Was the mystery of the body of Christ revealed in the Old Testament or the Gospels?
No. The body of Christ was not revealed in the Old Testament or the Gospels. The context states Psalms 2 gives the Old Testament program with no hint of this mystery—the secret kept in God’s mind concerning the Gentile bride or body of Christ. It was not disclosed there.
Les explains that Psalms chapter 2 is an outline of the Old Testament program, and that there is no hint in it—or anywhere else in the Old Testament or even in the Gospels—of this mystery, this secret kept in the mind of God, of what we call the Gentile bride of Christ or the body of Christ. Everything there has been promises made to Israel. Paul’s letters, however, make reference to Christ as the head and husband and the body of Christ as His virgin bride, which is why Paul admonishes the believer to live in purity and separation, rather than be the adulterous wife of Jehovah as Israel was.
Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?