Peace in Christ.
The apostle Peter is symbolic of what has happened to His church throughout history….to the believers that believe that Christ is the Son of the living God.
We must pay attention to what happened with the man Peter 2000 years ago to see what has happened to His people who believe in Christ is the Son of the living God throughout this time period of 2000 years.
Mat 16:15-18
(15) He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am?
(16) And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.
(17) And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon son of Jonah: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.
Satan has made war with His people. He was given authority to do so: “And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you (PLURAL), that he may sift (you) as wheat.”
Satan was given authority to test His people…sifting them as wheat…just as he was given authority to test Job. Job 1:12 .
His tares…his own ministers… were sown among the wheat. The enemy has sown them among us. The man-based churches are the domain of darkness where Satan has his throne as he was given authority to test the believers of Christ.
Satan’s ministers…their mouths… are the “gates” that open up and speak falsehoods (deceit) rather than the truth and lead many astray to their mortal deaths…without manifesting the life of Jesus in their mortal flesh which would have given them an age-lasting life (aka “eternal life”).
Their throat (singular for they all do this) is an open grave.
( Rom 3:13-14 Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
(14) Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness)
They are the gates of “hell”…that is, Hades which means “unseen one, grave, death.”
They have the power of death in their tongues as they speak/preach falsehoods to their congregations….leading MANY astray down the broad way to their mortal destruction. But they will not win in the end. They will not overpower His people even though Satan and his ministers seem to be successful at the moment. We are assured that they will not prevail against His people who believe that Christ is the Son of the living God.
(18) And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell (Hades) shall not prevail against it.
Satan has desired to have “you” (PLURAL). While addressed to Peter, the original Greek uses a plural "you" which means that this applies to ALL of His people….the believers who believe that Christ is the Son of God.
Luk 22:31-34
(31) And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you (PLURAL), that he may sift (you) as wheat:
But Jesus prays for us…to be filled with all of His wisdom and knowledge.
We are to hear Him and be “converted”…to turn again…back to God. We are to turn from the power…the authority…of Satan unto God. We are to turn from darkness to light. "Get behind me Satan."
We are to leave the man-based churches and not be unequally yoked together with them. What does light have in communion with darkness? We have been in "prison" and death in the man-based churches where they are denying Him as His life is not being made manifest in the mortal flesh of those who are being deceived by Satan's ministers.
We are to strengthen our brothers by preaching the Word of Truth to them.
(32) But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren.
(33) And he said unto him, Lord, I am ready to go with thee, both into prison, and to death.
(34) And he said, I tell thee, Peter, the rooster shall not crow this day, before that thou shalt thrice deny that thou knowest me.
The eyes of our understanding are to be opened so that we might turn from darkness to light….from the “power” (Greek word = exousia = AUTHORITY, privilege) of Satan unto God.
We TURN...be "converted"...from the darkness to light. We TURN from the power of Satan unto God. " "Get behind me Satan. "
We are then sanctified when we come out from among the man-based churches who are in darkness.
Act 26:17-18
(17) Delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee,
(18) To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power (authority) of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.
He delivers….rescues …us from the power (Greek word = exousia = authority) of darkness and translates…to transfer…to carry away… us into the kingdom of His dear Son. We are delivered from the man-based churches…the power/authority of darkness...and carried away to His kingdom of light.
Col 1:12-14 KJV
(12) Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:
(13) Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:
(14) In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:
What we have witnessed so far in Christian history are the vessels of His wrath. This applies to both Jew and Gentile.
Rom 9:19-24 KJV
(19) Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?
(20) Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
The vessels of His wrath were sown in dishonor. They believed in Christ, the Son of God but mortally perished because of listening to false prophets who led them astray from the path that leads to His manifest life. They did not manifest the glory of God while they lived on this earth. They had fallen short of the glory of God. They were fitted for destruction as they mortally perished from this earth.
They attended man-based churches all of their lives and mortally perished without hearing the word of the truth of the gospel that their preachers did not preach to them because they had no understanding of it.
The vessels of His mercy though shall be delivered from the man-based churches unto glory. They will hear the Word of Truth and depart from them and be separate. They will then manifest His glory which has been missing from His people.
(21) Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
(22) What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
(23) And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,
This applies to both groups.
