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The New Apostolic Reformation and its ties with Rome and the Mystics!

Posted in Catholicism, Christianity, Cults, Dominionism, Emergent Church, Emerging Church, Globalism, Gnosticism, New World Order, New-Age, Philosophy & Religion, Political, Political/Christian, Prophecy, RENOVARE, Red Flag Posts, Religion, Spiritual Formation, Theology, discernment, mysticism by livingjourney on February 18th, 2008

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Do you really know what makes an apostle? Do you really know what the bible says about God’s criteria concerning apostles? I found this article today about the “New Apostolic Reformation” and surprisingly — or not, it’s something that the Church has had to deal with for quite some time now. The article uses biblical standards, but also early Church writings to explain what biblical Apostleship really is. Obviously the Roman Catholic Church have carried Apostolic succession so far culminating into Papal authority. But the Roman Catholic Church is not the only one guilty of this.

Peter Wagner says…

[I]n certain segments of the Church the office of apostle has, indeed, been recognized throughout the past two millennia. The Roman Catholic Church, the Anglican or Episcopal Church and many denominations that have actually incorporated “apostolic” into their name would come to mind as examples. However, just as was true of prophetic movements, the emphases of these apostolic movements had not penetrated the mainstream of what I am calling life-giving evangelical churches that are now the cutting edge of the spread of Christianity. This only began to happen in the 1990’s. (read more here)

What are the “New Apostolic Reformers” actually teaching concerning the last days, and where do they get their inspiration? To find out a little more about this we may need to go back to Christian Mystics, one in particular.

Interestingly, there was a woman called Jane Leade, a 17th century Christian mystic. She taught that the seven churches found in Revelation directly related to seven periods of time of Church rule. She was mostly interested in the Church of Philadelphia because Christ found no fault in that particular Church according to the book of Revelation. In fact, her so called prophetic writings predicted that certain sealed prophecies would only be revealed by those who are worthy and who have entered into the Philidelphian Church age…

She was involved in a movement called “The Philadelphian Society,” named after that church. In 1679, the Philadelphian Society and the Theosophists published a document containing a 60-point prophecy by Jane Leade (the document has her name as Lead). The document proposes ideas that resurfaced in 1948 in the Latter Rain movement, and, as we shall see, are still being promoted by a key Apostle-prophet of the New Apostolic Reformation. (read more here)

She spoke a great deal of an elite Church age that would receive the Ark of the Testimony (Point 8) which was in heaven containing new revelations to be opened during a unique Church age, the age of Philadelphia. This unique perfected, virginal Church would give birth to a son (Points 14-24), the son mentioned in Revelation 12:5!

Is this starting to sound a little familiar to you? The Manifest Son’s and Later Rain still use the terminology assigned to this son, that being the many-membered man-child. Is this coincidence or not, one cannot be sure. But there is one thing we can be sure of…there is nothing new under the sun.

The article points out the agenda behind such thinking…

This prophecy of a perfected church (later called the “many-membered man-child”) that will be the incarnation of Christ on the earth while Christ remains in heaven sets the stage for the Latter Rain movement in the 20th Century that would make the same claims. Whether that movement got its ideas from Leade or came up with the same heresy independently I cannot say at this time. But the ideas are identical. The church must be perfected on earth before Christ can return, and this shall be accompanied with miracles and power greater that at any time in church history—including Pentecost.

Key words I have now been made aware of. Words like “The Ark of Testimony” the “many-membered man-child”the “man-child”and”The Ascension gifts”….”The “Ascension gifts” is a reference to the so-called “five fold ministry” of Ephesians 4:11. The idea is that the church will be perfected by the renewal of the ministries of apostles and prophets before Christ returns.”

One adherent to the perfected Church says this… O the immensity of these words! And what is more, Christ is going to remain right where He is at God’s right hand until there shall arise a group of overcomers who shall conquer over all God’s enemies[...]

There is much more written in this article and it is truly mind blowing and scary stuff which explains the dangers of Hyper-Dispensationalism, Restorationists and Kingdom Now teaching.

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We’re tired, so tired

Posted in Catholicism, Christianity, Dominionism, Emergent Church, Emerging Church, Globalism, Gnosticism, Midrash, New World Order, New-Age, Personal, Philosophy & Religion, Political/Christian, Prophecy, RENOVARE, Religion, Spiritual Formation, Spiritual Renovation, Theology, discernment, mysticism by livingjourney on February 7th, 2008

Just quickly, I received an email this morning from a very dear friend of mine. And I know that she and others like her are getting very, very weary. I am too! As I was about to reply to her, I was reminded of the following scriptures.

