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The
Good News is that Truth shall prevail
and empower those
who are teachable,
to be loosed!
Are you seeking the riches of
Authenic Apostolic
Christainity?
Are you living in a vacuum, void of the
empowerment of signs, wonders and
miracles?
What you chose to believe will shape
your life and the experiential realities
and
values that the New Covenant provides!
When we guard our faith and do not allow
it to be placed in a straight jacket of
false
teachings and we do not allow
others to influence us to practice
limiting God...
We find ourselves seated
solidly in Christ Jesus as the
Holy Spirit guides and leads
us into Truth!
The Bible is a Letter of Hope, Faith
and Love to reveal the Godhead
and God's plan for Mankind!
Not everyone will enter into the plan of
God which is revealed in God's Literary
Letter
of the Old and New Testament
of 1188
chapters telling us
of His will, purposes, ways and
actions for all things.
God
is in the center of all things!
He
reveals Himself, His omnipresence
(present
everywhere), His
omnipotence
( absolute
power and
authority) and
His
omniscience
(knowing
everything).
His Letter, the Holy Bible is written
as a book of conquest and victory!
God by the inspiration of
the Holy Ghost upon men, penned His mesages
to us.
For too long,
Christians have been characterized by
despair, defeat and retreat!
For too long, Christians have heeded the false
doctrine which teaches that we are
doomed to failure.
For too long, Christians have been taught that they
cannot win... that,
until
Jesus
returns,
Christians
will
steadily
lose
ground
to
the Devil.
For too long, Christians have been told that the
church is sliding into apostasy.
For too long, Christian leaders (not all) but "most evangels" sadly inform us
that we
are
living
in
a
"Laodicean
age"
of
the
Church
spoken of in Revelation 3:14-22
(which
is false teaching).
For too long, Any new outbreak of war, any rise in
crime statistics, any new evidence
of
the
breakdown
of
family,
is
oddly
often
viewed as progress...
JESUS IS COMING! is the cry!
For too long, This kind
of interpretation of the Word of God is
Heresy!
For
too long, Bad news of physical and
social extremes is regarded as a step
forward
toward
the
expected
goal
of
a
total
collapse of civilization.
For
too long, These teachings and
expectations have been a "sign" that
Jesus might
come
in a twinkling
of an eye to rescue the poor little weak
natured beaten
down fear-filled church!
For
too long, Christians have looked
on social action projects with
skepticism...
"Anything that does
not fit into the great scheme of being
always ready
and
mindful
to
be
raptured
out,
cannot
be
of God."
"Anyone
who
would
waste
their
time
to
improve
the
world must not really
believe the Bible!" HOGWASH!
Note: I pray that
no one loses their salvation over the
use of the hog's dung.
Dung
is
written
28
times
in
the
scriptures
and means exactly what it says!
For
too long, The Bible has been taught that
within it lies the escapism of
dispensationalism:
"Christian's
efforts are overall bound to
futility." "You don't polish the
brass
on
a
sinking
ship."
"Why
worry
about
debt."
Jesus is Coming!"
These kinds of beliefs
are exposed within the following
premises:
1.
The
world
is
nothing
more
than
a
"sinking
ship."
2.
Any
organized
program
of
Christian
reconstruction
is
nothing
more
than
"polishing brass."
For
too long, Evangelism has been considered
as an invitation to join the losing
side!
For too
long, The Church has preached and taught
the heresies of John Nelson Darby.
His
work
and
the
work
of
those
who
bought
into his theology have spread
the "virus" of hell
very effectually.
The
fruit
of
his
work
can
be
summerized
as
such: "A false view of
spirituality."
"It is an unbiblical idea of
"spirituality"... that a truly
"spiritual" man is the person
who is sort of
"non-physical," who doesn't get involved
in "earthly" things, who
doesn't
work
very
much
or
very
hard
except
for
self-centered goals. One who
spends
most
of
his
time
meditating
about
how
he
would rather be in heaven
because
everyone
should
understand
that
he
already
has
his
'ticket" to ride
out
of
the
madness
of
mother
earth.
