Apostle Paul: Acts Ministry vs. Post-Acts Ministry
The APOSTLE PAUL'S MINISTRY in the ACTS PERIOD was MISSIONARY
FOCUSED with the GOSPEL going "to THE JEW FIRST, and ALSO to THE GREEK" (Romans 1:16)
At PISIDIAN ANTIOCH (Acts 13:14), Paul declared TO THE JEWS - "It was necessary that the Word of
God should FIRST have been spoken TO YOU: but seeing ye put it from you and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting
life, LO, WE TURN TO THE GENTILES" (Acts 13:46)
At CORINTH (Acts 18:1), Paul declared TO THE JEWS - "Your blood be upon your own heads
... FROM HENCEFORTH I will go UNTO THE GENTILES" (Acts 18:6)
At ROME (Acts 28:16), God through Paul passed OFFICIAL JUDGMENT on ISRAEL concerning her
PRESENT PARTIAL BLINDNESS "UNTIL the FULLNESS of the GENTILES be come in" (Romans 11:25) - "SAYING, Go unto THIS PEOPLE, and SAY ..." (Acts 28:25-27 cf.Isaiah 6:9-10) and "BE IT KNOWN UNTO YOU, that the SALVATION of God is SENT
UNTO THE GENTILES, and that they will hear it" (Acts 28:28)
The APOSTLE PAUL'S MINISTRY AFTER the CLOSE of the ACTS
PERIOD was PRISON CENTERED and GENTILE SPECIFIC concerning "the DISPENSATION of the GRACE of God" (Ephesians 3:1-2),
i.e. the DISPENSATION which was a MYSTERY (HIDDEN) concerning the GLORY of which was to be MADE KNOWN "AMONG
THE GENTILES" (Colossians 1:25-27)
Apostle Paul: Prison Epsistles
The APOSTLE PAUL wrote FIVE EPISTLES from PRISON in which
he makes REFERENCE to his "BONDS":