Ephesians 3:10
10 To the intent that [hina] now [nun] unto the
principalities [arche] and [kai] powers [exousia] in [en] heavenly [epouranios]
places might be known [gnorizo] by [dia] the church [ekklesia] the
manifold [polupoikilos] wisdom [sophia] of God, [theos] KJV-Interlinear
10 in
order that the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known through the
church to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenly places. NASB
What is the principle
reason for the formation of the Church and the Church Age.
Why did God interrupt the
Age of Israel, which had only seven years remaining, and stop the last and
final days of history, and then place into history our age, which now in 2012,
has gone on for about 1,982 years and still going.
The primary reason for
our era of history, is to teach and demonstrate to all of the angelic realm,
the manifold wisdom of God.
So what is it in our
dispensation that is different from all other dispensations, that the angelic
realm needs to learn?
Well, if you think about
it for a while, just imagine what has occurred during our time, that has not
occurred during other times.
And basically there are
many things that have occurred that demonstrate Gods wisdom.
But first, understand the
meaning of manifold, ‘polupoikilos,’ and that means diverse, varied, variegated,
multifarious, assorted, mixture, many.
So during our age, God has made known many types of wisdom to not only
people, but to angels. However, the
angelic population is the principle target of Gods instruction.
Not only has God created
a new spiritual species, in the formation of believers and spiritually mature
believers, not only has God demonstrated that with the completed canon of
scripture, He, through man, can perpetuate history effectively, even in the
face of horrendous natural and manmade disasters, not only has God spread man
and the gospel throughout the planet, not only has God, through man, revealed
many of the phenomenal secrets of this planet and the universe from genetics to
black holes, not only has God revealed the comprehensive nature of His divine
plan for man, from birth, to salvation, to spiritual growth, to eternal
evaluation and reward, to the promised eternal state, but God has used our era
of history to teach not only man, but angels.
The angels were the first
of creation. They existed in eternity
past with God. They were created
simultaneously and did not see a progressive increase in their own population
at any time. They witnessed the instant
creation of the entire universe and must certainly have been in awe. At least for a time. But then they rebelled, all of them, and turned
against God.
We already know that
two-thirds of them returned to God, based on whatever the terms were for that
return, and one-third of the angelic population rejected God permanently.
God could easily have
ended history at that time and then only the saved angels would exist with God
forever. But there was more that they
needed to learn. And not only has there
been many revelations in science and technology and so forth, but the bigger
revelation comes in the form of the grace of God, the formation of the Royal
Family, the Bride of Christ, and the eternal purpose of this all.
This demonstrates to all
angels, that God is indeed perfect and sovereign and that they had an
opportunity a very long time ago to have something better, but they blew it, so
to speak. And now a lower creature will
be elevated to a higher position than they, because of faith, which is something
that cannot be measured or contained.
As creatures, we as man,
are by far of a lesser capacity and ability, and have seen far less history,
than the angels. We can only look back
at history through the evidence of bones, through geology and so forth, and
have our best guess as to how it all fits together. They lived it.
Angels have witnessed
every generation of human history while man can only witness his own generation
and read about the past. Most of that
past is limited to a hand full of recorded names, out of perhaps a trillion
possible names, and the major movements of peoples in macro views of history, never
knowing the details of the individual lives of the greater numbers of people from
the past.
But with our single
dispensation, the promise of salvation has been completed, the royal family is
being formed, the spiritual promises through grace are made manifest to all who
wish to see, and the plan of God is revealed in its completeness and purpose.
And who is learning all
of this? Those who have lived every hour
and day, and every year since before man, since before dinosaurs, since before
the universe. And it is in our
dispensation that all of Gods varied wisdom has been brought together and made
known to those who should have known better, but did not.
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