What does Lady Gaga have to do with Peter/Paul being born again?
Why do you assume that He would have called Him Peter rather than Satan? You're making an assumption.
"Get thee behind me Satan, you are a stumbling block to me!"
Remember, Satan means adversary, and Peter means stone.
Not photos, paintings. Sometimes things are hidden in paintings.
What if born again is literal, and people don't recognize the signs of the times?
"I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.”
Now if only heaven and earth meant what so many think it does. "From the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven has been subjected to violence, and violent people have been raiding it."
Not logical at all, just a lack of understanding.
There's a reason Jesus warned about the pharisees who sit in Moses seat, now known as the chair of St. Peter.
YOU keep saying it's hyperbole, because you lack understanding.
Peter was Jesus adversary, claiming the things Jesus said must happen will never happen. Remember, Peter would deny Jesus 3 times before the rooster crows.
Also remember, to the Lord a day is as a thousand years and a thousand years is as a day.
Truly, Truly, to see the kingdom of God you must be born again.
The bible is a collection of scripture that's sealed up. It's not until the events of revelation that it's unsealed. Some know the secret, many don't.
Does someone currently sit on a throne called the chair of St. Peter claiming apostolic succession from that stone, claiming to be the Vicar (substitute) of Christ and claiming His authority over the world?
"Then a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and threw it into the sea, saying, 'So will Babylon the great city be thrown down with violence, and will be found no more'"
Moses seat is the seat of authority who claims to speak for God. = Chair of St. Peter. The pharisees still sit in that seat. The false apostles (apostolic succession) of Revelation 2:2. The seat of the so called "Holy Father".
Do you remember that Peters name was Simon, and Jesus said he will be called Peter, which means stone? Do you remember JEsus saying "get behind me Satan, you are a stumbling block to me!"?
Did you know that the "black stone" that muslims circle and kiss is said to have been white as snow when it fell from heaven to show where to build the first temple, but it's turned black from sinners touching it?
What did Jesus mean when He said "Get behind me Satan"?
If born again is literal, could two people you think are separate people be the same soul and you don't know it?
What did Jesus mean that John the Baptist was Elijah, and let those with ears to hear hear?
It's fine not to know anon, the trick is to keep an open mind and don't refuse something just because you can't see how it's possible. Remember that Jesus said with God all things are possible.
When Jesus died on the cross, the curtain or "veil" in the temple that separated the "Holy" from the "Holy of Holies" was torn.
There's a reason why priests are called men of the cloth. They're trying to uphold the veil, not realizing (many of them) they're fighting Jesus as Peter did, not having in mind the concerns of God but merely Human concerns. Things are not as the churches teach.
No. That's just what some want you to believe.
Revelation 11:1-2
>I was given a reed like a measuring rod and was told, “Go and measure the temple of God and the altar, with its worshipers. 2 But exclude the outer court; do not measure it, because it has been given to the Gentiles. They will trample on the holy city for 42 months.
To measure is to rule.
Remember the markers 11.3, 11.4, 11.6, and America will be unified 11.11.18(R)?
>Revelation 11:3-12.
>"3 And I will appoint my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.” 4 They are “the two olive trees” and the two lampstands, and “they stand before the Lord of the earth.” 5 If anyone tries to harm them, fire comes from their mouths and devours their enemies. This is how anyone who wants to harm them must die. 6 They have power to shut up the heavens so that it will not rain during the time they are prophesying; and they have power to turn the waters into blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague as often as they want.
>7 Now when they have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up from the Abyss will attack them, and overpower and kill them. 8 Their bodies will lie in the public square of the great city—which is figuratively called Sodom and Egypt—where also their Lord was crucified. 9 For three and a half days some from every people, tribe, language and nation will gaze on their bodies and refuse them burial. 10 The inhabitants of the earth will gloat over them and will celebrate by sending each other gifts, because these two prophets had tormented those who live on the earth.
>11 But after the three and a half days the breath of life from God entered them, and they stood on their feet, and terror struck those who saw them. 12 Then they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, “Come up here.” And they went up to heaven in a cloud, while their enemies looked on.
Clothed in sackcloth represents repentance. How do you confess your sins to people who wont believe? Sometimes you can't just tell people, you have to show them. How's the "plague" going? Are you watching the water like Q told you? Revelation 17:15 tells you what the water is. People, multitudes, nations and languages. What does it mean to be turned to blood?
The BREATH OF LIFE enters the Witnesses. Jesus overcomes with the BREATH OF HIS MOUTH. Jesus BREATHED on them and said "receive the Holy Spirit"
>"But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” Acts 1:8
Like Q said… Power to the People. Watch the Water. Actors are acting.
The witnesses go to heaven in a CLOUD. He is coming with the CLOUDS.
>After He had said this, they watched as He was taken up, and a CLOUD hid Him from their sight. - Acts 1:9
>“Men of Galilee,” they said, “why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven.” Acts 1:11
Jesus returns the way He left, so hidden in a CLOUD? But don't look to the sky!
What are we posting on? The Cloud?
The WAY, the TRUTH, and the LIFE.
>“My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one— I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me." - John 17:20-23
>For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.” - Matthew 18:20
>After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands. And they cried out in a loud voice: “Salvation belongs to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb.” - Revelation 7:9-10
To count is to measure, to measure is to rule. They can't be ruled. They're Free.
> I turned around to see the voice that was speaking to me. And when I turned I saw seven golden lampstands, and among the lampstands was someone like a son of man, dressed in a robe reaching down to his feet and with a golden sash around his chest. The hair on his head was white like wool, as white as snow, and his eyes were like blazing fire. His feet were like bronze glowing in a furnace, and his voice was like the sound of rushing waters. In his right hand he held seven stars, and coming out of his mouth was a sharp, double-edged sword. His face was like the sun shining in all its brilliance. - Revelation 1:12-16