The Age of God’s Grace:
Imagine that you are standing on a plain and 20 miles ahead is a mountain.
Now imagine that as you look over that mountain you see the top of another mountain behind it.
You can see the plain, the top of the first mountain and the top of the second mountain.
But you can’t see what is between the first mountain and the second.
In the view of dispensational studies, the area between the mountains is Paul’s gospel. It was not seen in the O.T. Nor was it seen in the first 4 books of the N.T.
Paul said his gospel was hidden in God and revealed to him by Jesus Christ.
Eph 3:8-12
8 To me, who am less than the least of all the saints, this grace was given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,
9 and to make all see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the ages has been hidden in God who created all things through Jesus Christ;
10 to the intent that now the manifold wisdom of God might be made known by the church to the principalities and powers in the heavenly places,
11 according to the eternal purpose which He accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord,
NKJV
It can be seen that in Acts 3:21 Peter is proclaiming things made known by the prophets since the world began. --- In contrast, in the book of Romans, 16:25, Paul is proclaiming things kept secret since the world began.
Something made known cannot be a secret and something kept secret has not been made known. Notice that Peter proclaimed the crucifixion of Jesus as something for the Jews to repent of (Acts 2) where Paul proclaimed that he gloried in the cross of Christ (Gal 6:11-15).
To those that study the scriptures from a dispensational view, Peter and Paul proclaimed two different messages.
Imagine that you are standing on a plain and 20 miles ahead is a mountain.
Now imagine that as you look over that mountain you see the top of another mountain behind it.
You can see the plain, the top of the first mountain and the top of the second mountain.
But you can’t see what is between the first mountain and the second.
In the view of dispensational studies, the area between the mountains is Paul’s gospel. It was not seen in the O.T. Nor was it seen in the first 4 books of the N.T.
Paul said his gospel was hidden in God and revealed to him by Jesus Christ.
Eph 3:8-12
8 To me, who am less than the least of all the saints, this grace was given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,
9 and to make all see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the ages has been hidden in God who created all things through Jesus Christ;
10 to the intent that now the manifold wisdom of God might be made known by the church to the principalities and powers in the heavenly places,
11 according to the eternal purpose which He accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord,
NKJV
It can be seen that in Acts 3:21 Peter is proclaiming things made known by the prophets since the world began. --- In contrast, in the book of Romans, 16:25, Paul is proclaiming things kept secret since the world began.
Something made known cannot be a secret and something kept secret has not been made known. Notice that Peter proclaimed the crucifixion of Jesus as something for the Jews to repent of (Acts 2) where Paul proclaimed that he gloried in the cross of Christ (Gal 6:11-15).
To those that study the scriptures from a dispensational view, Peter and Paul proclaimed two different messages.
