"The Mystery Revealed"

"Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! when the LORD bringeth back the captivity of His people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad." (Psalms 14:7) The word for the day is the word 'Musterion', which is the Greek word that means 'A Secret, or Esorteric Knowledge'. There are a lot of mysteries in the Bible, and many of them will be revealed at the time of Christ's Second Coming; which will be prior to the Thousand Year Reign; of which there will be those who are resurrected, but it will not be those who have not been saved, but those who have, and they will rule and reign with Christ during that thousand year period; at least that is how I understand to happen! If you wanted a good illistration to the meaning of Psalms 14:7, a good place to look would be in the Book of Romans, pretty much the whole of Chapter Eleven; which starts out speaking about God's Chosen Few, then goes into explaining that there are Two Kinds of Branches, and then concludes with the fact that All "Israel" Will Be Saved! Paul refers to this time period as "the fulness of the Gentiles", in Romans 11:25, and that Israel will be blind to their King until that day should come; thereby making the case for what he declares in verses 11:26 & 27, which is, "And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Zion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: for this is My covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins". It really comes down to the fact that Israel is God's chosen people; first and foremost, God's plan is for the complete redemption of His chosen people; the mystery revealed in this redemptive process, is that we who are not of that people, are automatically grafted into the Jewish nation by becoming part of the Body of Christ, who is in fact The King of the Jews. Let me give you a picture of this in the reference to the Temple, and how that the Temple was constructed. In Acts 3:2, there is mention of a gate of the temple which was called "Beautiful"; and it is considered by many, that this gate called Beautiful was a large gate leading from the court of the Gentiles to the court of the Israelites; however, from reading the portions of Scripture in Acts 3, it would appear that this was an external gate (Acts 3:3), leading from without the temple (Acts 3:8) and into the Gentile court, in which also was Solomon's porch (Acts 3:11). In understanding the picture painted in this, we must look at the completed picture of both the salvation offered to the Gentiles, and the salvation delivered to the children of Israel; for out of Israel did come the salvation unto the Gentiles, but out of that salvation of the Gentiles was Israel's salvation provoked... "According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should no see, and ears that they should not hear; unto this day. And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompense unto them: let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back always. I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come to the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy. Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?" (Romans 11:8-12)