Even the "Man with the Dirt-Brush" must put back the diamonds and other gems in their proper place, and the Arrogant Judge can't listen forever to the crying widow! R.Holt MD |
The "Jesus Only" crowd will say that Jesus is the ROCK that cannot be moved, but it's not so! |
It only takes a modest amount of good sense and a bit of observation of the chaos in the Christian world to see clearly that there are as many "Jesus Onlys" as there are Christian denominations, sects, churches, and perhaps even ministers! ...Each maintaining, of course that their "Jesus Only" is the ONLY "Jesus Only" and all other "Jesus Onlys" are FALSE! ...Such chaos can only be maintained, and thereby the power-base of each minister or church maintained if no one knows what the REAL JESUS was like, what He really taught, what His principles were, who His family was, where He lived, and what He is doing now....All this information is now available, but hardly any one wants to hear it, for they don't want any changes to be made in what they have always believed, and always INTEND to believe! |
The voyage of the good ship salva -tion ends in ship-wreck in the extended allegory in Acts 27. |
Jesus in the allegory allows the ship to pass, but cannot prevent its ultimate crash! Too much cargo on board! |
Some will be bright enough to see that this whole episode in Acts 27 is just a variat- ion of the Parable told by Jesus, recounted by both Matthew (Matt. 7:24-27) and Luke (Luke 6:47-49) of the "Wise and Foolish Builders". Christianity has been built by Foolish Builders who have built crazy structures on sands that shift from Sunday to Sunday, and year to year, and church to church....but the craziest of them all being the oldest of them all...obviously built on outright Paganism! |
Nebuchadnezzar's dream, inter- preted by Daniel in Dan.2:44,45 showed a rock cut out of a mountain, whose kingdom would last forever! |
Dr. Barbara Thiering PhD, when she surveyed the various Essene sites as part of her preparation to write Jesus and the Riddle of the Dead Sea Scrolls, found a "ROCK" she called the "Monument" within sight of Kherbit Mird. |
It is a triangular outcropping of natural ROCK, which the Herods and the Essenes have left completely natural, but surrounded with smaller rocks, like it was a "monu- ment" to something or someone...that's why Thiering labels it "the Monument" as the 14th photograph in her book...In my opinion, this is the ROCK of the dream of Daniel 2, symbolically at least to the Essenes, and stand for those principles of Essenism deemed to be Everlasting and Unchangeable! .......It was this ROCK that Jesus referred to in Matt. 16:18, not to Himself, nor to Peter (both quite quite movable stones..."the gates of hell shall not prevail against it (these everlasting Essene principles) because the doctine of hell is a temporary one, only for the Age of Pisces...part of the shifting sands. |