WHAT IS THE MYSTERY?
Who
Knows About It?
When
Will it be Completed?
This is all the verses in the New Testament that use
the word “mystery.”
|
SCRIPTURE |
WHO UNDERSTANDS |
PERSON
ORIGIN |
WHAT
IT IS |
TIME ORIGIN |
WHEN COMPLETED |
|
Matthew
13:10,11,34, 35 |
Disciples |
Jesus |
Kingdom of heaven |
From foundation of world |
|
|
Romans
10:1; 11:11, 12,19,25,27,35 |
Jews and Gentiles |
Wisdom/Knowledge of God |
Complete
forgiveness of
sins |
|
When fullness of Jews and Gentiles
complete |
|
Romans 16:24-27 |
All Nations |
Power/Wisdom of God |
Grace
of Lord Jesus Christ |
When world began |
|
|
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Corinthians 1:2,17; 2:7,9 |
Church of God |
Wisdom of God |
The cross of Christ |
Before the world |
|
|
1
Corinthians 1:2; 3:19-4:1,5 |
Church of God |
Foolishness
of God (Greater than Wisdom of
Man) |
World,
life, death, past, present, and Christ all belong
to Christians |
|
When the Lord comes |
|
1 Corinthians 15:50-57 |
Brethren |
|
Christ'ns will raise from death to
immortality |
|
At the last trumpet |
|
Ephesians 1:1-4,9,10 |
Faithful in Christ |
God's Wisdom and Prudence |
Christians will be without blame |
Before the foundation of world |
Fullness of times when all
gathered to Christ |
|
Ephesians 3:3,4,9 |
Jews and Gentiles |
Wisdom of God |
Christians have access to riches
of Christ |
From beginning of world |
|
|
Ephesians 5:30,32 |
Members of Jesus' Body |
|
Christians are one with Christ |
|
|
|
Colossians 1:23,26-28 |
The Church/Saints |
Word of God/Wisdom |
Christ, the hope of glory, is in
Christians |
Before all ages and generations |
When Christians are presented to
God |
|
Colossians 1:1; 2:2,3 |
Saints/Faithful |
Wisdom of God |
Christ'ns risen w/Christ |
|
|
|
Colossians 3:24; 4:3-6 |
Saints/Faithful Servants of the
Lord |
Wisdom |
Christians will receive the reward
of Christ |
|
When inheritance given |
|
2 Thess. 2:2-10 |
The Church |
|
Wicked destroyed |
|
The day of Christ |
|
1 Timothy 3:15,16 |
House of God |
Godliness |
Jesus was resurrected |
|
|
|
Revelation 10:6,7 |
|
God the Creator of the World |
The mystery will be completed |
|
At the seventh (last) trumpet |
|
Revelation 17:7-9,14,17 |
Those both in and not in the Book
of Life |
Wisdom |
Lamb of God shall overcome the
beast |
From foundation of world |
When Word of God fulfilled |