We were called, Accepted Jesus as our Savior, Repented of our sins, Water baptize, Had Laying on of Hands to receive the Holy Spirt, Now serving God in many different ways and Waiting for our change at the Return to the earth of our Lord, Jesus.

We have understanding today what the Old Testament prophets wanted to know but were not allowed to understand these many mysteries.

The Prophet Daniel said:

Daniel 12:8-9 “I heard, but I didn’t understand. So I asked, ‘Sir, what happens next?’ (9) “He answered, ‘Go on your way, Daniel, because these matters are wrapped up and sealed until the time of the end.

Daniel 12:13 Now as for you, go on your way until the end–you’ll rest and then rise to receive your reward at the end of the age.'”

Question, Do we really understand these different Mysteries where we can explain them to someone else.

1 Peter 3:15 Instead, exalt the Messiah” as Lord in your lives. Always be prepared to give a defense to everyone who asks you to explain the hope you have.

Mysteries have been kept secret, until now.  The word secret and mystery are interchangeable in the Scriptures.  The word, mystery/mysteries is used 27 times in the New Testament. The word, secret, is used 12 times in the New Testament.

Deuteronomy 29:29 The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may follow all the words of this law.

These are mysteries in the sense that they cannot be explained or understand by reason alone.  Mystery hidden in God, which can never be know unless revealed by God through the Scriptures and especially through the Holy Spirit.

1 Corinthians 4:1 This, then, is how you ought to regard us: as servants of Christ and as those entrusted with the mysteries God has revealed.

Romans 16:25-26 Now to the one who is able to strengthen you with my gospel and the message that I preach about Jesus, the Messiah, by revealing the secret that was kept hidden from long ago (26) but now has been made known through the prophets to all the gentiles, in keeping with the decree of the eternal God to bring them to the obedience that springs from faith

Colossians 1:26-27 the mystery which has been hidden from ages and from generations, but now has been revealed to His saints. (27) To them God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles: which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

Galatians 1:11-12 For I want you to know, brothers, that the gospel that was proclaimed by me is not of human origin. (12) For I did not receive it from a man, nor was I taught it, but it was revealed to me by Jesus the Messiah.   {this is how Paul learn these mysteries or secrets}

Mystery of Jesus as creator and spokesman in Old Testament

John 1:1-4 In the beginning, the Word existed. The Word was with God, and the Word was God. (2) He existed in the beginning with God. (3) Through him all things were made, and apart from him nothing was made that has been made. (4) In him was life, and that life brought light to humanity.

John 1:14 The Word became flesh and lived among us. We gazed on his glory, the kind of glory that belongs to the Father’s unique Son, who is full of grace and truth.

John 1:17 because while the Law was given through Moses, grace and truth came through Jesus the Messiah.

Mystery of Jesus by Revelation

Ephesians 3:3-5 how that by revelation He made known to me the mystery (as I have briefly written already, (4) by which, when you read, you may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ, (5) which in other ages was not made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed by the Spirit to His holy apostles and prophets:

Colossians 4:3 meanwhile praying also for us, that God would open to us a door for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in chains,

Mystery of Jesus Manifest in the Flesh

1 Timothy 3:16 And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifested in the flesh, Justified in the Spirit, Seen by angels, Preached among the Gentiles, Believed on in the world, Received up in glory.

Mystery of the indwelling Christ, the hope of glory

Colossians 1:26-27 This secret was hidden throughout the ages and generations but has now been revealed to his saints, (27) to whom God wanted to make known the glorious riches of this secret among the gentiles — which is the Messiah in you, our glorious hope.

Mystery of Jesus and the Church

Ephesians 5:32 This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church.

Mystery of combines spirit in man with Holy Spirit to a new creation

1 Corinthians 3:16 Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?

Job 32:8 But there is a spirit in man, And the breath of the Almighty gives him understanding.

2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.

Mystery of the Resurrection

1 Corinthians 15:51-52 Let me tell you a secret. Not all of us will die, but all of us will be changed; (52) in a moment, faster than an eye can blink, at the sound of the last trumpet. Indeed, that trumpet will sound, and then the dead will be raised never to decay, and we will be changed.

1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 But we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, about those who have died, so that you may not grieve like other people who have no hope. (14) For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so through Jesus God will bring those who have died with him. (15) For we declare to you what the Lord has told us to say: We who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who have died. (16) With a shout of command, with the archangel’s call, and with the sound of God’s trumpet, the Lord himself will come down from heaven, and the dead who belong to the Messiah will rise first. (17) Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up in the clouds together with them to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. (18) So then, encourage one another with these words.

Mystery of Salvation by Faith

1 Timothy 3:9 They must hold firmly to the secret of the faith with clear consciences.

Mystery of God’s Will

Ephesians 1:9 having made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Himself,

Mystery of Gentiles in same Body

Colossians 1:27 to whom God wanted to make known the glorious riches of this secret among the gentiles — which is the Messiah in you, our glorious hope.

