Danoh wrote:
Of course, this is a Mid-Acts observation. Thus; you'd know nothing of it, as Mid-Acts is the first to view that passage as it is written.
This is too stupid to respond to. I have believed this item for the past 40 years.
You sure cry out to be rebuked sharply, Titus 1:13.
No, you have not "believed this item for the past 40 years." What you have believed "about this item" is not what Paul is talking about.
This mystery that was now being made known by the church
unto principalities and powers in heavenly places, Eph. 3:10, is not referring to your man made, one size fits all, notions.
You claim yourself a historian. You are nothing but a parrot of other men's supposedly sound history.
This Mystery concerns an aspect of the Cross, 1 Cor. 2:6-8, "hid in God" Eph. 3:9, until Paul, Eph. 3:3 - the defeat of those
fallen principalities and powers
in the Heavens, mentioned in Eph. 6:12.
And with that; the reconciling of these
fallen "thrones, dominions, and powers"
in Heavenly places back unto the Father through the Son, by the Spirit in a New Creature, as "fellow heirs
with Christ" as
His Body; that He will
then fill those "thrones, dominions, and powers"
with, "for all things were created by Him
and for Him.
This Mystery relates details concerning that Heavenly aspect of His Two-Fold Purpose: Prophecy a[Israel/the Earth] and Mystery [A new Creature in the Heavenlies]
Colossians 1:
16. For by him were all things created,
that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:
17. And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
18. And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in
all things he might have the preeminence.
19. For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell;
20. And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile
all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth,
or things in heaven.
This Mystery is...Ephesians 3's:
6. That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ
by the gospel:
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:
Ephesians 1:
9. Having made known unto us the mystery
of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:
10. That in the dispensation
of the fulness of times he might gather
together in one all things in Christ,
both which are
in heaven, and which are
on earth; even
in him:
11.
In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh
all things after the counsel of his own will:
12. That we should be to the praise of his glory, who
first trusted in Christ.
You know
nothing about this.
Why? Because you reject exploring its validity because it does not fit your forty years of stupidity in the conclusions of a lost man - Josephus, and all the fools who have built your every nonsense on his "current event" notions as "oh, so that's what God meant."
You fool "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" 1 Cor. 2:14.
1 Corinthians 2:
6. Howbeit we speak wisdom
among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:
There's your boy's club - the wisdom of the princes
of this world, that is your forty years of books over the Word
alone you woefully spiritual moron.
Look at what the Apostle Paul said - not Josephus, not Darby, not Russell, not Stott - but the Apostle Paul:
7. But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained
before the world
unto our glory:
Get it through your hardened heart:
8. Which
none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord
of glory.