God Had a Secret… shhhh …be quiet, be quiet… Can’t know the Program without knowing the Players • Leviathan and Elohim (Psalm 74:12- 14; Isaiah 27: 1 (in that day)) • The Satan and Elohim (Job1,2; Revelation 12: 9 and 20:7) Diameter of the Ages (Hebrews 1: 2) • Lucifer/ Morning Star, Prince/King of Tyre (Isaiah 12-14; Ezekiel 26- 28)…”in that day”/ “down to the pit” • Prince of Persia ( not the movie silly )/ Prince of Greece (Daniel 10:20) • Devil, Satan, the dragon, that old serpent (Revelation 12: 9; 20:2) • Diamon/ diamonion (read the Gospels in Greek…they’re everywhere) • Rulers of this age (1 Corinthians 2:8) • Principalities, Powers, Mights, Dominions, Thrones, Glories, etc. Jesus the Messiah, Bright and Morning Star, Head of the Body, Lord, Son of God, Lamb of God, Last Adam, Son of Man, Son of the Highest, Rabbi, Oh god, First Born from the Dead, Captain of Salvation, Mediator of the New Covenant, etc, etc,
Not allowed in this teaching!! You may not check your brain at the door. The Secret of God
Administrational (D (Dis ispensational) Chart Beginning of “this age” Jesus Christ: “on account of whom He (God) made the ages” The beginning of “the age to come”
The “Secret of God” (That’s what the Bible calls it). • 1 Corinthians 2:1 - NJB 1 Corinthians 2:1 Now when I came to you, brothers, I did not come with any brilliance of oratory or wise argument to announce to you the mystery of God (the Secret of God mustayrion in the best Greek texts – cf. NIV, etc.). • Colossians 2:2 (NJB) - NJB Colossians 2:2 It is all to bind them together in love and to encourage their resolution until they are rich in the assurance of their complete understanding and have knowledge of the mystery of God (the Secret of God ) The “Secret of God” (That’s what I call it…).
The real “expectation of the Jews” • Luke 2: 38 and Luke 24: 21 give a picture of what Jews were expecting to happen in the first century Palestine. How did that view develop? • Theocratic Kingdom (they couldn’t buy into that so they got Judges) • Davidic Kingdom (the Israelites got “kings like the nations” (1 Samuel 8:1 -7) • Promised New Covenant (cause the old one wasn’t going to last) • Israel scattered to the “four corners of the earth” (remember your ANEC – Ancient Near East Cosmology); they will be brought back (Isaiah 11:12) • A time of “great tribulation” (the “time of trouble” – cf. Matthew 24: 21 and Jeremiah 30:7)…but they’ll get through it • “someday my prince will come” (A King will rule from Jerusalem) • Israel is the Bride… • Finally a “new heaven and a new earth” (2 Peter 3:13)
One of the “four AN ANE corners of the Cosmology earth” today… (in our times )
The ANE NE Cosmic Geography Highest Third The Big Picture Psalm 104: 3 – “Who layeth the Heaven beams of his chambers in the 2 Cor 12:2 waters; who maketh the clouds his chariot; who walketh upon the wings of the wind”. Heaven #2 Genesis 1:8; sun, moon Psalm and stars “in” 148:4 the firmament Genesis 1: Heaven #1 7-9 Exodus 2 Sam 21:10; 20: 4 Revelation Sheol/ Hades 19:17 Tartaros in Denis Lamoureux’s Evolutionary Creation : Bob’s Notes
Jesus wasn’t the first Christian…he wasn’t even God! • He didn’t know of Christianity …at all ; was a man.. The Last Adam! • He expected to go away and come back very quickly: ( John 16:16 - “ A little while , and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while , and ye shall see me, because I go to the Father .”) also look at John 14:3 (“I will come back”) • His disciples expected the same “restitution of all things” (Acts 3:21) and the “times of refreshing from the Lord” (Act3:19) • Jesus did, however, visit Paul on the road to Damascus (Acts 26: 12-16); a “heavenly vision”. • And Jesus added to his own RED LETTERS by giving Paul the revelation of the Secret (I Timothy 1:12 and Galatians 1:11,12)
The Day of Pentecost – 28 CE • NJB Acts 2:3,4 and there appeared to them tongues as of fire ; these separated and came to rest on the head of each of them. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak different languages as the Spirit gave them power to express themselves. This wasn’t prophetic… Hmmmmm; maybe we should pay attention???
