What is this Secret The apostle Paul wrote so much about?
Rom 16:25 reads, “Now to him who has the power to establish you, make you stable, according to my gospel (good news), and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the secret, which was kept hidden since the world began,
To break this verse down a bit, it is according to the revelation of the Secret, that God and the Lord Jesus have the power to make us stable so we are not blown about by every wind of doctrine. Paul’s gospel, his good news, is not according to anything written previous to him. God kept this good news a hidden since the world began. One place even tells us it was before the foundation of the world.
1 Cor 2:7 says, “But we speak the wisdom of God in a secret, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory: (not for His glory, unto Our glory)!
Eph 3:1-5 says, “For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you Gentiles (nations), If ye have heard of the “dispensation” of the grace of God which is given me to youward: How that by revelation he made known unto me the secret; (as I wrote afore in few words,whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the secret of Christ) which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit;
Dispensation is where the systematic theology of dispensationalism comes from. This dispensation in which we live, of the grace of God, was committed to him for us. By revelation from Jesus Christ he made known unto Paul this Secret, the Secret of Christ. It was unknown to all the sons of men in all other Ages. But it was revealed to his holy Christian Apostles and Prophets by the Spirit. And now I am revealing it to you. It wasn’t a mystery which stays a mystery. To be a mystery it cannot be understood. Mystery isn’t even a translation of musterion. Mystery is merely a transliteration of musterion.
One of the biggest keys to understanding the Bible is understanding that it is a Eastern Book, not a Western Book. Our knowledge and understanding often gets in the way. As an example, the ANE’s, Ancient Near Easterners, viewed the world as flat; heaven was up, the abyss was down, Tartarus was way down in the abyss and heaven was a dome or firmament over the earth. God lived above the firmament. (They had that part right). What they believed was “true” to them, but not to us. Our challenge is to put ourselves in their shoes to understand more perfectly the Word of God.
Look again at 1 Cor. 2:7. This wisdom I am showing you now, was not of this world. It was hidden by God in the Secret unto our glory! It was ordained for us. Let us take a look at in the context:
1 Cor 2:1-6
And as for myself, brethren, when I came to you, it was not with surpassing power of eloquence or earthly wisdom that I came, announcing to you that which God had commanded me to bear witness to.2 For I determined to be utterly ignorant, when among you, of everything except of Jesus Christ, and of Him as having been crucified.
3 And so far as I myself was concerned, I came to you in conscious feebleness and in fear and in deep anxiety.
4 And my language and the Message that I proclaimed were not adorned with persuasive words of earthly wisdom, but depended upon truths which the Spirit taught and mightily carried home;
5 so that your trust might rest not on the wisdom of man but on the power of God.
6 Yet when we are among mature believers we do speak words of wisdom; a wisdom not belonging, however, to the present age nor to the leaders of the present age who are soon to pass away.
WeymouthBecoming a mature believer requires weaning yourself off of milk, as a babe in Christ, and desire the meat of the Word. Paul addresses this in Hebrews:
Heb 5:12-6:1
12 For although, considering the long time you have been believers, you ought now to be teachers of others, you really need some one to teach you over again the very rudiments of the truths of God, and you have come to require milk instead of solid food. By people who live on milk I mean those who are imperfectly acquainted with the teaching concerning righteousness. Such persons are mere babes. But solid food is for adults–that is, for (the mature) those who through constant practice have their spiritual faculties carefully trained to distinguish good from evil. Therefore leaving elementary instruction about the Christ, let us advance to mature manhood and not be continually re-laying a foundation of repentance from lifeless works and of faith in God,
Weymouth
Why did God keep The Secret hidden, until he revealed it to the Apostle Paul? Answer:
1 Cor 2:8 “Which none of the princes of this world (the devil and his minions, which includes bad angels) knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. They would not have killed Jesus if they had known what I’m showing you now. Don’t take this lightly or with a grain of salt. The Secret is such a big deal, that if God had not kept it quiet until Paul, these spiritual entities would have kept anyone from taking out Jesus. When Jesus was on the earth he could only be in one place, at one time. Now, we have Christ in us and wherever we are, he is. That’s why God speaks about bringing “many sons to glory!”
