As Paul also stated the following:
―For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that
believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek (Nations/Gentiles).‖ (Rom 1:16)
It should be noted that the Gospel was not sent out to the Gentiles. Both Y‘shua and His disciples went only
to "the lost sheep of the House of Israel". Something very mysterious happened with His death – Gentiles
could now come to YHWH of Israel in a more direct fashion – by placing their faith in the Messiah of Israel
and follow His Torah Instructions.
Why is this? The basic explanation is that Y‘shua was/is the Torah ("Word") in the flesh (i.e., John chapter
1:1, 14). Just as the Torah is the revelation of the invisible YHWH – Y‘shua is also the image of the invisible
YHWH (Col 1:15). Coming to trust in Y‘shua is coming to trust in YHWH (as much as we mere mortals can
know Him, which is revealed in His Torah). Y‘shua is the door to this relationship. Torah is the path beyond
this door - for all who wish to put their trust in Him. Sadly, most people will not end up on the right path, even
after learning of Him (Matt 7:12-21).
Most people who come to know of the Elohim of the Bible are soon taught that He changed His mind about
His Torah two thousand years ago – that it was somehow done away with by Y‘shua. This is taught despite
the fact that Y‘shua is the Torah in the flesh (the "goal" of the Torah - Rom 10:4), who said Himself in no
uncertain terms that none of the Torah was done away with by His arrival (Matt 5:17-21).
After Y‘shua's death, the practice of the disciples was to go to the lost sheep of the House of Israel. For
instance, in every town Paul went to, he first visited the local synagogue. (Paul skipped over some very large
cities in his travels that lacked a significant Jewish presence.) In each case, the Gospel was preached to the
Jews first. In every location, there would be some Jews that accepted his message and others that rejected
it. Once "Israel" had made its "decision" (in each town), then, and only then, would the message be given to
the local Gentile population.
A woman of Canaan
―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.‖
The Gospel of Mark gives us more information – it goes to great lengths to inform us that she was a pagan in
that she was both Greek and, by race, a Phoenician (Mark 7:26.) This foreshadows the confrontation
between the pagan world and Y‘shua‘s mission to the children of Israel. The Phoenicians were descended
from the Canaanites, the original inhabitants of Palestine. They were of a Semitic pagan race. ―Have mercy
on me‖ indicates she made her daughter‘s case her own.
She crieth after us.....................................................................................................
―But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away; for she
crieth after us.‖ (Matt 15:23)
The disciples greatly disliked this form of public attention – a strange woman crying after them. They disliked
a sensation.
It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs
―(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.‖
(Matt 15:21-28)
She took no offence at the implication of being a Gentile dog. Rather, she with quick wit, took Y‘shua‘s very
word for little dogs (kunaria) and deftly turned it to her own advantage; for the little dogs eat of the crumbs
(psichi'n, little morsels, diminutive again) that fall from the table of their masters (kuri'n).
By implication it looks like Y‘shua call all outside the Torah covenant dogs. It is then the "dog‘s" responsibility
to come into the owner of the house (YHWH‘s Kingdom by submitting to the owner Y‘shua), and get under