Category: MYSTERIES

The sons of God in the Old Testament:
Genesis 6:2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
Genesis 6:4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
Just who were these Sons of God? What saith the Scripture?
Job 1:6 Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them.
Job 2:1 Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them to present himself before the LORD.
Sons of God and Satan appear before God. Satan, Lucifer was an Angel. Sons of God are Angles. Job mentions them again, shouting for joy.
Job 38:7 When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
Peter and Jude speak of “angels that sinned”, that “left their own habitation”.
2 Peter 2:4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
Jude 1:6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
Could these angels have been the sons of God spoken of in Genesis?
The sons of God in the New Testament:
John told the Jews were told that if the accepted the Lord Jesus as their Messah they would become:
John 1:12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
He restates this in his epistles to the Jews:
1 John 3:1-2 Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
Paul, tells believing Gentiles:
Romans 8:14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
Romans 8:19 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.
Philippians 2:15 That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;

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Mysteries of the Bible (12) (8-Paul’s doctrine 4-Other) All KJV scripture

1. Mystery of Godliness
   1 Timothy 3:16 And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.
   Colossians 2:2, John 1:1,14
2. Mystery of the Kingdom of Heaven
   The Lord Jesus taught this truth in Parables. Read Matthew 13:1-52
3. Mystery of Christ
   Ephesians 3:2-6 If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward: How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in 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 …
   Colossians 4:3 Withal praying also for us, that God would open unto us a door of utterance, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds:
4. Mystery of 7 Stars, Candlesticks, Churches
   Revelation 1:20 The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches.
5. Mystery hid for Ages
   Colossians 1:26-27 Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints: To whom God would …
   Galatians 2:20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
6. Mystery of Blindness (Jewish)
   Romans 11:25 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
7. Mystery of Change (new Bodies)
   1 Corinthians 15:51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
   1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and …
8. Mystery of Iniquity
   2 Thessalonians 2:7-9 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. And then shall that Wicked…
9. Great Mystery
   Ephesians 5:32 This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. Revelation 19:7-9, Revelation 21:9-10
10. Mystery Babylon
    Revelation 17:3-5 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw … MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
11. Mystery of the Woman
    Revelation 17:7 And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns.
12. Mystery of His Will
    Ephesians 1:9-11 Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself: That in the dispensation …
    1 Corinthians 15:24-28, 2 Peter 3:7-13
    Revelation 21:1-2 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband

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Mysteries of God Deut 29:29 Luke 18:34 1 Cor 4:1

All the mysteries have been revealed to us. Matthew 13:35 (Psalm 78:2)

MYSTERY OF:
His Will Ephesians 1:9-11, 2 Peter 3:7-13,

   The Kingdom of Heaven            Matthew 13:11   (1-52)
   The Kingdom of GOD               Mark 4:11
   God as Christ                    1 Cor 2:7,8   Col 2:2   Rev 10:7
   Godliness                        1 Tim 3:16   John 1:1,14          
   Hid for Ages                     Colossians 1:26-27
   Indwelling Christ                Galatians 2:20
   Christ                           Colossians 4:3, Ephesians 3:2-6, 
   Faith                            1 Timothy 3:9     
   Gospel                           Eph 6:19(1 Cor 15:1-4) Rom 16:25
   Great Mystery The Bride  Ephesians 5:32, (Revelation 19:7-9,21:9-10)
   Blindness                        Romans  11:25
   Iniquity                         2 Thessalonians 2:7-9
   The Rapture     Change           1 Cor 15:51-52   1 Thes 4:13-17
   Stars, (7) Candlesticks, Churches     Revelation 1:20, 2-3
   Babylon                               Revelation 17:3-5   
   the Woman                             Revelation 17:7

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Definition: The secret or specialized practices ritual peculiar to an occupation or a body of people.

Jesus used the word mystery in Matthew 13:11 He answered and said unto them, because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given. Mark 4:10 And he said unto them, unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables:

Paul used the word mystery in respect of Church Age doctrine:
Ephesians 3:2-6 If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward: How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in 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:
Church age Mysteries were not revealed in the Old Testament:
Romans 16:25 Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began, Colossians 1:26 Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:
Blindness of Israel during the Church Age is a mystery
Romans 11:25 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in.
Mysteries revealed by Paul were ordained by God:
1 Corinthians 2:7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:
The Pastor/Teacher is responsible for communication of the Mysteries to the Church and is called the stewardship:
1 Corinthians 4:1 Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.
The rapture of the church is a Mystery Doctrine
1 Corinthians 15:51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
The Mysteries are for the church age only:
Ephesians 1:9 Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:
Ephesians 3:3 How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words)
Mystery Doctrine is understood by Grace:
Colossians 2:2 That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;
1 Timothy 3:9 Holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.
The definition of Mystery (See above) is that a mystery is a Secret. See the “Mysteries of God” and the “Secrets of God”.

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In the old testament, We see God had Secrets that he kept from his followers, to be revealed later. The Bible is a progressive book, and shows that God revealed to those who believed in Him just what they needed to be justified by faith. See “Mystery Doctrine of” the “Mysteries of God”. But let’s begin with the Secrets:

Deuteronomy 29:29 The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.

When Manoah (Samson’s Father) asked the angel of the LORD (God in flesh) for his name, JUDGES 13:18, he was told: “And the angel of the LORD said unto him, Why askest thou thus after my name, seeing it is secret?”.
Even Eliphaz the Temanite challenged Job, JOB 15:8 “Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself”?
God reveals his Secrets to Believers Psalm 25:14 “The secret of the LORD is with them that fear him; and he will shew them his covenant.”
This is stated in Proverbs 3:32 “For the froward is abomination to the LORD: but his secret is with the righteous.”
And again in Isaiah 45:15 “I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the LORD speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.”
And in Isaiah 48:16 “Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there am I: and now the Lord GOD, and his Spirit, hath sent me.”
An example of God revealing Secrets is found in Daniel 2:30 “But as for me, this secret is not revealed to me for any wisdom that I have more than any living, but for their sakes that shall make known the interpretation to the king, and that thou mightest know the thoughts of thy heart.”
And in Amos 3:7 “Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.”
Even Christ Jesus tried to reveal Secrets to His followers Matthew 13:35 “That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.”

And to Paul was given the revelation of the mysteries and secrets which had been kept since the world began BUT now revealed to all believers.

Romans 16:25 “Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began,”

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