F4F | Patricia King Writes About the Restoration of Apostles

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The Claim That Apostles and Prophets Have Been Restored

You've been deceived. In fact, one of the things we're gonna be doing on this episode, doing a little historical research and documentation, because there are people today, now that C. Peter Wagner is dead, who are saying, oh listen, all that talk about the N-A-R, it's the so-called N-A-R, at least that's how Michael Brown talks about it, and they just ignore how people in the N-A-R have spoken about the restoration of Apostles in the past.

And by the way, talking about it as restored really creates a problem for their interpretation of Ephesians 5 regarding the fivefold, or Ephesians 4, regarding the fivefold ministry. We'll talk about that today, too.

But here's what we're gonna be covering. We're gonna head over to the Elijah list, and I will go ahead and put a link to this article down in the description below so that you can see this for yourself.

Now, the text is a wee bit on the small side, but I'll fix that in a second. But this is from February 10th, 2008, and Patricia King is part of the N-A-R. If you didn't know that, then, well, you know it now.

And she's a lady back in 2008, just like everybody else in the N-A-R, was talking about the restoration of Apostles. Uh-huh. Somebody alert Michael Brown to this segment so that he can figure out how he's gonna spin it and deny it, because he's saying, oh yeah, there's always been Apostles in the church, but small a, small a Apostles.

Yeah, we talked about that, and check our archives on the Masting of Michael Brown where we talk about big A or small a Apostles. At the end of this video, it'll show up as one of the video options for you to watch next.

Patricia King’s Prophecy of a New Day and the Restoration of All Things

But let me make this a little bit bigger so that we can take a look at what Patricia King was saying back in February of 2008. Here's what was written. Prophetic Encouragement by Patricia King. We have arrived at a new day in God's eternal purposes.

We are in the time of the restoration of all things spoken by the prophets of old. Important little note there. She's talking about restoration of what? Apostles. Uh-huh. See, God said he would again restore the house of David that had fallen down as prophesied by Amos.

On that day I will raise up the tabernacle of David which has fallen down and repair its damages, and I will raise up its ruins and rebuild it as in the days of old. So note here, she thinks Amos 9 -11 is referring to the restoration of Apostles here at the end of the age.

The quote of that prophecy in Acts 15 -17 says that the remnant of men may seek the Lord. This restoration is clearly connected to a time of end-time harvest. This is that day, she writes. He has prepared vessels that are arising to the task and will see the plans of God through to the perfecting of a glorious church, a bride without spot or wrinkle.

And by the way, this little doctrine right here, that comes from the latter rain. Uh-huh. Just saying. They claimed that Christ could not return until the bride had all of her spots and wrinkles removed, and it was up to us to do that.

So in preparation. So a bride without spot or wrinkle in preparation for his return. These are people of faith who have confidence in the Holy Spirit's ability to do what he intends to do. Prepare the bride for the bridegroom, as if somehow the bride of Christ hasn't already been clothed in the righteousness of Christ.

Very strange. So Jesus did not say that he was coming back for a shriveled up and emaciated bride to whom he will have to administer mouth-to-mouth resuscitation on the way up to heaven. I think he's going to have a bride who is prepared and glorious.

Many scriptures show us a victorious eschatology for the church at the end of the age. And here are a few. Now a little bit of a note here. When it comes to rightly handling God's Word, you have to pay attention to what is being referred to.

And so she immediately goes to Ephesians 5, and Ephesians 5 is not an eschatological text. Not in the way she's using it. So here's her quote from Ephesians 5 25 through 27. Husbands, love your wives just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself for her that he might sanctify her and cleanse her with a washing of water by the word.

That's a reference to baptism, by the way. So that he might present her to himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing. Now note here, he might present her to himself. Christ is the one that takes away the spots and the wrinkles from the bride of Christ.

It's not up to us to remove those spots or wrinkles. They are removed by the blood of Christ, by the forgiveness of our sins, through faith be enclothed in the righteousness of Christ. So, but that she should be holy and without blemish.

This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church. So she thinks that this is an eschatological text. It's not. And so this isn't talking about some future time when Christ is gonna make the bride without spot or wrinkle.

No, the bride of Christ is already without spot or wrinkle because her sins have been completely forgiven and washed away. Now Acts 3 18 through 21, watch what she does with this. But those things which were foretold by the mouth of all the prophets that Christ would suffer, he has thus fulfilled.

Repent therefore and be converted that your sins may be blotted out so the times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord and that he may send Jesus Christ who was prepared to you, preached to you, whom heaven must receive until times of restoration of all things.

Now a little bit of a note here. Until the times of restoration of all things is referring to Jesus's return. The time when literally there is no more, there is no sin, and that the earth is returned and restored to its Edenic state.

That's the idea. New heavens, new earth. Read the back of the book. But that's not talking about a time prior to the return of Christ. The restoration takes place after Christ's return. So note here, she's putting a big emphasis on, you know, there's gonna be until the times of restoration of all things.

And she thinks the all things is going to include, by the way, the restoration of the Apostles. And we're gonna talk about how embarrassing this is when you think about this, but we continue. "...so which God has spoken by the mouth of all of his holy prophets since the world began.".

