"Bible Exposition Fellowship"
(Part 1) Dear brethren in Christ, have you ever considered those wonderful words of Paul to the nations recorded in the Ephesians, Philippians and Colossians Epistles written in 62. A.D.in the new administration of the grace of God when Paul's stewardship unfolds the revelation of the transcendent riches of Christ in the dispensation of the secret economy and the beginning of the ecclesia which is His body, the complement of the One completing the all in all? In doing so Paul reveals the [Gr. ANEXICHNIASTON "...UN-OUT-TRACEable riches of "the" Christ to the nations, and to enlighten all as to what is the administration of the secret, which has been concealed from the eons in "the" God, "the" Who creates "the" all, that now [62.A.D.] may be made known to the sovereignties and the authorities among the celestials through the ecclesia the multifarious wisdom of "the" God, in accord with the purpose of the eons, WHICH HE MAKES IN CHRIST JESUS OUR LORD..." [Eph.3:8-11] The apostle Paul speaking to the nations in his first [Gr.graphon propheetikon] "prophetic scripture" the prison epistle sent to the ecclesia's in Asia which sets forth God's pre- eonian purpose "...to head up "the" all in Christ, both "the" that in the heavens and "the" that on the earth, in Him in Whom our lot was cast also, being designated beforehand according to the purpose of the One Who is operating "the" all in accord with the counsel of His will, the we should be for the laud of His glory. "the" who are pre-expectant in the Christ.." [Eph.1:12] Paul's prayers records for us and reveal just what the multifarious wisdom is, that was in accord with "the secret purpose of the eons" hidden in the mind of God until He revealed it to Paul for all the nations in the new dispensation of the secret during the new administration of the grace of God. [Eph.1:15-23] "...therefore, I also, on hearing of this faith of yours in the Lord Jesus, and that for all saints, do not cease giving thanks for you making mention in my prayers that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may be giving you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the realization of Him, the eyes of your heart having been enlightened, for you to perceive what is the EXPECTATION of His calling, and what the riches of the glory of the enjoyment of His allotment among the saints, and what the transcendent greatness of His power for us who are believing, [Paul's revelation evangel] in accord with the operation of the might of His strength, which IS operative in the Christ, rousing Him from among the dead and seating Him at His right hand among the celestials, up over every sovereignty and authority and power and lordship, and every name that is named, not only in this eon, but also in that which is impending: and subjects all under His feet, and give Him, as Head over all, to the ecclesia which is His body, THE COMPLEMENT of the One completing the all in all..." [Eph.1:15-23] This prayer is unfolding the things that Jesus could not reveal unto the Disciples who were unable to bear such transcendent truth during the dispensation of the administration of law during our Lord's ministry among them. He plainly told them that were many things He could not speak to them at that time! "...Still much have I to say to you, but you are not able to bear it at present. Yet whenever that may be coming the spirit of "the" truth IT will be guiding you into ALL THE TRUTH, for IT will not be speaking from ITself, but whatsoever IT should be hearing will IT be speaking, and of what is coming will IT be informing you. That will be glorifying Me, seeing that of Mine will IT be getting, and informing you. ALL, whatever the Father has, is MINE. Therefore I said to you that of MINE is IT getting, and will be informing you..." [John.16:12-15] These things are nowhere to be found prior to Paul's prison epistles written for the nations at the beginning of the administration of the grace of God in the new dispensation of the secret economy which is the great secret for which Paul was granted the stewardship of the nations during the secret economy while Israel is cast away until the fullness of the nations may be entering. "..For I am not willing for you to be ignorant of THIS secret brethren, less you be passing for prudent among yourselves, that callousness, in part, on Israel has come, until the complement of the nations may be entering..." [Rom.11:25] Paul's wonderful words concerning the untraceable riches of Christ have been obscured and darkened by the cobwebs of tradition and the true expression of the original scriptures have been altered by faulty translation and fall far short of expressing all that is in the original text. Paul speaking to the nations in his revelation epistle to the Ephesians ecclesia is very emphatic about his stewardship. "...To me, less than the least of all saints, was granted this grace: [the stewardship] to bring the evangel of the untraceable [impossible to know until he reveals it] riches of Christ to the nations, and to