AMY TURNER
In Colossians 1, Paul speaks about a mystery that was hidden through past ages but is now shown to God’s people. This mystery is not something strange or impossible to understand, but truth that was once concealed in the Old Testament and has now been opened in the New.
The Old Testament gives many promises about God, humanity, and redemption. It even points ahead to the Messiah. Yet, details about His birth, His life, His death, His resurrection, and His return to heaven were only seen in a shadowed way by those who came before. Hebrews 11 explains, they trusted in what was coming but did not witness it fully.
Paul says that this includes the incarnation of Christ, the disbelief of Israel, the rise of lawlessness, the unity of Jews and Gentiles in the church, the return of Christ for His people, and Christ living within believers as the hope of glory. These are all called mysteries because they were veiled before but are now clear.
to whom God willed to make known what the wealth of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles is, the mystery that is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
Colossians 1:27
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