Hello everybody, it's MinisterTol23 back with another video.
In this video I want to talk about a word that appears in the Scriptures,
what it means, and look at several examples of the use of this word in the Bible,
and that would be the word mystery. Now, don't misunderstand
the title of this video. When I talk about the mysteries of the Bible
or the mysteries of God, I do not mean to discuss
the unanswered questions of the Bible, but rather the word mystery
as it appears in the Scripture and the examples of these mysteries.
Now the word mystery simply means that which is hidden
or unknown, and in the New Testament the word mystery means
particularly something which in time past was a mystery.
It was a great spiritual truth that was an important doctrine, but it was
hidden in the Old Testament, which was previously unknown
prior to the coming of Christ, but now is known, is revealed unto us by
the Spirit. And these great doctrines were prophesied and they were spoken about
in the Old Testament by God's prophets, yet they themselves were ignorant
of the full truth of what we have revealed to us in the New Testament.
It says in 1 Corinthians 2 verses 6-10,
...unto our glory, which none of the princes of this world knew, for
had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. But as it
is written, eye hath not seen nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man
the things which God hath prepared for them that love Him. But God
hath revealed them unto us by His Spirit, for the Spirit searcheth
all things, yea, the deep things of God. So in this passage
in verse 7 it is written that these mysteries are the things which we
speak and which we teach now, being the wisdom of God, but which
in time past were hidden wisdom, things which none of the princes
of this world knew, it says, things which are true and yet were previously
hidden, they were kept secret until this time. Nevertheless
as it is written, this same wisdom which we preach was ordained by God
before the world, meaning it was already in God's plan, it was already in God's purpose.
You see, all the doctrines which we know and teach from the Bible today
have always been the truth. Although they were not fully known or
understood by those before the coming of Christ and the writing of the New Testament,
all of these truths have always been planned out by God. God has not changed
His purpose or His plan for humanity and for this world.
Since the beginning of time, the Lord has always had the same plan and the same wisdom
and the same, He's always taught the same doctrines and the same
concepts within the Bible, but before it was a
mystery, before it was not fully understood. Now we know these things,
now we understand them, and why is that? Because according to verse 10
God has revealed them unto us by His Spirit. So in the New Testament
we have received the Spirit of God as it teaches in the very next chapter
in 1 Corinthians chapter 3 in verse 16 it says, know ye not
that ye are the temple of God and the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
And because we have received God's Spirit, the Spirit reveals unto
us the mysteries and the deep things of God which were previously unknown.
Is that not what Jesus promised would happen in John
14 26 where He says that the Holy Ghost would teach us of
all things and bring all things into our remembrance whatsoever He has commanded
us? Because we have the Spirit of God, because the Holy Ghost dwells
within believers, since the Spirit of God is the mind
of God as taught also in 1 Corinthians 2,
we can know the hidden wisdom of God, we can know His plan and His purpose
and these different doctrines that are revealed unto us in the New Testament.
And by the way, this proves that the Bible has every spiritual
truth that we need to know. The fact that Jesus said that the Spirit will teach us
of all things means that anybody who is saved has the ability
to understand and learn the deep things of God and to have these mysteries
of God revealed unto them. There's some people out there that teach that the Bible
doesn't have all the answers. Well, the Bible says that the Bible has all the answers.
If you believe the Bible, you can't say, well, there's other books out there,
there's other things concerning God and concerning
spiritual matters that there's other places that we can learn, but
the Bible teaches that it's only God's word and that since we have
the Spirit, we can know all of these things simply by reading the Scriptures and understanding
them through the Spirit that God has given us.
Later in the book of 1 Corinthians, it also is written in 1 Corinthians 10
verse 11,
Now all these things happen unto them for examples, and they are written
for our admonition upon whom the ends of the world are come.
In the context, these things that are mentioned, which are examples,
refer to the wandering in the wilderness in the law of Moses in the first five books
of the Bible, from Exodus to Deuteronomy. And it is written and stated
clearly that those things which are written within those books, Exodus, Leviticus,
Numbers, and Deuteronomy, those things which are written concerning the story of Moses
and the Israelites in the wilderness, those things are written
which we can read and learn about what Moses and the children
of Israel did. According to the Scriptures, they are written for our admonition
upon whom the ends of the world are come. This statement defeats the
hyper dispensationalists who believe that only the epistles of Paul
are relevant for us and that we should simply ignore the Old Testament.
