2.  See the author's book entitled, The Two-fold Purpose of God.

3.  When Satan is "loosed for a little season" at the close of the millennium, he will deceive many and gather an army together against Jerusalem, but ere his soldiers even begin to fight, fire from heaven will devour them and Satan himself will be cast into the lake of fire (Rev. 20:7-10).

4.  I.e., He who dies at 100 years old will be considered a child and will have been accursed because of sin, which will not be tolerated at that time.

5.  We believe that these apostles of the circumcision were inspired to write particularly for a future day.  When the body of Christ has been caught up and the time of tribulation begins, Israel will be "scattered" (I Pet. 1 :1, James 1:1) and "the end of all things" will again be "at hand" (I Pet. 4:7), (I John 2 :18).

6.  We regret the rendering which reads: "We have also the Word of prophecy made more sure," i.e., by Peter's personal vision of the transfigured Christ.  How could anything make the Word of God more sure?

7.  The word men is not found in the original.  Cf. Eph. 3 :10.

8.  i.e., Paul's own writings.  Certainly not the Old Testament Scriptures.  See the "now" in Eph. 3:5.

9.  Those who question whether the items listed under this heading are associated with the mystery have but to search and see whether they can find them in prophecy.

10.  It is sometimes argued from Eph. 3:5 that Paul was only one of many "apostles and prophets" to whom the mystery was revealed.  The words "by the Spirit" are significant in this connection.  Paul first received the truth of the mystery "by the revelation of Jesus Christ" (Gal. 1:12, Eph. 3:3, etc.).  He then "went up by revelation" and communicated it to the leaders at Jerusalem (Gal. 2:2) and they "saw" and "perceived" it and gave Paul and Barnabas, his companion, "the right hands of fellowship" (Gal. 2:7,9).  It was "by the Spirit" of course, that they "saw" and "perceived" these truths, but not until Paul had communicated them to them.