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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.

God is unmasking the daze of deception that takes place when Jesus’ covenant foundation is rejected. He is bringing out into the open how Satan’s ministers have agreed among themselves that truth is unknowable. They work to erase truth and the expectation of truth entirely from the minds of believers.

The first thing they do is turn the spotlight off themselves and onto a common foe. This is exactly what Jack Hibbs does when he warns that the spirit of Antichrist is already at work and says that deception maybe shows up in “what’s being taught or not taught”.

This catch-all phrase about deception is not the truth of Jesus’ covenant. This is the condition of Satan’s wilderness church. His ministers speak of “visible” and “invisible” errors, but they cannot discern either.

  • Satan gave them the common foe—the Antichrist—to keep them occupied and distracted so they never confront the covenant truth they rejected.

Ministers normalize deception as something they expect in their midst, even among themselves, but hide from you what they have done: they made a choice to accept a covenant‑less gospel and defend the counterfeit system that replaced Christ.

Hibbs won’t say it, but he’s hiding his own disbelief of Jesus’ one covenant foundation.

He’s confessing his own blindness while concealing the cause of it. Satan made his deception easy to take on and impossible to discern. The Apostle Paul warned of ministers like Hibbs.

1 Timothy 5:15
For some are already turned aside after Satan.

While God designed our discernment to take place through His apostolic stewardship, the trusted teachers of Jesus’ covenant knowledge, Hibbs long ago accepted Satan’s substitute for Jesus’ covenant and God is now unmasking the daze of his deception: the confusion he produces by neglecting his immediate responsibility to Jesus’ covenant.

The Deception No One Discerns

Truth, from God’s perspective, is the whole of Jesus’ covenant beginning with the apostolic stewardship that equips the saints with His spiritual tools for fruit bearing in their priesthood.

Hibbs conceals the fact that he has rejected Jesus’ covenant, and God’s truth is invisible to him. He cannot discern where Satan’s lies attach themselves to the very scriptures he upholds.

Satan has deceived an entire Christian culture into embracing the gospel of his substitutes and counterfeits while professing Jesus Christ. God is revealing the extent of that deception operating within the very Charismatic and Evangelical circles that profess His name.

Hibbs repositions himself as the corrector of the visible and invisible errors he had a hand in designing. The very errors he has taught the church.

In the covenant void, Satan’s ministers all have their own brand of truth. They wrestle with scripture to establish their own understanding of God, then present these interpretations to believers as the truth of Jesus Christ.

This is what happens when Jesus’ covenant is rejected.

One Complete Foundation VS Competing Truths

God did not establish competing foundations for His church. He delivered one complete foundation of covenant truth through His apostles.

Satan cultivated an entire Christian mindset by persuading ministers and believers that the pursuit of truth is equal to possessing it. Satan’s ministers continually search, interpret, and defend their own brand of Christianity, believing they are progressing in God, while leaving untaught Jesus’ covenant foundation.

They confess the historical facts of Jesus Christ, that He is the Messiah, that He died and rose again, yet remain outside the covenant where God brings forth regeneration and the fruits of righteousness.

This is how Satan has repositioned the counterfeit gospel. He has taught believers to cling to the Bible as their Saviour, continually confirming what scripture says while remaining outside the covenant that gives them life. Jesus directly addressed this condition.

John 5:39–40:
39Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.

40And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.

The “search” of scripture has now become Satan’s calling card instead of the Lord’s discernment. Jesus knew that the religious leaders of His time made careful search of the scriptures to support their traditions.

Jesus marks Satan’s error through the religious leaders who thought the scriptures themselves held life. He said, “in them ‘you think’ you have eternal life.” The Lord corrected their faulty compass, and the apostles are doing the same today.

An Action of Inaction

The enemy’s subtle deception is seen in Hibbs’ action which is actually inaction: cautioning believers to deception within the walls of the Christian communities, while depriving them of the foundation of truth Jesus gave the church to arm their discernment while leaving the counterfeit in place.

Chad MacDonald follows the same counterfeit pattern. He admits to seeing a “twisted counterfeit” that “mimics God’s design”, yet distances himself from decades of active support for Satan’s counterfeit of Christ by pressing the “witchcraft and Satanism” button instead.

MacDonald’s preaching shifts to storytelling about demon possession and witchcraft to keep the focus off of himself and the rebellion God is calling out.

It’s like saying, “If you want proof of a counterfeit—there’s the counterfeit!”

But even Jesus taught that the enemy’s work in His church is not found in demon possession but in counterfeiting the knowledge God designed for sanctified contact with Him. The power of the Holy Spirit rests only upon Jesus’ covenant knowledge.

