@Aaron Abke - Thank you for deconstructing the early Church history - appreciate someone else looking into it.

Having spent the last 22 years discussing this online in detail as a fulfilment of prophecy, I've studied loads, and realized a better correlation of what took place.
Simon petros according to the Book of Acts started the early Ebionite Church with James the Just; by Acts 11:25-26 Saul came along with a Gospel similar to Simon's, and he joined him to create Christianity - So it is potentially possible Simon helped create both the Ebionites first, and then moved onto Christianity.

Now the clever bit, Yeshua called Simon "petros" in Matthew 16:13-23 as a prophetic insult, that he would mislead people: where in Zechariah 3:9 the 'Stone' before Yehoshua is to spread iniquity throughout the land.

Matthew 16:18 is a direct citation of Isaiah 8:14-16's Hebrew into Greek, 'that on this stumbling stone (petros), and this rock (petras) I will build my Church'.


When we remove the fraudulent Gospel of John, the last thing Yeshua said to Simon was, "satan wish to sift you as wheat"(Luke_22:31), in other words 'the accusative nature of man has a use for Simon.'

Saul in Hebrew is spelled the same as the word Sheol; where Saul is then basically named after the Underworld i.e. the devil, and he is prophesied to turn the Chief Corner Stone (Isaiah 28:16) into a Covenant of Death (Isaiah 28:15+18) in the Bed of Adultery (Isaiah 28:9-19+20-21).

This idea of having Apostolic Succession is a fallacy in its self, it was the Pharisees who thought like this (Matthew 23); Yeshua was reiterating what Moses had established, everyone should be on the same level in the congregation, and let God be the authority.

Something to take on board within what is in the Gospel of Thomas, when it says, "Wherever you are, you are to go to James the righteous, for whose sake heaven and earth came into being" - where James is Jacob in Hebrew, so Yeshua (Salvation) gave the Church to Jacob.

That is fascinating that when they killed James the Just, and ended the Ebionites, that then led to the Siege of Jerusalem, as that then fulfils Zechariah 11:11 that the Poor of the Flock understood that when they murdered the Messiah for 30 pieces of silver (Zechariah 11:12-14), that they would then eat each others flesh (Zechariah 11:9), as stated in the Curse of Moses (Deuteronomy 28:53-55).

Aaron when you start assessing the Gospel of John's ideas that there is a beloved Disciple called John - first recognize that the Gospel of John sounds nothing like Yeshua in the Synoptic Gospels: there are no parables within it, repeated usage of "I Am" statements, there is no word 'Gospel', 'faith', etc.

The author of the Gospel of Mark is by John-Mark the Fisherman, whom we also see in the start of the Book of Acts; the Gospel of Mark records the Transfiguration graphically, as if the author was there ('as white as snow') - which would imply that the author of the Gospel of Mark, is John the disciple.

If the Gospel of John was by John the Disciple, you'd expect the Transfiguration to be recorded in detail, yet it isn't mentioned; instead the Gospel of John is generally an eye witness account from a member of the Pharisees & Sanhedrin's High Council, as to be able to know the conversations that took place behind closed doors.