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"WHO COMPLETED THE HOLY BIBLE?"

Col 1:24-27 "…REJOICE IN MY SUFFERINGS FOR YOU, AND FILL UP THAT WHICH IS BEHIND OF THE AFFLICTIONS OF CHRIST IN MY FLESH FOR HIS BODY'S SAKE, WHICH IS THE CHURCH: WHEREOF I AM MADE A MINISTER, ACCORDING TO THE DISPENSATION OF GOD WHICH IS GIVEN TO ME FOR YOU, TO FULFIL (Gr Antanaplero; to complete) THE WORD OF GOD; EVEN THE MYSTERY WHICH HATH BEEN HID FROM AGES AND FROM GENERATIONS, BUT NOW IS MADE MANIFEST TO HIS SAINTS: 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:"

In the foregoing verses, Paul plainly states that "the fulfilling", or "filling up" (i.e., "the completing") of God's written message to mankind, which is The Holy Bible, was dispensationally entrusted solely to him (Paul); and this was to be accomplished by Paul's exclusive revelation of "THE MYSTERY GOSPEL". He describes this gospel in Gal 1:1, 11, and 12 as a gospel "NOT AFTER MAN". Or, as he goes on to say, "BUT I CERTIFY YOU, BRETHREN, THAT THE GOSPEL WHICH WAS PREACHED OF ME IS NOT AFTER MAN. FOR I NEITHER RECEIVED IT OF MAN, NEITHER WAS I TAUGHT IT, BUT BY THE REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST."

In Rom 16:25, 26 Paul also describes his foregoing, unique, "Bible completing" "Mystery Gospel", as follows: "NOW TO HIM THAT IS OF POWER TO STABLISH YOU ACCORDING TO MY GOSPEL, AND THE PREACHING OF JESUS CHRIST, ACCORDING TO THE REVELATION OF THE MYSTERY, WHICH WAS KEPT SECRET SINCE THE WORLD BEGAN, BUT NOW (in Paul's day and time) IS MADE MANIFEST…

And in Eph 3:1-10 "FOR THIS CAUSE I PAUL, THE PRISONER OF JESUS CHRIST FOR YOU GENTILES, IF YE HAVE HEARD OF THE DISPENSATION OF THE GRACE OF GOD WHICH IS GIVEN ME TO YOU-WARD: HOW THAT BY REVELATION (again, see Gal 1:1, 11, 12) HE MADE KNOWN UNTO ME THE MYSTERY; (AS I WROTE AFORE IN FEW WORDS [again, see Rom 16:25, 26], WHEREBY, WHEN YE READ, YE MAY UNDERSTAND MY KNOWLEDGE IN THE MYSTERY OF CHRIST) WHICH IN OTHER AGES WAS NOT MADE KNOWN UNTO THE SONS OF MEN (including the Old Testament Prophet Joel, Peter, or any of the other old time Jewish Prophets and Apostles), AS IT IS NOW REVEALED UNTO HIS HOLY APOSTLES AND PROPHETS BY THE SPIRIT (i.e., The Holy Spirit, 3rd Person, Holy Trinity, Comforter);"

And what was that mystery? "THAT THE GENTILES SHOULD BE FELLOWHEIRS, AND OF THE SAME (One) BODY, AND PARTAKERS OF HIS PROMISE IN CHRIST BY THE GOSPEL: WHEREOF I WAS MADE A MINISTER, ACCORDING TO THE GIFT OF THE GRACE OF GOD GIVEN UNTO ME BY THE EFFECTUAL WORKING OF HIS POWER. UNTO ME, WHO AM LESS THAN THE LEAST OF ALL SAINTS, IS THIS GRACE GIVEN, THAT I SHOULD PREACH AMONG THE GENTILES THE UNSEARCHABLE RICHES OF CHRIST; AND TO MAKE ALL MEN SEE WHAT IS THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE MYSTERY, WHICH FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD HATH BEEN HID IN GOD (and not hid in Holy Writ, in the ancient writings of the Prophet Joel, as some would falsely so suggest, e.g. Acts Ch 2), WHO CREATED ALL THINGS BY JESUS CHRIST: TO THE INTENT THAT NOW UNTO THE PRINCIPALITIES AND POWERS IN HEAVENLY PLACES MIGHT BE KNOWN BY THE CHURCH THE MANIFOLD WISDOM OF GOD,"

THE "MYSTERY GOSPEL", first revealed in and through the Apostle Paul, was not that God would again TURN TO THE GENTILES (this was foretold throughout Old Testament epistles--e.g. Isa 60:3, with Rom 11:25, in context). Instead, THE MYSTERY, "HID IN GOD", was that God would temporarily (and transitionally) set National Israel aside for National blasphemy, at the three points in time and place of Acts 13:46, 18:6, and 28:28; and that He would (simultaneously, right then and there) have Paul create "THE CHURCH, WHICH IS HIS (Christ's) BODY" of Eph 1:22, 23. This Body is not composed of BOTH saved Jews and saved Gentiles; instead, it is a Mysterious Body, composed of NEITHER Jew nor Gentile, Bond nor Free, Male, nor Female--but OF THE TWAIN, A NEW CREATION IN CHRIST JESUS--Gal 3:28, Col 3:11, Eph Ch 2. In this "Mysterious" New Creation, saved Jews and saved Gentiles would be required to give up all former racial, ethnic, social, religious, and gender identity, in order to become-- not a "new born babe"--as in Israel's case (John 3:1-8), but "A NEW MAN" (Eph 4:22-24, Gal 6:15, 2 Cor 5:17, Col 3:9-11, Gal 3:28, Eph 2:10).

