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Basic teachings of Mid Acts Dispensational right division
– Jesus, in his earthly ministry, ministered to the circumcision. (Rom 15:8, see here)
– [bold]The mystery of Christ was first revealed to Paul[/bold] (Col 1:25-26, 1 Tim 1:16, and here)
– Prophecy and mystery are different (Acts 3:19-21 vs Rom 16:25)
– Peter and Paul taught different messages (Peter prophecy, and Paul mystery: See here)
– Prophecy has been interrupted. (See here)
– The gospel of the kingdom is not the gospel of the grace of God (See here and here)
– Israel’s Church and the Church, the body of Christ, are different. (See here)
How could 2P2P be more clear? Each program/people has its own gospel, so says D'ism. It has been saying this since Ryrie and further back (but he has a chapter title).
One misunderstanding is the English for these things, as though they were saying that there was a gospel about the kingdom. But Greek has cases for prepositional phrases, and it fails on that test. It is 4x more precise than English on that issue. The Gospel belongs to the reign or rule of God, but it is not identical to it and the expression should not be rendered 'the gospel about it.'
But grammar is heady. The more important thing is that there was not another offer or plan. There is no other plan running between the lines in the gospel accounts other than what actually happened. Jesus starts making this clear with his asides: Mt 16:20+, although I don't know why this same theme cannot be 'started' in 10:34. Or about the identity of John which comes up again about Elijah and reflects back.
The reign of God is mentioned many times without it being 'obviously' a theocracy; it's rather mysterious and left that way. It is 'made without human hands.' This is because the driving force of it is not going to be a state as they know it (and at that time it would be rather ridiculous to try to compete with Rome). The 'dunamis' of the reign of God is a message that God forgives through Christ; you therefore should be living in complete honor of that fact.
In Mt 16:22, we never find Peter saying 'wait a second; you have been talking about a completely different gospel this whole time. Why are you switching everything now?' This is not an 'argument from silence.' This is about the kind of imposed 'system' that D'ism is throughout. Those guys stayed up late and thought about all the kinds of things they would have to propose to make 2P2P work, and a 2nd gospel was certainly one of them.
The unfortunate thing for most in Israel comes at the parable of the tenants, which is the declaration that effort within this other reign or rule of God will exclude quite a few of them because they have been remiss. No other gospel was announced or offered; God was always trying to get them all to work in this vineyard and they did not, or they disliked what they saw.
There never was any other plan, because, as you can see, the parable is a Bible (or at least Gen 12+) in miniature form. Everything in Israel up to this point was to get Israel to be the missionaries intended to launch the Messianic mission shortly after the events of the Gospel. The idea of another gospel, plan, people, would scramble the parable hopelessly. To seal this point, the parable even states that the right employees of the vineyard are an 'ethne' (21:43) --which is a term used only for genetics and ancestry! It is a play on words about this very paradox. So now it is doubly clear that this is whom and how God works in his kingdom.
– Jesus, in his earthly ministry, ministered to the circumcision. (Rom 15:8, see here)
– [bold]The mystery of Christ was first revealed to Paul[/bold] (Col 1:25-26, 1 Tim 1:16, and here)
– Prophecy and mystery are different (Acts 3:19-21 vs Rom 16:25)
– Peter and Paul taught different messages (Peter prophecy, and Paul mystery: See here)
– Prophecy has been interrupted. (See here)
– The gospel of the kingdom is not the gospel of the grace of God (See here and here)
– Israel’s Church and the Church, the body of Christ, are different. (See here)
How could 2P2P be more clear? Each program/people has its own gospel, so says D'ism. It has been saying this since Ryrie and further back (but he has a chapter title).
One misunderstanding is the English for these things, as though they were saying that there was a gospel about the kingdom. But Greek has cases for prepositional phrases, and it fails on that test. It is 4x more precise than English on that issue. The Gospel belongs to the reign or rule of God, but it is not identical to it and the expression should not be rendered 'the gospel about it.'
But grammar is heady. The more important thing is that there was not another offer or plan. There is no other plan running between the lines in the gospel accounts other than what actually happened. Jesus starts making this clear with his asides: Mt 16:20+, although I don't know why this same theme cannot be 'started' in 10:34. Or about the identity of John which comes up again about Elijah and reflects back.
The reign of God is mentioned many times without it being 'obviously' a theocracy; it's rather mysterious and left that way. It is 'made without human hands.' This is because the driving force of it is not going to be a state as they know it (and at that time it would be rather ridiculous to try to compete with Rome). The 'dunamis' of the reign of God is a message that God forgives through Christ; you therefore should be living in complete honor of that fact.
In Mt 16:22, we never find Peter saying 'wait a second; you have been talking about a completely different gospel this whole time. Why are you switching everything now?' This is not an 'argument from silence.' This is about the kind of imposed 'system' that D'ism is throughout. Those guys stayed up late and thought about all the kinds of things they would have to propose to make 2P2P work, and a 2nd gospel was certainly one of them.
The unfortunate thing for most in Israel comes at the parable of the tenants, which is the declaration that effort within this other reign or rule of God will exclude quite a few of them because they have been remiss. No other gospel was announced or offered; God was always trying to get them all to work in this vineyard and they did not, or they disliked what they saw.
There never was any other plan, because, as you can see, the parable is a Bible (or at least Gen 12+) in miniature form. Everything in Israel up to this point was to get Israel to be the missionaries intended to launch the Messianic mission shortly after the events of the Gospel. The idea of another gospel, plan, people, would scramble the parable hopelessly. To seal this point, the parable even states that the right employees of the vineyard are an 'ethne' (21:43) --which is a term used only for genetics and ancestry! It is a play on words about this very paradox. So now it is doubly clear that this is whom and how God works in his kingdom.