This post is for all of those out there who are feeling tired and worn by the constant attacks on the Body of Christ…

We are constantly reminded to wake up. The disciples became heavy hearted and fell asleep during the night watch. Jesus said that they should stay awake so not too fall into temptation…

Luk 22:4546 And when he rose from prayer, he came to the disciples and found them sleeping for sorrow, and he said to them, “Why are you sleeping? Rise and pray that you may not enter into temptation.”

Jesus told them three times about not sleeping…I guess he really means it… it is very important…

Mar 14:3742 When he went back, he found them asleep. He said to Peter, “Simon, are you asleep? You couldn’t stay awake for one hour, could you? All of you must stay awake and pray that you won’t come into temptation. The spirit is indeed willing, but the flesh is weak.” He went away again and prayed the same prayer as before. Again he came back and found them asleep, for their eyes were very heavy. They didn’t even know what they should say to him. He came back a third time and said to them, “You might as well keep on sleeping and resting. Enough of that! The time has come. Look! The Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of sinners. Get up! Let’s go! See, the one who is betraying me is near!”

Interesting that just before Peter saw the transfiguration he was heavy with sleep…

Luk 9:32 Now Peter and they that were with him were heavy with sleep: but when they were fully awake, they saw his glory, and the two men that stood with him.

How about this from the commentary on this verse, very interesting that they were scarcely awake and it was difficult for them to wake up even by the ray of his light…

[...]and when they were awake, The Syriac version reads, “scarcely awake”; they were so heavy with sleep, that it was with difficulty they were awaked out of it, even by the rays of light and glory that were about them. The Ethiopic version adds, “suddenly”; such a lustre darted from these glorious forms, especially from the body of Christ, as at once surprised them out of their sleep; and being thoroughly awake,

The heaviness is something that we are feeling from the toil of the day…

Heavy with sleep - Borne down with sleep - oppressed, overcome with sleep. It may seem remarkable that they should fall asleep on such an occasion; but we are to bear in mind that this may have been in the night, and that they were weary with the toils of the day.

The reason why we are finding it hard to keep awake is because the groom is late, this from the parable of the ten virgins

Mat 25:5 Since the groom was late, all of them became sleepy and lay down.

Why is He late…?

2Pe 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some count slackness; but is longsuffering to you-ward, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

We are definitely living in the last days. Although I think we are on the cusp of darkness, and we haven’t really entered into the third watch of the night, maybe we are on the edge of night? God Help us, give us strength!

Related Article:

  • Women On The Watch It is my hopeful conjecture - you sisters who so keenly resolve to press the exposure of apostasy’s proliferations and false christs and prophets at the close of the age–will, without hesitation, as the Spirit illuminates His Word to you, provide insight into the times of the Gentiles and their final fulfillment. Increasingly, I see incredible parallels to the content of your insightful declarations - as well as the formidable courage in Christ whereby you singularly and collectively provide such insight and warning to the Body of Christ… God bless you all as you unreservedly take up the challenge as God’s Deborahs at the close of the age–a stark differential to the Harlot Who rides the Beast! “—D.K.
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Dominionism - The seven mountains!

Posted in Christianity, Dominionism, Emergent Church, Emerging Church, Globalism, New World Order, New-Age, News, Personal, Philosophy & Religion, Political, Political/Christian, Prophecy, RENOVARE, Red Flag Posts, Religion, Resources, Spiritual Formation, Theology, discernment, mysticism by livingjourney on December 10th, 2007

[Massive hat-tip to... Sola Dei Gloria]

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I was perusing my fave’s and came across ‘Sola Dei Gloria’s post’ - see above link - and I really wanted to share it with you.

Have you heard of the 7 mountains? This is Dominionism at its absolute best. ‘Neo-Calvinism’ and ‘Sphere Sovereignty’ has entered the evangelical world and the re-think conference has a massive agenda to reclaim the 7 mountains to overtake the world and have complete dominion over it. Make no mistakes about it, it is a man made orchestrated plan, here is part of a letter written by Peter Wagner sent to Global Harvest [emphasis mine]…

I have been sharing the development of our obedience to this word with you since April.Craig Davis was the one who pointed the way toward reorganizing under “Global Apostolic Network” ( GAN ), thereby bringing together the bits and pieces we had been serving up to now. I first sent you a chart with 7 components of GAN and later another chart with 9.Then Lance Wallnau came on the scene and brought an integrating template for GAN which we call the 7-M Mandate, based on Lance’s 7 mountains which are the seven molders of culture (religion, family, education, media, arts & entertainment, government, and business).

