I don't understand both your replies. Are you anticipating revelation? You don't believe in the concept of time, where God only reveals revelations progressively over a period of time?
The concept of the body of Christ, the church, comprising of Jews and Gentiles, was a mystery that was only revealed to Paul after he was saved by the ascended Christ Jesus, as Paul explained in Ephesians 3
3 For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles,
2 If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward:
3 How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words,
4 Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ)
5 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;
6 That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel:
Prior to that, during the 4 gospels, the concept of Jew and Gentiles being joint heirs to the covenant of Abraham, did not exist.
The concept of the body of Christ, the church, comprising of Jews and Gentiles, was a mystery that was only revealed to Paul after he was saved by the ascended Christ Jesus, as Paul explained in Ephesians 3
3 For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles,
2 If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward:
3 How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words,
4 Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ)
5 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;
6 That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel:
Prior to that, during the 4 gospels, the concept of Jew and Gentiles being joint heirs to the covenant of Abraham, did not exist.
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