By: Bishop Albert B. Gran
John 3:16
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16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Titus 1:1-3
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1 Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness;
2 In HOPE OF ETERNAL LIFE which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;
3 But hath in due times manifested his word through preaching, which is committed unto me according to the commandment of God our Saviour;
Titus 1:1-3
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7 That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the HOPE OF ETERNAL LIFE.This study has been served an ulterior complexity when not understood through the principle of right scriptural division in matters of dispensing the truth what life we had obtained and being shared to others in line with the perspective of God’s plan over the ages.
The purpose of this article is to enhance your critical thinking in view of God’s wisdom as he manifested it to the entire human race as far as the human history is concerned. My purpose is to lay a flat form basis in view of understanding God’s two-fold purpose between His heavenly and earthly plan as determined to be between PROPHECY AND MYSTERY. My prayer that soon many would be concerned how to simply acknowledge the veracity and truthfulness of God’s revealed will in the entirety of His Scriptures, the so-called “Word of Truth” which needs to be dispensed through an approach of rightly dividing or recognizing the dispensational method. This is the principle which God himself demonstrated His intent how vast and wide His schemes more than or beyond Satan’s wiles and oppositions.
In view of seeking spiritual enlightenment as to what basis your “life” from Christ was patterned upon , also to mean the very source from the truth of God’s word where your faith objectively based on, this study will provide you alternative teaching how classifications of life in line with God’s plan which was clearly revealed to human kind in two-fold presentations.
To avoid misunderstanding, I should and would want to emphasize however that in both distinctions, in matters of “life” issue, there is only one subject or author by means “life” was originated from. In other words “ eternal life” is indeed authored by God Himself as He’s the real giver of life. Only, there’s misconstrued information upon failure to understand that God’s life in the Scriptures as when it was introduced in two distinct ways which are: PROPHETIC EVERLASTING LIFE in view of Israel’s earthly kingdom purpose and MYSTERY’S HOPE OFETERNAL LIFE in view of the Body of Christ’s heavenly purpose. Simply put your keen understanding to dig the revealing information suffice to meet the comparative measures of communicating the pure words of God in any period of time between the two major divisions as prophecy and mystery. This will help you consider to understand that these things were really so.
THE ISSUE OF “LIFE” IN VIEW OF PROPHECY
It’s really amazing to know and get the overview of how Jesus Christ was presented in his first advent as the EMMANUEL (by meaning, God with us)
Matthew 1:22-24
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22 Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying,
23 Behold, a virgin shall be with CHILD, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with US.
Isaiah 9:6
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6 For unto US a CHILD is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
Your keen understanding allows you to believe that Jesus Christ’s birth in its wise as he was born by a virgin possessing with the attributes mentioned above, was something relative to the PROMISE OF GOD spoken by the PROPHET ISAIAH. And that, this promise was specifically addressed to the group of people whom God loved most in time past who were the people of Israel to give light upon Israel for the entire world .
Isaiah 9:7-8
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7 Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, UPON THE THRONE OF DAVID, and UPON HIS KINGDOM, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.
8 The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath LIGHTED UPON ISRAEL.
It’s crystal clear that the gospel’s account about the birth of Christ in view of His earthly ministry was something corresponding to the prophetic declaration of God’s promise to the house of Jacob all the way to the culmination of the establishment of the forever earthly kingdom which God also promised to David . In effect, Christ was regarded in prophecy to give light to Israel.
Now that we knew God’s purpose of Christ for Israel in confirmation to what was spoken by the mouth of the prophet then the occurrence of the kingdom gospel account signifying the earthly ministry of our Lord Jesus Christ is primarily relative in confirmation to PROPHECY and therefore it’s then logical to say that God’s offering of salvation to shed light to the group of human race was simply demonstrated to ISRAEL.
Now that the doctrine of salvation in view of prophecy program contains the essence of life everlasting, then in truthful presentation, the offering of everlasting life as introduced by Jesus Christ was also relative to the purpose of God which is to redeem His people, the Israelites.
Luke 2
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11 For unto you is born this day in the CITY OF DAVID a Saviour, which is CHRIST THE LORD.
Apparently, David’s name appeared in the above verse to mean Christ’s birth is in His wisest plan should soon be a recipient of David’s throne in the kingdom as prophesied by prophet Isaiah.
27 And he came by the Spirit into the temple: and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him after the custom of the law,
28 Then took he him up in his arms, and blessed God, and said,
29 Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word:
30 For mine eyes have seen thy salvation,
31 Which thou hast prepared before the face of all people;
32 A LIGHT TO LIGHTEN THE GENTILES, and the GLORY OF THY PEOPLE ISRAEL.
33 And Joseph and his mother marvelled at those things which were spoken of him.
34 And Simeon blessed them, and said unto Mary his mother, Behold, THIS CHILD IS SET FOR THE FALL AND RISING AGAIN OF MANY IN ISRAEL; and for a sign which shall be spoken against;
35 (Yea, a sword shall pierce through thy own soul also,) that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.