7m.jpgOne thing that this means is depicted in another chart, which I am sending you. You will see a large mountain representing the Kingdom of God with the 7 mountains at the bottom feeding into it. The 9 components of Global Apostolic Network are grouped under four headings: Government, Wealth, Warfare, and Teaching. The “7-M Coalition” is a new organization being birthed to implement the 7-M Mandate in a practical and effective way for transforming our society.

Isn’t this exciting? We have reorganized in obedience to the word that the Lord gave us through Chuck last December. Now please pray with us as we seek His guidance in putting the nuts and bolts together for seeing practical results along the road toward taking dominion of God’s creation. In fact Chuck Pierce has also told us that the new Jewish year of 5768 which begins in September, the year of Samekh Chet, means, among other things taking dominion. He says, “Dominion will be the key word for this year!

This was a challenging word for me because my new book coming out in January has as its title, Dominion! I’m excited about the way that this book will help change paradigms so that God’s people will be able fully to participate in the new streams that the Lord is initiating in the earth realm. Another thing that excites me is that other respected colleagues are also hearing what the Spirit is saying to the churches about social transformation. We are poised to see no fewer than seven new books on the subject of taking dominion in the next 18 months.

All nine of the components of GAN are on my heart, but especially those related to wealth and wealth transfer. I am in touch with 17 potential wealth transfer brokers, some of them expecting release momentarily. It is hard to comprehend, but some of them go to multiple millions, billions, and more. My task is to prepare a high integrity infrastructure for distributing these funds when they begin to flow. Zion Apostolic Network and The Hamilton Group are in place as agencies to carry this out. Our motto is “Sophisticated Philanthropy for Apostolic Distribution.”

One matter for your prayers is that Rod Neal of the Zion Project will be engaged during the last three weeks of August in high-level scientific experiments with the very innovative technology that he is developing for the kingdom.

What exactly is this high-level scientific experiment? It has something to do with wealth transfer, that much I know…

In a document called ‘C’ Peter Wagner writes…

Zion Apostolic Council. This is a wealth distribution infrastructure similar to The Hamilton Group. However, it is set up to handle the wealth generated by only one enterprise, namely the Zion Project founded by Rod Neal of Cincinnati, Ohio. Rod is very close to releasing some very innovative and disruptive technology which has the potential of making permanent changes in the lifestyle of the human race. He has asked me to form an apostolic council of 48 apostles who will be responsible for distributing the forthcoming wealth and also to serve them as Presiding Apostle.

Right now my head is spinning!!! Firstly what kind of technology can we look forward too that will make a permanent change in the lifestyle of the human race?

But before you watch the following youtube, I will offer you a little bit more information on how the dominionist kingdom will be built…

Our theological bedrock is what has been known as Dominion Theology. This means that our divine mandate is to do whatever is necessary, by the power of the Holy Spirit, to retake the dominion of God’s creation which Adam forfeited to Satan in the Garden of Eden.

This includes the need to govern apolitically, as well as to embrace spiritual warfare techniquesthat neutralize the control of our adversary within the functional and territorial spheres of authority to which we have been assigned. To do this, we know that we must be in communion, we must receive revelation, and we must apostolically and prophetically proclaim that revelation.

Here in America, we have done fairly well in leading the religion mountain, but not the other six. Our mistaken tendency has been to try to pull leaders from the other six mountains over into our religion mountain instead of encouraging them to use their gifts and their energy and their knowledge in the mountain to which God has assigned them. We want all of God’s people actively to do their part to fulfill the “7-M Mandate.”

Note: DayStar International Fellowship have some mp3’s available of one of the adherents of this Dominionist move, called ‘Johnny Enlow’ who is the senior pastor of Daystar International Christian Fellowship in Atlanta, Georgia Johnny has written a book on the 7 mountains that will be published in 2008. I haven’t listened to all of them as yet, but you may find them interesting. Considering his relationship to GAN I think that they would be insightful to say the least. A few of the mp3’s are called…