THE NEW APOSTLES
Loren Davis
THE NEW
APOSTLES AND PROPHETS SAY THEY ARE EQUAL TO THE Old Testament PROPHETS AND New
Testament APOSTLES.
C.
Peter Wagner is the founder of this movement.
Rick Joyner, Mike Bickle of IHOP, Bill Hammond and Dutch Sheets are some
of the major ‘apostles’ working directly working under him.
Their
organization is called the ICA,
international coalition of apostles. There are 500 major apostles
in ICA. Each of these professing apostles validates
each other as to their apostleship.
Other minor apostles work under them.
They
believe in what they call THE Apostolic succession. The
truth is that the The apostles never appointed successors. Nothing like this is referred to
in the Bible.
1
Corinthians 12:29 talks about New Testament apostles. The fact is that modern day apostles
are
not the same as the original 12
apostles in the new testament.
THE ‘NEW’ APOSTLES say they have the same
Apostolic anointing as the original
NEW Testament apostles. They
say they are superior to Paul, David, Peter, James, John because they believe
they have a higher revelation from the Holy Ghost.
The Bible says that THE NEW JERUSALEM will
have the names of the Twelve Apostles in the twelve foundations of the New
Jerusalem, Rev 21:14. The names of PETER WAGNER, RICK JOYNER, MIKE BICKLE, and their self-appointed
apostles names WILL NOT BE IN the foundation of the New Jerusalem! There are only 12 foundations, not 500. Even though the Gifts of the Spirit are for
today, these men are not on the same plane as the Twelve who gave us the New
Testament and are operating by ‘another spirit’. 2 Cor. 11:4.
THE NEW APOSTLES BELIEVE THEY ARE TO GOVERN THE CHURCH
They
say doctrines divide and call for Unity.
It is apparent that their purpose for calling for this unity is so
all Christian leaders will come under them as being the heads, the final
governing authority of Christianity and interpreting scriptures.
The new apostles
are preaching Unity at all costs,
including pUTTING ASIDE SOUND DOCTRINE.
tHEY ARE SAYING, ‘Unify or else!” They are literally
intimidating Christians to come under them. They boycott preachers who refuse
to come under their authority. This is very similar to the Roman Church of the
Middle Ages which was totally intolerant of Christians being outside the Roman
Church.
They
use Ephesians 2:20 to establish their credibility for this.
“And
are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ
himself being the chief corner stone;” KJV
Their
emphasis is on the apostles. What this scripture is referring to is the church
is built on the foundation of the scriptures given by the apostles and prophets,
the Bible, with Christ being the cornerstone.
Isa
9:6 “For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the
government shall be upon his
shoulder:” KJV
The
church is built on christ and the biblE.
The bible is the law of god. Psa. 1
Matt
16:16-18 “And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ,
the Son of the living God. …And I say
also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church;
and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.” KJV
The
‘new’ apostles are doing the exact same thing that the Roman Church has done
with this scripture, saying the Church was built on the apostle Peter and not built on Christ. Now
the ‘new’ apostles are doing virtually the same thing, saying the Church is now
built on them.
‘New’
Apostles see themselves as guardians of apostlic truth. That is not true! The NEW TESTAMENT is the guardian of
Apostolic Truth.
2 Peter 1:20-21 “Knowing this first,
that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private. For the prophecy came not
in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by
the Holy Ghost.” KJV
They say that theY greatest generation of apostles and prophets who
ever lived. THEY say that they ARE EVEN
greater than the ORIGINAL 12 Apostles and the oLD tESTAMENT prophets. Without
a doubt, they are a legend in their
own minds, virtual egomaniacs. John the Baptist said about Jesus, “He
must increase, but I must decrease.”
Jesus said that there was not a greater man than John the Baptist. These ‘new’ apostles can’t compare to John
the Baptist. They want to increase at
the expense of decreasing Jesus.
Prov
16:18 “Pride goeth before
destruction , and an haughty spirit before a fall.” KJV
Matt
5:3 “Blessed are the poor inspirit: for
theirs is the kingdom of heaven.”