There are some people who actually believe that, who think that the only books that apply to us
are Romans through Philemon, and that every other book is written to a different
audience and therefore doesn't apply to us.
Their twisted brand of theology believe that only the message of Paul
in this dispensation is for us and it's different from all the
other messages, that we don't have to worry about what's in the dispensation of the law
which is not even ever talked about in the Bible, because that was
written to Israel, they say. Well, no, according to the Scripture, those things
those things in the law of Moses from Exodus to Deuteronomy
are written for our admonition upon whom the ends of the world are come.
It doesn't make sense to say they are written for ancient Israel when
they happened to ancient Israel. I mean, if they were the ones who lived through that
what would be the purpose of writing it down if it was for them
specifically? It was written down in God's Word so that those in the
future can learn from it and be admonished by it. That's
the purpose of the Old Testament, that's why it was written down.
Because the things
of time past are written for our admonition that we might look back on the Old Testament
and be warned and understand with more clarity. In those days
many of the things which took place were mysteries, they were hidden, but because
we in this age have the Spirit of God, we can look back on the Old Testament
Scriptures and learn many more things. It says also in
1 Peter 1 verses 10-12 it teaches the same idea.
It says, of which salvation the prophets have inquired and searched diligently
who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you, searching what
or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when
it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ and the glory that should follow.
Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us
they did minister the things which are now reported unto you by them
that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven, which things
the angels desire to look unto. So concerning our salvation
we know that the prophets spoke and prophesied about these things. We can look at the
Old Testament, we can see the prophecies about Jesus and the gospel,
we know that salvation has always been by grace through faith, but those prophets
who prophesied those things, according to verse 11, simply did not know
the exact details of how our salvation would take place, or when Christ
should come. Then it is stated in verse 12 that these things which they prophesied
were not unto themselves, but unto us.
Again, another great passage for defeating the hyper-dispensationalist
nonsense that the Old Testament scriptures no longer apply.
They are written for us according to the Bible. This gospel
which we preach, we find within the Old Testament and was
spoken by the prophets of time past and yet they did not fully
understand it. They were looking forward to the cross and to Jesus and to salvation
while we who have lived after look back with fuller
understanding because we have the Spirit of God. So that's what a mystery is.
Those things which were hidden in time past but are revealed unto us by
the Spirit of God in the New Testament. And there are eight examples I want to discuss
today of mysteries in the Bible. And I'm probably going to do this
in two parts. I'm probably just going to go through a couple
today and then the rest of them tomorrow because otherwise this video
will be kind of long. So I'm going to be
doing two parts of this, but I want to talk about eight mysteries that are spoken of in the Bible.
These things which have always been true, that have been ordained by
God since the beginning of the world, that they've always been in the plan and the purpose of God,
but which were not revealed in the Old Testament and are now
revealed clearly in the New Testament and we can understand because we have the Spirit of God.
That's a mystery. And you'll see that definition in some of these
other passages that I'm going to read as well. So the first mystery
is the mystery of Israel. What Israel is, what
Israel means, and God's true purpose for the nation of Israel.
Many people still don't understand this today because they have
their mind clouded by the dispensationalists and they don't really look
into the revealed truth in the New Testament.
