Introduction
This is a greatly misunderstood epistle, which most gloss over, missing the amazing jewels of truth laced from the first sentence to the last. Paul was greatly endowed with wisdom and knowledge, which only saints filled and guided by the Holy Spirit may be able to understand. The Bible is truly breathed by the Holy Spirit as literally every single word in the original uninflected manuscripts, was placed by design, for the purpose of communicating a flawless message. It is for this reason that we must study these words carefully and not casually peruse the epistles, lest we lose the fundamental message being preached.
Paul artfully rationalises the purpose of affliction endured by Christians defending the gospel, and how this proportionately increases in degree as we cause greater damage in Satan’s battalions, through our spiritual growth and winning of souls. Our spiritual growth is also inversely proportional to our worldly strength, greater warriors in the spiritual battle, appearing weaker in bodily and worldly perception, as Satan increases persecution against the greater soldiers of Messiah. Paul expounds on the difference in glory between the Old Testament and new, without denigrating the former, but expressing the reasons for the superiority of the latter. This we shall see in chapter 3.
Foolishly, a great deal of commentary over the centuries has been wasted upon falsely interpreting Paul’s words as doing away with Torah, through ignorance or by deliberate acts. The poor English translations of the original Greek have largely been responsible for this great deception. Even the KJV falls short regarding this matter, as clearly the translators allowed bias and preconceived notions to compromise the message. If chapter 3 cannot be understood by the reader, the message of the whole epistle will be totally missed. We shall discover that the ministration of Torah in the old covenant needed dispensing as the Aaronic priesthood was compromising the full expression of the glorious Torah.
The new covenant ushered in the more glorious ministration of this Torah, through the Holy Spirit of Yeshua, perfecting the glory of Torah in our hearts. Paul goes to great lengths to elucidate this terribly important reality missed by most Christians in their lives. So mysterious was this plan of perfecting the Old Testament with the new, that even Satan and his angels missed it. Yet after the first advent of Messiah we have been bestowed with the grace of Elohim to partake in this beautiful life-giving New Testament. We shall learn that we are totally powerless in the spiritual world. Being vessels of clay, we stand no chance against Satan and his emissaries.
However, the glory of Elohim residing in the hearts of born-again, obedient and fully submissive saints, enables the mighty power of the Holy Spirit to work through them to annihilate the kingdom of Satan. Such saints are a new creation living in Messiah, turning away from fleshly ways and wholly focusing on living a spiritual life, led by the Holy Spirit of Elohim. This reconciles us to Elohim, a concept which is expanded on in chapters 5 and 6. This gospel of grace given to us for the reconciliation of not only the saints but also of the lost unto Elohim, is a major theme of the epistle. Unfortunately, just about every commentary twists this concept into that of money being given to the church in chapters 8 and 9. This misinterpretation is fully blamed upon the translators of the Bible, the KJV largely being responsible, as words have been added to the Bible and changed to conform with the bias and misconceived opinions of the translators in favour of such a mistruth.
I shall fully expose this lie which has allowed the fraudulent prosperity gospel, and the Vatican to amass vast sums of wealth from the deluded masses. Paul moves on to defending the legitimacy of his apostleship to the Corinthians, in his bid to expose the wolves in sheep’s clothing who had hijacked the pulpits, preaching a false gospel, of another Messiah contrary to that of Yeshua. These agents of Satan were within the Christian ecclesia, using twisting of scripture to amass wealth and fame and kudos from the unsuspecting ignorant congregants. History truly does repeat itself, as this wicked conduct seems to have peaked in our generation. Lastly Paul closes by expressing his intentions to visit the Corinthians for a third time, hoping to find them reformed. He did send Titus and two unnamed brethren ahead of him, to prepare the congregants for his arrival, so he would not be dismayed to find an unrepentant congregation, which would need severe scolding.