And then Ephesians 4 11 through 16. "...and he himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints, for the works of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, until we all come to the unity of faith and the knowledge of the Son of God.".

Now a little bit of a note here. And you're gonna see this. Patricia is literally arguing for the restoration of Apostles. But if Ephesians 4 11 through 16 is to be understood as we are to always have, you know, that Apostles, the office of Apostle needs to be constantly filled, well we've got a problem, because there haven't been Apostles on earth functioning as Apostles since the death of John the Apostle in the late first century.

And so, you know, literally if Ephesians 4 11 is to be understood as that, you know, the five-fold ministry is to continue, then it didn't continue until we all come to the unity of the faith and the knowledge of the Son of God.

It didn't continue at all. In fact, there is a 1900 year gap in Apostles being in the church. You know, there was a bunch of them at the beginning, they petered out, disappeared, and only now they're being restored.

But if you take Ephesians 4 11 the way they take it, then they're saying that we always need Apostles, and God has promised these things until we all come to the unity of the faith. Now, a little bit of a note here is that what biblically is the list of qualifications for an Apostle, you know, after the Apostles?

You know, how many wives are they allowed to have? What's their character? Yeah, there's no list of who's qualified to be an Apostle. None whatsoever. But just take what Ephesians 2 says, and then you'll get what's going on here, that we've got a big problem, and that is that these people do not understand that the Apostles still continue to do their work through the written Word of God, just like the prophets of the Old Testament still continue to do their work through the written Word of God.

So let me show you this from Ephesians 2. I'll start at verse 14 for the context, and it's down a little farther. He Himself is our peace, who made us both one, and has broken down in His flesh the dividing wall of hostility by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that He might create in Himself one new man in place of the two, and so making peace, and might reconcile us both, this is talking about Jews and Greeks, to God in the one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility.

He came and preached peace to you who were far off, and peace to those who were near, for through Him we have both access in one Spirit to the Father. So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and members of the household of God, built on the what?

The foundation. The foundation of the Apostles and prophets, Christ Himself being the cornerstone. So here's the thing, the same book that gives us Ephesians 4, gives us Ephesians 2, and Ephesians 2 makes it very clear that the Church is built on the what?

The foundation of the Apostles and prophets. You don't lay a foundation again. And so all of the Church is built on the foundation of the Apostles and the prophets, and they still continue to do their work through the written Word of God.

And so the reason why there's a 1900 year gap, actually longer than that, you know, why there's a huge gap between Apostles of Christ, who were sent by Christ, and today, is because the foundation's already been laid and shouldn't be relayed.

So here Patricia King is literally saying, yeah, well this is an eschatological text, and we're gonna have Apostles until Jesus returns, but they've got to be restored, which means they haven't been here.

And she's literally admitting that. Now let's take a look, then, at her commentary, where she says, God is declared and will have a glorious end-time Church, she says, which is a twisting of these texts.

That's not what Christ is talking about. Christ already has a glorious Church. We're made glorious because we're forgiven of our sins in Christ. So God will have a latter house more glorious than the former.

God will cause His glory to cover the earth as the waters cover the sea, and God will raise up the fallen tabernacle of David and cause the ends of the earth to come to the glory of its rising. Great boldness, faith, and optimism will arise in our hearts when we realize that we have inherited a prophetic mission in accordance with God's inexorable purposes.

Wow. I don't know how she jumped that chasm, but those texts she quoted have nothing to do with what she's saying. So she continues, God plans to have a fully functioning Apostolic Prophetic Church in order to execute an unprecedented harvest at the end of the age, and we are it.

Notice she doesn't say God already has a fully functioning Apostolic Prophetic Church, but God intends to. He plans to have one. In 2008, it was still in the works. Apostles hadn't been restored, and by the way, they haven't been restored today.

The people claiming to be Apostles today are not. They literally are not. But she continues, we are His plan. We cannot expect the angels to do it. We cannot expect another generation to do it. God has appointed you and me to be here now for such a time as this.

Josiah, Reformation, and the Apostolic Pattern

Misquoting Esther, by the way. The season we are in is often called the time of Apostolic Reformation. In fact, one well-known church growth expert, C. Peter Wagner, wrote,. So she continues then, looking at the life of Josiah.

Apparently the life of Josiah prophesies, in weird type and shadow parabolic kind of ways, about the time of the restoration of Apostles in our lifetime. So she says this,. The setting was during one of the lowest points in Israel's history.

King Manasseh had already been in power for 50 years, during which time he had led Judah into the worst condition of paganism and idol worship they had ever experienced. Not only did he do all manner of evil, which the Lord called an abomination in his sight, he also led Judah into all manner of sin, as well as such as child sacrifice, witchcraft, divination, as well as several kinds of idol worship.

So into this wicked culture came Josiah, who typically would have followed in the footsteps of his father Ammon and his grandfather Manasseh, but God had a prophetic destiny that included Josiah. In fact, Josiah had been prophesied by name almost 300 years earlier, and it was said of him that he would be a great reformer.

