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"ON THE CREATION OF THE MYSTERY CHURCH, OF ROM 16:25, 26, EPH 3:1-10"
(AT ACTS 13:46--18:6--28:28)

The "creation" of The Jewish Nation of Israel covers the time period from The Old Testament Epistles (beginning at Ex Ch 19) to their total, 3 phase, transitional "setting aside" by Paul, at Acts 13:46, 18:8, and 28:28. The Jews, The Gentiles, and The Mystery Church are "no different" when it comes to their having One God, One Grace Only Way of Salvation, and each belonging to the (all-inclusive) "HOUSEHOLD--OF GOD" of Eph 2:18-22; Eph 5:11-13. The latter verses simply name God's "different dispensational ways" of dealing with His (three) dispensational bodies - Jews, Gentiles, and Mystery Church - as stated in Heb 1:1-2; i.e., "(UNTIL)--WE ALL COME IN THE UNITY OF THE FAITH"--Which has not, and will not occur--UNTIL--The End of The Millennial Reign of Christ Jesus Over Planet Earth, 1 Cor 15:24-28. Then, The Godly Need for "dealing with" the present (three) different "dispensational bodies" of Jews, Gentiles, and our Mystery Church will no longer exist. Then--and only then--those "3" will become (as) "The Holy Trinity" will (also) then become (see 1 Cor 15:28); i.e., "ALL IN ALL"-- ETERNALLY UNITED--IN (THE ONE FAITH) of Eph 4:13.

But in order to fully grasp that which occurred concerning the "creation" (not birth) of our Mystery Church, one must first fully understand all that occurred in The (strictly Jewish) Book of Acts, as follows:

(1). (Jewish) Luke, not Paul, wrote the book of Acts, and Luke knew absolutely nothing concerning Paul's having received The Gospel of The Mystery Church, described by Paul in Gal 1:11, 12; Rom 11:25, 26; Eph 3:1-10. So (Jewish) Luke, in the book of Acts, is simply describing the ministries of Peter, James, and John, and Paul -- to National Israel. Luke is also describing Paul's three phase, transitional "re-offering" (during the entire Jewish book of Acts) of National Israel's (risen) Messiah, Who was "thrice again rejected" by National Israel at Acts 13:46, 18:6, and 28:28.

(2). But then, carefully note each of the foregoing 3 points in time and place, when Paul said to the leaders of blasphemous National Israel, -"LO, WE TURN TO THE GENTILES". Luke writes that Paul did not (then) do so, but (immediately) returned to his Acts "Gospel Order" of---"TO THE JEWS FIRST". Paul did not immediately turn to the "revealing of", or the "setting up of", our Mystery Church of Eph 3:1-10 and Rom 16:25, 26.

(3). Though revealed to Paul, even at his (first) setting aside of National Israel and the Old Testament Gospel (of) The Circumcision (at Acts 13:46), PAUL WAS PHYSICALLY AND TOTALLY OCCUPIED DURING HIS ENTIRE REMAINING ACTS PERIOD MINISTRY--WITH HIS 9 YEAR SETTING ASIDE OF NATIONAL ISRAEL IN THE HOLY LAND AREA, AND WITH HIS FINAL 9 YEAR SETTING ASIDE OF NATIONAL ISRAEL, IN THE ASIAN AND EUROPEAN AREAS. And THAT is the most important point of all; i.e., that during the latter Acts period, Paul wrote back to the Jews and his Gentile proselyte converts to "Judahism" that he had made earlier, at Corinth, Thessalonica, Galatia, and Rome. And it is thus no mystery that one finds our Mystery Church Gospel, and Mystery Church Programs (in) the foregoing epistles, which Paul had addressed (solely) to The Jews and their Gentile Proselytes to Judahism. The answer is simultaneously both simple and profound, and requiring one to "refer back" to The Creation of National Israel at Mt Sinai; Ex Ch 19, where on one literal day, the newly delivered 600,000 plus (Gentile) "children" of Jacob (Israel)--still under the Gentile Grace Only Gospel (of) The Uncircumcison (Gal 3:8) instantly became The Jewish Nation of Israel.

ON THE CREATION OF THE MYSTERY CHURCH OF ROM 16:25-26 and EPH 3:1-10, AT ACTS 13:46--18:6--28:28:

The "creation" of The Mystery Church of Rom 16:25-26; Eph 3:1-10, took place simultaneously with Paul's newly commissioned, Acts 13:2, three phase, transitional "setting aside" of The Jewish, Old Testament Covenant of Law; i.e., The (Jewish) Gospel (of) The Circumcision at Acts 13:46, 18:6, 28:28. And the latter was immediately "replaced", by The Gospel (of) The Gentiles; i.e., The Gospel (of) The Uncircumcision, The Gospel (of) The Grace of Christ (Gal 2:6-9)- AND - Our Gospel (of) The Mystery Church of Rom 16:25, 26; Eph 3:1:10.

