Mid-Acts Dispensationalism gets its name from the position it at first held as to Paul's distinctive ministry.
Not satisfied with those gaping holes in the respective understanding of things that was and continues to be Covenant, its offshoots, and Acts Two Dispensationalism and its offshoots, Mid-Acts; attempting to solve for both, found that Covenant and Acts Two Dispensational Theology were both off due to their continued insistence of fusing the Mystery concerning the Body first made known to and thru the Apostle Paul, with what was Prophesied of, to, and through Israel.
At first, Mid-Acts took Paul's distinctive ministry to have begun in Acts 13, where he was publicly separated before others by God, unto his ministry, thus, the label, Mid-Acts.
Later, a finer distinction - the further understanding that Gal. 1:17 actually fits in between Acts 9a and Acts 9b, together with Paul's various testimonies in Acts as to what took place between him and the Lord in Acts 9, resulted in the finer distinction that Paul's distinctive ministry: the Mystery of God's New Creature; the Body of Christ, of which Paul was its first member, 1 Tim. 1:16, began with Paul in Acts 9.
It is still reffered to as Mid-Acts, but we mean Acts 9. Though, there are still some 13ers out there, and, of course, Welch's and Bullinger's Acts 28ers.
Unfortunately, most who write against any of this: Ironside, Gerstner, Ryrie, you name them, regardless of their respective bias, just lump them all together towards the straw.man arguement our opponants seek to build their otherwise full of holes assertions on.
Anyway, the Mid-Acts Perspective is the understanding that the Mystery Paul preached, has to do with God's foreknown response thru an aspect of the Cross "hid in God," til Paul, as to God's response to Lucifer's FALL FROM his HEAVENLY place of authority.
The Mystery has to do with God's foreknown response to THAT fall - with His one day reconciling back unto Himself those even now fallen thrones, powers, dominions, and principalities in Heavenly places, presently the domain of the prince of the power of the air and those dark princes who fell with him - that "spiritual wickedness in high places THE BODY is said to be at war with, in Eph. 6.
Its why Paul talks about all those things; those thrones, those dominions, etc., having been made by Christ and for Him. Paul's is not just some passing reference, rather, he has this Mystery's own, unique doctrines in mind.
For, as God was revealing this Mystery through Paul, those principalities and powers in the Heavenlies were seeing, through this New Creature Body of Christ Church revelation: this once hidden aspect of the Cross.
How that when "the Lord of glory," of this Mystery's own glory in Him, not only rose from the dead, not only ascended back unto the Father, but FAR ABOVE ALL principality and power, AND EVERY name that is named - EVERY authority, would be, or otherwise, what He actually did by thst was that He made an open show of just how God had all along not only planned to prove Who ALONE was the ONLY Potentate AND Lord of Lords, but had purposed a New Creature: His Son's Body, by which He had planned to one day fill ALL that authority in the Heavenlies with - His Son's Body: by which He will one day fill all in all those authorities, or, positions of rank and authority.
Just as He had planned for this Earth to one day be divided as to His authority on the Earth through Israel, between its Twelve Princes.
Thus, from the Mid-Acts Perspective, God is not through with Israel by virtue of the fact that what He has set out to do through THAT agency is not only through those aspects of the Cross that were prophesied, but because He has set out to accomplish that for Himself, in His Son.
Thus, God, knowing that Israel would once more fall, had planned to begin to put in, operation, at last, the Mystery during one of said falls, as He has to first restore those fallen Heavenly authorities back unto Himself, if His "Thy will be done; ON EARTH," is to be "as it is IN HEAVEN."
That resolved, He will then return to roar out of Sion, to at last reconcile this Earth back unto Himself, from David's RESTORED throne, via "a kingdom of priests."
Thus Paul's "of whom the whole family is named on Earth AND Heaven - a reference to God's Two-Fold Purpose in His Son at Calvary.
In this, Mid-Acts sees Genesis thru Acts 8 and Hebrews thru Revelation as part of God's Prophesied, Israelite Truth, written to us and for us to learn and learn patience and take comfort from, in God's plans for Israel, while Romans thru Philemon is to us, for us, and ABOUT us: that Church which is His Body.
Its why WE hold to a Pre-Trib Rapture, for example. Because with it, God will be through with His present stage of His unfolding of this New Creature unto its one day ever being with the Lord as to His reign over the Heavenlies through this Body, by which He will fill all in all in the Heavenlies.
If these things are so, then all else is merely an attempt, unawares, on the part of many, to aid "the Disputer of this world," to not only hide his greatest embarrasment in his own craftiness before all creation, that the revelation of the Mystery made known, but to keep from the Body, the very truth for today, by which God would establish the Body unto all understanding, and wisdom in the knowledege of Him as to this Mystery, that we might be presented perfect as to same before the Lord of this Mystery's own, unique glory, at His coming.
