The Gospel of God

My Gospel

Concerning His Son Jesus Christ

The preaching of Jesus Christ

Promised afore

Kept silent in age times, now

Prophets in the Holy Scriptures

Prophetic writings

Unto obedience of faith among all nations

For obedience of faith to all

Grace from God our Father

Praise to the aionion God,

and to the only wise God

To the end ye may be established

To Him Who is able to

establish you

The power of God unto salvation

To Him Who is of power

Righteousness revealed ... as it is written.

Revelation of mystery ...

scriptures, the prophets.

It is evident that there is an intended contrast between these two

passages.  From the days of Abraham onward the gospel was no secret:

`The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through

faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham' (Gal. 3:8).

`Your father Abraham rejoiced to see My day: and he saw it, and was

glad' (John 8:56).

Here, however, in Romans 16:25 -27 is a mystery, and that mystery

something that had been silenced.  It cannot, therefore, possibly be the same

thing as the gospel preached in Romans 1.

It is not stated, however, in Romans 1:1,2, or in any of the passages

that link the gospel with the Old Testament  Scriptures, that the gospel was

fully made known before the coming of Christ.  Take for example Romans 1:17:

`For therein (i.e. the gospel of Christ, 1:16) is the righteousness of

God revealed from faith to faith: according as it hath been written (in

Hab. 2:4), The just shall live by faith'.

Without the fuller light of the gospel of Christ, it would not be

evident from the passage in Habakkuk that the power of the gospel of Christ

resided in the provision of a righteousness by faith.  This will be evident

if we quote the passage:

`For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall

speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will

surely come, it will not tarry.  Behold, his soul which is lifted up is