Class 4 from this series was used in GCT Episode 397.
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Good morning, brothers, sisters.
Well, the Lord Jesus Christ
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Good morning, brothers, sisters.
Well, the Lord Jesus Christ
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tastes his disciples to Caesarea
Philippi.
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Why?
Why is he taking the Caesarea
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Philippi?
It is completely out of the way.
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It’s all the way up here at the
base of Mount Hermon, probably
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as far away as tired and siding.
As far as we know, we hadn’t
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gone there before, and it never
went there afterwards.
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Clearly this is a significant
moment for the Lord Jesus
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Christ.
Why take them to Caesarea
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Philippi?
I suppose if you’re just trying
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to escape Judaism, there’s lots
of places you could go, right?
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Why all the way up there?
Why not stop halfway in between?
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Caesarea Philippi is located
about, as you can see on the
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map, about 25 miles north of the
Sea of Galilee.
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It was in the territory of the
tetrarchy of Herod Philip, close
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to the border of Syria, as we
now understand Syria according
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to our modern maps.
So the city had a very large
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spring, and from it, this spring
was one of the main sources of
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the Jordan River.
So it was a it was a fertile, it
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was a beautiful area.
And because it was so fertile
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and so beautiful that it became
a place for cultish religious
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practice.
In fact, Caesarea Philippi
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became known and renown for
Pagan worship.
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And as you can see on this map
behind us we have here the
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Temple of Zeus.
And over here we have the Temple
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of Augustus, the Imperial cult.
And in between we have the court
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of Pan.
You’ll you’ll notice about Pan
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Pan is 1/2 goat, half man figure
and he was the God of nature,
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the God of shepherds, the God of
the wild.
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He’s often depicted with a
flute, which are now known as
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the Pan pipes.
He was not a God that you would
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worship in temples like you
might worship Augustus or or
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Zeus.
You notice that there’s no
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temple there.
He’s he’s worshipped in wild
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open places, especially caves or
grottos.
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There’s one on the northern face
of the Acropolis in Athens.
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There’s a cave and there is a
shrine to Pan there.
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And of course, when they saw
this cave, they thought of Pan
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and they devoted an area to his
worship there.
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So as we mentioned in Caesarea
Philipa, you have this large
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spring and a spring flowing from
it and you have a cave, and that
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is considered, or was considered
the gate of Hades.
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That cave, it was very difficult
to know the bottom of it.
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In fact, probably in those days,
if you ever saw the bottom of
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it, you’d never get out right.
So it is A and the bottom of it
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was hidden because it was
totally dark.
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So for them it was as if it was
bottomless and therefore going
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down into the endless abyss and
something that that the Pagan
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worshippers would consider to be
a gate into Hades.
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Now Caesarea Philippi was
renamed by Herod Philip.
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Before it was called Caesarea
Philippi, it was given a
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different name.
It was given the name Panius
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after this God Pan, but he
renamed it in 80.
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No, excuse me, BC 19 to reflect
the city’s political loyalty to
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Rome.
He didn’t do it, but Herod the
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Great renamed it.
So emperor worship was something
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that was practiced very widely
in the Roman Empire.
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Citizens were required to
venerate the Roman Emperor as a
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divine figure, as a savior, as
it were.
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Subjects would offer sacrifices
and they would proclaim
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allegiance to the Caesar at
these temples.
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They would call him Lord, they
would call him savior.
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It it almost wasn’t as much of
an act of worship as it was an
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act of political loyalty.
It was maybe the most truly
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Roman thing you could do right
is is go to the, the the shrine
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or the temple of the, of the, of
the Caesar and to offer a
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sacrifice.
And of course, beyond this, we
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have the the temple of Zeus, the
the king of the Pagan gods as a
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focal point of the Pagan
religion in the place.
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So, So what I’m really getting
at is Caesarea Philippi
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interestingly brings together
three things.
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Have you noticed the three
things?
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Maybe I’d just point out to you
the three things of this city
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seems to be almost uniquely
capable of pulling together in
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one place.
See, firstly you have Roman
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tradition.
Secondly you have the worship of
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men.
Now why would I say the worship
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of men to worship Pan is the
worship animal instinct?
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Now maybe I haven’t painted the
picture clearly enough to you to
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understand that, but if you want
to do some research on your own
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about the God Pan, you would
understand He’s almost always
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portrayed sexually.
If you didn’t know.
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That’s why his legs are always
spread open all the statues,
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right?
It’s not an accident just to the
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God Pan is is a God of
sexuality, but not sexuality.
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Like Aphrodite may be the God of
love and sexuality.
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Sexuality in terms of it’s a
natural instinct and and of
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course you can see it.
He’s half man, half animal.
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He’s a beast.
And there’s something about that
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that men thought they ought to
worship.
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And so they create a man, or
God, I should say, half man,
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half beast, and to worship it
so.
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So what you have here is you
have worshiping the Caesar, and
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then you have worship of men.
And then of course you have
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Pagan religion.
You have all three of those
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things brought together in one
place, and interestingly, the
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Lord Jesus Christ brings his
disciples here.
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It was in the shadow of of these
institutions that Peter’s going
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to say that you are the Messiah,
the Son of the living God.
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That is a deeply unroman thing
to say.
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And he made that declaration in
Caesarea Philippi.
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It was in that place that Jesus
said that the gates of Hades
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will not prevail against his
ecclesia.
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What he’s saying is that the
true ecclesia, the true
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ecclesia, the true ecclesia of
called out ones, would not
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succumb to Roman tradition,
would not succumb to the worship
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of men, would not succumb to
paganism if it was his ecclesia,
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that this ecclesia was going to
go out into the Gentile world in
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which there are many lost and
many hungry.
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But for that ecclesia to
survive, it would not succumb to
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Roman tradition, it would not
succumb to the worship of men,
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it would not succumb to Pagan
religion, or else if it did, it
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would be destroyed in Hades.
So it’s not without some irony.
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Then I, I, I want you to see the
irony to, to me, the irony just
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jumps off the page.
It’s not without some irony that
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based on the reinterpretation of
Matthew 16, men have built a
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religion that is almost the
perfect combination of Roman
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tradition, the worship of men,
and Pagan ritual.
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I wonder if that’s a
coincidence, or maybe Jesus
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knew.
What do you think?
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The implication of the words of
Jesus is that any religion that
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bases itself on anything but an
accurate and true understanding
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of who he is will descend into
Hades.
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Now I want to give you a couple
of examples in the scripture of
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religious systems that descended
into Hades.
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And funny, they all have to do
with stones, isn’t that It’s a
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little interesting thing.
I don’t know if there’s
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something to that or not, Right.
But but examples of religious
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systems that descended into
Hades.
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Let’s, let’s start with this
one.
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So here is Caesarea Philippi.
Now, what city is Caesarea
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Philippi?
Very close to Dan.
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What was it?
What happened to Dan?
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There’s a golden calf and Dan
wasn’t wasn’t there right.
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It’s it’s basically a short
walk.
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I mean, I, it’s not that far.
That’s maybe 2 kilometers.
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So 2 kilometers away for where
the word Jesus Christ was, you
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know, almost seeing distance was
the ruins of where Jeroboam had
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set up a golden calf.
Now the other where’s the other
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places to have the golden calf?
Bethel.
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OK, so now why did he set up the
why did he think to set up that
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Cath in Bethel?
Well, you can say, well, it’s
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kind of in between Samaria and
Jerusalem.
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But there might be another
reason he chose Bethel.
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I don’t know if he’s this
clever, but if he was this
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clever, this might have been his
reason for setting it up in
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Bethel was because in Bethel
Jacob had a vision and
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interesting what he says in this
vision in Genesis chapter 28 and
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verse 15, God says to him, this
is the Lord speaking through an
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Angel, says I am with thee
Jacob, and will keep thee Jacob,
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in all places where thou goest.
Now what do you think?
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What do you think?
God’s saying?
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He’s saying, Jacob, wherever you
go, I’m with you.
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If if you’re about to flee up to
the 10s of Laban, I’m with you
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there.
If if you’re fleeing away from
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Esau, I’m with you there.
If you come back to your father
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Isaac, I’m with you there.
I’m with you.
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With all places you go, I’m with
you.
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But what, how does Jacob
interpret this, this vision and
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sign from God?
Well, interestingly, he says
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this.