Matt
11:29 “..learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart:” KJV
Lk
20:46 Jesus said, “BEWARE OF THE
SCRIBES, which desire to walk in LONG
ROBES and love greetings in the markets, and the HIGH SEATS in the synagogues, and the CHIEF ROOMS AT FEASTS; which DEVOUR
WIDOWS HOUSES: and FOR A SHEW MAKE
LONG PRAYERS: the same shall have greater
damnation.”
Great
leaders of the past, Wesley, Luther, etc., never called themselves
apostles. Today in most of the Charismatic Movement, IF YOU ARE NOT AN APOSTLE OR
PROPHET, YOU ARE NOTHING. Little attention is given to the evangelist,
pastor or teacher.
It’s interesting that these SELF APPOINTED PROPHETS and APOSTLES love
to use big titles. Elijah, Paul and the other prophets and apostles didn’t
use big titles.
The ‘new’ apostles claim Elijah’s mantle. Yet they have never parted the waters
nor done anything close to Elijah. They extol Kenneth Hagan and believe he was
a prophet.
They talk about the third wave of
the holy ghost.
Peter
Wagner says he believes in the Holy Ghost but not in tongues as the initial evidence. This
is the same as the mainline denominational pastors believe. Wagner is a Presbyterian.
The ‘new’ apostles are apart of the
LATTER RAIN MOVEMENT which sprung up in the 40’s and went through the 60’s.
William Branham, John
G. Lake
and Paul Cain were part of this
movement.
THEY EMPHASIZE THEIR ANOINTING, THEIR
POWER, NOT THE ANOINTED ONE, CHRIST.
They
see themselves as the spiritually elite, the enlightened ones,
who ‘have the spirit without measure’.
They believe they are spiritually superior to everyone else.
They
teach that the five fold ministry is now totally restored to
perfection and is now a complete with visible unity under them.
The
Latter Rain Movement teaches that apostles and prophets must be restored. They call themselves Restorationists, THUS THE
NAME ‘THE APOSTOLIC REFORMATION’.
GOD TALKS TO THEM
One of their major tell-tale signs of the
new apostles and prophets is that they say GOD TALKS TO THEM AND THEY SEE
GOD.
They
say that they hear the audible voice of God, and that God directly
communicates with them, His apostles and prophets. They often say, GOD TOLD
ME and some of them claim to see God the Father FACE TO FACE.
Jesus
said regarding the FATHER on this issue…
Jn 5:37 ‘NEITHER HEARD HIS VOICE AT ANY
TIME NOR SEEN HIS SHAPE”
For
those who say they have seen God, either they have had a counterfeit occultic
experience or they are outright lying, according to what Jesus said.
IT
WAS NOT THE FATHER TALKING TO THE OLD TESTAMENT PROPHETS. IT WAS JESUS, ‘THE WORD’. JN 1.
Ex
3:14 “And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM : and he said, Thus shalt
thou say unto the children of Israel,
I AM hath sent me unto you.”
John
8:58 “Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was,
I am.”
WHAT
ABOUT THE VOICE FROM HEAVEN?
Matt
3:17 “And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am
well pleased.” KJV
Mt.
1:18 “When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came
together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.”
Jesus
was conceived in Mary by the Holy Ghost.
Remember, the Holy Ghost is a part of the Godhead. The Godhead works together in unison.
John’s
Revelation Rev 1:10 “I was in the Spirit
on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a
great voice, as of a trumpet,” KJV
This
does not say John audibly heard the voice.
It says that he was ‘IN THE
SPIRIT’ when he heard it.
Paul
said, 2 Cor 12:3 “And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the
body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;)” KJV
The fact is, it was the Lord communicating with his spirit.
*The Lord
definitely can and does speak to us in our spirits, but people today do not
literally physically hear the voice of God. We can definitely hear from God
though His Word and be led by the Spirit.
The Lord definitely speaks to our inner man.
Rom 8:14
“For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.” KJV
THE ‘NEW’ APOSTLES EMPHAZIZE THE GIFTS
OF THE SPIRIT. 1 Co. 12. We know the Gifts of the Spirit are
real. The problem is their abuse.
The
‘new’ apostles and prophets misuse scriptures and Gifts to take control God’s
people. One scripture they like to use
to control is…
Amos 3:7 “Surely the Lord God will do nothing , but he revealeth his
secret unto his servants the prophets.”
KJV
The
Bible’s warning against saying ‘God told me’, when he did not speak.
