Christ is also revealed as a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense toward the unbelieving Jews (Isa. In Matthew 21:44, concerning this stone the Lord Jesus told the people, “On whomever it falls, it shall crush him to powder and scatter him like chaff.” Christ is the crushing stone, not toward the believers but toward the unbelieving Gentiles. In Daniel 2:34-35 Christ is revealed as the crushing stone who comes to destroy the totality of human government, represented by the human image (vv. If we believe in the Lord Jesus, we need to see that He is the Stone-Jesus. We may therefore call Him the Stone-Jesus.
In contrast, Christ is the foundation stone, the cornerstone, and the topstone, not to be our supply but to be the very material for God’s building. He is the rock that was smitten and cleft on the cross to flow out His eternal life as our living water (John 19:34). According to Zechariah 4:7, at that time all the people of God will shout, “Grace, grace to it.”Īs the cleft rock, Christ is not for building but for flowing out the living water. One day Christ will be placed on God’s building as the topstone. We should recognize that today the topstone has not yet been placed on God’s building. For example, Acts 10:9b says, “Peter went up on the housetop to pray.” The Jewish method of construction was to make the foundation with a large rock, then to set up the cornerstone as a support, the equivalent of today’s column, and to finish by placing the topstone as the roof. Godly people used the flat roofs for prayer. They had flat roofs rather than sloping roofs. In ancient times the Jews built their dwellings with three main kinds of stones: a foundation stone, a cornerstone, and a topstone. 21:44b), and the stone of stumbling (Isa. In the Bible Christ is revealed as at least nine kinds of stones. He stood before them and told them that Jesus Christ was not only the Savior but also the stone for God’s building (Acts 4:11-12). After the matter of building was first revealed by the Lord Jesus, it was mentioned again by Peter in his preaching to the leaders of the Jews. The Lord said to him, “I also say to you that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it” (v. The matter of the building of the church was revealed by the Lord Jesus in Matthew 16 after Peter recognized that the Lord Jesus was the Christ, the Son of the living God (v. AND IN JOHN’S MENDING MINISTRY OF LIFE Scripture Reading: 1 Cor.
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