How awesome is this place,
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Bethel?
This is none other than the
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House of God, which is what
Bethel means by the way.
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House of God, this is the gate
of heaven.
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Bethel, the gate of heaven.
This is the place where heaven
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and earth meet.
And there’s a gate there.
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There’s a ladder as it were, or
staircase, right?
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This is this is the gate of
heaven.
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OK, but was Bethel the gate of
heaven?
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Brothers and sisters, what did
God say that Bethel was the gate
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of heaven?
Because what would happen there?
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Well, we know in Second Kings
what Josiah did to that place.
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Because of the abominations set
up by Jeroboam, Josiah broke in
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pieces its stones, crushing them
to dust.
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Also he burned the asherah he
sent and took the bones of the
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tombs, and he burned them on the
altar, and he defiled it.
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So what Josiah did is he took
something that was erroneously
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called the Gate of Heaven, and
he made it into the gate of
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Hades.
He broke its stones, he ground
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them to dust.
See, Jeroboam used God’s name
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and proclaimed that this golden
calf had delivered his people
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from Egypt, and he called it
Yahweh.
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And it sounded right.
He’d have some truth to it,
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didn’t it?
Like God had Yahweh had
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delivered them from Egypt.
There’s some truth to that, but
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he mixed it with air.
But did Jeroboam build a
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religious system over which the
gates of Hades would have no
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power?
Well, let’s look at another
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example in Matthew 24 verse 2,
they’re looking at all the
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impressive buildings of the
temple from the Mount of Olives
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and looking at all of that.
Jesus says, you see all these,
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do you not?
I say to you, there will not be
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left here 1 stone upon another
that will not be thrown down.
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You see, brothers and sisters,
the gates of Hades will prevail
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over any building or institution
that is founded on men, that is
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founded on their wisdom.
There’s no system, it seems,
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that men can’t corrupt, no
building that they create that
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cannot be burned down.
The stones of Bethel are ground
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to dust, the stones of the
Second Temple abandoned by God
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because it was a den of thieves.
Not one stone was left upon
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another.
And we can build the foundations
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of our faith on the wrong
stones.
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What happens when one of our
prominent brethren is caught in
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some heinous sin?
Happens.
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What happens when one of our
brethren launders money?
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It’s happened.
What happens when there’s some
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in the faith that betray us?
What have we been building on?
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If we build on men, if we build
on emperors, if we build on
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fleshly ideas, ideas, the sorts
of things that men savor, the
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gates of Hades is going to
prevail over the ecclesia
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because it’s no longer Christ
ecclesia.
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And do you know what the gates
of Hades have to prevail over
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those systems?
Do you know why?
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Because God created death to
house those systems.
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That’s why you created death.
Death has to house them because
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that’s where they belong.
So the question we’re being
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asked is what sort of stones are
we building on, Brothers,
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sisters?
Because if the stones are man
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made, they’re not going to last.
But what will last, what the
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gates of Hades will not prevail
against, is faith that the Lord
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Jesus Christ is the Messiah, the
Son of the living God.
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And the reason that Hades will
never prevail against that is
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because it’s truth.
An ecclesia of believers with
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that faith will live because
they are found in the Book of
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Life.
In fact, they are a pillar and
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not the temple of Herod and not
the buildings of Jeroboam.
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They are a pillar in the temple
of Jesus’s God.
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And Hades will never prevail
against that.
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To such the second death has no
power.
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But we asked a question, How did
the Catholic Church so corrupt
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these words, these words in
Matthew 16?
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How did they corrupt them?
And to find out how the Catholic
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Church has so corrupted the
words of Matthew 16, I got to
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tell you a story.
It’s a story from history.
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Does anyone like history?
Oh, hey, more than just two of
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us, really.
Who?
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Who doesn’t like history?
Oh, you’re all shy now, Right?
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Right.
So, so we, we all.
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So it’s OK if I tell you a story
from history, right?
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You know, when I, when I was
younger, I wanted to be history
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teacher.
So I’m just going to pretend I’m
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a history teacher now.
So the story begins in 1870.
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Can anyone think on the top of
their mind anything interesting
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happened in 1870?
Oh, yeah.
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Well, you know where the story’s
going.
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Wow.
You.
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You are smart One.
You’re going to get an A+ in my
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class.
Right.
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All right, So the story begins
in 1870.
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And you have to understand, in
1870, the world outside the
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Vatican is totally in upheaval.
That is, that is probably
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understating the case.
So.
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So of course, by 1870, the
Catholic Church for over 1000
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years, going back to the time of
Charlemagne around the year 800,
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had had such extreme power over
nations and over tribes and
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influence over the kings and
consciences that it could hardly
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understand what was happening to
it.
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It looked around and it had no
defenders.
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There’s no one to help it.
The the the Italian unification
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movement under Mazzini Garibaldi
and Count Cavour was was taking
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the the the the city states of
Italy 1 by 1 and uniting them in
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a combined government.
But that’s the only one part of
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the story, because it, of
course, the Enlightenment had
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been eating away at the Catholic
Church’s grip on the hearts and
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minds of the people.
There’s a rise of liberalism and
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of rationalism.
And they were, they were, they
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were debating and rejecting the
idea that the Catholic Church
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was an institution that spoke
for God.
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The Church had thrived on being
able for time, time and a half a
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time to suppress dissent with
violence because that’s what it
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had always done.
Anytime anyone had had tried to
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put the church in its place,
where the the church would
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simply raise using its political
power and its political
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connections.
It would create armies and it
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would create Gestapo’s that
would go out and it would just
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suppress dissent and suppress
the people.
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But it could no longer do that
because it didn’t have political
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allies willing to come to its
aid for the first time in many
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years.
Now, the man at the, oh, by the
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way, this is the Papal States
after the Treaty of Vienna in
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1815.
So kind of like the Treaty of
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Vienna was how Europe figured
out how to organize itself post
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Napoleon.
OK.
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And obviously a vast area and
this much was annexed in 1860
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and that was annexed in 1870.
In fact, by the time you get to
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1870, the Italian armies are
sitting right outside Rome.
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So they’ve taken, they’ve taken
everything else.
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Now, the man at the middle of
the crisis, who’s that?
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Well, that man is Pius the 9th.
Now, Pius the 9th was determined
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to hold on to power at all
costs.
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So as he’s seeing his political
dominion crumble, he will not
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admit defeat.
He has no army to come to his
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aid.
There are no politicians or
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kings or emperors in Europe
willing to help him.
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So what is he going to do?
Well, he has a couple options,
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right?
This Pius the 9th, he could
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reform or he could centralized
power.
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So what he does is he calls for
a ecumenical council.
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Now, there hadn’t been an
ecumenical council in the
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Catholic Church up to this point
for over 300 years.
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So these things weren’t maybe
not as common as they were
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previously.
So he calls the bishops and
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archbishops and Cardinals from
all over the Catholic world.
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He calls them to Rome while the
armies are sitting outside the
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Vatican.
He figures if I lose political
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dominion then I’m going to claim
my spiritual dominion is
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absolute.
That’s the thinking of the man.
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If I lose one, I’m going to
double down on the other one.
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So at this Vatican Council, he
seeks to consolidate power,
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power in the hands of the
papacy.
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Now, to pull this off, he needs
a passage that appears to come
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directly from Christ.
So giving coming from Christ
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kind of gives it a bit of divine
legitimacy.
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However, it needs to be based on
tradition rather than
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scholarship.
I mean, how have we
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traditionally understood this
passage?
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That way, whenever scholarship
about the passage exists, I can
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just sweep it away because of
course, we’ve been interpreting
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it this way for many, many
years.
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So scholarship has no place in
this discussion.
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So he needs that too.
Thirdly, he needed something
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that couldn’t be overridden by
other church authorities or
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councils.
Like, it’s something that was
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absolute.
And lastly, he needs something
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that definitely couldn’t be
negotiated or contested
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politically.
It’s not something that a
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politician could say or do
anything about.
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So with these four requirements,
the Council would declare the
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First Vatican Council 1870 would
declare that Peter among all the
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apostles was the supreme
apostle.
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According to this
interpretation, Peter was given
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universal jurisdiction.
Peter was given infallible
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authority and the power of
perpetual succession.
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And from these ideas emerge the
idea of papal infallibility,
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which asserts that the Pope,
under special conditions, is
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incapable of air.
