MYSTERY meat is as deep as it gets!

While New Agers are actively out trying to help usher in the dawn of a millennium of peace in which they believe a new species of man, Homo luminus, will emerge, Satan’s angels are seething in the heavens as they’re constantly confronted (through their observation of us Believers) with the reality they will one day be supplanted by a new species of humanity, namely "the church the Body of Christ."

“Using men for the repossession of the heavenly places would certainly require such a new man (the ‘one new man,’ as Paul calls it), and that is exactly what God is creating today in Christ,” writes Keith Blades in his perennial classic from 1994, “Satan and His Plan of Evil.” “In doing this, God has seen to it that the entire Satanic plan of evil will be destroyed, both in the heavenly places and in the earth.

“Moreover, by keeping the heavenly aspect of His plan ‘a secret since the world began,’ God completely took Satan in his own craftiness, and has put him and his angelic cohorts to an open shame. Genius and wisdom belongs to God only, and not to Satan.”

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Paul writes in I Corinthians 2:9, [9] But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.

Jordan explains, “In this verse, Paul talks about the three ways you can know something. By the eye, or empiricism, the ear (rationalism or figuring it out on the basis of reason) and then revelation. God can reveal the thing to you, as in verse 10: [10] But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.

“It’s important to understand that ‘the things which God hath prepared for them that love him,’ have to do with the mystery truth back in verses 6-8. Verses 7 and 8 say, [7] But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:
[8] Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

“In the context here, the things of God from verse 9 are the things of the mystery. He’s talking about some doctrinal reality God’s determined to do. Never read verse 9 by itself. Never go off and say, ‘Well, you can’t know these things, therefore boo, hoo, hoo.’

“I remember as a teenager reading in the newspaper Billy Graham’s syndicated column, ‘Ask Dr. Graham,’ where somebody wrote him, ‘How do you explain all the sufferings and the difficulties in the world?’ Graham quoted I Corinthians 2:9 and wrote, ‘Well, you just can’t figure them all out.’

“I was 17 or 18 years old and I kept thinking, ‘Oh, Billy, read verse 10! Read verse 10, would you please! Don’t just quit in verse 9!’ I mean, verse 9 leaves you with a blank wall and darkness.

"Verse 10 says, ‘BUT God.’ Don’t you love the ‘But God’s’ in the Bible?! That takes you out of your darkness, your inability and helplessness, and puts you on the side of strength and possession.

“Notice the description of the things of God in verse 10. ‘The Spirit searcheth all things.’ That is, He knows everything there is to know. He’s not talking about how the Spirit doesn’t know what’s going on so he looks into it. He’s talking about how there’s nothing held back from what the Spirit of God understands and knows.

“David says to God, ‘Search me and know me. Try me and see if there be any evil way.’ He isn’t saying God doesn’t know what’s in his heart. He’s saying, ‘Come down here and know me and look and see and examine.’ Not as someone who doesn’t know, but as someone who DOES know.

“The spiritual man can personally, experientially enter into all things--‘yea, the deep things of God.’ He knows the doctrines of God inside and out; he even knows the deep things of God. When Paul’s talking about deep things, he’s talking about mystery truth. He calls them that because they’re hidden things and not known.

“Notice how this word ‘deep’ is used in Psalm 92: ‘[5] O LORD, how great are thy works! and thy thoughts are very deep.
[6] A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.

“The idea there is a brutish man, a natural man, can’t know them. For a thought to be deep, the idea there is that it’s unknown. It’s not understood by others. They’re hidden thoughts. They’re thoughts that are kept back and not made known.

“The mystery truth is that God kept some things secret and hid in Himself so that no one else could know them. They were tremendous in their value and scope but it was also hidden wisdom.

“You understand, folks, ‘the mystery’ is the deep things of God. Mystery truth is as deep as it gets. Somebody says, ‘Well, we want to get into prophecy; we want to get into the deep things.’ No, you get into prophecy--that’s called ‘the milk of the word.’ You want the meat, this is it!

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In Daniel 2, Daniel is talking about getting the secret of Nebuchadnezzar’s vision revealed to him. He says starting in verse 19, [19] Then was the secret revealed unto Daniel in a night vision. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven.
[20] Daniel answered and said, Blessed be the name of God for ever and ever: for wisdom and might are his:
[21] And he changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding:
[22] He revealeth the deep and secret things: he knoweth what is in the darkness, and the light dwelleth with him.

“That’s what Paul’s talking about. He’s talking about things that are wonderful in the sense they are so far BEYOND what man can comprehend. But it’s not simply that, because in verse 10 there he tells you there’s things God has revealed to us. The deep things of God are knowable! Paul’s not saying that God’s laid out in the pages of His Book things so deep and big that you can’t understand them.

“I heard a guy say once, ‘If I told you everything I know, it would crack your skull.’ He was saying he knew so much Bible it would make your brain explode. That fellow went around most of the time carrying his head in a wheelbarrow it was so heavy; he thought so much of himself. He had a hard time pushing it along it was just so big.

“The idea in the passage is you can’t find them on your own. On your own, it’s not knowable. You would have never figured it out on your own, but now God has revealed it to you. That’s the issue.

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“Romans 11 says, ‘[33] O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!
[34] For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counseller?
[35] Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again?

“Paul has just spent 11 chapters writing down, delineating, and explaining the judgments and the ways of God. He’s just spent all the previous part of Romans revealing to you the MIND of the Lord.

“In I Corinthians 2, the last verse says, ‘[16] For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.

“Where do you have it? In the Word of God. Folks, you wouldn’t know the depth of them if they weren’t revealed to you. You ever thought about that?! You would just SUSPECT that they must be deep, big and wonderful.

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“In your Bible, there’s not only the deep things of God; there’s another system of deep things. In the first two chapters of II Corinthians is the conflict between divine viewpoint and human viewpoint. More than that, though, between divine viewpoint and ‘the wisdom of the princes of this world which God’s wisdom has brought to nought.’

“The program of the Adversary is referred to in Revelation 2:24: [24] But unto you I say, and unto the rest in Thyatira, as many as have not this doctrine, and which have not known the depths of Satan, as they speak; I will put upon you none other burden.

“Notice, the depths of Satan is associated with a doctrine. There is a wisdom and a set of principles, programs and plans and philosophy that are described in the Bible, not as ‘the deep things of God,’ but rather as the deep things of the Adversary.

“It’s his agenda, his program, his plans, his purposes, his personality, and what he is seeking to accomplish. It has to do with a doctrine. It’s laid out in Revelation very clearly and we’ve studied it over and over in Baal worship and the counterfeiting, being ‘like the most high.’

“You go to Ezekiel 28 where we studied how Lucifer is full of wisdom and the sum of wisdom and beauty and there’s no secret thing kept from him. Satan thought he knew everything, so God just kept a secret about what He was going to do through the Cross.

“God keeping the meaning of Calvary hidden brings Satan’s wisdom to nought because Satan couldn’t see it, even though God said it was going to happen and prophesied and fulfilled it in exact detail, in the minutia.

“Satan still couldn’t figure out what God was going to do with it because God didn’t reveal it to him! God kept a secret that caused Satan to deceive HIMSELF! And so it’s a shameful, embarrassing thing to the Adversary and it brought his wisdom to nothing.”

(to be continued)