Chapter Two: Summary of Who, What & Why of Apostleship

Chapter Discussions

Apostleship is the one office in the New Testament church that validates the remaining ministers and ministries of Christ’s ecclesia on earth.
The structure used to structure and govern the church and administrate its dispensations was written by apostles.
Jesus pre-screen the narratives used to scribe His incarnate experiences.
No other office could contribute to the New Testament because they did not yet exist (?) – Teachers?
Apostles exist to found, organize and legislate God’s government.
They also establish their religious orders’ canon and catechize their deity’s populace.
No other officer is qualified to define, regulate, or legitimize the apostle’s office because the apostle is the sole mantle that launched the church.
Therefore, it takes the apostle to comprehensively describe the duties, authorize, and authenticate the ministry of apostleship and those of the other mantles as well
Only when they do so can the church claim compliance with the Bible’s Divine Order

Reclaiming and restoring the state of the world, particularly the Most High’s people in the world.
Apostle’s mantle is repeatedly revived to counter what causes Christ’s holdings in this world to be at risk since His ascension.
They are sent at critical periods in history to retrieve the souls and strongholds of the ecclesia from secularism, humanism, and demonics when these overtake its doctrine, practices, and authority in the church and world.

God summons apostles and mobilizes them, especially when the church becomes overrun with humanist, secular, pagan ideologies and rhetoric.
Another fundamental aim of apostleship is to help the world to know and appreciate the value and presence of the church within it.

*Apostles are commissioned to return the heart of God’s people to Him and His holdings to His household.

Under these circumstances, apostles are forerun by prophets.
Apostleship is not a “within the ranks” position.
If the problem for which the apostles are activated is within the entity to which they are sent, it makes little sense to resort to t its present leadership or government to resolve it. Apparently, that the difficulties continue despite the ruler’s wishes indicates the existing power is either incapable of or disinterested in its reparation for any number of reasons.
The Lord, like any good leader in the same situation, sends an outsider with no personal interests, no at-risk ties with the existing order to hand it to him.

Those who have been begging God to intervene and change things because of institutional abuse or neglect by their present leadership.
The second are those called to work with apostles to ignite the changes the worn-out disillusioned implore Him to launch, and launching change is what apostles do.

Significant indicators of apostolism – (Judges 17:6 & https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Judges+21%3A25&version=NKJV)

There was no king in those days, and everyone did what was right in their own eyes; a practice that Moses, scripture tells us condemned in Deuteronomy 12:8
Kingship passages = Exodus 22:28 & Numbers 22:12
These passages depict the world and the kingdom conditions that necessitate the Lord’s activation of the apostle’s mantle in a given generation. They signify not only the basis of their calling but hint at some of the work the apostolic type is to do.

Apostles are sent expressly by Jesus.
The church did not exist when they were being trained and installed by the Savior.
Apostles training was received over the 3 1/2 years of Jesus’ ministry
Apostles’ appointments come about by way of a face-to-face encounter and extensive interactions with the risen commissioning apostles as His specially empowered messengers, literally by His visitations, bring them onto His staff and set them in His eternal divine office of apostleship.
Apostles are endowed, authorized, and commissioned to recover, enlarge, and sustain His world possessions and overall protect and perpetuate the church as long as it remains on earth.
Central to those possessions is the body of people that Jesus purchased with His blood and inhabits by His spirit.