Sorry, Scribe, but I accidently hit Post Reply, and it timed out before I knew it. That above quote is the most famous quote, where people think JESUS used the word CHURCH. But HE NEVER used the WORD CHURCH. That meaning was ADDED to the definition about 200 AD.
Here is what HE SAID, and I found a TRANSLATION that STILL USES the ORIGINAL WORD.
Matthew 16:18 (YLT)
18 `And I also say to thee, that thou art a rock, and upon this rock I will build my assembly, and gates of Hades shall not prevail against it;
QUOTE:
Greek NASB Number: 1577
Greek Word: ἐκκλησία
Transliterated Word: ekklêsia
Root: from 1537 and 2564;
Definition: an assembly, a (religious) congregation:--
New American Standard Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible.
:END QUOTE.
There is the Word ekklêsia and what the word meant at the time that JESUS spoke it.
SOME people want to say JESUS REPLACED the Jewish Believers with the CHURCH, and HE DID NOT.
Mal. 3:6 tells us that GOD DOES NOT CHANGE, and they expect us to believe that GOD DOES CHANGE, and they expect us to believe THAT true believes of Judaism, are Saved the SAME WAY AS US. NOT! Here is where HE is talking to people of the last of the Old Testament Fold, telling them HE has other Sheep not of this Fold, referring to the New Testament Fold.
John 10:14-17 (HCSB)
14 “I am the good shepherd. I know My own sheep, and they know Me,
15 as the Father knows Me, and I know the Father. I lay down My life for the sheep.
16 But I have other sheep that are not of this fold {O.T. Fold, co-equal Part of the Bride of Christ}; I must bring them also, and they will listen to My voice. Then there will be one flock {at the Rapture}, one shepherd.
17 This is why the Father loves Me, because I am laying down My life so I may take it up again.
Now if you remember the Birthday of the N.T. FOLD, is not until the feast of Pentecost AFTER HIS ASSENTION. CHURCH was what mankind wanted to call the N.W. Fold, probably because they wanted to distance themselves from the JEWS. IT WAS NOT WHAT JESUS CALLED US, so see how much easier in the above Scripture is to understand when YOU LEAVE WHAT JESUS SAID, ALONE, and not Tamper with it.
Here is what HE SAID, and I found a TRANSLATION that STILL USES the ORIGINAL WORD.
Matthew 16:18 (YLT)
18 `And I also say to thee, that thou art a rock, and upon this rock I will build my assembly, and gates of Hades shall not prevail against it;
QUOTE:
Greek NASB Number: 1577
Greek Word: ἐκκλησία
Transliterated Word: ekklêsia
Root: from 1537 and 2564;
Definition: an assembly, a (religious) congregation:--
New American Standard Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible.
:END QUOTE.
There is the Word ekklêsia and what the word meant at the time that JESUS spoke it.
SOME people want to say JESUS REPLACED the Jewish Believers with the CHURCH, and HE DID NOT.
Mal. 3:6 tells us that GOD DOES NOT CHANGE, and they expect us to believe that GOD DOES CHANGE, and they expect us to believe THAT true believes of Judaism, are Saved the SAME WAY AS US. NOT! Here is where HE is talking to people of the last of the Old Testament Fold, telling them HE has other Sheep not of this Fold, referring to the New Testament Fold.
John 10:14-17 (HCSB)
14 “I am the good shepherd. I know My own sheep, and they know Me,
15 as the Father knows Me, and I know the Father. I lay down My life for the sheep.
16 But I have other sheep that are not of this fold {O.T. Fold, co-equal Part of the Bride of Christ}; I must bring them also, and they will listen to My voice. Then there will be one flock {at the Rapture}, one shepherd.
17 This is why the Father loves Me, because I am laying down My life so I may take it up again.
Now if you remember the Birthday of the N.T. FOLD, is not until the feast of Pentecost AFTER HIS ASSENTION. CHURCH was what mankind wanted to call the N.W. Fold, probably because they wanted to distance themselves from the JEWS. IT WAS NOT WHAT JESUS CALLED US, so see how much easier in the above Scripture is to understand when YOU LEAVE WHAT JESUS SAID, ALONE, and not Tamper with it.