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[llenox]

Pat, I think the "key to the kingdom" is knowledge. The knowledge that God revealed to Peter and the other disciples and the knowledge that the disciples spread to the rest of the world. This is the knowledge that Christians the world over have the duty to tell everyone who doesn't know. It's the knowledge of Who God is-the creator of the universe and who Jesus is. The knowdedge that Jesus is indeed God and the the massiah and that He will return to fullfill all the promises in the Bible.

Before reading these things last year I thought that the disciples must be 12 really dumb guys- even Jesus often lost patience with them. I didn't know that God had kept the knowledge of Christ from them. If they had known the full truth about Jesus before God allowed them to know, it's likely that they would all have been sentenced and killed along with Him.