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Those whom God is calling now – those the world thinks are insignificant – are being trained to rule the Universe with Christ. That’s right. You are part of a plan so grand that it makes today’s power structures look like dust. God is preparing you to reign with Him in the ages to come.

So, the next time you feel small, left out, or unnoticed – remember this: you’re exactly the kind of person God is getting ready for His ultimate purpose. While the “great ones” of today are quietly being moved offstage, He’s preparing you to step into something far greater.

So, stay the course. Keep your head up and your heart steady. The best is yet to come.

Mark Vogt

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This world, with all of its glitz and counterfeit glory, is fading fast (I Corinthians 7:31). Its wealth, its power players, its proudest minds – they’re not part of God’s end plan. In fact, God is intentionally setting them aside.

Instead, He’s chosen something better: you. Not because you’re mighty or impressive by the world’s standards, but because you’re not. God deliberately selects the weak, the overlooked, and even the despised to carry out His purposes. Why? So that no one can brag or take credit. It’s all about showcasing His grace, His strength, His glory (I Corinthians 1:26-29).

Mark D. Vogt

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On the old TV show Chico and the Man (1974–1978) a young actor/comedian named Freddie Prinze, whose character was Chico, had a catch phrase, “It’s not my job, man,” which he would comically wisecrack to his boss.

In a similar way it’s not our job to evangelize the whole world. We are not under the Great Commission. Never have been. Never will be.

It was indeed Israel’s job to reach the nations, but they failed in that job. Gentiles were never given this job. In the Secret Administration of Grace neither Jews nor gentiles are called to do so. The nation of Israel will once again resume that job after we are gone in the coming end times eons.

Our Current Marching Orders in this Secret Administration of Grace are described by Clyde Pilkington:

God has narrowed our ministry to personal faith and study, perfection through suffering, and witnessing to the Celestials. Only the few called of each generation of the Secret Administration are participants.

Witnessing to the Celestials means simply to live your life. The celestials marvel that God chose flawed vessels like us to rule and reign with Him in the coming ages. We are not to try to be sinless to be examples, nor could we. But by being the flawed vessels that we are, we fulfill our ministry in this life on Earth.

James D. Fine

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Paul was the Apostle and Prophet of the Adjustment, just as all of the recipients of the Ascension Gifts were.

The Ascension Gifts were given “toward the adjusting of the saints for the work of dispensing” (Ephesians 4:12, CV). These gifts were given to adjust the saints from Kingdom truth to the truth of the Secret Administration. Paul uses his gifts to write Philippians, Ephesians, Colossians and Philemon toward that end. Thus finished the adjustment, so that the Secret Administration itself has no remaining gifts, and the members of the One Body are now equipped by these Scriptures to do the work of dispensing (i.e., grace: love, mercy, freedom, kindness, etc.).

Paul was the apostle “toward” this adjustment, but NOT of the Secret Administration itself. In the Secret Administration, and in the One Body, there is ONLY ONE HEAD ALONE – Christ.

Thus, his apostleship ended once the revelation of the Secret Administration was recorded (Ephesians & Colossians).

Clyde Pilkington

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The only solution to sin is death and resurrection to immortality. Then, all will have the vigor of righteousness. Until then, we with Paul rejoice that, when we sin, it has no bearing on who we truly are.

The fact that God “chooses us in Him before the disruption of the world, we to be holy and flawless in His sight,” demonstrates that we pre-date sin, and it is a mere environmental nuisance that we are currently passing through.

They have nothing to do with us, and who we are!

Clyde Pilkington

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The realization that God is sovereign and that we were predestined has brought me incredible peace.

One of the most eye-opening revelations was understanding that we are not the problem in God’s plan, but part of the solution. Christianity often paints us as hopeless sinners, but discovering that we are the “complement of Christ” completely changed my perspective. It’s uplifting to know that we have a role in God’s grand design.

Another critical understanding came from diving into Paul’s writings. Recognizing the differences between Paul’s early epistles and his later ones, like Ephesians and Colossians, is crucial. They present the perfection of God’s plan after the Jews rejected the Kingdom in Acts 28:28. This is when the “new ballgame” starts for believers, focusing on our celestial destiny.

James D. Fine

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When Adam was originally created, Eve was a dormant part of him. God created them male and female and named them “Adam.”

When Eve was formed and given a life of her own, God did not form her from the soil of the ground in a separate creation. Much rather, He took a part right out of Adam and built her from his very flesh.

When we consider the saints of this present Secret Administration, we are told by Paul that the same concept (in regard to Adam and Eve being one) is also the case as to Christ and the Ecclesia! (Ephesians 5:32).

Joseph Marcello

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His Body, the complement [plērōma] of the One Who is completing the all in all (Ephesians 1:23).

We are made complete with the fullness of God. God’s fullness is ours because we are filled with the fullness of Christ Who is filled with the fullness of God. His fullness is ours, His completeness is ours, Christ’s complement is ours, His plērōma is ours. He Who fills Christ full is He Who fills us full in Christ; that which fills His Son also fills His sons …

That the Ecclesia is His Body is a fact that Paul uses to tell us a truth of tremendous import. As God must have the Heavens to complement the Earth, so God must have the Ecclesia to complement His Son.

This is a fact which should stagger all believers. Now we know what God was planning to do from the very beginning. Out of all of the peoples on the face of the Earth He chooses us in Him before the world disruption, and designates us in love to become sons through whom He will display the transcendent riches of His grace to the celestials (1:4-5; 2:6-7).

Frank Neil Pohorlak (1907-1988)
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The “One Body” of Ephesians stretches all the way back to the first age (“chosen before the disruption of the World” – Ephesians 1:4) and stretches all the way to the last age (“the One New Humanity” – Ephesians 2:15; cf. Revelation 21:5). The “One Body” being the subject of the Secret Administration, it stands positionally outside of the other three ages.

Just as Paul had a premature ministry to the Nations during the Acts Period, which was the foretaste of the coming age, when they would be drawn to Israel’s rise, so likewise those of the Secret Administration have the foretaste of the final age, with reconciliation and a New Humanity.

Clyde L. Pilkington, Jr.
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