The (Gentile) Gospel (of) The Un-circumcision; i.e., The Gospel (of) The Grace of God (in existence since Adam and Eve, Gal 3:8), had been "temporarily set aside" at Mt Sinai, Ex Ch 19, when the newly delivered (still Gentile) "children" of Jacob (Israel) arbitrarily chose to place themselves "under" the well over 660 (inseparable) "Commandments", "Judgements", and "Ordinances" of The Old Testament Covenant of Law. As a result, they became the newly created Jewish (nation) of Israel, whose laws included the total separation of "Jews" and "Gentiles" (Lev 20:23-27), which remained in effect for the next 1,500 years of biblical history. These laws of separation even remained in effect during the Life and Ministry of Christ Jesus, in the four (Jewish) synoptic gospels of Matt, Mark, Luke, and John. See Matt 10:5, 6, Matt 15:24, Gal 4:4, Rom 15:8. During that 1,500 year period, a Jew could not GO TO any Gentile for any reason, be it for socializing or proselytizing. However, any Gentile during that 1,500 year period could COME TO any Jew, for the sole purpose of "becoming a Gentile proselyte to National Israel's Judahism", as did the Ethiopian eunuch of Acts 8:26-40. The total separation of "Jews" from all "Gentiles", as in Lev 20:23-27, did indeed "remain in effect" for 1,500 years, UNTIL Peter was given "the three sheet visions" which reversed the Mosaic Law of Lev 21:23-27--at Acts 10:9-16. It was not UNTIL that dramatic point in time and place that a Jew could GO UNTO any Gentile, for either socializing or proselytizing REASONS. At that time, the total separation of Jews from Gentiles under The Old Testament Covenant of The Laws of Moses; The Gospel of The Jews; or The Gospel of The Circumcision (Gospel Order) was "reversed" to (then say)--STILL GO TO THE JEWS FIRST, BUT NOW--"(GO ALSO UNTO) THE GENTILES". In other words, A Jew could THEN, for the first time in 1,500 years of Jewish biblical history, GO TO any Gentile, to either socialize with them, or to try to become a Gentile proselytes to "Judahism". God was (then beginning) TO BREAK DOWN THE MIDDLE WALL OF PARTITION"; i.e, The Old Testament Covenant of law, and it's well over 660 (uniquely Jewish) "Commandments", "Judgements", and "Ordinances that were legally separating "Jews" from Gentiles, Eph 2:11-29.

God was (then) about to create an entirely new dispensational body which would not be composed of BOTH saved Jews and saved Gentiles--but of NEITHER saved Jews, nor saved Gentiles--"BUT OF THE TWAIN--A NEW CREATION, IN CHRIST JESUS". It would be called "The One Body" of Christ Jesus (see Eph 2:16-18), or "The Church, Which Is His Body" (Eph 1:22, 23). In this "New Creation", believers would be required to "positionally" and actually "give up" their former ethnic, racial, social, gender, and religious (personal) identities (see Gal 3:28, Col 3:11), as Paul first did so, and counted all of his former personal identities --"AS DUNG"-- e.g., Phil 3:4-10.

That one fact alone (i.e., that our "Mystery Church" is composed of "NEITHER JEW NOR GENTILE") would automatically refute all those who would have it (and us) share any portion of The Old Testament Covenants and Promises that God had made (exclusively) in The (Conditional) Old Testament Gospel (of) The Circumcision, with it's well over 660 (uniquely Israelitish) "Commandments", "Judgements", and "Ordinances". That was quite a dramatic (dispensational) change for them to so instantly have to accept and follow, because they had to decide whether to continue in "Grace", or "Law".

According to Isa 1:9 and Rom 11:1-7, although God placed the newly created Jewish Nation "under" The Old Testament Covenant of Law at Mt Sinai, He always reserves unto Himself "A REMNANT--ACCORDING TO THE ELECTION OF GRACE" (As at the Adamic "fall", and the Noahic "flood"). The same occurred at Mt Sinai, where God gave "The Gentiles" THE UNIQUE OPTION of either remaining "under" The Gospel (of) The Grace of God, or going "under" The Newly Created, Old Testament Gospel (of) The Circumcision. According to Paul, in Rom 11:1-7, most Gentiles, at Mt Sinai, "opted to live under the law".. saying, "GIVE US THE LAW, AND WE WILL KEEP IT". While "A VERY SMALL REMNANT, ACCORDING TO THE ELECTION OF GRACE", --"opted to continue living under" (their) Gospel of Grace", rather than "under Law".

The same "unique dispensational choice" occurred to those Jews and Gentile Proselytes to Judahism, at Acts 13:46, 18:6 and 28:28, when "their lives" (also overlapped) a similar, abrupt dispensational change, as those at Mt Sinai. (Except as those at Acts whose choice was not one "from Grace, to Law", but one of "from Law-- to Grace"). Those were granted "a similar unique choice", at Acts 13:46, 18:6, of (either) "continuing to remain under" Israel's (continuing) Gospel (of) The Circumcision UNTIL the 3rd and final setting aside of Israel's Judahism at Acts 28:28, or--accept The Grace Gospel of our Mystery Church Program, that then and there (would instantly replace it)..Paul, in describing to those Jews and Gentile proselytes to Judahism, in his Jewish Epistle of 1 Cor 12:31, compared the "Judahism" that they were (then) "living under" to our Mystery Church, and it's Gospel of Grace, when Paul said to them--"YET SHOW I UNTO YOU---(A MORE EXCELLENT WAY"), i.e., "way to live under", UNTIL the end of Acts. At which time, Paul would THEN forever withdrew his foregoing unique offer to those Jews and Gentile Proselytes whose "lives" had (overlapped) such a "traumatic instantaneous, dispensational change" as that which occurred at Mt Sinai, and Acts 13:46, 18:6, and 28:28. The foregoing is precisely why (both) The Grace Gospel (and) our Mystery Church Program appear in Paul's (Jewish) Epistles of Romans, 1st and 2nd Cor, Gal, 1st and 2nd Thess, 1st and 2nd Timothy, Titus, and Philemon. . . . . . . .

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