FRIED FISH!
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MANY COINS Would IN THE FUTURE Be EARNED AMONG THE GENTILES (not the JEWS) by Peter symbolically as a "Fisher of men" not fish! This is the major SYMBOLIC meaning of Matthew 17:24-27 |
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Matthew 27:24-27 "And when they were come to Capernaum, they that received tribute money came to Peter, and said, Doth not your master pay tribute? He saith, Yes. And when he was come into the house, Jesus prevented him, saying, What thinkest thou, Simon? of whom do the kings of the earth take custom or tribute? of their own children, or of strangers? Peter said unto him, Of strangers. Jesus said unto him, Then are the children free. Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them, go then to the sea, and cast an hook, and take up the fish that first cometh up; and when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a piece of money; that thou take, and give unto them for me and thee." Peter's "FISHING FOR MEN" WOULD CONTINUE THROUGH THE "AGE OF PISCES" 2000 YEARS, WHOSE SYMBOL WAS "TWO FISHES"
AND LOTS OF COINS WOULD BE COLLECTED BY PETER'S CHURCH
THIS WAS PROPHETICALLY TRUE of the ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH IN THE MIDDLE AGES tAND AGAIN BECAME TRUE OF THE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH DURING THE "reign" OF Robert Folkenberg as General Conference President in 1990 - 1999 Thus he fulfilled the Biblical "Peter Principle" as well as the now well-known organizational "Peter Principle" named for Laurence J. Peter
Here I am in the fall of 1992 standing at the site 6 kilometers south of the ruins of the Qumran monastery on the eastern shore of the Dead Sea where was located in 29 AD (and before) the Essene synagogue with a "water door" and a stone warf or boat landing where Peter and Andrew his brother, and James and John the "sons" of Zebedee "fished for men" while the Essene Messiah was Jesus Christ. They were fishing for men, not real fish, because there were no real fish in the Dead Sea, because the water is toxic to most living creatures. That's why it is called the "Dead Sea". The situation was perfect for the SYMBOLISM the Essenes had in mind, using a baptism in the "waters of death" after which new Gentile converts were raised to a "new life" with a new name. They named the Dead Sea the "Sea of Galilee" because two of these fishermen were Peter and Andrew, who came here from the real "Sea of Galilee" at Capernaum. So the Essene site where I am standing here became, in the Gospels, the new "Capernaum". It was here, not at the real Capernaum in the real Galilee far to the north that Jesus and his symbolic fishermen spent much of the 3 1/2 years whose stories fill the 4 Gospels. The Essenes were famous throughout the Roman Empire, and a steady stream of tourists streamed by the four Essene sites here.
3 kilometers north of here at Ain Feskha is located the year-round freshwater spring where the Essenes laundered their white robes, and without this fresh water, life in this 6 kilometer strip of Essene sites would have been difficult, if not impossible. 5 kilometers north of here was the "House of the Queen", where Jesus was born in March of 7 BC -- a wooden structure in a grove of palm trees that is now gone without a trace. This was also named the "Manger" because this was as close to the Qumran monastery that animals (and pregnant women) were allowed to live. 6 kilometers north of here was the Qumran monastery, whose ruins are now partially rebuilt to become a major tourist attraction for mostly Jews and the non-religious, since Christians are in general DENIAL that here was where Christianity really originated -- and that Jesus and the 12 Apostles, and even Paul (the theologian of Christianity) were all Essenes. Qumran was both "heaven" and the "New Jerusalem" to the Essenes. Most of the time in the Gospels when "Jerusalem" is referred to, it was really Qumran that was the location. Jesus was crucified at the Qumran monastery, the "Sodom" and "Egypt" of Revelation 11:8. Indeed, all of Revelation 11 up to verse 13 is an apocalyptic account of the crucifixion of Jesus at Qumran. Simon Magus is Elijah in this account and Jesus is Moses, and both survived crucifixion -- in verse 12 B "they ascended in a cloud, and their enemies beheld them."
Here is the remains of the fireplace where Simon Peter was warming his hands while Jesus was being tried by Caiaphas and Pontius Pilate on Friday night, March 20, 33 AD. Caiaphas considered Jesus illegitimate and a false prophet. And Pontius Pilate could convict him as being the leader ("king"- Messiah) of a group that harbored three Zealots who had killed Roman soldiers. After this trial Jesus was crucified, but survived crucifixion with some help from the Essenes (a drugged drink, myrrh, aloes, a cool cave, etc) and confronted Simon Peter afterwards at the Essene "Fishery" at Kherbit Mazin in the following story recorded in John chapter 21. -------- |
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