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1st COMPANY: Israel after the flesh (Mat. 15:24; Rom.9:3-4; cp. Gen.17:14).
TIMING: From the four Gospels unto the stoning of Stephen (Acts 7).[1] (see note). And then will pick back up after the battle of Armageddon, during the times of refreshment from the Lord, the restoration of all things (Acts.3.17-21).
CALLING: To the Jew only (Mt.10:5-8; cp. Acts.2:5, 9-10, 14, 22; 3:12, 17-26; 11:19).
FIRSTBORN BLESSING: Preeminence over the nations of the earth (Ex.4:22; Isa. 60:10-14; 61:5-7).
HOPE: Christs return to the earth (mount olive, Zech.14:3-4; Acts1:11-12) to rescue Israel from their enemies and gather them from all the earth; in order to restore the Kingdom to Israel in fulfillment of their new covenant promise (Acts.1:6; Lk.1:67-75; 2:25, 36-38; cp. Jer.31:31-40; cp.30:9).
SHPERE OF BLESSING: The Earth (Mt.5:5; 6:10; cp. Zech.12:9).
2nd COMPANY: The Church of the first born, the (heavenly seed, as the stars Gen.15:5; Dan.12:3) of Abraham, the Israel of God (Heb.12:23; Gal.3:26; 6:16) [2] see note.
TIMING: From Acts 8.1-3 to Acts 28:25-28; and will pick back up during the tribulation (Mt.24:14).
CALLING: Paul was indebted to all men, but during the Acts period Paul’s message was to the Jew first (Acts.9:15;17.2; cp. Rom.1:14-16; 11:13-14).
FIRSTBORN BLESSING: Over the Angels, and Nations (1Cor.6:3; Rev.2:27).
HOPE: The “coming” of the Lord (Gr3952, Parousia) being rescued out of the tribulation to Heaven (Mt24.3,27,37,39; Rev.7:14; 1Cor.15:27; 1Thes.2:19;3:13;4:15; 2Thes.2.1,8-9).
SHPERE OF BLESSING: The heavenly Jerusalem (over the earth, Gal.4:26; Heb.12:22; Rev.21:2).
3rd COMPANY: The church the Body of Christ, the corporate New man (Eph.1:22-23; 2:15; Col.1:18). [3]
TIMING: From Paul’s imprisonment in Acts 28:30-32 till the present (Eph.3:1; Col.4:8;2 Tim.1:8)
CALLING: To the members of the nations (Eph.3:1-3; Col.1:27; 1Tim.2:7).
HOPE: The "appearing" (epiphany G2015) with Christ at the right hand of God (Col.3:1-4; 1Tim.6:14; 2Tim.4:1, 8; Tit.2:13; Phil.3:20-21).
FIRSTBORN BLESSING: Over the cosmic powers of the Heavens and over the powers of the earth (Eph.1:19-23; Col.1:15-18; cp.Ps.8).
SHPERE OF BLESSING: IN the highest heaven at the right hand of God, as His ruling image in the mist of the divine council (Eph.1:3,20; 2:6; cp. Heb.4:14; Eph.1:18; Col.1:12; Ps.89:5-8)
[1] Christ came to confirm the covenants and promises made to the fathers of Israel; in fulfillment of Daniel 70 week prophecy, to redeem the nation from their sin, and from their gentile enemies (Lk.1:71-78), the Kingdom was indeed at hand in the person of the king, the members of the nation were called to a baptism of repentance for the remission of sins, in order to prepare themselves for the day of the Lord judgments where the Messiah would establish the Kingdom(Mk.1:4;Mt.3:8-12). It was with the purpose for Israel to be to be a light to the gentiles in God’s Kingdom (Rom.15:8-9; cp.Lk.2:32). The order of events in the prophetic timeline of God purposes are that Israel was to be saved first, and then through them, God would channel His blessing out to the rest of the world (Isa.60; Jn.4:22; Acts 3:25-26). This is why when Christ came here His ministry was exclusively to the nation (Acts.5:31). He told the disciples not to go into any of the cites of the Samaritans, or the way of the gentiles (Mt.10:5), and when the gentile woman approached Christ he said to her I have not come but for the lost sheep of the House of Israel, it is not right to take the children's bread and give it to the dogs, let the children “first” be filled (Mt.15:26; Mk.7:27;cp. Acts.3:25-26 ).
