A major breakdown occurred in Acts 19:8-9, where Paul separates from the Synagogue at Ephesus.  

⁸ And he [Paul] went into the synagogue, and spake boldly for the space of three months, disputing and persuading the things concerning the kingdom of God. ⁹ But when divers [some men] were hardened [obstinate], and believed not, but spake evil of that way [which Paul was teaching] before the multitude, He [Paul] Departed From Them, And Separated The Disciples, [Paul continued] disputing [reasoning, teaching] daily in the school of one Tyrannus [where Paul was able to freely teach in Ephesus during the Acts Period]. Acts 19:8-9

Then events rapidly advanced toward Acts 28:26-28, when Israel was then declared fully fallen, no longer being a nation in God’s eyes. The 12 Apostles had preached “the Gospel of the Kingdom” to come on earth to Israel but there really was no success after the initial burst of interest at Pentecost and afterward for a short season. Recall how in the Acts 15 Jerusalem council meeting the 12 Apostles Agreed To bind or ‘limit’ their ministry to only the existing circumcision, the Jewish believers (cf. Gal. 2:9). Paul then loosed and went to the Synagogues in every city he visited outside “the land” of Israel, proclaiming Christ and the promised Kingdom “hope of Israel” as late as Acts 28:20, but again the Nation Israel “received Him [Christ] NOT.” (cf. John 1:11). So, Paul then would go to the Gentiles of that city. He still went “to the Jew first.”

In Acts 20, we find Paul making his 5^th and final trip to Jerusalem since his conversion on the Damascus road. Paul had no idea of what would happen to him in Jerusalem except that the Lord had told him in the beginning that he “must suffer.” And so at Jerusalem, he anticipated in bonds and afflictions knowing this might be the end of his life. Paul is sure that he was near the end of his course and apostleship, as he preached his “gospel of the grace of God” (Acts 20:24) during Acts to “the Jew first” in the synagogues. But this period was the twilight of Israel and Paul’s ministry to Israel. The night was fast approaching. Even today Israel is in that dark age, yet morning will again break for Israel, but … only after the Gentile “church, which is His body” first “appear(s) with Him in [heaven’s] glory” (Col. 3:4) with “the Head” of His “One body.”

Paul arrived at Jerusalem but we need not go into details, except to say he was arrested and spent two years in prison at Caesarea. This is the last of his record in Jerusalem. The rest of its story is found in prophecy and history (See Deut. 28:49-57 and Luke 21:24).

Then Paul’s made his fateful the trip to Rome. But on the way Paul was stopped in Malta by shipwreck, which is important metaphorically. God gave him this trip to Rome. Even though Paul is still a prisoner, he was the master of this shipwrecked situation. The crew, soldiers, and even the centurion must indeed fellowship with the sufferings of Paul, even as Paul did with the sufferings of Christ. The sun and the stars were hidden, even as it became night at Calvary. The salvation of all on board was with Paul; they had to be saved with him or not at all. He had the final words on that event. In all, 276 souls were saved alive. The ‘hinder part’ of the ship was broken, just as the heel of Christ bruised at the Cross. The viper that bit Paul was rendered harmless and shaken into the flames, as the Old Serpent is signified. There was healing on the island, being released from the power of Satan. These happenings foreshadowed the liberating power Paul’s “gospel of the grace of God.”

Then in Rome, as mentioned earlier, Paul was stationed in ‘his own hired house’ with a Roman guard. There the Jews could no longer persecute him so he was able to work and write unhindered. But his course is not finished until he makes a final appeal to the leaders of the Jews of Rome. So Paul calls them together and here was one of the greatest turning points in history as seen in Acts 28:26-31 – read the verses carefully.

As we see a lot of time must intervene before God’s first purpose in the heavens comes into the open to be ‘revealed.’ First, before age times, a promise had been made in Christ that there would be life, implying the end of death. This has to do with God’s creation of “the heaven and the earth” as seen in Gen. 1:1 and Jn 1:1. But everything in the OT after Gen 1:1 initially concerned “the earth,” “the Land.” We will soon enough see what “the heavenly places” have to do with it all, but we should know the previously hidden mystery [secret] “heavenly places” only come into view for the grace believers of Paul’s 7 POST-Acts epistles.

Acts 28 reveals the transition between Paul’s two ministries, being Pre-Acts 28:28 and Post-Acts 28:28.

1) This is seen by the Romans 16:25 ‘postscript’ concerning the Post-Acts “Revelation Of The Mystery,”

2) We note in Acts 28:29-31 the 2 years of Paul teaching “All” men AFTER Acts 28:28, no doubt preaching his newly received “revelation of the mystery” as was noted in Rom. 16:25.