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Originally Posted by Aquila
Please meditate and pray about what I'm about to say here before you respond...
...I believe that the Apostolic Truth has been restored...but I believe we are now waiting on the Apostolic Church to be restored.
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I will take you advice and pray before I give a definitive answer to your very excellent point here. I will come back later and give that response after much thought and prayer too. I would instantly agree with you if I thought that Church knew what its divine purpose in the earth is. I feel strongly that the church falls short of this mystery and the yet to be revealed truth.
However, without the benefit of that prayer, my first reaction to your point is that it is God who restores and not ourselves. God restores to the extent that we walk in love, doing the good. Only then does truth flow forth from love and good that allows us to walk in that truth faithfully with love, serving the good until the day that he catches us up into those heavenly realms restoring the church even further...then receiving even further truths that flows forth from love and good...ever advancing onward to perfection.
It is my opinion that the early Apostolic church of Acts was not the church that Jesus was looking for. It was only a very infant church in both revelation of truth and perfection. Even before it could advance to perfection, Paul's wolves came in, not sparing the flock, bringing in many damnable heresies. We know the end of the early Apostolic church.
It is my sincere belief that when the church is fully matured to the state that Jesus is looking for, the glory of the Lord will so much lighten the earth that the wicked will perish as the Sun of Righteousness arises with healing in His wings (
Mal. 4) ...to restore all things...even creation itself. The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof, but Satan deceived mankind (the first church) and gained ascendency, by the power of a lie, over God's creation. Jesus Christ and his wife will retore all things through love and obedience that the first Adam and his wife lost through disobedience.
Yes, I will pray about your objection and come back later, as the Lord will lead me to add further to this particular thought...God willing.
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I can see your point and where you're going here. It's something to really pray about.
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