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What are the 7 secrets
REVEALED in the New Testament?

Secret #1 Revealed
Jesus reveals how people will respond to the Gospel.

"Then He taught them many things by parables, and said to them in His teaching:

"'Listen!  Behold, a sower went out to sow.  And it happened, as he sowed, that some seed fell by the wayside; and the birds of the air came and devoured it.  Some fell on stony ground, where it did not have much earth; and immediately it sprang up because it had no depth of earth.  But when the sun was up it was scorched, and because it had no root it withered away.  And some seed fell among thorns; and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no crop.  But other seed fell on good ground and yielded a crop that sprang up, increased and produced: some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some a hundred . . .'

"'The sower sows the word.  And these are the ones by the wayside where the word is sown.  When they hear, Satan comes immediately and takes away the word that was sown in their hearts.  These likewise are the ones sown on stony ground who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it with gladness; and they have no root in themselves, and so endure only for a time.  Afterward, when tribulation or persecution arises for the word’s sake, immediately they stumble.

"Now these are the ones sown among thorns;  they are the ones who hear the word, and the cares of this world, the deceitfulness of riches, and the desires for other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.  But these are the ones sown on good ground, those who hear the word, accept it, and bear fruit: some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some a hundred.' " (Mark 4:3-8, 14-20, NKJV throughout. See also Matthew 13:1-23 and Luke 8:1-15)

Secret #2 Revealed
The Apostle Paul reveals why the majority of Israelites have REJECTED the Gospel.

"I say then, has God cast away His people?  Certainly not! For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.  God has not cast away His people whom He foreknew . . .

"What then?  Israel has not obtained what it seeks; but the elect have obtained it, and the rest were blinded . . .

"I say then, have they stumbled that they should fall? Certainly not!  But through their fall, to provoke them to jealousy, salvation has come to the Gentiles.

"Now if their fall is riches for the world, and their failure riches for the Gentiles, how much more their fullness! . . ."
 
Painting of the Apostle St. Paul by El Greco. The apostle Paul was born around 2 A.D.
Apostle St. Paul
Oil on canvas by El Greco (1610-14 A.D.)

"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.  And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written . . ." (Romans 11:1-2, 7, 11-12, 25-26)

Secret #3 Revealed
God will save ALL mankind and not just Israelites. All those who have God's spirit in them become a part of 'the body' (the church) and are fellow heirs of what God has promised.

"Now to Him who is able to establish you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the REVELATION OF THE MYSTERY KEPT SECRET since the world began but now made manifest, and by the prophetic Scriptures made known to all nations . . ." (Romans 16:25-26)

"For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you Gentiles. . . how that by revelation He made known to me the MYSTERY . . . 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: THAT THE GENTILES SHOULD BE FELLOW HEIRS, of the same body, and partakers of His promise in Christ through the gospel . . ." (Ephesians 3:1, 3, 5-6)

"I now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up in my flesh what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ, for the sake of His body, which is the church . . . the MYSTERY which has been hidden from ages and from generations, but now has been revealed to His saints. 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." (Colossians 1:24, 26-27)

Secret #4 Revealed
Those Christians who are alive when Jesus returns will be instantaneously changed to spirit and will not have to die before entering God's kingdom.

"Now this I (apostle Paul) say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does corruption inherit incorruption.  Behold, I tell you a MYSTERY:  We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed — in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and WE SHALL BE CHANGED.  For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.  So when this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written:  'Death is swallowed up in victory.' " (1Corinthians 15:50-54)

Secret #5 Revealed
God's purpose is to be ONE with man in and through Jesus Christ.

"In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace which He made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence, having made known to us the MYSTERY OF HIS WILL, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Himself, that in the dispensation of the fullness of the times HE MIGHT GATHER TOGETHER IN ONE ALL THINGS IN CHRIST, both which are in heaven and which are on earth — in Him.  In Him also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will, that we who first trusted in Christ should be to the praise of His glory." (Ephesians 1:7-12)

"'I (Jesus) do not pray for these (the disciples) alone, but also for those who will believe in Me through their word; THAT THEY ALL MAY BE ONE, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; THAT THEY ALSO MAY BE ONE IN US, that the world may believe that You sent Me.  And the glory which You gave Me I have given them, THAT THEY MAY BE ONE JUST AS WE ARE ONE:  I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made PERFECT IN ONE, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me . . .'" (John 17:20-23)

Secret #6 Revealed
Satan and his purpose will be revealed in the End Time when he is allowed to use signs and wonders to deceive the nations.

"Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, we ask you, not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the day of Christ had come. Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, AND THE MAN OF SIN IS REVEALED, the son of perdition, who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God . . .

"For the MYSTERY OF LAWLESSNESS is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way. AND THEN THE LAWLESS ONE WILL BE REVEALED, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming. The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2Thessalonians 2:1-4, 7-10)

Secret #7 Revealed
The Babylonish system that has deceived the world and martyred true Christians will be revealed in the End Time.

"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, with whom the kings of the earth committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth were made drunk with the wine of her fornication.'

"So he carried me away in the Spirit into the wilderness. And I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast which was full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the filthiness of her fornication. And on her forehead a name was written:

MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT,
THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

"I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw her, I marveled with great amazement.

"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. The beast that you saw was, and is not, and will ascend out of the bottomless pit and go to perdition. And those who dwell on the earth will marvel, whose names are not written in the Book of Life from the foundation of the world, when they see the beast that was, and is not, and yet is . . .' " (Revelation 17:1-8)

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