What happened at Caesarea Philippi?

We're here at Caesarea Philippi where Simon Peter proclaimed that Jesus was the Christ, the Son of the living God. Jesus responded by giving Simon a new name, Peter, which means "rock," and declaring that "on this rock I will build my church and the gates of hell will not prevail against it." It's interesting that Jesus would say that statement here, because there is a massive rock here, and it was literally called "the gates of hell" back then because a pagan temple to the god of Pan was here, carved into the rock, and many infants were sacrificed to the god of Pan here. So the fact that Jesus came to this very dark place and revealed Himself to Peter in this way, encourages me that no matter how dark a place you might be in, God can reveal Himself to you and to those around you as well.

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• Jesus
• Christ
• Son of the living God
• Peter
• gates of hell
• caesarea philippi
• great confession

[varistojamonbanua]

since there is a massive rock there Jesus directed their attention to that rock to represent Himself because He is the rock of our salvation, the infant church then that He is about to built thru his apostles should be built on a strong foundation which He( CHRIST HIMSELF) peter is not the rock that was being told here,this is the big error that must be corrected,how can be peter be the rock, when he denied christ 3x? christ is the cornerstone rejected by the builders of jerusalem.

[JoeCamelCigg]

I want to travel to Israel, it is amazing to watch the places that He has been.

[dmspar70]

lol.