What, Another Gospel?

I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed. (Galatians 1:6-9)

Some think that if you believe that people were saved in different ways in different dispensations that you are teaching another gospel. They believe that someone is saved the same way we are across the whole Bible which is simply not true at all and is not what the Bible teaches.

Old Testament saints (with David being an exception) had to work for their salvation unlike today in "the gospel of the grace of God." Our requirement is faith plus no works. Theirs was to, "keep his covenant, and to...remember his commandments...and to do them!" (Psalm 103:17-18) Otherwise, they would die in their sin (Ezekiel 3:20, 18:24, 33:18-19) and have their name blotted out from underneath heaven (Deuteronomy 29:18-20)! That is either never gaining salvation or losing it!

I totally agree that it was not their works that saved them, but their obedience to commands and the blood of Christ (Hebrews 9:15, Romans 3:23). Without the blood of Christ nobody is saved! The OT separates the righteous from the wicked. Those that obeyed the commandments and had faith were the righteous and those that didn't were the wicked. Those that stayed righteous (to some degree that God knows) got saved, but if they didn't, they died in their sins! (Ezekiel 18:24) According to our Lord if somebody dies in their sins he is going to hell, "Then said Jesus again unto them, I go my way, and ye shall seek me, and shall die in your sins: whither I go, ye cannot come." (John 8:21) Of course David sinned, and he pleaded that God not to cast him from his presence and not to take his holy Spirit from him. David knew it was possible to lose his salvation. (Psalm 51:11) David was righteous though. On the other hand, the holy Spirit departed from Saul and an evil spirit entered him and left several times! The last time a spirit was mentioned to be in him it was an evil one before God killed him!

God has the right to require what he demands of each dispensation of people for salvation. He is the Householder who gives out, dispenses, his law (Hebrews 3:1-6). I'm not of the house of Moses; I am of the house of Christ! Paul mentions dispensations four times in the Bible for a reason, there is more than one:

If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward: (Ephesians 3:2; 1 Corinthians 9:17; Colossians. 1:25)

Paul plainly points out that he is teaching a another gospel in another dispensation, otherwise, why would he say, "If ye have heard of the..." He further says:

That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him: (Ephesians 1:10; Romans 11:25)

This obviously is not the aforementioned three that are the same as each other. It is the Rapture which SHUTS THE DOOR TO ENTER INTO BODY OF CHRIST! It signifies the end of the dispensation of grace and the beginning of the great tribulation, even Jacob's trouble.

What actually is this, "another gospel," that Paul is talking about here?

Look at some of Paul's written words:

But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach; (Romans 10:8)

But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness; (1 Corinthians 1:23)

Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus: (Colossians. 1:28)

Paul preached faith and Christ crucified and says we, in that, it is the gospel given to him for them to preach. If it were the same gospel as the other plans of salvation, why is Paul making a distinction? He goes on further to say:

Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began, (Romans 16:25; 2:16; 2 Timothy 2:8)

My gospel, my gospel, my gospel! Three times he says it. He is setting his gospel off from other gospels and plans of salvation in the past and those to come. Here is one that is plain to see, and the angel even calls it by a different name:

And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters. (Revelation 14:6-7)

"Fear God, and give glory to him," does not sound anything like the gospel of grace, nor at least a half dozen other plans of salvation in other dispensations! Look at it under the law:

And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst: The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven. (Deuteronomy 29:19-20)

Honestly, does that sound like, "All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out." (John 6:37)

Psalm 103:18-19 (and context) shows the requirements that God commanded for him to give them salvation from hell:

But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children's children; To such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his commandments to do them.

Ezekiel confirms:

Again, When a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand. Ezekiel 3:20

But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked man doeth, shall he live? All his righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned: in his trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die. Ezekiel 18:24

When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, he shall even die thereby. 19 But if the wicked turn from his wickedness, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby. Ezekiel 33:18

So, back in Galatians 1:8-9 Paul cannot possibly be talking about plans of salvation across the whole Bible, because it is evident that there are others. The only way that it can be interpreted is that Paul was talking about in the dispensation of the grace of God. That is, if anyone preached another gospel in this dispensation besides his gospel, then the curse! Paul did not say that the other plans of salvation are wrong, that there were not any other true gospels or plans of salvation, nor did he even imply it. Paul is simply stating that "there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ." The Galatians were obviously being taught a leavened "gospel of Christ." He was warning them of that.

To run to those verses and try to use them to say that there is one gospel all the way across the Bible is wrong. It is taking the passages out of context and comparing Scripture with Scripture proves this.

Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.