How has God chosen to reveal Bible truths through history?
God, in His eternalness, has chosen to reveal Bible truths gradually—by bits and pieces as human history unfolds. Certain truths, like the rapture and the mysteries, remained hidden in God and were not mentioned in the Old Testament or Gospels. Paul alone received and wrote this revelation.
Les explains that what the apostle says matches what Moses wrote in Deuteronomy: God, in His everlastingness and eternalness, has seen fit to reveal things only by bits and pieces as we come up through human history. This means truths were kept secret in the mind of God. For example, the church cannot be found in the Old Testament, and the rapture is not mentioned in the Old Testament or in the Gospels. The Old Testament writers could not mention it because it was still a secret kept in the mind of God. Only Paul had the revelation evidence, so only Paul writes of the rapture, nowhere else. Les contrasts the prophetic program in the Old Testament with the body of truth Paul refers to as the mysteries that are suddenly now revealed. Paul writes to Gentile believers.