*Ezekiel
13:2-9 “Son of man, PROPHESY AGAINST THE PROPHETS of Israel that PROPHESY, and
say unto them THAT PROPHESY OUT OF THEIR
OWN HEARTS, Hear ye the word of the Lord God; Thus
saith the Lord God; WOE UNTO THE FOOLISH PROPHETS, THAT FOLLOW THEIR
OWN SPIRIT, AND HAVE SEEN NOTHING! O Israel, THY PROPHETS are like the foxes in
the deserts.”
*6 “They
have SEEN VANITY AND LYING DIVINATION, saying, THE LORD SAITH: AND
THE LORD HATH NOT SENT THEM: and they
HAVE MADE OTHERS HOPE THAT THEY WOULD CONFIRM THE WORD. Have ye NOT SEEN A VAIN
VISION, AND HAVE YE NOT SPOKEN A LYING
DIVINATION, whereas ye say, THE LORD SAITH IT; ALBEIT I HAVE NOT
SPOKEN. Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Because YE HAVE SPOKEN VANITY, AND SEEN LIES, therefore I AM AGAINST YOU,
saith the Lord God. And mine hand shall be upon THE PROPHETS THAT SEE VANITY
AND THAT DIVINE LIES: THEY SHALL NOT
BE IN THE ASSEMBLY OF MY PEOPLE...”
*10 “…THEY HAVE SEDUCED MY PEOPLE…”
THEY say that they SEE JESUS
physically in person
Kenneth
Hagin claims to have seen Jesus physically eight times, even in his
bedroom.
Regarding
this, Jesus warned in Mt 24:26 “If they say he (Christ) is in the desert, go
not; if he (Christ) is in THE SECRET PLACE (bedroom), BELIEVE IT NOT”.
Matt
24:23 “Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here
is Christ, or there; believe it not.” KJV
The
Twelve Apostles who were with Jesus saw Him in the flesh even up to and after
the resurrection when He appeared to them and audibly talked to them, 1 Co
15:3. The Apostle Paul had an encounter
with Jesus on the Damascus Road. There are no other biblical records of people
physically seeing or audibly hearing Jesus talk after He ascended to heaven.
*I
believe people can and do have visions of Jesus, but according to what Jesus
said, they do not physically see Him now.
They SPIRITUALIZE SCRIPTURES and teach the scriptures don’t literally mean what they say.
When
Jesus spoke in parables He made it clear it was a parable, otherwise He spoke
straight forward.
In
the name of the Deeper life and revelation of the holy ghost, the
‘new’ apostles give scriptures bizarre meanings. The effect of this is that the Bible can mean
anything you want it to. It has no
absolute meaning. Words mean nothing. In effect, there is no absolute truth.
They say sometimes God often BYpasses the mind, that we don’t
need to understand.
Matthew 22:37 “Love the Lord your heart and soul and you're mind.”
Prov
3:13 “Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding.”
2
Tim 2:7 “Consider what I say; and the Lord give thee understanding in all things.” KJV
If
you don’t understand you can be manipulated and misused.
ONE
Of theSE ‘NEW’ APOSTLES referS to bible doctrines as Old wine skins. Can you imagine such a frontal attack on
the Bible?
They say that we don't need a doctrinal police force. They call Bible doctrine baggage.
2
John 10 “If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine , receive him not into your house, neither bid him God
speed:” KJV
Acts
2:42, “…continued in the apostles
doctrine”,
2 Jn 9
says, “He that hath not the doctrine of Christ hath not god”
one
of the ‘NEW’ APOSTLES, Chuck Pierce, has said that the new apostles and
prophets are on a higher level of inspiration than the New Testament Scriptures. He justifies this by
saying that they have the same Holy Ghost that they had.
This sounds like GNOSTICISM, which
means a higher knowledge than the Bible.
In the name of the Holy Ghost and spirituality, pagan gnosticism
infiltrated some of the early Church.
Gnosticism is the foundation of Luciferianism which exalts Lucifer as
‘the benevolent god’, and demeans Adonai as being ‘the mean judging god’,
because He has laws.
Because
of this gnostic type attitude towards the Bible, they have taken the liberty to
bring about their own revelations and doctrines into Christianity, even contradicting and defying scriptures. Some of them deny the Trinity; the blood
atonement, and the inerrancy of the Scriptures.
