Jesus upped the anti on capital punishment. Where Moses prescribed physical death capital punishment, Jesus switched up to spiritual death capital punishment. Jesus commands His Church that if her eye, foot or hand is her undoing, she is to cut it off and throw it into Gehenna. 90 times in the bible the term ‘cut off’ means put to death, inferring to cut off a person from the body of people by putting them to death. Jesus switches this up to commanding His Church to cut off evil doers by putting them to spiritual death, using the Keys to the Kingdom (the binding and loosting of sins).
Jesus Commands His Church not to let the evil doers pull the whole body of His Church into hell, but to ‘cut off’, and throw into hell those that try to pull His Church into hell through their unrepentant evil deeds. The use of Church auto anathemas (spiritual death capital punishment) should be a top consideration in our time, where Christ’s Church is, in deed, in peril of having her whole body pulled into hell by the massive unrepentant evil surrounding her and infiltrating her body.
MATTHEW 18:5
"Whoever welcomes one such child for my sake welcomes me. On the other hand, it would be better for anyone who leads astray one of these little ones who believes in me, to be drown by a millstone around his neck, in the depths of the sea. What terrible things will come on the world through scandal! It is inevitable that scandal should occur. Nonetheless, woe to that man through whom scandal comes! If your hand or foot is your undoing, cut it off and throw it from you! Better to enter life maimed or crippled than be thrown with two hands or feet into endless fire. If your eye is your downfall, gouge it out and cast it from you! Better to enter life with one eye than be thrown with both into fiery Gehenna.
MATTHEW 5:22
What I say to you is: everyone who grows angry with his brother shall be liable to judgement; any man who uses abusive language toward his brother shall be answerable to the Sanhedrin, and if he holds him in contempt he risks the fires of Gehenna.
MATTHEW 16:13
Jesus replied, "Blest are you, Simon son of John! No mere man has revealed this to you, but my heavenly Father. I for my part declare to you, you are 'Rock,' and on this rock I will build my church,and the jaws of death shall not prevail against it. I will entrust to you the keys of the kingdom of heaven. Whatever you declare bound on earth shall be bound in heaven; whatever you declare loosed on earth shall be loosed in heaven."
REVELATION 1:16
A sharp, two-edged sword came out of his mouth, and his face shone like the sun at its brightest. When I caught sight of him I fell down at his feet as though dead, he touched me with his right hand and said: "There is nothing to fear. I am the First and the Last and the One who lives. Once I was dead but now I live-- forever and ever. I hold the keys of death and the nether world."
ISAIAH 11:4 The Rule of Immanuel
He shall strike the ruthless with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall slay the wicked.
JOHN 20:20
At the sight of the Lord the disciples rejoiced. "Peace be with you," he said again. "As the Father has sent me, so I send you." Then he breathed on them and said: "Recieve the Holy Spirit. If you forgive men's sins, they are forgiven them; if you hold them bound, they are held bound."
MATTHEW 18:17
"If he ignores them, refer it to the church . If he ignores even the church, then treat him as you would a Gentile or a tax collector. I assure you, whatever you declare bound on earth shall be held bound in heaven, and whatever you declare loosed on earth shall be held loosed in heaven."
