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is a lot of comparing to do
We
start with--When Would
Tongues Cease –and Who Was Eusebius
Plus The History of the Pentecostal Church
For The Pentecostal
View Open Continuationism and
Pentecostal Beliefs Plus Other Commentary Below
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The question here
is raised whether such charismatic gifts as existed in the early Church are in operation today. Paul writes earlier
in 1 Corinthians ( makes a comment
on the use of satanic inspired gifts about the middle to late second century:
“In his unbridled ambition to reach the top laid himself open to the
adversary, was filled with spiritual excitement and suddenly fell into a kind
of trance and unnatural ecstasy. He raved, and began to chatter and talk
nonsense, prophesying in a way that conflicted with the practice of the
Church handed down generation by generation from the beginning… Some were
annoyed, regarding him as possessed, a demoniac in the grip of a spirit of
error.” Eusebius continues to record a following: “… women whom he filled
with the sham spirit, so that they chattered crazily.” And continuing a bit
further: “But the pseudo-prophet speaks in a state of unnatural ecstasy… He
begins with voluntary ignorance and ends in involuntary psychosis.” (Pages
218ff) In From Friends of
the Nazarene - Are the Gifts of the Spirit Still ·
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GiftsToday Compare UntitledGiftOfTongues.htm 1 Corinthians 13:8-13 – Love and Maturity Open Commentary N0.s 724 thru 737 in COMPASSIONATE AFFECTION AS THE KEY TO UNITY --http://www.nazarene-friends.org For more open TonguesNazareneFriendsCommentary. Other References Open and Study For Who is Eusebius Open and Study EusebiusANDTongues.htm Eusebius Is the same person that baptism Constantine the Great Eusebius baptised Constantine the Great in
his villa in Nicomedia, on Eusebius of Nicomedia & Constantine1’s Relations with Arius - For Full Study Open and Study C + C1.htm For More Open EusebiusANDTongues.htm Compare to later time Miracles.htm.
History
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What
was the Purpose for speaking in tongues + Other Gifts--Simple-Answer
To get the truth
to people before the Inspired Written Word Was Completed—that didn’t
Speak Hebrew or Greek---English didn’t exist until about the 5th
Century- Open and Study English-HistoryOf.htm
English
A Changed and Changing
Language.
Tongues -The question here is raised whether such charismatic gifts as
existed in the early Church are in operation today.
Speaking in Tongues Both Views Cessationism
and Continuationism
For The Detailed
Answers-
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the
following commentaries--For did tongues cease
Open and Study Cessationism or Continue Open and Study Continuationism 1Cor13-8-13.htm
The Complete Bible.--Open
and Study
For whatever
was written
in earlier
times
was written
for our instruction,
so
that through
perseverance
and the encouragement
of the Scriptures
we might have
hope.
We are to
live by the Holy Writings it until Jesus comes to rule— Open Rev20-4-6.htm.
The Written Word prepares us for how we will be required to
live under Jesus’ Rule. Nothing More /Nothing Less
Open and
Study 2Tim3-16-17.htm and -Rev22-16-21.htm
God Had Already
Gave Man All The Material Gifts Man Needed When He
Created The Earth
---It Has Been Up To
Man to share its resource Open and Study -Gen1-29-31.htm
What About what
happen to Job.
Job was not an ISREALITE –But a good example—But His
experience was a isolated incident.
Christians Today should not expect what happen to Job will
happen to us.
Open Rev20-4-6.htm.
Use Examples of How God Rewarded the Apostles.
Open and Study 1Tim6-6-12.htm
(1) Most Bible Scholars will agree that
the Greatest Gift given to man is What Jesus did.
(2) Most Bible Scholars will agree that
the Greatest Gift given to modern man is God’s Written Word --The
Complete Bible.
Open
and Study
For whatever
was written
in earlier
times
was written
for our instruction,
so
that through
perseverance
and the encouragement
of the Scriptures
we might have
hope.
We are to
live by the Holy Writings it until Jesus comes to rule— Open Rev20-4-6.htm.