During the gospels, the Kingdom was at hand, the nation rejected him, but he prayed on the cross for the father to forgive them. So in the early Acts (period) the Kingdom is being offered (due to the Lord's intercession to forgive Israel, Lk.23.35), "And now, brothers, I know that you acted in ignorance ("for they know not what they do"), as also did your rulers. But what God foretold by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ would suffer, he thus fulfilled. Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out, that the times of refreshing may come from the presence of the lord, and that he may send the Christ appointed for you (Christ would have returned if they repented, and restored the Kingdom to Israel), Jesus, whom heaven must receive until the time for restoring all things...here their national forgiveness is being offered, to receive their covenanted kingdom promises (Acts.3:17-21,24-26; cp.1:6). But we see the rejection continue because the leaders of the nation interrupt the offer (Acts.4:1-3). If the nation repented the tribulation would of have not come, and the Day of the Lord judgments would have begun, and Israel was to preach to the lost world as missionaries (Zech.8:20-23; Isa. 66.19; Acts.2:14-21). Christ said during His earthly ministry that to speak a word against him would be forgiven, but blasphemy against the holy spirit would not be forgiven, and then speaks about how they would be persecuted and brought before leaders and synagogues (Lk.12:8-12; cp.23:35). We see this fulfilled in Acts with Stephen who was filled with the holy spirit, which the leaders resisted and then continue to stone him (Acts.6:5,9-12,51,54-60). Now the judgment of the tribulation was set to come, the time of Jacobs trouble (Mt.24.21; Jer.30.7). This is seen in Stephen's vision of the Lord "standing at the right hand of God", whereas in all other places, He is said to be "sitting at the right hand", but not in the book Revelation, where He is said to be standing before He opens the seals of judgment (Rev.5:6). Similar language is also used in the O.T "Arise, O God, judge the earth: for thou shalt inherit all nations" (Ps.82:6). The new covenant is exclusively to Israel regarding their national forgiveness, and it is the promise of God to restore Israel as Gods people from the Lo-Ammi (not my people, Hos.1:9) judgment (Jer.31:31-40).
[2] During mid Acts, the Lo-Ammi judgment (Hos.1:9) began (judicially, figured by the blinding of the Jew (Acts 13:9-11; cp. Rom. 11:11; 1Thes.2:16) and was finalized (historically) in Acts. 28:25-28. It was part of prophecy, that when the members of the nation (the leaders, and the people) were found in unbelief, the nation would be cast of as not my people; and from there He would form the government of the new nation from among the Gentiles to drive a believing remnant of jews to jealously (Acts.15:14-17; Rom. 9:24-26; 10:19;11:11), in order that He might save some before the judgment of His wrath was to came (His longsuffering, Rom.9:27-29;10:20-21). During the Acts period Paul said that he preached no other things which the prophets and Moses said would come; Paul said that he stand judged for the hope of the promise of God made unto the fathers for which the twelve tribe serve God day and night (that the resurrected Christ would redeem Israel and be a light to the gentiles, Acts.26:6-7; 22-23; cp. Lk.1:67-75; 2:25,31-32; 24:21, 44-46), Paul said for the hope of Israel he is bound in his chain (Acts. 28:20).
[3] The Revelation of the Mystery given to Paul in Prison. The working service of the saints for the restoration of the cosmos
8c in all wisdom and insight 9 making know to us the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in himself 10 as a plan (dispensation) for the fullness of the appointed seasons, to head up all things in Christ the, things in heaven and things on earth (Eph.1:8-10).