Mystery of Understanding

Colossians 2:2 Because they are united in love, I pray that their hearts may be encouraged by all the riches that come from a complete understanding of the full knowledge of the Messiah, who is the mystery of God.

Mystery of the Bride of Christ

Revelation 19:7-9 Let us be glad and rejoice and give Him glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife has made herself ready.” (8) And to her it was granted to be arrayed in fine linen, clean and bright, for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints. (9) Then he said to me, “Write: ‘Blessed are those who are called to the marriage supper of the Lamb!‘ ” And he said to me, “These are the true sayings of God.”

The Mystery of Iniquity – Satan

2 Thessalonians 2:6-12 You know what it is that is now holding him back, so that he will be revealed when his time comes. (7) For the secret of this lawlessness is already at work, but only until the person now holding it back gets out of the way. (8) Then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will destroy with the breath of his mouth, rendering him powerless by the manifestation of his coming. (9) The coming of the lawless one will be accompanied by the power of Satan. He will use every kind of power, including miraculous signs, lying wonders,

(10) and every type of evil to deceive those who are dying, those who refused to love the truth that would save them. (11) For this reason, God will send them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie.

(12) Then all who have not believed the truth but have taken pleasure in unrighteousness will be condemned.

Revelation 12:9 The huge dragon was hurled down. That ancient serpent, called the Devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world, was hurled down to the earth, along with its angels.

Mystery of the Seven Churches

Revelation 1:20 The secret meaning of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand and the seven gold lamp stands is this: the seven stars are the messengers of the seven churches, and the seven lamp stands are the seven churches.”

Mystery of Israel’s Blindness and the Gentiles being grafted in

Luke 19:42-44 saying, “If you had known, even you, especially in this your day, the things that make for your peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. (43) For days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment around you, surround you and close you in on every side, (44) and level you, and your children within you, to the ground; and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not know the time of your visitation.”

Romans 11:25 For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.

Mystery Babylon – Women (Counterfeit Kingdom)

Revelation 17:1-2 Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and talked with me, saying to me, “Come, I will show you the judgment of the great harlot who sits on many waters, (2) with whom the kings of the earth committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth were made drunk with the wine of her fornication.”

Revelation 17:5 On her forehead was written a secret name: Babylon the Great, the Mother of Prostitutes, and Detestable Things of the Earth

Revelation 17:7 But the angel said to me, “Why did you marvel? I will tell you the mystery of the woman and of the beast that carries her, which has the seven heads and the ten horns.

Mystery of Preaching of the Cross

1 Corinthians 1:18 For the message about the cross is nonsense to those who are being destroyed, but it is God’s power to us who are being saved.

Mystery of the Wisdom of God

1 Corinthians 2:7-8 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the ages for our glory, (8) which none of the rulers of this age knew; for had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

Mystery of Spirit of God revelation

1 Corinthians 2:14 But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

Mystery of God’s Grace

Ephesians 3:1-2 For this reason I, Paul, am the prisoner of the Messiah Jesus for the sake of you gentiles. (2) Surely you have heard about the responsibility of administering God’s grace that was given to me on your behalf,

Mystery of the Fellowship

Ephesians 3:9 and to make all see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the ages has been hidden in God who created all things through Jesus Christ;

Mystery of the Kingdom of God

Luke 8:10 So he said, “You have been given knowledge about the secrets of the kingdom of God. But to others they are given in parables, so that ‘they might look but not see, and they might listen but not understand.'”

Mark 4:11-12 He told them, “The secret about the kingdom of God has been given to you. But to those on the outside, everything comes in parables (12) so that ‘they may see clearly but not perceive, and they may hear clearly but not understand, otherwise they might turn around and be forgiven.'”

Mystery of the Kingdom of Heaven

Matthew 13:11 He answered them, “You have been given knowledge about the secrets of the kingdom from heaven, but it hasn’t been given to them,

Mysteries in the New Testament referred to truths not revealed in the Old Testament, but which now were made known to us, the saints.

Mystery of the Gospel

Ephesians 6:19 and for me, that utterance may be given to me, that I may open my mouth boldly to make known the mystery of the gospel,

Mystery of God would be Finished

Revelation 10:7 but in the days of the sounding of the seventh angel, when he is about to sound, the mystery of God would be finished, as He declared to His servants the prophets.

These mysteries we know about and understand is because the Holy Spirit has open our minds.

So we really understand, how important is it to know and understand these mysteries, something is far more important than these mysteries.

1 Corinthians 13:2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 Love is always patient; love is always kind; love is never envious or arrogant with pride. Nor is she conceited, (5) and she is never rude; she never thinks just of herself or ever gets annoyed. She never is resentful; (6) is never glad with sin; she’s always glad to side with truth, and pleased that truth will win. (7) She bears up under everything; believes the best in all; there is no limit to her hope, and never will she fall.

1 Corinthians 13:13 Right now three things remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love.

It is all about LOVE, which is the most important thing that will be with us for all eternality.   

Love