DISTINCTIVE TEACHINGS
(A Personal Doctrinal Statement)
"Can two walk together except they be agreed?" Amos
3:3
[written especially for the benefit of
prospective Readers Circle members.]
My teaching has
developed over four decades of exposure to the Scriptures and to many
streams of the body of Christ combined with revelatory input of the Holy
Spirit, leading to some very unique perspectives. No one can be
expected to take in all my teaching before joining the Circle, nor
to believe exactly as I do on every point.
But to help
avert later misunderstanding, I offer here an up front "digest" of
what I consider my most "provocative" teaching as well as my overall
"cosmology" (view of God's universal plans). This digest can help
you decide if this ministry is right for you as a source of Christian
prophetic fellowship. (Note: Some--but not all--of these teachings are
more fully explained in the articles. Any scriptures in support of these
teachings are found there. In some cases, hyperlinks are provided here
pointing to articles that offer fuller descriptions. )
Before presenting
them, I want you to clearly know:
I believe in
all the cardinal doctrines of the trinitarian Christian faith as
espoused in the well-known creeds accepted by mainstream
fundamentalist-evangelical churches--including the virgin birth of
Christ, His sinless humanity and HIs Deity, His all-sufficient
atonement for us on the cross, His physical resurrection and
soon return--and our access to new birth by grace through repentant
faith in Him alone apart from all works. I also believe in the
present-tense supernatural ministry of the Holy Spirit as rekindled
in the 19th century Holiness Revivals and passed down through
the Pentecostal-Latter Rain-Charismatic-Prophetic movements of the
20th century.
The distinctives below honor these standard
beliefs. While they may or may not be explicitly articulated in the
Scriptures as I teach them, they are in clear harmony with the
prevailing Spirit of the Scriptures and otherwise not contrary
to it. They are mine only, and not necessarily
those of any other ministry referred to on this site including Brother
Earls.
Understand, this
digest is an extreme condensation of very extensive teachings.
Expansive thought is packed into few words. If any of it seems too
difficult to get your spirit around, ask the Holy Spirit, your "Ultimate
Tutor," for further illumination. Scripture says "prove all things,
hold fast that which is good." Just because I teach something
doesn't make it so. Likewise, but perhaps not as obvious to you,
just because you can't agree with something at first sight or get an
"immediate witness" to it does not mean it is false. The teachings below
challenge many commonly held prophetic Christian beliefs and paradigms.
(The most provocative statements are indicated in brown.) Proving truth often takes time,
especially prophetic truth. With that in mind, be blessed as you
consider the following:
1. "My Cosmology:" The Supremacy of God's Will over His
Passion (expressed in Creation, Salvation and
the Church)
God's heart is
most characterized by an unspeakable purpose to display His Holiness
through an interplay between two attributes: Divine Will and
Divine Passion. In HIs eternal counsels, God has established
the entire Creation story--its fall and redemption--as a theater for
working out a mysterious "manifest reconciliation" of His
own Passion to His Sovereign Will in Holiness.
Specifically, God's ultimate purpose in Creation and the plan of
salvation is to prove and display through Christ
His chief attribute of perfected Holiness by demonstrating in Him the
supremacy of His Eternal Will over His own Passion for
His Creation. The following flows from this premise:
- 1.A. Christ's Perfection, Not Man's Need--the
True Center of God's
Heart
Christ, and God's "need" to display His perfected
Holiness through Him--not man and his need for salvation--is at the
center of God's eternal heart and purpose. Our salvation is
the byproduct of God's plan to display the perfected
holy reconciliaton of His Divine Passion under His Divine
Will through Christ. "The Lamb
did not have to die because man sinned; man sinned because the
Lamb had to die."
- 1.B. God's Passion subject to His Eternal Will
Seen in God's relationship with Man
In relating to man, God's
Passion is "Self-limited" to man's finite level of relational
appreciation and responsive capacity. His Eternal Will however
is outside of Creation, is not self-lmited, and so lies beyond
all human appreciation and response. Apparent contradictions in
His attributes such as His sovereignty yet His appeal to human
choice, His omniscience yet His need to "find out" information from
men, etc. all express the out-working of the Unconfined Eternal Will
/ Self-limited Passion drama within God's own heart.
