But what happened to this remnant of grace at the end of the Acts and afterwards? It

is obvious that the ministry of Peter, James, Jude and the rest of the 12 Apostles must

have embraced a considerable number of people which lasted for some generations.

Where do these come in the plan of God? They certainly could not have suddenly

vanished after Acts 28: and the revelation of the Mystery that followed. Those who

hold the theory of `one calling' have an insoluble difficulty here. One of them has stated

"there are not two groups after Acts 28: 28.  There may have been two groups

before, but not now". He goes on to assert that "all the Gentile Christians of the Acts

period and all the Jewish Christian of the Acts period have been brought together INTO

ONE NEW MAN" (Eph. 2: 15, his emphasis).

When we turn to Eph. 2: we find no such teaching, for he has added the word "all" to

what Scripture reveals.  Eph. 2: 15 does not say that the "new Man" consists of all

Jewish and all the Gentile believers of that time, but rather that God had now created a

new Man, out of Jew and Gentile (the "twain"). To "create" means a new beginning, not

a continuation of something that had previously existed. Out of Jewish and Gentile

believers God had made a fresh start by creating a new company of the redeemed, and

these were elected (chosen) by the Father "before the foundation of the world" (Eph. 1: 4).

Nothing is said as to the number of those who are chosen. There is no clue given as to

whether this is a small or large company, so this therefore we have to leave.

If we assume that what this writer says about `one calling' is Scriptural and true, then

we have the right to ask what happened to the faithful remnant of the Acts period? If

there is only one calling today, then it means that Peter, James & John, and the other 12

apostles and all the Jewish believers they ministered to must have been suddenly

transferred to the Body of Christ after Acts 28:, and the ministry of these Apostles

concerning the earthly kingdom must have ceased at this point and in its place they must

have witnessed to the dispensation of the Mystery (Eph. 3:, Col. 1:) and all the

revelation of Paul's prison epistle. This is the only logical conclusion one can come to if

there is now only `one calling'.

But we ask, where is the Scriptural backing for all this, and the answer is there is none

whatsoever. That being so, the onus is on the `one calling' adherents to say just where

they place the Acts period remnant after Acts 28:, and what happened to the earthly

kingdom ministry of Peter, James, John, Jude and other of the 12 Apostles after this

crisis. Guessing and human opinion will not do; we cannot have sound doctrine on such

a basis. The more one examines this `one calling' in the light of Scripture rightly

divided, the more its fallacy is evident.

It may be understandable with those who believe that the church of the One Body

began at Pentecost. But with those who profess to see the dispensational setting of the

Acts period and the truth of the Mystery revealed after it, one calling is not

understandable.  It is a blow at the heart of "the good deposit" of Truth and the

"dispensation of the Mystery" with all its uniqueness and wonder.  It also makes

unnecessary the revealing work of the Holy Spirit which Eph. 1: stresses so much, and