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“God, Who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the [Old Testament] fathers by the prophets, has in these last, [New Testament] days spoken to us by His Son, [THE WORD OF JESUS CHRIST— THE CONTEXT OF NEW TESTAMENT SCRIPTURE,] Whom He has appointed Heir of all things, through Whom also He made the worlds…” - Heb. 1:1-2.
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“I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to give to every one according to his work. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last. Blessed are those who DO His commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter through the gates into the city. But outside are dogs [sleeping watchmen,] and sorcerers and sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and whoever LOVES AND PRACTICES A LIE.” (Rev. 22:13-15; Deut. 23:18; Phil. 3:2. ) |
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The Lord’s people are robbed and plundered; they are snared in holes, and they are hidden in prison houses. They have become a prey, and none delivers, for a spoil, and no one says: Restore them! Who among you will give ear to this? Who will hearken and hear for the time to come? [Who will stand up and say: Give back the bound, abused, blood-bought nation of the Lord Jesus Christ!] (Isa. 42:22-23.) |
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“For I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone adds to these things, God will add to him the plagues that are written in this book; and if anyone takes away from the [truthful] words of the book… God shall take away his part from the Book of Life, from the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book,” (Rev. 22:18-19.) |
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· OAC continued: THE OAC DOCTRINE THAT IS PERMEATING THE CHRISTIAN CHURCHES - The Angelic, Apostolic, Christ-gift from God, (the ‘Apostles,’) became the light; Jesus Christ in the flesh, or Jesus Christ Himself: Catechism: “How will Christ be seen today?” (Answer: “I am in you, Apostles, and you in Me,” (Jn. 14:20.) “In His word and work,” (Jn. 14:10-11.) Hymn 113, (Dutch Hymnbook of the NAC, supplied by F.W. Werner,) “Jesus in d’ Apostl’len, Hem vertrouw ik dag en nag…” [Jesus in the Apostles, Him I trust day and night…] Hymn 170: “’k Wil u volgen, myn Apostle! Waar ook ‘t levenspad my leidt; Waar gy voorgaat, wil ek volgen… Ja! Wy volgen u als Leidsman… Buiten u voor ons geen leven; Blyf, Apostle! Ons naby.” [I want to follow you, my Apostle! Wherever the road of life may lead; Where you lead, there I will follow… Yes! We follow you as Sheppard… Apart from you for us no life; Stay, Apostle! Close to us.] Charismatic churches, in particular, are increasingly focusing the attention on their false doctrine of so-called ‘restored’ ‘Elijah’ prophets and ‘New Testament ‘apostles.’ [The ‘manifest sons of God;’ ‘Joel’s Army,’ ‘Promise Keepers,’ etc.] They have blended fulfilled Old Testament prophesies with the Old and New Testament covenants, to form a deadly concoction of spiritual poison. Jesus said of the so-called ‘spirit of Elijah,’ which has supposedly possessed these ‘god-men,’ “ALL THE [OT] PROPHETS AND THE LAW PROPHESIED UNTIL JOHN… HE IS ELIJAH WHO IS TO COME,” Mt. 11:13-14. Henceforward, only JESUS Christ [through His Word], is The Prophet Who is to be followed! (Heb. 1:1-2.) But blindly following these blind guides, many denominations are now bringing believers back to that old ‘godfather’-theory of Catholicism, and placing these so-called ‘restored’ prophets and apostles as ‘mediators’ between God and man. Grounded in the doctrines of the OAC, many churches also allege that even ordinary pastors and teachers have now ‘become’ ANGELS, according to Rev. chapters 2 and 3. [PLEASE READ HEB. 1:1-2 - and discover the truth about the holy angels of God.] The OAC member, who desperately tried to convert us, wrote, “Angels, according to many people, are in heaven ‘up there;’ they are not people. According to the Bible, angels are clothed in white, and we must also clothe ourselves in white clothes. [SOME MEMBERS ACTUALLY WEAR WHITE CLOTHES TO PROVE THAT THEY ARE ANGELS.] This is God’s righteousness; God’s light, and so we will become the light... [NOT MERELY SHINE THE LIGHT; BUT ‘BECOME’ THE LIGHT ITSELF!] We become the body of Christ in the flesh, and so we become Christ… Does this shock you? Well, Paul wrote in Gal. 4:14 that “apostles” were received as angels of god— yes, as Jesus Christ! Note, the apostles were not received ‘like’ angels; they were received AS angels and AS Jesus Christ…” [ACCORDING TO OAC LOGIC, THIS FALLACY GOES LIKE THIS: HOW CAN WE OURSELVES BECOME THE BODY OF CHRIST BUT REMAIN SOMEONE ELSE? OF COURSE WE'RE JESUS CHRIST!] “Eph. 4 explains the way in which our faith and the Christ-gift were put together. The Christ-gift was given to everyone, which exists in the [CHIEF] apostle, [FIRST, THEN THE CHRIST-GIFT EXISTS IN THE] prophet, etc. to equip the saints for their work and for building up the congregation. In other words, the apostle is God’s apostle-gift, etc. and together, all these gifts are the Christ-gift of God. “And so we all become spirits and angels of God, as we are the body of Christ! [IF THIS WERE POSSIBLE, IT WOULD HAVE BEEN AN INTERSPECIES ABOMINATION, READ Gen. 6,] John was also an angel of God, Mt. 11:10, as he was also a messenger of God, “I will send My messenger before Your face, Who will prepare Your way before You. Assuredly, I say to you, among those born of women there has not risen any greater than John the Baptist…” Paul, all the others, and we too, as messengers or ministers of God, became the greatest, Acts 15:35. We became ministering spirits and angels, Heb. 1:13-14, “To which of the angels has He ever said: Sit at My right hand, till I make Your enemies Your footstool? Are they not all ministering spirits (and this proves that angels are people:) sent forth to minister to those who will inherit salvation?” [EVEN IF THE OAC AND OTHER DENOMINATIONS COULD BECOME ‘ANGELS’ – (WHICH WOULD HAVE TO BE AN INTERSPECIES ABOMINATION, Gen. 6,) Heb. 1:5 STILL ASKED, “TO WHICH OF THE ANGELS DID HE EVER SAY, YOU ARE MY SON, TODAY I HAVE BEGOTTEN YOU… V. 8, BUT TO THE SON [OF GOD, THE LORD CHRIST JESUS,] HE SAYS, YOUR THRONE, O [JESUS] GOD, IS