Now the derivative, according to
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the Catholics, of all these ID’s
is Matthew 16.
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I say unto thee, Thou art Peter.
Upon this rock I will build my
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ecclesia or church as they would
translate it right, and the
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gates of hell should not prevail
against it.
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And I will give unto thee the
keys of the Kingdom of heaven.
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And whatsoever thou shalt bind
on earth shall be bound in
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heaven, and whatsoever thou
shalt loose on earth shall be
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loosed in heaven.
And you see that we’ve been
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thinking about these symbols.
What do they mean?
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Well, we’re not the only ones
that have done that.
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The Catholic Church, with its
billions, have thought about
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these verses as well, and
they’ve come to perhaps separate
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interpretations.
Young people, you might think
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that Bible study isn’t important
in terms of understanding
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symbols.
You might look at a passage
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which has symbols like a rock.
You might say, it does it really
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matter how we interpret this
symbol?
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It does.
It matters because this is how
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the Catholic Church interprets
them.
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Peter’s the Rock.
In their view, the Catholic
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Church itself is founded not on
Christ.
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The Church is not founded on
Christ.
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It is founded on Peter.
Peter personally.
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And from this premise, the
Church argues that Peter was
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appointed as the universal head
of the Church and has authority
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over all Christians.
More to say, I’m not that in a
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moment.
Secondly, what does it mean to
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bind and loosen?
Well, the Catholic Church
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further claim that Peter alone
has the authority to bind and to
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loose.
That is, Peter could make
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decisions that Heaven was
required to ratify.
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So this place is Peter at the
place of supreme jurisdictional
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authority, with Heaven basically
following earth’s lead.
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And the Church interprets
binding and loosening as a
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license for the Pope as Peter’s
successor, basically to declare
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doctrine or issue commands that
heaven’s obliged to accept
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whether or not they have
scriptural precedent.
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That’s their interpretation.
And thirdly, it may be the most
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bold, because there’s nothing
you can.
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There’s nothing about Matthew 16
that says anything about this.
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The baby, the bulls claim, is
that the authority was given to
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Peter and transferred to his
successors, which they then
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considered to be the bishops of
Rome, creating an unbroken chain
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of papal authority.
Now, Matthew 16 is quoted often
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in their official documents from
Vatican 1.
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You won’t be surprised here.
And this is one of those quotes.
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The document that outlines these
ideas is called Pasteur.
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I can’t really speak Aladdin, so
excuse me, Alternis.
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OK.
And we read there.
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For I I love how they I love how
they begin this for none could
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deny.
As if we’re not really
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interested in anyone else having
an opinion here.
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For none could deny.
And it is known to all ages.
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So yeah, again, it rests on
tradition, not scholarship.
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Renanca deny and is known to all
ages, that the holy and most
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blessed Peter, the Prince and
head of the Apostles, the pillar
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of the faith and the foundation
of the Catholic Church, received
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the keys of the Kingdom from our
Lord Jesus Christ, the Savior
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and Redeemer of the human race.
And that to Him was given the
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power of binding and losing,
which power is perpetuated in
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the Roman Pontiffs who are his
successor.
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So again, here’s a summary.
Peter is the Prince and head of
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the Church, the Apostles and the
foundation.
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The power of binding and
loosening was given to Peter
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alone, proving that he has
jurisdiction over all
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Christians.
And lastly, this authority is
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perpetuated in the office of the
Roman Pontiff, creating an
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unbroken chain of papal
authority.
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Now look at this and I think,
where do I start?
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Where do, where do I?
Where do I start?
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Maybe I should show that Peter
never ruled over the over the
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church.
For example, did Peter preside
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at the Jerusalem conference?
No.
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Did did Peter claim to have
universal authority over all
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decisions when Paul confronted
him in Galatians chapter 2?
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No, I thought maybe I could give
you a quote from Peter.
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I mean, I don’t know, maybe you
want to cross reference this
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quote because you wouldn’t need
to cross reference this quote
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unless you had this Catholic ID
in your head.
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But if you did, this would be a
useful cross reference because
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this is how Peter refers to
himself in relation to others
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and in relation to Christ.
Now that’s useful.
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How does Peter, after Christ has
ascended into heaven, how does
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Peter refer to himself in
relation to others and in
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relation to the Lord Jesus
Christ?
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Well, there’s a passage for
Peter does that.
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Do you know what passage that
is?
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It’s first Peter chapter 5,
verses 1 and 2.
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He says the elders which are
among you, I exhort, who am also
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an elder.
Any does he?
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Is he claiming any special
authority there?
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By the way, he’s one among many,
isn’t he?
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Feed the flock of God, which is
among you, taking the oversight
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thereof.
And when the chief shepherd
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shall appear Now, who does he
think is really in charge?
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Shall ye shall receive a crown
of glory that fadeth not away.
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So I thought that was helpful
maybe or or maybe we need to go
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to some place where where where
Jesus very clearly does not
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provide the authority to bind
and loosen to be Peter’s alone
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00:33:37,680 –> 00:33:40,560
authority, but is given to all
the apostles because Matthew
437
00:33:40,560 –> 00:33:43,960
chapter 18 verse 18 says very
nice saying to you what’s there.
438
00:33:43,960 –> 00:33:49,600
I I can talk like a text in here
whatsoever ye all shall bind on
439
00:33:49,600 –> 00:33:52,320
earth and shall be bound in
heaven and whatsoever ye all
440
00:33:52,360 –> 00:33:54,120
see, you know what’s up with
English?
441
00:33:54,120 –> 00:33:56,400
Why don’t we have y’all?
It’s a very useful turn of
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00:33:56,400 –> 00:33:57,480
phrase, isn’t it?
Right.
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00:33:58,360 –> 00:34:01,800
I mean, I mean, I might be
talking to you or might be
444
00:34:01,800 –> 00:34:06,760
talking to you all right, like
like obviously I actually, as
445
00:34:06,760 –> 00:34:11,840
much as we might sort of mock
it, it’s very, very useful to
446
00:34:11,840 –> 00:34:13,960
know whether I’m talking to you
or you.
447
00:34:14,760 –> 00:34:18,719
Like that is that is a that most
other languages do not have that
448
00:34:18,719 –> 00:34:21,480
problem.
Greek doesn’t have that problem
449
00:34:21,480 –> 00:34:22,840
and Latin doesn’t have that
problem.
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00:34:22,840 –> 00:34:26,440
Even Hebrew doesn’t have that
problem, but English, we need a
451
00:34:26,440 –> 00:34:30,480
y’all if you ask me, right?
So I’m just going to add the
452
00:34:30,480 –> 00:34:33,440
y’all in here so you guys all
understand what I’m talking
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00:34:33,440 –> 00:34:35,600
about right?
Barely.
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00:34:35,600 –> 00:34:40,360
I barely I say unto you,
whatsoever ye all shall bind on
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00:34:40,360 –> 00:34:43,480
earth shall be bound in heaven.
Whatsoever ye all shall loose on
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00:34:43,480 –> 00:34:49,120
earth shall be loosed in heaven,
right so that that word is is a
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00:34:49,120 –> 00:34:56,159
plural you in the Greek so so
Jesus is is is giving this power
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00:34:56,159 –> 00:35:00,920
to all the apostles.
And in fact, perhaps if you look
459
00:35:00,920 –> 00:35:03,800
in the context of Matthew
chapter 18, maybe giving it to
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00:35:05,320 –> 00:35:10,360
ecclesial leaders in terms of
dealing with problems of
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00:35:10,360 –> 00:35:17,160
conflict within the ecclesia.
Anyways, that aside, maybe we
462
00:35:17,160 –> 00:35:22,440
should simply point out the
personal nature of what Jesus
463
00:35:22,440 –> 00:35:26,760
was saying in Matthew 16,
because you’ll notice that
464
00:35:26,920 –> 00:35:29,480
there’s nothing in Matthew 16
about office.
465
00:35:30,520 –> 00:35:36,320
In fact, Jesus seems to go out
of his way to not give Peter a
466
00:35:36,320 –> 00:35:42,000
title in Matthew 15.
He doesn’t say Blessed are you
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00:35:42,000 –> 00:35:46,520
Peter, Prince of the Apostles?
That’s a title.
