and not a word how "that Christ died for our sins/the why of the cross!
I wouldn't go that far; just that what the Cross was PROPHESIED to accomplish towards God's PROPHESIED Plan and Purpose for the Earth in His Son through a one day redeemed NATION: Israel, is confused by some, even within Mid-Acts, as "proof" that John is MYSTERY Truth.
Thus, the supposedly sound logic, like, "well, John God that from Paul."
Note that Nicodemus was expected to have known what the Lord was talking about. It is not Paul's "hid IN GOD" Mystery truth, Ep. 3.
John's is NOT Paul's Mystery Truth.
John 3:
10. Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things?
11. Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness.
12. If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?
13. And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.
14. And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:
15. That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
16. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
17. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
What's that about as to God's PROPHESEID Plan and Purpose FOR THE EARTH THROUGH A REDEEMD ISRAEL OVER THE NATIONS OF THE EARTH that the Cross of Christ will ALSO make possible?
Isaiah 52:
10. The LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.
11. Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the LORD.
12. For ye shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for the LORD will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your reward.
13. Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high.
14. As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:
15. So shall he sprinkle many nations; the kings shall shut their mouths at him: for that which had not been told them shall they see; and that which they had not heard shall they consider.
How?
Isaiah 53:
1. Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?
2. For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
3. He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
4. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
5. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
6. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
7. He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
8. He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
9. And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
10. Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
11. He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
12. Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
The Cross is there in John, and there in Acts 2-7; its just not that aspect of God's KEPT SECRET Plan and Purpose FOR THE HEAVENLIES in a New Creature comprised out of Jew and Gentile and that began AFTER Israel's TEMPORARY fall.
Few appear to consider there were TWO falls - one IN Heaven, Isaiah 14, that THEN set about trafficking it evil plot - the fall IN the Earth.
The Mystery concerns solving for the Heavenlies FIRST, as to that fallen spiritual wickedness the realm of the prince of the power of the air that even now has influence over this Earth through that coarse of this world that it set off in Genesis - that spirit or natural man's attraction to said coarse of this world, thus, that now worketh in the children of Adam's disobedience.. Eph. 2; Eph. 6.
Only AFTER solving for that Heavenly Fall, will the Lord THEN return to solve for the Earth, to 'make a short work upon the Earth," Matthew 24; Romans 9 - 11; Hebrews thru Revelation.
Its fallen Heavenly places restored by God's New Creature: His body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all, Eph. 1.
This Body by which He will fill all those thrones, dominions, principalities in all the Heavenlies with.
For there is no sense in praying for "thy kingdom come, thy will be done IN Earth, as it is IN Heaven, while the Adversary and his dark princes are still free to go back and forth between Heaven and Earth as they please, Job 2; Revelation 12.
First He has to deal with these fallen sons of God that so hate this Mystery aspect of the Cross, that "had they known it; they would not have crucified the Lord of glory" 2 Cor. 2.
Even Hollywood has some of this right, lol
To those in opposition to Mid-Acts - Prophecy in contrast to the Mystery as to the Father's will - I say, oppose this Mystery, and you are on the wrong side of this spiritual war!
