The Gates of Hell Will Not Prevail Against Her

Then, Yahshua makes a comment against them by allowing the woman Jezebel to teach and some accepting it. I believe this is a metaphor of the false, Catholic, or Universal Church and the left behind Paulicians, as well as some of the remnants of the Thyatira congregation accepting some of the false teachings of the Universal Church and some even baptizing their babies or compromising in ways even worse.

When in verse 21 Yahshua states that He gave her time to repent, I believe He is speaking of the time period between the beginning of the second century up until the time of Constantine and the full merger of the Universal Church with paganism. During these some-odd 200 years Yahshua had much patience and gave the Roman bishops time to repent and change back to the original faith, but when they did not and when they embraced Constantine’s newly formed pagan religion, Yahshua cast them away as a dead congregation in a coffin, simply waiting their judgment when He returns.

He, then, tells the true Remnant to hold fast to the truth they have and He will give them no further burden. This is exactly what that faithful remnant did, as they were scattered and persecuted; and we will now document their migration and unravel the most amazing of stories of the true remnant Congregation of Yahshua; not the one who was cast into the coffin of death, but the one He stated that “the Gates of hell will not prevail against her�.

This is a great dichotomy that Yahshua makes between the true Congregation and Bride of Messiah and the false apostate church. I also believe it is a warning to all true believers today; just as Moses and the congregation in the 167