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Apostle Paul Odendaal

Paul serves as a called and confirmed Apostle in the restored government of God, and he is an IDCCST Spiritual Life Coach. Apostle Paul helps you break the cycle of falling short of faith’s potential with new discipleship instruction. View my profile.

The church is at the crossroad of prophecy and God is watching the decisions that are made in the crossroad as He points believers to the much-needed reset of the church to His apostolical character.

You may have noticed the invitation to run after this prophet or that prophet in the false religious system. Every time you hear a message that gives hope that God will move and that God will clean up the church, it inspires enthusiasm and a strong confidence that long awaited answers to prayer are just on the horizon.

And when false prophets prophesy of a Pentecost reset to lead people to baptismal pools to confirm that God is moving, you may find yourself first in line to get washed in the earthly water that can never cleanse the soul.

And while false prophets prophesy of God’s will to heal and deliver, they fail to guide you to the covenant where God’s healing and deliverance is made possible. God continues to address this duplicity as He gives eyes of discernment back to the church.

God again confirmed in a divine dream that I’m going to share in this article, that His plan is to reset the church to the apostolic instruction and oversight. This plan cannot be sidestepped.

Skimming the Stones of Prophecy

Did you know: many rejoice in the awakening of grace that they received and want to walk in that light without accepting God’s covenant knowledge, so they remain ignorant about how to know Him, serve Him and build with Him. These believers fall back into the trance of sleep.

Removing Jesus’ covenant, something has to take its place to fill up the gap.

In the false religious system, prophecy was reinvented to fill the gap to speak in the absence of God in the same way that the children of Israel elected Aaron to make an idol in the absence of Moses, God’s anointed steward. (Ex. 32:1)

In the absence of the steward, the people felt that they needed guidance and they told Aaron to make an idol to lead them. There are many prophetic idols set up in the absence of God’s true apostolic authority today.

As Christians measure their faith to the idol, they fail to measure their faith to Jesus.

Many are taught how to skim the stones of prophecy over the troubled waters of the church and the world to see how far they can go with each revelation before it sinks below the surface.

“Skimming stones” was a word of knowledge received for this teaching. When googling the difference between skimming and skipping stones, we find that both are a competition. Skipping a stone across the water refers to the number of times a stone skips before it sinks, and skimming a stone across the water refers to the distance a stone will go before it sinks.

So, in this word of knowledge, we can see the wisdom of God to lay out how false prophets see how far they can go with each prophecy before it sinks and then try their hand again to speak another revelation from God and try to go the distance with that revelation before it inevitably sinks. It also points to the competition between false prophets and the entertainment it provides for readers or their followers.

Those who elected themselves to be God’s voice speak (prophesy) from their own heart, not God’s heart. They want to see how far they can go with each “revelation” they receive and then repeat the process. But the church never advances. (Jer. 14:14)

As the stone of prophecy sinks, so also does their hope. And as their hope sinks again, Christians find themselves living in uncertainty, wandering for direction, looking for another light because it is clear that their expectations have come to nothing.

We can understand why God initiated an apostolic reset.

God gave us a promise of cleansing by the gospel of regeneration, but false ministers put the experience into a system that does not include Jesus’ covenant knowledge. Today, God is redirecting the church away from the false light of prophecy.

Prophecy is not the light of the church.

The light is put within the anointing and the anointing is put within God’s apostolic stewards that bring the knowledge of Jesus’ covenant into focus to teach believers how we function and cooperate with the Holy Spirit with the spiritual tools that join us to God. As Jesus also said, “As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” (John 9:5)

There can be no cleansing of the heart outside of the walls of God’s covenant house under the false light of prophecy. And nothing is unclean inside of God’s house.

Divine Dream: The Cleansing of the Church is Not Through Earthly Water

On May 27, 2024 the Lord gave me a divine dream in which two men wanted to enter my room and use my bathroom. I told them to leave because the room was full and that there was no more space for them.

I then said that everyone needed to be washed by the Urim and Thummin. As I looked to the right, I saw some sort of washing machine already installed. I immediately told myself to remember this when I woke up. [end dream]

No Room is Given to False Cleansing

Let’s take this dream to the covenant of Christ to open up God’s meaning. First, who are the men who wanted to room with me and use my bathroom? These are the false ministers and false prophets who want to share the room occupied by God’s restored government, but there is no space given to them. Apostle Paul also set this tradition for the church.

Galatians 2:5
To whom we gave place by subjection, no, not for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.

In other words, Apostle Paul, by the Spirit, addressed those who picked up the prophetic and apostolic torch, but they preached another gospel for their cleansing that is not the gospel of regeneration. They have to be washed by the Urim and Thummin, which is God’s apostolic reset.

Through the apostles of God’s restored spiritual government the church is being reset to Jesus’ covenant conditions and empowered with His spiritual tools. If we serve Him now with heavenly things, we walk in heavenly places.