FOREVER AND EVER…” JESUS CHRIST, (BEING GOD HIMSELF,) IS ‘THE GIFT’ OR THE ONLY ‘CHRIST GIFT’ FROM GOD; LIKEWISE, THE HOLY SPIRIT, (BEING GOD HIMSELF,) IS ‘THE GIFT’ FROM GOD, (Jn. 4:10; Rom. 5:15; Acts 2:38.) HUMAN MINISTERS CANNOT COMPARE TO JESUS CHRIST OR THE HOLY SPIRIT IN ANY WAY; THEY ARE NOT ‘GOD’S GIFT TO MANKIND;’ THEY HAVE MERELY RECEIVED SPIRITUAL GIFTS FROM THE HOLY SPIRIT TO EQUIP THEM FOR MINISTRY AS MERE HUMANS HERE ON EARTH, I.E.: THE GIFT OF PROPHECY; THE GIFT OF TEACHING… (1 Cor. 14 and 16) - WHILE THE MINISTRY OF ‘APOSTLE’ DOES NOT MENTION ANY GIFT IN PARTICULAR! IT SEEMS THAT THE BIBLICAL MINISTRY OF APOSTLE MERELY PERTAINS TO LOGISTICS AND ADMINISTRATION IN PLANTING NEW CONGREGATIONS; IT IS NOT A ‘GODLIKE’ ‘ANGELIC’ POSITION AT ALL. THE CONTEXT OF GAL. 4:14 IS THE LOVING, COMMENDABLE WAY IN WHICH THAT CONGREGATION ACCEPTED PAUL, DESPITE HIS GHASTLY ILLNESS! NEITHER PAUL NOR ANY OTHER OF THE DISCIPLES EVER PROCLAIMED THEMSELVES ‘CHIEF APOSTLES,’ ‘GODS,’ OR ‘CHRISTS!’ WHEN THE PEOPLE, (IN ACTS 14:11-15,) DECIDED TO WORSHIP PAUL AND BARNABAS AS GODS, PAUL AND BARNABAS TORE THEIR CLOTHES AND CRIED, ‘WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS? WE ALSO ARE MEN WITH THE SAME NATURE AS YOU…” TRUE BIBLICAL ‘ELDERS’ OR, IN FACT, THE BIBLICAL, NON-RANKING ‘SPIRITUAL ELDERLY,’ WERE AND ARE ORDINARY HUMAN BEINGS, WHO, “IN ALL LOWLINESS… BEAR WITH ONE ANOTHER IN LOVE…” (Eph. 4:2.) THE REAL BIBLICAL ‘ELDERLY’ ARE HUMBLE HUMAN SERVANTS OF THE HUMAN MEMBERS OF THE BODY OF CHRIST, AS JESUS HIMSELF HAD DEMONSTRATED AND COMMANDED IN JN. 13! BIBLICALLY, THE ‘LOFTY OFFICE’ OF ‘CHIEF APOSTLE,’ OR OF ‘CHIEF PASTOR,’ ‘CHIEF MINISTER,’ ETC., SIMPLY DOES NOT EXIST! TRUE, BIBLICAL ‘ELDERLY’ CANNOT OCCUPY RANKING POSITIONS IN THE BODY. THE ENTIRE BODY IS EQUAL AND ON THE SAME SPIRITUAL LEVEL— ONLY THE HEAD OF THE BODY, THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, IS GOD AND ‘SAVIOR OF THE (ENTIRE) BODY,’ (Eph. 5:22-24.) HUMAN MINISTERS CAN NEVER BE ‘APOSTOLIC GODS,’ ‘MINISTERING ANGELS,’ OR HEAVENLY ANGELIC CREATURES, FOR THEN THEY WOULD HAVE TO BECOME SOME KIND OF INTERSPECIES RACE. IF HUMANS COULD BECOME ANGELS, IT WOULD BE JUST ANOTHER INTERSPECIES ABOMINATION, JUST READ Gen. 6!
OAC Catechism: “What we read in the Bible, is that also God’s Word?” (Answer: No, that is the testament of the letter, which, as Paul said, kills, but the Spirit makes alive.”) [GOD HIMSELF DECLARED THAT HIS WRITTEN WORD, INTERPRETED AS A WHOLE, “IS [even] ABOVE HIS NAME!” JESUS CHRIST, GOD HIMSELF, ALSO AFFIRMED, “MY WORD WILL NEVER PASS AWAY,” (Ps. 138:2; 119:160; Mark 13:31.) Wikipedia wrote, “To the OAC the Bible is not the only source of authority, (Sola Scriptura.) Since he deemed himself equal to [Jesus] the Christ, [1878,] Krebs' words were more important than the Bible, for didn't he speak 'living words for these times'? Krebs' supporter and later chief-apostle Hermann Niehaus did call the Bible 'withered hay and stinking stagnant well water,' (see Der Wächter Zions, no. 11 of 1896), while the opponents of Krebs in turn were denounced as 'bible readers'... The Old Apostolic Church does not believe in the literal interpretation of the Bible. The