Now this mystery of Israel is spoken of in two places and the first
would be in the book of Romans. Romans chapter 11 verses 25 to
27 where it says, For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant
of this mystery. So there's the word. Lest ye should be wise in your own
conceit. And now he defines the mystery. That blindness in part
is happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in. And so
all Israel shall be saved, as it is written, There shall come out of Zion
the deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob. For this is my
covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins. So simply stated
the mystery is that Israel would be blinded until the fullness of the Gentiles
come in and that all Israel shall be saved. Now unfortunately
for many Christians this, as I said before, remains a mystery because
of the lies of the Zionists who have reversed the true meaning of this passage
in its context. So from Romans chapter 9 to Romans chapter 11
Paul discusses the subject of Israel. Back in
Romans chapter 9 he laments that his kinsmen according to the flesh, which would be the Israelites,
were not saved. And he says concerning Israel that to them
pertain the adoption and the glory and the covenants and the giving of the law and the service
of God and the promises, etc. And he said
that in verse 4 and verse 5, All of those things pertain to the nation of
Israel, as we see in the Old Testament, and yet because
many of them were not saved, it seemed like those gifts and promises of God were
made null and void. Yet he continued in verse 6, he said, Not as
though the word of God hath taken none effect. Meaning
it is not so to say that what the word of God tells us about Israel
was abolished and made vain in the New Testament. Okay, he made all these promises, he gave
all these things to Israel, so somebody in the New Testament might be
wondering, well, how does this work out? Because the people of Israel are not
saved. Okay, the majority of them had rejected Jesus Christ, so how are they going to
receive the promises and things like that? So Paul explains, well,
it's not so that the word of God hath taken none effect, because as he says
then in the second half of verse 6, because
they are not all Israel, which are of Israel. So that is his reason
why the word of God hath not taken
none effect, because they are not all Israel, which are of Israel.
There was a man named Jacob whose name was changed to
Israel. His descendants were the children of Israel, the Israelites, and
that nation which is called both Jacob and Israel in the Old Testament
are those who are of Israel, meaning they come from that man, they come
from Jacob or Israel. They are descended from him, the nation, the children
of Israel. Okay, yet in Romans 9 verse 6 it
states clearly that not all those who are of Israel
are Israel, meaning God's nation, His holy people, which is
called Israel, is not a flesh and blood nation. He does not determine
who is in Israel based on their descendancy from
the man Jacob. He says in verses 7 to 8, he explains it
further, neither because they are the seed of Abraham are they all children,
but in Isaac shall thy seed be called. That is, they which are the children
of the flesh, these are not the children of God, but the children of the promise
are counted for the seed. So even though the Israelites are the children
of Abraham and Israel after the flesh, the Bible
says this does not make them the children of God. And yet in Exodus
4.22 and Deuteronomy 14.1 and Hosea 11.1
God says that those in Israel are the children of God. That would be a good
definition of what the nation of Israel is, the nation that makes up
God's children. However, not every physical descendant
of Jacob is the child of God because they are not all saved, but rather
as it says in verse 8, the children of the promise are counted for the seed.
So who are these children of the promise? According to
Galatians 4.28, we brethren, as Isaac was, are the children
of promise. He is writing to fellow believers, these believers
in Galatia being particularly Gentiles, saying that we as Christians
as brethren are the children of promise. And then it says in Galatians
3.29, if ye be Christ, then are ye Abraham's seed and heirs according to
the promise. But the Bible says of the Jews, those who are still under
bondage, in Galatians 4.30 that they are cast out and shall
not be heirs with the children of the free woman. So we
as the children of the promise, we as the children of the free woman are heirs
of the promises of God. We are Abraham's seed. While the unbelieving Jews
those who are still under the Old Testament, who have not received Christ, according
to the Bible, they have been cast out and they will not be heirs. Meaning
we as Christians, those who have believed, they are Israel.
They are the children of promise. They are God's people. They are His holy nation.
We are the seed of Abraham and the heirs of the promise made to him
and inherited through Isaac and Jacob. But the unbelieving Jews have been
cast out and are not fellow heirs, but they have been rejected and they have been
blinded by God. As taught also in Romans chapter 11 that there is
only a remnant according to the election of grace among Israel, but
it says the rest are blinded. Now some people will look at
Romans chapter 11 verse 25 where it says, blindness
in part, and they'll say well, what that means is that eventually they're going to be
unblinded. But it says in verses 9 to 10
I don't have this in my notes, or verses 8 to 10 in Romans chapter 11
it says very clearly that this blindness is not just a
temporary blindness, but it will continue. It says
according as it is written, God hath given them, so
it's God that blinds them. It's not just saying they're blind in the sense that
they just don't refuse to see themselves, but it says God hath given them the spirit
of slumber, eyes that they should not see and ears that they should not hear
unto this day. And David saith, Let their table be made a snare
and a trap and a stumbling block and a recompense unto them. Let their eyes
be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back all way.