Some of them claim to even communicate with the dead: past prophets, apostles or evangelists and
even claim to get their anointing from them.
The Bible calls this ‘necromancy’ and forbids this practice.
Deut
18:11-12 “…a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. For all that do these
things are an abomination unto the Lord:” KJV
But
these ‘new’ apostles, believe they are exempt from these scriptures, because
they believe that they the ‘new’ apostles and prophets are now the final
authority even above the Bible, the mediators between men and God. Again, they are taking Christ’s place.
1
Tim 2:5 “For there is one God, and one
mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;” KJV
*The ‘New
Apostles’ have the Roman Catholic works
of the mystics and monks in their bookstores. (See the
article: ‘The Roman Churches
Disagreements with the Bible’ www.lorendavis.com)
They
teach that the ‘Common man‘ can't understand Scriptures without them, the
apostles and prophets. This
emulates the teachings of the Catholic Church during the Middle Ages when it
outlawed the Bible by saying that the ‘common man’ could not understand the
scriptures without the learned priests.
They Manipulate the Bible in the name of Revelation, Rhema,
and put Rhema above logos, the written Word of God, the Bible. Now logos doesn’t judge or try rhema, but rhema
judges AND TRIES logos. They
are continually finding fault with the Bible, saying it is full of errors.
2
Peter 1:20 “Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any
private interpretation.” KJV
ONE
OF THE MAIN WAYS
The ‘new’ apostles deceive IS by giving sound doctrinal statements, but IN
PRACTICe teach AND DO opposite THEIR STATEMENT OF FAITH.
To
these ‘new’ apostles the Scriptures have no objective meaning. They
speak about revelation, The Deeper Life, mysticism and illumination which comes
from the occult and the New Age. They spiritualize the scriptures to absurdity
until their meanings are completely lost and the Bible becomes a farce.
They
SAY THAT THEY ARE continually HEARING THE VOICE OF GOD, AUDIBLY AND
SPIRITUALLY, even when WHAT THEY SAY god is say disagrees with the Bible.
They
believe that their Prophecies are equal to the Scriptures IN AUTHORITY. IN OTHER WORDS, THEIR WORDS ARE PART OF AN OPEN CANON. They believe that
their words are equal to scripture. They
believe their words are literally ‘the Word of God’.
Tommy
Tenney in his book the ‘God
chasers’ says we don't want to
just study from the moldy pages of what God has done. What Tenney is saying is that we need to go
OUTSIDE THE BIBLE to learn about God. In
not so subtle a way Tenney is calling the Bible ‘moldy pages’ or
irrelevant. What an insult to God’s
Word!
They
believe THAT the Bible has many errors and use many CORRUPT
TRANSLATIONS. They despise the
KJV. (See the article: ‘Changing the Bible’ www.lorendavis.com)
THEY SAY THEY ARE LIKE THE OLD TESTAMENT
PROPHETS, but don’t want the
accountability that the Old Testament prophets had.
Deuteronomy
18:20-22 says, “if a prophet prophesies falsely
he is to be put to death.” They do not see that they are accountable
to the Bible. Since ‘God is talking to them and the Lord is never wrong, therefore they are never wrong even when they disagree with the scriptures.
You cannot question the anointed
ones. They do not believe in the
sufficiency of the Scriptures, but believe in their own sufficiency as the
final authority of Christianity.
The
temptation to Eve was to question the word of god, “hath God said”, Ge 3:1.
THE ‘NEW’ APOSTLES ARE THEOLOGICAL LIBERALS
who believe that the Bible is unreliable and full of errors. They have anointed themselves as ‘the
apostles’, ‘the prophets’, and consider themselves omniscient and infallible.
That
defies the scriptures, Prov 30:5 “Every word of God is pure.” KJV
They downplay bible doctrine
One of these ‘new’ apostles Francis
said, “We have filled people with doctrines instead of deity, we have given them manuals, instead of Emmanuelle.”
That
might sound good, but it is blasphemous. Bible doctrine is nothing more than the
teachings of the Bible; the teachings of Christ.
