Genesis - 58 - Gen. 25:7-8 EULOGY FOR ABRAHAM PART 3 - the ROCK
In Jesus' day the only Bible they had then was the Hebrew Scriptures (a.k.a. the Old Testament). In Matt 16:18 we read that Jesus will build His ECCLESIA G1577 upon a rock. But, Jesus did not mean church as we know it in the 21st century. He did not mean a building or an organization or a religion. He meant "a gathering of citizens called out from their homes into some public place; an assembly" from Thayer's Greek Lexicon. So He meant people. How do you relate a group of people to a ROCK? One thing that is possible is it may be connected to the location of where Jesus said this. He said it…
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