The Power of Children in the Last Times

[that which] flies through the midst of heaven must be placed within the Philadelphian congregation Philadelphian congregation: Based on the "Church of Philadelphia" in Revelation 3, this refers to a community of believers defined by brotherly love. In the 17th and 18th centuries, many "Pietists" believed they were living in the Philadelphian age of church history., as he who proclaims the mystery of the eternal Gospel to all those who sit and dwell upon the earth, and to all Gentiles original: Heyden; referring to non-Christian nations or heathens., and generations, and languages, and peoples—and indeed at the time when the judgments of God are to begin—to see if they might yet be won over by this message of love to the knowledge of the great God of love. For although this holy doctrine was certainly known here and there to some men of God in previous centuries original: vorigen Seculis, it shall nonetheless break forth with such power at the time of the second coming of Christ that it can no longer be hindered.

For a light is rising over all prophetic books, and that which is found therein is being unlocked; things which neither Daniel nor the other prophets understood (according to their own testimony), even though they bore witness to it. Rather, they were commanded from above to hide and seal it up—a proof that it was not intended to remain sealed forever, but was to be revealed in the final time. Thus, the doctrine of the conversion and enlightenment of all Gentiles and nations is sufficiently contained in the writings of the Old Testament—stating that all Gentiles should and would laud our God and Lord, and all peoples would praise Him. Yet the veil remained over these otherwise clear words for so long, until the time came in which the veil and the darkness were to be removed from the hearts of men, and they understood the Scripture, [moving] from the [literal] sense

of the words into their pure meaning. The Apostle Peter, although he had received the Holy Spirit on the Day of Pentecost—as one would have thought he would surely have understood the power of the Holy Scripture, which testifies to the enlightenment of the Gentiles and their acceptance and incorporation into the bosom of the Church through the Gospel—nonetheless had to receive a special revelation from God through a vision regarding this matter. From this we learn that the Holy Spirit does not reveal all truths and mysteries at once, but rather has certain economies economies: From the Greek oikonomia, meaning "management" or "arrangement." Here it refers to God's plan of revealing different truths at specific stages of human history. according to His wisdom, in which He reveals them.

The same happened to the Apostle Paul, who was well-versed enough in the writings of the Old Testament and had sat at the feet of Gamaliel Gamaliel was a celebrated Jewish scholar and teacher of the law; being his student meant Paul had the highest level of traditional religious education.; nevertheless, he did not know, nor could he know, the mystery of the acceptance and incorporation of the Gentiles into the Body of Christ, until the time came in which it was to be revealed to him and others. "This mystery was made known to me," he writes in the Epistle to the Ephesians in Chapter 3, verse 3 and following original: III. 3. ſeqq., "through revelation, as you may perceive my understanding of the mystery of Christ when you read it; which in other ages was not made known to the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto His holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit; namely, that the Gentiles should be fellow-heirs, and of the same body, and partakers of His promise in Christ through the Gospel, of which I [became] a ser-