Where does the full revelation of Christ appear according to Les?
The full revelation of Christ appears through the revelations given to the apostle Paul, where Christ is seen as the flower in full bloom. This truth is not found by picking it up anywhere else in Scripture; it comes after Israel’s rejection and God’s raising up of Paul.
Les explains that Scripture is a progressive revelation: Genesis is the bulb, the Old Testament is the growing stem and leaves, and Christ’s first advent is the bud ready to come into full bloom. But Israel clipped the bud, as Daniel speaks of Messiah being cut off. God in His sovereignty put the bud back on, yet Israel continued rejecting it through Acts. Instead of clipping it off again, God raised up another apostle, and through the revelations given to the apostle Paul, we now see the full flower. Les stresses that it is not Paul himself, but his revelations; Christ is the flower, revealed in a way that nowhere else in Scripture can you pick it up.