both exercised their ministry consequent upon the failure of Israel. The relationship of

Daniel, Israel, Gentile and Mystery may be seen in the following sequence:

So far as Israel is concerned it can be written:

It can be demonstrated from the O.T. records, that on more than one occasion the

prophetic clock stopped, and while mundane time goes on, time as related to Israel is

limited to their being as ammi "My people"; it ceased to be reckoned by God, when

Israel become Lo-ammi "not My people", and during the waiting period spoken of in

Hos. 3:, the parenthesis of the present dispensation of the Mystery was introduced by

God at Acts 28: No prophecies, other than those found in Paul's epistles, especially

those dealing with "the last days" in I and II Timothy, will be fulfilled during the

dispensation of the Mystery. Israel are the people of the prophecy and when they emerge

from their long exile and look upon Him Whom they have pierced, the present

dispensation will have come to a close.

ISRAEL AND THE MYSTERY

When we consider all that God has said concerning the place that Israel occupies in

the outworking of His purposes, when we remember that the Lord Himself acknowledged

that "Salvation is of the Jews" (John 4: 22) any failure on their part to live up to their

high destiny, must inevitably bring about catastrophic consequences, and whether we

believe that at Acts 28:, that great dispensational rupture occurred or not, the events

that happened both to Israel and Jerusalem in 70A.D. make a change of the attitude of

God to the Gentile imperative if salvation is not to die out of the earth. What God would

do, should Israel fail, no one could tell, for such an event is neither foreshadowed nor

discussed. No one living before Acts 28: became history, except possibly Paul

himself, knew that before the foundation of the world, God had foreseen and provided

against such a condition, and until this new truth was revealed to Paul as the Prisoner of

Jesus Christ for us Gentiles, it necessarily remained a "mystery" in the fullest sense of the

term. That aliens and strangers, Christless, Godless, hopeless Gentiles could ever be the

objects of such superlative grace, that of such it could be written:

never entered the mind of man, and even to-day is received by comparatively few.

When the seventh angel sounds, the mystery of God will be finished. Had there been

no sin, no death, no failure, no serpent, Satan or Devil there would have been no need for

mystery or secret. Israel's failure at the proclamation of the Gospel of the Kingdom is