Mark
8:38 Jesus said, “Whosoever therefore
shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and
sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed,” KJV
John
7:16 “Jesus answered them, and said, My
doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me.” KJV
2 Jn 9 “He that hath not the doctrine of Christ hath not God”
2
John 10 ”If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into
your house, neither bid him God speed:”
One of the New Apostles refers to the Bible as yesterday's manna; which means, ‘Stinking
and worm infested’. It is
impossible to be saved with this attitude
towards
the Bible.
They believe Paul's words are below Jesus words in scriptures.
2 Tim 3:16 “All scripture is given by inspiration of God,” KJV
To
substantiate and justify their bizarre unscriptural revelations they use
John 1:50 “Thou shalt see greater things than these.” John 21:25 “And there are also many other things which
Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even
the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen.” …
So,
according to them, they say we get the rest of his words by revelation BY the
Holy Spirit. In other words the
Holy Spirit reveals things not written in Bible, even things that contradict
the Bible.
With
this belief, you can create your own religion.
In effect, the is Bible is virtually irrelevant and meaningless to them.
Benny Hinn’s book ‘Good Morning Holy Spirit’, is teaching us to pray to the Holy
Spirit. This is totally unscriptural.
Matt 6:6 “when thou prayest…pray to thy FATHER…” KJV
John 16:23 “Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, He will give
it you.” KJV
The BIBLE NEVER TEACHES US TO PRAY TO THE HOLY
GHOST. The Bible teaches us that the
Holy Ghost will help us when we pray to the Father in Jesus’ name. Ro 8:26
WHEN THEY TALK OF ‘signs and wonders’, they are not referring to what
Jesus talked about in Mark 16:15 healing the sick, casting out devils, etc.,
but Bizarre manifestations such
as: shadows on wall, stigmata,
feathers falling, white birds appearing like the Holy Ghost, shaking, etc. This
has made Pentecost a farce and nothing like it was in the New Testament. This has virtually destroyed the credibility
of the true miracle ministries and the operation of the Gifts of the Spirit.
in
the name of speaking by the holy ghost They say they are speaking the very word
of God.
They
say they don’t bring new doctrines, yet they do. They undermine THE central truths of the
Bible.
Prophetically
THEY ARE inventing new doctrines. They
say the apostles and prophets established the doctrine. They claim New Testament Apostolic
authority. Again, the Bible never talks
about an ‘apostolic succession’. Today’s
modern day apostles do not operate on the same authority of the original 12
apostles who gave us the canon, the scriptures.
They
will not allow their doctrines to be judged. They say their enemies
who judge their prophecies, revelations and teachings have the Jezebel spirit,
the Judas spirit, the antichrist spirit.
They
defy the scriptures. 1 Cor 14:29 “Let the prophets speak two or three, and let
the other judge.” KJV
Regarding
their attitude towards the Bible, in essence it is lockstep with the secular
educational system which has even outlawed the Bible in the classroom in America
and openly teaches opposite the Bible.
Most seminaries and Bible Schools are also some of the biggest enemies
of the Bible. They are incessantly
attacking its accuracy.
THEY EXALT THE HOLY SPIRT ABOVE JESUS
The ‘new’ apostles and prophets talk about
the Holy Ghost ten times more than Jesus.
John 14:26 “But the Comforter, which is
the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all
things, and bring all things to your remembrance , whatsoever I have said
unto you.” The Bible contains the things that Jesus said.
Acts
1:8 “But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you:
and ye shall be witnesses unto me” KJV The purpose of receiving the Holy Ghost is to
witness about Jesus.
The
fact is that that it is not the Holy Ghost but Jesus who is our Messiah,
Savior, Redeemer, King, etc. The Holy
Ghost’s job on earth as well as Christ’s minister’s is to exalt Jesus.
The ‘new’ apostles teach KINGDOM
AUTHORITY, that is: They say a
spirit Being (God and Christ) cannot function on the Earth without flowing
through a human body; therefore, God, christ, can do nothing on earth unless
they work through a man who is alive on earth now. They say that God has to have a man's
permission to operate on the earth. This is Dominion or Kingdom Now
theology which is ‘man centered’, not Christ centered. It appeals to the
humanistic teaching of self-esteem. (The Faith Movement teaches this. See the article: ‘The Teaching Man is a God’ www.combineharvesting.com)
They
reduce God to the level of a man. They look at God as weak and limited who can
do nothing without us. They focus on their own greatness not Christ
Gal
1:7 “Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert
the gospel of Christ.” KJV
INTERCESSION
They
have a heavy emphasis on intercession and 24/7 ‘Praise and Worship’.