The mystery of God’s will concerns the establishment of His Kingdom by the Christ during the appointed seasons; and how He purposes to bring in these seasons through the redemption of the church into its inheritance; this will be accomplished through the working service of the members of Christ’s Body; which are called to build up one another in love, for the glorious manifestation of Christ with His body in the heavenly realm (Eph.1:5-7;14; 4:30 4:12-16; Col.1:4-5,23,25-29; Tit.1:1-3). Once the church enters its inheritance with Christ, as God’s glorious, enthroned image; the fullness of God’s glory (preeminent presence) will then begin to pervade out to all creation during the appointed seasons; where all the divinely assigned offices of authority that rule the cosmos and the earth ( that are ruled by the forces of darkness, Eph.6:12), will then be made subjugated under the preeminent headship of Christ (Isa.24:21), thus being filled with the glory of God, where He is all in all (Eph.1:18-23; 3:9-11; Col.1:14-21;cp.1Cor.15:24-28).
Here we have God’s secret plan in bringing order to the cosmos (i.e., the establishment of God’s Kingdom), through the redemption of the Church into its inheritance in the heavenly realm. This realm is currently occupied by the hostile spiritual forces of darkness (Eph.6:12; cp.Eph.1:3), thus, they have present control over the worlds system (the kingdom of darkness, Eph.2:1-3). Here lies the cosmic conflict, and the spiritual warfare that the church is called to engage in, in order to obtain possession of the inheritance (Eph.6:12-18), that God may establish order to the cosmos through the rein of Christ (cp. Heb.2:8). This will be accomplished by our being energized by God’s Spirit that dwells within us, by the same power that raised Christ from the dead (Eph. 1:18-20). For by our spiritual union with Christ in His heavenly enthronement at the right hand of God (Eph.2:5-6), we are to exercise His spiritual authority by faith in corporate practice over the powers of darkness; with the one hope of the appearing with Christ in glory (Eph.1:18; 4:1; 6:12; 1 Tim1:1). This is done by imaging the character of the father, learned through the knowledge of the Son of God (Eph.4:13b, 20-32). By the power of His spirit, we are all to be made mature in Christ (Col1:28-29; 4:13c); and when the members of the body are corporately grown in righteousness, and selflessness love (Phil.1:1-4), being built up in the truth and love of God, bearing the fruits of righteousness (Eph.4:15; 5:9), we will be well pleasing to the father by our works, and by the faithful, joyful enduring witness (Col.1:10-12), its members will have filled up the sufferings of Christ through their selfless sacrificial love (Col.1:24; Eph.5:1-2;Phil.1:27-30). By this, the church will be the holy and without blemish offering to God for the restoration of the cosmos; then entering its inheritance in the heavenlies at the epiphany of Christ, partaking in the glory of His priestly intercession for the restoration of the cosmic order (Eph.1:4; Col.1:22; cp. 2 Tim.2:10,12; Tit. 2:13; cp. Phil.2:9-10; Eph.1:20-23).
The hope of the glory of the kingdom that would come from the inherence that was to be received by Christ from God, was made known unto the sons of men in the past ages (Ps.2:7-8; 110:1). But their understand was not according to the knowledge “as” was given to the Apostle Paul, this is because this mystery concerning Christ was hidden in God from the ages and generations of men, but was revealed exclusively to Paul (while in prison after Israels historical judgment Acts.28:25-28), and then revealed to the apostles-prophets that helped Paul in laying the foundational truths of this new revelation to the different assembles (Eph.2:20; 4:11), and this mystery concerns a called-out company that is composed of members from among the nations; this Church has been allotted an inheritance with Christ as the corporate New Man (Eph.2:15; 4:24; Col.3:10), as joint-heirs over the government of the Cosmos and joint-members (in a mystical union with Christ by the spirt) of the body of His flesh (Eph.5:30), and co-sharers of the royal priestly glory, that God promised to the image (Eph. 3:1-6; Ps.8; cp. Eph1:20-23); when this company enters its inheritance, they will share in the glory of the theophany of God with Christ, being made manifest with Him as the body of His glory at the right hand of God (Tit.2:13; Phil.3:21-22; Col.3:1-4).
Here we have the mystery of the gospel, the mystery of Christ, the gospel of the glory of God, where Gods glorious power is manifested through Christ’s body by their mystical union with Him in His heavenly enthronement, it is the gospel of our salvation (from the powers of death, and the prince of the power of this age, Eph.2:1-8; 6:19; Col.4:3;1 Tim1:11); it is deliverance unto our inheritance in Gods heavenly kingdom (2 Tim.4:18), as co-sharers of the glory rewarded to Christ and His Body for fulfilling the commission given to the image, to interceded on behalf of the human condition; for the restoration of the cosmos as God’s house, where He will have fellowship with mankind (Rev.21:3).