The Written Word prepares us for how we will be required to
live under Jesus’ Rule. Nothing More /Nothing Less
Open and
Study 2Tim3-16-17.htm and -Rev22-16-21.htm
Today God Gives Spiritual Gifts
Jesus and the Apostles didn’t go around giving people
money and material gifts
Open and Study Imitate.htm The ImitateRule.htm
Give Free Matt10-8.htm - Matt7-7plus.htm and True Ministers give to others Free of Charge.
Most Donations Today
That Many Churches receive have been misused.
Favoritism
Some people have always felt that they have a special gift
from God that only a few get---and they get spectacled powerful Gifts
Also Today---But that raises the question is the god of
this world the one behind the Gifts—Compare
13 For such men are false R408 apostles, deceitful R409 workers, disguising themselves as
apostles of Christ. 14
No wonder, for even Satan R410 disguises himself as an angel R411 of light. 15
Therefore it is not surprising if his servants also disguise themselves as
servants of righteousness, whose R412 end will be according to their
deeds.
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everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but
he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven {will enter.} R292
22 "Many R293
will say to Me on that R294
day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out
demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?' F132
23 "And R295
then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; DEPART R296
FROM ME, YOU WHO PRACTICE LAWLESSNESS.' 24 "Therefore
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everyone R298
who hears these words of Mine and acts F133
on them, may F134
be compared to a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25 "And
R299
the rain fell, and the floods F135
came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house; and {yet} it did not
fall, for it had been founded on the rock. 26 "Everyone
R300 who hears these
words of Mine and does not act F136
on them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. 27 "The
R301
rain fell, and the floods F137
came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house; and it fell--and
great was its fall." 28 When F138
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Jesus had finished these words, the R303
crowds were amazed at His teaching; 29 for He was teaching
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But God has Freely given His
Completed Bible Words to all that wish to examine it and live by.
1Ti 2:3 This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,
1Ti 2:4 who wants all people to be saved and to come to a full
knowledge of the truth.
The full knowledge of the truth came with the
completed Bible---
Open and Study 1Tim2-4.htm
2Ti
2Ti 3:17 so that
the man of God may be complete and thoroughly equipped for every good work.
Now Who is to dispense
it
Matt 24-45 or the Pope
Ti 2:5 There is
one God. There is also one mediator between God and human beings-a human,
Christ Jesus.
1Ti 2:6 He gave
himself as a ransom for all, a fact that was acknowledged at the right time.
1Ti 2:7 For this
reason I was appointed to be a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the
gentiles in faith and truth. (I am telling you the truth. I am not lying.)
Christian Harmony—Is it possible today? God’s Written
Word --The Complete Bible.
R26
8 Therefore, I want the men to offer prayers in every place,
lifting up holy hands without
being
angry or argumentative. R27
2:8 - [In
Context]
Christian
Harmony and unity—Is it possible today? God’s Written
Word --The Complete Bible.
Christianity Subverted –The True Cause behind All the Division-
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● What did the apostle
Paul mean in saying, “When that which
is complete arrives, that which is partial
will be done away with”?
These words
appear in a setting that highlights the surpassing way of love. We read: “Love
never fails. But whether there are gifts of prophesying, they will be done away
with; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge,
it will be done away with. For we have partial knowledge and we prophesy
partially; but when that which is complete arrives, that which is partial will
be done away with. When I was a babe, I used to speak as a babe, to think as a
babe, to reason as a babe; but now that I have become a man, I have done away
with the traits of a babe. For at present we see in hazy outline by means of a
metal mirror, but then it will be face to face. At present I know partially,
but then I shall know accurately even as I am accurately known.”—1 Cor.
13:8-12.
1Cor 13:8 NAS
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Strong’s Dictionary and Commentaries More Below
Thus
Paul showed that the miraculous gifts of prophesying, knowledge and speaking in
tongues were not permanent. They were to cease. And cease they did. Evidently these gifts
were only imparted in the presence of one or more of the apostles directly
chosen by Jesus Christ. (Acts 2:1, 4, 14; 8:9-20; 10:44-46;
19:6)
(Acts 2:1, 2:4
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And when Paul had laid his hands upon them,
the Holy Spirit came on them, and
they began speaking with tongues and prophesying.