We
know the Bible talks about the Spirit making intercession for us and praise and
worship.
Rom
8:26-27 “Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what
we should pray for as we ought: but the
Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be
uttered. And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the
Spirit, because he maketh intercession
for the saints according to the will of God.” KJV
But
the ‘new’ apostles, particularly IHOP, teaches that it is OUR INTERCESSION,
24/7, that gets us to the throne room of God and gets us God’s favor. They
get heavy into Spiritual warfare.
This literally makes WORKS our entrance to
God’s favor and miracles.
Eph
2:8-9 “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it
is the
gift of God: Not of
works , lest any man
should boast.” KJV
Eph
3:11-12 “According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in
Christ Jesus our Lord: In
whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him.” KJV
IN UGANDA
THEY HAVE A PLACE
CALLED ‘PRAYER MOUNTAIN’.
Christians come from all over Uganda
and Africa come to pray and intercede at Prayer Mountain. What is interesting is that instead of
spending much time praying, they meet prophets there who are prophesying over
them. A pastor friend of ours wife went
to Prayer Mountain. There she met another pastor. She said the Holy Spirit told them that they
were true mates, so she went home and divorced her pastor husband. This is not an isolated incident.
It is interesting, that African ancestral religions for
centuries have taught Africans to go to the mountains and pray to the mountains
to get answers to their prayers.
John
4:21-24 “Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye
shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father. Ye worship ye know not what: we know
what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews. But the hour cometh, and now is,
when the true worshippers shall worship
the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to
worship him. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in
spirit and in truth.” KJV
This has led many Christians into Contemplative, mantra repetitious
prayers which comes from Buddhism and Hinduism.
Matt
6:6-7 “But thou, when thou prayest, enter
into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in
secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee
openly. But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen
do: for they think that they shall be
heard for their much speaking.” KJV
Mk
11:24 “When ye pray, believe
ye shall receive, and ye shall have it.”
THE NEW APOSTLES FOCUS ON BREAKING SPIRITUAL CURSES
The
truth is that when we come to Christ, at that moment, the curse is broken. ‘We overcome now by the word of our testimony
and the blood of the Lamb’. Rev. 12:11.
We don’t get curses broken by some witchcraft type incantation or by works.
Gal 3:13 “Christ
hath redeemed us from the curse…”
Some
of the new apostles teach: cleansing property; prophetic decrees; release of
power by words; gaining spiritual inheritances that belong to aborted babies,
etc. Nothing is scriptural about
this. They pervert scripture to gain
control over people.
mANY FOCUS ON Angelic visitations
Col 2:18 “Let no man beguile you of
your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping
of angels , intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly
puffed up by his fleshly mind,” KJV
Again,
the issue is they are emphasizing angels above Jesus.
MANY OF THEM TALK ABOUT Dreams
and visions
We
know that god can and does give spiritual dreams and visions.
Joel
2:28 “And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon
all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall
dream dreams , your young men shall see visions:”
But many dreams and visions are not of God.
1 John 4:1
“Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of
God:”
Many
are led by visions and dreams instead of the Bible. This can prove deadly. Some dreams and visions are caused by eating
too many beans late at night; drugs or demon spirits.
THE ‘NEW’ APOSTLES, in the name of having spiritual
experiences, OFTEN PRACTICE metaphysics
and mysticism OF EASTERN RELIGIONS. what is so deadly about this is that they
do this in the name of THE HOLY GHOST.
THEY
control WEAK CHRISTIANS by fear and superstition WHO ARE NOT FOUNDED IN THE WORD OF GOD, the bible. If their doctrines do not line up
with the Bible, you can take it to the bank that they are false apostles and
false prophets. 2 Jn 9
HEAVEN
SOME OF THEM DECLARE THAT THEY HAVE BEEN
TO HEAVEN. They say that they
can penetrate heaven to get secrets. They talk about open heavens and that heavenly visitations are a norm to THEM.