The body of Christ is built up to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ (Eph.4:13), when the gift of his headship to the church (His preeminent authority) is being harmoniously manifested through each member (spiritually) that they have become perfect in Christ; all the members of the body having grown up into him through the love and knowledge of the truth; which its members are to corporately manifest towards to one to another (Eph.4:7,12-16,cp. 1:20-23). When this is accomplished, Christ who is currently hid in the glory of God, will then be made manifest at the right hand of God, and we with him, as the body of his glory (Col.3:3-4; 1 Tim.4:16; Phil.3:21-22).
This is the mystery of our devotion, for He was manifested in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen of angels, preached among the nations, and believed on in the world, and taken up in glory (1 Tim.3:16). Here we have the mystical union with Christ and his body in our working service to proclaim the truth, and through our belief in expressing the truth of the heavenly kingship of Christ over our lives, the body shall be taken up in glory; where the appointed seasons will have arrived for hm to reveal that He is the king of Kings and lord of lords (1Tim.6:13-16), in the establishment of Gods Kingdom, this is why the church is said to be the fullness of all the offices of government that are to be filled with the glory of God (Eph.1:22-23). Because it is by the redemption of the church to its inheritance at the manifestation of Christ in glory. From which Gods glory will then pervade the cosmos subjugating all under the authoritative headship of Christ.
By the victorious enthronement of those that were low and trusted in God, over the high rebellious spiritual forces of darkness; the church that is Christ’s body will forever be a testimony in the ages to come to all creation of God’s grace, glory, power, and kindness toward us who trusted and believed, we will forever be the praise of His glory who first hoped in Christ (Eph.1:6,12,18, 21-22; 2:7,21-22). BY our performing this work that we may appear with Him in heaven, partaking in the sufferings of His intercession for the rescue of the human condition, for the fulness of the seasons, that God may head up all under Christ, and be all in all, dwelling amongst mankind forever. Amen!
TIMING: From the four Gospels unto the stoning of Stephen (Acts 7).[1] (see note). And then will pick back up after the battle of Armageddon, during the times of refreshment from the Lord, the restoration of all things (Acts.3.17-21).
CALLING: To the Jew only (Mt.10:5-8; cp. Acts.2:5, 9-10, 14, 22; 3:12, 17-26; 11:19).
FIRSTBORN BLESSING: Preeminence over the nations of the earth (Ex.4:22; Isa. 60:10-14; 61:5-7).
HOPE: Christs return to the earth (mount olive, Zech.14:3-4; Acts1:11-12) to rescue Israel from their enemies and gather them from all the earth; in order to restore the Kingdom to Israel in fulfillment of their new covenant promise (Acts.1:6; Lk.1:67-75; 2:25, 36-38; cp. Jer.31:31-40; cp.30:9).
SHPERE OF BLESSING: The Earth (Mt.5:5; 6:10; cp. Zech.12:9).
2nd COMPANY: The Church of the first born, the (heavenly seed, as the stars Gen.15:5; Dan.12:3) of Abraham, the Israel of God (Heb.12:23; Gal.3:26; 6:16) [2] see note.
TIMING: From Acts 8.1-3 to Acts 28:25-28; and will pick back up during the tribulation (Mt.24:14).
CALLING: Paul was indebted to all men, but during the Acts period Paul’s message was to the Jew first (Acts.9:15;17.2; cp. Rom.1:14-16; 11:13-14).
FIRSTBORN BLESSING: Over the Angels, and Nations (1Cor.6:3; Rev.2:27).
HOPE: The “coming” of the Lord (Gr3952, Parousia) being rescued out of the tribulation to Heaven (Mt24.3,27,37,39; Rev.7:14; 1Cor.15:27; 1Thes.2:19;3:13;4:15; 2Thes.2.1,8-9).
SHPERE OF BLESSING: The heavenly Jerusalem (over the earth, Gal.4:26; Heb.12:22; Rev.21:2).
