Thanks for the reply. .
I am repeating . They knew not of eating "doing the will" . Hearing it is not doing it. They had the rest of their lives to learn how to rightly divide the parables and understand what it means to eat meat as a spiritual understanding.
John 4:33-35 King James Version Therefore said the disciples one to another, Hath any man brought
him ought to
eat? Jesus saith unto them,
My meat is to do the
will of
him that sent
me, and to
finish his work. (the hidden manna spoken of in Revelation 2:17
I am not accusing you of doing it but making it aware. All believers are in a special class (born again) all receive the same reward "eternal life." . .
The word apostle simply means "sent messengers". Sent with thoughts not of their own self .. .called prophecy .
God forbids we give them any credit for the work he performs in them . There are still apostles (sent ones) today.
Apostles are considered as nothing no power (faith). The first listed apostle and martyr was Abel in Genesis 4
It would be no different then sending a young person to a store with a list and ask him not to add or subtract from it.
God causes the growth or increase if any .(1 Corinthian 3
we receive nothing from the apostles moved by God.
I use gold as the good or golden measure. . Not literal seen as the measure of men .It represents the hidden manna spoken of in Revelations 2 :17. or the ark in Deuteronomy. . . when the Bible was placed on the outside revealing the hidden manna inside . Aaron's rod and stones. written on both sides with no room for the oral traditions of mankind.
God knew beforehand that when Moses died men who play who is the greatest making the words of God as it is written to no effect.
Deuteronomy.31: 25-26 That Moses commanded the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the Lord, saying, Take this
book of the law, and put it in the
side of the
ark of the
covenant of the Lord your God, that
it may be there for a
witness against
thee.For I know
thy rebellion, and
thy stiff neck: behold, while I am
yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against the Lord; and
how much more after
my death?
No such thing as apostolic succession, a successional dying mankind.
Right from the foundation in a parable a picture using rivers to represent the gospel going out into the whole world . . 4 corners north, south, east and west . a city used to represent the bride of Christ encompassed with gold.
Genesis 2: 10 And a
river went out of Eden to
water the
garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads. The name of the first is
Pison (Scattered seed Christ ): that is it which compasseth the whole
land of Havilah,(city of pearls city of many nations) where there is
gold; And the
gold of that
land is
good: there is
bdellium (gates of pearl) and the onyx stone.
After each day God pronouncing
his good approval . . .and
it was
good .
Gold is the only element set aside as a metaphor in parables to represent the unseen hidden things of the
faith power) of
Christ the
golden power of God .
He gives us little of that power and calls us of "
little faith" .Just enough to please him, Peter declared increase
it or
empower us.
Revelation 18:16 And saying, Alas, alas that great city, that was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with
gold, and precious stones, and pearls!
Revelation 21:15 And he that talked with me had a
golden reed to measure the
city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof.
144,000 the golden number no man could count. the golden reed . Not the Menards or Home Depot (not what the eyes see. .) But what the parable reveals. .
I would offer. The golden measure is his immeasurable unfailing love of for us working in all born again from above.. he must increase . .
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