GOD'S TRUTH: REVEALED OVER TIME

The phrase "but now" appears 62 times in the Word of God, and it means "a change has taken place."  While it is clear that God changes not (Mal. 3:6), His relationship with His creation does.  The revelation of truth, from God to man, has increased considerably from the days of Adam.  And though men like Noah, Abraham, Moses, and the Old Testament prophets, were used of God to reveal His truth, they had no clue about the two thousand year Church Age.  The Church Age is the sixth "layer" of the "onion" that is truth.  The first five were:  Innocence; Conscience; Governments; Patriarchs; and Law.  According to His timing, God "peeled back the layers" revealing more of His truth.  The final dispensation will be Christ's Millennial Kingdom (Rev. 20:1-6).  Take note: 

"The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this Law." (Deut. 29:29)

"He revealeth the deep and secret things: He knoweth what is in the darkness, and the light dwelleth with Him." (Dan. 2:22)

"God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by His Son, whom He hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also He made the worlds; Who being the brightness of His glory, and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high." (Heb. 1:1-3)

"If ye have heard of the dispensation (a job; a ministry; a stewardship - Acts 9:15; Rom. 11:13; Gal.2:8) of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward:  how that by revelation He made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words, 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, as it is now revealed unto His holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit; that the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body, and partakers of His promise in Christ by the Gospel (see Rom. 1:16):  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, 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, according to the eternal purpose which He purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord." (Eph. 3:2-11)

 

We are so blessed to have God's completed Word!

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