3rd COMPANY: The church the Body of Christ, the corporate New man (Eph.1:22-23; 2:15; Col.1:18). [3]
TIMING: From Paul’s imprisonment in Acts 28:30-32 till the present (Eph.3:1; Col.4:8;2 Tim.1:8)
CALLING: To the members of the nations (Eph.3:1-3; Col.1:27; 1Tim.2:7).
HOPE: The "appearing" (epiphany G2015) with Christ at the right hand of God (Col.3:1-4; 1Tim.6:14; 2Tim.4:1, 8; Tit.2:13; Phil.3:20-21).
FIRSTBORN BLESSING: Over the cosmic powers of the Heavens and over the powers of the earth (Eph.1:19-23; Col.1:15-18; cp.Ps.8).
SHPERE OF BLESSING: IN the highest heaven at the right hand of God, as His ruling image in the mist of the divine council (Eph.1:3,20; 2:6; cp. Heb.4:14; Eph.1:18; Col.1:12; Ps.89:5-8)
[1] Christ came to confirm the covenants and promises made to the fathers of Israel; in fulfillment of Daniel 70 week prophecy, to redeem the nation from their sin, and from their gentile enemies (Lk.1:71-78), the Kingdom was indeed at hand in the person of the king, the members of the nation were called to a baptism of repentance for the remission of sins, in order to prepare themselves for the day of the Lord judgments where the Messiah would establish the Kingdom(Mk.1:4;Mt.3:8-12). It was with the purpose for Israel to be to be a light to the gentiles in God’s Kingdom (Rom.15:8-9; cp.Lk.2:32). The order of events in the prophetic timeline of God purposes are that Israel was to be saved first, and then through them, God would channel His blessing out to the rest of the world (Isa.60; Jn.4:22; Acts 3:25-26). This is why when Christ came here His ministry was exclusively to the nation (Acts.5:31). He told the disciples not to go into any of the cites of the Samaritans, or the way of the gentiles (Mt.10:5), and when the gentile woman approached Christ he said to her I have not come but for the lost sheep of the House of Israel, it is not right to take the children's bread and give it to the dogs, let the children “first” be filled (Mt.15:26; Mk.7:27;cp. Acts.3:25-26 ).
During the gospels, the Kingdom was at hand, the nation rejected him, but he prayed on the cross for the father to forgive them. So in the early Acts (period) the Kingdom is being offered (due to the Lord's intercession to forgive Israel, Lk.23.35), "And now, brothers, I know that you acted in ignorance ("for they know not what they do"), as also did your rulers. But what God foretold by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ would suffer, he thus fulfilled. Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out, that the times of refreshing may come from the presence of the lord, and that he may send the Christ appointed for you (Christ would have returned if they repented, and restored the Kingdom to Israel), Jesus, whom heaven must receive until the time for restoring all things...here their national forgiveness is being offered, to receive their covenanted kingdom promises (Acts.3:17-21,24-26; cp.1:6). But we see the rejection continue because the leaders of the nation interrupt the offer (Acts.4:1-3). If the nation repented the tribulation would of have not come, and the Day of the Lord judgments would have begun, and Israel was to preach to the lost world as missionaries (Zech.8:20-23; Isa. 66.19; Acts.2:14-21). Christ said during His earthly ministry that to speak a word against him would be forgiven, but blasphemy against the holy spirit would not be forgiven, and then speaks about how they would be persecuted and brought before leaders and synagogues (Lk.12:8-12; cp.23:35). We see this fulfilled in Acts with Stephen who was filled with the holy spirit, which the leaders resisted and then continue to stone him (Acts.6:5,9-12,51,54-60). Now the judgment of the tribulation was set to come, the time of Jacobs trouble (Mt.24.21; Jer.30.7). This is seen in Stephen's vision of the Lord "standing at the right hand of God", whereas in all other places, He is said to be "sitting at the right hand", but not in the book Revelation, where He is said to be standing before He opens the seals of judgment (Rev.5:6). Similar language is also used in the O.T "Arise, O God, judge the earth: for thou shalt inherit all nations" (Ps.82:6). The new covenant is exclusively to Israel regarding their national forgiveness, and it is the promise of God to restore Israel as Gods people from the Lo-Ammi (not my people, Hos.1:9) judgment (Jer.31:31-40).
