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 RAPPROCHEMENT ESCHATOLOGY

-THE ARGUMENT-

Part two              

OVERVIEW    

         EPHESIANS 1:3-14 offers us a clear explanation of these wonderful promises that God has given for this special salvation and redemption of His hidden priesthood.  Specifically, the special salvation of those invisible priests who are being elected out from the collective during this final dispensation of grace: During “the dispensation of the fullness of times”:

“³Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ:”

These beginning segments, in order to direct our focus onto the hope that is now set before us, brings our mind’s eye into the very heavens themselves.

(God then tells us, that)”⁴even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blemish before him in love:”

“That we should be holy and without blemish before him in love.” is speaking entirely about our being in Christ.  Since these attributes are so far from all of us, we fully claim the complete holiness and the complete blamelessness that is to be found only in our Lord Jesus Christ.

The key phrases that we are following throughout these brief passages from Ephesians, are “in Christ”, “in Him”, “in whom”, “in the Beloved”, and through Jesus; because all these special promises come to us through Jesus.

“(God,)⁵having foreordained us (His priests) unto adoption as sons through Jesus Christ unto himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, ⁶to the praise of the glory of his grace, which he freely bestowed on us in the Beloved:”

As you can plainly see, our acceptance is completely facilitated only when we are in Jesus.

“In whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, ⁸which he made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence,”

“(For God,)⁹making known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him ¹⁰unto a dispensation of the fulness of the times, to sum up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens, and the things upon the earth; in him,”

“¹¹In whom also we were made a heritage, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who works all things after the counsel of his will; ¹²to the end that we should be unto the praise of his glory, we who had before hoped in Christ:”

“¹³In whom you also, having heard the word of the truth, the gospel of your salvation,”

“(And,) in whom, having also believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, ¹⁴which is an earnest of our inheritance, unto (1) the redemption of God’s own possession, unto the praise of his glory.”

                                                                  Amen!

“1 Cor 6:19-20 ¹⁹Or know you not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? and you are not your own; ²⁰for you were bought with a price: glorify God therefore in your body.”

We are indeed a purchased possession of God.  This special promise for the future collective redemption of all of the invisible elect priesthood (at the end of this dispensation of grace) is as firm as the One on whom it is founded.