From "The Basics of Mid Acts Dispensationism.
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I draw your attention to--
3: For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; 4: And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
So this mystery according to MAD was revealed first to Paul, yet it was IN THE SCRIPTURES.
This presupposes that ALL people both in the OT times and in the new up to Paul were blind to the scriptures.
After the resurrection, Jesus explained to His disciples the scriptures which referred to Himself, way before Paul was saved.
Luk 24:25 Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken:
Luk 24:26 Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory?
Luk 24:27 And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.
The Lord would not have rebuked them for their blindness if they were never expected to understand the scriptures.
MAD is just not right in their views.
LA
As a result, the gospel by which Gentiles are saved today is no longer dependent upon blessing Israel. Rather, our salvation is based upon the fact that "Christ died for our sins", as Paul writes in 1 Cor. 15:1-4 -
1: Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;
2: By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
3: For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
4: And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
However, not once did the Old Testament scriptures ever foresee that Uncircumcised Gentiles would some day be saved through Israel's fall. Nor did they prophesy that Christ would die for the sins of Uncircumcised Gentiles, as Paul explains in the above passage. One may search the scriptures from Genesis through the book of John, and never find any mention of these doctrines, because they are identified with the "mystery" that was revealed to Paul alone.
http://web.archive.org/web/20090723105356/http://geocities.com/benwebb.geo/basics.html
I draw your attention to--
3: For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; 4: And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
So this mystery according to MAD was revealed first to Paul, yet it was IN THE SCRIPTURES.
This presupposes that ALL people both in the OT times and in the new up to Paul were blind to the scriptures.
After the resurrection, Jesus explained to His disciples the scriptures which referred to Himself, way before Paul was saved.
Luk 24:25 Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken:
Luk 24:26 Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory?
Luk 24:27 And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.
The Lord would not have rebuked them for their blindness if they were never expected to understand the scriptures.
MAD is just not right in their views.
LA