Thursday, December 3, 2015

God’s Supreme Revelation

When I read the opening verses of the book of Hebrews I SEE WHAT MANY OTHER PEOPLE DON'T SEE but I believe one day the Lord who dwells in us and teaches us through His Holy Holy Spirit who lives in us and among us will open our eyes to see as clearly as He intended us us to see and know. The Book of Hebrews opens with the following

God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds; Hebrews 1:1-2.

        The portion of scripture above compels me to say that I do not believe that the so called prophets, apostles, miracle workers and the modern day televangelist are speaking from God. At present, the Church does not have a single prophet or an apostle in the order of the prophets and apostles of the Bible. Another thing I see in the scriptures above is that God no longer speaks to us through the same ways He spoke to the people of the old and that Jesus Christ is the all in all of creation and through whom we move and live.
At present, the Church does not have a single prophet or an apostle.
After the foundations of the church, the living organism made of all those called out also known as the ecclesia or ekklesia (Greek: ἐκκλησία) or "those who belong" was laid by Jesus Himself who is the Conner stone and His Apostles, there was no need to have prophets again. The work of all the prophets was done through a chain of many prophets who were sent to various peoples in different times. This is what is also called dispensational hermeneutics. The last prophet after Malachi was Jogn the Baptist who was the herald of Jesus Christ and even Jesus Christ said I tell you, among those born of women there is no one greater than John; yet the one who is least in the kingdom of God is greater  Luke 7:2. After John the Baptist ushered in the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world (John 1:29) The culmination of all prophecy and prophets was in Jesus Christ Himself. Why do we need "prophets" now when we have the perfect prophet in Jesus Christ? That is exactly what Hebrews 1: 1-2 is all about. There are no more prophets in the order of the prophets and apostles of the Bible.
               The reason I write this with much conviction is the sad stories we hear all the time. Watch the Videos below where Satan has deceived the people to believe that we still have prophets, apostles and miracle workers. In the first video for those who do not understand Kiswahili, the lady in the video was made to believe that a child under her care was demon possessed and needed prayers. The "prophet" took soil from the grave of the child's father and mixed it with water and forced the child to drink the mixture. He asked the woman to give him money for this and the bot died. The truth is all those people who claim to be prophets, miracle workers and Apostles are false teachers and they know that very well. Like their father satan, they have to live in a perpetual lie and speak their native tongue which is lying. Jesus told the ancestors of these false teachers, "You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his ownresources, for he is a liar and the father of it.John 8:44.




         God's Supreme revelation is in Jesus Christ alone who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, Hebrews 1:3 God no longer speaks to us through the same ways He spoke to the people of the old. This we can demonstrate by going to the days of Adam and Eve. In the initial part after the creation week, God used to appear directly to Adam and spoke to him face to face. Then the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it. 16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; 17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.” Genesis 2:15-17. Later, after the Fall, things changed and Man could no longer see and talk to God because he had sinned Romans 3: 23   for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. In the days of Noah God spoke from heaven to Noah and through Noah Genesis 9: 1 So God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them: “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.[a] And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be on every beast of the earth, on every bird of the air, on all that move on the earth, and on all the fish of the sea. They are given into your hand. Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. I have given you all things, even as the green herbs. But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.Surely for your lifeblood I will demand a reckoning; from the hand of every beast I will require it, and from the hand of man. From the hand of every man’s brother I will require the life of man.. In the days of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, God talked to these men from Heaven through dreams and sometimes directly Genesis 12:1-3
Now the Lord had said to Abram:
“Get out of your country,
From your family
And from your father’s house,
To a land that I will show you.
I will make you a great nation;
I will bless you
And make your name great;
And you shall be a blessing.
I will bless those who bless you,
And I will curse him who curses you;
And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” 
           The incidences described above are clear evidence that God spoke to His people at different times and in different ways but TODAY HE HAS SPOKEN TO US THROUGH JESUS CHRIST ALONE.
          There are no prophets, no apostles and and no miracle workers now because All these offices are in Christ Jesus. If we have all these in Jesus, why should we have people fixing theses tiles on themselves?  Who is "prophet" TB Joshua of Nigeria working for? Who does the so called prophet Owuor of Kenya serve if the Bible is clear that TODAY God has spoken to us through Jesus Christ?
Jesus Christ is the all in all of creation and through whom we move and live. God’s Supreme Revelation is not in a book, not in particular individuals or churches, or religions but in Jesus Christ who the Bible speaks of in these words in Hebrews 1: 1 God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds; who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself[a] purged our[b] sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,having become so much better than the angels, as He has by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they. We conclude with the words of  Joshua 24:15
15 And if it seems evil to you to serve the Lord, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”

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