The Mystery Revealed

THE OLD SCOFIELD STUDY BIBLE

KING JAMES VERSION by Dr. C.I. Scofield's Classic Study System (1917 Edition) Reader's Edition gives the following information in the prefaces for each of Apostle Paul's Letters (Epistles) written while he was either free or in imprisoned:

1.Colossians 1:26-27 Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to His saints. V27 To whom God would make known what is the "riches" of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ "in you", the "hope of glory".

WHAT WE NEED TO KNOW: Christ will reveal himself to and through the Gentile!

2. The theme of Romans is "the Gospel of God" (Romans 1:1), The very widest possible designation of the whole body of redemption truth, for it is He with whom is "no respect of persons"; and who is not "the God of the Jews only", but "of the Gentiles also" (Romans 2:11; 3:29). Accordingly, "all the world" is found guilty (Romans 3:19), and a redemption is revealed as wide as the need, upon the alone condition of faith. Not only does the Book of Romans "embody" in the fullest way the doctrines of grace in relation to salvation, but in three remarkable chapters (Romans ch 9-11) the great promises to Israel are reconciled with the promises concerning the Gentiles, and the fulfillment of the former shown to await the completion of the church and coming of the Deliverer out of Zion (Romans 11:25-27). The key-phrase is "the righteousness of God" (Romans 1:17; 3:21, 22). (Romans Preface Page 1191)

Which brings me to God's miraculous part of the mystery. It is His order of resurrection in first Corinthians chapter fifteen. Christ rises to reveal life is forever in verse twenty, and was always intended to be instead of death according to verses twenty-one and twenty-two. And in verse twenty-three, God will honor the dead in Christ (the saved people known as the first fruits) by raising them from the dead, afterwards resurrecting them who are already alive in Christ, assuming spiritual resurrection of the most inward parts of our souls and increasing our earthly status.

Wether we are aware of it or not, this sounds like something that has been happening in the spirit- world right up under our noses by reincarnation of the souls. Because this resurrection of the dead is not a one time event. In verse twenty-four, there comes the end when Jesus shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, when He shall have put down all rule, all authority, and power. And He didn't do it all in one day. For Jesus must reign, till He hath put all enemies under His feet. And the last enemy that shall be destroyed is death itself, says the scriptures reading all the way up to first Corinthians chapter fifteen verse twenty-six. This is and has been an ongoing process which has been out of carnal man's control. God has been setting up His kingdom all the while the Apostles were left to preach to whom ever would hear and recieve the miraculous Gospel of Jesus Christ! And that is that the earthly man can and will live forever. But the only man that can, is the one who is made right with Him through the propitiated (pleasing) sacrifice of His son name Jesus, as our Bibles teach us. The man who does not accept God's sacrifice, God cannot accept his sacrifices made in life, and our living will be in vain. So therefore, God will save those whom He will, force His enemies to submission in order to conquer death and destruction. If I capture you for your deeds, then you can commit them no more. No more offense, no more sin. No more sin, no more death. And finally, in first Corinthians chapter fifteen and the twenty-eighth verse: And when all things shall be subdued unto Him, then shall the Son also Himself be subject unto Him that put all things under Him, that God may be all in all. And this day in history is on the rise!

In result of this miraculous move of God, the Book of Ephesians chapter two verse eighteen says, for through Him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father, while referring to the Jew and the Gentile being one body in Christ. V19 Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the house-hold of God; v20 And are built upon the foundation of the Apostle and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the Cheif Cornerstone. V21 In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: v22 In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit. Here, the same God will dwell within us all, as we enjoy our own culture in righteousness to Him, as Christ and the Apostles so diligently worked, traveled, and sacrificed themselves for, for as many souls possible that would and could listen and understand. Time then, was, and still is of the essence, and no man knows the day nor the hour in which our Lord shall appear, or bring this world to a new dimension without your realization because your were not paying attention. I beckon unto you, to desire to be one with God, no matter the cost.

So We Pray: According to Ephesians 1:17-19 "For "Knowledge and Power". The prayer for knowledge and power that the Lord would give unto us the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him: v18 The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints. Ephesians 3:16-17,21. "Inner Fullness and Knowledge". Pray that he would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man; v17 That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, v18 May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; v19 And to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fullness of God.

And please think it not strange that the last two verses reads as follows: v20 Now unto Him that is able to do exceeding, abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, v21 Unto Him be glory in the Church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end, Amen.