As you can see from the quote in Ephesians, the Administration of Grace, to which you and I belong, is The Secret of God. There is a lot more to The Secret than what I am going to say now, because it is not the point I want to make now. The point I want to make now, is that the Angels of Heaven and Jesus didn’t know it; Peter, John, Matthew, Mark and Luke didn’t know it either, until it was revealed to Paul after the Day of Pentecost, the greatest day in the history of the church to which you and I belong.
Since they didn’t know it, they could not speak of anything concerning it. This is why Paul’s Gospel, everything he wrote, is so important for us to be super-knowledgable of. His epistles are the gospel of Jesus Christ, written to us, the Body, not the bride, of Christ, because he received them by revelation from our risen Lord and Savoiur! My main point, is whatever we read anywhere besides these places, does not apply to the times which we now live in, because the time which we now live in were kept SECRET from everyone else. The “gathering together” of all saved believers, known as the rapture, is only pertinent to those of us in this administration of grace, because it is part of The Secret. The return of Christ we read about in the other Gospels and the Book of Revelation has nothing to do with us, because we will already be in Heaven when they take place.
Let’s look at one more passage on this subject before closing:
Col 2:1-3
2 For I would have you know what combat I have for you, and those in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in flesh; to the end that their hearts may be encouraged, being united together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to [the] full knowledge of the Secret of God; in which are hid all the treasures of wisdom and of knowledge.
Darby Let this sink in.
THIS IS THE BIGGEST DEAL OF ALL TIME, to understand, which is why I feel the conviction that I do about this subject, as Paul did:
Eph 6:19-20 “And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the secret of the gospel, for which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak. KJV
God bless,
Fred Wolfe
Updated 9/30/2026
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The Mystery (Secret) Revealed (a solved mystery is no longer)
When Jesus taught his disciples how to pray (what has become known as the Lord’s Prayer), he prayed for God’s kingdom to come, thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven. THIS PRAYER HAS YET TO BE ANSWERED! When Jesus prayed this prayer he did not know about the Secret which God kept hidden from everyone from the foundation of the world. This secret was first revealed to the Apostle Paul and the other Christian Apostles and Prophets.
Rom 16:25-27
25 Now to him that is able to establish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which hath been kept secret since the world began,
26 But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith:
27 To God the only wise, be glory through Jesus Christ for ever. Amen.
WebsterEph 3:1-5
3 For this cause, I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you the nations (Gentiles),
2 if, indeed, ye did hear of the dispensation of the grace of God that was given to me in regard to you,
3 that by revelation He made known to me the secret, according as I wrote before in few [words] —
4 in regard to which ye are able, reading [it], to understand my knowledge in the secret of the Christ,
5 which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as it was now revealed to His holy apostles and prophets (Christian) in the Spirit —
YLT
Since then, very few people have taken notice of it, especially The Church. God kept it a secret for over 4,000 years and virtually no one in the church today can tell you what it was, let alone it’s significance. Practically everything being taught today about the Kingdom of God as it relates to the church of the Body of Christ is FALSE, DEVILISH and COUNTERFEIT, and sickening, to everyone who knows and understands the Secret of Romans 16:25,26; Eph 3:1-9 and Col 1:25-29.
The devil has had about 2,000 years to eradicate its knowledge and has done a marvelous job. The Kingdom of God and of Christ is in the FUTURE, not now! Jesus is not now ruling as King of kings! If he is, he is certainly not doing a very good job! The late Apostle Frederick Price said last Sunday, “if God Almighty is controlling the world, as most Christians think he is, I don’t want to go to Heaven!” If what we see in the world today is a reflection of God’s way of doing things, then what could there possibly be to look forward to? This is not the Kingdom of God! We, Christians, aren’t building any such thing. We are building the Body of Christ.
1 Corinthians 12:27-30
27 Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.
28 And God has appointed in the church, ekklesia, first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, helping, administrating, and various kinds of tongues.
