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 ARE YOU DRAWN TO THE MESSIAH? COME IN, OPEN TO HIM! Romans 8:14
Temple Gate, near the Threshing Floor
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 showcase 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 a 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?





Psalm 24... Who is this King of Glory?
      JERUSALEM GATES:
  1. 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.
  2. 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."
  3. 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..."
  4. Valley Gate opened into the Valley 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.
  5. 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.
  6. Fountain Gate, located near the Pool of Shloah; near the Dung Gate, and a place cleansing for preparation.
  7. Water Gate, near the Fountain Gate, leads down to the Gihon Spring, from which water can be brought up into the City.
  8. Horse Gate, located near the King's stables. The path to go out to war leads through this Gate.
  9. East Gate, on the East side of Jerusalem opposite of the Mount of Olives, sees Messiah come through in His return.
  10. Inspection Gate provided a place for king David to review his troops.
  11. Golden Gate
  12. Gate of Mercy/Repentance
  13. Damascus Gate/Nablus Gate/Gate of the Pillar
  14. Lion's Gate/Gate of the Tribes/Yehoshafat's Gate
  15. Jaffa Gate
  16. Zion Gate
  17. 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.)


Temple TimeLine





NOT 'CHURCH'
~ the distinguished functions of ~ synago & ekklesia

Matthew 16:18"on this rock I shall be home-building My ekklesia, and the gates of the unseen shall not be prevailing against her."
Matthew 18:16-17"tell the ekklesia"
Matthew 18:20"where hence two or three synago, there am I in the midst of them."
Matthew 22:41"the pharisees having synago, Jesus inquires of them."
Matthew 23:6"they are fond of the foremost reclining place at the dinners and foremost seats in the synagoes"
Mark 1:21"they are entering Capernaum and immediately on the sabbaths, having gone into the synago, He is teaching"
Mark 1:23"there was a man in their synago with an unclean spirit, and he cried out, 'Away! We are also forth to be concomitant, Jesus the Nazarean! You came to destroy us.'"
Mark 1:29"coming out of the synago, they came into the home of Simon and Andrew, with James and John, and the mother-in-law of Simon was laid down with a fever"
Mark 1:39"and He came into their synagoes in all of Galilee and is casting out demons."
Mark 1:39"and He came into their synagoes in all of Galilee and is casting out demons."
Mark 6:30"and synagoes the apostles toward Jesus, and they message to Him all and as much as they do and as much as they teach."
Mark 7:1"and synagoes toward Him, the Pharisees, and concomitant forth attended scribes from Jerusalem."
Mark 13:9"they shall be giving you up to the sanhedrins and in synagoes shall you be lashed..."
Luke 4:15"and He taught in the synagoes of them, being esteemed by all."
Luke 7:5"he is loving hence the nation of us, and the synago he home-builds for us."
Luke 11:43"Woe to y'all, the Pharisees, that y'all are loving the foremost seats in the synagoes and the greetings in the marketplaces."
Luke 20:46"hold off from the scribes -- the ones willing to walk around in robes and of being fond of greetings in the marketplaces and foremost seats in the synagoes and foremost reclining in the dinners"
Luke 21:12"and they shall be chasing, giving you up onto synagoes and jails..."
John 11:47"the chief priests and the Pharisees synagoes to sanhedrin, and saying, 'Forth to doing, seeing that this man is doing many signs.'"
John 11:52"...that the ones having been scattered, may be synago onto one."
John 18:20"Presented to render essential to be as attended, set to reach to teach in the synago and in the sacred place..."
John 20:19"...set as concomitant therewith, the learners had been synago thru the fear of the Judeans. Jesus came and stood in their midst"
Acts 2:47"the Lord added to the ekklesia"
Acts 4:31"was shaken the place in which they were synago and they are filled all of Spirit holy"
Acts 5:11"on all the ekklesia and on all who had knowledge..."
Acts 7:38"this is He that was in the ekklesia in the wilderness"
Acts 8:1"persecution against the ekklesia" which is in Jerusalem
Acts 8:3"Saul was burning with hate against the ekklesia"
Acts 9:31"Saul was burning with hate against the ekklesia"
Acts 11:22"then the ekklesias" throughout the whole of Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace"
Acts 11:26"it became for them that year as a whole to synago [assemble together], also in the ekklesia and as to teach the throngs
Acts 12:1"Herod the king put forth his hands to mistreat any from the ekklesia"
Acts 12:5
"Peter was kept in prison but prayer extended becoming by the ekklesia toward God for him."
Acts 13:1"there were in Antioch, to accord with the ekklesia which is there, prophets and teachers"
Acts 13:44"almost the entire city was synago to hear the word of the Lord."
Acts 14:23"selecting to them elders, according to ekklesia praying with fasts, they commended them to the Lord"
Acts 14:27"beside becoming and synago [assemble together] to the ekklesia, they message what God does with them"
Acts 15:3-4"being sent forth by the ekklesia... and they made great joy to all the brethren. ...becoming into Jerusalem, they were received by the ekklesia and the apostles and the elders"
Acts 15:6"yet synago [assemble together] the apostles and the elders to be perceiving about this."
Acts 15:22"then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders together to the whole ekklesia choosing men out from them to send to Antioch"
Acts 15:30"came down to Antioch and
synago the multitude; they hand them the letter."

