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Note that Revelation 21:1-2 sets the time frame for this chapter and it is after the Great White Seat Judgment in Revelation 20. This is when John saw the New Jerusalem come down out of a new heaven and a new earth in the eternal age. Outside on the new earth dwell "nations of the SAVED" as contrasted to those dwelling inside the city.

 

4. The natural threefold organic process of the context

The primary verb is Aorist tense and it is modified by three participles. The verb instructs them what they must do - make disciples. The participles inform them how to do it. The first participle is Aorist tense and therefore its completed action precedes that of the action of the main verb. This means Jesus has assumed they have gone evangelizing already and that is why they have "them" as subjects of baptism and instruction as "them" are those from among the nations that responded to the gospel. This is important as evangelization precedes baptism and church membership in the Great Commission or as the older Baptists used to say "blood BEFORE the water."

The next two participles are found in the present tense meaning their action is contemporary with the action of the main verb. Making disiplies out of "them" (the evangelized) is to baptize them first, then instruct them how to observe all things commanded. Thus the threefold process of the Great Commission (1) Evangelize (2) baptize; (3) instruct how to observe all things.

The very command "make disciples" demands reproduction of like kind - disciples of Christ.
The last aspect of the commission demands obedience to the first aspect and so on thus producing a natural cycle of reproduction after its own kind.

Furthermore, this is a organic link to link connection. By "organic" I mean there is direct contact between "ye' and "them" in each step. No TV and modern media when the commission was given and so the evangelist must go and make actual contact with the listeners. Baptism was a hands on ordinance of direct contact between "ye" and "them." Teaching them is by direct contact. Hence, this commission requires direct context between the first link "ye" to the second link "them" in all three aspects.

Finally, the promise of the Lord to be with them doing this to the end of age guarantees success in every generation, there will be congregations of baptized believers of like faith and order reproduced in every generation "until the end of the age." In fact, the very promise demands link to link days in this age as it literally reads "all the days" or as Dr. Henkricksen a reformed scholar translates the meaning "day in and day out until the end of the Age."

 

You are making a lot of assumptions many of which are simply not true. First wrong assumption is that all the saved are in the bride. The church is the bride and the church cannot preexist its own "foundation" (Eph. 2:20) which consists FIRST of apostles (1 Cor. 12;28) "set in the church." Old Testament saints are not in the Bride.

Second, not all NT saints are in the Bride as the vast majority are found in the Great Whore (Rev. 18:4).

Third, you are confusing church membership with salvation and/or the baptism in the Spirit with salvation as the baptism in the Spirit did not precede the day of Pentecost, thus leaving all saints from Genesis to Acts 2 without the baptism in the Spirt.

Fourth, you are not defining the meaning of ekklesia correctly as it is only found in the NT according to its well known historical meaning of a visible assembly of people as in concrete congregations spoken of throughout the NT or in the abstract institutional sense - "the church."

Please see this thread before responding -
Abstract Institutional use of ekklesia and its Biblical synonyms

 

Revelation 21:24 calls them "saved"

Did you even read post#24?????

 

Their kings have to bring THEIR glory "INTO" the city. That is unnecesary if they were already in the City. They walk "in the light of it" rather than walking INSIDE of it. The language here is quite obvious if you have no bias.