Perhaps you might stress the emphasis that God’s relative purpose to the Lord Jesus Christ is for you something I missed in looking at it based on its context. Here’s the explanation. The prophetic plan and purpose of God to the Gentiles in time past depends on them (Israelites) as they were those children who could be the channel of blessings to them that bless Israel. Let’s connect the fact in the above verse that the GLORY OF GOD is upon His people Israel. When God’s glory was found in Israel it means it’s an exclusive possession of blessedness through which the Christ who could give light to the Gentiles can be significantly found only in Israel.
Now if you had background of Pauline information it’s really different under the economy of grace because God’s glory today was sent to the gentiles when Paul declared to the gentiles saved upon saying: ‘CHRIST IN YOU THE HOPE OF GLORY’.
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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 effect of Christ’s earthly ministry and purpose set for Israel proving the glory was with them, let me give you a simplest conviction in view of my simple observation in these presentation of truth that the earthly ministry account of Christ belongs to the prophetic time past account with Israel as above other people set to be God’s recipient of spiritual food and nourishment, and thus used and became God’s agent of blessings to the Gentiles where Christ has to give light upon them and as thus demonstrated when Christ all the way in the road of Samaria save some Gentiles although having a declaration of fact to “LET THE CHILDREN FIRST BE FILLED”(for Israel’s emphasis).
My point was that the Gentiles’ blessedness today has nothing to do or in connection with that plan of God when He gave glory to Israel with the Christ to give light to the Gentiles, as thus ours, was a very unique demonstration of God’s plan which is something not made known, and was kept secret since the world began and now it’s only revealed to apostle Paul and was manifested in due time in this present dispensation of grace.
JESUS CHRIST WAS MADE OF A WOMAN UNDER THE LAW
Galatians 4:4
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4 But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
The tense of the verb where the fullness of time is consistent to the time past prophetic purpose of God as it states here “was come”. The fact was that this “time” frame when Christ occurred when he was born is the time OF THE LAW. Jesus Christ’s earthly ministry is still in view of the law. In other words, Christ was made under the law. Again my point was that, if there would be presentation of everlasting life offering during the time of Christ I’m rest assured through prophetic sense that such life was also in view of the prophetic earthly kingdom and in view of the glory set by God for Israel with gentiles who waited to receive blessings from them.
Another sensible point with this is to consider the fact that in the dispensation of grace the gentiles who are saved were not under the law.It does not mean that we’re not following Christ when we declared ourselves as no longer under the law when Christ in his birth, He was made under the law. We will not clash the statement of Paul in Rom 6:14 to follow Jesus Christ to be also under the law when he was made under the law.
Romans 6:14
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14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for YE ARE NOTUNDER THE LAW, but under grace.
Another point is that when you walk in accordance to the prophetic plan of God you are really following Jesus Christ in the condition or time frame when he was made under the law. It’s pretty clear that if you have background of Pauline epistle you would clearly and evidently see who are the real recipients of the law to whom concerning the flesh, Christ came.
THE PROPHETIC VIEW OF CHRIST’S EARTHLY MINISTRY
Romans 9:4-5
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5 Whose are the fathers, and of whom as CONCERNING THE FLESH CHRIST CAME, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.
Christ’s earthly appearance appertains something to the part and parcel of Israel’s above blessedness in view of His glory that’s shining amidst them. I cannot say against what was written in His word when I simply organized the sensible thoughts to put the relative kingdom gospel issues including the view of a presented eternal life provision during the earthly ministry of Jesus Christ as something NOT FOR MY EMPHASIS TODAY. After knowing the essential information that I was presently connected to the present dispensation of grace the presentation in the most common information stated in JOHN 3:16 is that something Paul mentioned in Gal. 1 as another gospel and yet not another .That’s the gospel of Peter and John in view of God’s purpose of Jesus Christ for Israel and with Christ to give light to the Gentiles in view of Israel’s glory and upon their rising. The verse found in John 3:16 is something I believed to be emphasized relative to God’s earthly prophetic purpose for Israel. In view of honest preaching in recognition to the stand of rightly dividing principle ordained by God, John 3:16 is not for our application in salvation but something an application for those who hoped for the earthly kingdom. Relative the manifestation of other practices when this information revealed by Christ to the disciples is the water baptism matter with physical miraculous healings which were for signs confirmed for the Jews who would always require signs.
