God repeated the promise He made to Abraham. Abraham’s seed would be multiplied, and every nation would be blessed through it:
Gen 22:15-18 And the angel of the LORD called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time,
16 And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the LORD, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son:
17 That in blessing I will bless thee,
and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven,
and as the sand which is upon the sea shore;
and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;
18 And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;
because thou hast obeyed my voice.
Paul showed that this time of Gentile salvation was prophesied.
Therefore, it could not have been a mystery:
Gal 3:6-9 Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.
7 Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.
8 And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.
9 So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.
Peter also presentated the dispensation of grace, and the death and resurrection of Christ, as prophesied .... not mystery. (But ‘mid-Acts-ers’ wrongly divide grace .... to say that Paul preached a ‘mystery-grace’ but Peter had a different grace called ‘prophesied-grace’.)
1 Peter 1:9-12 Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.
10 Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you: 11 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.
12 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 into.
God also restated the promise He made to Abraham .... to Abraham’s son Isaac in Gen 26:1-5.
Paul demonstrated that, because of faith in Jesus Christ, WE are Abraham’s seed, and thus, also his heirs:
Gal 3:28-29 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
29 And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.
Jesus taught on ‘division’:
Mark 3:24-25 And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.
25 And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.
Ephesians 2 is one of ‘mid-Acts-ers’ frequent chapters, but they fail to listen to it because there God JOINS us believing Gentiles WITH believing Israel. ‘Mid-Acts-ers’ invent an entire NEW entity, and discriminate against those ‘in Christ’ before Paul (Rom 16:7) by leaving them out, and assigning them to a different ‘program’ and a separate inheritance:
Eph 2:19-22 Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;
20 And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;
21 In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:
22 In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.
Paul scolded the carnal saints for dividing because of which man’s message they believed. He named himself, Apollos, Peter, and Jesus. ‘Mid-Acts-ers’ are guilty of the same fleshly divisions because they reject anyone other than PAUL’s converts .... even and including saints who follow Jesus:
1 Cor 1:10-13 Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
11 For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them which are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.
12 Now this I say, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ.
13 Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized in the name of Paul?
God said we are Christ’s house:
Heb 3:6 But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.
‘Mid-Acts-ers’ claim to rightly divide God’s word (2 Tim 2:15) .... but they don’t RIGHTLY divide it. Instead, they WRONGLY divide it.
They also divide God’s PEOPLE, instead of uniting them:
Eph 4:3-6 Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
4 There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;
5 One Lord, one faith, one baptism,
6 One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.
‘Mid-Acts-ers’ have difficulty in math with the number 1. There is 1 people of God, not 2. Anyone who is ‘of faith’ is in God’s household:
Gal 6:10 As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.
‘Mid-Acts-ers’ don’t understand values .... like ‘greater than’ or ‘less than’ .... neither do they ‘multiply’ nor ‘divide’ correctly.
This is David Dowell, saying, "Think about it!"
