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Peter's Vision
This is a long passage but as it is all one section worth reading as one. Peter was told he was the rock on which the Church would be built. Also that he would be given the keys of Heaven. Here is the passage:
17 Jesus replied, "Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for this was not revealed to you by man, but by my Father in heaven. 18 And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it. 19 I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven." 20 Then he warned his disciples not to tell anyone that he was the Christ.
There is much discussion about what is meant by Peter being the Rock and having the Keys to Heaven and that what is meant by him ‘binding or loosening’. I just wonder if in Acts we discover an explanation, what do you think?
Is it that Peter was shown the vision of the unclean animals so that he would then be able to make the decision to follow Christ’s desire to enter the home of this Gentile and begin the loosening of the restrictions which kept the ‘unclean’ out of Jewish faith system? Is it that Peter was given the strength to return to those in Jerusalem and explain so that they would ‘praise the Lord’ and give the Gentile believers their blessing?
What do you think?
This is a long passage but as it is all one section worth reading as one. Peter was told he was the rock on which the Church would be built. Also that he would be given the keys of Heaven. Here is the passage:
17 Jesus replied, "Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for this was not revealed to you by man, but by my Father in heaven. 18 And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it. 19 I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven." 20 Then he warned his disciples not to tell anyone that he was the Christ.
There is much discussion about what is meant by Peter being the Rock and having the Keys to Heaven and that what is meant by him ‘binding or loosening’. I just wonder if in Acts we discover an explanation, what do you think?
Is it that Peter was shown the vision of the unclean animals so that he would then be able to make the decision to follow Christ’s desire to enter the home of this Gentile and begin the loosening of the restrictions which kept the ‘unclean’ out of Jewish faith system? Is it that Peter was given the strength to return to those in Jerusalem and explain so that they would ‘praise the Lord’ and give the Gentile believers their blessing?
What do you think?
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