Josiah inherited the throne at the age of eight years old, and at the age of 16, Josiah began radically seeking the Lord after the manner of his ancestor King David. For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, he began to seek the God of his father.

So David's manner of seeking God was total commitment. Note David's words in Psalm 63,. All right, so you'll note then, she continues, Josiah found himself serving the purposes of God in his generation.

According to God's covenant promises to David, the zeal for the house of God is the backbone of apostolic reformation. Uh-huh, and she's talking about restoration. Josiah went against the tide of the popular culture of his day and became one of the great kings of Judah and engineered a major reformation in his generation.

He also stands as an example to the youth for our day. So notice, engineered a major reformation in his generation. Now consider the implications of this rhetoric, the way she's twisting scripture here.

She's literally basically saying that the church, historically as we know it, that they are just as apostate as Manasseh and Ammon and weren't fully committed to God. And so this generation coming up, they need to fully commit themselves to God and they will be partakers of the great reformation of the church that will parallel the life of Josiah.

Uh-huh. So she writes then, there are several keys to reformation that we can learn from the reign of Josiah and the reformation that he brought to the nation. But before we look at them, we must understand that the body of Christ has arrived at a similar time in God's prophetic purposes in the midst of wickedness on every side.

Hmm. God has chosen people envisioned with prophetic destiny that will arise and become instruments of reformation at this critical time in history. So the keys to reformation are that one, King Josiah was devoted to seeking God.

Two, that Josiah was devoted to the book. Three, that Josiah was not disillusioned by the disrepair of the house of the Lord but gave himself to the repair of it. So we should not be dismayed at the disrepair of the church.

We don't have any apostles and prophets in 2008. We must commit ourselves to the restoration and the rebuilding of the things that have been torn down. Uh-huh. No, she's not talking about ongoing apostles, but the restoration of them.

Hmm. Now she writes that there are many who would criticize the church as we know it, but we need a people who are committed to building the kind of end times version of the church that God wants. Notice that Josiah was willing to build a team ministry and entrust the work to others who were faithful and shared the vision of the work.

And then Josiah understood the prophetic significance and purpose of worship. So, she then writes, so in every restoration movement. Isn't that interesting? Michael Brown, I wonder how you would explain that, because this was the common rhetoric of ten years ago in people who are now major leaders in the NAR, talking about the restoration.

Not the ongoing, but the restoration of apostles. Uh-huh. So in every restoration movement, music was of great importance. In David's day, we see the initial pattern. For the last days, restoration of apostolic authority.

Uh-huh. That's weird. The NAR historically didn't believe in the ongoing apostles. They believed in the restoration of them. This is just one example. David made a radical departure from Moses's form of worship and established 24-hour worship around the presence of God.

And from that time on, whenever there was reformation, it always included restoration of the Davidic pattern of prophetic praise. This is the foundation of IHOP. Uh-huh. In Nehemiah's day, the completion of the walls and the implementation of the new society was inaugurated with two massive choirs so large they circled the city were able to be heard from afar.

So the same thing was characteristic of Ezra's reform with a return to the Davidic pattern of worship. And then key five, Josiah led by example and called for a commitment. So we then see her wrapping up her thoughts here.

Josiah led the people forth in a major reformation during his reign. He re-established the rule of God through his righteous rule. Therefore, he serves today as a model of an apostolic reformer. His devotion to God and his word changed a generation.

When Josiah rediscovered the book, it changed his life. It caused him to re-evaluate the of the day and go back to the patterns and purposes of God. See, yeah, there it is. We got to challenge the way the church is today and return to the pattern of having apostles and prophets.

Uh-huh. That's their rhetoric. So he sought God, reached back to the biblical pattern in God's Word and God's pattern of worship. True reformation took place throughout his realm. His devotion can serve as an example for us during these times of apostolic reformation according to God's predestined purposes.

Hmm. Over and again, Michael Brown talks about the so-called NAR and then says, oh yeah, I'm just a five-folder. You know, we've always had apostles. But weird, the people in the NAR, like Patricia King and others and like and others, they've overtly and openly in the past talked about the restoration, which kind of leaves that thorny question then.

Wait a second, if we're to understand that the five-fold ministry is to continue until Jesus returns, how come the people in the NAR in the past were so open about the fact that it had been missing for 1 ,900 years and had to be restored literally within the last ten?

Just something to think about, because these people are deceivers. And not only that, they change their narrative constantly. Now that apostles and prophets are like a thoroughgoing thing now, now they say, oh we've always had them.

But before, when they weren't there, they said they had to be restored. Moving the goalposts, changing the narratives, these are some of the things that false teachers do. False teachers like Patricia King.

And by the way, Matthew and John and Peter and Paul, they're all still doing their apostolic work today in the written Word of God. They are the foundation of the church, and you don't relay a foundation, you build on it.

Which is why, you know, we have an apostolic church today. The church has always been apostolic because it teaches the same doctrine, the same Christ, the same gospel as the apostles preached. Hope you found this helpful, and of course all the information on how you can support us is down below, including the link to this Elijah List article.

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