There
is no dispute that people can and do have dreams and visions about heaven.
WHAT DOES THE BIBLE
SAY ABOUT PEOPLE PHYSICALLY GOING TO HEAVEN?
Jn 3:13 Jesus said, “NO MAN HATH
ASCENDED TO HEAVEN, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man
which is in heaven.”
Jesus said that He is the ONLY ONE who has
been to heaven who walked on earth afterwards. When Jesus said, ‘No man hath ascended to heaven’, He was
talking about people who have not died but are alive on earth right now; that
they have not yet been to heaven. We
know as children of God when we die we will then go to heaven.
2
Cor 5:8 “We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the
body, and to be present with the Lord.” KJV
We
know in Old Testament times that people went to Paradise,
but it wasn’t til Jesus’ death and resurrection that people went to heaven. Eph
4:8
THE CHURCH
THEY
TEACH THAT ‘The church’ is now ‘Christ’ on the Earth.
For
the Church to be Christ on earth would mean that Christ
is reincarnated. The belief in
reincarnation comes from Buddhism, Hinduism and the New Age. The leaders of the Faith Movement teach that
we are the INCARNATION of God as
much as Jesus Christ. (See the
article: ‘The Teaching that Man is a
God’ www.combineharvesting.com)
They
believe in the Deification of man, that MAN IS A GOD. They
get this from the major teachers of the Faith Movement, Hinduism and the New
Age. (See the article: ‘The Teaching Man
is a God’ www.combineharvesting.com)
One
of the major world evangelist said, “When you see me, you see Jesus. When you see me, you see God.” Another major televangelist teaches that ‘We
are equal to God, equal to Christ.’ The
pastor of the largest church in Nairobi,
Kenya said on
television, “You are Jesus. Tell the
person next to you, you are Jesus.” We
know the Bible says ‘Christ in us’, but WE ARE NOT JESUS. That is blasphemy! This is New Age! (See article: ‘The Teaching that Man is a God’).
They
teach that the ENDTIME
church is literally the
fullness of Christ.
William Branham is one that taught
this.
This would make the Church the Savior of
the world, not Christ. This is
exactly what the Roman Church teaches about itself. To be saved you must belong to the Roman
Church.
The Church is the ‘spiritual’ body of Christ. The Bible
teaches that Christ is the Head of the Church. Eph:23. For the Church to be Christ would mean that the Church is headless. Anything without a head is dead. Christianity
without Christ is dead.
It’s
impossible that we are the fullness of Christ! We can’t walk on water; walk
through walls; we are not the Savior of the world.
1
Cor 13:9 says, “For we know in part, and we
prophesy in part.”
KJV
The
new apostles teach that Jesus failed his mission
on earth, but the church won't. They teach that the church will
conquer the kingdoms of the world and get
the dowry for the bridegroom, Jesus.
There is nothing close to that in scriptures. This is a
byproduct of the prosperity gospel. (This issue will be handled in the article: ‘Kingdom Now, Dominion Now’ www.lorendavis.com)
THEY
say THAT they ARE ‘Joel’s end time army’, THE last days church. This is a gross perversion of Joel 2. The ‘end time army’ that the book of Joel
talked about is the saints returning with the Lord of hosts, Christ, conquering
at the Battle of Armageddon. Read Joel
2.
they Deny the physical return of
Christ
They say Jesus cannot come back until the church gets
it right.
They
use Acts 3:20-21 to substantiate this claim:
“And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you:
Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things,
which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world
began.
Again,
they put ‘the Church’ in Christ’s stead.
They
are Kingdom now, DOMINIONISTS,
redefine bible prophecy AND MOST don’t
believe in the rapture. They
talk of ‘kingdom glory and power’. (This will be dealt with in the article
‘ Kingdom now, redefining Bible
prophecy’)
They don’t
believe…
1 Thess
4:16 “For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the
voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall
rise first:” KJV
THEY
BELIEVE THAT Christ will come again ‘in’ the church not ‘for’ the
church.
THEY BELIEVE Christ WILL not
conquer, BUT The church WILL conquer for Christ.
