Page 19 - Gods Plan of the Ages

I Corinthians 1:23-24
But we preach Christ crucified, to Jews a stumbling block and to Gentiles foolishness, but
to those who are the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the
wisdom of God.

What Solomon speaks metaphorically of Wisdom is true of Christ. Christ was present
with the Father at the beginning of the creation. Christ was the first creation of God.
Yahshua is the embodiment of the Wisdom of God. He was "beside Him, as a master
workman" when Yahweh created all things.

Colossians 1:15-16
He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For by Him all things
were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or
dominions or rulers or authorities - all things have been created through Him and for
Him.

Christ is the firstborn of all creation. He was the first to arise out of God, and we find
that in Yahweh's plan of the ages that all things must return back to Christ. Even as through
Yahshua all things were created, including the angels and mankind, so must all things
become subject once more to the Son. All things must be summed up in the Son. Then the
Son may return, along with all created things, to the Father from whom all things came.

Ephesians 1:9-10
He made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His kind intention which He
purposed in Him with a view to a stewardship suitable to the fullness of the times, that
is, the summing up of all things in Christ, things in the heavens and things on the earth
in Him.

There are mysteries revealed in the things of which Paul writes. Paul declared that he
had been chosen to be a steward of the mysteries of God. Paul had much to say about
Yahweh's mysteries, but the church has remained largely babes, able to drink only milk. The
body of Christ has remained immature, unable to eat solid food, seldom dining on the meat
of the mysteries of God.

Hebrews 5:12-6:3
For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you have need again for someone to
teach you the elementary principles of the oracles of God, and you have come to need milk
and not solid food. For everyone who partakes only of milk is not accustomed to the word
of righteousness, for he is an infant. But solid food is for the mature, who because of
practice have their senses trained to discern good and evil. Therefore leaving the
elementary teaching about the Christ, let us press on to maturity, not laying again a
foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God, of instruction about
washings and laying on of hands, and the resurrection of the dead and age lasting
(aeonian) judgment. And this we will do, if God permits.

Those things Paul names as elementary teachings are what the church considers
higher learning today. The church has seldom reached beyond elementary things to delve