Understanding of the Body of Christ was a Progressive Revelation… • Peter is not the Pope at Pentecost • No knowledge at all of what had happened (Joel, etc.) Or at any other time • Jew only (just read the record)…they were “the ones” for that matter… • Gentiles (those “dogs”) “speak in tongues” (Acts 10, 11) • Paul, a former Pharisee, starts to get some things…progressively: • The Jew “first and also to the Gentile ” • Rom. 1:16; 2:9,10 • “The Gentiles have shared in their spiritual things” • Romans 15:27 • And they were “grafted in” (wild olive tree) • Romans 11: 17-24 • “neither Jew nor Greek, bond nor free, male nor female” • Gal. 3:28 • “salvation of God is sent unto the Gentiles” • Acts 28: 28 • “Jew and Gentile fellowheirs and of the same body” • Ephesians 3:6; Col. 3:11 • OMG , this is “hard to understand” (2 Peter 3:16)
On Pentecost in 28 CE, all the information for the Gentiles will be fellowheirs and of the New Dispensation was not a Computer Download … same body… WHOA, whoa, whoa a minute…what the… Think of this as Peter….
KJV Acts ts 17:6 And when they found them not, they drew Jason and certain brethren unto the rulers of the city, crying, These that have turned ned the he wor orld d upsi side de dow own are come hither also; This colloquial expression that we use even today was based in an ancient world view In the mind of the ancients, a flat earth COULD be turned upside down! Not so with a round earth…
The Eight Great Statements in Acts: It’s all about God’s Word 1. Acts 2: 47 – Praising God after Pentecost; The Lord (Jesus) adds… 2. Acts 6:7 – The Word “increases”; disciples multiply 3. Acts 9:31 – Assemblies of believers rest and are multiplied 4. Acts 11: 20, 21 – Preached the Lord Jesus and Gentiles come in 5. Acts 12 24 – The Word of God grew and multiplied 6. Acts 16:5 – Timothy joins Paul; churches established in THE FAITH 7. Acts 19:20 – Mightily Grew The Word of God and prevailed: The Apex of the first century church; Things go downhill from here… 8. Acts 28: 31 – A New beginning (Paul is “ preaching the KOG, teaching the LJC”); he’s writing the epistles of Ephesians, Philippians and Colossians…
What is Scripture? I start with Peter and Paul… (but not where you’d think…), not 2 Timothy 3:16 or 2 Peter 1: 20, 21 • 2 Peter 3:15-16 15 and regard the a patience of our Lord as salvation; just as also b our beloved brother Paul, c according to the wisdom given him, wrote to you, 16 as also in all his letters, speaking in them of a these things, b in which are some things hard to understand, which the untaught and c unstable distort, as they do also d the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction. • NAU 1 Timothy 5:18 For the Scripture says, " a YOU SHALL NOT MUZZLE THE OX WHILE HE IS THRESHING," and " b The laborer is worthy of his wages." Deuteronomy 25:4 and… Luke 10:7 (Paul was quoting Luke as Scripture) • NAU Luke 10:7 "Stay in 1 that house, eating and drinking 2 what they give you; for a the laborer is worthy of his wages. Do not keep moving from house to house.
The Old ld and New Covenants: A All ll about Isr Israel ael • “new covenant” (in my blood) inaugurated “new covenant” (not quite here “yet”) “new covenant” One new man “old covenant” “old covenant” (not quite gone “yet”)
Some of the “ Unsearchable riches of Christ ” BTW, Jesus wasn’t always “The Christ” (cf. – Acts 2:36)…God “made him both Lord and Christ”. That’s why these are in the Church Epistles • Permanent salvation “being born again not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible” • Speaking in tongues • Interpretation of tongues • Body of Christ (“neither Jew nor Greek”, etc. all “one in Christ Jesus”) • The Rapture (“eternity leave”) • “ firstfruit ” of the holy spirit
The Loss of the Secret of God: The Road he Road Do Down wn (to (to the urg the urgent care f ent care facility) acility) Healthy Doctrine: 1. Jesus was a man…now Lord 2. The dead are…well…dead 3. One baptism…in the spirit 4. The manifestation are real 5. The Church is not “spiritual Israel” 6. The Rapture is Real Get Dr. Jesus on the line...now! 7. God is only in control of Doctrinal what He can control Errors 8. God doesn’t kill people What is needed: “healthy doctrine” (
You are a TARGET …what’s missing??? An “operating” Christian Hmm, if I say in my heart, Hmm, if I say in my heart, “mountain be gone”… “mountain be gone”… with the mind of Christ Lo mistrapantay, killiaro … SIT Hmm, I see that bone healed… Do not think you won’t be hit…darts happen! “fiery darts of the wicked one”; all day, every day…
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