THE 3 GLORIES OF HEAVEN
The Gospel of the Kingdom
Moses' Tabernacle

How to Recognize God's Apostles

Because God's delegated apostles are the key to building 'the assemblies of the elect", it becomes vitally important that the believers know the scriptural qualifications and works of a true apostle.

These identifications are given that the believers can differentiate between the true apostle and the the false.  The Son of Man commended the assembly at Ephesus (Rev 2:2) for their testing of those who claimed to be apostles.   Men who claim apostleship are to be tested, because the true ones can, in obedience to God, lay the foundation of the gifts of the Holy Spirit and the 5-fold apostolic settings, and declare the full purposes of God.

False apostles, on the other hand, will not understand and promote God's full purposes.  They will promote Babylon's message and thereby prevent their assemblies from coming into maturity and God's fullest eternal rewards.

 

The Qualifications and Works of an Apostle
as Taught in the Letters of the 1st Century Apostles

  • He claims his setting as an apostle, based on a direct call from God.  Rom 1:1; I Cor 1:1; Gal 1:1; Eph 1:1; I Tim 1:1; Titus 1:1

  • He testifies to having seen the Lord.   I Cor 9:1

  • He has "freedom" in Christ.  I Cor 9:1

  • He will speak the oracles of God.   He will be in contact with God and will speak in accordance to what he knows to be from God.  I Cor 2:4-13

  • He proclaims the complete gospel; the Gospel of the Kingdom.  Salvation through Yeshua/Jesus Christ ... and then... the opportunity to avail ourselves of eternal riches and honor  in the kingdom of our loving and generous God ... IF... we correctly respond to His Holy Spirit "Invitation", and attain to His "approval".  John 3:16-18; Rom 10:9-    10; Eph 2:8-10; Matt 13:3-23,33; 1 Cor 3:10-15; Eph 1:18; Matt 22:14; Acts 19:2; John 1:12; 2 Peter 1:10-11; Phil 3:10-15; Heb 12:5-8; 1 John 2:12-14; II Cor 10:18; 2 Tim 2:15; 1 Cor 11:18-19; Matt 25:1-13; Rev 3:16, 22:11

  • He gives the Holy Spirit through laying-on-of-hands.  Acts 8:18, 19:6

  • He gives the gifts of the Holy Spirit through the laying-on-of-hands.  Acts 19:6; Rom 1:11; 2 Tim 1:6

  • He has the sign of an apostle:   A gift-using assembly that is growing into maturity.  I Cor 1:4-7, 3:10, 9:2; 12:28; II Cor 12:12

  • He has the Lord's authority to protect the elect assemblies.  I Cor 5:3-5; II Cor 10:8, 13:2

  • He has the Lord's confirmation of his setting, to those who ask.  Rev 2:2