In
expression toward man, God's Passion is universal and
without discrimination while His Eternal Will is marked by
sovereignly selective intent. Because God's otherwise
indiscriminate Passion is subject to His sovereignly selective
Will, man's salvation is ultimately
determined by God's gracious Will (election) --not by God's
universal Passion or by man's reasoned will ("choice") as appealed
to by God's Passion in its Self-limited
capacity. Salvation is not an entitlement "owed to man" or
"demanded" by an assumed supremacy of God's Passion for man.
In these regards, the human concept of "fairness" rooted in the
human knowledge of good and evil has no legal standing for judging
the justness of God's eternal counsels regarding man's
salvation.
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1.C. Subjection of God's Passion to His Will Seen in Marriage
and in the Church
Gender
in Creation (male and female) ultimately reflects the
two-fold divine Will / Passion nature and is intended to
display the Holy subjection of God's passion to His will by means of
the marriage relationship. The transgender
spiritual equality of all men and women in Christ ("neither male nor
female") under remaining mortality does not alter this creational
order. The unfettered display of spiritual
equality will not come into effect until we are
immortalized. Consequently, on this side of the veil:
- Husbands are
intended to be the final authority in their homes (however
imperfectly they reflect the "agape" of God's will) and wives are
intended to respectfully abide by that final authority (however
more mature, advanced or superior their prophetic vision and
calling may be in the Spirit of the new
creation).
- Men are generally intended to occupy the forefront
roles of leadership in mortal church
ministry, with exceptions increasingly appointed by the Spirit as
the church approaches immortality where transgender equality
becomes fully manifest. However, the ability of women to walk
now in such open leadership ("Deborah"-type) roles is especially
dependent on their ability to demonstrate spiritual authority
over their dominant passion nature, and, if married, to
demonstrate a submissive spirit to their husbands regarding the
home.
- 1.D. Defining the
Love of God (Agape)
The biblical word for
divine love is "agape," which is the expression
of God's kind intent toward us. The Agape-love of
God, while secondarily characterized by His
passion (i.e., His emotional feelings) for us, is not
defined by His passionate desire. The
seat of Divine Love is God's Will, not His
Passion. For God, love is first and foremost a
"decision."
God's kind
intent is bounded by His sovereignty and His truth as well as
by His will's authority over His passion--ie, His
Holiness. Thus, while in the church Agape-love is
"greater than faith and hope," within God Agape-love
is not "greater than" His holiness, sovereignty and truth. God's
expression of Agape-love is subject to these defining attributes.
God may choose to "have mercy on whom I will have mercy"
(one of the many expressions of His Agape-love); but He has no
choice but to be holy, sovereign and true in that
expression. One may express holiness, sovereignty and
truth apart from Divine Love. But one may not express
Divine Love apart from holiness, sovereignty and truth. Therefore
Agape-love is not a self-standing
nor the all-defining "chief attribute" of
God.
2. Re: "Total Reconciliation / Restoration" of the
Creation / Christian
Universalism
The Gen 3:15 enmity
established between the serpent with its seed and the woman with her
seed (Christ) is permanent, remaining the unaltered basis for
irreconcilable conflict on which the entirety of the
Scripture cosmology is woven to the very last chapter of
Revelation.
- 2.A. Unmitigatable Enmity of Two
Seeds
All restoration of Creation through Christ happens
inside the unmitigatable enmity between Christ and
Lucifer--an enmity of nature born outside of time, not an
enmity based in acts committed inside of time, and which
therefore has no "end." The Restoration of Creation does not
eliminate this enmity. Christ did not die to redeem
Lucifer.
