The First is the Last

Peter, the acknowledged leader of the chosen Twelve is the first among the apostles as recognized and declared by the bastions of Christendom. Judas Iscariot the Betrayer is the marginalized one or the least among the apostles who is the subject of perpetual bashing and condemnation even by so-called Christians generation after generation. The “Rock” addressed “Satan” for his obstructive demeanor against the fulfillment of the Scriptures  with whom the keys of the gates of Heaven were given opens and closes the gates of heaven whether it is in the south, in the north, in the west or in the east.

DOMINUS VOBISCUM!

Jesus replied, “Blest are you, Simon, son of John! No mere man has revealed this to you, but my heavenly Father. I for my part declare to you, you are ‘Rock’ and on this rock I will build my church, and the jaws of death shall not prevail against it. I will entrust to you the keys of the kingdom of heaven. Whatever you declare bound on earth shall be bound in heaven; whatever you declare loosed on earth shall be loosed in heaven.” (Matthew 16: 17 19)

The preceding divine revelation by the Rabbi to the “Rock” was a blessing and a prophecy declared in front of the privileged apostles. Simon Peter was blessed because the divine revelation or truth about the Son of Man was disclosed to him and no other by the heavenly Father who is not a mere mortal man or a human being but the Supreme Divinity who is God.  Simon Peter was blessed not only because he was one of the elite dozen that the Rabbi chose but because the holy office that he shall hold outside this earth was committed to him by the Messiah even before the completion of the fulfillment of the Scriptures. His role as gatekeeper at the periphery of heaven has already been secured and outlined by the Master. Any person who holds the keys to the gates is a gatekeeper or in terrestrial parlance, a security officer. The prophecy then pertains to the holy office that he shall hold after his tour of duty in this terrestrial world as an apostle or disciple of the Son of Man irrespective of whatever he does then on as a chosen one until his demise from this earth.

Scriptural wisdom or divine wisdom is very clear that GOD cannot entrust the keys to the kingdom of heaven to a human person because the human person does not belong to heaven inasmuch as it carries with it the convoluted serpentine seal or mark of Satan. Besides, there are no human persons in the kingdom where he will hold the keys. Ergo, Simon Peter must first be dehumanized before he gets hold of the keys of the kingdom of heaven. The deathly imprint of the ancient serpent must be extinguished from his person and it will only be erased after Simon Peter has served his sentence of natural death where the cursed body returns to the cursed soil and frees the soul that has been dehumanized. Only then will Simon Peter receive the keys to the kingdom of heaven to perform his job of gatekeeper in the kingdom of GOD where he wields absolute authority that is subservient to the absolute authority of the Ruler of the kingdom of heaven. In his role as key holder of heaven’s gates, whatever the Ruler of heaven says, he says. He can no longer act independently of the Ruler unlike during his tour of duty as an apostle of the Son of Man where he acted as contra-fellow to the Rabbi with his repeated off-tangent scene-grabbing ways to impede the fulfillment of the divine script. His hands are tied up with the Ruler whether he likes it or not as was prophesied upon his person by the RESURRECTED CHRIST prior to the ascent of the Messiah to His kingdom.

The church that the Messiah was referring to as His own that was to be built upon the ‘Rock’ cannot be a terrestrial church like the Roman Catholic Church or the Philippine-based Church of Christ because the earth is not the kingdom of GOD. He does not reign here. Even now, it is obvious that He does not wield His authority. The events around the globe is indisputable proof. The authority of the terrestrially powerful holds sway in this world that is very far from a heavenly world. Did He not make that clear to Pontius Pilate and Peter the Rock? “My kingdom is not of this world.“He said it twice on the face of the Roman Procurator who tried Him. Common sense dictates that if this is His kingdom He would not have allowed Himself to be born in a manger in the sanctuary of beasts, insects and hostile bacteria. He did so, not to humble Himself or level Himself with the descendants of the persons who treacherously back-stabbed  Him in heaven, but to put an exclamation mark to His Godliness or Supreme Divinity. His birth in the manger inside a barn highlighted that He never needed the basic terrestrial needs of a human infant to survive on this “Mother Earth”. He is GOD. His kingdom is not of this world as he emphasized repeatedly to Pontius Pilate. This world is a mere junkshop of His Creation where the rotten and the rotting are exclusively being given a chance to redeem themselves from the folly of their ancestors who were expelled from heaven where the keys are now held by Peter the “Rock”. Indisputably then, the church that was built upon the “Rock’ is situated somewhere in heaven, the kingdom of GOD and not in this doubly damned world where nothing is heavenly. 

So, on the basis of Scriptural wisdom, the Roman Catholic catechism faltered or erred grievously in its claim that it is the “Church founded on Peter“. Besides, such reckless proclamation is prejudicial to other terrestrial churches who, likewise, in their equally ridiculous folly claim that they are the one true church of Christ when all of them, in the light of the words that emanate directly from the lips of the Savior, are all bogus or counterfeits.
 
Peter the Rock and the original eleven are in heaven. Peter, the acknowledged leader of the chosen Twelve is the first among the apostles as recognized and declared by the bastions of Christendom. Judas Iscariot the Betrayer is the marginalized one or the least among the apostles who is the subject of perpetual bashing and condemnation even by so-called Christians generation after generation. The “Rock” addressed “Satan” for his obstructive demeanor against the fulfillment of the Scriptures  with whom the keys of the gates of Heaven were given opens and closes the gates of heaven whether it is in the south, in the north, in the west or in the east. The Betrayer addressed “Friend” by GOD for his servile collaboration in fulfillment of the Scriptures, is often at the side of the King on the Sacred Banquet drinking and dining with Him for a job well done. The “Friend” passes by the gates that Peter opens and closes whether the “friend” passes by the south, by the north, by the west or by the east.
 
The first is the last and the last is the first! Whatever is true on earth is the exact reverse in heaven.

Peace to everyone!