Acts 15:41"he came thru Syria and Cilicia, with zeal further supporting the ekklesias"
Acts 16:5"indeed then the ekklesias were being solidified as to the faith"
Acts 17:17"dialoguing then indeed in the synago with Jews and revering ones, and in the marketplace..."
Acts 18:22"and coming down onto Caesaria, stepping up to greet the ekklesia."
Acts 19:32"others indeed then cried out some other thing as was of the ekklesia having been confused."
Acts 19:39"if yet about different things you are seeking, in the lawful ekklesia it be being undertaken."
Acts 19:41"he dismisses the ekklesia."
Acts 20:17"from Miletus, sending to Ephesus, he summons the elders of the ekklesia."
Acts 20:28"you, the Holy Spirit placed as overseers [on-noters] to shepharding the ekklesia of God..."
Romans 16:1"Phoebe, our sister, being a servant of the ekklesia in Cencherea"
Romans 16:4 - 5
"all the ekklesia of the gentiles and according to the home of them ekklesia"
Romans 16:16"greet one another in holy fondness; greeting y'all are the ekklesias of Christ."
Romans 16:23"greeting you is Gaius the lodger of me, and the ekklesias altogether"
Romans 16:27"thru Phoebe, the thru-servant of the ekklesia in Cencherea"
I Corinthians 1:2
"to the ekklesia of the God -- the one being in Corinth; having been holyized in Christ Jesus; called holy ones..."
I Corinthians 4:17"who shall be bringing to your remembrance the ways of me as I am attended in Christ, on every soil in every ekklesia, I am teaching"
I Corinthians 6:4"...the contemptible in the ekklesia, these you are seating?"
I Corinthians 7:17"and thus in the ekklesias all, I am prescribing: ..."
I Corinthians 10:32"without stumbling be becoming, so then to Jews and to Greeks and to the ekklesia of God"
I Corinthians 11:16"if anyone is fond of determined pursuit to prevail, such a shared custom determined as having need not as yet the ekklesias of God"
I Corinthians 11:18"at your coming together in ekklesias I am hearing of schisms inhering among you"
I Corinthians 11:22"are you despising the ekklesia of God?"
I Corinthians 12:28"whom indeed placed the God in the ekklesias first, apostles; second, prophets..."
I Corinthians 14:4"to be yet prophesying, ekklesia is edifying"
I Corinthians 14:5"one talking in languages, determined essential pursuant therewith alongside he should interpret, that the ekklesia may be getting edification"
I Corinthians 14:12"since you are zealots of spirits, toward the edification of the ekklesia be seeking that you may be superabounding"
I Corinthians 14:19"freely to arise in the ekklesia I would present five sayings thru the mind for me to speak ensuing also to others I may instruct, therewith to myriads solutions rendered in a language."
I Corinthians 14:23"if should be coming together the ekklesia whole on the same, and with all to languages be talking; yet may enter idiots [ordinary ones] therewith unbelieving ones being of need determined, should be declaring that y'all are maniacal."
I Corinthians 14:28"let him be hushing in the ekklesia; to himself, yet he be talking also to the God."
I Corinthians 14:33"the God is not hence of unstability, but of peace, as in all the ekklesias."
I Corinthians 14:34"the women of y'all in the ekklesias, be hushing"
I Corinthians 14:35"vile hence ensuing as attended, to women in ekklesia to be speaking."
I Corinthians 15:9"not am I enough to be called "apostle" because I chase the ekklesia of God."
I Corinthians 16:1"I prescribe to the ekklesias of Galatia thus, and y'all do."
I Corinthians 16:19the ekklesias of Asia are greeting y'all in the Lord; much as Acquila and Priscilla together as to the accorded home of them, ekklesia."
II Corinthians 1:1"to the ekklesia of the God. Therewith as attended being in Corinth together to the holy ones; all the ones in the whole Achaia."
II Corinthians 8:1"the grace of God which has been bestowed in the ekklesias
of Macedonia."