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00:35:47,760 –> 00:35:50,800
Blessed.
Are you Peter, head of the
469
00:35:50,800 –> 00:35:53,160
ecclesia?
That’d be a title.
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00:35:54,320 –> 00:35:56,440
Now.
Now, a title you could
471
00:35:56,760 –> 00:36:02,680
reasonably pass along to a
successor, but what does he say?
472
00:36:02,960 –> 00:36:06,000
Bless you, Peter.
What is it?
473
00:36:06,000 –> 00:36:13,960
This means you talk, right?
Bless you, Peter Barjona, Right?
474
00:36:15,960 –> 00:36:20,480
It’s almost as if he’s saying
I’m going to make this so
475
00:36:20,480 –> 00:36:24,680
specifically you that no one
else can claim this title.
476
00:36:26,560 –> 00:36:31,040
Do you see that he doesn’t give
Peter a title?
477
00:36:31,120 –> 00:36:33,440
He doesn’t just say Peter
because maybe Peter becomes a
478
00:36:33,440 –> 00:36:37,680
title stone.
It’s Peter, son of this man,
479
00:36:38,800 –> 00:36:48,300
specifically you.
I’m giving you these keys, but
480
00:36:48,300 –> 00:36:53,460
the one thing I most want to
focus on is the idea of binding
481
00:36:53,460 –> 00:36:56,300
and loosening because that seems
to have the largest implications
482
00:36:56,300 –> 00:37:00,480
here.
So how would binding and
483
00:37:00,480 –> 00:37:03,400
loosening be understood in Jesus
day?
484
00:37:03,760 –> 00:37:06,880
So binding and loosening was a
rabbinic term.
485
00:37:07,400 –> 00:37:10,920
You know that because Jesus uses
it that way when he calls it
486
00:37:10,920 –> 00:37:15,120
says to the rabbis in Matthew
chapter 23, you bind burdens
487
00:37:15,200 –> 00:37:20,280
grievous to be born.
OK, so binding or or or or we
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00:37:20,280 –> 00:37:25,720
read in, in Isaiah 58 yesterday
where it says, what’s the, what
489
00:37:25,720 –> 00:37:30,400
is the Sabbath I desire?
What’s the fastest I request to
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00:37:30,400 –> 00:37:34,280
unloose the burdens, unbind the
burdens.
491
00:37:34,400 –> 00:37:38,920
You see, binding is this idea of
taking an animal, maybe like a
492
00:37:38,920 –> 00:37:42,440
donkey that carries a lot of
weight and you bind to the
493
00:37:42,440 –> 00:37:47,280
donkey the weight.
And then after the end of the
494
00:37:47,280 –> 00:37:49,960
journey, you unloose the weight
from the donkey.
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00:37:49,960 –> 00:37:53,240
So it’s a burden.
And So what happens is a
496
00:37:53,240 –> 00:37:58,960
rabbinic term for interpreting a
passage in a way that requires
497
00:37:58,960 –> 00:38:03,240
obedience, or interpreting a
passage in a way that relieves
498
00:38:03,240 –> 00:38:08,680
the requirement of obedience.
OK, binding and loosening.
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00:38:09,000 –> 00:38:12,160
It’s basically saying it’s a way
of interpreting Scripture.
500
00:38:12,960 –> 00:38:15,440
Now, what’s important about
that?
501
00:38:16,200 –> 00:38:17,840
Well, here’s what’s important
about that.
502
00:38:19,800 –> 00:38:21,760
Scripture is the thing you’re
interpreting.
503
00:38:24,400 –> 00:38:29,960
Even if you complain about the
Pharisees interpretations, one
504
00:38:29,960 –> 00:38:33,960
thing is going to be common in
all their interpretations and
505
00:38:33,960 –> 00:38:40,280
that is is that they are
interpretations of scripture.
506
00:38:44,000 –> 00:38:51,000
Do you see that Scripture is
prescient and now I am
507
00:38:51,000 –> 00:38:53,840
interpreting it to bind or
loosen?
508
00:38:55,520 –> 00:38:59,840
That’s how Jesus disciples would
have understood it.
509
00:39:00,840 –> 00:39:05,520
I’m interpreting Scripture.
How did the Catholic understand
510
00:39:05,520 –> 00:39:09,120
that?
Well, Peter or his assessors can
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00:39:09,120 –> 00:39:13,280
bind or loose of their own
volition independent of
512
00:39:13,280 –> 00:39:16,440
Scripture.
And heaven will ratify whatever
513
00:39:16,440 –> 00:39:19,200
the Pope commands, even if it’s
not based on God’s Word.
514
00:39:19,480 –> 00:39:22,880
That’s their interpretation.
You see how that’s very
515
00:39:22,880 –> 00:39:27,800
different in one Scripture’s at
the heart.
516
00:39:28,720 –> 00:39:31,560
The other is it doesn’t really
matter what scripture says.
517
00:39:35,160 –> 00:39:38,000
The decision is itself
precedent.
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00:39:41,160 –> 00:39:47,600
OK, well let’s look at the
another example here in Jesus
519
00:39:47,600 –> 00:39:50,160
Jesus day, Scripture is the
ultimate precedent.
520
00:39:50,720 –> 00:39:55,560
Pope decides and heaven in a
sense rubber stamps.
521
00:39:57,600 –> 00:40:00,080
So you see there, I just want
you to understand that these are
522
00:40:00,080 –> 00:40:03,400
very different understandings of
what binding or loosening might
523
00:40:03,560 –> 00:40:11,080
might mean.
But we have the words in Matthew
524
00:40:11,080 –> 00:40:16,320
chapter 16 which almost give the
idea that the Catholic idea is
525
00:40:16,320 –> 00:40:19,600
the right one.
Because let me just let me just
526
00:40:19,600 –> 00:40:22,160
throw back up on screen and see
if you see the trouble.
527
00:40:24,840 –> 00:40:29,120
English Whatsoever thou shalt
bind in earth shall be bound in
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00:40:29,120 –> 00:40:31,240
heaven.
Whatsoever thou shalt loose in
529
00:40:31,240 –> 00:40:35,440
earth shall be loosed in heaven.
So it feels like there’s an
530
00:40:35,440 –> 00:40:39,080
order here.
It feels like something’s
531
00:40:39,080 –> 00:40:43,200
happening on earth.
And then And then what’s
532
00:40:43,200 –> 00:40:44,920
happening is heaven’s going.
Yeah.
533
00:40:45,320 –> 00:40:46,560
Good.
Boo.
534
00:40:47,400 –> 00:40:50,280
You’ve decided.
I agree.
535
00:40:51,000 –> 00:40:54,520
You bound it here, I’m now going
to bind it in heaven.
536
00:40:55,000 –> 00:40:58,240
You lose it here, I’m now going
to lose it in heaven.
537
00:40:58,240 –> 00:41:00,960
Like there’s an order.
You see that now?
538
00:41:01,280 –> 00:41:06,280
Interestingly, the Vulgate,
which is the Latin translation
539
00:41:06,560 –> 00:41:10,920
of the Greek text which is made
by Jerome in the in the three
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00:41:10,920 –> 00:41:20,520
hundreds, reads the same way.
Earth, heaven, earth, heaven.
541
00:41:21,040 –> 00:41:26,880
Like there’s an order.
Now, young people, have you
542
00:41:26,880 –> 00:41:30,520
ever, ever listened to a brother
up here talking and he’s using
543
00:41:30,520 –> 00:41:34,200
like he’s he’s interpreting
scripture and what he’s doing is
544
00:41:34,200 –> 00:41:36,280
he’s going, well, wait, we need
to look at the Greek.
545
00:41:36,440 –> 00:41:39,440
And even worse, ever seen a
brother go like we need to look
546
00:41:39,440 –> 00:41:41,680
at the tenses of words in the
Greek.
547
00:41:42,120 –> 00:41:44,280
Now that’s when your eyes really
roll back into your head, isn’t
548
00:41:44,280 –> 00:41:44,640
it?
Right.
549
00:41:44,640 –> 00:41:48,120
You’re like, I’m now looking at
Greek tenses.
550
00:41:48,120 –> 00:41:50,800
Are you kidding me?
How could I possibly need to
551
00:41:50,800 –> 00:41:53,160
look at Greek tenses to
understand scripture?
552
00:41:56,280 –> 00:41:58,080
Am I?
