Hyper-Grace, or Hyper-Dispensationalism...
That is a Protestant movement that began in the 19th century by British Bible scholar E.W. Bullinger. In Bullinger's era the false Pre-tribulational Rapture theory was being preached by British preacher John Nelson Darby, starting in the 1830's. Bullinger, who was an excellent Bible scholar, had succumbed to that false doctrine of Darby's Dispensationalist theories that had become popular in those days in Britain, and later in America.
That movement is where the idea that the Church only began with Apostle Paul's ministry. It is also sometimes called Mid-Acts Dispensationalism. And this is where the false ideas of a Dual-Gospel originates, i.e., that The Gospel that Lord Jesus and His Apostles preached was a different Gospel than what Apostle Paul preached.
In Bible Scripture like the following, Hyper-Grace sees a DIFFERENT GOSPEL being claimed by Apostle Paul for the Gentiles...
Eph 3:1-12
3 For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles,
2 If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to youward:
3 How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words,
4 Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ)
5 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;
6 That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body, and partakers of His promise in Christ by the gospel:
Paul's idea of "the mystery" is played to the hilt by the Hyper-Grace crowd, pumped up as being a DIFFERENT GOSPEL than what Christ or His Apostles had preached.
Yet in the above notice Paul even says the mystery given him, "as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit," means the other Apostles ALSO were shown about that 'mystery'. In reality per Acts 10, Apostle Peter was FIRST to be shown about The Gospel also going to the Gentiles!
7 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.
8 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;
9 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:
10 To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God,
11 According to the eternal purpose which He purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord:
12 In Whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of Him.
KJV
A thorough study in The Old Testament reveals this 'mystery' of God's Plan of Salvation also for the believing Gentiles. That is evident in the many Old Testament Scriptures by the prophets about the Gentiles being gathered along with the seed of Israel in the future restoration of the Kingdom of Israel under "one head" (Jesus Christ). What was not yet known at that time... was how Lord Jesus Christ would come to die on the cross and be raised from the dead to accomplish The Gospel Promise of the remission of sins for those who believe on Him. And that even though God had given His prophets David and Isaiah to write about Christ's crucifixion (See Psalms 22 and Isaiah 53).
Also, in Galatians 2:7-8, the Hyper-Dispensationalist crowd abuses that Scripture by claiming two different Gospels, when Paul is actually pointing to two different ADMINISTRATIONS of the SAME Gospel of Jesus Christ. Peter was sent to take The One Gospel to the Jews, and Paul was sent to take the same One Gospel to the Gentiles. And when Peter's Jewish brethren from Jerusalem came to visit him and Paul, Peter separated himself from the Gentiles he had associated with before they came. Paul rebuked Peter for it, showing that The Gospel Peter had was NOT another or different Gospel than what Paul had.
This means... Apostle Paul was DEFINITELY NOT proclaiming he had received a DIFFERENT GOSPEL of Jesus Christ.
What Paul was proclaiming is that he was especially 'chosen' by Jesus to take the ONE GOSPEL also to the Gentiles. Per Acts 9, Jesus said He chose Paul to preach to the Gentiles, AND... to kings, AND... to the children of Israel. Think about that last one, the children of Israel. If Paul had ANOTHER GOSPEL meant only for Gentiles, then HOW could he preach that to the "children of Israel" also? Even that reveals The Gospel Paul preached to Gentiles is the SAME Gospel that Lord Jesus and all... His Apostles had, including Paul.
Thus the Pauline arguments about another Gospel, or two different Gospels, is BOGUS, and nothing but PROPAGANDA against God's Word. WHY... would these men pushing the dual-gospel idea push such falsehood? I mean, even Bullinger succumbed to the lie!
It was because of the preaching of the false Pre-trib Rapture theory that began in 1830's Great Britain. Darby had a specific brand of Dispensation theory about the Bible eras. Because the false Pre-trib Rapture theory pushes the false idea that Christ in secret comes to rapture His Church to Heaven PRIOR... to the "great tribulation", Darby created a type of Dispensation theory about that to cover that false rapture idea.
Darby's Dispensation theory involving the rapture involves the Church being raptured by Christ prior to the tribulation while the unbelieving Jews remain on earth to go through that tribulation. Then, at the end of the tribulation, Jesus will then gather any of those Jews who converted to Jesus during the trib, and take them also to Heaven to be with the Church, where Jesus and the Church will reign over the 'restored' Kingdom of Israel on earth made up of Jews. The whole idea is a false separation of the nation of ISRAEL from Christ's Church. That was Darby's Dispensationalist idea for the future at Jesus' 2nd coming.
HOWEVER... the Biblical Reality is this:
According to Zechariah 14, which is about Lord Jesus' future return to earth on the "day of the Lord", His feet are to touch down upon the Mount of Olives east of Jerusalem, ON EARTH, at His 2nd coming. And it says He will bring all His saints with Him to that spot, ON EARTH. That Mount of Olives is where Jesus ascended to Heaven from per Acts 1. That is the spot He will return to at His future coming. And Jerusalem, ON EARTH, is where He... and His Church, will reign over ALL nations from, ON EARTH. The Revelation 20:9 Scripture calls that place in the future the "camp of the saints", ON EARTH.
Now just WHO would want us to think that Christ's Salvation contains two different Salvations, one for the Jews, and another for Gentiles? Who doesn't want... the Gentiles to be part of their Salvation Promises from our Heavenly Father? Think about that, and you will eventually discover just who... is behind the start of that false Hyper-Dispensationalist theory and the false Pre-trib Rapture theory, which both are designed to separate the nation of ISRAEL apart from Christ's Church. Then remember what Apostle Paul said below when you hear that false doctrine of men being preached in your Church...
