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"Matthew 16:18-19" Dispensationalist (Catholic) χρ
How are Gentiles "heirs" according to the promise made to Abraham? That promise was for Israel. That's a MYSTERY.¹
Paul explains:
Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:
10 That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:
(In Catholicism this is the Church; both triumphant and the Church militant.)
11 In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:
Obtaining an inheritance makes a person an heir. (And Gentiles were predestined for this inheritance, which means the Church was prophesied of, but it was veiled; a mystery.)
12 That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.
13 In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,
14 Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.
"Sealed with the Holy Spirit," the earnest of our inheritance, is the sacrament of confirmation.
15 Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints,
(ofc Paul doesn't mean here folks who might be faking it. He means bona fide Christians. That's how Catholics use the term too.)
16 Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers;
"Give thinks" = Eucharist, another sacrament. And the Church militant does actually still offer Masses, for the suffering Church suffering.
17 That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:
18 The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
19 And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,
20 Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,
21 Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:
That just means Heaven. He is in Heaven rn.
22 And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,
23 Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.
If you're not in the Church, you're missing the fullness of your faith.
He hates Ephesians 2
And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
(The Devil.)
3 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
4 But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved; )
6 And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:
This means somehow that we are in Heaven rn, like He is, and with Him. Our priests during the liturgy of the Eucharist say (this is from memory, it could be wrong), "Through Him and with Him and in Him, Oh God almighty Father, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, all glory and power is Yours forever and ever."
7 That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.
10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
11 Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;
12 That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
13 But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
(In the Eucharist the blood of Christ is the chalice, or "cup.")
14 For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;
15 Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace;
16 And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:
17 And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh.
18 For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.
19 Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;
20 And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;
21 In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:
22 In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.
That's Paul stealing Peter's metaphor of the Church as a building, as a temple. But Peter's also got the ark metaphor; Paul didn't use that one.
¹Mystery means sacrament in Latin.
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