Am I alone in being that
553
00:41:58,080 –> 00:42:00,040
sarcastic?
I know that some of you are that
554
00:42:00,040 –> 00:42:06,040
sarcastic, especially that row
and so.
555
00:42:06,440 –> 00:42:10,840
So I am now going to prove to
you that if you do not
556
00:42:10,840 –> 00:42:19,080
understand Greek grammar, you’re
stuffed, because that is not
557
00:42:19,080 –> 00:42:24,000
what the Greek says.
Now, young people, raise your
558
00:42:24,000 –> 00:42:25,080
hand if you know what the Greek
says.
559
00:42:27,480 –> 00:42:29,600
Oh, would you like a lesson in
Greek?
560
00:42:29,880 –> 00:42:32,520
Right.
I’m about to go to Greece.
561
00:42:32,520 –> 00:42:37,120
I got to try this out here.
All right, So what does it say
562
00:42:37,120 –> 00:42:40,920
in the Greek?
Well, it says this.
563
00:42:43,920 –> 00:42:47,320
Whatever you bind on earth will
have been bound in heaven.
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00:42:49,840 –> 00:42:53,080
Whatever you loose on earth will
have been loosed in heaven.
565
00:42:55,800 –> 00:42:57,760
Now, of course, that’s not good
English.
566
00:42:58,440 –> 00:43:02,360
That’s very, very awkward
English, because the English
567
00:43:02,360 –> 00:43:06,560
doesn’t have the Greek tense
that’s being used here.
568
00:43:08,760 –> 00:43:10,240
So what?
Neither does the Latin.
569
00:43:11,800 –> 00:43:15,280
So what do you do?
Do you just have a really
570
00:43:15,280 –> 00:43:21,320
awkward translation?
Well, translator’s dilemma,
571
00:43:21,320 –> 00:43:25,600
isn’t it?
So the translators do as they
572
00:43:25,600 –> 00:43:30,640
choose that clean up the English
in order to make it sound
573
00:43:30,640 –> 00:43:33,400
better.
But by doing that, they destroy
574
00:43:33,400 –> 00:43:34,880
what the Greek’s actually
getting at.
575
00:43:35,200 –> 00:43:39,560
In fact, if you look at a,
there’s some translations of the
576
00:43:39,560 –> 00:43:41,560
Greek into English that are
literal.
577
00:43:42,000 –> 00:43:45,240
For example, not to be clever
about this, but there’s Young’s
578
00:43:45,240 –> 00:43:47,440
literal translation.
That’s one of them, right?
579
00:43:47,920 –> 00:43:51,640
But there’s others.
So I, I pulled the other three
580
00:43:51,640 –> 00:43:54,600
literal translations and say,
what are the literal
581
00:43:54,600 –> 00:43:57,080
translations of the Greek to the
English?
582
00:43:57,120 –> 00:44:03,280
Actually say Weymouth will have
already been bound in heaven.
583
00:44:05,800 –> 00:44:10,640
How about Moffett will already
will be already bound in heaven,
584
00:44:12,600 –> 00:44:16,560
or Young’s literal shall be
having been bound in the
585
00:44:16,560 –> 00:44:19,320
heavens?
You sort of see how they’re
586
00:44:19,320 –> 00:44:23,200
different now.
What’s the implication of these
587
00:44:23,200 –> 00:44:28,120
literal translations relative to
what you might read in the King
588
00:44:28,120 –> 00:44:33,880
James?
This can easily be interpreted
589
00:44:34,600 –> 00:44:38,800
as what you’re doing on Earth
will then be ratified in the
590
00:44:38,800 –> 00:44:41,520
heavens.
This will not allow for that.
591
00:44:42,320 –> 00:44:46,080
What this says is what you’re
doing on earth will already have
592
00:44:46,080 –> 00:44:51,160
been done in heaven.
Basically what it’s saying is
593
00:44:51,160 –> 00:44:54,000
that the heavens will have
already done it and you are now
594
00:44:54,000 –> 00:45:00,480
going to align to the heavens.
Now the, the again, we looked at
595
00:45:00,480 –> 00:45:04,200
this the other day, but a good
example is the Jerusalem Council
596
00:45:04,200 –> 00:45:07,400
in circumcision.
Now, when they decided that
597
00:45:07,400 –> 00:45:12,920
circumcision was no longer
required for the Gentile
598
00:45:12,920 –> 00:45:21,880
believers, do you think heaven
went, oh, that’s a good idea, or
599
00:45:21,880 –> 00:45:27,800
would we understand Colossians
to have interpreted for us that
600
00:45:27,800 –> 00:45:31,000
Christ’s death was the putting
off of the flesh?
601
00:45:33,160 –> 00:45:36,680
In other words, heaven had
already figured this issue out.
602
00:45:38,720 –> 00:45:42,280
There’s no doubt the flesh had
to be put off, but the means by
603
00:45:42,280 –> 00:45:44,800
what it which it was put off was
changed.
604
00:45:46,680 –> 00:45:51,920
Heaven had already done it.
So what was earth doing aligning
605
00:45:51,920 –> 00:45:53,280
to what had already bound in
heaven?
606
00:45:55,360 –> 00:45:59,680
That’s the truth.
But do you know what a better
607
00:45:59,680 –> 00:46:03,920
example is?
So, so let’s just say that
608
00:46:04,000 –> 00:46:07,400
Peter’s giving this power that
whatever he decides, heaven’s
609
00:46:07,400 –> 00:46:11,760
going to ratify.
So what we really need then is
610
00:46:11,760 –> 00:46:15,120
we need a test case.
The test case is Peter and
611
00:46:15,120 –> 00:46:20,080
Heaven disagree.
And if Peter and Heaven
612
00:46:20,080 –> 00:46:25,320
disagree, but then Heaven has to
acquiesce to Peter, then it
613
00:46:25,320 –> 00:46:29,840
shows for certain that Heaven is
going to rubber stamp Peter’s
614
00:46:29,840 –> 00:46:33,160
ideas.
But if Peter and Heaven disagree
615
00:46:33,560 –> 00:46:38,080
and Peter has to come along to
Heaven’s interpretation, then we
616
00:46:38,080 –> 00:46:40,720
know that Peter has to align.
Where?
617
00:46:40,720 –> 00:46:43,000
Where will we find a test case
like that?
618
00:46:44,520 –> 00:46:47,960
How about Matthew 16 with
Matthew 16?
619
00:46:47,960 –> 00:46:52,040
Give us a test case.
Because what happens in Matthew
620
00:46:52,040 –> 00:46:55,080
16?
Well, Matthew 16, Jesus is going
621
00:46:55,080 –> 00:46:59,320
to reveal to Peter what the work
of the Messiah really ought to
622
00:46:59,320 –> 00:47:03,440
be.
He’s going to be, he’s going to
623
00:47:03,440 –> 00:47:06,920
be taken by the the original
authorities, he’s going to be
624
00:47:06,920 –> 00:47:09,560
killed and he’s going to be
resurrected the third day.
625
00:47:12,200 –> 00:47:16,160
And So what happens then is
Peter took him and began to
626
00:47:16,160 –> 00:47:18,320
rebuke him, saying be it far
from these.
627
00:47:18,320 –> 00:47:22,560
So this is our test case.
Peter and Heaven disagree.
628
00:47:22,560 –> 00:47:27,560
Peter and Jesus disagree about
what the role of the Messiah
629
00:47:27,560 –> 00:47:30,280
should be.
They are, in a sense,
630
00:47:30,360 –> 00:47:32,480
interpreting those passages
differently.
631
00:47:32,480 –> 00:47:35,320
Peter has an interpretation of a
messianic scripture.
632
00:47:35,520 –> 00:47:37,600
Jesus has an understanding of
messianic scripture.
633
00:47:37,880 –> 00:47:41,360
And I wonder who’s going to win
this little contest?
634
00:47:51,090 –> 00:47:57,450
It says there get behind me
Satan, thou art an offense to me
635
00:47:57,930 –> 00:48:02,200
for their savourest.
Not the things that be of God,
636
00:48:02,520 –> 00:48:04,520
but the things that be of men.
Huh.
637
00:48:04,920 –> 00:48:15,280
When Peter and Heaven disagree,
who aligns right there in
638
00:48:15,280 –> 00:48:17,960
Matthew 16?