II Corinthians 8:18-19"now we send together with him whose applause in the evangel is thru all the ekklesias -- yet not only so, but who was selected also by the ekklesias to be our fellow-traveller with this grace which is being dispensed by us to the glory of the Lord."
II Corinthians 8:23"the apostles of the ekklesias; the esteem of Christ."
II Corinthians 8:24"displaying also onto the face of the ekklesias"
II Corinthians 11:8"other ekklesias, I took from, getting ration toward the servicing of y'all."
II Corinthians 11:28"that which is coming upon me according to the day, the solicitude by memory of all the ekklesias"
II Corinthians 12:13"anything hence ensuing as attended, to be discomfitted above the rest of the ekklesias..."
Galatians 1:2 - 3"to the ekklesias, of Galatia: grace to y'all and peace from God the Father"
Galatians 1:13"y'all hear of my behavior once required to prevail in Judaism; according in excess, I chased the ekklesia of God and ravaged her."
Galatians 1:22"I, hence being unknown, presented as attended to accommodate the ekklesias of Judea in Christ"
Ephesians 1:22-23"and all undersets under His feet; also to Him gives source over all to the ekklesia,
which is His body"

Ephesians 3:10-11
"may be being made known to the principals and the authorities to prevail in the heavenlies
thru the ekklesia.
The multifaceted wisdom of God in accord with the purpose of the eons which He makes in Christ Jesus, the Lord of us."

Ephesians 3:21"to Him be the esteem in the ekklesia, in Christ Jesus onto all the generations of the age of the ages. amen."
Ephesians 5:23-24"and the Christ,
source of the ekklesia, and He is Saviour of the Body. Furthermore, as the ekklesia."

Ephesians 5:25"the men be loving the women presented to be as attended, according as also Christ loves the ekklesia and persisting as attended of need rising vitally gives over her."
Ephesians 5:27"that He should be standing beside her presented as attended, esteemed in the ekklesia, without spot or wrinkle"
Ephesians 5:29"nurturing it and cherishing it according as also the Master to the ekklesia."
Ephesians 5:32"yet I am speaking onto Christ and onto the ekklesia."
Philippians 3:6"according to zeal, chasing the ekklesia."
Philippians 4:15"when I emerged from Macedonia, not one ekklesia communes onto saying of giving and getting, pursuant therewith alongside y'all alone."
Colossians 1:18"He is the source of the body; the ekklesia. Who is Principal, Firstborn out of the dead, that He may be becoming in all.
He first being."

Colossians 1:24"I am instead filling up as concomitant of need of the constrictions of the Christ in the flesh of me, over the body of Him, to be ensuing as attended, as concomitant
therewith ekklesia."