(24) Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
The vessels of His wrath will be saved though because Jesus is both the Lord of the “dead” and the living.
Christ both died and rose and revived that He might be Lord both of the dead (the vessels of God's wrath who mortally perished) and the living (the vessels of His mercy who will inherit an age-lasting life in their mortal bodies).
Rom 14:7-9 KJV
(7) For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself.
(8) For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.
(9) For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living.
The vessels of His wrath were sown perishable…they all have mortally perished…but they shall be raised unperishable (incorruption). They were sown in dishonor but will raised in glory. They were sown in weakness but will be raised in power.
1Co 15:42-43 KJV
(42) So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:
(43) It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power:
The vessels of His mercy though shall not “sleep” as the vessels of His wrath did. They will not mortally perish for the duration of this age like the vessels of His wrath did. They will have an age-lasting life....never mortally perishing until they reach the very last day of this age. They will then be changed from mortal to immortal (without ever seeing mortal death) at the LAST DAY of this age.
1Co 15:50-56
(50) Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood (the vessels of His mercy which shall not mortally perish) cannot inherit the kingdom of God ; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption (the vessels of His wrath which mortally perished).
(51) Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, (the vessels of His mercy shall not sleep...that is, mortally perish from this earth) but we shall all be changed,
(52) In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible (the vessels of His wrath are the "dead" who mortally perished from this earth shall be raised unperishable), and we shall be changed .
The vessels of His wrath…the corruptible…will then put on incorruption. The vessels of His mercy shall then have their mortal bodies (that did not perish ) put on immortality.
(53) For this corruptible must put on incorruption (the vessels of His wrath are the corruptible), and this mortal must put on immortality ( which are the vessels of His mercy who will have never mortally perished).
When both groups (the vessels of His wrath and the vessels of His mercy) will ALL have been “changed” at the very last day of this age, then death is completely swallowed up in victory. The vessels of His mercy will have completely circumvented mortal death in Christ Jesus by having their mortal bodies (which never did perish) then be changed to immortal.
Death is the LAST enemy to be conquered and happens at the very end of this age…the last day of this age.
(54) So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
(55) O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
(56) The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.
The apostle Peter is symbolic of what has happened to His church throughout history….to the believers that believe that Christ is the Son of the living God.
We must pay attention to what happened with the man Peter 2000 years ago to see what has happened to His people who believe in Christ is the Son of the living God throughout this time period of 2000 years.
Mat 16:15-18
(15) He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am?
(16) And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.
(17) And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon son of Jonah: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.
Satan has made war with His people. He was given authority to do so: “And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you (PLURAL), that he may sift (you) as wheat.”
Satan was given authority to test His people…sifting them as wheat…just as he was given authority to test Job. Job 1:12 .
His tares…his own ministers… were sown among the wheat. The enemy has sown them among us. The man-based churches are the domain of darkness where Satan has his throne as he was given authority to test the believers of Christ.
Satan’s ministers…their mouths… are the “gates” that open up and speak falsehoods (deceit) rather than the truth and lead many astray to their mortal deaths…without manifesting the life of Jesus in their mortal flesh which would have given them an age-lasting life (aka “eternal life”).
Their throat (singular for they all do this) is an open grave.
( Rom 3:13-14 Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
(14) Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness)
They are the gates of “hell”…that is, Hades which means “unseen one, grave, death.”
They have the power of death in their tongues as they speak/preach falsehoods to their congregations….leading MANY astray down the broad way to their mortal destruction. But they will not win in the end. They will not overpower His people even though Satan and his ministers seem to be successful at the moment. We are assured that they will not prevail against His people who believe that Christ is the Son of the living God.
(18) And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell (Hades) shall not prevail against it.
Satan has desired to have “you” (PLURAL). While addressed to Peter, the original Greek uses a plural "you" which means that this applies to ALL of His people….the believers who believe that Christ is the Son of God.
Luk 22:31-34
(31) And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you (PLURAL), that he may sift (you) as wheat:
But Jesus prays for us…to be filled with all of His wisdom and knowledge.
We are to hear Him and be “converted”…to turn again…back to God. We are to turn from the power…the authority…of Satan unto God. We are to turn from darkness to light. "Get behind me Satan."