[2] During mid Acts, the Lo-Ammi judgment (Hos.1:9) began (judicially, figured by the blinding of the Jew (Acts 13:9-11; cp. Rom. 11:11; 1Thes.2:16) and was finalized (historically) in Acts. 28:25-28. It was part of prophecy, that when the members of the nation (the leaders, and the people) were found in unbelief, the nation would be cast of as not my people; and from there He would form the government of the new nation from among the Gentiles to drive a believing remnant of jews to jealously (Acts.15:14-17; Rom. 9:24-26; 10:19;11:11), in order that He might save some before the judgment of His wrath was to came (His longsuffering, Rom.9:27-29;10:20-21). During the Acts period Paul said that he preached no other things which the prophets and Moses said would come; Paul said that he stand judged for the hope of the promise of God made unto the fathers for which the twelve tribe serve God day and night (that the resurrected Christ would redeem Israel and be a light to the gentiles, Acts.26:6-7; 22-23; cp. Lk.1:67-75; 2:25,31-32; 24:21, 44-46), Paul said for the hope of Israel he is bound in his chain (Acts. 28:20).
[3] The Revelation of the Mystery given to Paul in Prison. The working service of the saints for the restoration of the cosmos
8c in all wisdom and insight 9 making know to us the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in himself 10 as a plan (dispensation) for the fullness of the appointed seasons, to head up all things in Christ the, things in heaven and things on earth (Eph.1:8-10).
The mystery of God’s will concerns the establishment of His Kingdom by the Christ during the appointed seasons; and how He purposes to bring in these seasons through the redemption of the church into its inheritance; this will be accomplished through the working service of the members of Christ’s Body; which are called to build up one another in love, for the glorious manifestation of Christ with His body in the heavenly realm (Eph.1:5-7;14; 4:30 4:12-16; Col.1:4-5,23,25-29; Tit.1:1-3). Once the church enters its inheritance with Christ, as God’s glorious, enthroned image; the fullness of God’s glory (preeminent presence) will then begin to pervade out to all creation during the appointed seasons; where all the divinely assigned offices of authority that rule the cosmos and the earth ( that are ruled by the forces of darkness, Eph.6:12), will then be made subjugated under the preeminent headship of Christ (Isa.24:21), thus being filled with the glory of God, where He is all in all (Eph.1:18-23; 3:9-11; Col.1:14-21;cp.1Cor.15:24-28).
Here we have God’s secret plan in bringing order to the cosmos (i.e., the establishment of God’s Kingdom), through the redemption of the Church into its inheritance in the heavenly realm. This realm is currently occupied by the hostile spiritual forces of darkness (Eph.6:12; cp.Eph.1:3), thus, they have present control over the worlds system (the kingdom of darkness, Eph.2:1-3). Here lies the cosmic conflict, and the spiritual warfare that the church is called to engage in, in order to obtain possession of the inheritance (Eph.6:12-18), that God may establish order to the cosmos through the rein of Christ (cp. Heb.2:8). This will be accomplished by our being energized by God’s Spirit that dwells within us, by the same power that raised Christ from the dead (Eph. 1:18-20). For by our spiritual union with Christ in His heavenly enthronement at the right hand of God (Eph.2:5-6), we are to exercise His spiritual authority by faith in corporate practice over the powers of darkness; with the one hope of the appearing with Christ in glory (Eph.1:18; 4:1; 6:12; 1 Tim1:1). This is done by imaging the character of the father, learned through the knowledge of the Son of God (Eph.4:13b, 20-32). By the power of His spirit, we are all to be made mature in Christ (Col1:28-29; 4:13c); and when the members of the body are corporately grown in righteousness, and selflessness love (Phil.1:1-4), being built up in the truth and love of God, bearing the fruits of righteousness (Eph.4:15; 5:9), we will be well pleasing to the father by our works, and by the faithful, joyful enduring witness (Col.1:10-12), its members will have filled up the sufferings of Christ through their selfless sacrificial love (Col.1:24; Eph.5:1-2;Phil.1:27-30). By this, the church will be the holy and without blemish offering to God for the restoration of the cosmos; then entering its inheritance in the heavenlies at the epiphany of Christ, partaking in the glory of His priestly intercession for the restoration of the cosmic order (Eph.1:4; Col.1:22; cp. 2 Tim.2:10,12; Tit. 2:13; cp. Phil.2:9-10; Eph.1:20-23).