So
with the death of these apostles, impartation of miraculous gifts passed away.
SBT—Note --The Book of Acts –IS ACTS OF THE
APOSTLES----Not acts of others.
In view of the temporary
nature of the miraculous gifts, Paul encouraged Christians at Corinth to pursue
the permanent and surpassing way of love and not to consider those miraculous
gifts as a Christian’s greatest attainment.
Though Paul himself was
endowed with miraculous gifts to a superior degree, he recognized that his
knowledge was but partial. (1 Cor. 13:1, 2; 14:18) (1 Cor 13:2-
He would have to wait until the arrival of “that which is complete” in
order to understand spiritual things fully. In his own case this was not going
to happen during his lifetime on earth.
Upon attaining his heavenly reward, however, he would eventually see the fulfillment
of all Bible prophecy and come to a complete knowledge of Jehovah’s will
and purpose revealed in the Bible. Accordingly, the words “when that which is
complete arrives” must relate to the time when the prophecies of the Bible as
well as God’s will and purpose are fully understood.
Cor 13:1
If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
1 Cor 14:18
I thank God, I speak in tongues more than you all;
The arrival of “that
which is complete” is not synonymous with gaining the heavenly reward. There is
no indication in Scripture that Jesus Christ reveals everything to members of
his bride immediately upon their entering heaven. Jesus himself had to wait for
his Father to make known certain aspects of His purpose. When on earth, Jesus
said of the day and hour for the execution of divine vengeance: “Concerning
that day or the hour nobody knows, neither the angels in heaven nor the Son,
but the Father.” (Mark
We today are living in the time when
“that which is complete” is due to arrive. The physical facts in fulfillment of
Bible prophecy confirm that Jesus Christ received kingly authority over the
world of mankind in 1914 C.E. (Rev. 6:1-8) Rev.+6%3A1-8
With that event the
“sacred secret” or “mystery” of God was “brought
With that event the “sacred secret”
or “mystery” of God was “brought to a finish,” in the sense that this event
removed the ‘mysterious’ aspect about this kingdom. (Rev. 10:7; 10:7 compare Matthew 13:11;
13:11 Luke 8:10; 8:10 Ephesians 3:3-9; Ephesians+3%3A3-9
Colossians
1:26, 27; 2:2; 4:3; 1 Timothy 3:16.) 1:26
that is, the mystery which has
been hidden from the past
ages and generations, but
has now been manifested to His saints,
1 Tim 3:16
By common confession, great is the mystery of godliness: He who was revealed in the flesh, Was vindicated in the Spirit, Seen by angels, Proclaimed among the nations, Believed on in the world, Taken up in glory.
From that time onward God’s people
have been experiencing a continued increase in spiritual knowledge and in
understanding prophecy. This is in harmony with Daniel 12:4: 12:4 “As for you, O Daniel, make secret the words
and seal up the book, until the time of the end. Many will rove about [in the
book], and the true knowledge will become abundant.” Accordingly, “that which
is complete” refers to the full understanding of God’s purpose as
revealed in the Bible. This
being a time for such increased understanding of God’s Word and the fulfillment
of its prophecies, that “which is complete” must be at hand.—WT QFR:S
1975-2/1-Page 95-6
Daniel 12:4
"But as for
you, Daniel, conceal these words and seal up the book until the end of time; many will go back and forth, and knowledge will increase."
Favoritism
An Impartial God—A Message
for All
PARAGRAPH 5 Such developments are in keeping
with God’s ways; favoritism is alien to him. After the apostle Peter was helped
by Jehovah to adjust his view of people of the nations, he appreciatively
noted: “For a certainty I perceive that God is not partial, but in every nation
the man that fears him and works righteousness is acceptable to him.” (Acts
10:34, 35; Psalm 145:9 145:9
) 10:34-
10:35
When the apostle Paul,
formerly a persecutor of Christians, declared that God’s “will is that all
sorts of men should be saved,” he reaffirmed that God is free from bias.
