When the Did the "Church" Begin?

When the did the "Church" begin?

There is a popular teaching today that says the "church" started at Pentecost.

Restated, it says Yahweh's chosen people originally were the Israelites, but since Pentecost, His chosen people are the "church."

Is this right?

Is the "church" a new dispensation?

What does your Bible say?

The King James Version - considered by many to be the only inspired version - settles this question.

Look at the following Renewed Covenant (New Testament) reference. You won't even have to replace the term "church" with its Hebrew definition to discern the meaning.

Acts 7:38 KJV

"This is he (Moses), that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sinai, and with our fathers who received the lively oracles to give unto us"

Well, what do you know...

the "church" was

• in the wilderness,
• with Moses,
• at Mount Sinai.
  

The "church" isn't something new.

It is something as old as Mount Sinai.

The "church" at Mount Sinai was a congregation of Israelites with a few tag along gentiles. Those gentiles, in order to receive the blessing of Yahweh, had to adopt the ways of the Israelites - even to the point of being circumcised.

Today, gentile congregations with a few tag along Jews - who are expected to adapt the ways of the gentiles - claim the name of "church."

Perhaps the problem is that the "church" of the 21st century is not like the "church" described at Mount Sinai or in the "New Testament".

Sounds to me like the modern "church" needs to re-discover its Hebraic roots.