The washing machine of the Holy Spirit has already been installed in the priesthood of each believer which false prophets deny. They chose the cleansing of the water baptism in the name of John to replace the Spirit baptism in the name of Jesus. If you deny your priesthood, you deny your cleansing and your hands can’t labor to build God’s house.

God reveals through His apostolic reset that even though your heart is stirred every time you hear false prophets draw you to the waters of this earth for your cleansing or to their false altars for deliverance, your faith is not being stirred.

God makes a distinction between the skimming stones of false prophecy and the true Urim and anointing on His restored government. These are two different paths and God is calling His bride into the blessing of His work in you and increase by His anointing.

God’s Urim and Thummim

God’s Urim and Thummim is not a question of what, but a question of who. Who is God’s Urim and Thummim? In the book of Exodus, we see that God selected a steward through whom He would direct the children of Israel in knowledge according to the covenant He established through Moses.

Exodus 28:30
And thou shalt put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim; and they shall be upon Aaron’s heart, when he goeth in before the LORD: and Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel upon his heart before the LORD continually.

As long as the priesthood remained joined to the stewardship the people followed the Lord in His covenant provisions. But whenever they strayed from the covenant God gave through Moses, they had to have a covenant reset.

When the children of Israel returned from captivity and God reset them to the covenant of that time, there were many who claimed to stand in the room of the priesthood as guides to the people. They stood in line to be confirmed into the room of the holy priesthood in order to teach the people how to function in the temple.

They wanted to stand as God’s light, but they were not allowed to teach or function until it could be determined by the one who held the Urim and Thummim whether or not their claims were valid.

As it happened, their names were not found in the registry and therefore they were regarded as polluted and not allowed into the room of the priesthood. Let’s look at those scriptures in Ezra.

Ezra 2:61-63
61And of the children of the priests: the children of Habaiah, the children of Koz, the children of Barzillai; which took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called after their name:

62These sought their register among those that were reckoned by genealogy, but they were not found: therefore were they, as polluted, put from the priesthood.

63And the Tirshatha said unto them, that they should not eat of the most holy things, till there stood up a priest with Urim and with Thummim.

The same thing is happening today. There are many ministers getting hands laid on them to stand in the apostolic and prophetic callings, but their names are not found in God’s registry.

How do we know?

If your face is set against the cleansing of God that can only come through Jesus’ covenant conditions, this says to God that you want to come into His house some other way and select your own authority for cleansing.

The key of knowledge that is given to God’s stewards of grace lays out God’s covenant conditions through Jesus. This opens the door for us to cooperate with Him as He daily cleanses our soul. This key of knowledge has been restored in God’s apostolic reset. Any other key of knowledge is not the Urim of God’s choice and will not open His door. Jesus said the same thing.

Luke 11:52
Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.

Who are these spiritual misguided leaders today that have taken away the key of the knowledge of Jesus’ covenant? How have they hindered you from entering into Jesus’ covenant house?

And as we go back to the word of knowledge, skimming stones, we see the parable that God provides for our understanding. God compares the true stone of His Urim (apostolic authority) to the skimming stones of false prophets and false ministers. The word of knowledge gives us a perfect parable to clearly understand the contrast God makes as He gives discernment back to the body and turns the tide of false knowledge.

People are eager to stand on the right side of God and faith and rejoice in the knowledge that we can only be saved in Jesus, but their ears are full of the prophecies of the day that fall short of the glory of God. As each prophet takes their turn to see how far his prophetic stone will go before it sinks, there are many onlookers entertained by the game, but it brings shame to the name of Jesus.

We are daily confronted with so many morally good people who are ready listeners to a message that stirs hope in their hearts that God has not forgotten them, but they are again victimized by the prophetic merry-go-round which is like a sweeping rain that leaves no food.

Proverbs 28:3
A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.

A God of Covenant

God established His new covenant through Jesus so that anyone, anywhere can enter into a covenant relationship with Him by accepting His conditions for exchange. We hear a lot these days about which nation is in covenant with God or which state in America is in covenant with God?

Psalm 33:12
Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.

The idea of covenant has been misaligned to mean that God establishes a covenant with anyone who accepts Him as the Supreme Being and Jesus as His Son as his personal Savior. But that’s not true. God is the life giver through Jesus Christ and His relationship with us is built upon the new knowledge contained in His covenant conditions that binds us to Him.

We are blessed with the process that God put within the record of Christ for our increase in His kingdom and we are blessed with the anointing that attends our faith as we accept the stewardship of His kingdom.

Jesus died to give us a new covenant in Himself and rose from the dead to empower the spiritual tools He sanctified with His blood for us to bond and build with Him. When the stewardship and priesthood of His covenant is not central to your faith the things that God placed in Jesus’ covenant to build with you remain out of reach.

Substituting your own cleansing to replace God’s covenant is iniquitous. Iniquity has now reached the point where man believes his voice is God’s voice and that he can trust his own judgment based on what he thinks God wants to do.

Crisis and chaos rule the world under many false stewards and therefore God says you need to accept the government of His anointing that cleanses. The anointing is the healing waters of Jesus’ covenant knowledge.

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