Blog 2023/09/28
Lost sermon [∞]
Response to: https://ancient-faith.com/2019/07/31/the-early-church-fathers-the-law-of-moses-and-the-road-to-emmaus/comment-page-1
“Wouldn’t you want to know what Jesus said to the two disciples on the road to Emmaus? I think the early churches did know because Jesus taught those same things to the apostles over the 40 days before he ascended into heaven. ”
That is a narrow view of scripture. It presumes that the secrets of Emmaus were nuggets that could be lost or misplaced. Paul says the mystery, hidden from the beginning is made plain. What used to be spoken of in shadows is now spoken through the Son.
The Nicolaitans did not make a cannon in order to better distribute scripture, they did it to hide scripture; which they did for 1200 years. Thanks to the Gutenberg press we have access. The nuggets have always been there like fish thrown on the beach. What was lost was not the mysteries, but the ability to discern the mysteries; the ability to fish.
Jesus taught them to read scripture to see him rather than Adam, Noah, Abraham and the rest. This is what we lost. Since Augustine, we have been taught that scripture is literal-historical except when it isn’t. Jesus said it all spoke of him. The church followed the tradition of Augustine.
The Greek church never had the chance to learn to read it like Jesus. Augustine said the Septuagint was more reliable than the original Hebrew texts. It is obvious that if scripture speaks of Christ everywhere, it must be hidden in riddle. Riddle often does not translate well. The church followed the tradition of Augustine.
Augustine suggested that Mark was an abridge form of Matthew. Until the 19th century, some variation of this persisted. The gospels, rather than considered as faithful records became a problem; The Synoptic Problem. The church followed the tradition of Augustine.
It is said that the good guys always win. Perhaps it is not true, but the winners always make themselves to be good guys in the history books. Was Augustine really a good guy? or was he a Nicolaitan (conqueror of the laity) who lost his first love by deifying Mary, and adopted the doctrines of Balaam and the Judaisers?
Our assumptions about the Bible have been influenced by such traditions. For this reason, the theological ‘experts’ reluctantly agreed that they could not read the OT the way Jesus and the NT authors did. Their presuppositions must be wrong. They forgot how to fish and were content with dead fish lying on the beach.
The sermon on the road was not lost. When the apostles heard about the sermon, they tried to reproduce it in their studies. Aided by the Holy Spirit, as they studied scripture, they remembered what Jesus had done and it correlated with prophetic riddle.
The gospels are the outline to the sermon on the road, taken at 10-15 year intervals, as they attempted to reproduce it. They were thrown over the wall at the Greek church, which did not wish to study Hebrew. The differences demonstrated the methods of fishing that they learned during the intervals.
Mark began the story with the Baptist. Matthew learned that Israel was a shadow of Christ and began with Abraham. By the time Luke wrote, the church had discovered that the men before Abraham were also a shadow of Christ, so he began with Adam.
John learned the formation of Hebrew words, and from the first three words of Ge 1:1 he discerned John 1:1-4 and more. From the first three words it is discerned that the Word was in the beginning and was with God and was God; that the Son is the Word; that the Son is the creator, the Light, Life and Bread; that man is separated from God by ignorance; that from the beginning, no man has seen the father, but that the son reveals him; that from the beginning the Son was totally devoted; that God spoke creation into existence, and his revelation was complete with new life being produced; that there was a covenant with man. This is discovered by an attribute of Hebrew where words get their meaning from the combined meaning of the letters within. This was lost when the Greek church stopped reading Hebrew.
By the differences in the gospels we can recreate the fishing gear. Not only can we reproduce the nuggets, but can continue fishing and reliably and verifiably observe more of the sermon on the road which is not discovered in the gospels.
A nugget from Ge 2:21 is that Christ obtains his bride from his death. When we fish, we see in greater detail that “God caused the man to die and he died and he married his limping side and delivered mankind”.
It sounds like Christ, but we are unfamiliar with the limping side until the Spirit correlates the seed of the woman, with Jacobs withered thigh and Gethsemane. The seed limped, Jacob limped, and Jesus, in order to be obedient to the Father, made his flesh limp. He did not wish to die but “Nevertheless…”.
We can see that Luke tried to teach us to fish in Acts 12. Herod vexed the church, and Christ. Peter and Jesus were arrested the week before Passover. They were put between two guards and two thieves. They were poked in the side by the Spirit and the spear. The light shown in the cell and the tomb. There were three barriers to escape:two guards and a gate, and two days in death and a stone. The gate and the stone were opened. Jesus first saw Mary, so Peter went to Mary’s house. The women who greeted both ran to tell the disciples, they were told they were crazy. When they finished, Peter and Jesus went to another place.
The whole OT is written this way. It all speaks of Jesus. We just need to learn to fish again. The church has been parceling out the portions of fish that they choose. We should be teaching them to feed themselves by fishing. The sermon on the road is now discernible in all the OT that speaks of Christ.
