God Had a Secret…shhhh…be quiet, be quiet…Can’t know the Program without knowing the Players

• Leviathan and Elohim (Psalm 74:12- 14; Isaiah 27: 1 (in that day))

• The Satan and Elohim (Job1,2; Revelation 12: 9 and 20:7)

• Lucifer/ Morning Star, Prince/King of Tyre (Isaiah 12-14; Ezekiel 26-28)…”in that day”/ “down to the pit”

• Prince of Persia (not the movie silly)/ Prince of Greece (Daniel 10:20)

• Devil, Satan, the dragon, that old serpent (Revelation 12: 9; 20:2)

• Diamon/ diamonion (read the Gospels in Greek…they’re everywhere)

• Rulers of this age (1 Corinthians 2:8)

• Principalities, Powers, Mights, Dominions, Thrones, Glories, etc.

Jesus the Messiah, Bright and Morning Star, Head of the Body, Lord, Son of

God, Lamb of God, Last Adam, Son of Man, Son of the Highest, Rabbi, Oh god, First Born from the Dead, Captain of Salvation, Mediator of the New Covenant, etc, etc,

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The Secret of God

Administrational (Dispensational) ChartBeginning of “this age”

The beginning of “the age to come”

Jesus Christ:“on account of whom He (God) made the ages”

The “Secret of God”(That’s what the Bible calls it).

• 1 Corinthians 2:1 - NJB 1 Corinthians 2:1 Now when I came to you, brothers, I did not come with any brilliance of oratory or wise argument to announce to you the mystery of God (the Secret of God

mustayrion in the best Greek texts – cf. NIV, etc.).

• Colossians 2:2 (NJB) - NJB Colossians 2:2 It is all to bind them together in love and to encourage their resolution until they are rich in the assurance of their complete understanding and have knowledge of the mystery of God (the Secret of God)

The “Secret of God”(That’s what I call it…).

The real “expectation of the Jews”

• Luke 2: 38 and Luke 24: 21 give a picture of what Jews were expecting to happen in the first century Palestine. How did that view develop?

• Theocratic Kingdom (they couldn’t buy into that so they got Judges)• Davidic Kingdom (the Israelites got “kings like the nations” (1 Samuel 8:1-7)• Promised New Covenant (cause the old one wasn’t going to last)

• Israel scattered to the “four corners of the earth” (remember your ANEC – Ancient Near East Cosmology); they will be brought back (Isaiah 11:12)

• A time of “great tribulation” (the “time of trouble” – cf. Matthew 24: 21 and Jeremiah 30:7)…but they’ll get through it

• “someday my prince will come” (A King will rule from Jerusalem)• Israel is the Bride…

• Finally a “new heaven and a new earth” (2 Peter 3:13)

ANECosmology

(in our times)

One of the “four corners of the earth” today…

ANE Cosmic GeographyThe Big Picture

Tartaros

Sheol/ Hades

Heaven #2Genesis 1:8; sun, moon

and stars “in” the

firmament

ThirdHeaven

2 Cor 12:2

Heaven #12 Sam 21:10;

Revelation 19:17

The Highest

in Denis Lamoureux’sEvolutionary Creation:

Psalm 148:4

Genesis 1: 7-9 Exodus

20: 4

Bob’s Notes

Psalm 104: 3 – “Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the

waters; who maketh the clouds his chariot; who walketh upon

the wings of the wind”.

Jesus wasn’t the first Christian…he wasn’t even God!

• He didn’t know of Christianity…at all; was a man.. The Last Adam!

• He expected to go away and come back very quickly: (John 16:16 - “A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me, because I go to the Father.”) also look at John 14:3 (“I will come back”)

• His disciples expected the same “restitution of all things” (Acts 3:21) and the “times of refreshing from the Lord” (Act3:19)

• Jesus did, however, visit Paul on the road to Damascus (Acts 26: 12-16); a “heavenly vision”.

• And Jesus added to his own RED LETTERS by giving Paul the revelation of the Secret (I Timothy 1:12 and Galatians 1:11,12)

The Day of Pentecost – 28 CE

• NJB Acts 2:3,4 and there appeared to them tongues as of fire; these separated and came to rest on the head of each of them. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak different languages as the Spirit gave them power to express themselves.

This wasn’t prophetic…Hmmmmm; maybe we should pay attention???

Understanding of the Body of Christ was aProgressive Revelation…

• Peter is not the Pope at Pentecost

• No knowledge at all of what had happened (Joel, etc.)• Jew only (just read the record)…they were “the ones”• Gentiles (those “dogs”) “speak in tongues” (Acts 10, 11)

• Paul, a former Pharisee, starts to get some things…progressively:• The Jew “first and also to the Gentile”

• Rom. 1:16; 2:9,10

• “The Gentiles have shared in their spiritual things” • Romans 15:27

• And they were “grafted in” (wild olive tree)• Romans 11: 17-24

• “neither Jew nor Greek, bond nor free, male nor female”• Gal. 3:28

• “salvation of God is sent unto the Gentiles”• Acts 28: 28

• “Jew and Gentile fellowheirs and of the same body”• Ephesians 3:6; Col. 3:11

• OMG, this is “hard to understand” (2 Peter 3:16)

Or at any other time for that matter…

On Pentecost in 28 CE, all the information for the New Dispensation was not a Computer Download…

Gentiles will be fellowheirs and of the same body…WHOA, whoa, whoa a minute…what the…

Think of this as Peter….