Here again it should be carefully noted that Paul did not receive his foregoing "Mystery Gospel" at the time of his conversion of Acts Ch 9. At that time, Paul (who was a Christ hating, religious Pharisee) became a Christ accepting convert to Judahism; i.e., became a believer in Christ Jesus, as Israel's prophesied Messiah (see Gen 49:8-10, Isa 9:6, 7, Isa 7:14, Micah 5:2, w/Heb 7:14, in context). It was not until Acts 13:1-3 that Paul and Barnabas were SEPARATED from their ministry of Judahism, and given the three phase, temporary, transitional task of the setting aside of (National) Israel, due to their blasphemous second rejection of National Israel's resurrected, ascended, Messiah (beginning at Jerusalem, Acts 13:46, then at Corinth, Acts 18:6, and finally, at Acts 28:28).

Somewhere between Paul's conversion to Judahism at Acts Ch 9, and his first setting aside of National Israel for National blasphemy (at Acts 13:46), Paul was "CAUGHT UP INTO THE THIRD HEAVEN" (2 Cor 1:1-4), and received his unique "Mystery Gospel" of Eph 3:1-10 and Rom 16:25, 26, as a revelation from Christ Jesus, Gal 1:1, 11, 12. This event did not occur until nearly eight years after the events surrounding The exclusively Jewish Pentecostal Feast of Acts Ch 2.

Paul's unique two-fold ministry, during the entire period of the (Jewish) epistle of Acts, is described in 1 Cor 9:19-23. When Paul went to the Jews, he could act like a Jew; and when Paul went to the Gentiles, he could act like "a Gentile". Failure to note Paul's unique two-fold ministry of the Acts period has lad to much doctrinal and dispensational error. Luke, not Paul, wrote the book of Acts. Consequently, not having received Paul's "Mystery Gospel", Luke could not proclaim it in this epistle. The Gospel order of Acts was always "TO THE JEWS FIRST" (Acts 3:25, 26). But carefully note the change in that Gospel order, which occurred at Acts 13:46, 18:6, and 28:28, where Israel no longer possessed the priority of receiving (nor the priority of proclaiming) "the gospel." Also carefully note that, even though Paul said at those three points in time and place--"LO, WE TURN TO THE GENTILES", Luke said that Paul returned immediately to the gospel order of "TO THE JEWS FIRST."

Although Paul brought in "THE MYSTERY GOSPEL" simultaneously with the setting aside of Judahism at Acts 13:46, 18:6, and 28:28, Paul continued his unique task of setting aside National Israel's Judahism during the entire Acts period.

Although Paul knew of his new "Mystery Gospel" during the Acts period, Paul did not have time to openly proclaim it, except in his epistles written during the Acts period (those Jewish epistles of 1st and 2nd Cor, Gal, 1 Thess, 2 Thess, 1 & 2 Tim, Romans, Titus, and Philemon), which were written prior to the final setting aside of Israel's Judahism at Acts 28:28.

The entire epistle of Acts is therefore not the record of the creation of our Mystery Church of Eph 3:1-10, Rom 16:25, 26. Instead, the epistle of Acts is solely the record of the three phase "re-offering" of Israel's (resurrected) Messiah to National Israel, and their three phase refusal to do so, at Acts 13:46, 18:6, 28:28. This "re-offering" was in response to Christ's dying intercessory prayer for National Israel of Luke 23:34, "FATHER, FORGIVE THEM, FOR THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DO." (See also Acts 3:17, in context). As Israel's Highest Priest, Christ Jesus claimed the Mosaic Law of Ignorance for Israel, of Num 15:28. His prayer "RETURNED INTO HIS OWN BOSOM", Ps. 13:15; and Israel was then and there granted a period of Divine Amnesty for the entire Acts period, in which the resurrected Christ Jesus was "re-offered" solely to the Jewish Nation of Israel. Any Gentile saved during the Acts period was not added to (our) Mystery Church of Eph 3:1-10, Rom 16:25, 26, but was simply made a Jewish convert to Judahism--e.g. Acts 2:10, Acts 13:43. Paul "completed" The Holy Bible in Eph, Phil, and Col, which were written after Acts 28:28. No one may "add to" it, nor "subtract from" it, Rev. 22:19, 2O.

Wellington


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