Ephesians 3:5
5 Which [hos] in [en] other [heteros] ages [genea] was [gnorizo] not [ou] made known [gnorizo] unto
the sons [huios] of men, [anthropos] as [hos] it is [apokalupto] now [nun] revealed [apokalupto] unto his [autos] holy [hagios] apostles [apostolos] and [kai] prophets [prophetes] by [en] the Spirit; [pneuma] KJV-Interlinear
5 which
in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as it has now been
revealed to His holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit; NASB
Other ages, is a
reference to past history.
Sons of men, is a general
reference to mankind.
It is now made known, is
a reference to Pauls current day.
Holy apostles and prophets
is a reference to the twelve apostles, including Paul, and a reference to those
other people to whom doctrine was made known, who were not apostles. In any case, this new information is revealed
in the New Testament, and never in the Old Testament, and not in any text that
was written after the New Testament that pretends to be of divine revelation
but was not included in the New Testament.
All of Gods revelation
has been made known within the context of the Bible. New revelation is not an ongoing event where
more and more things are revealed to later generations.
This single principle
eliminates all religions that have been invented or started after the completion
of the Bible. New religions such as
Islam or Mormonism or Christian Science and so forth, who take their views from
new writings or ideas, and not from the original scriptures.
Gods revelation of the
end of the Age of the Israel and the beginning of the Age of the Gentiles was
never revealed. This does not mean that
the gentiles were not included in Gods original plan, for there are many
gentiles revealed in the Old Testament, who were saved.
What was not revealed was
that for the failure of the Jews in not presenting the scriptures to the world,
and for not receiving the Savior, then their age, their era, was going to be
interrupted and a new era was going to be inserted into history and completed
before the Age of Israel was to be resumed and completed.
That former age has seven
years of remaining time. Those seven
years are known as the tribulation and they will include the massive judgments
of God against all evil, and they will occur prior to and make way for, the
Kingdom of God is established on this earth.
The Old Testament
believers rightfully thought that when the Messiah came, He would come to set
up His Kingdom after ridding the world of evil.
They thought that Rome was that evil.
If that was the plan, then after the Cross, Christ would have been
resurrected and then the last seven years of human history would have occurred
and then followed immediately by His 1000 year rule, and then eternity would have
followed. That would all have been
completed by the year 1030 A.D.
But not so. Here we are in 2012 and the end is not yet.
Those last seven years have
not yet occured, and they will not occur until our dispensation is completed.
Daniel defined the last
490 years of the Age of Israel, and only 483 of them have occurred.
The duration of our
dispensation is undefined except in concepts known as historical trends. And the end of our dispensation is also
ambiguously defined as accelerations in various things such as knowledge,
population, earthquakes, and especially in a ‘great’ apostasy. Then the end of our dispensation will come. That end being the Rapture.
All of these warning
signs are not specific events, but warning trends, designed to get people to
believe in Christ so that they will not get caught up in those last seven years
of history. Those last seven years will be the worst period of suffering for
anyone ever in history.
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