(1 Timothy 2:4) 2:4
The Creator’s
impartiality is seen in that the Kingdom hope is open to people of any gender,
race, nationality, or language.
6 This international expansion was
foretold centuries earlier. According to Daniel’s prophecy, “there were given
[to Jesus] rulership and dignity and kingdom, that the peoples, national groups
and languages should all serve even him.” (Daniel 7:14) 7:14
The fact that this magazine is
published in 151 languages and distributed worldwide, enabling you to read
about Jehovah’s Kingdom, reflects the fulfillment of that Bible prophecy.
7 The Bible foretold a time when
people of diverse languages would hear its life-giving message. Describing how
true worship would attract many, Zechariah prophesied: “It will be in those
days that ten men out of all the languages of
the nations will take hold, yes, they will actually take hold of
the skirt of a man who is a Jew [spirit-anointed Christian, part of “the Israel
of God”], saying: ‘We will go with you people, for we have heard that God is
with you people.’” (Zechariah
Reaching People of All Sorts
8 Today, people have become
increasingly mobile. Globalization has opened a new era of migration. Droves of
people from war zones and economically depressed areas have moved to more
stable places, seeking a materially secure way of life. In many lands, an
influx of immigrants and refugees has resulted in the formation of
foreign-speaking enclaves. For instance, in
9 Do we as Christian ministers view
the presence of such people who speak different languages as an impediment to
our ministry? Not at all! Rather, we see this as a welcome expansion of our
ministerial territory—‘fields white for harvesting.’ (John 4:35) We endeavor to
care for people who are conscious of their spiritual need, regardless of their
nationality or language. (Matthew 5:3) As a result, each year a growing number
of people of ‘every tongue’ are becoming disciples of
Christ. (Revelation 14:6) For example, as of August 2004, the preaching
work in
10 Indeed, Jesus’ command to “make
disciples of people of all the nations” is being carried
out! (Matthew 28:19) Eagerly embracing that commission, Jehovah’s Witnesses are
active in 235 lands, distributing literature in more than 400 languages. While
Jehovah’s organization provides the material needed to reach the people, the
individual Kingdom publisher must take the initiative to convey the Bible’s
message to “people of all sorts” in the language they can best understand.
(John 1:7) This united effort enables millions of people of various language
groups to benefit from the good news. (Romans 10:14, 15) Yes, each one of
us plays a vital role!
Rising to the Challenge
11 Today, many Kingdom publishers
would like to learn another language, but they cannot depend on or expect
miraculous gifts of God’s spirit. (1 Corinthians 13:8) Learning a new
language is a major undertaking. Even those who already speak a second language
may have to adjust their thinking and approach in order to make the Bible’s
message appealing to people who speak that language but have different
backgrounds and cultures. Then, too, new immigrants are often shy and timid; to
understand their way of thinking takes hard work.
12 Nonetheless, the holy
spirit is still operative among Jehovah’s servants in their efforts to
help people who speak other languages. (Luke 11:13) Rather than imparting
miraculous linguistic abilities, the spirit can heighten our desire to
communicate with people who do not speak our language. (Psalm 143:10) Preaching
or teaching the Bible’s message to people in a language they are not familiar
with may reach their mind. However, in order to touch the heart of our
listeners, it is often better to use their mother tongue—the language that
speaks to their deepest aspirations, motives, and hopes.—Luke 24:32.
13 Many Kingdom publishers have taken
up the ministry in a foreign-language field when they observe the fine response
to Bible truth. Others feel invigorated when their service becomes more
challenging and interesting. “Many of those who come from
14 To have a meaningful share in this
work, however, we need determination and self-sacrifice. (Psalm 110:3) For
instance, a number of Japanese Witness families have given up comfortable homes
in large cities and have moved to remote areas to help groups of Chinese
immigrants understand the Bible. On the west coast of the
15 Can you have a share in this
multilingual activity? Why not start by noting which foreign languages are
commonly spoken in your territory? Then you might carry some tracts or
brochures in those languages. The booklet Good News for People
of All Nations, released in 2004, has already been
instrumental in spreading the Kingdom hope by its simple, positive message in
numerous languages.—See the article “Good News for People of All Nations,” on
page 32.
