Barb,
Your guestion would be better directed toward Coonskinner. He has consistently provided words that you can find agreement with in your spirit. Please ask him to provide his interpretation.
IF my view troubles your spirit (causes much sighing), it should not be considered without a second or third witness.
If they (these rulers) are giving an account of MY LIFE, you and the Skinner of Coon are right in this whole matter, they are certainly folks who have the RULE in my life and I am commanded by scripture tor OBEY them. And when the scripture says, let every servant answer to his own master, SUBJECTs would answer to Pastors and Pastors would answer to CHRIST. Afterall, a man can not SERVE TWO masters.
and not only that...
these folks in
Heb 13:17 have become my mediator between me and whoever they are giving this account to ABOUT me. If they are not in a role of mediator, what are they doing giving an account of my life to any one?
I reject this interpretation of the witness of
Heb 13:17 as being faulty when considered in the larger witness of scripture and the clear witness that the man Christ Jesus is mediator between me and God.
These folks must give account for what they have been given and what they have done with what they have received. But they were not given SUBJECTs to have dominion over. They were given giftings, understandings, revelations, and authority over spiritual things.
Every servant that has received from God will give account for how they used what they have received.
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