So he says that these people who have
rejected Christ, the people who are not of the remnant, the people who
have not been elected according to grace, according to the Bible God hath
given them a spirit of slumber so that they will not see and they will not hear
and he says that they will bow down their back all way, meaning they will turn away from God
continuously. That's what the Bible says. So the unbelieving
Jews, they have been cast out. There's only a remnant
just a small portion of the physical nation of Israel
which have believed, like the apostles for example, who are
actually still of Israel, still God's people.
Then we see in Romans chapter 11 verses 15 to 21
it shows the illustration of the olive tree. Gentiles who are believers have
been grafted into that olive tree while the unbelieving Jews
according to that passage have been broken off. So there's this olive tree which
represents Israel. We as Gentiles have been brought in while the
unbelieving Jews, it says because of unbelief, they are broken off.
So the mystery of Israel is that God's plan for Israel is that the nation
would be of believers, a spiritual and a holy nation regardless of their
ethnicity. Not just those of Israel, meaning the flesh and blood
and the descendants of Jacob, but the Gentiles as well.
That's what Romans 11.26 means when it says, and so all Israel shall be saved.
Because Israel in the New Testament is all believers, all the saved.
This was a mystery in time past because the Israelites
had no idea that they, unless they trusted in the Lord God and received
their Messiah, would be cast out and the Gentiles brought in.
Yet we do constantly see through the Old Testament promises of this.
I'm not going to go into extreme amount of detail for sake of time, but
in Romans chapter 10 for example, verses 20 to 21,
Paul quotes from Isaiah chapter 65, one of the few places
another place would be I think Deuteronomy chapter 30 or 31
where it speaks about this. Just read Isaiah chapter 65
verses 1 to 13 and this truth will be made clear, where God
says that some of those in Israel which have turned their backs against him
and continue to rebel, that they will be destroyed
while he says there will be a new seed which he calls mine elect and my servants
they are the ones that shall inherit God's kingdom. Read that passage, Isaiah 65
1 to 13. That's quoted in Romans 10 to prove what
the point that Paul is making and that is that
Israel in the New Testament is not just flesh and blood Israel,
it is the Gentiles plus the believing Jews.
Now there's another passage which deals somewhat with this mystery of Israel and that is in
Ephesians chapter 3 verses 2 to 11. It is written
If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given to
me to you, word, how that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery,
as I wrote a four and few words whereby when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge
in the mystery of Christ, which in other ages was not made known unto the sons
of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit,
that the Gentiles should be fellow heirs and of the same body and partakers
of his promise in Christ by the gospel, whereof I am made a minister
according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power,
unto me who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace
given that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of
Christ and to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery
which from the beginning of the world hath been hidden God who created all things
by Jesus Christ to the intent that now unto the principalities
and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church to manifold wisdom
of God according to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord.
First we see the word mystery in verse
three. That God made known unto Paul by revelation something
which in other ages was not known. That's again the definition
of a mystery but is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets
by the spirit. So beforehand it was unknown
but in this age it has been revealed unto us, it is revealed unto us
by God through his spirit according to this passage. Because we have
the spirit we can know the deep things of God. Remember 1 Corinthians chapter 2.
They were hidden before, now they're revealed unto us. Then he defines the
mystery that he is talking about in this passage in verse six.
He says that the Gentiles should be fellow heirs and of the same body
and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel. Again as I've
already shown with various scriptures the Bible promises that both Jew and
Gentile if they are of Christ that they have believed the gospel are heirs of the promise
made unto Abraham. If we be Christ then we are Abraham's seed and heirs
according to the promise it says in Galatians 3.29. Now in this passage
in Ephesians chapter 3 in verse 3 in parenthesis he
says as I wrote a four in few words. Now the reason
why he says that is because he's referring to the previous chapter where he explains
this concept in Ephesians 2 verses 11 to 19.
He says, Wherefore remember that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh
who are called uncircumcision by that which is called a circumcision in the flesh
made by hands, that at that time year without Christ
being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants
of promise having no hope and without God in the world, but now in
Christ Jesus ye who are sometimes far off are made nigh by the blood
of Christ. For he is our peace who hath made both one, and hath
broken down the middle wall of partition between us, having abolished in his flesh
the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances,
for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace, and that he
might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the
enmity thereby, and came and preached peace to you which were far off, and to them
that are nigh. For through him we both have access by one spirit unto the
Father. Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners,
but fellow citizens with the saints and of the household of God.