That
contradicts the Bible:
Heb
2:8 “Thou hast put all things in subjection
under his feet. For in
that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that is not put under
him. But now we see not yet all things put under him.” KJV
they believe they are apart of the
Melchizedek priesthood
Melchizedek
was a foreshadow of Christ. They say
that they are now of the Melchizedek priesthood. The truth is that the
Melchizedek priesthood belongs to Christ alone. They consistently
maximize their self-appointed position and minimize the uniqueness of Jesus.
THEY SAY We will take the world for God.
They
are not really talking of winning the world to Christ. They mean that economically and politically they
will take over the world in God’s name and rule.
THEY ARE
TERRITORIAL AND SEE THEMSELVES AS ‘the Gates of the cities’…
…the
bosses of Christianity. You have to come
through them and give them, have them approve of what you are teaching and must
give them their cut to be allowed to preach.
In effect, they are exalting themselves to be The HEAD OF THE CHURCH,
the neo-Protestant and Pentecostal popes who are not that much different than
the Roman Church. The 500 Apostles are
their Charismatic College of Cardinals.
The truth is, Eph 5:23, “Christ is the head of the church:” KJV
They believe that the ‘new’ apostles will purge the Earth of all
wickedness and rebellion.
Luke
3:16, 17 Speaking of Jesus, “Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and
will gather the wheat into his garner; but the chaff he will burn with fire
unquenchable.” KJV
The
‘new’ apostles are putting themselves in Christ’s place.
THEY SAY the
‘new’ apostles will judge the church
John
5:22 “For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the
Son:”
Again, they replace Christ with themselves.
They talk of heaven on earth.
This
is the same language of the New Age. This captures the young and naïve
Christians who have been caught up in the ‘prosperity gospel, the humanistic
‘this world’ gospel; i.e.: ‘YOUR BEST
LIFE NOW’, Joel Osteen. This is ‘another
gospel’. 2 Cor.11:4.
they will redeem
creation and restore the Earth
Rev
21:1 “And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the
first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.” KJV
The
‘new’ apostles are following the same thinking of the New Age, that man is
going to save the earth and bring in heaven on earth.
According
to the Bible, it is Jesus the Christ who will restore the earth. Rev. 21:1.
SOME OF The ‘NEW’
APOSTLES BELIEVE THEY will overcome death itself
That’s not what the Bible says,
1
Cor 15:26-27 “The last enemy that shall
be destroyed is death. For
HE (Christ) hath put all things
under his feet”, not some so-called
apostles feet.
If
you remove Jesus Christ from Christianity you have nothing. All cults refer to
Jesus and the Bible, but pervert His teachings and minimize Him. Our salvation, eternal destiny is determined
by what we believe about Jesus and the Bible.
THE ‘NEW’ APOSTLES ARE SAYING THAT THERE WILL BE A CIVIL WAR
IN CHRISTIANITY
They
say that there will be a change in Christianity; that is, a new definition of
Christianity. They say, “God is changing
Christianity”. “GOD IS DOING A NEW
THING”. The war they are waging is to
literally remove belief in the Bible and the divinity of Christ from
Christianity.
That contradicts the scriptures.
Luke
21:33 “Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.” KJV
Rev
22:19 “And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this
prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life , and out of the
holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.” KJV
Heb 13:8 “Jesus
Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.”
Mal 3:6 “For I am the Lord, I change not;”
WARNING
THE
‘NEW’ APOSTLES TALK nothing about suffering for Christ or taking up your cross; the blood; or keeping God’s Commandments; unless it is just
trying to obtain God’s favor by works.
Matt
7:15 Jesus said, “Beware of false
prophets , which come to you in
sheep's clothing, but inwardly
they are ravening wolves.” KJV
Matt
24:24 Jesus said, “For there shall arise false
Christs (anointed ones), and false
prophets, and shall shew great
signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.” KJV
Jude
4 “For there are certain men crept in
unawares, who were before of old ordained
to this condemnation, ungodly men,
turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.” KJV
Jude
13 “Raging waves of the sea, foaming out
their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the
blackness of darkness forever.” KJV
Rev
2:2 “and thou hast tried them which say
they are apostles , and are not, and hast found them liars:” KJV
Note: Thanks to
Keith Gibson’s book ‘Wandering Stars’ for his excellent research which has
assisted me on this article.
ALSO SEE,
Wandering
Stars: Contending for the Faith with the New Apostles and Prophets.