Bible should be interpreted spiritual or allegorical…” [THE OAC BELIEVES THAT THE BIBLE MUST BE INTERPRETED IN A ‘SPIRITUAL’ WAY BY CHANGING NEARLY EVERYTHING IN THE BIBLE INTO MERE ALLEGORIES - EVEN SOUND HISTORICAL FACTS LIKE THE RESURRECTION AND ASCENSION OF JESUS CHRIST. SUPPOSEDLY, WE COMPLETELY MISUNDERSTAND THE BIBLE BECAUSE WE INTERPRET SCRIPTURE IN A ‘NATURAL’ WAY. WITH THE CARNAL/FLESH/NATURAL MIND, ONE CANNOT UNDERSTAND THE ‘DEEP TRUTH’ THAT EVERYTHING IN THE BIBLE IS ‘SPIRITUAL.’ HOWEVER, MARK 5:15 RELATES THE FOLLOWING SCRIPTURAL BASIS OF JESUS’ MINISTRY AND TEACHING, “THEN THEY CAME TO JESUS, AND SAW THE ONE WHO HAD BEEN DEMON-POSSESSED AND HAD THE LEGION, CLOTHED AND IN HIS RIGHT MIND, AND SITTING AT JESUS’ FEET.” THE POOR DEMONIAC WHOM JESUS HAD HEALED WAS NOT IN AN ‘ENLIGHTENED SPIRITUAL’ STATE OF MIND; HE WAS MERELY ABLE TO THINK SOBERLY AGAIN. HE WAS IN CONTROL OF HIS ‘NATURAL’ MIND ONCE MORE, PRAISE GOD! Ps. 119:9-34 CLEARLY DECLARES, “I WILL MEDITATE [RETHINK OR PONDER] ON YOUR PRECEPTS, AND CONTEMPLATE YOUR WAYS… [WITH MY THINKING MIND.] I WILL NOT FORGET YOUR WORD [WITH MY THINKING BRAIN…] GIVE ME UNDERSTANDING, [IN MY ‘NATURAL’ MIND,] AND I SHALL KEEP YOUR LAW…” PETER ALSO COMMANDED IN 1 Pt. 5:8, “BE SOBER [MINDED,] BE VIGILANT….” AND IN 4:7, “BE SERIOUS [SOBER MINDED] AND WATCHFUL… PAUL, TOO, ADMONISHED IN VERSES LIKE 2 TIM. 4:5, “BE WATCHFUL IN ALL THINGS…”
Wikipedia: “Salvation can only be out of the spoken word:” OAC Catechism: “What is the Word of God?” (Answer: The Word of God is the word which comes out of the mouth of the Apostle. As Apostle Paul said, “You have received our teaching, not as the word of men, but as the Word which comes from God,” 1 Ths. 2:13.) [THE OAC’S FIRST AUTHORITY IS THE ‘MOUTH’ OR SPOKEN WORD OF THE OLD APOSTLE, AS THEY BELIEVE THAT THEIR DOCTRINES ARE ‘THE LIVING WORD,’ BECAUSE THE HOLY SPIRIT WAS GIVEN TO THEIR ‘CHIEF APOSTLES.’ THE ‘MOUTH OF THE APOSTLE’ DOES NOT SPEAK THE ‘NATURAL,’ CARNAL, OR PHYSICAL ‘LETTER’ OF THE BIBLE, (WHICH IS, AS THEIR CHIEF APOSTLE NIEHAUS SAID, “Withered hay and stinking stagnant well water”.) THE APOSTLE SPEAKS HIS COMPLETELY ‘SPIRITUALIZED’ INTERPRETATION OF THE ETERNAL WORD OF THE LIVING GOD, THE BIBLE, WHICH HE THEN CALLS ‘SPIRIT AND LIFE.’ HOWEVER, THE BIBLE DECLARES THAT EVERY SINCERE BELIEVER, BORN AGAIN THROUGH FAITH IN, AND ACCEPTANCE OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, IS A TEMPLE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, NOT JUST THESE SO-CALLED ‘APOSTLES,’ (Jn. 1:12-13; Gal. 4:6-7; 1 Cor. 6:19-20.) BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, JESUS CHRIST AND JESUS CHRIST ALONE, IS THE LIVING WORD OF GOD, (Jn. 1:1-5,) AND HE HIMSELF QUOTED (IN CONTEXT AND IN TRUTH) FROM THE WRITTEN WORD, (MT. 4:10.) JESUS CHRIST HIMSELF DECLARED THAT ONLY THE WORD WHICH HE HAD SPOKEN IS ‘SPIRIT AND LIFE,’ (Jn. 6:63.) Heb. 3:1 CLEARLY STATES, “CONSIDER THE APOSTLE AND HIGH PRIEST OF OUR CONFESSION, CHRIST JESUS!” - NOT THE SO-CALLED ‘JESUS CHRIST IN THE FLESH OF THE OLD APOSTLE,’ BUT THE LORD JESUS CHRIST OF THE BIBLE, WHO IS GOD HIMSELF! GOD SAID IN Ps. 138:2 THAT HIS [WRITTEN] WORD “IS [EVEN] ABOVE HIS NAME!” PAUL, TOO, NEVER PLACED THE SPOKEN WORD ABOVE THE WRITTEN WORD. IN 2 Tim. 4:13 HE ASKED TIMOTHY TO BRING HIS BOOKS, THE OLD TESTAMENT WRITINGS, AND DECLARED IN 2 Tim. 3:16: “ALL SCRIPTURE, [the written Word in its entirety,] WAS GIVEN BY INSPIRATION OF GOD…”