Here it is explained that the Ephesians, which would be the inhabitants of
Ephesus, those are Gentiles, although they were Gentiles in time past,
he says in verse 11, although they were formerly foreigners
and aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise,
they are now made nigh, meaning made near by the blood of Christ,
that we are no more strangers and foreigners, but now fellow citizens
with the saints, it says in verse 19. So before,
according to this passage, the Gentiles were not God's people,
but now they are fellow heirs with the saints.
As taught also in chapter 3. This is
exactly what is taught in the book of Romans and in the book of Galatians. In the
New Testament the Gentiles, who have believed, have been brought in and made of
Israel and inheritors of the same promises.
This indeed was a mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hidden
God, as said in verse 10 of Ephesians 3. It is not so that God
just simply changed his plan, that Israel was just so bad that God just
decided, well I'm not going to deal with them anymore, I'm going to change my plan in the New Testament.
It's not just that he changed his plan like the hyper-dispensationalists
say. He has always had one plan and one purpose in this world.
It was never God's intention to pick a certain race above others and give
them a special promise and inheritance and choose them to be his people, regardless
of whether or not they're even saved. And thank God for this truth,
that the message of Jesus Christ is not just limited to Israel or limited to the
Jews, but is given to the entire world and that all people of all
nations have the potential to become saved and to be his people and to
inherit the promises in the Old Testament and be citizens with the saints
of time past. That's the mystery. That is what has been revealed unto
us in the New Testament. Fortunately some people are still stuck in the
Old Testament way of thinking though. They just can't get past the fact that
Israel does not mean every Jew or every physical
person of that ethnicity. It's a spiritual nation.
It's God's people. Now the next mystery
we see in the Scriptures is the mystery of the rapture.
It says in 1 Corinthians 15 verses
51-54, Behold, I show you a mystery.
We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed in a moment
in the twinkling of an eye at the last trump. For the trumpet shall sound, and the dead
shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on
immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this
mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying
that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. Now the coming of
Christ and the gathering of his people was already spoken of by Jesus during
his ministry in Matthew 24 and Mark 13 and Luke 21.
However, it's interesting to note that Jesus never really spake on
what exactly would take place at the rapture in the
sense that our bodies would be changed to become immortal and incorruptible.
Instead he focused on the fact that the Son of Man would descend from heaven with the great
sound of a trumpet and believers would be gathered together unto him.
That's talked about in 1 Thessalonians 4 and in Matthew 24. They're the same
event, but the sense that our bodies are changed
and that we become incorruptible is not really spoken about.
So this aspect of the resurrection and the catching up with the transformation
of the bodies of believers is not really talked about before
this passage in 1 Corinthians 15. The truth we see of the epistles
of Paul and onward is said back in Romans
chapter 8 that we are waiting for the redemption of our bodies.
Here is explained what this redemption of our bodies is, just like
as our soul has been saved and made immortal with everlasting life.
At the resurrection so too shall our bodies be made immortal
and incorruptible and given everlasting life, just like our souls.
Our souls have already been saved, but at the rapture our bodies
will also be saved. It is written in Philippians that he shall change our vile
bodies like unto his glorious body. In 1 John chapter 3 it talks
about when he shall appear we shall be like him for we shall see
him as he is. So when Christ comes in the clouds, when he appears
at the rapture, he will translate both the dead and the living
in Christ. And they shall be changed into a glorious
and incorruptible and immortal body like unto Jesus Christ
and then the fullness of our salvation shall be completed.
Now this was a mystery in the Old Testament in the sense that it does not directly speak
of the transformation of the bodies of believers at the rapture. However, the
prophets still did speak about these things. As Paul quotes from the
prophet's hair, he says in verse 55
death is swallowed up in victory. And that is a quote from Isaiah chapter 25
verses 8 to 9. It says,
And the Lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces, and the
rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth. For the Lord
hath spoken it. And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our
God, we have waited for him, and he will save us. This is the Lord,
we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.
