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


Test Apostles:
"God's Delegated leadership at the Doors"

When we study the details of Moses Tabernacle and the interesting differences between the 3 Glories, it's very important that we recognize that God has appointed different leadership personages at each Glory.  These personages are matched to the work, life style, authority, and unique activities found in each Glory.  As part of this, God's method of communication with mankind also varies with each Glory.  Even having and knowing God's "will" for your life can vary per your Tabernacle-Glory position.

YESHUA  God's only begotten Son, and the Saviour of Mankind, stands as the only door that The Father has provided, thru which "whosoever" may respond to God's free offer and enter the Outer Court of His Eternal Kingdom.  John 3:16; 10:1,2,7,9; Rom 10:9,10.  Yeshua's Kingdom teachings completed what God began revealing to Ancient Israel ... starting with the basic truths of Outer Court living per the 10 Commandments.

THE HOLY SPIRIT stands as God's ordained personage thru whom repentant Believers may enter the 2nd Glory of God's Kingdom.  The 2nd Glory is a most highly productive area of spiritual growth.  It is the Glory wherein the Holy Spirit educates, encourages, and admonishes, and wherein much more serious testing can be expected to occur.  This is the Glory wherein God begins greatly utilizing His 5-fold ministries ... anointed Apostles and Teachers being the most critically important.  It is with the Holy Spirit infilling that Judeo-Christianity takes on a new, supernatural aspect of living for the Spirit-led Believers who apply themselves, develop a much-needed spiritual maturity, and pursue the "experiential" love-bonding relationship.  Suggested readings: click on "Running the Race", "The doctrines, spiritual objectives, and beliefs ... ", and " "Rejected by God".

THE ANOINTED APOSTLES of this New Testament age are the fore-runners of God's eternal-Kingdom "rulers."  They are of the examples, and tested "overcomers" of Rev. 2:26,27.  The Apostles are critically more important than post-reformation (1-Glory) theologians think them to be.  Anointed with respondsibility, authority, and power, their doctrines and works can be the difference between "others" seeing and reaching the goal ...VS... floundering as the non-Elect.  When you think of Apostles, think about the vast 3-Glory Kingdom ... think about the full panorama of position, privilege, rewards, and honor now being offered to the Believers, and that will be awarded among them ... think about God's 5-Fold Ministries and His Kingdom Protocols that will further guarantee eternal happiness ... and think about the thoroughness of God in preplanning all this.  

The questions keep ringing in my mind: "Just how really big is our God?" ... and "how really big is the heaven that the Judeo-Christian scriptures speak of?"  The answer keeps returning: far greater than our 1517 Reformation Fathers understood or dared to think or write about ... an immense and complex Kingdom of such varying degrees of wealth (1 Cor. 3:12-13) that must of necessity require "administration" that meets all it's needs.  Would God want or allow it to be otherwise?  As He "chooses" today ... God "will" in His Glorious eternal Kingdom: administer righteousness with the much-needed help of those to whom He awards "crowns."  They will function in their privileged and honored capacities.  Hence: the trials and testing of the Believers today ... the testing-fires that reveal the proven love, loyalty, and conduct of those who will be so eternally privileged.  The over-simplified questions: "are you going to heaven?" and "are you saved?"  were first spoken by Believers who failed to envision the immenseness and complexity of God's glorious Kingdom, and His selected method of administering to His Believers: Apostles, Prophets, Evangelists, Shepherds, and Teachers.

A magnificent Kingdom lies before us, but many remain crazy-glued to the back-row pews ... all of this opportunity passing them by.  Tragic?  Not exactly.  As I said earlier: everyone gets tested!  All in all ... it's the fairest process ever.

Many Spirit-filled Believers who earlier began the love-bonding, will find themselves receiving the Father's "approval", as a result of the Apostles "works", in combination with those of the Father. 1 Cor 12:6.  Many will discover that God speaks with unveiled clarity to those who love, honor, and keep His OT and NT commandments, and patterns.  But now, in these end-days, as the Prudent Virgins approach the 3rd Glory door, the battle is not over.  The enemy dogs us at almost every step.  And, the first steps of previous great spiritual advances have been misled and hindered by many of "men's doctrines".  And although "men's doctrines" will always abound, it is the serious and careful "hearer" and "doer" who tests, and learns to recognize God's voice, and high-level truth, and side-step "old wives tales" and the thousands of well-rehearsed, but miss-the-mark-teachings.  Everyone who "pursues the prize" has the respondsibility to test all things: doctrine, revelation, and the Gifts & Settings claimed by any person ... that we protect ourselves from all forms of deception, as we advance into the Father's presence, and then 'remain' standing.  Those who become the Elect, are those who refuse to be deceived.  And, thankfully, the goal is very attainable, but not to the insincere, unloving, rebellious, and faint-of-heart.

