The Grace Program Simplified, by D. Davenport



After the Gentiles were condemned and scattered at the Tower of Babel, God formed a brand new Nation under a brand new system. The bible calls such as program a "dispensation" in which God deals out His sovereign plans and states the terms of expressing 'saving faith' in that system. (see Ephesians 1,3/ Colossians 1, 1Cor9).

God's sovereign plans for Nation-Israel included protecting the seed-line of the coming Redeemer, offering salvation to individual Gentiles through their "joining as Proselytes" through circumcision , recording the Scripture, and the giving of a conditional law-system which would show the Jews that they were condemned by the inability to keep the Mosaic Law.

God chose the manMoses to "deal out" this new program.

When The Messiah Jesus came, he offered the promised Davidic "King"-dom to this Nation but they rejected the offer and crucified the King,

Instead of Judging the Nation according to the Prophetic Timeclock (called "The Tribulation" or the "Time of Jacob's Trouble" )..... God unveiled a mastermind interruption of that law-system which the bible calls "The Mystery" (see Romans 16:25-KJV).

The Mystery had been "Hid in God" according to God's foreknowledge but was now revealed:

God was going to form a brand-new administrational program in which the Gentiles could once-again be saved APART from the Nation Israel. This dispensational program is called "The Body of Christ" and is composed of "neither Jew nor Gentile".

The new Mystery body was dispensed or "dealt out" by Paul, just as the prophecy body had been dealt out by Moses. The writings of Paul can be viewed as a historical 'insertion' (Romans through Philemon) of scriptural light in between God's plan for Israel:

--Matthew through John as the Offer of the Davidic Kingdom.

--Acts as the re-offer of the Kingdom.

--Hebrews through Revelation as the fulfillment of the Kingdom.

--but Romans through Philemon (Paul's epistles) written TO the Body of Christ --and Romans chapter 9 - 11 explain this temporary setting aside of the Nation Israel.

In another masterstroke it was revealed by God's spokesman, Paul, that the "Mystery" had another purpose: That God had planned all along to achieve redemption for ALL of mankind through Israel's Messiah. He kept this secret hidden because The Adversary, Lucifer (know called Satan), would NOT have crucified the Lord of Glory if Satan had known that Jesus death was actually a planned solution of substitutionary atonement for ALL mankind -which had not been revealed in the Prophecy writings.

Once again, God proved his brilliant Omnicience by achieving redemption for ALL of mankind despite the failures of BOTH the gentiles and the Jewish Nation. He placed them ALL under condemnation, so that He might save them ALL through the Mystery Atonement(see Romans 11:32).

This new organism referred to as the Body of Christ differs significantly from the dispensation of Law.

Individual members of the Law-Body were placed under a conditional performance contract in which they expressed saving faith by believing what God had revealed up until that time: the sacrifices (a veiled shadow of the coming mystery blood sacrifice ), National Priesthood (God's offer of salvation to gentiles through the Nation), Signs (God granting physical evidence to Israel), and the blessings and cursings contract.

Individual members of the Mystery-Body are placed today under and unconditional faith-offer in which they express saving faith by believing in what God had HIDDEN before but has made MANIFEST today:

Trusting in the completed work of the one-time-only blood sacrifice by simply believing (expressing personal volitional trust in) in Christ's death, burial, and resurrection APART from works or human effort of any kind.

The new dispensational body is composed of neither "Jew nor Gentile" but a "new creation" not under any performance contracts, Mosaic Law, sacrificial systems, Priesthoods, or religious observances.

The Mystery Body of Christ dispensation will continue until the last Gentile has expressed saving faith, and then God will once again be dealing with the prophecy Nation. As the timeclock resumes He will take up again in His dealings with the prophecy Nation under that system and as outlined in the writings of Hebrews through Revelation.

As a final note, Paul has clearly stated that these two distinct dispensational programs are not to be mixed.

"Do not mix Law and Grace".

The solution to separating them is found in second Timothy 2:15"

"Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth ".

The word divide means to dissect, or "cut straight".

If you are not aware of the difference between the Nation of Israel and the Body of Christ then you are not dissecting the bible and the result is you are mixing Law and Grace.

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