Our bible today was
set up by the prophets in Paul’s day, the way God wanted it. The old testament that the Jews used were the
same books, but not in the same order as we today have it. Ours is Genesis to Malachi and their’s was
Genesis to Chronicles without breaking up the books into ‘first and second’
Samuel, Kings, or Chronicles. Our bible
was not set up by some men in a church council of men during the first century,
but by prophets in the body of Christ that put the bible together in the order
that we have it today.
Paul breaks it down
in Ephesians
2 as ‘time past’ (Genesis through early Acts) where God is dealing with
people through a man named Moses and prophets (the Law and prophets); the
people is the nation Israel, and the Davidic kingdom which is a real earthly,
visible physical kingdom. But, in the ‘but
now,’ through the cross of Christ with the raising up of the Apostle Paul in his
13 books (Romans thru Philemon), the man who wrote more books of the bible than
any other to magnify his office, it is not a message of Law, but of grace. It is a free gift. No works are involved. In time past, Law (a performance-based
acceptance of works) was what was required to be right with God. But now, no works!
Ephesians 2: 8-9
For by grace are ye
saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of
works, lest any man should boast.
Today it is the
mystery of Christ. It has to do
primarily with the gentiles. All people
are gentiles today, even the Jewish people are gentiles—they are now part of
the nations.
Acts 10:34
Then Peter opened
his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of
persons:
What God is doing
today is raising up a people for the heavenly kingdom where we are seated with
Christ.
Ephesians 2:6
And hath raised
us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in
Christ Jesus:
But when you come
to the next part of your bible after you leave Paul’s epistles, you come to the
book of Hebrews. Romans are gentiles,
Hebrews are Hebrews—the language and race of the Jewish people. Those books of
Hebrews through Revelation have a future context, the day of God’s wrath, the
tribulation period, and the Law, the performance-based acceptance program is
again the issue.
Prophecy is what
God has made known, the mystery is what he kept secret.
Acts 3:21
Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of
all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets
since the world began.
Romans 16:25
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,
When you rightly
divide the word of truth (2 Timothy 2:15), you understand that God is doing something different
today from how he dealt with Israel in time past.
Transcribed and edited excerpt from The Battle of the Ages
Found in Bro Ron Knight’s studies in Romans
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