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INTRODUCTION TO CHAPTER 7: ONE HAVING AUTHORITY
"In that day one will say to me, Lord, Lord…" What scribe could ever think to say this? Who but one who knew himself to be the Messiah and the Messiah to be the Word of God could think to say this? Now then, if those to whom he spoke did not know that he was the Messiah - and would be made by God to be the King Messiah in Jerusalem- in what way would they understand this saying? Might one such as Moses say this? Were some taught to understand the place in Israel of the soul of the great Tzaddik? Would this teaching give them understanding of this saying of Yehoshua?
Here in this saying, Yehoshua clearly says that his words and his teachings have the force of the Torah of Moses, for in order to enter into the eternal Kingdom of the God of Israel one must be accounted as a doer of the word of God given through Moses. Here Yehoshua is saying that only those who do his words, also, will enter into the Kingdom of his Father, the God of Israel.