enlighten all as to what is the administration of the secret, [economy] which has been concealed from the eons in God, Who creates all, that now [62.A.D.] may be made known..." Paul unfolds the pre-existence of Christ as the Origin of the creation: This knowledge was not known until Paul was graced by God to reveal the transcendent riches of Christ. hushed in previous generations, yet now being made known to all the nations for faith obedience. John never wrote his gospel until 90.A.D. almost thirty years after Paul wrote the Colossian epistle. John said; "..In the beginning was the word and the word was toward God, and God was the word. This was in the beginning toward God. All came into being through it, [the word] and apart from it [the word] not even one thing came into being which has come into being. In it [the word] was life, and the life [the word] was the light of men. And the light [the word] is appearing in the darkness, and the darkness grasped it not..." [John.1:1-5] Paul said; "...Who is the Image of the invisible God, Firstborn of every creature, for IN HIM is "the" ALL CREATED. "the" that in the heavens and "the" that on the earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones, or lordships, or sovereignties, or authorities. "the" ALL IS CREATED THROUGH HIM AND FOR HIM, AND HE IS BEFORE ALL, AND 'the" ALL HAS ITS COHESION IN HIM..." [Col.1:15-17] See also "...God's creative Original.." [Rev.3:14] and "..Through Whom He also makes the eons..." [Heb.1:1-4 "...Thou, originally, Lord [the Son] dost found the earth..." Heb.1:10] Paul's stewardship reveals the untraceable riches of Christ, God's "the" Creative Original. [1] Firstborn of creation. [2] The Image of the invisible God. [3] Christ is Head of the body, the ecclesia. [4] All has its cohesion in Him. [5] The complement of God. [6] To head up all in the Christ. [7] Through Him to reconcile all to Him. "...For in Him the entire complement DELIGHTS TO DWELL [the Son of His love] and through Him to reconcile all to Him [God the Father], [making peace through the blood of His cross]. through Him, whether those on the earth or those in the heavens..." [Col.1:19-20] What a marvelous outcome of God's purpose! What a wonderful Christ Who can and will accomplish such a complete and glorious reconciliation of all of God's creatures, whether they be those on the earth or those in the heavens. All eventually are to be reconciled in perfect peace to the great God of love through "the Son of His love." The untraceable riches of Christ [God's Creative Original] were unknown in "the prophets" and "the four gospels" and "the book of "the Acts of the apostles" and it is not until God granted Paul the stewardship of the nations was it made known in his prison epistles which he was commanded to write by the eonian God to all the nations for faith obedience. [Rom.16:25- 27] Those that use the Old Testament prophets, the four gospels and the Acts of the apostles to deny the pre-existent Son of God are correct only in so much as it was not revealed until Paul made it known in his [Graphon Propheetikon "prophetic scriptures: the prison epistle which were written from Rome in [62.A.D.] and sent to all the nations for faith obedience. "...Now to Him "the" Who is able to establish you in accord with "the" MY EVANGEL, [not Peter's evangel] and the heralding of Christ Jesus in accord with THE REVELATION OF THE SECRET [not the mystery of the Kingdom] hushed in time eonian [ the mystery of the Kingdom was well known to Christ's disciples. Matt.13:11] yet manifested now [62.A.D.] and through prophetic scriptures, [Paul's writings] according to the injunction of the eonian God being made known to all the nations for faith obedience to the only, and wise God, through Christ Jesus, be "the" glory for the eons of the eons. Amen! [Rom.16:25-27] It is plain that the mysteries [secret] of the earthly Kingdom was revealed to His disciples by Christ privately, yet spoken in parables to the Pharisee's lest they understood and He would have to save them at that time.[Matt.13:10-17] This was not "the secret of the evangel" to the nations which was not revealed until Paul received the stewardship to make it known in 62.A.D. [Eph.3:1-11] Speaking to the Hebrews the writer said; "...Wherefore, leaving the word dealing with the rudiments of Christ, [the mysteries of the earthly Kingdom] we should be brought on to "the" maturity , [not again disrupting the foundation of repentance [Peter's Acts.2:36-40] The writer is admonishing them to leave the rudimentary message of Christ where it belongs in the dispensation of Law. Speaking to the Philippian ecclesia, Paul said; "...Forgetting those things behind [in the dispensation of the Acts of the apostles] yet stretching out in front [in the new dispensation of the secret] towards the goal am I pursuing for the prize of "the" God's calling above in Christ Jesus..." [Phil.3:20-21] Paul is admonishing them to pursue their expectation and allotment with Christ at the right hand of God among the celestials and leave the teaching