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Guam residents haven’t been able to get the $1,400 checks until federal officials approved Rev and Tax’s plan. Most people in the continental U.S. have already received their $1,400 stimulus.

Because Guam isn’t in the IRS system, Rev and Tax had to submit a plan on how it will distribute the economic impact payment funds. The local agency had to also reconcile its list of eligible taxpayers with the IRS, and request and receive a lump sum of funds to cover the island from the U.S. Treasury before residents begin seeing checks.

In the United States, more than 130 million payments, worth about $335 billion, have been made.

The benefit was secured in the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, which gives economic impact payment payments of $1,400 for individuals and $2,800 for joint filers, plus an additional $1,400 for each dependent child.

Individuals earning up to $75,000 and married couples with incomes up to $150,000 will receive the full payments. Payments decrease for incomes above those thresholds, phasing out for individuals making more than $80,000 and married couples making more than $160,000.

Gov. Lou Leon Guerrero said final approval of the plan was received just a little after midnight Guam time and she and Lt. Gov. Josh Tenorio are pleased Rev and Tax can move forward in processing payments.

The IRS and U.S. Treasury approved $241 million for Guam’s third round of stimulus checks and has approved the advance of 90% to be transferred to the government of Guam after the plan approval, the release from Rev and Tax stated.

In addition to funding payments, Rev and Tax was approved for $347,000 in administrative expenses for the program, the release stated.

Payment for the third round of stimulus checks is expected to begin as soon as funds are received.

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