@Lizbeth
Where the New Testament speaks of "a mystery", this is from
musterion, which refers to something that can only be known by revelation.
Where Paul wrote, for instance,
1 Corinthians 15:51 KJV
Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
This isn't a puzzle to be solved like The Hardy Boys or Nancy Drew, it's something you couldn't otherwise know except now you are being told.
Much love!
Actually, if I'm not misunderstanding, not just told but revealed. Jesus "told" everyone the same things but not all "saw" or "heard" what He was saying. It is the spiritual things of God which the natural carnal mind can't discern which the Holy Spirit reveals to us.
1Co 2:9-16
But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.
Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.
For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.