“Loving the Alien Resident”
16 Whether we learn another language
or not, we can all help with the spiritual education of foreigners in our area.
Jehovah instructed his people to “love the alien resident.” (Deuteronomy
10:18, 19) For example, in one large city in
17 Loving overseers commend qualified
and skilled brothers and sisters who want to move to assist other language
groups. Such experienced Bible teachers may be missed locally, but the
overseers feel as did the elders in Lystra and Iconium. Those elders did not
hold Timothy back from traveling with Paul, even though Timothy was an asset to
their own congregations. (Acts 16:1-4) In addition, those who take the lead in
the preaching work are not deterred by the different mentality, customs, or manners
of foreigners. Instead, they embrace the diversity and seek ways to cultivate
good relations for the sake of the good news.—1 Corinthians
18 As prophesied, the good news is
being preached in “all the languages of the nations.” Wonderful potential for
increase still exists in foreign-language fields. Thousands of resourceful
publishers have entered this “large door that leads to activity.”
(1 Corinthians 16:9) Yet, more is needed in order to cultivate such
territories, as the next article will show.
From People “out of All the Languages”
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1Cor
13:8
Love never fails;
but if
there are gifts of prophecy,
they will be done away; if there
are tongues,
they will cease;
if
there is knowledge,
it will be done
away.
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Tradition
Colossians 2:8 Titus 1:14, a doctrine, sentiment, or custom not found in the Bible, but transmitted orally from
generation to generation from some presumed inspired authority. In
patriarchal times, much that was valuable and obligatory was thus preserved.
But tradition has long been superseded by the successive and completed
revelations of God’s will which form the inspired Scriptures, Some Other Verses
Quoted. Isaiah 8:20, 2 Thessalonians 2:15 3:6, Revelation 22:19.
Since
The Completed Bible there have been
only Translators and Commentators-- Rev22-16-21.
The
apostles were essentially saying no more Doctrines are needed .What is needed
(Today) is
Good
Bible Teachers to explain the Words God has already provided for us.
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So then, brethren, stand firm and
hold to the traditions which you were
taught,
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aul Defends His Apostleship 1 I wish that you would
bear R381 with me in a little
foolishness; R382 but indeed F82 you are bearing with me. 2
For I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy; for I betrothed R383 you to one husband, so that to
Christ I might present R384 you as a pure virgin. 3
But I am afraid that, as the serpent R385 deceived Eve by his craftiness,
your minds will be led astray from the simplicity and purity of devotion
to Christ. 4
For if one F83 comes and preaches another R386 Jesus whom we have not
preached, or you receive a different R387 spirit which you have not
received, or a different R388 gospel which you have not
accepted, you bear R389 this beautifully. R390 5
For I consider myself not R391 in the least inferior to the
most F84 eminent apostles. 6
But even if I am unskilled R392 in speech, yet I am not so
in knowledge; R393 in fact, in every way we have
made R394 this evident to you in
all things. 7 Or did R395 I commit a sin in humbling
myself so that you might be exalted, because I preached the gospel R396 of God to you without R397 charge? 8
I robbed other churches by taking R398 wages from them
to serve you; 9
and when I was present with you and was in need, I was not R399 a burden to anyone; for when
the R400 brethren came from Macedonia R401 they fully supplied my need,
and in everything I kept myself from being R399 a burden to you, and F85 will continue to do so. 10
As R402 the truth of Christ is in me,
this R403 boasting of mine will not be
stopped in the regions of Achaia. R404 11
Why? Because R405 I do not love you? God R406 knows I do! 12 But what I am doing I
will continue to do, so R407 that I may cut off opportunity
from those who desire an opportunity to be regarded F86 just as we are in the matter
about which they are boasting. 13
For such men are false R408 apostles, deceitful R409 workers, disguising themselves
as apostles of Christ. 14
No wonder, for even Satan R410 disguises himself as an angel R411 of light. 15
Therefore it is not surprising if his servants also disguise themselves as
servants of righteousness, whose R412 end will be according to their
deeds. 16 Again R413 I say, let no one think me
foolish; but if you do, receive me even as foolish, so that I also may
boast a little. 17
What I am saying, I am not saying as R414 F87 the Lord would, but as in R415 foolishness, in this confidence
of boasting. 18
Since many R416 boast according R417 to the flesh, I will boast
also. 19
For you, being R418 so wise, tolerate the
foolish gladly. 20
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Why No Miracles Today? WTP-gm 71-86
Sometimes the
question is raised: ‘Why are there no miracles of the Bible kind today?’ The
answer is that miracles served their purpose back then, but today God expects
us to live by faith.—Habakkuk 2:2-4; Hebrews
In the days of
Moses, miracles occurred to establish Moses’ credentials. They showed that
Jehovah was using him and also that the Law covenant was truly of divine origin
and that the Israelites were henceforth God’s chosen people.—Exodus 4:1-9, 30,
31; Deuteronomy 4:33, 34.
