3 If ye have tasted that the Lord [is] good/effective:
4 A living stone toward whom ye are approaching, rejected indeed by men, but chosen, honoured, by/beside God
5 And ye yourselves, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house into a holy priesthood, to carry up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
6 Wherefore it is encompassed in the scripture: Look! I am laying in Zion a chosen, honoured chief-cornerstone: And the [one] believing over him should certainly not be ashamed.
7 Therefore to yeu, the [ones] believing, is the honour. But to [ones] not believing: A stone which the [ones] building rejected, this [one] was born into a head of a corner
8 And a stone of a stumble, and a rock-mass of scandal. These [ones] stumble, disobeying the word, into which they were also placed
9 But ye [are] a chosen race, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a people into preservation, in order that ye might declare the virtues of the one having called you out of the darkness into the wonderful light of him:
(1 Peter 2 LWT)
3 If ye have tasted that the Lord [is] good/effective:
4 A living stone toward whom ye are approaching, rejected indeed by men, but chosen, honoured, by/beside God
5 And ye yourselves, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house into a holy priesthood, to carry up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
6 Wherefore it is encompassed in the scripture: Look! I am laying in Zion a chosen, honoured chief-cornerstone: And the [one] believing over him should certainly not be ashamed.
7 Therefore to yeu, the [ones] believing, is the honour. But to [ones] not believing: A stone which the [ones] building rejected, this [one] was born into a head of a corner
8 And a stone of a stumble, and a rock-mass of scandal. These [ones] stumble, disobeying the word, into which they were also placed [the
law of the church]
9 But ye [are] a chosen race [FRCs: Kingdom citizens by faith], a royal priesthood [the
saints, the sons of the spirits], an holy nation [the Kingdom priests, the sons of water], a people into preservation
[rather than extinction: Kingdom citizens by love, LRCs], in order that ye might declare the virtues of the one having called you out of the darkness into the wonderful light of him: (1 Peter 2 LWT)
Living stones are either non adamic of angelic or both. These verses have a double a triple and a quadruple description - see the Successive Descriptions Principle of the bible code. In the literal meaning of the double description, Jesus was both a chosen and an honoured living stone. In the greater meaning its Paul and Gordon who both have two covenants one of water and one of spirit, making them into firstborns with a double portion, chiefs..
In the literal meaning of the triple description, the spirit covenant stone that the builders rejected was Jesus who was born by resurrection into the head of the corner of the Most Holy, the first spirit covenant mediator of the Christian church, the first mediator of a subcovenant of the JAC, the mediator of the 1NC - see intro46.
In the greater meaning there are 3 more cornerstones in the angelic temple of the Most Holy, Paul, Apollos and Gordon. We are all further heads of the corner, stones of a stumble and rockmasses upon which churches are built.
In the literal meaning of the triple description, the water covenant stone that the builders rejected was John the baptist. He was imprisoned and rejected with an axe to his head by Herod, whose family rebuilt Zerubabbel's temple. He was the rockmass for the water baptised constructively living stones of TCC1. In the greater meaning there are 3 other Elijahs, Paul, Russell and Ritchie. We are the rockmasses of scandal of TCC2/3/4 and the stones of a stumble for them.
In the literal meaning of the quad description the Jews were the chosen race, the Jewish apostles were the royal priesthood, genetic Israel was a Holy Nation and a people for preservation. But in the greater meaning there are 4 classes of Kingdom citizen: The saints (the royal priesthood), the priests (the Holy nation) the faithful (the chosen race) and the loving (a people for preservation). All of equal value, but each of different authority. The quad description requires there to be 4 classes of Kingdom citizen. These races will have different bodies in the Kingdom. The Kings and Priests will be Methuselaian. The faithful and loving will be Melchizediac.