The hope of the glory of the kingdom that would come from the inherence that was to be received by Christ from God, was made known unto the sons of men in the past ages (Ps.2:7-8; 110:1). But their understand was not according to the knowledge “as” was given to the Apostle Paul, this is because this mystery concerning Christ was hidden in God from the ages and generations of men, but was revealed exclusively to Paul (while in prison after Israels historical judgment Acts.28:25-28), and then revealed to the apostles-prophets that helped Paul in laying the foundational truths of this new revelation to the different assembles (Eph.2:20; 4:11), and this mystery concerns a called-out company that is composed of members from among the nations; this Church has been allotted an inheritance with Christ as the corporate New Man (Eph.2:15; 4:24; Col.3:10), as joint-heirs over the government of the Cosmos and joint-members (in a mystical union with Christ by the spirt) of the body of His flesh (Eph.5:30), and co-sharers of the royal priestly glory, that God promised to the image (Eph. 3:1-6; Ps.8; cp. Eph1:20-23); when this company enters its inheritance, they will share in the glory of the theophany of God with Christ, being made manifest with Him as the body of His glory at the right hand of God (Tit.2:13; Phil.3:21-22; Col.3:1-4).
Here we have the mystery of the gospel, the mystery of Christ, the gospel of the glory of God, where Gods glorious power is manifested through Christ’s body by their mystical union with Him in His heavenly enthronement, it is the gospel of our salvation (from the powers of death, and the prince of the power of this age, Eph.2:1-8; 6:19; Col.4:3;1 Tim1:11); it is deliverance unto our inheritance in Gods heavenly kingdom (2 Tim.4:18), as co-sharers of the glory rewarded to Christ and His Body for fulfilling the commission given to the image, to interceded on behalf of the human condition; for the restoration of the cosmos as God’s house, where He will have fellowship with mankind (Rev.21:3).
The body of Christ is built up to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ (Eph.4:13), when the gift of his headship to the church (His preeminent authority) is being harmoniously manifested through each member (spiritually) that they have become perfect in Christ; all the members of the body having grown up into him through the love and knowledge of the truth; which its members are to corporately manifest towards to one to another (Eph.4:7,12-16,cp. 1:20-23). When this is accomplished, Christ who is currently hid in the glory of God, will then be made manifest at the right hand of God, and we with him, as the body of his glory (Col.3:3-4; 1 Tim.4:16; Phil.3:21-22).
This is the mystery of our devotion, for He was manifested in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen of angels, preached among the nations, and believed on in the world, and taken up in glory (1 Tim.3:16). Here we have the mystical union with Christ and his body in our working service to proclaim the truth, and through our belief in expressing the truth of the heavenly kingship of Christ over our lives, the body shall be taken up in glory; where the appointed seasons will have arrived for hm to reveal that He is the king of Kings and lord of lords (1Tim.6:13-16), in the establishment of Gods Kingdom, this is why the church is said to be the fullness of all the offices of government that are to be filled with the glory of God (Eph.1:22-23). Because it is by the redemption of the church to its inheritance at the manifestation of Christ in glory. From which Gods glory will then pervade the cosmos subjugating all under the authoritative headship of Christ.
By the victorious enthronement of those that were low and trusted in God, over the high rebellious spiritual forces of darkness; the church that is Christ’s body will forever be a testimony in the ages to come to all creation of God’s grace, glory, power, and kindness toward us who trusted and believed, we will forever be the praise of His glory who first hoped in Christ (Eph.1:6,12,18, 21-22; 2:7,21-22). BY our performing this work that we may appear with Him in heaven, partaking in the sufferings of His intercession for the rescue of the human condition, for the fulness of the seasons, that God may head up all under Christ, and be all in all, dwelling amongst mankind forever. Amen!
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