"I tell you very earnestly that I have other sheep which are not of this land nor Jerusalem nor anywhere else I have been to serve. They have not yet heard my voice nor have I shown myself to them. However, the Father has commanded me to visit them so they can hear my voice and be numbered among my sheep so that there may be one fold and one shepherd. Therefore, I now go to show myself to them.
"Also, I command you to write these sayings after I am gone. It is possible that those who were with me in Jerusalem will not ask the Father in my name to learn by the Holy Spirit about you and the other tribes separated from them. Instead, my teachings to you will be kept and provided someday to foreign peoples. When the time of the foreigners has come, the remaining Israelites will have been scattered all over the earth because of their unbelief. At that time, by these writings, the Israelites will be brought in to a knowledge of me, the One who has paid the price for them. Then I will gather them in from across the earth, and I will fulfill the promise that the Father has made to all of Israel's family.
"The foreigners, because of their belief in me, will also be blessed in and by the Holy Spirit which witnesses to them about me and the Father. Yes, according to the Father, because of their belief in me and because of your unbelief, oh Israel's family, the truth will come to the foreigners in the last days. These things in their completeness will be made known to them.
"However, bad things will come to the unbelieving foreigners. They will have come to this land and scattered my people who are from Israel's family. My people will have been thrown out from them and been walked on by them. Because of the Father's mercy to the foreigners and because of His judgments against my people of Israel and after I have caused my people to be battered, abused, killed, thrown out, hated, and maligned by them, very truly the Father commands me to tell you this: When these foreigners act against my good news and reject the fullness of my message, when they are lifted up in their prideful hearts above all other nations on earth, when they are filled with every kind of lie, mischief, murder, religious fraud, promiscuity, and secret horror, yes, when they do all this and reject the fullness of my good news, then I will take my good news away from them.
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