What is the believer's place in eternity in relation to God's eternal purpose?
Believers are the objects of God's eternal purpose. When God brings everything to its culmination and we enter eternity, believers are there. God's eternal purpose was His mercy and grace in saving lost sinners, so the redeemed stand in eternity as the fulfillment of that purpose.
Les teaches that when God brings everything to its culmination and we go into eternity, there we are—the objects of His eternal purpose. He identifies that eternal purpose as God's mercy and grace in saving lost sinners. Les then moves into Ephesians 3:1, where Paul writes as the prisoner of Jesus Christ for the Gentiles and speaks of the dispensation of the grace of God given to him by revelation. That mystery, he notes, was not made known in other ages to the sons of men as it is now revealed to His holy apostles and prophets.