Page 18 - Gods Plan of the Ages

Ephesians 3:8-11
Unto me—the less than least of all saints, was given this favour, unto the nations, to
announce the glad-message of the untraceable riches of the Christ, and to bring to
light—what is the administration of the sacred secret which had been hidden away from
the AGES in God, who did all things create: In order that now, unto the principalities and
the authorities in the heavenlies, might be made known, through means of the assembly,
the manifold wisdom of God,— According to a plan of the ages which He made in the
anointed Jesus our Lord.
(Rotherham's Emphasized Bible)

The present creation was never intended to exist for eternity. The creation is marked
by finite bounds. This truth is contained in a passage that we examined in the preceding
chapter. The apostle Paul wrote of the end of the reign of sonship. A time must come when
all things must be summed up into Christ in order that all things might return unto the
Father.

I Corinthians 15:25-28
For He must reign till He has put all enemies under His feet. The last enemy that will be
destroyed is death. For "He has put all things under His feet." But when He says"all things
are put under Him," it is evident that He who put all things under Him is excepted. Now
when all things are made subject to Him, then the Son Himself will also be subject to
Him who put all things under Him, that God may be all in all.

The entire creation is headed toward a time when all must return unto the Father.
Some Christians have received errant notions concerning the Son of God. They do not
recognize that He is also part of the creation. Although He holds a preeminent position,
being the firstborn, and the instrument through which Yahweh created all other things,
Yahshua is Himself a created being.

Colossians 1:15
He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.

In the book of Proverbs Solomon writes of Wisdom as if it were a person. The
description of Wisdom is the description of the firstborn Son of God.

Proverbs 8:24-30
When there were no depths I was brought forth, when there were no springs abounding
with water. Before the mountains were settled, before the hills I was brought forth; While
He had not yet made the earth and the fields, nor the first dust of the world. When He
established the heavens, I was there, when He inscribed a circle on the face of the deep,
when He made firm the skies above, when the springs of the deep became fixed, when He
set for the sea its boundary so that the water would not transgress His command, when
He marked out the foundations of the earth; Then I was beside Him, as a master
workman...

The apostle Paul describes Christ as "the wisdom of God."