Romans 16:25
"Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, (as found in I Corinthians 15:1-4, Romans 6:4-11, Galatians 2:20, and Ephesians 2:6). Not the gospel of the Kingdom that Jesus and the Twelve preached through the four gospels and the first 8 chapters of Acts, but Paul's Gospel that was revealed only to him) and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world begin," (Genesis 1:27, man created in the image and likeness of the invisible God with His nature a spirit being. Then placed into an earthen body made of clay 2:7 when God breathed (spirit or breath, divine inspiration, intellect) life (caused blood to flow) into it or birthed man in an earthen house to take care of and charge over the earth).
So now for almost 2000 years, we haven't been in the prophetic program. We are in the Age of Grace which is the revelation of the mysteries. And the ministration of the Holy Spirit now infilling those who become receptive of Him. He now reveals to us the things that were kept secret back there in the Old Testament - where there was no concept of Gentiles being brought into a relationship with the Almighty God. But when the Church is complete and it can be taken out of the way in what we call the Departure then you see the parentheses around the Church Age of Psalm 2:6-7, 8 in the timeline is removed and the timeline there is just like it was originally.
Then the prophetic program will go right on and yet be completed. Now all we have to do is look at the situation. The Hebrews are back in the land like they were at the time of Christ's first coming. They'll soon have their Temple, and they will go back under Judaism, and the Levitical Law and Temple worship. The revived Roman empire is already on the scene. The European community is just about complete, and so everything is now falling into place. It will be just like it was at the time of Christ's first advent. Oh, granted, technology has exploded, but yet it is all for the sole purpose of bringing about the end-time scenario for that second coming of Christ to the Nation of Israel. And the setting up of the abomination that desolates at the end of the time of the gentiles. When all the finished work of the cross is grossly trampled under mans feet and God will make the enemies of Christ His footstool.
Now we've gone over the timeline. It is so self-explanatory how everything just unfolded and falls into place, when the word is rightly divided or delineated. The thing we have to understand is that the Church Age was never revealed until the Apostle Paul came on the scene. So consequently, there is nothing of the Church under Grace in the Old Testament or the Four Gospels, and we have to realize that, doctrinally, the Church today has to go to the letters of Paul for its Truth, Grace, Faith and practice. When we do that it just solves a multitude of problems and confusion, because there are many people who think the Bible is contradictory. But when we show the difference between the Levitical Law and Grace, between the Hebrew, or nation of Israel and the Church Age, then that settles it all. It's not contradictory, but rather a different method of operation. Naturally, Law was a whole different program, and it was a works religion, the corral for the Hebrews to keep them inline, it is the land of our first training (the old covenant which has the ministration of death and the need of holiness) towards the goal of righteousness which leads us to a desiring of Holiness without which no one will see God. But Grace is all of Grace, the New Covenant which has the required entry of death to the old. We will see this now as we get into Paul's letter to the Galatians. Remember the Holy Spirit is in total control of all that this man accomplished. The Holy Spirit is to be in control of our training and the bring us to our need of holiness and the required works of death under the old covenant.
Remember too, Paul was under constant attack wherever he went about his apostleship. This was done primarily by the Judaizers, when they would say that he was an impostor. The Judaizers claimed he had turned his back and was a turncoat against the traditions of the fathers of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and Judaism. They even went so far as to claim that he didn't have the authority that Peter had because he didn't walk with Christ, like Peter did. So Paul was under that constant attack for both reasons and both sides. Even when we come into the Book of Galatians, the first thing he's going to declare is his apostleship. He was an apostle, not declared by any group of men, but by God Himself, he was hand picked and called to do only what he was taught and shown. In fact let's look at how this bothered Paul, that he was under this constant attack. Let's look at it for a moment in II Corinthians chapter 11. And remember this is Holy Spirit inspired. This is just Paul writing from his own spirit, this is the inspired Word of God.
II Corinthians 11:5
"For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles."
Well who was the chiefest apostle? Christ is the chief Apostle (Hebrews 3:1), then came Peter. And he's not letting Peter have an advantage on him. Now skip down to verse 22.
II Corinthians 11:22a
"Are they Hebrews?..."
Well, who do we suppose he's talking about here? He's talking about the Twelve in Jerusalem whom his Gentile people are being told by Judaizers, "This guy Paul wasn't ever with Peter, this guy never spent three years with Jesus. So how can you listen to him?" Looking at verse 22 again.
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