I read this in Revelations the other day and thought to share it with you guys, its talking about the Holy City who is the Bride of Christ that comes down from Heaven, you can read the whole chapter but I found it interesting that the Bible says the city WALL had 12 foundations....Perhaps Christ is the foundation for the CHURCH/city but the 12 apostles are the foundation for the WALL that defines the boundaries of the city?
Revelation 21:14
The wall of the city had twelve
foundations, and on them were the
names of the twelve
apostles of the Lamb.
along this line ananda....
does Rev 21 say the foundation has already been laid?
can we fairly say the Lord as The Cornerstone and His Apostles ARE that foundation?
and so, then is it fair to say we do not lay any other foundation?
this is one aspect of cessationism: not a denial of the Power or Ministry of The Holy Spirit, but seeing that the Apostolic era occurred one time. when the New Covenant Church was born.
if this is seen in scripture, we are compelled to examine the NAR.
when we do, much of the confusion in the church today becomes clear for what it is. and the NAR didn't just "happen".
Rick Joyner – Knight of Malta
“This Order, which at various times in the progress of its history received the names of Knights Hospitalers, Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, Knights of Rhodes, and lastly, Knights of Malta, was one of the most important of the religious and military orders of knighthood which sprang into existence during the Crusades which were instituted for the recovery of the Holy Land. It owes its origin to the Hospitalers of Jerusalem, that wholly religious and charitable Order which was established at Jerusalem, in 1048, by pious merchants of Amalfi for the succor of poor and distressed Latin pilgrims…
“The Organization of the Order in its days of prosperity was very complicated, partaking of both a monarchial and a republican character. Over all presided a Grand Master, who, although invested with extensive powers, was still controlled by the legislative action of the General Chapter…”
“…There are now two bodies-one Catholic and the other Protestant, but each repudiates the other…”
“The degree of Knight of Malta is conferred in the United States as “an appendant Order” in a Commandery of Knights Templar. There is a ritual attached to the degree, but very few are in possession of it, and it is generally communicated after the candidate has been created a Knights
Templar…”
Source: An Encyclopedia of Freemasonry and Its Kindred Sciences,” etc. by Albert G. Mackey, M.D., Thirty-Third Degree, Volume I, published by the Masonic History Company, Chicago, New York, & London, 1925, Volume One, pp. 392-95
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we can all, for a time, be deceived, and to think that we can not is, in itself deception.
The Lord will NOT, however leave His own in deception as a permanent condition.
the conspiracy and deception is so extreme (and we ain't seen NOTHIN' yet), that if Jesus Himself didn't do the 'keeping', not one of us would emerge from it.
this, then, is one part of The Holy Spirit's TRUE Commission: to lead us into all truth....that means, in part, that we will see error and deception for what it is.
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so who is Rick Joyner, for example? and why do we need to know?
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Articles on C. Peter Wagner's "New Apostolic Reformation" as well as false spiritual warfare teachings. This page includes the "successul apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers" named on the Wagner Leadership Institute's site as those with "proven effectiveness in ministry, communications skills and a recognized anointing for the impartation of ministry skills". Beware of these "Latter Rain" advocates who would lay another foundation than the one already laid in Jesus Christ and the Apostles and Prophets of Scripture!
Go directly to these exposes:
Todd Bentley, Mike Bickle, John Crowder, John Dawson, Joy Dawson, Jack Deere, Francis Frangipane, Ted Haggard, Bill Hamon, Cindy Jacobs, Bill Johnson, Bob Jones, Rick Joyner, Patricia King, George Otis, Jr., Dutch Sheets, Ed Silvoso, Chad Taylor, Richard Twiss, C. Peter Wagner, YWAM
http://www.deceptioninthechurch.com/newapostolic.html#rjoyner
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Hebrews 5
Warning Against Apostasy
11 About this we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing.
12 For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food,
13 for everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is a child.
14 But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.
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