Cwic Clips- House On A Rock, The Temple Mount & Peter

- How might Peter and Jesus Christ be 'The Rock'

- What is the 'House built on a rock'?

and then he finishes up the Sermon on

the Mount was something really

interesting and that is he starts here

in verse 24 and he says therefore

whosoever heareth these sayings so he's

wrapping up these sayings of mine and

doeth them I will liken him unto a wise

man which built his house upon a rock

well again going through the geography

of the temple the rock would be at the

base of the holy of holies I guess even

said that they were there's probably a

cut in the rock on the Mount where the

Jerusalem Temple was but King Solomon's

Temple was and in this cut which is cut

exactly proportionately to the Ark of

the Covenant the Ark of the Covenant

sits down inside of it

not that deep but somewhat deep and then

the throne of God is behind that and the

Ark of the Covenant acts as the

footstool to the throne and so here as

you move through this ritual with Jesus

eventually you end up at the rock you

end up at the pinnacle at the Holy

of Holies at the throne of God the

representation of the king of Jehovah

there at the end and then he says that

and the rain descended and the floods

came and the winds blew and beat upon

that house and it fell not and you can

say your own house your own life you

could even talk about the temple here

that house of the house of the Lord for

it was founded upon a rock so are we

founded upon that rock

what rock is he referring to while being

specific he's talking about I think

seems to me that he's talking about the

rock of the temple he's talking about

the rock in the Holy of Holies are we

are we based on Christ where he is

sitting on his throne there on the rock

at the center of our lives and if we're

not at that rock if it's not built if

our lives our house our bodies our

Spirit is not built on that

he is the rock then it's like building

our house on sand again going back to

the values hierarchy if he's not at the

top then something else is and then our

entire level our entire totem pole of

values hierarchy is suspect and it's

like it's in Tolliver tis built on sand

because it's not focused on an eternal

principle and an eternal end and I also

think about the temple specifically

again with this because he says here in

verse 27 and the rain descended and the

floods came and the winds blew and beat

upon that house and he's talking now

about the house built on sand and it

fell and great was the fall of it and so

going back to Lehigh's time where I

believe from my research I believe that

at Jerusalem they took Christ out of

their theology or lowered him

significantly in their values hierarchy

and that was why Lehi had to leave

because he was preaching about Christ

and how important Christ was and yet

then after he leaves

of course Babylon comes King

Nebuchadnezzar comes and destroys the

temple and so the fall of it was great

and then of course about 45 years

probably or so after Christ here is

saying this the second temple falls to

the Romans as well and so he could

specifically also be using this as a

foreshadowing of what's about to happen

with the second temple here and of

course what had happened to the temple

of Solomon with the Babylonians as well

but the principle here is what are we

built on are we built on Christ or not

and I don't know what the reason is for

Peter being called Peter remember he's

Simon Peter so he was Simon and

apparently Jesus gave him the name Peter

which really means rock and so here

you have Peter as a rock

who is at the at the holy of holies he's

going to be the Prophet and he calls him

the rock in a sense as well at Peter

think of the city may be of Petra if

you know of the city Petra in Jordan I

think that's where the third Indiana

Jones was filmed with Sean Connery and

they go into that that city built in the

hills built in the rock where they have

to cross the invisible bridge that's

Petra in Jordan I believe that's where

it was filmed and so it means rock or

petrified it means you know something

that has been has been formed into rock

and so I wonder if that's where maybe

the thought is of Peter is being called

Peter I don't know that