Not satisfied with those gaping holes in the respective understanding of things that was and continues to be Covenant, its offshoots, and Acts Two Dispensationalism and its offshoots, Mid-Acts; attempting to solve for both, found that Covenant and Acts Two Dispensational Theology were both off due to their continued insistence of fusing the Mystery concerning the Body first made known to and thru the Apostle Paul, with what was Prophesied of, to, and through Israel.
At first, Mid-Acts took Paul's distinctive ministry to have begun in Acts 13, where he was publicly separated before others by God, unto his ministry, thus, the label, Mid-Acts.
Later, a finer distinction - the further understanding that Gal. 1:17 actually fits in between Acts 9a and Acts 9b, together with Paul's various testimonies in Acts as to what took place between him and the Lord in Acts 9, resulted in the finer distinction that Paul's distinctive ministry: the Mystery of God's New Creature; the Body of Christ, of which Paul was its first member, 1 Tim. 1:16, began with Paul in Acts 9.
It is still reffered to as Mid-Acts, but we mean Acts 9. Though, there are still some 13ers out there, and, of course, Welch's and Bullinger's Acts 28ers.
Unfortunately, most who write against any of this: Ironside, Gerstner, Ryrie, you name them, regardless of their respective bias, just lump them all together towards the straw.man arguement our opponants seek to build their otherwise full of holes assertions on.
Anyway, the Mid-Acts Perspective is the understanding that the Mystery Paul preached, has to do with God's foreknown response thru an aspect of the Cross "hid in God," til Paul, as to God's response to Lucifer's FALL FROM his HEAVENLY place of authority.
The Mystery has to do with God's foreknown response to THAT fall - with His one day reconciling back unto Himself those even now fallen thrones, powers, dominions, and principalities in Heavenly places, presently the domain of the prince of the power of the air and those dark princes who fell with him - that "spiritual wickedness in high places THE BODY is said to be at war with, in Eph. 6.
Its why Paul talks about all those things; those thrones, those dominions, etc., having been made by Christ and for Him. Paul's is not just some passing reference, rather, he has this Mystery's own, unique doctrines in mind.
For, as God was revealing this Mystery through Paul, those principalities and powers in the Heavenlies were seeing, through this New Creature Body of Christ Church revelation: this once hidden aspect of the Cross.
How that when "the Lord of glory," of this Mystery's own glory in Him, not only rose from the dead, not only ascended back unto the Father, but FAR ABOVE ALL principality and power, AND EVERY name that is named - EVERY authority, would be, or otherwise, what He actually did by thst was that He made an open show of just how God had all along not only planned to prove Who ALONE was the ONLY Potentate AND Lord of Lords, but had purposed a New Creature: His Son's Body, by which He had planned to one day fill ALL that authority in the Heavenlies with - His Son's Body: by which He will one day fill all in all those authorities, or, positions of rank and authority.
Just as He had planned for this Earth to one day be divided as to His authority on the Earth through Israel, between its Twelve Princes.
Thus, from the Mid-Acts Perspective, God is not through with Israel by virtue of the fact that what He has set out to do through THAT agency is not only through those aspects of the Cross that were prophesied, but because He has set out to accomplish that for Himself, in His Son.
Thus, God, knowing that Israel would once more fall, had planned to begin to put in, operation, at last, the Mystery during one of said falls, as He has to first restore those fallen Heavenly authorities back unto Himself, if His "Thy will be done; ON EARTH," is to be "as it is IN HEAVEN."
That resolved, He will then return to roar out of Sion, to at last reconcile this Earth back unto Himself, from David's RESTORED throne, via "a kingdom of priests."
Thus Paul's "of whom the whole family is named on Earth AND Heaven - a reference to God's Two-Fold Purpose in His Son at Calvary.
In this, Mid-Acts sees Genesis thru Acts 8 and Hebrews thru Revelation as part of God's Prophesied, Israelite Truth, written to us and for us to learn and learn patience and take comfort from, in God's plans for Israel, while Romans thru Philemon is to us, for us, and ABOUT us: that Church which is His Body.
Its why WE hold to a Pre-Trib Rapture, for example. Because with it, God will be through with His present stage of His unfolding of this New Creature unto its one day ever being with the Lord as to His reign over the Heavenlies through this Body, by which He will fill all in all in the Heavenlies.
If these things are so, then all else is merely an attempt, unawares, on the part of many, to aid "the Disputer of this world," to not only hide his greatest embarrasment in his own craftiness before all creation, that the revelation of the Mystery made known, but to keep from the Body, the very truth for today, by which God would establish the Body unto all understanding, and wisdom in the knowledege of Him as to this Mystery, that we might be presented perfect as to same before the Lord of this Mystery's own, unique glory, at His coming.
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