1. Only Israelites had and were under the law.
2. Only Israelites were imputed (charged with) sin.
3. Only Israelites were in danger of an end of the age judgement.
4. There was never an effort to gather pagans.
5. The gathering at the time of the end was of the elect.
6. The elect were Israelites.
7. Only Israelites needed redemption.
8. Only Israelites are seen as sealed, saved and redeemed at the time of the end (Rev 7).
9. The covenants were for Israel. Israel's god didn't make covenants with pagan nations.
10. According to Rom 11:26-27 and Heb 8:8, Christ's new covenant was with and for those who had been under the old covenant, specifically Judah and Israel. Non-Israelites weren't in view. Anyone under Christ’s new covenant had to have been an Israelite.
11. The story of Israel at the time of the end is one of restoration.
12. Pagan nations didn't have a relationship with Israel's god that needed restoration.
13. The descendants of the tribes of Israel were located in "every nation under heaven" (Acts 2:5).
14. According to Peter, the twelve tribes were dispersed abroad (1 Pet 1:1).
15. Josephus' statement about the ten tribes being an immense multitude that could not be numbered correlates with the great multitude that could not be numbered in Rev 7. Israelites.
16. There were multiple, ongoing dispersions in the first century. One dispersion originated from the ten tribe’s release from Assyrian captivity in 722BCE, while another dispersion began during the Babylonian rule of Judah in 586BCE. Jews from that dispersion returned and later generations of them endured yet another Jewish dispersion which originated from the lesser known Greek conquest of the land in 332BC. These people were spread out everywhere, which is why the gospel went out to the nations by Paul and other apostles.
For these reasons and more, the idea that Paul traveled to share the gospel to non-Israelites is absurd. Paul preached everywhere because descendants of the tribes of Israel were everywhere, living among the heathen.
Gentiles (ethnos / nations, tribes, people) who received the Spirit, were saved, adopted, grafted in, co-heirs etc etc were first century descendants of the tribes of Israel who had been dispersed among the nations. They were called “nations” (ethnos) by Jews because they had stopped being Torah observant, had stopped practicing circumcision and were considered entirely different nations on account of their adoption of pagan practices. That’s who Paul’s audience was in all of his letters, gentile descendants of the tribes of Israel. Nobody today is a gentile in this sense.
Gentiles who had no link to old covenant Israel, like people today, were never under the law, not imputed with sin, not in danger of an imminent judgement and didn't need salvation. People today, like non-Israelites in the first century, don't benefit from Christ's work on the cross. We aren't part of the bible's redemptive narrative, which ended in AD70.
The emphasis was always to seek the lost sheep of Israel, to gather the elect (Matt 24:31, 2 Thess 2:1) remnant from out of the nations before the end of the age, not people thousands of years into the future.
Jesus came to redeem the sheep, his people.
Luk 1:68 Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people
We are not his people. Israel was his people.
(Luke 1:76-77 NKJV). And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Highest; For you will go before the face of the Lord to prepare His ways, To give knowledge of salvation to HIS PEOPLE By the remission of their SINS,"
Isa 51:16 And I have put my words in your mouth and covered you in the shadow of my hand, establishing the heavens and laying the foundations of the earth, and saying TO ZION, ‘YOU ARE MY PEOPLE.’”
(Matt 2:6 NKJV) ‘But you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, Are not the least among the rulers of Judah; For out of you shall come a Ruler Who will shepherd MY PEOPLE ISRAEL.’”
Acts 28:20... For this reason, therefore, I have asked to see you and speak with you, since it is because of the HOPE OF ISRAEL that I am wearing this chain.”
Act 5:31 Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance TO ISRAEL, and forgiveness of sins.
(Acts 13:23 NKJV). From this man’s seed, according to the promise, God raised up for ISRAEL a Savior—Jesus
The emphasis was always Israel, not non-Israelites.
Mat 1:21 She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.”
We are not his people. Jesus himself said...
Mat 15:24 He answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house OF ISRAEL.”
He told the disciples....
Mat 10:6 But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of OF ISRAEL.
Redemption was for those under the law.
Gal 4:5 To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
Which means that Jesus didn’t die for us. He died for old covenant Israelites.
Jesus came to save HIS people from their sins (Matt 1:21, Acts 5:31) We are not His people. Salvation was only for Jews and gentile descendants of the tribes of Israel dispersed among the nations.
Post-AD70 Christianity is a hijacked redemptive narrative that has flipped the identity of “gentiles” on its head from being the elect diaspora called out of the nations to mean anyone today who is not Jewish. It was in this way that post-70AD Greeks misappropriated bits and pieces of a redemptive narrative meant for old covenant Israel, adapted it to their Greek culture and created a Jesus cult of their own.
For more insights like this and information on IO, visit the Facebook discussion group called “The Preterist Collective” or visit the YouTube channel called “Israel Only Information” for many informative presentations on this exciting and controversial view. #IOWINS 
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