Matthew 8:5-10 King James Version
5 And when Jesus was entered into Capernaum, there came unto him a centurion, beseeching him,
6 And saying, Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented.
7 And Jesus saith unto him, I will come and heal him.
8 The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed.
9 For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me: and I say to this man, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it.
10 When Jesus heard it, he marvelled, and said to them that followed, Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel.
We know that Jesus Christ was sent to the lost sheep of the house of Israel during His first Advent, so His ministry was solely focus on His chosen people, the Jews, but as we read through the Bible there were Gentiles who portrayed their Faith to Jesus such as these people in the passages:
Matthew 15:22-28 King James Version
22 And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil.
23 But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us.
24 But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
25 Then came she and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me.
26 But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs.
27 And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.
28 Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great is thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was made whole from that very hour.
These people may not have seen Jesus do miracles first hand before they met Him, but possibly have just heard it from the people who have witnessed it and passed it along to other people, and they did not come to Jesus to check whether the claims of His miracles are true, they were not skeptics like the Pharisees (Matthew 12:24) or King Herod Antipas (Luke 23:8-11). Out of the hardness of the Pharisees’ heart they reject the evidences of Jesus Christ’s miracles while King Herod doubts Jesus Christ because he wants to see for himself, for Herod it is to see is to believe.
But those Gentiles mentioned, they already believed those claims were true without seeing those miracles first hand.
What is Faith?
Hebrews 11:1 King James Version
“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”
And these Gentiles walked by Faith not by sight.
2 Corinthians 5:7 King James Version
“(For we walk by faith, not by sight:)”
And these Gentiles portrayed their Faith on Jesus Christ and Jesus commends their Faith, the Faith of these Gentiles was so great that Jesus made an exception for them, He steps out of His dispensation (for the Jews only) to minister unto them and heal them. Their faith was great that it was noteworthy to put it in the Scriptures.
Mark 11:22-26 King James Version
22 And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God.
23 For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.
24 Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.
25 And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.
26 But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses.
Without Faith it is impossible to please God.
Hebrews 11:6 King James Version
“But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.”
And we as saved Bible-believing Christians have the privilege to ask petition from God.
1 John 5:15 King James Version
“And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.”
What about now, where does the Gentiles put their faith in?
This pictures are from Paris Olympics 2024 Opening Ceremony
Golden Bull
The Golden Bull/Calf symbolizes idolatry in the book of Exodus Chapter 32
They are mocking the Last Supper of Jesus Christ by replacing them with gays, lesbians, and transsexual, they even included a child which blatantly shows that they are grooming the child to become like them. At the center they replaced Jesus Christ with a lesbian seemingly portraying the Babylonian goddess Ishtar / Semiramis. Our society have been "Sabotaged by Balaam’s Doctrine".
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Romans 11:25 King James Version
“For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.”
As the verse says there will come a time when this Age of Grace would end once the fulness of Gentiles come in and we’re seeing it unfold today. The only good thing these event contributed is that it gave a lot of people awareness how degraded and satanic the society had become and more people starts to question why mostly Christianity and Jesus Christ are being mocked and not any other religions and it raised awareness about the Bible particularly the book of Revelation.
Metal skeletal horse looks like the Pale Horse, one of the 4 Horseman of the Apocalypse in Revelation 6:8, but note we're not yet in the Tribulation.
But we do hope that these awareness don’t stop right here we hope that it will lead them eventually to Jesus Christ and His Save by Grace Gospel while we're still in this Age of Grace.
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