And
one
who thinks that as long as he
is
on
the
planet
earth,
he
has
one
main
duty in life: "Get stepped on for
Jesus."
Doctrines
of
men
have
long
taught
that
Bible"s
core focus should be that
Christians
are
unworthy!
Maybe
if
we
are
"lucky"
we might make it out of this
realm and not be
thrown into the "lake of fire!"
Now, in all fairness, no
Christian believes in ultimate
defeat. All Christians know that
God will
be victorious over the
devil at the end of history.
Christians will recite that they have
"peeked"
at the last chapter and we
win. But this is the POINT I WISH
TO MAKE on behalf of true
apostolic doctrine... we
must have the Truth about what happens
in the END!
Popular End-Time Teachers
place victory only in the LAST
CHAPTER. In time,
in history,
on earth,
the Christian
loses!
"The world is getting worse
and worse."
"Antichrist is coming."
"The devil is running the
world and getting more and more powerful
all the time."
"Your work for God will
have no lasting effect, except to save a
few souls from hell."
"However, you had better do
it quickly before the Great Tribulation
hits so that you can
escape in time!"
Unfortunately, there is
something extremely, ironically wrong
with these senarios!
The unintentional message
of the "gospel" is: Antichrist
is coming! There is something
terribly lopsided about
all this because it is HYPE! It is
false! It is Heresy!
In our future web pages
and in our Prophetic Voice Newsletters,
we will dive into that which
is in right standing with
God. He is not the God of
defeatism but the God who gives a spirit
not of fear, but a spirit
of power, of love and a sound
mind. 1 Timothy 1:7
The Bible teaches that God
has given us the Mandate of Dominion
and, thus, we have
a Mandate of
Victory! This is not some kind of
"everything
will work out somehow theology."
It is a solid, confident ,
Bible Truth of assurance, that
before the Second Coming of
Christ, the
Gospel will be victorious throughout
the entire world!
Consider the following Biblical account of
Apostolic Kingdom Teaching.
Matthew
13:24-30 AMP
24
Another parable He set forth before them,
saying, The kingdom of heaven is like a
man
who sowed
good seed in his field.
25
But while he was sleeping, his enemy came
and sowed also darnel (weeds resembling
wheat)
among the wheat, and went on his way.
26
So when the plants sprouted and formed
grain, the darnel (weeds) appeared also.
27
And the servants of the owner came to him
and said, Sir, did you not sow good seed
in
your field? Then how does it have
darnel shoots in it?
28
He replied to them, An enemy has done
this. The servants said to him,
Then
do you want us to go and weed them out?
29
But he said, No, lest in gathering the
wild wheat (weeds resembling wheat), you
root up
the
[true] wheat along with it.
30
Let them grow together until the harvest;
and at harvest time I will say to the
reapers,
Gather
the darnel first and bind it in bundles to
be burned, but gather the wheat into my
granary.
May you ask yourself
the following questions?
Do you see that the
unrighteous and the righteous are both
in the same field?
Do you see that the
rigtheous are not harvested and
removed (raptured) from the field
for three and a
half years and then returned to the
field?
Do you understand what
happens in the growth of different
kinds of plants?
Their roots are
occupying the same earth... however,
they individually draw upon different
elements for
existence. If you remove a
plant, you destroy the roots of those
around them.
They are separate,
yet relational.
All things are
common to each of them such as
temperature, water, space, sunshine
and
darkness. The
difference is found
in what they feed upon and their
nature.
Can you "see" this
comparison is symbolic to the
spiritual growth in lives of humans?
Weeds are ramport
growers and usually destroy the soil
as well as display protrusive
structures such as
thorns, bristles, ragged edges,
poisonous secretions and the like.
Good
plants
produce
productive
and
useful
substances.
They provide the
necessary qualities to sustain life.
