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It is important to understand that things are in the Old Testament concealed and in the New Testament revealed. This concept is clearly referred to by the following scriptures:
Prov 25:2 “It is the glory of God (Elohiym: 430) to conceal (hide by covering: 5641) a thing (word: 1697), but the honor (glory: 3519- kabod) of kings (royalty: 4428) is to search out (penetrate: 2713) a matter (word: 1697).”
Duet 29:29 “the secret (hide by covering: 5641) things belong unto the Lord (Jehovah: 3068) our God (Elohiym: 430) but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.”
The Hidden Mystery
Mystery: 3466 – Musterion – from muo – to close or shut. It is referred to as a locking up or that which serves for locking up. (LA)
World: Kosmos – to set in order, adorn, orderly arrangement (LA)
The kingdom of darkness which has as it’s foundational system of control three pillars: the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life (1John 2:16) It’s king is Satan and it’s control and corruption of the human soul is absolute (Rom 1:28-32, 8:5-8) apart from the saving grace of Jesus Christ (Col 1:13, Rom 7: 24&25). The world is temporal and perishing while the kingdom of God is eternal and remains forever (2Cor 4:18, 1John 2:17). (BCI)
*Never under estimate the corruption that is in the world nor the purity, power, and grace that is in Christ and the Kingdom of God.
Supporting Scriptures:
Mark 4:11&12: “Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God…”
Math 13:11&12 “ Whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more…”
* Math 13:35 “…things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.”
* Rom 16:25&26 “…the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began…”
1 Cor 2:7&8 “the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory.”
1 Cor 4:1 “…stewards of the mystery of God…”
Eph 1:9 “ Having made known unto us the mystery of his will…”
Eph 3:3 “ How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery…”
Eph 3:4 “ …ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ…”
* Eph 3:9-12 “ …the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world
hath been hid in God…”
Eph 6:19, “…make known the mystery of the gospel…”
*Col 1:26 “ …the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations…
* Col 1:27 “… the riches of the glory of this mystery..”“Christ in you, the hope of glory”
*2:2, “ to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God…”
4:3 “… to speak the mystery of Christ…”
2thess2:7 “…For the mystery of iniquity doth already work…”
1Tim 3:16 “…great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh…”
*Rev 10:7 “…the mystery of God shall be finished, as he hath declared to his servants…”
Why was the Mystery Hidden?
Supporting Scriptures:
Isa 59:2, “ …your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins
have hid his face from you…”
Eph 4:18 “ Having the understanding (imagination) darkened, being alienated from the
life of God through the ignorance that is in them..”
John 12: 39-41, He hath blinded there eyes
2Cor 3:14-18 “ But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same veil..”
“..which veil is done away in Christ…the veil shall be taken away.”
2Cor 4:4-6 “ In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not…”
This mystery has been hidden from men since the world began.
What is the world and when was its foundation laid and from where did it get its beginning? How can the mystery be revealed to us?
1. The World began at the conception of Iniquity when Adam transgressed God’s word. The world is a well thought out and cleverly designed system of death impartation through the application of the knowledge of good and evil originally found in the tree which was in the Garden of Eden.
2. Satan began to work a web of deception and darkness (Isa 25:7) by imputing or transferring what was in him (lust and pride: Isa 14:13&14,Ezek 28:17) into Adam’s spirit and then through his spirit into his soul. Man’s iniquity separates man from God (a spiritual experience) and man’s sins (a soul experience) hides God’s face from him ( Isa 59:2, Eph 4:18, 2Cor 3:14-18, 4:4-6)
3. Satan designed the world system to be the antithesis of the Kingdom of God and to be the method by which the knowledge of the glory of God ( The Father’s likeness, personal manifest presence: John 17:5), would be systematically stripped from the human race( Rom 1:21-25, 28-32). Satan accomplishes this by presenting to men lies that are exalted against the knowledge of God( 2Cor 10:5), and men choose the lies because they do not love the truth(2Thess 2:10-12). The lies feel better and help to ease man’s conscience from the fact that he has fallen short of the Glory of God (Rom 3:23). In man’s spiraling downward fall, all true knowledge of God must be done away with because what man has become is an enemy and at odds with what God is (Rom 8:6).
4. When a man turns to Christ this veil of deception is taken away because a man receives a new spirit within him (Gal 4:6) and his soul is renewed by the knowledge of God (Rom 12:2, Col 3:10) so that he can then see the face (1Cor 13:12, James 1:23,24, Rev22:4) of a God and Father that has been reaching out to him for over six millennia. God has always seen us, we have just been unable to see Him (Heb 4:13), until Christ.
Once Christ has been received into the heart, a man is no longer at odds or strife with God in his nature (Rom 5:1). However, unless his mind is now renewed (Rom 12:2) there will be little realization in his daily experience of this new peace with God because his mind still carries the residual effects of a fallen nature (Rom 8:5-8, Col 3:9&10, Eph 4:22-24). We are commanded to put the habits of the old nature behind us and learn the habits of a new man, the Lord Jesus Christ (1Cor 15:47-449). As we do this, the mystery of God and his kingdom begin to be revealed to us in our every day life experiences. At this point our days of ignorance begin to pass away as the Holy Spirit leads us into all truth as we are able to bear it (John 16:12&13), or grow up into it.
In Conclusion
The world (1288:kosmos) has three things as its foundation: the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life (1John 2:16). These three things are what Satan used to deceive Eve in the Garden (Gen 3:6) and they are what Jesus overcame in the wilderness during His fast. It is these three foundational pillars that Satan established in the first man Adam by getting him to take action based on their appeal. At the point that Adam took action based on these lies, he transgressed God’s Word and received the iniquity which was in Satan into himself. Satan now became his new spiritual father and Adam’s spirit was disconnected (dead, separated) from God. It was at this point that the world’s foundation was laid. Just as the kingdom of God is within you as a born again believer, so the kingdom of Satan, which is the world, is within an unregenerate unbeliever. The gates of hell and the gates of Heaven are guarded by the mouth of living human beings on the earth. This is why the scripture says that, “life and death are in the power of the tongue”. The world produces death, and the kingdom of God produces life. What is released through your life is determined by the words you speak, whether it be Heaven or Hell, the kingdom of God, or the kingdom of Satan (the world). What you see in society today is the result of 6,000 years of the world, from Hell, being channeled through human beings. What we see now is the structure or the building, but its foundation was laid way back, once upon a time, in the Garden of Eden.
It is the god of this world that blinds the minds (2Cor 4:3,4) of the unbeliever making them unable to see the glory of God, which is the manifest likeness of the Father. No man can see God but he that is of God (John 6:46). Jesus told the Jews that believed on Him, “Ye are of your father the devil” (John 8:44). If you are still “in” Adam, you are “of” the devil. If you are born again then you are “in” Christ and are “of” God.
Until we get the foundation of the world out of us and the Kingdom of God within us, we cannot see the things of God (John 3:3). Until this time they are veiled to us. But now that we are joined to Christ, we can see and understand the things of God (1Cor 2:9-12). Because of this, let us study His Word and expect to get exceptional revelation and understanding in the wonderful “God things”.
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