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Titus 1:3
3 But [de] hath [phaneroo] in due [idios] times [kairos] manifested [phaneroo] his [autos] word [logos] through [en] preaching [kerugma], which [hos] is committed [pisteuo] unto me [ego] according to [kata] the commandment [epitage] of God [theos] our [hemon] Saviour [soter]; KJV-Interlinear
3 but at the proper time manifested, even His word, in the proclamation with which I was entrusted according to the commandment of God our Savior; NASB
God set out His promises in eternity past. Obviously man could not come to know about them until they were revealed.
So, God, at the appropriate time in history, revealed His plan, mandates, principles of truth, doctrines, promises and so forth.
And this information was made known to the appropriate degree so as to help people at any point in history, to be saved and grow up to spiritual maturity.
Adam and Eve knew of the promise of the Savior. ‘The seed of the woman.’ ‘Crush his head,’ and other passages. Adam and Eve knew of the sacrifices and their meanings. They were provided clothes of animal skins.
Where did these skins come from – animals sacrificed. Cain and Abel fought over their respective sacrifices. Or rather Cain killed Abel because of the rejection of his (Cain’s) false sacrifice.
Throughout the scriptures, the prophecies of the Savior were made known. From the family line to the designating star, to the change is rule over the nation, to the precise day of His birth. All of this and far more, was made known during the Old Testament times.
Our dispensation was kept secret and not revealed until the time of its inception. The identity of the Anti-Christ will not be revealed until after the Rapture. Millennial doctrines will not be revealed until that future time. Truth for eternity is reserved until after human history is concluded.
Each dispensation, each generation, each era of time in history brought with it various revelations from God, through human teachers, and here Paul states that he was given the honor of being entrusted with doctrine, in his day. And as he probably did not realize, for all of history after his time.
Jesus Christ is God. He has existed for all of eternity. There was never a time when He did not exist.
Now the humanity of Jesus was born as we are all born into this world, but Jesus Christ is the single and only unique person in all of the universe and heaven, in that He is both God and man, in one person.
This is often times called the hypostatic union. Even the Old Testament reveals this union, Deut. 6:4, ‘Hear O Israel. The Lord is God. The Lord is one.’ The word for ‘one’ means unique.
