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"The New Is In The Old Concealed And The Old Is In The New Revealed!

The Throne of David and Solomon's Temple was the foreshadow of the Chair of St. Peter and the Catholic church.  Succession of the Papacy is foreshadowed and begins with God's contract with Abram.  Infallibility is introduced at the Sanctification of Solomon's Temple.  The keys and the power to bind and loose, is articulated with Eliacim.  Please read carefully and thoughtfully.

Isaias 9:6-7 For a CHILD IS BORN to us, and a son is given to us, and the government is upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called, Wonderful, Counsellor, God the Mighty, the Father of the world to come, the Prince of Peace. [7] His empire shall be multiplied, and there shall be no end of peace: he shall sit upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom;

Luke 1:31-32 Behold thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and shalt bring forth a son; and thou shalt call his name Jesus. [32] He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the most High; and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of David his father;

Infallibility [not fail] is introduced at the sanctification of Solomon's Temple. [old testament]

3 kings 9:3, 5  And the Lord said to him: I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication, which thou hast made before me: I have sanctified this house, which thou hast built, to put my name there for ever, and my eyes and my heart shall be there always. … I will establish the throne of thy kingdom over Israel for ever, as I promised David thy father, saying: There shall not fail a man of thy race upon the throne of Israel.

Infallibility [fail not] again promised with the establishment of the office of the Papacy, to St. Peter.

Luke 22:31-32 And the Lord said: Simon, Simon, behold Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat: [32] But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not:

The protestants have always castigated Catholics by saying that there is no other foundation, other than Jesus Christ, and this is true!

1 Corinthians 3:11 For other foundation no man can lay, but that which is laid; which is Christ Jesus.

But Jesus gives His authority to His ambassador and His hierarchy on Earth i.e. St. Peter and his successors, the bishops of the Catholic church.

John 21:15-17  When therefore they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter: Simon son of John, lovest thou me more than these? He saith to him: Yea, Lord, thou knowest that I love thee. He saith to him: Feed my lambs.   He saith to him again: Simon, son of John, lovest thou me? He saith to him: Yea, Lord, thou knowest that I love thee. He saith to him: Feed my lambs.  He said to him the third time: Simon, son of John, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved, because he had said to him the third time: Lovest thou me? And he said to him: Lord, thou knowest all things: thou knowest that I love thee. He said to him: Feed my sheep.

Luke 22:29  And I dispose to you, as my Father hath disposed to me, a kingdom;…

Mark 13:34 Even as a man [Jesus] who going into a far country, left his house; and gave authority to his servants over every work, …

Yes, Jesus, is the only foundation but this foundation is found in all true bishops and Popes.

Apocalypse 21:14 And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them, the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

Succession is introduced with Abram.  God establishes a contract with Abram.  God signifies this contract by changing the name of Abram, to Abraham, signifying a new role, a new character, as leader and father of God's people.  God said that Kings shall come out of thee.  God also calls Abraham a rock.

Genesis 17:1-7  And after he began to be ninety and nine years old, the Lord appeared to him: and said unto him: I am the Almighty God: walk before me, and be perfect.  And I will make my covenant between me and thee: and I will multiply thee exceedingly.  Abram fell flat on his face.  And God said to him: I AM, and my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations.  Neither shall thy name be called any more Abram: but thou shalt be called Abraham: because I have made thee a father of many nations.  And I will make thee increase, exceedingly, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.  And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and between thy seed after thee in their generations, by a perpetual covenant:

Isaias 51:1-2 Give ear to me, you that follow that which is just, and you that seek the Lord: look unto the rock whence you are hewn, and to the hole of the pit from which you are dug out.  Look unto Abraham your father, and to Sara that bore you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and multiplied him.

God is consistent and is not a liar and so He does it again with Jacob.  God changes the name of Jacob, to Israel and say the same things, as Abraham.  God calls Jacob a rock i.e stone and a pastor.

Genesis 35:9-12 And God appeared again to Jacob, after he returned from Mesopotamia of Syria, and he blessed him,  Saying: Thou shalt not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name. And he called him Israel.  And said to him: I am God Almighty, increase thou and be multiplied. Nations and peoples of nations shall be from thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins.  And the land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give to thee, and to thy seed after thee.

Genesis 49:24 His bow rested upon the strong, and the bands of his arms and his hands were loosed, by the hands of the mighty one of Jacob: thence he came forth a pastor, the stone of Israel.

See the consistency, the changing of the name of God's chosen leader, God calling His leader a rock.  God articulating succession, "I will give to thee and to thy seed after thee".

This consistent language continues and is found in the book of Isaias, concerning the keys and the power to bind and loose.

Isaias 22:20-22 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah: And I will clothe him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy girdle, and I will commit thy government into his hand: and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.  And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; so he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.

All the language, in totality, that is provided above, points right to Matthew 16:16-19.  God the Father calls [selects] Peter, just like Eliacim.  Jesus changes the name of Simon Bar-Jona to Peter [Kepha] and calls Peter [Kepha] a rock, just like Abraham and Israel.  Jesus gives the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven to Peter and gives Peter the power to bind and loose, just like Eliacim.  

Matthew 16-16-19  Simon Peter answered and said: Thou art Christ, the Son of the living God.  And Jesus answering, said to him: Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-Jona: because flesh and blood hath not revealed it to thee, but my Father who is in heaven.  And I say to thee: That thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.  And I will give to thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven. And whatsoever thou shalt bind upon earth, it shall be bound also in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose upon earth, it shall be loosed also in heaven.

Look at the two verses of the old and the new, side by side, essentially identical.

Matthew 16:19 And I will give to thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven. And whatsoever thou shalt bind upon earth, it shall be bound also in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose upon earth, it shall be loosed also in heaven.

Isaias 22:22 And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; so he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.

Here is the same language in the Apocalypse.

Apocalypse 3:7-8 And to the angel of the church of Philadelphia, write: These things saith the Holy One and the true one, he that hath the key of David; he that openeth, and no man shutteth; shutteth, and no man openeth: I know thy works. Behold, I have given before thee a door opened, which no man can shut: because thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name.

Please look at the solemn assembly of David, in Jerusalem, concerning the building of Solomon's temple and what David says, it parallels what St. Peter says in the Council of Jerusalem in Acts 15, concerning the expansion of the Catholic church i.e. baptism and the abolition of circumcision.  This correlation of the old and the new, reflects God, making choice of David and St. Peter, as the leaders, of the old and the new.

1 Paralipomenon 28:1-2,4 And David assembled all the chief men of Israel, the princes of the tribes, … And the king rising up, and standing said: Hear me, my brethren and my people: … But the Lord God of Israel chose me of all the house of my father, to be king over Israel for ever:

Acts 15:6-10,12 And the apostles and ancients assembled to consider of this matter. [7] And when there had been much disputing, Peter, rising up, said to them: Men, brethren, you know, that in former days God made choice among us, that by my mouth the Gentiles should hear the word of the gospel, and believe. [8] And God, who knoweth the hearts, gave testimony, giving unto them the Holy Ghost, as well as to us; [9] And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith. [10] Now therefore, why tempt you God to put a yoke upon the necks of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear? … And all the multitude held their peace;

God is the same yesterday, today and forever.

Malachias 3:6 For I am the Lord, and I change not:

Numbers 23:19 God is not a man, that he should lie, nor as the son of man, that he should be changed. Hath he said then, and will he not do? hath he spoken, and will he not fulfill?