Why?
639
00:48:18,240 –> 00:48:22,840
Because I think the Spirit knew
we needed a a a good example
640
00:48:24,840 –> 00:48:27,600
just in case we didn’t
understand this properly.
641
00:48:35,280 –> 00:48:39,200
So the idea is simply this.
When Peter’s views clash with
642
00:48:39,200 –> 00:48:42,200
God’s will, it was heaven that
prevailed, not Peter.
643
00:48:43,200 –> 00:48:48,680
The record leaves no doubt
Heaven binds Peter lines, not
644
00:48:48,840 –> 00:48:51,400
the other way around.
Clear to everyone.
645
00:48:54,360 –> 00:48:57,480
Should I take it to Rome?
Think they’ll listen?
646
00:49:02,560 –> 00:49:06,320
So the Catholic Church’s
insistence that Peter’s the rock
647
00:49:06,320 –> 00:49:11,200
upon which the Church is built,
what it does is it shifts the
648
00:49:11,200 –> 00:49:15,640
foundation of the ecclesia from
a perfect man to a sinful man.
649
00:49:15,760 –> 00:49:19,240
Do you see that?
So when I, when I build the
650
00:49:19,240 –> 00:49:23,840
ecclesia on Peter, now the whole
ecclesia is built on a sinful
651
00:49:23,840 –> 00:49:27,240
man.
Now, not that Peter was not a
652
00:49:27,280 –> 00:49:32,080
man that was saved and that had
been cherished, but he was a
653
00:49:32,080 –> 00:49:40,960
Sinner.
And by doing this, you allow the
654
00:49:41,000 –> 00:49:46,120
edifice of the ecclesia or the
Church now to be in men’s hands.
655
00:49:48,400 –> 00:49:54,240
And that allows a system where
man, not Christ, wields the
656
00:49:54,240 –> 00:50:01,000
dominion.
It consolidated power in the
657
00:50:01,000 –> 00:50:05,080
hands of men.
It’s a very important shift.
658
00:50:06,760 –> 00:50:10,360
By the way, in our cliches.
Our cliches are not built on
659
00:50:10,360 –> 00:50:14,360
men.
Never forget that, young people,
660
00:50:15,200 –> 00:50:17,400
there’s going to be brothers and
sisters that let you down.
661
00:50:18,360 –> 00:50:21,400
It will happen.
We’ve all been let down by
662
00:50:21,400 –> 00:50:24,560
people.
We don’t want to talk about it
663
00:50:24,560 –> 00:50:28,280
sometimes.
We’ve all had people that have
664
00:50:28,280 –> 00:50:32,320
let us down, people that we
looked up to, that made such
665
00:50:32,320 –> 00:50:36,200
huge mistakes, sometimes leaving
the truth altogether, sometimes
666
00:50:36,200 –> 00:50:40,400
harming people that we love.
It happens.
667
00:50:41,880 –> 00:50:45,720
We do not build our faith on
sinful men.
668
00:50:46,320 –> 00:50:49,040
We do not do it.
We will never do it.
669
00:50:51,080 –> 00:50:56,480
It must be built on Christ.
The foundation of the ecclesia
670
00:50:56,720 –> 00:51:01,840
is not Peter or any man that’s
sinned, it’s on Christ the chief
671
00:51:01,840 –> 00:51:03,960
cornerstone.
He’s the rock on which the
672
00:51:03,960 –> 00:51:07,000
ecclesia is built.
The authority to bind and loose
673
00:51:07,000 –> 00:51:10,680
rests in faithful preaching of
the Gospel that aligns to
674
00:51:10,680 –> 00:51:12,160
heaven, not the other way
around.
675
00:51:12,920 –> 00:51:20,360
In other words, Thy will be done
on not as it is in.
676
00:51:21,200 –> 00:51:26,120
Do you see how the order goes?
Or is Jesus prayer just a
677
00:51:26,120 –> 00:51:47,720
contradiction to Matthew 16?
So that brings us back then to
678
00:51:47,960 –> 00:51:52,320
September 1870.
The Italian army marches into
679
00:51:52,320 –> 00:51:58,360
Rome and the Pope’s temporal
power is gone for good.
680
00:52:00,280 –> 00:52:05,880
Now, when the Pope and the
papacy lost temporal power,
681
00:52:05,880 –> 00:52:09,280
Christadelphians had a lot to
say about this.
682
00:52:10,600 –> 00:52:13,400
And in all, and then you can go
back into the and read the
683
00:52:13,400 –> 00:52:17,440
Christadelphian magazine in
1870, of which I haven’t read it
684
00:52:17,440 –> 00:52:20,320
in, in, in entirety, but I’ve
read snippets of it.
685
00:52:21,920 –> 00:52:27,960
And there’s a lot of commentary
in our community on what’s
686
00:52:27,960 –> 00:52:30,840
happening in 1870.
I mean, it’s interesting because
687
00:52:31,200 –> 00:52:34,480
we look at things in history.
We don’t have any commentary
688
00:52:34,480 –> 00:52:36,800
from our community on it, but
this is one of those instances
689
00:52:36,800 –> 00:52:43,080
where we do and our community
over and over and over again the
690
00:52:43,120 –> 00:52:46,280
the writers are saying, Robert
Roberts especially go back to
691
00:52:46,280 –> 00:52:48,000
Daniel 7, go back to Daniel
seven.
692
00:52:48,000 –> 00:52:51,320
Look at Daniel 7.
Think, well, what, what is it
693
00:52:51,320 –> 00:52:55,040
about Daniel Seven that they
want us to pay attention to our,
694
00:52:55,040 –> 00:52:57,280
our, our founding pioneer
brother?
695
00:52:58,400 –> 00:53:01,400
Well, they especially say that
we ought to look at this
696
00:53:01,400 –> 00:53:03,760
passage.
Now you think to yourself, what
697
00:53:03,760 –> 00:53:07,080
does this passage have to do
with with what all the things
698
00:53:07,080 –> 00:53:10,840
that has happened about the Pope
losing power, etcetera.
699
00:53:10,840 –> 00:53:13,560
It says there and the little
horn, Does anyone know what the
700
00:53:13,560 –> 00:53:15,240
little horn is?
Interpretation of the little
701
00:53:15,240 –> 00:53:16,800
horn in Scripture.
Any young people?
702
00:53:16,800 –> 00:53:22,760
What do you think it is?
Yeah.
703
00:53:22,920 –> 00:53:25,920
OK, So you’re getting close.
It’s it’s it’s really the
704
00:53:25,920 –> 00:53:28,920
papacy.
And the little horn shall speak
705
00:53:28,920 –> 00:53:32,760
great words against the Most
High, and shall wear out the
706
00:53:32,760 –> 00:53:36,520
Saints of the Most High, and to
think to change times and laws,
707
00:53:36,720 –> 00:53:40,160
and they should be given into
his hand until a time and times
708
00:53:40,440 –> 00:53:44,120
and the dividing of time.
But the judgement shall sit, and
709
00:53:44,120 –> 00:53:47,880
they shall take away his
dominion to consume and destroy
710
00:53:47,880 –> 00:53:52,440
it unto the end.
OK, so why are the pioneer
711
00:53:52,440 –> 00:53:55,480
brethren in our community
saying, Hey everyone, pay
712
00:53:55,480 –> 00:53:59,840
attention to this passage.
Well, we got to figure out what
713
00:53:59,840 –> 00:54:02,720
time times and dividing a time
is right.
714
00:54:03,320 –> 00:54:09,240
Now, again, that looks obscure.
What could that possibly be?
715
00:54:10,040 –> 00:54:12,440
I’m going to give you a
suggestion that our pioneer
716
00:54:12,440 –> 00:54:17,520
brethren believed and I think is
very well supported, OK, They
717
00:54:17,520 –> 00:54:20,560
would say a prophetic year is
360 days.
718
00:54:23,160 –> 00:54:26,440
OK.
So time, time and half a time
719
00:54:26,520 –> 00:54:32,360
might be considered as one year,
360 days times or two years of
720
00:54:32,360 –> 00:54:37,880
720 days and half the time or
half a year which is 180 days.
721
00:54:37,880 –> 00:54:43,640
Now if I add together 36720 and
180, I get 1260.
