God’s People

“On that day the Lord their God will save them, for they are the flock of His people.” (Zecheriah 9:16)

Through the Gospel God will gather into one faith, as into one group or flock, those who have been scattered throughout the world and seperated by various ways of teaching. For the Jews also were scattered about in all the world in their fashion and had various ways among themselves of getting pious, as one can see from the Pharisees, Sadducees, and scribes. But that is even more true of the Gentiles, who were seperated throughout all the world into countless numbers of idolatrous sects. But when they were punished for that through the Gospel and their wrong beliefs together with all the cunning and wisdom of the Old Adam was killed, then they were all brought together into an harmonious faith and teaching …