Well, the head apostle of the revival (Third Wave) movement has spoken once again. He says (along with many Word of Faith teachers) that there really IS an end-time distribution of wealth to certain Christians.
But for some reason, this distribution isn't happening because the angels who bring the money from the givers to those to whom God picks as receivers cannot go on as God had planned.
And the reason for this? Well, the apostle says that in 2001 the correct church government of apostles and prophets was put into place so that isn't the problem.
And, he further says that there is no dearth of givers. So that isn't the problem. And certainly there is no lack of receivers of this great wealth. So that isn't the problem.
So then, what is the prob? Well, there are not enough managers.
The apostle writes that there are four types of people who need to be involved with this great transfer of wealth. First there are of course the providers. But then there is a category called managers. We will get to what they do in a moment, that is if I can figure it out. Then there are the distributors. These are business minded people who know how to handle the funds.
The fourth class are the field marshalls. These are basically the apostles who oversee all of this. And, they are also the nuclear apostles.
I became confused to the difference between managers and distributors. Managers I guess figure out how the money can grow.,...or something like that. He also says that many of the distributors (but I guess not all) will be workplace apostles, not the nuclear ones.
In the past he has also taught that there are horizontal and vertical apostles.
Maybe you can figure all of this out.
I certainly can't.
But then I guess that is why he is the head apostle. He does understand this stuff.
If you care to see the entire "word," it is on the Elijah list site:
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"This, I think, is the wave of the future, a new wineskin for financing the Great Commission."
Hi Diane, I think that quote just about sums the lot of them up. That's where we've been going wrong you see, us 'normal' Christians. We all missed the passage in the bible which says that we have to wait for the finances to be right before we can go about doing what Jesus told us to do... if it wasn't so sad it would be funny.
God bless you
Paul (K-Table variety)
Paul,
I think you have a good point and that is the "sovereignty" problem. This is always a problem in Christianity, no matter what era. In other words, what is the perfect tension between what we are to do---and what God is to do. I agree that the Third Wavers are going too far over onto the "we must do most of it or God CANNOT do much of anything" side.
You see this in their "wild" worship in trying to "bring" God into the service and "trying" to get Him to do something spectacular. You see this in their constant prayer and fasting to again "try" to get God to answer prayer. I wish someone would do a good article on what the real purpose of prayer and fasting is. I think the evangelicals as a whole are thinking it is a "genie in a bottle" sort of thing.
The Word of Faith people are also too much over on man doing most of the works or God CANNOT do anything.
But then on the other side, for centuries there was too much waiting around for God to do something and God didn't "come through" a whole lot precisely because Christians once again did not understand what their job was and what God's was and is.
Aristotle called the perfect middle between two extremes the Golden Mean. I think that is a good term. Paul called it moderation. And so, one of the purposes of our lives is certainly to try to find that perfect middle with God's help and guidance.
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