Gal 3:26-29
26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
27 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
29 And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.
KJV
That is a Protestant movement that began in the 19th century by British Bible scholar E.W. Bullinger. In Bullinger's era the false Pre-tribulational Rapture theory was being preached by British preacher John Nelson Darby, starting in the 1830's. Bullinger, who was an excellent Bible scholar, had succumbed to that false doctrine of Darby's Dispensationalist theories that had become popular in those days in Britain, and later in America.
That movement is where the idea that the Church only began with Apostle Paul's ministry. It is also sometimes called Mid-Acts Dispensationalism. And this is where the false ideas of a Dual-Gospel originates, i.e., that The Gospel that Lord Jesus and His Apostles preached was a different Gospel than what Apostle Paul preached.
In Bible Scripture like the following, Hyper-Grace sees a DIFFERENT GOSPEL being claimed by Apostle Paul for the Gentiles...
Eph 3:1-12
3 For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles,
2 If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to youward:
3 How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words,
4 Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ)
5 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;
6 That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body, and partakers of His promise in Christ by the gospel:
Paul's idea of "the mystery" is played to the hilt by the Hyper-Grace crowd, pumped up as being a DIFFERENT GOSPEL than what Christ or His Apostles had preached.
Yet in the above notice Paul even says the mystery given him, "as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit," means the other Apostles ALSO were shown about that 'mystery'. In reality per Acts 10, Apostle Peter was FIRST to be shown about The Gospel also going to the Gentiles!
7 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.
8 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;
9 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:
10 To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God,
11 According to the eternal purpose which He purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord:
12 In Whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of Him.
KJV
A thorough study in The Old Testament reveals this 'mystery' of God's Plan of Salvation also for the believing Gentiles. That is evident in the many Old Testament Scriptures by the prophets about the Gentiles being gathered along with the seed of Israel in the future restoration of the Kingdom of Israel under "one head" (Jesus Christ). What was not yet known at that time... was how Lord Jesus Christ would come to die on the cross and be raised from the dead to accomplish The Gospel Promise of the remission of sins for those who believe on Him. And that even though God had given His prophets David and Isaiah to write about Christ's crucifixion (See Psalms 22 and Isaiah 53).
Also, in Galatians 2:7-8, the Hyper-Dispensationalist crowd abuses that Scripture by claiming two different Gospels, when Paul is actually pointing to two different ADMINISTRATIONS of the SAME Gospel of Jesus Christ. Peter was sent to take The One Gospel to the Jews, and Paul was sent to take the same One Gospel to the Gentiles. And when Peter's Jewish brethren from Jerusalem came to visit him and Paul, Peter separated himself from the Gentiles he had associated with before they came. Paul rebuked Peter for it, showing that The Gospel Peter had was NOT another or different Gospel than what Paul had.
This means... Apostle Paul was DEFINITELY NOT proclaiming he had received a DIFFERENT GOSPEL of Jesus Christ.
What Paul was proclaiming is that he was especially 'chosen' by Jesus to take the ONE GOSPEL also to the Gentiles. Per Acts 9, Jesus said He chose Paul to preach to the Gentiles, AND... to kings, AND... to the children of Israel. Think about that last one, the children of Israel. If Paul had ANOTHER GOSPEL meant only for Gentiles, then HOW could he preach that to the "children of Israel" also? Even that reveals The Gospel Paul preached to Gentiles is the SAME Gospel that Lord Jesus and all... His Apostles had, including Paul.
Thus the Pauline arguments about another Gospel, or two different Gospels, is BOGUS, and nothing but PROPAGANDA against God's Word. WHY... would these men pushing the dual-gospel idea push such falsehood? I mean, even Bullinger succumbed to the lie!
It was because of the preaching of the false Pre-trib Rapture theory that began in 1830's Great Britain. Darby had a specific brand of Dispensation theory about the Bible eras. Because the false Pre-trib Rapture theory pushes the false idea that Christ in secret comes to rapture His Church to Heaven PRIOR... to the "great tribulation", Darby created a type of Dispensation theory about that to cover that false rapture idea.
Darby's Dispensation theory involving the rapture involves the Church being raptured by Christ prior to the tribulation while the unbelieving Jews remain on earth to go through that tribulation. Then, at the end of the tribulation, Jesus will then gather any of those Jews who converted to Jesus during the trib, and take them also to Heaven to be with the Church, where Jesus and the Church will reign over the 'restored' Kingdom of Israel on earth made up of Jews. The whole idea is a false separation of the nation of ISRAEL from Christ's Church. That was Darby's Dispensationalist idea for the future at Jesus' 2nd coming.
HOWEVER... the Biblical Reality is this:
According to Zechariah 14, which is about Lord Jesus' future return to earth on the "day of the Lord", His feet are to touch down upon the Mount of Olives east of Jerusalem, ON EARTH, at His 2nd coming. And it says He will bring all His saints with Him to that spot, ON EARTH. That Mount of Olives is where Jesus ascended to Heaven from per Acts 1. That is the spot He will return to at His future coming. And Jerusalem, ON EARTH, is where He... and His Church, will reign over ALL nations from, ON EARTH. The Revelation 20:9 Scripture calls that place in the future the "camp of the saints", ON EARTH.
Now just WHO would want us to think that Christ's Salvation contains two different Salvations, one for the Jews, and another for Gentiles? Who doesn't want... the Gentiles to be part of their Salvation Promises from our Heavenly Father? Think about that, and you will eventually discover just who... is behind the start of that false Hyper-Dispensationalist theory and the false Pre-trib Rapture theory, which both are designed to separate the nation of ISRAEL apart from Christ's Church. Then remember what Apostle Paul said below when you hear that false doctrine of men being preached in your Church...
Gal 3:26-29
26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
27 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
29 And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.
KJV
