Dr. John Bergsma

And this is why Jesus comes and he says, okay, we're gonna correct this problem.

Um, we, we don't have effective binding and loosing going on because we don't have, uh, a genuine priesthood, but I'm going to establish a new priesthood and that is my 12 men.

Wow.

Okay.

They're new priests of the new covenant and they will begin to bind and loose.

In the Davidic monarchy, the ministry of the priests continued under the patronage of David and his sons.

So you're saying the same thing would have been in effect if somebody had a misinterpretation.

Right.

Wow.

Yeah, even in Malachi, you know, there's instructions like, go ask the priests, you know, what happens when a piece of flesh, you know, touches something clean, you know, and the priest gives the decision.

He had said that one of the big reasons for believing in solo scripture is that we don't have a continuing interpretive authority in either the old or the new covenants.

We actually do.

Okay, all right.

We absolutely do.

And it's interesting, you know, the idea of succession.

I mean, this is so important.

I think Gavin and many of our other friends think that the authority of the apostles ceased with them.

But, I mean, let's be realistic.

You mean to say that Jesus didn't understand that the institution he was creating was going to last for more than one generation?

And they thought, well, you know, the first generation needs an authoritative structure.