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Christ requires only ONE, once again, directly under him.
Several times I have questioned whether Christ would ordain one
or several more apostles, but always on counseling with
evangelists, their response has been a decisive and absolute "NO."
In the first century, GOD HIMSELF chose Paul and committed
to him authority directly under Christ, the Gospel Work to the
Gentiles. He was not chosen APART FROM, or CONTRARY to or IN
OPPOSITION to Peter or to the HEADQUARTERS at Jerusalem, as
dissenters have CHOSEN THEMSELVES, apart from, and in opposition
to, God's HEADQUARTERS today. When Paul went to Jerusalem
Headquarters, it was by revelation from God. He communicated to
the leaders there what he preached to the Gentiles, lest he might
be preaching CONTRARY to them as God led them, and thus might have
been preaching IN VAIN -- as he would have been, if he preached a
DIFFERENT Gospel (Gal. 2:2 and 1:8-9).
Paul was called separately and directly by Christ. He
was NOT one of Peter's sons in the Lord. He was not one UNDER
Peter who, on his own, broke AWAY from Peter and God's
Headquarters, and set himself up as HEAD of a competing church
seeking to DESTROY GOD'S Church. The dissenters today CANNOT claim
they are following Paul's example.
YOU, Brethren, today, ALL were called, directly or
indirectly through me and THE GOVERNMENT OF GOD doing the WORK of
God -- you are all MY SONS AND DAUGHTERS IN CHRIST. Compare
I Corinthians 4:14-16: "I write not these things to shame you, but
as my beloved sons I warn you. For though ye have ten thousand
instructors in Christ (or who pose as being), yet have ye not many
fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the
qospel. Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me." So far
as following Paul's example is concerned, God IN PERSON directly
called and guided Paul in a way he does not YOU, and the turning
away of the dissenters CANNOT be justified by any comparison with
Paul, and the Government of God through Paul.
Brethren, we in God's Church are being trained and
prepared, NOW, to RULE in the Kingdom of God during the millennium.
What KIND (principle) of government are we being trained to
administer?
At that time, beginning with Christ's coming and the
resurrection, Christ will be KING of kings over ALL NATIONS (Rev.
19:16). Directly under Christ, over Israel -- that is all the
nations springing from the twelve tribes of Israel -- will be the
resurrected David. Notice: "For it shall come to pass in that
day, saith the Eternal of hosts, that I will ... burst thy
(Israel's) bonds ... but they (Israel) shall serve the Eternal
their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up unto them
(Jeremiah 30:8-9).
Notice again: At the beginning of the millennial reign
under Christ, God will unite Israel (ten tribes) and Judah once
again into ONE NATION, in the land of ancient Israel (Ezek. 37:22)
with one king over them. "And David my servant shall be king over
them" (verses 24-25). Again, "And I will set up one shepherd over