- Mankind is of three spiritual classes:
Sheep (the reborn elect seed of the Father), Lost
Sheep (the hidden elect "planting of the Father" yet
unborn within men) and Goats (the non-elect seed of the
serpent). The Sheep seed and Goat seed are permanently
irreconcilable belonging to different natures out of
time.
- 2.B Permanent Destruction of the Goat
Seed
Goats are destined to the Lake of Fire, The Lake of
Fire is permanent, both soul and body being destroyed (not
"restored") therein.
- 2.C. Passion-based Deception Rooted in Human
Offense
Total Reconciliation belief is based in passionistic
offense toward the sovereignty of God and in the appeasement of
human rationality rooted in the concept of "fairness" as
derived from the human knowledge of good & evil. It is an
Adonijah-class deception ultimately designed to secure the receiving
back of the rebel Lucifer into the kingdom via the
"intercession" of the "queen mother" (the deceivable
"passion-led" church) before the King. As such it is a
manifestation of spiritual treason on the part of anyone
who holds to it, however unwittingly.
- 2.D. Divine Non-Responsibility for the Fall of
Creation
God bears no responsibility for the fall of Lucifer.
God further bears no more responsibility for the fall of Creation or
the deserved eternally destructive destiny of the Goat seed than He
bears for the fall of Lucifer, the father of that seed. Yet God
alone receives all credit for His gracious
destiny toward the Seed of the Lamb and the establishment
of the New Creation that will never fall.
3. Salvation
Specifics
Salvation has
three distinct dimensions: salvation of the spirit, salvation of the
soul, and salvation of the body.
-3.A. Spirit
Salvation
The Spirit is
eternally saved at new birth by grace through faith apart from all
works, becoming a new seed identity
when the Word of Christ (gospel) meets the hidden "planting of the
Father" in the hearts chosen by the kind intent of His
Will. This new identity can
never be lost. New birth is irrevocable, but cannot occur
without repentance.
- It is possible to be "washed" by the blood of
Christ by making a human "decision" for Christ without ever
becoming spiritually reborn. One may obtain a provisional
covering and forgiveness of sins prior to new birth by a
superficial level of faith ("decisional regeneration") and perhaps
even a superficial repentance, only to fall away from it without consumating new
birth.
-3.B. Soul
Salvation
Upon spirit rebirth, the soul enters into
the process of being saved through a course
of Spirit-led obedience called discipleship (signified
by water baptism) by which the soul (the "passionate" nature of man)
is brought into full conformity to the new spirit identity of the
Father in the believer (the "divine will" imparted to man),
evidenced by the fruit of love (agape).
- Entrance into and endurance of the process of soul
salvation yielding agape-love is evidence to others of genuine
spiritual rebirth. It is the focus of salvation within the
believing church.
- The soul is not fully saved until it can
receive an immortal body. This can mean that either some
further plan of soul salvation is worked out after death where not
completed before death, and/or the class of immortal
body we receive is determined by the degree of soul salvation
obtained by the time of death. Through negligence or
disobedience the believer's soul can be subject to some
degree of "loss"---not in hell, but in failure to qualify
to obtain its appointed inheritance, though the reborn spirit
remains eternally saved.
-3.C. Physical
Salvation
The salvation of the body is conditioned on the
salvation of the soul. A fully saved soul will automatically yield a
new immortal body as death has no more dominion where the soul
is delivered from all sin. No one with a mortal body has been
delivered from all sin (become "sinless"). Yet obtaining
immortality is conditioned on readiness through soul salvation. It
is not awarded simply by divine "fiat" at a certain hour on a
prophetic time clock for all believers (as held by popular
"rapture"
teaching).
A complete digest of all these phases of transformational salvation with
scripture citations is found here.
4. The Baptism and Ministry of the Holy
Spirit
-4.A. The baptism of the Holy Spirit is a work distinct from new birth. In its
completeness, it involves both a severing from the
root power of sin in the soul as well as an
anointing for charismatic gifts. It is indispensable to
obtaining soul salvation, but not to
spirit salvation. One can be eternally reborn in spirit without ever
receiving the baptism of the Holy Spirit. One may also
receive the anointing side of Spirit baptism without ever
obtaining the severing from the root of sin necessary to progress in
soul salvation. Conversely, one may come under an anointing baptism of the
Holy Spirit and never become spiritually
reborn.
