What Does 11 Mean in the Bible Read through 2 lenses

A promise of unbroken company was meant literally, with no figure of speech anywhere in it. There is no situation in which Christ is absent, no one from whom He has stepped away, and so the loneliness that seems to be the very condition of living here cannot be kept up. It is never attacked. A light that was never interrupted shines upon it, and what looked like a world of separate and threatened selves goes quietly out.

All power in heaven and earth is given to you as well, for it was spoken to every Son of God and not for one man's sake. Strength like that cannot be a private possession, since anything held at another's expense is already limited, and this is limitless. It came to him because he had identified himself wholly with Christ, and he holds it out to be shared with you when your own part is finished. Where it rests now is in the Holy Spirit, the Friend given to stand where an idol had been set upon the mind's throne.

Worship and doubt stood together in that small company, and the presence among them was undivided by either, since it does not wait to be recognized before it is there. Two who come together have been given salvation's chance again, whatever they believe they came for.

• The eleven who gather: Sons of God meeting one another, and every such meeting is another chance at salvation, because Christ is present wherever two of them stand together.
• The Holy Ghost: the Friend in whom all power in earth and Heaven rests, given to take the place of whatever idol the mind had set upon its throne.
• The world: the seeming state of loneliness and separate selves, an illusion that His unbroken presence has already undone.