They bring properity in
their season and are desireable to
harvest.
They are positive
contributors to life. If a plant is
prematurely up rooted in its season,
It will not yield
fruit for which it was destined to
produce.
Does this
parable of Matthew
13:24-30 support a
"double rapture" in the Lord Jesus
Christ's
teaching?
Definitely
not!
He
speks
of
only
one
harvest! He speaks of only a one
time
removal of the
righteous from the unrighteous!
God has a positive and
everlasting plan for His church! It
is one of Victory!
Do you find
Christ indecisive and without power to
sustain his Church in the earth?
Matthew
16:18-19 NKJV
I
will
build
My
church,
and
the
gates
of
Hell shall not prevail against it.
1 Cor 15:22-25 AMP
22
For
just
as
[because
of
their union of nature] in Adam all
people die, so also
[by virtue of their
union of nature] shall all in Christ be
made alive.
23 But each in his
own rank and turn: Christ (the Messiah)
[is] the firstfruits, then those
who are Christ's [own
will be resurrected] at His coming.
24 After that comes
the end (the completion), when He
delivers over the kingdom to God
the Father after
rendering inoperative and abolishing
every [other] rule and every authority
and power.
25 For [Christ] must
be King and reign until He has put all
[His] enemies under His feet.
Our King, Jesus, is Lord! He is
King Today! He reigns Today!
His Kingship has not been
postponed nor has His Authority and
Power been withheld from
Him! He reigns from David's
throne!
Philippians
2:9-11
NKJV
9
Therefore
God
also
has
highly
exalted
Him
and
given Him the name which is above
every name,10
that at the name of Jesus every knee
should bow, of those in heaven,
and of those on
earth, and of those under the earth,11
and that every tongue should
confess that Jesus
Christ
is
Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Heresy is ramport
in the Church. Heresy is not a
plant. It is a deception.
God is weeding
out false doctrines by their roots!
Heresy is man-made.
Evil spirits are
the perpetrators who lead men who lust
after power and are hungry
for recognition
in the eyes of others.
Anti-Christ
spirits capture and decieve men who invent
doctrines that are not of God.
Men with
anti-christ spirits are full of guile and
cunning ways.
The Good
News is that Truth shall prevail and
empower those
who are teachable, to
be loosed!
John 8:31-32 NKJV
"And you shall know the truth, and
the truth shall make you free."
Those who will do
research will quickly learn that John
Nelson Darby is noted in the
"theological society" as
the father of "dispensationalism.",
(Theo = God; Logos=
word study)
The term "dispensationalism" refers to the
theological system employed by Plymouth
Brethren founder,
John Nelson Darby (Nov. 18, 1800 — April
29, 1882). While historical
accounts reveal that
John Darby was not the very first person
1. to conceive of
the false pre-tribulation rapture doctrine
and
2. to promote the
false doctrine of "two distinct peoples"
of God in the New Creation.
Heresy
= False Doctrines
John Nelson Darby
was the first to indoctrinate
fundamentalist churches in the
United States
with his dispensational hermeneutics.
The
indoctrination was largely accomplished
via C. I. Scofield, who inserted John
Darby's
doctrines into his
selectively footnoted Old Scofield
Study Bible—copyright 1909 and 1917.
John Nelson Darby
marked his bible translation and
theological writings with occult or
New Age vocabulary and
doctrines. Charles Henry
Mackintosh, 1820–1896, with his
popular style also
spread Darby's teachings and may be
regarded as the journalist of the
Brethren Movement. In
addition, C.H. Mackintosh popularized
Darby's theories and books
more than any other
Brethren author. (Just do a Google or
Yahoo search on John Darby!)
There
was no Christian teaching of a “rapture”
before Darby began preaching about it in
the 1830s, (180 years
ago).
He is credited with
originating the "secret rapture" theory
wherein Christ is to suddenly
remove His bride, the
Church, from this world before the
judgments of the tribulation.
