There were two falls, not one: one in the Heavenlies (Lucifer and those angels who went with him, Isaiah 14) and one on the Earth (Adam and Eve, Genesis 3).
Throughout the OT, God Prophesies His plan to take back the Earth, see Isaiah 2:1-5, for example.
He kept secret since before the world began how He would take back those FALLEN Heavenly Places mentioned in Eph. 6.
The Mystery aspect: His reconciling FIRST those fallen Heavenly Places, will then allow the Prophesied aspect: His reconciling of the Earth.
Ephesians 1:9 Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:
1:10 That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, AND which are on earth; even in him:
BOTH center in the Lord...
Ephesians 3:14 For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
3:15 Of whom the whole family in heaven AND earth is named,
Paul was saved in Acts 9. At that point, he, along with UNbelieving Israel (as a nation) was already concluded in spiritual UNcircumcision at the end of Acts 7.
AFTER THAT, Peter was then sent to Cornelius that Peter might later serve as a witness to the validity of Paul's UNcircumcision gospel, Acts 15.
Peter's aspect of the gospel - the Prophesied aspect - is laid out in the 2nd half of Acts 3, and is tied to Isaiah 2:1-5 (ISRAEL's Prophesied Fullness), but God had planned to delay Matt. 10:23 with Israel's fall, Rom. 11:11, 25-29...
That He might begin to address FIRST, that other fall - in the Heavenlies, via a New Creature (the Fullness of Him by which God will fill all authority in said Heavenly realm).
This New Creature will one day replace that realm's current Usurper and his fallen host, see Ephesians 1, and into chapter 2, and also, the latter half of chapter 6.
The above is a VERY brief summary of MUCH on BOTH aspects of God's TWO-Fold Purpose, as laid out in Scripture.
Acts 17:11, 12.
Throughout the OT, God Prophesies His plan to take back the Earth, see Isaiah 2:1-5, for example.
He kept secret since before the world began how He would take back those FALLEN Heavenly Places mentioned in Eph. 6.
The Mystery aspect: His reconciling FIRST those fallen Heavenly Places, will then allow the Prophesied aspect: His reconciling of the Earth.
Ephesians 1:9 Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:
1:10 That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, AND which are on earth; even in him:
BOTH center in the Lord...
Ephesians 3:14 For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
3:15 Of whom the whole family in heaven AND earth is named,
Paul was saved in Acts 9. At that point, he, along with UNbelieving Israel (as a nation) was already concluded in spiritual UNcircumcision at the end of Acts 7.
AFTER THAT, Peter was then sent to Cornelius that Peter might later serve as a witness to the validity of Paul's UNcircumcision gospel, Acts 15.
Peter's aspect of the gospel - the Prophesied aspect - is laid out in the 2nd half of Acts 3, and is tied to Isaiah 2:1-5 (ISRAEL's Prophesied Fullness), but God had planned to delay Matt. 10:23 with Israel's fall, Rom. 11:11, 25-29...
That He might begin to address FIRST, that other fall - in the Heavenlies, via a New Creature (the Fullness of Him by which God will fill all authority in said Heavenly realm).
This New Creature will one day replace that realm's current Usurper and his fallen host, see Ephesians 1, and into chapter 2, and also, the latter half of chapter 6.
The above is a VERY brief summary of MUCH on BOTH aspects of God's TWO-Fold Purpose, as laid out in Scripture.
Acts 17:11, 12.