JESUS CHRIST AS A MINISTER OF CIRCUMCISION IN VIEW OF GOD’S EARTHLY PROPHETIC PURPOSE
Romans 15:8
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8 Now I say that Jesus Christ WAS A MINISTER OF THE CIRCUMCISION for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers:
The essence of a pure doctrinal presentation who were those called circumcised and those uncircumcised simply put two groups of people called JEWS and GENTILES. Before God changed the name of Jacob to Israel as a descendant of the special elect people of God above other people after the time of flood, the people were called Gentiles.
Genesis 10:4-6
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4 And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
5 By these were the ISLES OF THE GENTILES divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.
6 And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.
There is but only one group name ascribe to the people after the flood and that was “GENTILES”. The word Israel first occurred when God changed Jacob’s name to Israel.
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And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.
After Adam whom the Lord had given a dominion over the earth, God chose someone whose descendants were to carry over God’s continuous plan for earth which He gave to Adam in order to take possession in the earthly kingdom with their Messiah Jesus Christ , the Savior and Redeemer until the time He would sit on David’s throne to reign with them.
The gentiles are those called uncircumcision while the Jews or Israelites were those in the circumcision. Since Christ was under the prophetic purpose in view of God’s purpose for the circumcision, it’s really a fact without doubt that He was a minister to the circumcision relative to the promise God promised to the forefathers.
Romans 15:8
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8 Now I say that Jesus Christ WAS A MINISTER OF THE CIRCUMCISION for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers:
Again, taking into application the emphasis of Christ sharing glad tidings in consonance and in view of God’s prophetic purpose especially in the provision of everlasting life in the kingdom on earth is something that requires our realignment and thought consideration and perceived its soundness in view of God’s will.
So, when Christ was a minister to the circumcision therefore he’s co-existed with Peter preaching the gospel as we all know he gave the gospel to Peter crying and preaching the gospel of circumcision. It’s an obvious fact without doubt, however, as mentioned in Galatians 2:7 that the truth of God to preach the gospel of circumcision was committed to Peter. Since in time past Christ was a minister to the circumcision, He had an all out support of declaring the gospel of circumcision with Peter. But folks, it’s not the same condition and no longer operation after the ascension of Christ when He chose a brand new apostle. He gave a new revelation for all the people today regardless of race, gender and status and set His church, the Body of Christ in order to carry God’s blissful purpose in the heavenly place which you and me are presently living under that administration. We’re living in God’s administration of grace called ministration of the spirit and so we must live by faith and not by sight.
THE MYSTERY’S HOPE OF ETERNAL LIFE
Titus 1:1-3
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1 Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness;
2 In HOPE OF ETERNAL LIFE which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;
3 But hath in due times manifested his word through preaching, which is COMMITTED UNTO ME according to the commandment of God our Saviour;
Titus 1:1-3
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7 That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the HOPE OF ETERNAL LIFE.Let’s just be honest to face the reality through which the hope of eternal life written by Paul in his epistle emerged only during his time. A time when God called him by His grace. This hope of eternal life was something viewed upon in lieu of the full blast operation under the dispensation of grace which God through Paul’s pen with its manifestation revealed in “due times”. The following statements below are relative truths how this hope of eternal life was really a mystery and not prophecy.
1. The truth about life eternal connects to the purpose God set forth in the apostleship of Paul.
2. This eternal life was in accordance to the faith of God’s elect who’s none other than the Lord Jesus Christ. This truth was relative to the demonstration of “the faith of Christ” (Romans 3:22-24). This hope of eternal life was kept secret before it was revealed and manifested in due time through Paul and therefore this is not the same life demonstration in accordance to the presentation of everlasting life set forth in connection to the gospel of the kingdom with Christ as the minister of the circumcision and Peter as the co- bearer of the gospel of circumcision (Rom. 16:8, Gal. 2:7)
3. This hope of eternal life was offered to all Jews and Gentiles without distinction contrast to the prophetic purpose through which Jews and Gentiles are distinct in matters of status and position with their hope of the earthly kingdom.
4. The hope of eternal life WAS COMMITTED TO PAUL and therefore it starts with Paul all the rest from him unto this present day until the caught up event.
5. To sum it all, this is the exclusive ETERNAL LIFE IN VIEW OF THE MYSTERY TRUTH REVEALED TO CHRIST IN VIEW OF THE PREACHING OF JESUS CHRIST IN ACCORDANCE TO THE REVELATION OF THE MYSTERY (Rom. 16:25).
Folks, let’s just be Berean and rightly consider the fact which life in view of these two-fold presentation you obtained life eternal and under which hope. Is it relative to prophecy or mystery?
Grace and peace to you all!
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