of the Kingdom of God on earth to those to whom it was given in the gospels and confirmed in the Acts of the apostles dispensation through gifts of [Gr.pneuma hagion], "spirit holy" signs and wonders. Listen to Paul as he says exactly that to the Philippians. "... Become imitators together of me, brethren, and be noting those who are walking thus, according as you have us for a "model," for many are walking, of whom I often told you, yet now am lamenting also as I tell it, who are the enemies of the cross of "the" Christ, [the enemies of the cross of Christ are failing to apprehend the significance of His shameful death, still cling to the terrestrial Kingdom and physical blessings] whose consummation is destruction, [a destructive course] whose god is their bowels [a reference to the legalist laws of eating and drinking] and whose glory is in their shame, who to the terrestrial [ Peter's Kingdom teaching] are disposed. For our realm [according to Paul's revelation of the secret] is inherent in the heavens, [at the right hand of God] out of which we are awaiting a Savior also ["also", suggests someone else is awaiting His arrival and it is the nation of Israel awaiting the terrestrial Kingdom of God] the Lord, Jesus Christ, Who will transfigure the body of our humiliation, to conform it with the body of His glory [so that we can as His complement sit with Him at the right hand of God in he heavens] in accord with the operation which enables Him EVEN TO SUBJECT [eventually] "the" ALL TO HIMSELF..."[Phil.3:20-21] Brethren, Israel is awaiting the apocalypse and revelation of Christ taking vengeance on all who know not the Lord. He will to them be revealed from heaven in flaming fire as Peter rightly in his epistle tells the chosen expatriates of the dispersion. "...Now the day of the lord will be arriving as a thief, in which the heavens shall be passing away by a booming noise, yet the elements shall be dissolved by combustion and the earth and the works in it shall be found...which the heavens being on fire, will be dissolved, and the elements decompose by combustion..." Paul tells the Philippians that they are awaiting a Savior also who will transfigure the body of their humiliation to conform it to the body of His glory. He also told them that our realm [citizenship] is inherent in the heavens. He also told the Ephesians that because of His great love with which He loves us [the ecclesia] He vivifies us together with Christ and rouses us and seats us together among the celestials..." God's has a plan and purpose for Israel and He has a plan and purpose for the ecclesia which is His body, the complement of the One that filleth all in all. Let us not use the one truth of the coming Kingdom of God on the earth and the re-marriage and the millennial Kingdom reign recorded by the prophets and the gospels and confirmed in the Acts of the apostles to destroy the transcendent truth revealed by Paul in the prison epistles for the joint body of Christ who is to become His complement in the heavens at the right hand of God. Paul's final words to Timothy prior to his own departure and martyrdom were to encourage Timothy to have a pattern of sound words that he had received under his personal instruction and through the "prophetic scriptures" written from prison in Rome, because all of Asia had now departed from Paul's revelation evangel from God to all the nations. [Rom.16:25-27] "...Who saves and calls us with a holy calling, not in accord with our acts, but in accord with His own purpose [of the eons] and the grace which is given to us in Christ Jesus before times eonian, yet now [62-68. A.D.] is being manifested through the advent of our Savior Christ Jesus, Who, indeed, abolishes death, yet illuminates life and incorruption through the evangel of which I was appointed a herald and an apostle and a teacher of the nations. For which cause I am suffering these things also, but I am not ashamed, for I am aware Whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that He is able to guard what is committed to me, [Paul's stewardship of the evangel and the secret of the evangel] for that day. Have a pattern of sound words, which you hear from me, in faith and love which are in Christ Jesus. The ideal thing [Paul's revelation teaching ministry] committed to you, guard through the holy spirit which is making its home in us. Of this you are aware, that all those [the ecclesia's] in the province of Asia were turned from me [Paul's revelation evangel and the secret of the evangel]...." [2.Tim.1:9-15] They all turned back to Peter's commission for Judah Israel during the administration of Law which eventually led to the dark ages and the revealing of the apostate system of religion that made war on the saints and defeated them for 1260 years of terror until the reformation which partially restored some of Paul's teaching by Martin Luther for this administration of the grace of God. May God bless you real good. David and Carol Buckman. Down-under in the land of OZ.
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