OAC Catechism: “Where is the Kingdom of heaven?” (Answer: Lu. 17:21: Inside you.) - By this they confuse the spiritual Kingdom of God with the Biblical Kingdom of heaven They declare that heaven is just an ‘enlightened’ condition or state of mind; (Afrikaans: “‘n verligte gemoedstoestand,”) not a real place in the spiritual world. In fact, they believe ‘heaven,’ as ‘the kingdom of God’ itself, exists only in the ‘spiritual’ mind or ‘natural’ soul of the Apostle, which had ‘become’ spirit through the knowledge that the whole Bible must be interpreted ‘spiritually.’ [THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER IS, WHEN JESUS TAUGHT HIS DISCIPLES TO PRAY, “OUR FATHER IN HEAVEN, HALLOWED BE YOUR NAME…” THE OAC DID NOT EVEN EXIST. IF HEAVEN EXISTS IN THE ‘SPIRITUAL’ MINDS OF OAC MEMBERS, WHERE EXACTLY DID GOD THE FATHER, GOD THE SON, AND GOD THE HOLY SPIRIT LIVE FOR ALL INFINITY BEFORE THE APOSTOLIC MIND CAME INTO EXISTENCE DURING THE 19TH CENTURY A.D.? THE BIBLE TEACHES CLEARLY THAT HEAVEN IS A REAL PLACE IN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD. REV. 21:9-27 DESCRIBES HEAVEN AS ‘THE CITY OF GOD.’ HEAVEN MEASURES 1,500 CUBIC MILES ‘ACCORDING TO THE [LITERAL] MEASURE OF A MAN!’ HEAVEN IS THE AWESOME DWELLING-PLACE OF THE ALMIGHTY GOD, AND SO, THE ‘SPIRITUAL MINDS’ OF THE OAC CAN NEVER CONTAIN THIS INCREDIBLE PLACE! THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN, ACCORDING TO THE WHOLE CONTEXT OF THE BIBLE, IS ALWAYS DESCRIBED AS BEING SOMEWHERE ABOVE THE CLOUDS ‘UP THERE!’ IF HEAVEN WERE NOT ‘UP THERE’ SOMEWHERE ABOVE THE CLOUDS, WE WOULD HAVE TO PRAY TO ‘THE GOD IN US;’ TO GOD ‘IN OUR (SPIRITUAL) MIND,’ OR ‘TO OURSELVES, WHO IS GOD.’ THIS WOULD CONSTITUTE THE PLATONIST, HINDUIST/BUDDHIST PANTHEISTIC DOGMA OF ‘GOD IS IN EVERYTHING THAT LIVES, AND THUS EVERYTHING THAT LIVES IS GOD.’ IN HINDUISM AND BUDDHISM, HEAVEN IS ACTUALLY CALLED ‘NIRVANA,’ WHICH IS NOT A REAL PLACE IN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD, BUT A POSITIVE, ENLIGHTENED, ‘HEAVENLY’ STATE OF MIND. JESUS SAID IN Lu. 17:21, “...THE KINGDOM OF GOD, [WHICH THE OAC BLENDS WITH THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN,] IS WITHIN YOU.” ‘THE KINGDOM OF GOD’ IS GOD’S SPIRITUAL KINGDOM, WHICH RESIDES IN THE BORN AGAIN HUMAN SPIRIT (NOT IN THE MIND WHICH SUPPOSEDLY ‘BECAME SPIRITUAL’,) THROUGH THE INDWELLING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, (NOT JESUS, AS JESUS SITS AT THE RIGHT HAND OF THE FATHER IN HEAVEN.) THUS, THE KINGDOM OF GOD ON EARTH IS MANIFESTED THROUGH THE PREACHING OF THE BIBLICAL GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST, (Mt. 28:19-20,) WHILE THE “FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT,” IS THE GODLY BEHAVIOR OF SINCERELY BORN AGAIN BELIEVERS, WHO POSSESS THE INDWELLING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, (Gal. 5:16-22; 1 Cor. 6:17-20.)
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