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When the Bible opens, we find God speaks:
Directly Himself to individual men:
Adam-Noah-Abraham
Genesis
By The Prophets:
From Moses till John the Baptist:
Unto the Fathers {1949bc?? - The Kingdom Promised - 4bc}
The Prophets had spoken "unto he fathers" i.e. the ancestors of of the Hebrews "by the Prophets", not by the Priests. The Priests were to offer sacrifices and teach the Hebrews what God had said by the Prophets.
Exodus to Malachi thru Mathew 1.1 - 3.12
By His Son:
"Unto Us Hebrews" {28or29ad} - The Kingdom At Hand
The Son had Spoken Unto "us Hebrew", not us Gentiles. In "these days" of that dispensation, not the days of which we now live. God speaking by His Son was the subject of prophecy {Duet. 18.15-19}. He spoke concerning the Kingdom. He only "began" this wondrous speaking; it ended with His death.
Mathew - Mark - Luke - John
By Them That Heard Him:
The 12 Men of Israel to the Jew only {Acts 2} and later, Paul to the Jew first and then to the Gentile As Wild Olive Grafts {kingdom Postponed}
The ministry of the Lord in the four Gospels was carried on by the Twelve after the ascension. There was no break, not was there a new testimony beyond the fact that Christ was risen from the dead. They were commissioned to repeat and confirm what the Son had said.
In order to understand the apostolic ministry we must first understand what the Lord's ministry was {Matt. 4.17}.
The apostles confined themselves into CONFIRMING what they heard the Lord say from the start. This proclamation continued through the Acts - It came to a head at Acts 28.24-28}.
Book of Acts and Epistles of that Period - Hebrews, 1&2 Thess. 1&2 Cor. Galatians, Romans, James, John's 3 epistles, Jude, Peter 1 & 2.
By Paul the Prisoner:
To The Church Which is His Body NOW
The 'at hand' Kingdom of Israel's hope now is in abeyance. God spoke again this last time through Paul the prisoner. The speaking was to Gentiles apart from Israel. God makes known His great secret, the Mystery, Not by the Old Testament Prophets, not by His Son, not by those who heard Him, but by revelation to the Prisoner of the Lord. The unsearchable riches of Christ was revealed exclusively by the "ambassador in bonds". Present Truth is found in the "form of sound words". Christ is now amoung the gentiles.
Today, God speaks to us through His Scriptures of truth which were penned by Paul the prisoner. Paul who was teh Apostle of the gentiles, was given TWO CALLINGS to them. Only one of them is in view today. Failure to recognize this has resulted in perpetual controversy about churches and ordinances and gifts.
Prison Epistles and those written to the nations after Acts:
Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, Philemon, 1 Timothy, Titus, 2 Timothy
DIRECTLY HIMSELF:
Tribulation and the Kingdom
When the present dispensation is over, God will speak again. He well speak directly Himself.
Psalms 50.1
Hebrews 12.25
Act 26:15 And I said, Who art thou, Lord? And he said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest.
Act 26:16 But rise, and stand upon thy feet: for I have appeared unto thee for this purpose, to make thee a minister and a witness both of these things
{1}which thou hast seen,
and
{2} of those things in the which I will appear unto thee;
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