A time of Change
We live in an age of change. There is, however, a hidden change looming on the horizon that will affect the global scene. We read in the Book of Revelations, Chapter 11:15. “And the kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ;” however, before that great day, a major proclamation of the Lord must be fulfilled. We read in John 10:16 that ultimately there will be one fold under one Shepherd. We proceed to portray the climate in the Church that evidently must lead to the fulfillment of that proclamation.
Increasingly even adherents of the Christian faith, either by word or implication, are expressing that there are many ways that lead to God. The Christology Centre is a ministry that seeks to establish that this movement directly opposes a fundamental truth of the Christian Faith. We first portray events that led to the proclamation of the one fold, which evidently must be fulfilled during the present age.
In The Gospel According to John, chapters 7 to 8 we read, that the Lord taught in the temple: the key message of that teaching was that no one will go to the Father than through Him. That message induced some of His audience to confess that Jesus Christ is the Son of the Living God. Yet, the temple officers threw stones at Him; thereby, He was officially rejected from the temple.
The Gospel of John presents this profound scene so that we today may understand that the next scene is directly linked to the first scene where the two scenes lead to the key proclamation of the Lord's Ministry. We read that when the authorities threw stones the Lord hid Himself and went unseen through the midst of them.
First we proceed to quote the linking scene and then the proclamation. As the Lord went unseen through the midst of the authorities of the temple, the Lord healed a man who was blind from his birth. Then Pharisees who observed the healing took that man and his parents to the temple and questioned them concerning Jesus. Then they casted the man from the temple.
When Jesus heard about this, He found the man and asked if he believed in the Son of God. This led this man to confess that he believed; the man then worshipped the Lord. (John 18:35.) The Lord then proclaimed the message that is destined to be fulfilled during the present age we rightly call the Last Days:
"And other sheep I have which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold and one shepherd"(John 10:16.)
It is a key perception that the Lord referred to a future ministry that follows the next scene that we portray. Then that ministry leads to the One Fold.
We may discern that the man born blind was the role model for the many who would confess the Lord as an effect of the commission of the Disciples of the Lord who were commanded to preach the gospel to the people of all nations.
Analysis of the three portrayed related scenes, which are the teaching in the temple, the casting of stones and the confession of faith by the role model for all believers established the foundation of the commission of the disciples to preach the Gospel to all Nations. They were to proclaim to the spiritual nations of the world that Jesus is the Son of the Living God Who is the only way to the Father. The time for the fulfillment has come. Every follower of the Lord today is confronted to confess that the One Fold must be established and that then the Lord will return.
The Lord admonished that we observe the signs of the times: that message is evidently addressed to the people of our age. From the perspective of today's worldview the formation of the One Fold is nothing short of a mystery. The formation is one of the profoundest mysteries of God. That perception led to a study of the scripture in the Book of Revelation where another angel exclaimed, "But in the days of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets Rev. (10 verse 7.)
If the formation of the One Fold during the Last Days and the subsequent appearance of the Teacher of the One Fold Who is Jesus Christ are aspects of the mystery of God, the quoted scripture presents a dilemma. We read that when the seventh angel sounds, the mystery should be finished. The scriptures that precede this prophecy reveal that the mystery of God should be finished during the final age called the Last Days. Yet, the servants to whom the mystery was declared precede the time when the angel shall sound, i.e., precedes the time that the mystery should be finished. Since the mystery is not revealed in the scriptures, the Lord must have commanded the prophets to seal the mystery. We proceed to search for scriptures that speak about the sealing of knowledge.
The scriptures record that the prophet Daniel and the Apostle John were commanded by respectively a man and an angel who appeared in visions to seal what they were shown. These scriptures do not record what was sealed. However, we read in the Book of Isaiah, chapter 2:1-4 that the Lord during the Last Days will teach His Law. A study of that scripture about the effects of that teaching reveals that this law was not revealed until the Last Days. In essence, therefore, the Law was sealed. A study of that scripture from the perspective of the Mystery of God that should be completed during the Last Days, the Law that will be established during our age reveals the mystery.
Note: The sealing by the three prophets is according to the spiritual precept that two or three must witness words that are not definitively stated in the scriptures.
It should be evident that there must be a profound reason for the divinely commanded sealing of redemption knowledge. A study of the law that was sealed reveals that it was essential that the People of God would discern a relative reason for the sealing; that reason was to prevent that they would search beyond the relative information for the sealed knowledge. To ensure the sealing, the Lord and His disciples and some of the prophets who had to understand that the Law of God was sealed until the appointed time registered cryptic messages that relate to the sealing so that the people who would be called to search for the law would know that the search is scriptural. (After we have presented major aspects of the law that was sealed, we will define a major reason for the sealing.)
In Matthew we read a key cryptic message by Jesus Christ: the Lord did not define the mysteries. The Disciples asked the Lord why He taught the people in parables. The Lord answered, “It is given unto you to know the mysteries of the Kingdom to them it is not given” (Matt. 13 verse
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