Who does the church make known the manifold wisdom of God to?
The church makes the manifold wisdom of God known to the principalities and powers in the heavenlies. Scripture says this mystery was revealed so that these heavenly authorities might now see God’s wisdom through the church, which is the assembly of called-out believers—every common person in the pew, not only seminarians or preachers.
Les explains that in verse 10 God revealed the secret of the mystery so that now, through the church—the Ecclesia, an assembly of called-out believers—the manifold wisdom of God might be made known to the principalities and powers in the heavenlies. He stresses that the church is not just the seminarians or the preachers; it is everybody, the common ordinary person in the pew. He illustrates this with Tyndale, who wanted to get the Word of God into the hands of every plow boy in England, meaning no one was too uneducated to have the Word of God. God intends every single believer to study the Scriptures and understand them.
To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God,
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Why did God reveal the secret of the mystery now?
God revealed the secret of the mystery now so that the manifold wisdom of God might be made known by the church.