KJV Acts 17:6 And when they found them not, they drew Jason and certain brethren unto the rulers of the city, crying, These that have turned the world upside down are come hither also;

In the mind of the ancients, a flat earth COULD be turned upside down! Not so with a round earth…

This colloquial expression that we use even today was based in an ancient world view

The Eight Great Statements in Acts:It’s all about God’s Word

1. Acts 2: 47 – Praising God after Pentecost; The Lord (Jesus) adds…

2. Acts 6:7 – The Word “increases”; disciples multiply

3. Acts 9:31 – Assemblies of believers rest and are multiplied

4. Acts 11: 20, 21 – Preached the Lord Jesus and Gentiles come in

5. Acts 12 24 – The Word of God grew and multiplied

6. Acts 16:5 – Timothy joins Paul; churches established in THE FAITH

7. Acts 19:20 – Mightily Grew The Word of God and prevailed: The Apex of the first century church; Things go downhill from here…

8. Acts 28: 31 – A New beginning (Paul is “preaching the KOG, teaching the LJC”); he’s writing the epistles of Ephesians, Philippians and Colossians…

What is Scripture? I start with Peter and Paul…(but not where you’d think…), not 2 Timothy 3:16 or 2 Peter 1: 20, 21

• 2 Peter 3:15-16 15 and regard the apatience of our Lord as salvation; just as also bour beloved brother Paul, caccording to the wisdom given him, wrote to you, 16 as also in all his letters, speaking in them of athese things, bin which are some things hard to understand, which the untaught and cunstable distort, as they do also dthe rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.

• NAU 1 Timothy 5:18 For the Scripture says, "aYOU SHALL NOT MUZZLE THE OX WHILE HE IS THRESHING," and "bThe laborer is worthy of his wages." Deuteronomy 25:4 and… Luke 10:7 (Paul was quoting Luke as Scripture)

• NAU Luke 10:7 "Stay in 1that house, eating and drinking 2what they give you; for athelaborer is worthy of his wages. Do not keep moving from house to house.

The Old and New Covenants: All about

Israel•

“old covenant”

“new covenant”

One new man

“new covenant” (in my blood) inaugurated

“old covenant” (not quite gone “yet”)

“new covenant” (not quite here “yet”)

Some of the “Unsearchable riches of Christ”

BTW, Jesus wasn’t always “The Christ” (cf. – Acts 2:36)…God “made him both Lord and Christ”. That’s why these are in the Church Epistles

• Permanent salvation “being born again not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible”

• Speaking in tongues

• Interpretation of tongues

• Body of Christ (“neither Jew nor Greek”, etc. all “one in Christ Jesus”)

• The Rapture (“eternity leave”)

• “firstfruit” of the holy spirit

The Loss of the Secret of God: The Road Down (to the urgent care facility)

Doctrinal Errors

Get Dr. Jesus on the line...now!

What is needed: “healthy doctrine” (

Healthy Doctrine:1. Jesus was a man…now Lord2. The dead are…well…dead3. One baptism…in the spirit4. The manifestation are real5. The Church is not “spiritual

Israel”6. The Rapture is Real7. God is only in control of

what He can control8. God doesn’t kill people

You are a TARGET…what’s missing???An “operating” Christian with the mind of Christ

Hmm, if I say in my heart, “mountain be gone”…

Lo mistrapantay, killiaro… SIT

“fiery darts of the wicked one”; all day, every day…

Do not think you won’t be hit…darts happen!

Hmm, if I say in my heart, “mountain be gone”…

Hmm, I see that bone healed…

The WHOLE armor, not just part of it! Take it!

Ephesians 6:11-20 11 Put on the whole armour of God,

that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. 12

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against

principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the

darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high

places. 13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of

God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day (every

day, BTW), and having done all, to stand. 14 Stand (don’t sit) therefore, having your loins girt about

with truth, and having on the breastplate of

righteousness; 15 And your feet shod with the preparation

of the gospel of peace; 16 Above all, taking the shield of

faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery

darts of the wicked. 17 And take the helmet of salvation,

and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God: 18

Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit,

and watching thereunto with all perseverance and

supplication for all saints; 19 And for me, that utterance may

be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make

known the mystery of the gospel, 20 For which I am an

ambassador in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak. {in bonds: or, in a chain} {therein: or, thereof}

Will you allow the Secret of God to remain a secret?

• Be bold “in him”

• Operate your ministry (be the best you God has on this planet!)

• Stop making excuses

• Study? to show yourself an egghead for Jesus? • A prune?• …that would be “approved of God”…the Greek word assumes “study”

• Teach, teach, teach… “good doctrine”

• Be coachable (you are not “all that”…he is!)

• Give where you can, when you can; SEEK TO GIVE!

• Don’t get talked out of things. Search the Scriptures (re-search and research)

• Be gentle and patient; “as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone”

• Put on all the armor of God (no one can do it for you)

Why “gird your loins”? Because we’re called on to fight against other denominations and other

factions…especially waskily theologians who can’t put two sentences together….and beat them over the head with the Bible!!!

NOT!

NJB Ephesians 6:12 For it is not against human enemies that we have to struggle, but against the principalities and the ruling forces who are masters of the darkness in this world, the spirits of evil in the heavens.

People get ready, there’s a train a comin’…

• Don’t need no baggage… you just get on board…

Don Cornelius has notin’ on you…Curtis Mayfield, however might be there!