The Bible Without Paul – Part 9 of 10

This Article is part of a multi-part Study Series called The Bible Without Paul.

Now we have seen what it will require for a Gentile to be saved when we look at The Bible Without Paul and the gospel that the resurrected Christ gave to Paul ...for the Gentiles.

With Judaism set aside, and essentially as a dead religion since it was set aside, nobody is saved by the laws of Judaism. Without the grace gospel that came by Paul, Gentiles would have to... go through the prophesied wrath that will come upon the earth and Israel.

-        To be saved a Gentile would have endure the Tribulation, at least for a time,

-         believe the Messianic Kingdom gospel message of the 144,000 Jewish evangelists in the Tribulation.

-         keep the commandments

-         and likely be martyred.

Then a Gentiles would have become as a Jew, saved into the Messianic Kingdom coming to earth !

These Gentiles, without Paul's gospel, would have no part of an eternal dwelling in heaven, reserved for the members of "the body of Christ," as their blessed hope. (Paul writes to the Gentiles at Philippi - Philip. 3:20 For our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ; In his fourteen epistles, Paul never writes about a kingdom on earth for the Gentiles. He only speaks of the 3rd heaven, the super-heavenlies, as being our eternal abode.

God promised Abraham and his seed (Israel) the "kingdom on earth" as an everlasting (eternal) inheritance. Genesis 48:4 And said unto me, Behold, I (God) will make thee (Abraham) fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a multitude of people; and will give this land to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession. This promise is confirmed by the prayer Jesus gave the Jews (not Gentiles). Matthew 6:10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.

 

Wouldn’t it be a more wonderful way for we Gentiles, if we were to simply receive Paul’s gospel message of God’s of the grace and love that is available right now, given in the person of the crucified and resurrected Christ, as the foundation of salvation that was laid by the Apostle Paul.

1 Cor. 3:10-11 According to the grace of God which is given unto me (Paul), as a wise masterbuilder, I (Paul) have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon. 11For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

Let’s take heed to Paul’s unique gospel of “Christ,” seeing Him “according to the revelation of “the mystery (God's secret gospel)that had been kept secret since the world began”.

Romans 16:25 Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery (musterion, the secret gospel that only God can reveal), which was kept secret since the world began.