The Corban of the Nicolaitan
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The Corban of the Nicolaitan
Jesus came to return every man to his family and every man to his possession as free souls under His Father.267 That requires that we strive268 for and seek that kingdom, His righteousness, with our whole heart, mind, and soul.
Jesus called out men to feed His sheep, to serve them as He did.269 He appointed a kingdom to those men270 and told them to go out into the “world” and explain to them the nature of the kingdom. He said those who have the ears to hear and the eyes to see will know and follow in His Way.
We are made in the image of God, who is justice and mercy. Jesus told us if we loved Him we should keep the commandments. We should love God, not merely an image of God created by men. We are told to love our neighbor as our self. Fulfilling this love of neighbor with justice and mercy is obeying God.
We are told to obey the commandments if we love God and Jesus.271 We should not oppress, adulterate, deprive, lie, steal or covet.272 Systems like the Corban of the Pharisees made the word of God to none effect.273 The Church is an alternative to that Corban which returned the people to the bondage of Egypt. The Corban of the Pharisees had the nature of the altars of the Nicolaitan and the error of Balaam which God hates.274 It was system devoid of the free will choice given to man by God. Those who followed its ways rejected the liberty wherewith Christ hath made men free, and were soon entangled again with the yoke of bondage.275
The Greek word korban [korban] is defined as “a gift offered (or to be offered) to God; the sacred treasury.” Matthew mentions Corban but the translators turn the word into “treasury”.276 In the Hebrew the word qorban [Nbrq] is defined as an “ offering, oblation” and translated as “offering” 68 times, “oblation” 12, “offered” and “sacrifice once each.
How would a gift to God, a sacrifice or oblation make the word of God to no effect? We see the word qorban in Leviticus 22:18 where the house of Israel that their oblation or sacrifices unto the LORD are to be “freewill offerings”.
The sacred temple of Rome, called the Capitol, as well as other cultures had a similar system called Qurban. The Pagan or Moslem277 systems of Religion all had systems of Qurban or Korban. Even the Holy Communion or Eucharist was known as Qurban. It did not simply consist of a crumb of bread but actual sacks of wheat during the famines that plagued the early Church as Rome fell under a series of depressions, famines, wars and runaway inflation.278
These words have to do with the contributions of the people given on the living altars of God for the support of the needy of society. This is what religion meant. It was the loving of our neighbor by an active viable system of faith, hope and charity under the perfect law of liberty.
But all systems of Corban did not remain freewill offerings. Rome and Israel both began with voluntary systems but decayed into systems with benefactors who exercised authority forcing the contributions of the people. Governments of power, control and entitlements eventually replaced religions of faith and love. Religions who neglected the duties endowed by God became superstitious associations dedicated to self justification through doctrines of pride.
Footnotes
267Leviticus 25:10 “And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout [all] the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.”
268Luke 13:24 “Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.”
269John 21:17 “He saith unto him the third time, Simon, [son] of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him, Feed my sheep.”
270Luke 22:29 “And I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father hath appointed unto me;”
271Exodus 20:6 “And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.” Deuteronomy 5:10, Deuteronomy 7:9, Deuteronomy 11:1, Deuteronomy 11:13, Nehemiah 1:5, Psalms 119:127, Daniel 9:4.
John 14:15 “If ye love me, keep my commandments.” Matthew 19:17, John 14:21, 15:10, 1 John 5:2-3, 2 John 1:6.
272Matthew 19:18-19 “He saith unto him, Which? Jesus said, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.” [Mark 7:22, Luke 12:15]
273Mark 7:11 “But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, [It is] Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me ... Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye”.
274Revelation 2:15 So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which thing I hate. (Revelation 2:6)
275Galatians 5:1 “Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.”
276Matthew 27:6 “And the chief priests took the silver pieces, and said, It is not lawful for to put them into the treasury, because it is the price of blood.”
277(Nahr)-Al Quran, 108.2 Qurbani is an Islamic prescription for the affluent to share their good fortune with the needy “in the community.” Wikipedia
278See Appendix 1.
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