This ebook identifies the key that unlocks an age-enduring mystery surrounding the apparent disconnection between OT prophecy and the outworking of the Church/Gospel age. That same key also provides a resolution to certain biblical tensions arising from the prevailing interpretations of the teaching of Jesus, James and John on the one hand and Paul on the other regarding justification/salvation and the criteria to be applied at final Judgement, identifying that it is the latter apostle who has been the most misunderstood.
Yet according to the author, neither has that apostle been taken at his word in what he asserted in Romans chapter 11 concerning the fullness of gospel salvation and Kingdom inheritance being made available to the Gentiles as a result of Jewish disobedience (vv11, 12 and15). He demonstrates in the opening chapter that Paul was not here referring to protocol or sequence but a divinely orchestrated subversion of Old Testament prophecy. Such had been indicated earlier by Peter's extraordinary hesitancy in recognising that non-Jews were not only to be associated with but were to receive an "identical gift of salvation" [ten isen dorian] to the Jews (Acts11:17) so that they might come to "share an inheritance with the sanctified" (Acts26:18). It is later affirmed by Paul (in Eph3:8-11) that this was not a fulfilment of prophecy but entirely new revelation and indeed the reason for his late calling as the thirteenth faithful apostle.
Paul referred to the concept as "koinonia tou musteriou" - the fellowship of the secret, and understanding it impacts upon the interpretation of earlier biblical prophecy, the context of the Church within broader providence and the nature of the age to come.
- ISBN10 1784629421
- ISBN13 9781784629427
- Publish Date 26 March 2015
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Troubador Publishing
- Imprint Matador
- Format eBook
- Pages 200
- Language English