Colossians 4:15"Nymphus also to prevail therewith as attended according to home of him, ekklesia"
Colossians 4:16"cause that it be also read in the Laodiceans ekklesia; also out of Laodicea, that you may be reading."
   I Thessalonians 1:1 &
II Thessalonians 1:1
"Paul and Sylvanus and Timothy to ekklesia of Thessalonicans in God, Father of us and Master Jesus Christ"
I Thessalonians 2:14"Y'all hence mimics became brothers of the ekklesias of God, of the ones being in Judaea in Christ Jesus"
II Thessalonians 1:4"to be boasting in the ekklesias of the God"
I Timothy 3:5"pursuant in-essence as concomitant as attended forth to a directed home, diligent to take the lead; so determined of need to be, has perceived how of ekklesias of God he shall be undertaking care."
I Timothy 3:15"that you may be perceiving how it is binding in the home of God to be uprighted as concomitant forth as attended is: ekklesia -- living column and settled-support of the truth [comprised to free]."
I Timothy 5:16"also not to be weighing upon therewith ekklesia rising away to ensue to the indeed widows, sufficing."
Philemon 1:2"therewith as attended according to the home of you, ekklesia"
Hebrews 2:12"in the midst of the ekklesia I shall be hymning You."
Hebrews 10:25"not abandoning therefore as attended synago of ourselves according as a custom to any..."
Hebrews 12:23"to all convocation and to ekklesia of ones first brought forth in to the heavens"
James 5:14"any being infirm among y'all, call toward the seniors of the ekklesia"
III John 1:6"who testify of you, to the love in sight of ekklesia, whom ideally you shall be doing by sending to accommodate worthily of the God."
III John 1:9-10"I write to the ekklesia, but the one being their most fond, Diotrephes, is not receiving us. Thru this, if ever I may be coming, I shall be reminding of him the acts which he is doing; to wicked sayings; chatting us. And [apparently] not sufficed by this: to those not alongside us, he is receiving them as brothers; and the ones intending, he is forbidding and from out of the ekklesia he is casting them."
Revelation 1:4"John, to the seven ekklesias, in therewith as attended Asia."
Revelation 1:11"write into a scrollet and send to the seven ekklesias which are in Asia."
Revelation 1:20"the seven gleamers: messengers of the seven ekklesias are; and the seven lampstands which you perceived: seven ekklesias are."
Revelation 2:1"To the messenger of the ekklesia
of Ephesus, write..."

Revelation 2:7"the Spirit is saying to the ekklesias, to the ones conquering..."
Revelation 2:8"To the messenger of the ekklesia
of Smyrna, write..."

Revelation 2:11,17,29,
Revelation 3:6,13,22
"hear what the Spirit is saying to the ekklesias"
Revelation 2:12"To the messenger of the ekklesia
of Pergamum, write..."

Revelation 2:18"To the messenger of the ekklesia
of Thyatira, write..."

Revelation 2:23"and all the ekklesias shall know that I am He who is searching the kidneys and hearts..."
Revelation 3:1"To the messenger of the ekklesia
of Sardis, write..."

Revelation 3:7"To the messenger of the ekklesia
of Philadelphia, write..."

Revelation 3:14"To the messenger of the ekklesia
of Laodicea, write..."

Revelation 22:16"I, Jesus, have sent my messenger to testify to you these things upon the ekklesias.




Long ago, portions of the ekklesia were dawn away by men who cleverly positioned people behind them; also speaking perverse things. Paul of Tarsus had warned the saints about their coming. [Acts 20:25-31]
 
title: Church Departed
KJV Rules for translation
As schisms festered and divisions multiplied... competing opinions prevailing, rather than receiving the unity of the Spirit that furnishes consensus.
Embracing factions, men would select whatever each one valued of traditions and writings, also to direct for how the writings should be understood. 

Protestant meets Orthodox & RCC



ekklesia in exile

As a holy people; a nation peculiar...
like their Leader, not of this world.
[Exodus 19:6; I Peter 2:9-10; John 8:23-24 18:36; I Corinthians 2:5-7; Hebrews 9:11]

people to places


right from the start

...was begun the "Acts 5" irrepressible life of Christ in His body and Bride --- graced with the living transformation in Christ, persisting as Light & Life amid streams of preference, deception, diversion, opposition & alliances common to the physical world.
Kingdom priests, a holy nation; peculiar people with praises of Him who called them/us.

apology for the wandering

Soon, many would become entangled in the kingdoms of the world, East to West, with religion superimposed as mock & mimic of Christ's Kingdom.
The faithful responding to help:

truth therefore responds







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