722
00:54:44,800 –> 00:54:47,760
You followed that so far,
everyone get that?
723
00:54:48,040 –> 00:54:50,560
OK, maybe that’s an idea of what
this means.
724
00:54:50,760 –> 00:54:56,920
Now it just so happens that
12160 days, if I have 30 months,
725
00:54:56,920 –> 00:55:03,720
30 day months, that’s 42 months.
This dividing 1260 by 30, I get
726
00:55:03,720 –> 00:55:06,440
42.
Now there’s a couple interesting
727
00:55:06,440 –> 00:55:11,320
passages.
One passage is Revelation 13,
728
00:55:11,320 –> 00:55:13,560
verse 5.
It says, and there was given
729
00:55:13,560 –> 00:55:16,000
unto him a mouth speaking great
things.
730
00:55:16,040 –> 00:55:18,760
Gosh, where do we hear about a
mouth speaking great things by
731
00:55:18,760 –> 00:55:22,400
the way?
Oh yeah, Daniel 7 just sang and
732
00:55:22,400 –> 00:55:25,680
blasphemies and power was given
unto him for how long?
733
00:55:26,840 –> 00:55:30,520
42 months.
Interesting. 42 months.
734
00:55:30,680 –> 00:55:33,800
Well, Daniel said time, time and
half a time, but this passage
735
00:55:33,800 –> 00:55:38,320
says 42 months.
So maybe this this whole idea of
736
00:55:38,320 –> 00:55:42,600
one year, 2 years and half a
year is got some merit.
737
00:55:43,040 –> 00:55:47,920
OK, well there’s another passage
and I will give power into my 2
738
00:55:47,920 –> 00:55:53,960
witnesses and they shall
prophecy 1203 score days.
739
00:55:53,960 –> 00:55:58,760
Where do we see that 1203 score?
Oh, yeah, that was our
740
00:55:58,760 –> 00:56:03,240
understanding of maybe what time
times in half the time is.
741
00:56:03,240 –> 00:56:07,400
OK, Well, so I’m just suggesting
to you that maybe this time
742
00:56:07,400 –> 00:56:14,600
times in half the time is 1260.
OK, Well, if I have a day for a
743
00:56:14,600 –> 00:56:16,840
year, and that’s maybe
established by some of these
744
00:56:16,840 –> 00:56:24,880
passages you see right in front
of you. 1870, the papacy loses
745
00:56:24,880 –> 00:56:26,560
Dominion.
What do I mean by Dominion?
746
00:56:26,560 –> 00:56:28,640
What’s Dominion?
Dominion’s political power.
747
00:56:29,480 –> 00:56:33,200
So in 1870, the the papacy lost
all its political power.
748
00:56:33,400 –> 00:56:38,120
Well, what happened about 1260
years earlier?
749
00:56:39,720 –> 00:56:41,800
The Byzantine impair for the
first time.
750
00:56:41,800 –> 00:56:46,280
And he was focused and he was a
lousy emperor, by the way, one
751
00:56:46,280 –> 00:56:48,880
of the worst they ever had.
Not because of this decision.
752
00:56:48,880 –> 00:56:53,320
Well, maybe because of this
decision, he’s the first person
753
00:56:53,320 –> 00:56:57,760
that ever said the Bishop of
Rome was the head of all the
754
00:56:57,760 –> 00:57:03,200
churches.
OK so for the first time the
755
00:57:03,200 –> 00:57:09,360
Bishop of Rome is given by
political power, authority over
756
00:57:09,360 –> 00:57:18,000
all the church, and 12160 years
later the Papsi loses all
757
00:57:18,000 –> 00:57:21,680
political power.
Now I would just suggest to you
758
00:57:22,000 –> 00:57:26,000
that that’s the time period in
which the Saints were worn out.
759
00:57:28,240 –> 00:57:31,680
The Catholic Church hasn’t had
much power to persecute you
760
00:57:31,680 –> 00:57:37,840
since 1870, but you should just
read up on how the Catholic
761
00:57:37,840 –> 00:57:43,600
Church would have persecuted you
before 1870 because it is a
762
00:57:43,600 –> 00:57:46,200
difficult story to read.
It’s in Alpes, Israel.
763
00:57:46,200 –> 00:57:47,800
Read about the Huguenots for
example.
764
00:57:47,800 –> 00:57:49,480
Read the section about the two
witnesses.
765
00:57:50,640 –> 00:57:53,000
You don’t understand what it’s
like to hold your beliefs
766
00:57:53,000 –> 00:57:55,360
without persecution.
I don’t think you wouldn’t know
767
00:57:55,360 –> 00:57:58,640
it naturally.
And the reason you can hold your
768
00:57:58,640 –> 00:58:01,960
beliefs right now without
persecution is because the
769
00:58:01,960 –> 00:58:04,440
Catholic power no longer has
dominion.
770
00:58:05,320 –> 00:58:07,560
Because when it did, it would
have killed you.
771
00:58:11,240 –> 00:58:18,800
And we don’t live in that world
now, but brethren have, and it
772
00:58:18,800 –> 00:58:22,480
started here, which happened to
be 12160 years earlier.
773
00:58:23,280 –> 00:58:27,000
So on our community, the
brethren were saying look at
774
00:58:27,000 –> 00:58:32,520
this.
John Thomas said this 22 years
775
00:58:32,520 –> 00:58:35,640
before he had passed away.
By the time 1870 had turned
776
00:58:35,640 –> 00:58:37,840
around.
He died in the 1860’s.
777
00:58:38,160 –> 00:58:41,280
The temporal dominion of the
papacy will be consumed
778
00:58:41,280 –> 00:58:45,000
gradually as the kingdoms of men
reject its authority and assert
779
00:58:45,000 –> 00:58:49,400
their independence.
This is the consumption foretold
780
00:58:49,640 –> 00:58:53,600
in Daniel 726, which will
continue until the system is
781
00:58:53,600 –> 00:58:58,760
entirely destroyed at the coming
of the Ancient of Days.
782
00:58:59,840 –> 00:59:04,560
So what I’m saying is that these
words proved to be pretty
783
00:59:04,560 –> 00:59:07,800
accurate.
In 1870, the papacy faced a
784
00:59:07,800 –> 00:59:15,320
defining moment when it formally
proclaimed the doctrine of papal
785
00:59:15,320 –> 00:59:23,520
infallibility.
OK, now in Daniel Chapter 7,
786
00:59:23,520 –> 00:59:25,840
verse 25 and 26, it’s going to
say this.
787
00:59:26,680 –> 00:59:32,080
He, the little horn, shall speak
great words against the Most
788
00:59:32,080 –> 00:59:40,840
High.
Now, claiming that heaven has to
789
00:59:40,840 –> 00:59:46,960
ratify anything a sinful man
says on earth because a sinful
790
00:59:46,960 –> 01:00:01,440
man says it, that that heaven
bows the knee to earth, I’d say
791
01:00:01,440 –> 01:00:06,960
that’s great words against the
Most High, that a man on earth
792
01:00:06,960 –> 01:00:11,960
is infallible and can compel
heaven to act, especially the
793
01:00:11,960 –> 01:00:17,040
man in charge of that system.
And that’s exactly what Robert
794
01:00:17,040 –> 01:00:20,200
Roberts said.
Because he said in July 1870,
795
01:00:20,440 –> 01:00:24,400
the Pope has now proclaimed
himself infallible, an audacious
796
01:00:24,400 –> 01:00:27,480
claim that none but the most
superstitious minds can accept.
797
01:00:27,760 –> 01:00:34,760
This is the great words spoken
by the little horn foretold in
798
01:00:34,760 –> 01:00:43,240
Daniel 7.
So let’s just now begin to come
799
01:00:43,240 –> 01:00:46,480
back to the start of the story
and Caesarea Philippi, a city
800
01:00:46,480 –> 01:00:49,520
that we looked at, which was
steeped in symbolic meaning.
801
01:00:50,600 –> 01:00:56,200
Caesarea Philippi was a place
where Roman worship of men was
802
01:00:56,200 –> 01:01:04,680
mingled of Pagan religion.
And it was here in Caesarea
803
01:01:04,680 –> 01:01:07,440
Philippi that Peter made a
confession.
804
01:01:07,440 –> 01:01:09,560
Thou art the Christ, the Son of
the living God.
