Galatians 1: 11 Dear brothers and sisters, I want you to understand that the gospel message I preach is not based on mere human reasoning. 12
I received my message from no human source, and no one taught me. Instead, I received it by direct revelation from Jesus Christ.[
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14 Therefore, beloved, since you look for these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace, spotless and blameless, 15 and regard the patience of our Lord
as salvation; just as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given him, wrote to you, 16 as also in all
his letters, speaking in them of these things,
in which are some things hard to understand, which the untaught and unstable distort, as
they do also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction. (
2 Peter 3.14-16).
The ascended Lord Jesus chose Paul as the messenger of the Gospel of Grace and revealed to him stuff that no one else had, stuff that even Peter finds hard to understand. Topics like the rapture, righteousness apart from works, mystery of the Church where Jews and Gentiles are equal, are all examples of such secrets.