Jesus said, “I know where Satan’s seat is.” Our Lord identified Satan’s seat as the place in the church where ministers who abandoned God’s new covenant freely taught and exercised authority. They replaced His covenant with the doctrine and traditions of men. Satan’s seat is the false authority ministers give to scripture while subtly erasing Jesus’ covenant knowledge, stewardship, and spiritual tools. (Rev. 2:13)

When Jesus listed the counterfeit knowledge that had crept into His church, He wasn’t speaking of demon possession or those who taught witchcraft. He named the influence of Satan’s ministers who took over whole churches to teach their own brand of Christianity—which Jesus called the “synagogue of Satan”. (Rev. 2:9)

The Lord Himself laid out Satan’s inroads into the church:

The doctrine of the Nicolaitanes: Satan’s ministers mixed covenants to keep the church indebted to the flesh. Moses’ truth and tools were mixed with Jesus’ truth and tools, and it was this mixture that Jesus spit out of His mouth. He would not drink of this mixed wine. (Rev. 3:16)

The doctrine of Balaam: this describes the revelations and scripture quoting of ministers who remain independent of Jesus’ covenant stewardship and foundation. This act is called Balaam after the prophet who removed himself from Moses, the steward of God’s house. Balaam wanted to be seen as true to God while building his own ministry tent outside God’s house where his teaching caused Israel to stumble. (Rev. 2:14)

The doctrine of Jezebel: this describes the false prophetic movement, and the false deliverance and spiritual warfare movements. These have their identity in Jezebel. She introduced her own prophets to confirm a system God never built. (Rev. 2:20)

The Lord points to Satan’s systematic replacement of Jesus with his own brand of truths.cCharismatic ministry leaders treat Nicolaitanes, Balaam, and Jezebel like “issues” to be spotted, avoided, or corrected, as if they were random potholes on the road.

But these false doctrines are Satan’s seat. They are the predictable results of rejecting Jesus’ covenant and accepting Satan’s counterfeits.

Where the Lord lays bare “rebellion” against His apostolic stewardship, Satan’s ministers divert your attention to demon possession and storytelling theatrics. But the Lord made it known that “rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry.” (1 Sam. 15:23)

Satan’s counterfeit gospel and those who teach it are rebellious against God and God addresses it at the same level as the sin of witchcraft because He is identifying its source: the counterfeit is born of Satan himself. The devil shields himself behind his ministers who replaced Jesus with scripture to build a kingdom for themselves.

Believers continually confirm what scripture says about Jesus, yet refuse to come into His covenant where God gives life to their soul.

The Spirit speaks expressly: the scriptures testify of Jesus Christ to confirm Him in His own covenant, but scripture cannot create the reality of that experience.

Apostle Paul confirms the purpose of God’s foundation knowledge to establish you firmly in Jesus’ covenant.

Ephesians 4:14
That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive.

God is not calling believers to become more skilled at identifying deception while remaining outside His covenant. He is calling them to return to the one foundation of Jesus Christ, delivered through His apostles.

Satan Rebrands Fragmentation as Unity

Are you ready to cast off Satan’s counterfeit Christianity? Then it’s time to share another portion from Apostle Eric vonAnderseck’s new book, Apostles Restore the Lost Foundation. In the following excerpt, Apostle Eric identifies the voice behind the familiar advice that “theological disagreement is actually unity in disguise”.

How many times have ministers excused Satan’s corruption of Jesus’ covenant by passing it off as “theological disagreement”? How many ways have you heard Satan’s ministers rebrand disunity as unity?

Satan rebrands fragmentation as unity because his ministers made their decisions apart from apostolic stewardship. They acted on their own to ban God’s whole, complete body of covenant knowledge without considering how the absence of that foundation fractures faith and wounds the heart of the church.

Stay with me now as we step into this section, where God removes Satan’s disguise. The Lord defined theological disagreements through the Apostle Paul—they preach another Jesus which God disagrees with.

All the apostles warned believers not to follow the serpent’s corruption of knowledge because it works to subtly turn their minds from the simplicity of Jesus’ covenant to build with another Jesus and another gospel by another spirit. Let’s look at how the Apostle Paul lays this out.

2 Corinthians 11:2-4
2For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

4 For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.

The Apostle Paul, through the Spirit, builds contrast between covenant knowledge and corrupted knowledge, and this same warning is heard again today through God’s real apostles.

  • Who is preaching another Jesus other than the Jesus the apostles made known through His covenant knowledge?
  • Who is preaching another gospel other than the one they received from Jesus’ apostles?
  • Who is preaching by another spirit that is not the Holy Spirit?

