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This verse does not mean that we have no need for teachers, the New Testament makes that abundantly clear. But there will no longer be any division between “laity” and “priesthood”, there will be no elite. So the pastor or elders in a church are no better than the “ordinary” church member. They should obviously have many good Christian virtues, as outlined in the pastoral epistles, but the “ordinary” member can know God just as well as the pastor can. “They will all know me, from the least to the greatest”. Any group that sets a certain section above others is misled, and may even be a cult. Why will this happen? How can this happen? “For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more”. All of us are in the kingdom purely because of the grace of God.
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