In the first
century, miracles helped to establish the credentials of Jesus and, after him,
of the young Christian congregation. They helped to demonstrate that Jesus was
the promised Messiah, that after his death fleshly Israel was replaced as God’s
special people by the Christian congregation, and thus that the Law of Moses
was no longer binding.—Acts 19:11-20; Hebrews 2:3, 4.
After the days of
the apostles, the time for miracles was past. The apostle Paul explained:
“Whether there are gifts of prophesying, they will be done away with; whether
there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will be done
away with. For we have partial knowledge and we prophesy partially; but when
that which is complete arrives, that which is partial will be done away
with.”—1 Corinthians 13:8-10.
Today, we have the
complete Bible, which includes all the revelations and counsel of God. We have
the fulfillment of prophecy, and we have an advanced understanding of God’s
purposes. Hence, there is no more need for miracles. Nevertheless, the same
spirit of God that made the miracles possible still exists and produces results
that give equally strong evidence of divine power. We shall see more of this in
a future chapter.
[Picture on page 75]
Many view the reliability of the laws of nature, such as the
fact that the sun rises every morning, as proof that miracles cannot happen
[Picture on page 77]
The creation of the earth as a home for living things was a
‘prodigious event’ that was not repeated
[Pictures on page 78]
How would you explain the marvels of modern science to
someone living 200 years ago?
Ka3—1973----CD Rom Search
Satan’s Miracles
58 Hence, those powerful works or
miracles, those signs and portents and unrighteous deceptions are for a purpose
that is selfish and not for the glory and exaltation of Jehovah God. These
manifestations of Satan’s operation and activity were produced after the death
of Christ’s apostles. Those apostles did indeed work miracles, signs and
portents, because they had God’s spirit through Christ. Those apostles had the
power and authority to impart to baptized believers the spirit with its various
gifts of the spirit for the doing of miraculous things, such as speaking with
foreign languages, prophecies, interpretations, healings, and so forth. At the
death of Christ’s apostles, the imparting of the spirit accompanied by such
miraculous gifts ceased. Likewise, when those who had been thus gifted through
the apostles died, not later than in the second century C.E., those miraculous
gifts ceased to exist, and no longer were such things an evidence to prove who
are true servants of God and who make up the true Christian congregation. (Acts
8:14-18; 1 Corinthians 13:8) Hence, the seeming display of such “gifts”
after that would be, not of God, but of Satan.
59 So, then, let the clergy-ridden
churches of Christendom point to all the powerful works, miracles, signs and
portents that they want to in behalf of their clergy down through the
centuries. Let them point to the grandiose position of the clergy in this
world, the high esteem and reverence that have been paid to the clergy, their
grand, eye-dazzling regalia, their high-sounding titles, their magnificent
church buildings and cathedrals, their impressive church rituals, their
transubstantiation of bread and wine in the “Mass,” their superior education,
their standing and influence with the political State and the military, yet all
those things and the effects of those things upon the so-called “laity” prove
that the self-exalting clergy of Christendom did not originate with God and are
not his ministers. Satan, who transforms himself into an “angel of light,”
moves his earthly ministers of religion to “keep transforming themselves into
ministers of righteousness.” (2 Corinthians 11:14, 15) True Christian
ministers of Jehovah God prove themselves to be his appointed, approved
ministers, not by such external things, but by God’s written Word of truth.