-4.B. The prophetic
ministry of the Holy Spirit as both the
Comforter and the Spirit of Truth reflects the divine Passion
and Will natures of God. As the Spirit of Truth, the
Holy Spirit is allowed to prophetically speak forth as a "false
witness" in true reflection of idolatrous hearts to which
He may be speaking. False prophets can be filled and
moved upon by the Holy Spirit. Similarly, true anointed
kingdom works of revival, including healing and deliverance may be
serviced through false proph etic vessels. The
genuine revival activity of the Holy Spirit through
false vessels acts as a two-edged sword for
proving and correcting the deficiencies in the two-fold prophetic
church (see no. 6
below).
A complete digest of the Holy Spirit's ministry of
anointing with scripture citations is found here.
5. The Kingdom of God
The kingdom of
God is currently in the earth in a pre-natal ("fetal") form
witnessed by the hidden work of salvation in man and by the
touching of earth with the powers of "the world to come." It has not
come in permanent manifestly "inheritable" form in which it
"takes dominion" to "rule over" the nations, and will not until its
"birthing" of the translation of the saints. As such:
-5.A. The kingdom impacts human cultures but does not "convert" or
"transform" fleshly human cultures and nations into "manifestations
of the kingdom." The kingdom is as inviolably separate
from human culture and national identity as spirit is from
flesh.
-5.B. The church with its ongoing work of salvation is at
the heart of the kingdom, but does not comprise
the entirety of the kingdom. The kingdom is "demonstrated"
wherever the power of God "touches" the world outside the church in
signs and wonders while its "essence" is housed within the church
and outworked through the stages of
salvation.
6. The Prophetic Movement(s)
Two prophetic movements exist in the earth. Each contains
a primary impartation of one of the two "wrestling" natures within God's
Heart: Divine Will and Divine Passion. Each movement is both incomplete
and plagued with error based in a maximization of strengths and
blindness to weaknesses for which correction can only be obtained
through the opposing movement and submission to the "two-edged sword" of
the Spirit (See No. 4.B. above).
-6.A.
"Mainstream Culture" Prophetic Movement
The mainstream prophetic movement primarily bears the
Heart of Divine Passion toward man (the ministry of the Comforter),
but is mired in "feminine" deception which illicitly promotes God's
Passion above His Will ("passionism"),
placing the world rather than Christ at the center of God's heart,
and polluting ("prostituting") the pure identity of the
Christian faith by redefining
it in terms of human cultures (viz., American
Patriotism)--perverting the prophetic to preserve and align the
church with human cultures ("the world") rather than calling men to
eternal salvation out of the world and surrendering its own love of
world culture through First Love. To the degree these errors serve
as the defining elements of the mainstream movement, it can be
considered a "false prophetic movement," answering in spirit to the
"harlot" of Revelation 17.
-6.B. The
"Wilderness Purist" Prophetic Movement
The wilderness
prophetic movement primarily bears the Heart of Divine Will
toward men (the ministry of the Spirit of Truth), but is mired in a
"masculine" stoicism (willfulness) mislabeled "holiness" which uses
the supremacy of Divine Will to ridicule
and deny the passion heart of God as displayed in
the mainstream prophetic, radicalizes the gospel into an in-grown
legalistic prophetic culture based in ascetic discipleship
practices and elitist "remnant" attitudes, dwells in negative
revelation rather than in Christ, and plots its course in
reaction to culture prophetic error rather than in
response to the Father's call toward a complete heart of reconciled
Holiness through First Love. To the
degree that these errors serve as the defining elements of the
wilderness prophetic movement, it can be considered a "false
prophetic movement," answering broadly to the spirit of the
"antichrist" of I John.
