whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven."" But of course Peter died, Jesus is the Rock (1 Corinthians 10:4), and Rome was not mentioned. As these verses show, it is the true Church, and not a location, that was not to be prevailed against by death. In his letter to the Ephesians, the Apostle Paul makes clear that the Church was not just built on Peter but is built on the foundation of the apostles (plural) AND the prophets, with Jesus as the CHIEF cornerstone, and including all the members in the church as well, Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, Having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone, In whom the whole building, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord, In whom you also are being built together for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit" (Ephesians 2:19-22). By combining these passages in Matthew and Ephesians, we may be learning that just like Peter was a predominant apostle until his death that Ephesus itself would be the predominant church until, as Revelation 2:1-10 allows, Smyrna gained predominance -- with the true Church of God never dying out. While the Roman and Orthodox Churches teach that the same church organization itself would continue, Revelation 2 & 3 shows a series, in an apparent overlapping succession of