
(1) Matthew has Jesus say that the world must be conquered with the gospel:
The Great Commission
Matthew 28:16-20 New International Version (NIV)
16 Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. 17 When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. 18 Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
(2) CONQUERING THE EARTH WITH THE GOSPEL IN THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES:
*******Sending Out Emissaries (Deuteronomy 1:1-46; Luke 10:1-3, 17-30):
Robert M. Price points out that just as Moses had chosen twelve spies to reconnoiter the land which stretched “before your face,” sending them through the cities of the land of Canaan, so does Jesus send a second group, after the twelve, a group of seventy, whose number symbolizes the nations of the earth who are to be conquered, so to speak, with the gospel in the Acts of the Apostles. He sends them out “before his face” to every city he plans to visit (in Canaan, too, obviously).
To match the image of the spies returning with samples of the fruit of the land (Deuteronomy 1:25), Luke has placed here the Q saying (Luke 10:2//Matthew 9:37-38), “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few; therefore beg the Lord of the harvest to send out more workers into his harvest.”
And Jesus’ emissaries return with a glowing report, just as Moses’ did.
Edited post … Don’t know what I was thinking …
Christianity started as a part of Judaism … Judaism was the first “Missionary Religion” so stands to reason Christianity would follow in it’s footsteps.
If memory serves Judaism started it’s missionary work around 200 BCE untill around 800 CE when it simply could no longer compete between Christianity and Islam.
Source material :
Shlomo Sand – “The Invention of the Jewish people”
Rodney Stark – “Cities of God”
Among others.
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