-6.C. The Isaiah
62:5 "Marriage"
In harmony with the consummation of the reconciliation
of His own nature in Christ, the Father is laboring toward bringing
forth an eventual "marriage" between a repentant remnant from
both the passionist culture prophetic movement and the stoic
wilderness-purist prophetic movement. This "marriage" as described
in Isa. 62:5 will yield the consumate holy prophetic demonstration
of divine passion subject to divine will in the prophetic church,
hence a whole, completely transformed transcendent church anointed
for power in the final last days from which will
proceed the immortalized manifestation of the Sons of God / Bride of
Christ in conjunction with the return of
Christ.
7. Messianic
Issues and the State of Israel
- 7.A. Two Israels
The natural race of Israel
is a "foretypical mirror" of a transnational immortal race of the
Spirit also called "Israel." The purpose for creation of
"National Israel" was to house the development of "Eternal Israel"
toward the incarnation of our Savior, Yeshua HaMashiach / the
Lord Jesus Christ through the time of His resurrected transformation
into the fully revealed transnational Eternal Son of
God. National Israel's purpose remains at this time to
"catalyze" the final manifestation of Eternal Israel in conjunction
with the return of Yeshua HaMashiach / the Lord Jesus Christ
.
- 7.B. Abrahamic
Tree of Faith
After "breaking
off" the unbelieving "branches" of National Israel from the "tree of
Abrahamic Faith" for rejecting their Eternal transnational Savior,
and after having devoted the age since Yeshua's resurrection to
building Eternal Israel by "grafting" remnants of other races into
the Abrahamic faith tree, God is now moving as promised to complete
Eternal Israel by regathering National Israel for the
purpose of regrafting a modern remnant of them back into the
eternal Abrahamic Tree. As branches capable of off-breaking and
re-engrafting, National Israel is
not the trunk of the Abrahamic Tree of Faith into
which anyone else is engrafted, nor its root,
which is rather our Transnational Savior, Yeshua HaMashiach / the
Lord Jesus Christ.
- 7.C. Meaning
of the Restoration Prophecies
The Old Testament prophecies of Israel's
restoration refer to the regeneration of Eternal
Israel out of the demise of National Israel, not to
the reconstruction of National Israel and its Mosaic Legal
system. The prophecies have superior regenerative
interpretation within the revelation of New Covenant apostolic
teaching.
- The current regathering of National Israel is not in
fulfillment of the restoration prophecies, but of the Isaiah 43
pre-restoration divine "court summons" toward clearing
the Name of the Son of God and His Eternal Transnational
Faith.
- 7.D. Ownership
of the Promised Land
The "deed" to the Promised Land was permanently
transferred out of the name of National Israel at the Crucifixion
and has been held in "escrow" for the immortal Abraham and
his transnational heirs (Eternal Israel) at their appearing
with Yeshua / Jesus at His return. National Israel has
no further legal claim to the Promised Land based in human
heritage, but their regathering today is a Sovereign decree of
God under reluctant United Nations (gentile) edict in preparation
for Father's completion of Eternal Israel there and His
final award of the deed to Eternal
Israel.
- 7.E.
Invalidity of Messianic Judaism
Messianic Judaism is a partial "passionistic"
faith in Yeshua rooted in carnal vision for Yeshua's past
human identity and National Israel's carnal legal heritage.
All Judaistic issues dividing Messianic
believers from those of all races (including Jewish believers) who
profess transcendent "race-blind" Christian faith without
respect to natural Jewish heritage are formed on this humanistic
vision and are to be rejected by eternally-hearted transnational
believers in Yeshua / Jesus as corruptions of the New
Covenant. All such issues are thoroughly examined and
refuted in the Treatises on
Israel.
- The significance of prophetic typologies revealed
through the Mosaic feast and calendar system applicable to
our End Times does not invite re-submission to observing that
system.
- Exaltation of and devotion to any human racial or
cultural heritage, whether Jewish or Gentile (viz., Zionism or
American patriotism) is an idolatrous affront to God, contrary to
the discipleship demands of eternal transnational Christian
faith, and is to be condemned.