Now verse 8 is the place where Paul quotes from. And in verse 9 we see
that it speaks of the salvation of God. So through salvation, death shall
be eliminated and swallowed up by God. But never in the scripture or
in the context does it reveal exactly what this means and how it shall
take place, how God has this victory over death. Yet with the
revelation of the Spirit in the New Testament, we know that this is done through the rapture.
Another Old Testament scripture which talks about this event is
Ezekiel 37. It talks about the resurrection. In verses 12 to 14
it says, Therefore prophecy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God,
Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come
up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.
And you shall know that I am the Lord, when I have opened your graves, O my people,
and brought you up out of your graves, and shall put my Spirit in you, and you shall
live. And I shall place you in your own land, then shall you know that
I the Lord have spoken it, and performed it, saith the Lord.
So here the Lord talks about his people coming up out of the graves,
as being raised from the dead, and having God's Spirit put within them.
All the details of the rapture and when this will take place is not
fully revealed. It's still a mystery until the New Testament.
The third mystery I want to discuss, and probably
the last mystery for this video, and then I'll do the other five in the
following video, is the mystery of the church, or particularly
as I proved in the video
I made a few weeks ago on why the universal church is a false doctrine,
I want to talk about the concept of the church
as the concept of a church in
well let me start over, I don't know where I was going with that, but
as I proved a few weeks ago in
that video that I made refuting the idea of a universal church,
church existed in the Old Testament as well, the congregation
of God's people. It exists in all ages, it didn't just begin in the
New Testament, there's no such thing as a church age. I talked about that in that video.
And it proves that in Ephesians chapter 3 verse 21 where it
says, unto him be glory in the church in all ages, world without end.
However, a mystery is revealed in the New Testament concerning
this congregation of God's people, specifically the relationship
between God and the church as well as the husband and wife.
We see that in Ephesians chapter 5 it makes some comparisons between
the church and Christ and also a husband and wife.
It says, for the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head
of the church, and he is the savior of the body. Therefore the church is subject
unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything.
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself
for it, that he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the
word, that he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having
spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that it should be holy and without blemish.
So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth
his wife loveth himself. For no man ever yet hated his own flesh,
but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church.
For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and should be joined unto his wife,
and they too shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery, but I speak
concerning Christ and the church. So there's in verse 32 where he
says that this is a mystery, because he's quoting from the Old Testament,
he's saying this is a mystery. So here we learn that
just as the husband is the head of the wife, Christ is the head of the church.
This means both that the wives should be subject unto their husbands,
and that the church should be subject unto Christ. Just as husbands are supposed to
love his wife, Christ loveth the church. And just as we are
members of the body of Christ, which is the church, so the two, the husband and wife,
come together to be one flesh when they get married. The covenant established
by marriage, as stated earlier in Genesis chapter 2,
means that the husband and the wife, although they are twain,
they become one flesh. They are joined together, meaning they care
for and love each other while also loving themselves. They should be united
together by this covenant. And so it is with the church and
Christ, as Paul says in verse 32. That is the mystery of this
unity between a husband and wife, where it pictures the unity of Christ and the church.
That we become members of his body, although he is the head, and we
are subject unto him. Just like the man and the wife, although being two separate people,
come together and they are called one flesh. And the husband
is still supposed to be head over the wife, but there's still that relationship
between each other and they're still supposed to be united. Now although the church
is mentioned in the Old Testament, it is not emphasized. It is not
something that is given as much importance as it is in the New Testament.
And God's people did come together in a congregation to hear the preaching of the word
and to praise the Lord, but they were under that covenant before
the mystery was revealed, and also they did not realize
the importance of this assembly. So there is still the
relationship between God and the congregation of God's people, but
just as these other mysteries so far, and as the meaning of mystery itself,
they didn't understand that concept and we have that
revealed unto us now in this age,
in the New Testament. So I'm going to stop there and then do
the rest of this tomorrow, so I have other mysteries I want to talk about.
I'm just going to go through and name them so you know what to expect
either tomorrow or Thursday. That would be the
mystery of the Gospel, the mystery of Christ in you,
the mystery of iniquity, the mystery of godliness, and the mystery of Babylon.
Those are the things that I'm going to discuss in the following video.
So thank you everybody for watching. That's it for today. God bless you and goodbye.