Dispensationalist
beliefs
about
the
fate
of
the
Jews
and
the re-establishment of the Kingdom
of Israel put
dispensationalists at the forefront of
Christian Zionism, because "God is able to
graft them in again," and they
believe that in His grace he will do so
according to their
understanding of Old
Testament prophecy.
1. They believe that,
while the ways of God may change, His
purposes to bless Israel
will never be forgotten.
2. They also believe
that just as God has shown unmerited favor
to the Church,
He will do so to a "remnant of Israel" to fulfill
all the promises made to the genetic seed
of Abraham.
These premises were refined and propagated
by John N. Darby. (They are WRONG!)
Consider:
1 Thess. 1:10
King James: "even Jesus,
which delivered us from the wrath to
come."
Christians
Who walk after the Spirit (and thus have
assurance of security in Christ) are
already delivered from the
wrath (hell) to come.
Darby
in
his
Pre-tribulation
premillennial
doctrine
inserts
fear into
scripture:
He wanted Christians to think the
"coming wrath" meant the Tribulation or
Great Tribulation.
To support his theories (heresies), he
perverted the scriptures.
He changed them so very
slightly. But he changed them!
The Bible clearly distinguishes
between tribulation and wrath.
Jesus
teaches
His
apostles
about
the
Great
Tribulation in Matt. 24:1-33.
He goes into
great detail of the coming
events.
God revealed the
Abomination of Desolation upon Jerusalem,
the Jewish leadership
and the
unbelieving Jews to the prophet Daniel.
The
Lord
also
spoke
of
the
Sign
of the Kingdom that would announce His
reign and
completion of the foundation
work of establishing the church in the
then known world
or nations... in
the then known and living souls of the
generation to Whom the Lord
was speaking!
These men were the generation! The
generation He referenced was
that of His
disciples called and ordained to be
eye-witness apostles of His life,
ministry,
death,
resurrection and ascension!
All through
Christiandom, men and women are
proclaiming "THIS IS THE GENERATION!"
Preachers have
been proclaiming "THIS IS THE GENERATION"
for MANY GENERATIONS!
It matters not
what number of years one wishes to
attribute to the number of "a generation."
Jesus decreed
a specific generation... the generation
of His eye-witness disciples!
Jesus
tells
of
the
destruction
of
theTemple
and
the
end of the world that the disciples
had known as
recorded in Matthew 24, Luke 23 and Mark
16.
The Temple and its sacrificial worship
carried out by priests in the alter
slaughter and
offerings of the blood of
rams, sheep and goats would be
destroyed. It would seize!
The New Covenant would
be established and Christ Jesus would
rule the Church!
It would no
longer be the Church with its "roots" of
the Wilderness" but NOW
would be the
Church restored by the
Eternal Spirit! Its Covenant would
no longer be the Law of Sin
and Death given to Moses, but the
New
Covenant...Law of the Spirit and Eternal
Life!
All the
things the Lord prophesied to the
disciples on Mount Olive as they
looked
back at the Temple
as the
sun was setting causing the gold-laden
temple structure to glisten
with incomprehensible
radiance
would be fulfilled ...
Matt
24:34 Verily I say unto you,
This
generation shall not pass,
till all these things be fulfilled.
When you read the
passages of Mathew 24, Luke 23 and
Mark 16 remember to whom Jesus
was
talking. Review the world
in which they lived.
What had they seen Jesus
do and what did they hear Him say
while in the Temple?
What did they see and
what might they be remembering as they
climbed the Mount of Olives?
How many times had they
been with Jesus on the Mount?
What had they
experienced in those gatherings on the
Mount?
What kind of views could
they observe from the Mount?
What was going on
at the very moment and time that Jesus
was speaking on the Mount?
What was about to
happen to their beloved Lord?
What was about to
happen in their individual lives?
What were their
reactions to what Jesus told them in
His Olivet Discourse?
What was about to
happen to them in their world as they
were accustomed to living?
What
would be the things that would
immediately impact them?