- 7.F. The Name of Jesus
(Yeshua)
The name
Jesus Christ (Greek Iesus Christos / Hebrew
Yeshua Hamashiach) is the only name under heaven given
among men by which we can be saved. It is also therefore the only
name around which true Christian fellowship may be formed.
Specifically, Jesus Christ is the documentably verfiable
correct English name for our Lord and Savior. No
other Hebrew name, including all variations of what is referred to
as the "sacred name" (ex.- "YHVH," etc.) may substitute for the name
Jesus / Yeshua in matters of Christian identity, fellowship
and ministry. Consequently this ministry will only conduct
dialogue with readers based on this name.
8. End Times Perspective (Eschatology)
- 8.A "Times and Seasons:" Dispensational
Unfolding of the Manifest Kingdom
The End
Times (ie, the final end times of the present "last days" age since
Christ) represent but one small transitional time period in the
continuous outworking of the master Divine Will / Passion
reconciliation through Christ. That outworking is characterized by
appointed measurable sequential stages of revelation biblically
called "times and seasons" (or "ages" or "dispensations")
demarked by differences in divine operations.
- 8.A.1 Two Ages of
Unbelief
The End
Times have been preceded by two major mortal
dispensations both "concluded in
unbelief:" the Mosaic (Old) Covenant Age of Israel under
the Law ["First Age of Unbelief"]; and the Gentile Engrafting Age
of Faith ("Church Age") under the New Covenant
Gospel ["Second Age of Unbelief"]--a gentile mirror image
of Old Covenant Era unbelief. Underneath the two ages of
unbelief has been sown a revelational seed of true enduring faith
in a remnant of believers awaiting an immortal harvest into what
is to become the Manifest Kingdom Age ("faith made
sight").
- 8.A.2 Transition
from Second Age of Unbelief to the Manifest Kingdom
Age
The End Times
consumate the "Second Age of Unbelief" out of which is to be
harvested (or born) the manifest immortal Kingdom of God (The
Kingdom Age or the "Age of Mercy Upon All") sown in the preceding
ages and which is to yield the true fulfilment of the New
Covenant.
- 8.A.3
Preservation of the Time Continuum Under Eternal
Impingement
The Manifest Kingdom Age will witness a
hitherto veiled interface between the temporal and eternal realms.
In preparation toward this, the End Times now demonstrate an
increasing impingement of eternal powers from the world to come on
the temporal earth. However, this eternal impingement does not cancel the
dispensational nature of the appointed "times and seasons" under the time
continuum that mark off the progressive stages toward
the Manifest Kingdom. End Times events retain an
ordained measurable sequence in time though under increased
Eternal influence, as will the Manifest Kingdom Age
itself.
- Eschatalogical
Cessationism ("Kingdom Now")
I explicitly deny the prophetic teaching that all
New Covenant eschatalogical prophecy--specifically the Book of
Revelation-- was fulfilled in (and hence ceased to be a
Voice of the Holy Spirit for fulfillment after) the year 70
A.D, that admits of no future kingdom hope to be
expected saying the manifest kingdom age is here
"now" (in effect, that flesh and blood can now inherit
the kingdom of God), that relegates the return of Christ to a
peripheral agnostic expectation awaiting our "anointed mortal
ability" to convert all the fallen cultures of the world to
Christ, and that by "faith" we can otherwise dismiss all concept
of dispensational times and seasons under the time continuum by
"naming and claiming" possession of an "eternal
mind."
- 8.B. Centrality of the Translation
"Harvest"
The key event consumating the End Times is
the immortalization "harvest"
of saints in conjunction with the return of Christ. All other
predicted events serve this one, and have no significance apart from
the issues of soul salvation leading to immortalization.
Immortalization will occur over a period of time based on
internal readiness, but particularly in two phases--one before
and one after the Great Tribulation.