Ministry leaders, Christian journalists and authors, story tellers, and influencers of the Charismatic Movement all had a hand in preaching another Jesus when they set a false foundation for believers in the scriptures to speak to the features of the flesh.

The ancient serpent of deception works today to deceive believers just as he did with Eve, having her tune in to what she knew naturally—using the drive of her God-Code to speak God’s promises in her ear. As she willingly ate from Satan’s fruit basket, her imagination projected an outcome with his promise based on what God had said.

  • Everywhere on social media, Satan’s permission to rebrand Jesus’ gospel is heard. His lie is that scripture is the foundation rather than Jesus.

The deception rings true to what you have heard: as long as everyone reads from the Bible and makes their theological position known from scripture that makes all preaching come from one foundation. But their foundation is Satan’s fruit basket. It doesn’t matter what you pick from his basket of knowledge—it’s all corrupted.

The Lord has been dismantling Satan’s false foundation and revealing system-wide coverups. Ministers have consistently stood by the secret bond they made behind closed doors. They made a decision that they do not want God’s one foundation of truth because that would cut off all the avenues they wanted to explore. Scripture is being used as a substitute foundation and agreeing to disagree is being mistaken for unity in Christ.

Satan’s cautionary words, “We all need to be discerning” masks the lie he hides in his illusion that discernment takes place in the dark.

What ministers have not been able to discern is Satan’s false knowledge. A departure from God’s one foundation is normalized as “theological disagreements” rather than what it is—rebellion against God.

The same permission to accept another foundation, another Jesus, and preach another gospel is repeated daily. Perhaps you’ve heard it said this way:

“He [minister’s name] made clear he was not advocating for what he called “heresy hunter” culture, where ministries are attacked over theological disagreements.”

Calling rebellion “disagreement” is a protective disguise. I’ve said many times, that God’s instruction is not an attack. God is removing Satan’s lies. Ministers reject the one true foundation God placed in Jesus because it excludes their self‑authored exploration. God is removing Satan’s lies and revealing why ministers reject the one true foundation He placed in Jesus—it excludes their self authored exploration.

Are You Eating From Satan’s Fruit Basket?

The enemy convinced believers that the scriptures were their screening process and backing rather than the apostolic calling. They thought that if God’s promises to them could be backed by scripture and spoke what was true about the features of the flesh, then they had a green light to eat from Satan’s fruit basket.

Their minds were and are corrupted from the simplicity of Jesus’ covenant knowledge. The corruption was accepted the moment they agreed 100% with the devil that Jesus’ truth as a whole, functioning foundation cannot be known and other foundations were necessary and acceptable.

When the Apostle Paul says, “I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ”, he’s speaking of joining believers to God’s one foundation of truth to present each saint in Christ unspoiled and untouched from Satan’s corrupted forms of knowledge where he deceptively shields his lies behind scripture. (2 Cor. 11:2)

  • ONE Jesus versus another Jesus
  • ONE gospel versus many gospels

God defined theological disagreements through the Apostle Paul—they preach another Jesus which God disagrees with. They preach another gospel that God has not authored. Theological disagreements are being redefined by God, not by the current Christian culture.

You can finally identify the voice that speaks through the familiar advice that “theological disagreement is actually unity in disguise”.

The same warning the Lord gave through the Apostle Paul, is again heard through His apostles today: If he that comes (the influencer, journalist, Christian author) preaches another Jesus and another gospel other than Jesus’ covenant kingdom, stewardship, priesthood and tools—God does not accept that minister and has not sent him.

God is correcting the mindset Satan cultivated in Charismatic culture—the mindset that says truth cannot be known because we do not want to know it. And the mindset that says that God’s divine blueprint is found in fragmented foundations, rather than one whole foundation of truth.

From these assumptions comes the demand to accept “theological disagreements”. Claiming “no harm—no foul”, many assume Satan’s false knowledge is harmless. But God calls the foul. That perspective comes straight from Satan’s fruit basket and is poison to His people.

Satan designed the mindset to function as his permission slip, keeping believers from God’s one foundation of knowledge while explaining why confusion is normal.

  • In the false church body, “disagreements” are expected, encouraged, and treated as a sign of spiritual maturity.

The enemy reduced disagreement to “the leading of the Spirit”, where each minister is free to follow what they call the Spirit’s leading — even when others may not share the same “vision” from God.

Ministers accept Satan’s counterfeit truths as God’s vision for them. But the enemy hides from them that his progressive truths never lead into one whole truth and will never please God and never allow a covenant relationship with Him to begin.

Satan reframed truth as a journey rather than a foundation.

Are You On a Journey Toward Truth?