What kind of understanding did they
have of the Law of the Spirit?
If you study Biblical
History written by those who lived
during the time of the prophesies
of Jesus on the Mount of
Olives through the years between
around AD 30 and AD 70
such as written by
Flavius Josephus in his eye witness
accounts of the Jewish Wars,
you will see and
receive full measure of enlightenment
and understanding as to the
message the Lord
gave to His disciples! The Great
Tribulation was a Jewish nation
event!
Jesus did not prophesy it
for the whole world that would be on
the earth 2000 years forth
coming... It
was the Days of Vengence of Father God
fulfilled upon the rebellious and
apostate Jewish
nation and the fulfillment of their
own decree...
God's nation, the
Jews, called for the crucifixion of
the Son of God, the King of the Jews.
Matt 27:24-25 AMP
24
So
when
Pilate
saw
that
he
was
getting
nowhere, but rather that a riot was
about
to break out, he took water
and washed his hands in the presence
of the crowd, saying,
I am not guilty of nor
responsible for this righteous Man's
blood; see to it yourselves.
25 And all the people
answered, Let His blood be on us and
on our children!
We will later study
the "apostate nation" and writings of
apostle John in the Revelation of
Jesus Christ.
Please begin to read the Bible
in terms of to whom the passages were
written.
What was God doing in
that particular time and how would it
impact the things He had
planned and
designed to bring forth the New
Covenant and to restore mankind to the
Edenic
realm of perfection.
Ephesians
4:12-15 AMP
12
His
intention
was
the
perfecting
and
the
full
equipping of the saints (His
consecrated
people), [that they
should do] the work of ministering
toward building up Christ's body
(the church),
13[That
it might develop] until we all
attain oneness in the faith and in
the comprehension
of
the
[full
and
accurate]
knowledge
of
the
Son
of God, that [we might arrive] at
really
mature
manhood
(the completeness of personality
which is nothing less than the
standard
height of
Christ's own perfection), the
measure of the stature of the
fullness of the Christ
and the completeness
found in Him.
14
So
then,
we
may
no
longer
be
children,
tossed [like ships] to and fro
between chance
gusts
of
teaching
and
wavering
with
every
changing
wind
of doctrine, [the prey of]
the
cunning
and
cleverness
of
unscrupulous
men,
[gamblers
engaged]
in every shifting
form of
trickery
in inventing errors to mislead.
15
Rather,
let
our
lives
lovingly
express
truth
[in
all things, speaking truly, dealing
truly,
living
truly].
Enfolded
in
love,
let
us
grow
up
in every way and in all things into
Him Who
is
the
Head,
[even]
Christ
(the
Messiah,
the
Anointed
one).
Have you
personally studied out the scriptures
regarding the teaching of a "double
rapture"?
Where can you show that
there is more than one throne prepared for
the Lord Jesus?
Does your
Bible state that the Lord is seated to the
right-hand of the Father on the Davidic
Throne which is an
Eternal Throne?
Does your
Bible instruct that there is a Last Day of
history when the dead in Christ shall rise
and those alive shall
be changed into an immortal spiritual
body?
Does your
Bible instruct that there is a Day of final
judgement!
Can you find
provision in your Bible that specifically
instructs you will be raptured from the
earth twice?
Do you find
provision for being taken from the field
which is the earth before the day of the
Lord's second
coming? We are born once to life on
earth and once to be absence from
the body and
in the presence of the Lord...
Does your
Bible specifically state a "double rapture"
is to occur?
What
pre-suppositions would you make to enable
the Bible to instruct of such?
Would you
implant a suppostion that He would be
required to come a third time?
Do you find
provision for God to reinvent what He has
closed out through the sacrifice of His
only begotten Son
that all men are to be reconciled to God
through the Law of the Spirit?
Can you find
evidence that God will change His rules and
deal with mankind differently than
what He has already
established through the resurrection and
acsension?
Did God make
different rules for men of later generations
to be redeemed?