- 8.C. Multi-Dimensional Fufillment of
Prophecy
End Times
prophecies have multi-layered spiritual, earth-literal
and heavenly-literal meanings; capable of fulfilment on various
levels at various times. Specifically, all visionary terminology of Revelation is
literal, not figurative, but most of the literality is from a
heavenly eye having visibility to phenomena not visible on the
earthly plane. Time periods (such as the 1,000 year
millennial reign) are also to be understood literally though such
time significations have additional prophetic numerologic meaning /
interpretation.
- 8.D. Next
Dispenational Revelation of the Word of God
The unfolding of the immortal Kingdom Age
will see a transformation
in the nature of God's revelation to man (ie, transmission
of the Word of God) and in the divine order of worship that is as
radically different as were the introductions of the Mosaic legal
system and then the apostolic church system. This intimates the development of either a third canon of Scripture and/or another form of
Scripture to come that is altogether
different than the mortally written word as we now know
it.
9. Church Identity & Government
- 9.A. Church Identity
The New Covenant
gospel was made to be lived out through a fresh birthing of the
five-fold ministry in each generation that empowers all the
believers of a generation to function in their roles "from
house to house" as the Spirit applies the truth of Scripture in
increasingly maturer living ways. It wasn't meant to be
transmitted by governmentally-"approved"
hierarchichal, organizational systems (viz., denominations)
built through cultural accommodation identified by buildings as
have characterized the current Second Age of Unbelief. The church is
neither defined by nor confined to such
institutions.
- 9.B. Church Authority
- The valid
spiritual authority of any local church or ministry
is established by Holy Spirit-witnessed relational
impartation, not by paper credentials or by titles
and "alphabet letters" placed around names. A
spiritual voice has both spiritual authority with
and servant-accountability to--and only
to--those that receive spiritual impartation through that
ministry or who otherwise express faith in its fundamental
validity. The closer the relationship, the
greater the spiritual authority and the accountability.
-
Positional authority is distinct from spiritual authority
and is established by God wherever He ordains establishment of any
spiritually-motivated collective enterprise requiring order and
direction over any period of time. Positional authority may not be
a reflection of or track with true spiritual authority
and, under the Ages of Unbelief, usually does
not.
- True
positional authority flows only from true spiritual authority;
however, spiritually deficient positional authority must yet be
respected until replaced by God. Rejection of the positional
authority of any institution demands departure from the orbit of
the insitutution. Seasonal submission to
spiritually deficient positional authority may be a test of true
discipleship.
- Willful
isolated non-accountable "relationship" rooted in fear of
past experiences and devoid of hope for future authoritative
/ accountable body relationship is as rebellious as
non-relational body authority and
accountability.
- 9.C. Relationship to Artificial Church
Systems
In general, I do
not recognize culturally-approved, nicolaitan-spirited,
liturgically-defined theatric systems as valid representations of
the Christian church, but welcome fellowship with believers who may
necessarily be called by the Spirit to function within these
systems. (I myself have been and may be called again to function
within such systems.)
- I explicitly reject the Roman Catholic Church
system as a legitimate expression of the Christian church, while
acknowledging that multitudes in its orbit can be legitimately
born again and even filled to some measure with the Holy
Spirit--however otherwise entrapped under its false
spirits. Under the Second Age of Unbelief, the Roman
Catholic System mirrors the counterfeit Samaritan faith of the Old
Covenant. I welcome fellowship with born-again Catholic
believers outside the context of their institutional church to
whatever limited degree that may otherwise be possible. My earnest
recommendation to any such believer is "Come out of her, my
people...."
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[To prospective
Readers Circle members: It's highly unlikely anyone reading these
distinctives can fully embrace them all. The issue though is not
absolute agreement in every point, but fundamental agreement with the
Spirit that has motivated me to these points over the years. So then, if
after you have reviewed these distinctives you do not find your points
of disagreement fundamentally insurmountable to your spirit, be
encouraged to join the Circle!]
(As necessary, I will update and add to this
digest.)
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