Can Messiah lead on earth while seated alongside the Father in heaven?
How may He respond to any who, not seeing Him present, assumes the leadership?
Many nations bring an ancient ethic of leadership under the wise ones; a gerontocracy; elders being recognized as to guide/direct a community or nation. The Roman Republic, with its Senate [council of elders] was an elder-led nation, later receiving Galus Octavianus as their first emperor in 27 B.C. after having been a republic for ~500 years.
Rome came to furnish a single, physical leader; an emperor for Rome. The essence of this leadership requisite became embedded -- even wed to the physical/catholic church at Rome. Consequently, events such as recorded from Acts chapter 15 are today understood among the Roman church as to show Simon Peter as leader of the ekklesia --- even though the Acts 15 account more accurately reflects leadership as described from Matthew 23:1-14.
Modern church denominations continue to prefer differing or combined leadership models based upon the physical absence of Yahshua Christ/Messiah the King of Kings.
From Paul's letters, recognized elders may serve designate as servants/deacons, overseers/on-noters, shepherds... these alongside other elders present, as with the whole ekklesia.
How do you respond here?
JERUSALEM GATES:
Sheep Gate/Herod's Gate/Flower Gate is through which animals were brought for sacrifice. This is the gate Y'shua used [John 5:2], with exception of His triumphal entry.
Fish Gate was on the path for fish being brought from the Mediterranean Sea & Jordan River. Y'shua he calls out to Peter and his brother Andrew, "Come, follow me and I will make you fishers of men."
Old Gate is one of the original city gates. Jeremiah 6:16 "This is what the Lord says: Stand at the crossroads and look; ask the ancient paths, ask where the good way is and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls..."
Valley Gate opened into the calley of Hinnom. Prophetic, the valley gate would speak of the humbling and suppression of the ekklesia in humility following on from when church & Christianity was made a state religion under Constantine.
Dung Gate/Silwan Gate/Maghrabi Gate provides an exit for trash & refuse to be taken out of the City. Inside, the path to this gate leads to the wailing wall.
Fountain Gate, located near the Pool of Shloah; near the Dung Gate, and a place cleansing for preparation.
Water Gate, near the Fountain Gate, leads down to the Gihon Spring, from which water can be brought up into the City.
Horse Gate, located near the King's stables. The path to go out to war leads through this Gate.
East Gate, on the East side of Jerusalem opposite of the Mount of Olives, sees Messiah come through in His return.
Inspection Gate provided a place for king David to review his troops.
Golden Gate
Gate of Mercy/Repentance
Damascus Gate/Nablus Gate/Gate of the Pillar
Lion's Gate/Gate of the Tribes/Yehoshafat's Gate
Jaffa Gate
Zion Gate
New Gate
Nehemiah 3, 12
Gates: sheep gate, gate of the guard, old gate, fish gate, valley gate, refuse/dung gate, fountain gate, water gate, horse gate, east gate, inspection gate, gate of Ephraim
Towers: tower of Hananel, tower of the Hundred, projecting tower
Threshing Floor near the Gate
This new life transforms you.
The apologetic of transformation. search for "God changed me", etc.
Purpose of Fall & Rescue
The Charity of Grace
Stories of sacrifice for the sake of Christ & the gospel herald. (BMD is more of a history-crtique.)
Long ago, portions of the ekklesia were dawn away by men who cleverly positioned people behind them; also speakingperverse things.Paul of Tarsus had warned the saintsabout their coming.[Acts 20:25-31]
As schisms festered and divisions multiplied... competing opinions prevailing, rather than receiving the unity of the Spirit that furnishes consensus.
Now men would select whatever each one valued from traditions and sacred writings, also to direct for how the writings should be understood.
Protestant meets Orthodox & RCC
people to places
ekklesia in exile.
transformation in Christ remained alive against persecution & institutionalization.
----- Video: HOW THE CHURCH WAS ADOPTED BY ROMANS AND THE MONKS WHO REJECTED IT.
notes
Ambrose (bishop): (rejected Byzantine rule over the ekklesia)
~390 AD emporer Theodosius communion withheld until he asked for pardon.
Truth Therefore Responds
Rome puts the keys of the Kingdom in a drawer, assuming Kingdom management.
Europe: "We know better", breaking away.
conceived as administrative, ekklesia emerges where community in Christ dwells.
FOR: WHAT IS CHURCH?
While "church" is the common English translation for the Greek word ekklesia, they carry vastly different meanings. Ekklesia refers to a dynamic gathering of people called out for a specific purpose, whereas "church" often implies a physical building or institutional religion.
---LLM Ai output: church vs ekklesia
A kirche (church) is a location while an ekklesia (church) is a purposeful, often powerful gathering of people united by identity and purpose.
---Wesleynan.org (need current browser to confirm)
FOR: WHAT IS CHURCH?
"This is a twisted tale. The fifth century Cappadocian (central Turkey) Christians called their communities Kyriakos oikos (the Lord’s house). They had a major influence on the translation of the Bible into Gothic, an old east Germanic language. The Goths rendered Kyriakos oikos as ciric. In old English that became kerk, and then in English ‘church’ and in German Kirche. In the King James translation of the Hebrew scripture (so-called ‘Old Testament’), the translators consistently employed the gloss 'assembly,' while in the New Testament they used 'church.' Thus, they obscured the connection to its Jewish roots."
---B. Brandon Scott
---https://earlychristiantexts.com/should-ekklesia-really-be-translated-as-church/
---Brian Mallalieu July 11, 2024
1. It is the word that the Holy Spirit prompted Jesus to use and declare at Caesarea Philippi (Matt_16:18), when standing before the Tetrarch’s palace & the occult, porn idol’s Gate of Hades; declaring what He is building and will! We are not to grieve the Holy Spirit; who knew exactly what He was doing.
2. The civic word still in common parlance, Ekklesia, from Ancient Greece & Rome is full of relevant meaning, when essentially interpreted through the New Testament & New Covenant (Jer_31:31-34) e.g. communal, male & female, equality & non-hierarchical, spiritual warfare & peacemaking, and governance.
3. ‘Got Questions’ tells us: “… Going further back than Old English, the word church ultimately traces its origin to a Greek term, kūrikón, which was related to kurios, “lord.” The phrase kūrikón oikía meant “the Lord’s house.” In the Middle Ages, the Greek term for “house of worship” was shortened to kūrkón. And that’s the word that was loaned to West Germanic as kirika and eventually to Old English as cirice. Old Norse borrowed the Old English word cirice to form kirkja, and that’s where the Scottish word kirk came from. During the Middle English period, the word kirk was borrowed from the Scots, so now Modern English has both church and kirk as synonyms…” But, the Bible tells us very clearly in: I Kings 8:27; II Chronicles 2:6, II Chronicles 6:18; Isaiah 66:1; Acts 7:48; 17:24 that God neither dwells in a house (building) or can be contained in one; since as Acts 17:28 further states he is Omnipresent! Are we truly Biblical or not?
4. Seeing as Emperor Constantine & King James 1 demanded the translators use the incorrect word, church, and Acts_5:29 tell us to obey God rather than man: Who are you going to obey as a disciple & follower of Jesus?
5. And furthermore, 1 Cor_ 14:26ff commands Jesus’s ekklesia (through His Apostle) how we are to gather (N.B. not ‘go to church’) i.e. without getting hung-up on the local problem in vs.34-36! Also, to be truly participatory it must be small in number; & grow by multiplication, through every disciple being a discipler. (The only way to complete Jesus’s Great Commission — ‘God’s Way’ as Hudson Taylor said!).
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