Can you find
a specific reference to God establishing an
earthly throne which disregads
His decrees
and declarations through the ages by
multiple prophets?
Are God's
promises not stand eternally?
Absurd!
Heresy! False speculations and suppositons!
God is true
to His Word! He esteems His Word above
His Name...
His Name
represents ALL that He Is... the Great I
AM! God is NOT a Liar!
May you
be blessed in assurance that the
scriptures clearly provide and declare
the
following ...
Here are
7 Kingdom Absolutes that the Lord gave
to the Apostles.
1. Scripture
reveals the Apostles Understanding that
the promise to
David and the father’s of Israel
concerning Messiah’s Kingdom has
already been fulfilled in the
resurrection of Jesus.
2. Scripture
reveals the Apostles Understanding of
Kingdom Initiation...
The response to the Gospel of the
Apostles of the Lamb is
>to repent,
>be baptized in Christ… His death and
resurrection,
>receive
the gift of the Holy Spirit, (the
baptism of the Spirit)
>be added to the Lord’s Church… the
general assembly of heaven
and
His
appointed
placement
for
you
in
a local fellowship on earth.
3. Scripture
reveals the Apostles' Understanding that
the New Covenant
in the Blood of Jesus Christ Is the
Promised Blessing or Mercies of
David.
4. Scripture
reveals the Apostles' Understanding that
the church is Zion,
the promised House of David.
5. Scripture
reveals the Apostles' Understanding that
the Jewish Age is
behind the Church, not ahead of the
Church.
6. Scripture
reveals the Apostles' Understanding of
the Apostolic
Government (the Apostolate) is the basis
of the church's Unity and
the foundation or Key to the Church's
Success.
7. Scripture
reveals the Apostles' Understanding that
the nations are a
vital part of the Church's Heritage.
These absolutes
are wonderfully documented by the
writings and actions of the
Apostles of the
Lamb as well as the actions of
Ascension-gift Apostles such as
Paul, James,
and Barnabas. Paul’s letters
detail the building foundations
for governing
the church and for expansion of the
Kingdom of God in the earth.
Scripture also
foretells of a future, glorious return
of Christ that will conclude temporal
history
and bring to
fulfillment all remaining aspects of
Biblical prophecy. The Lord Jesus
in His
resurrection and
ascension to the Eternal throne of David
fulfilled all things!
Our belief is
that the Kingdom of God will increase
victory after victory until it is
consummated
when the Lord Jesus
delivers it to the Father. At the
present time, the Kingdom of God is both
already present and
is not yet consummated.
1 Cor
15:24-25 AMP
24
After that comes the end (the
completion), when He delivers over the
kingdom to God
the Father
after rendering inoperative and
abolishing every [other] rule and every
authority
and power.
25 For [Christ] must
be King and reign until He has put all
[His] enemies under His feet.
It is the
Church that is the instrumentality of
the Kingdom and God works all things in
expanding the
Kingdom through His Church in the earth.
It will be upon
the second coming of Christ that signals
the work of Church is complete.
The Head and
the Body shall become ONE in perfect
eternal order and given to the
Father as the
"Perfect Image."
The Head and
Body is symbolic of the perfect man
designed and created in the Garden
of Eden before
the fall... made in the image of God!
All will have been
restored to the perfect will, plan and
acts of God at Christ's second coming.
The Church will
have come into power and fullness of
grace and perfection
Daniel
7:13-14 New American Standard
version
3 "I kept looking in the night
visions,
And
behold, with the clouds of heaven
One
like a Son of Man was coming,
And
He came up to the Ancient of Days
And
was presented before Him.
14
"And to Him was given dominion,
Glory
and a kingdom,
That
all the peoples, nations, and men of
every language
Might
serve Him.
His
dominion is an everlasting dominion
Which
will not pass away;
And
His kingdom is one Which will not be
destroyed.
May God Bless and Keep You In His
service,
Ambassador of Christ
Ron Gann
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