62 God does not directly send an
“operation of error” to these deceived ones. He lets it go to them, in order to
prove what it is that they want and also because this is really what they want.
This is what the apostle Paul pointed out to his fellow missionary Timothy in a
final letter to him. Paul explained why he wanted Timothy to preach God’s Word
urgently in all seasons in the Christian congregation. Paul said: “For there
will be a period of time when they will not put up with the healthful teaching,
but, in accord with their own desires, they will accumulate teachers for
themselves to have their ears tickled; and they will turn their ears away from
the truth, whereas they will be turned aside to false stories.” (2 Timothy
4:2-4) By means of the inspired Word of God a person can protect himself
against an “operation of error” during the presence of the “lawless one.” But
by letting Satan carry on an “operation of error” and by thus letting this
operation go to the professed Christians, Jehovah God puts them to the proof as
to whether they “accept the love of the truth” or love the lie
Satan and
His demons do not grow old a die—only Jehovah can kill them.So whatever healing to the human
body they could do for the people that lived in the Nations that surrounded
Israel they can still do that healing today or whatever other magical acts they
did---
There is no scripture
evidence to support that Jehovah has stooped them. Even Jesus was accused of
doing His miracles with power that came from Satan—Matt 12-24
Charismatic Religions
fail to inform people of these historical facts.
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They can talk through
people—Mark
. 22 And they became
astounded at his way of teaching, for there he was teaching them as one having
authority, and not as the scribes. 23 Also, at that immediate time there
was in their synagogue a man under the power of an unclean spirit, and he shouted, 24 saying: “What have we to
do with you, Jesus you Naz·a·rene´? Did you come to destroy us? I know exactly who you are, the Holy One of God.” 25 But Jesus rebuked it, saying: “Be silent, and come
on out of him!” 26 And
the unclean spirit, after throwing him into a convulsion and yelling at the top
of its voice, came on out of him. 27 Well,
the people were all so astonished that they began a discussion among
themselves, saying: “What is this? A new teaching! He authoritatively orders
even the unclean spirits, and they obey him.” 28 So the report about him spread out immediately in
all directions through all the country round about in Gal´i·lee.
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Mark 23 Just then there was a man in their
synagogue with an unclean spirit; and he cried out, 24 saying, "What business F13
do we have with each other, Jesus of F14
Nazareth? R20
Have You come to destroy us? I know who You are--the Holy One of God!" 25 And
Jesus rebuked him, saying, "Be R21
quiet, and come out of him!" 26 Throwing him into convulsions, the
unclean spirit cried out with a loud voice and came out of him. 27 They
were all amazed, R22
so that they debated among themselves, saying, "What is this? A new
teaching with authority! He commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey
Him." 28 Immediately
the news about Him spread everywhere into all the surrounding district of
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2Co 11:4
For if someone comes along and preaches another Jesus than the one we
preached, or should you receive a different spirit from the one you received or
a different gospel from the one you accepted, you are all too willing to
listen.
2Co 11:5 I do
not think I'm inferior in any way to those "super-apostles."
2Co 11:6 Even
Mat
Mat
Mat
Mat
Mat
Rev. 16:13, 14: “I saw three
unclean inspired expressions that looked like frogs come out of the mouth of
the dragon [Satan the Devil; Rev. 12:9] and out of the mouth of the wild beast
and out of the mouth of the false prophet. They are, in fact, expressions
inspired by demons and perform signs, and they go forth to the kings of the
entire inhabited earth, to gather them together to the war of the great day of
God the Almighty.”
Compare Luke
4:5, 6; 1 John 5:19; also Acts 5:38, 39; 2 Chronicles 32:1,
16, 17.