805
01:01:10,480 –> 01:01:14,360
And it was here that Jesus
declared the gates of Hades
806
01:01:14,600 –> 01:01:22,680
shall not prevail against that.
But Scripture is actually pretty
807
01:01:22,680 –> 01:01:32,800
vivid about what the gates of
Hades prevail against and the
808
01:01:32,800 –> 01:01:38,120
gates of Hades will prevail
against the Catholic system
809
01:01:41,640 –> 01:01:45,160
because Revelation chapter 14
verse 8 and 11 say.
810
01:01:45,160 –> 01:01:49,360
And there followed another Angel
saying, Babylon is fallen, is
811
01:01:49,360 –> 01:01:53,400
fallen, that great city, and the
smoke of their torment ascendeth
812
01:01:53,480 –> 01:01:56,440
up forever and ever.
They have no rest day or night,
813
01:01:56,440 –> 01:02:00,200
who worship the beast, his
image, and whoever receiveth the
814
01:02:00,200 –> 01:02:03,360
mark of his name.
Now maybe you don’t think that
815
01:02:03,360 –> 01:02:09,640
is vivid enough.
A illustration of of this system
816
01:02:11,400 –> 01:02:17,800
symbolized by Babylon falling
into Hades.
817
01:02:21,480 –> 01:02:25,680
How about this?
The beast was taken, and with
818
01:02:25,680 –> 01:02:29,280
him the false prophet that
wrought miracles before him with
819
01:02:29,280 –> 01:02:32,520
which he deceived, them that
received the mark of the beast,
820
01:02:32,960 –> 01:02:34,600
and them that worship this
image.
821
01:02:35,000 –> 01:02:41,120
And these were cast into the
lake of fire, burning with
822
01:02:41,120 –> 01:02:45,840
brimstone.
You see, brothers, sisters and
823
01:02:45,840 –> 01:02:49,920
young people, what I’m trying to
make a case in front of you is
824
01:02:49,920 –> 01:02:56,480
simply this.
Hades is going to prevail on
825
01:02:56,640 –> 01:03:06,640
that system and it will not
prevail on the true Aquitia, the
826
01:03:06,640 –> 01:03:09,320
called out ones.
We share the genuine faith of
827
01:03:09,320 –> 01:03:13,840
Peter, those who believe that
Jesus is the Jewish Messiah, the
828
01:03:13,840 –> 01:03:16,800
Son of the living God, descended
from David, promised by the
829
01:03:16,800 –> 01:03:22,000
prophets.
That is the foundation, that
830
01:03:22,000 –> 01:03:27,520
faith, that Jesus is that man on
which the ecclesia is built.
831
01:03:28,880 –> 01:03:33,240
It is unshakeable because it
rests not on men, it rests on
832
01:03:33,360 –> 01:03:37,600
Christ.
Those who are part of this true
833
01:03:37,600 –> 01:03:41,640
faith of called out ones and are
written in the book of life will
834
01:03:41,640 –> 01:03:46,160
not face the lake of fire
because they belong to Christ.
835
01:03:46,160 –> 01:03:51,360
They have no part in Babylon,
the harlot or the beast, and
836
01:03:51,360 –> 01:03:53,640
their hope is the coming of the
Kingdom of God.
837
01:03:54,880 –> 01:04:02,000
And they’ll be no part of that
abominable system, no part that
838
01:04:02,000 –> 01:04:06,760
enters into the Kingdom, because
we’re told that there shall no
839
01:04:06,760 –> 01:04:12,720
wise enter into it anything that
defileth neither whatsoever
840
01:04:12,720 –> 01:04:15,440
worketh abomination or maketh a
lie.
841
01:04:16,840 –> 01:04:19,680
But they which are written in
the Lamb’s book of life.
842
01:04:20,960 –> 01:04:22,920
Brothers and sisters, these
ideas aren’t new.
843
01:04:24,760 –> 01:04:27,400
These ideas were boldly
proclaimed by our pioneer
844
01:04:27,400 –> 01:04:29,680
brethren from the very
beginning.
845
01:04:30,000 –> 01:04:32,440
John Thomas wrote extensively on
these ideas.
846
01:04:32,480 –> 01:04:36,360
And you’re in Elpis Israel, page
199 to 208.
847
01:04:39,560 –> 01:04:44,200
These were the truths that were
passionately upheld by the 1st
848
01:04:44,200 –> 01:04:52,400
generation of Christadelphians.
But time as a way of eroding
849
01:04:52,400 –> 01:04:58,640
conviction.
Have we as a community, as a
850
01:04:58,640 –> 01:05:03,760
question, that we have allowed
some of these powerful truths to
851
01:05:04,760 –> 01:05:06,920
fade into the background?
Are we?
852
01:05:06,920 –> 01:05:11,280
Because we are not under the
persecution of the politically
853
01:05:11,280 –> 01:05:20,240
aligned Catholic Church, we
begin to not understand, as our
854
01:05:20,680 –> 01:05:24,400
earliest brethren did, that this
system is the harlot of
855
01:05:24,400 –> 01:05:30,560
revelation.
Maybe we unwittingly begin to
856
01:05:30,560 –> 01:05:35,120
downplay the importance of
scriptural understanding, or
857
01:05:35,120 –> 01:05:38,680
maybe we treat the Bible as a
dry, boring subject.
858
01:05:40,000 –> 01:05:42,040
This is not a dry and boring
subject.
859
01:05:42,880 –> 01:05:46,040
And even though I made you look
at Greek tenses kind of
860
01:05:46,040 –> 01:05:58,960
important, maybe even worse, we
begin to adopt the idea that
861
01:05:58,960 –> 01:06:01,000
maybe we all just worship the
same God.
862
01:06:05,680 –> 01:06:07,280
The doctrine doesn’t matter
anymore.
863
01:06:09,880 –> 01:06:12,320
If there’s one thing I want you
to take from this study is that
864
01:06:12,320 –> 01:06:15,680
the truth matters.
Bible study matters.
865
01:06:17,280 –> 01:06:21,920
Correct exposition matters.
We cannot relinquish.
866
01:06:23,560 –> 01:06:26,080
You know, we spend so much time
studying the Word.
867
01:06:26,080 –> 01:06:29,320
But here’s the thing.
What Christopher Pians are
868
01:06:29,320 –> 01:06:31,800
asking of you is to study the
word for yourself.
869
01:06:33,360 –> 01:06:38,160
Do give the power of studying
this to an institution of men.
870
01:06:39,520 –> 01:06:45,040
Don’t yield it.
It is your privilege to be able
871
01:06:45,040 –> 01:06:48,560
to look at this and to look into
it to understand what it means.
872
01:06:48,720 –> 01:06:51,320
You do not have to give that to
a priest.
873
01:06:52,160 –> 01:06:54,200
You don’t have to give that to
an institution.
874
01:06:54,360 –> 01:06:56,160
They will abuse it to control
you.
875
01:06:56,560 –> 01:07:00,280
The only way you get to be free
is to find it within the word
876
01:07:00,280 –> 01:07:02,680
yourself.
Don’t yield it.
877
01:07:05,640 –> 01:07:14,220
There’s power in these words.
The papacy has claimed
878
01:07:14,220 –> 01:07:18,420
infallibility.
In other words, whatever they
879
01:07:18,420 –> 01:07:21,660
say is the truth.
No need to look.
880
01:07:23,180 –> 01:07:27,700
Don’t believe it.
Don’t give that power to a man.
881
01:07:28,160 –> 01:07:30,160
Do not give that power to a
sinful man.
882
01:07:31,720 –> 01:07:36,200
Those things are going to be
thrown into the lake of fire.
883
01:07:38,280 –> 01:07:43,000
It’s the faith in Jesus Christ,
the Son of the living God that’s
884
01:07:43,000 –> 01:07:46,240
going to endure.
So I ask of you to recommit
885
01:07:46,240 –> 01:07:48,640
yourself to the study of the
Word of God, to the pursuit of
886
01:07:48,640 –> 01:07:52,200
truth, to the hope of the coming
Kingdom, to stand firm on the
887
01:07:52,200 –> 01:07:56,280
foundation of Christ, knowing
that the gates of Hades will
888
01:07:56,280 –> 01:08:00,800
never prevail, never ever
prevail against Christ’s true
889
01:08:00,800 –> 01:08:01,280
equation.
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