thessalonian
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I think if you look closely at the Isaiha verse you will see that the keys are given to the steward, not the king. The steward is the kings mouthpiece or prime minister, literally and speaks with the authority of the king. This can be seen in 2 Kings around chap 18 where Eliakim goes out to I believe it is the Assyrian army to negotiate with them for the king. Now it is interesting that Hezekiak was a king long after David and evidently this office of steward or prime minister was an office that had successors also. This episode (Is 22) clearly is a forshadowning of Christianity becoming the Kingdom of Christ. Christianity has become the new spokesmen for God. It is impossible gramtically to put the keys of Matt 18, 19 to Christ. Unless someone else is speaking which I don't see in the text, when Christ says "I will give YOU the keys to the kingdom" it is quite clear that he is speaking to Peter. Keys also imply successors as well as authority. When I bought my house the former owner gave me a set of keys. At that moment I had control over the whole house and of course I can delgate some of that authority to my wife and kids so to a degree the keys are to the whole Church I think but only through Peter and the Popes. Now if I someday sell this house or die, the keys that I hold that give me authority over my house will be passed on to whoever moves in next. Simple enough I think.Originally posted by Frogman:
Is Peter now David's son? The kingdom is Christ's not Peter's. The keys were given to the church the authority to open and close the church is rested in the local visible body only.
You cannot make scripture say Peter is anything but maybe a Baptist, because the first thing he did after the praise the Lord bestowed upon him was to backslide and pretended to chastize the Lord for saying he would suffer. What did Christ call him there?
Bro. Dallas
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[ October 10, 2003, 08:16 PM: Message edited by: thessalonian ]