We are to leave the man-based churches and not be unequally yoked together with them. What does light have in communion with darkness? We have been in "prison" and death in the man-based churches where they are denying Him as His life is not being made manifest in the mortal flesh of those who are being deceived by Satan's ministers.
We are to strengthen our brothers by preaching the Word of Truth to them.
(32) But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren.
(33) And he said unto him, Lord, I am ready to go with thee, both into prison, and to death.
(34) And he said, I tell thee, Peter, the rooster shall not crow this day, before that thou shalt thrice deny that thou knowest me.
The eyes of our understanding are to be opened so that we might turn from darkness to light….from the “power” (Greek word = exousia = AUTHORITY, privilege) of Satan unto God.
We TURN...be "converted"...from the darkness to light. We TURN from the power of Satan unto God. " "Get behind me Satan. "
We are then sanctified when we come out from among the man-based churches who are in darkness.
Act 26:17-18
(17) Delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee,
(18) To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power (authority) of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.
He delivers….rescues …us from the power (Greek word = exousia = authority) of darkness and translates…to transfer…to carry away… us into the kingdom of His dear Son. We are delivered from the man-based churches…the power/authority of darkness...and carried away to His kingdom of light.
Col 1:12-14 KJV
(12) Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:
(13) Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:
(14) In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:
What we have witnessed so far in Christian history are the vessels of His wrath. This applies to both Jew and Gentile.
Rom 9:19-24 KJV
(19) Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?
(20) Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
The vessels of His wrath were sown in dishonor. They believed in Christ, the Son of God but mortally perished because of listening to false prophets who led them astray from the path that leads to His manifest life. They did not manifest the glory of God while they lived on this earth. They had fallen short of the glory of God. They were fitted for destruction as they mortally perished from this earth.
They attended man-based churches all of their lives and mortally perished without hearing the word of the truth of the gospel that their preachers did not preach to them because they had no understanding of it.
The vessels of His mercy though shall be delivered from the man-based churches unto glory. They will hear the Word of Truth and depart from them and be separate. They will then manifest His glory which has been missing from His people.
(21) Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
(22) What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
(23) And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,
This applies to both groups.
(24) Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
The vessels of His wrath will be saved though because Jesus is both the Lord of the “dead” and the living.
Christ both died and rose and revived that He might be Lord both of the dead (the vessels of God's wrath who mortally perished) and the living (the vessels of His mercy who will inherit an age-lasting life in their mortal bodies).
Rom 14:7-9 KJV
(7) For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself.
(8) For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.
(9) For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living.
The vessels of His wrath were sown perishable…they all have mortally perished…but they shall be raised unperishable (incorruption). They were sown in dishonor but will raised in glory. They were sown in weakness but will be raised in power.
1Co 15:42-43 KJV
(42) So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:
(43) It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power:
The vessels of His mercy though shall not “sleep” as the vessels of His wrath did. They will not mortally perish for the duration of this age like the vessels of His wrath did. They will have an age-lasting life....never mortally perishing until they reach the very last day of this age. They will then be changed from mortal to immortal (without ever seeing mortal death) at the LAST DAY of this age.
1Co 15:50-56
(50) Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood (the vessels of His mercy which shall not mortally perish) cannot inherit the kingdom of God ; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption (the vessels of His wrath which mortally perished).
(51) Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, (the vessels of His mercy shall not sleep...that is, mortally perish from this earth) but we shall all be changed,
(52) In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible (the vessels of His wrath are the "dead" who mortally perished from this earth shall be raised unperishable), and we shall be changed .
The vessels of His wrath…the corruptible…will then put on incorruption. The vessels of His mercy shall then have their mortal bodies (that did not perish ) put on immortality.
(53) For this corruptible must put on incorruption (the vessels of His wrath are the corruptible), and this mortal must put on immortality ( which are the vessels of His mercy who will have never mortally perished).
When both groups (the vessels of His wrath and the vessels of His mercy) will ALL have been “changed” at the very last day of this age, then death is completely swallowed up in victory. The vessels of His mercy will have completely circumvented mortal death in Christ Jesus by having their mortal bodies (which never did perish) then be changed to immortal.
Death is the LAST enemy to be conquered and happens at the very end of this age…the last day of this age.
(54) So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
(55) O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
(56) The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.
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