TOTAL HEALING  Since I'm on the subject of maturity and experiencing all that God has for us, I must tell you my view of non-spiritual healing.  I sincerely believe in the medical and mental health professions, in addition to medicine, specialists, clinics, and hospitals.  I know that God uses them all.  I also know the reality of miracle healing and spiritual deliverance.  Problems aren't always easily identified, and the smart person should be open to professional / qualified answers and cures, as well as God's provisions.

 

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 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.

God's last great call to the World ... "the Gospel of the Kingdom" ... the complete Gospel that will also enable the "bride" to make herself ready ... will not and can not be restored without God's Set-In Apostle(s). This is God's preferential method ... imparting His "Gifts" and "Settings" thru an Apostle. Paul called it laying a foundation (1 Cor. 3:10,11). Thru these supernatural Gifts, God conveys His directives, knowledge, and power ... all for His purposes of furthering our spiritual growth and advancing His Kingdom. And they're as necessary today as in the 1st century ... because the complete Gospel still offers us basic entry into His 3-Glory Kingdom, in addition to very desirable advancement within it. And, it is at this point of advancement within the 2nd Glory that the Gifts of the Holy Spirit enter the picture. 1 Cor. 9:24-27; 2 Cor. 9:6; Phil. 3:11-16; 2 Pet. 1:10, 11; 2 Jn. 8,9; Rev. 2 & 3; Rev. 21:7,8; Rev. 22:10-21

God decides if, and to whom, He will impart a Gift, and which one. These Gifts are not laying dormant within the believers and merely need to be aroused, as is commonly taught. And these Gifts are not to be confused with human talents and abilities. God reveals thru the Gifts, in combination with the love-bonding, worship, testing and election of the Believers who correctly run and finish the race.  1 Cor. 14:12, 25; Eph. 4:11-16; Col. 3:1-25; Heb. 12:5-8; Rom. 16:10; 1 Cor. 11:19; 2 Cor. 10:18, 13:5-7; 2 Tim. 2:15; James 1:12; 1 Pet 1:6, 7

God is well-organized. Among His many perfect talents, He is an organizer. The Gifts of the Spirit are also organized and used per their intended purposes. Example: the 'healing and revealing' Gifts that take place during an Evangelists Miracle Crusade are different, and are for a different purpose, than the dreams, visions, prophecies, and words that are given to 'runners,' and those who have attained to the Father's "approval."  At the Crusade it's a 'proof to the world.'  To the fervently pursuing believers it's God's encouragements and help to encourage and warn and cheer-us-on to 'run faster' unto Him.  To an "approved" son or daughter it's directives and in-depth revelations of His eternal Kingdom.

And, if the 5-fold ministries are working together as they should, the Evangelist would turn to a "tried" Apostle (Rev. 2:2) to hear the complete Gospel.  But since there haven't been any around (or they didn't look for one), today's church ... everyone, including Evangelists ... continues to preach "the One-Glory Gospel of the 16th Century".  We have unquestioningly accepted "last-years-models" (1517 & 1906) as the finalized Gospel, not realizing that God is still in the process of sequentially restoring His 3-Glory Kingdom, and that one Glory still remains to be revealed.  And compounding our failure-to-test problem, we've also believed the lie that God phased-out His Set-In Apostles.  But then again, what need has the One Glory Gospel for Apostles?  If we don't understand the significance of Moses Tabernacle ... the Floor Plan of Heaven ... neither will we understand the significance of Apostles and the "Foundation" of the Gifts and Settings.

Click on our gold button "Prophecy Dreams" to view examples of what Apostolically-Founded members typically receive thru the Gifts (2 Cor. 12:12). But a Court Christian would receive none of this ... they being without the Holy Spirit. Note also, the Trinity functions differently in each Glory (1 Cor. 12:4-6), although for the same purpose ... the edification and growth of the saints, and advancing His Kingdom.   There is a lot more to be said, but for the sake of brevity I'll stop here, for now.

 

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 KingdomSalvation 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

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