29 Are all apostles? (no) Are all prophets? (no) Are all teachers? (no) Do all work miracles? (all can)
30 Do all possess gifts of healing? (no, but many do) Do all speak with tongues? (no, but all can) Do all interpret? (no, but all can).Ephesians 4:1-8
I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called,
2 with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,
3 eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
4 There is one body and one spirit–just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call–
5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism,
6 one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.
7 But grace was given to each one of us according to the measure of Christ’s gift.
8 Therefore it says, “When he ascended on high he led a host of captives, and he gave gifts to men…..” ESV4:11-16
11 And he gave some as apostles, others as prophets, others as evangelists, others as pastors and teachers,
12 to equip the holy ones (us) for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ,
13 until we all attain to the unity of faith and knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the extent of the full stature of Christ,
14 so that we may no longer be infants, tossed by waves and swept along by every wind of teaching arising from human trickery, from their cunning in the interests of deceitful scheming.
15 Rather, living the truth in love, we should grow in every way into him who is the head, Christ,
16 from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, with the proper functioning of each part, brings about the body’s growth and builds itself up in love. NAB
This is what Christians should be doing, not being kingdom builders! What is it going to take to wake you up? Take a look again at the prayer Jesus taught his Jewish followers to pray: “Our Father who art in heaven.” God’s kingdom is in heaven where he is! Jesus taught them to pray for God’s kingdom to come to earth and now Christian’s pray it every Sunday. If it’s already here, why continue to pray for it to come? Makes no sense.
One of the greatest mistranslations of most translators, has been the Greek word musterion. The problem is it was not translated at all, it was merely transliterated into a similar English word. This word is used throughout the Church Epistles of Paul given by revelation from Jesus himself. These Church Epistles serve as the new doctrine for correct believing for the church today. The transliteration of musterion into mystery was purely satanic, in that it has lead believers to understand that there are some things concerning God that are just unable to be understood. Nothing could be further from the truth. The actual translation of this word is “secret.” It does not regard a secret that any man kept, but one which God kept from the foundation of the world. You and I both know, that a secret between 2 people is one of the hardest things to keep. Deep down inside we are just dying to tell someone else or in some cases, we forget it is a secret over time, and it inadvertently slips out.
Since this was a secret that God kept, it is considered by some a Sacred Secret. No one else, including God’s only Son knew about it. Jesus was not told the secret until he had ascended into Heaven. Soon after he was told this secret, he chose a man named Saul who was a very religious Jew to reveal it to. Saul was so religious he was legally killing followers of Jesus Christ because he believed they were heretics. He was present at the stoning to death of Stephen; he gave the consent for it to be done.
Romans is the first Doctrinal Epistle written directly to believers in Jesus Christ of this Age. As I cited previously, Ro 16:25-26 says, “Now to Him who is able to establish you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery (the secret) which has been kept secret for long ages past, but now is manifested, and by the Scriptures of the (Christian) prophets, according to the commandment of the eternal God, has been made known to all the nations, leading to obedience of faith; NASU
Here we see that this sacred secret was first revealed to Paul for our obedience of true faith and became known as his gospel. Two of the most important words used in his letters the the Church are the words “according to.” When you read these words pay close attention because our lives are to be patterned accordingly. You will see that Paul’s gospel is actually the true gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.
I will leave you with further evidence of this secret revealed from the epistle to the Colossians vss 1:24-29
24 I now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and do fill up the things lacking of the tribulations of the Christ in my flesh for his body, which is the assembly (improperly translated Church),
25 of which I — I did become a ministrant according to the dispensation of God, that was given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God,
26 the secret that hath been hid from the ages and from the generations, but now was manifested to his saints,
27 to whom God did will to make known what is the riches of the glory of this secret among the nations — which is Christ in you, the hope of the glory,
28 whom we proclaim, warning every man, and teaching every man, in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus,
29 for which also I labour, striving according to his working that is working in me in power.
We are now living during this administration of God, just as we are living during the Trump administration. One being spiritual in nature and the other physically. There is nothing more important in the Word of God to understand for the believer than that the Epistles of Paul were written according to revelation from Jesus Christ, making them our supreme guide for faith and practice. There are no mysteries in the Bible at all, just misunderstandings. God bless.
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