God's Prophetic Spirit - Volume 5

God's Prophetic Spirit is a series of essays (15 volumes in all) which seeks to examine every mention of the Spirit's work with humanity from Genesis to Revelation. These essays are written with the belief that the answers to our questions about the Holy Spirit are found, not outside the Bible, but within the inspired word of God. This study moves verse-by-verse through the entire Bible and builds a coherent, understandable doctrine about the Holy Spirit from the clear, concise lessons in Genesis to the grand statements of the New Testament which proclaim the Spirit's power in the church.

Volume 5 contains essay #11:

11) God's Mystery: Finished by Judgment

The read is roughly 12,500 words. This fifth volume contains one essay which completes this series’ examination of an often overlooked doctrine in the New Testament: The Mystery of God. The two essays of Volume 4 established the significance of the mystery of God in the New Testament and highlighted the connection between the work of the Holy Spirit and the completion of the mystery. This final essay on the mystery shows that the fall of Jerusalem in A. D. 70 finished the mystery of God and that the finishing of the mystery also brought the Spirit’s prophetic work with man to an end. An appreciation of the firm connection the doctrine of the mystery of God establishes between the Holy Spirit and God’s judgment on Israel provides a needed and helpful foundation upon which the New Testament’s teaching about the work of the Spirit in the church can be established.