Now let me formally introduce this journey to you. A journey many have walked for decades. Satan designed a false journey that uses truth as its theme while hiding the foundation it replaces and granting an exemption from it.

He began with your condition: you were never given one whole foundation of truth, you never received Jesus’ covenant blueprint, so Satan’s exemption from truth felt true to your own experience and welcomed.

The reasoning sounded spiritual: “We don’t all have one truth, so we must all be on the same journey toward it—and we should not judge what others receive as their ‘vision’ from God.”

Ministers accepted Satan’s false journey toward truth because they did not want God’s one foundation of truth to know Him and build with Him. Satan had already convinced them that Jesus’ covenant foundation was unnecessary, and they surrendered to Satan and came into full agreement with the devil that the journey itself had its own rewards. It was full of self-discovery and self-realizations.

Ministers excuse their disunity as necessary diversity, and they see diversity as a vehicle for their peace as they take on Satan’s journey. The apostles of the first century were able to identify those ministers who claimed to preach Christ, but preached Satan’s counterfeit teachings, and real apostles do the same today.

1 Timothy 5:15
For some are already turned aside after Satan.

Remember, the Lord is addressing those who turned aside to accept knowledge that rejects His covenant and replaces it with scripture, which is exactly what Satan’s ministers do.

Satan covered his tracks by creating an addiction to the journey—the longing, the striving, the constant search for meaning that fills the covenant void with his substitutes. The journey itself, the addiction it produced, and Satan’s exemptions and substitutes for Jesus have all been handed down to you as part of his wilderness gospel.

Jesus’ one framework of truth was rejected because it did not feed their appetite to know themselves. They chose the journey toward truth instead, collecting the bits and pieces Satan allowed them to find along the way, mistaking those fragments for the Holy Spirit’s teaching.

The enemy’s deception is not new, and he masters it well through his ministers who pass on his false journey—now firmly embedded in the mind of the church as God’s will. It is a structured system of corrupted knowledge that uses scripture, imagination, and your natural design to detach you from the one foundation of Jesus’ covenant God designed.

  • Modern Christianity has normalized this detachment from truth by covering up the confusion, disunity, and disharmony everyone feels.

The lie they tell is that “theological disagreement” is harmless diversity that everyone should expect. Instead of one whole foundation that never changes—the one blueprint everyone draws from that makes Jesus’ covenant a living reality —the devil convinced ministers that they are progressing toward truth.

Under that convincing lie, ministers came to believe the false story that the destination (truth) is less important than the journey. The familiar, well‑worn journey that encourages believers to gather personal nuggets (partial truths) under the illusion of being Spirit‑led. They never realized they were listening to seducing spirits that hold them on Satan’s wilderness paths.

Are You Ready to Cast off Satan’s Counterfeit Christianity?

The Apostle Paul identifies theological disfigurement of Christ (disagreements) as a transgression against God. They had received another Jesus. Theological disagreement is not harmless diversity; it is evidence of another Jesus and another gospel carried by seducing spirits.

  • Satan built a mindset in the Charismatic culture that treats truth as unknowable and disagreement as acceptable and Satan’s wilderness path as a necessary progression toward truth.

But what begins in Satan’s counterfeit knowledge never progresses into God’s whole covenant truth—it only progresses in the same error that is embraced.

The Lord is laying this transgression at the feet of the ministers who built the false church body within the Charismatic-Evangelical walls. This mindset trained believers to use scripture as a substitute for apostolic authority, giving them permission to eat from Satan’s fruit basket without recognizing the poison.

And as the Lord now lifts the veil of ignorance, you are invited to see what Satan’s ministers fought hard to keep from you—their hands-down rejection of Jesus’ covenant foundation knowledge and how they masked that in their own invented language.

The moment the veil lifts, the counterfeit becomes visible. What once felt like a wilderness “season” now appears as the covenant rejection it always was.

  • The Lord ministered a word of knowledge to assist your understanding: “The wilderness is Satan’s confabulation.”

We know what confabulation is—it’s a memory failure in which a person fills empty spaces with fabricated or distorted details. The word of knowledge is fitting for ministry leadership’s habit of constructing a false reality for their faith, filling in the gaps the devil created through their rejection of Jesus’ covenant.

The Lord highlighted this natural phenomenon because it mirrors the spiritual condition: when something essential has been lost, the mind constructs a substitute without realizing the truth is missing. It searches for meaning where no reality exists.

In the false church body, their entire faith exists to fill in these gaps and to accept the false sense of progression that comes with Satan’s promises. They don’t feel the deception because they cannot discern it, and they’ve been living inside the fabrication for decades.

Rejecting Jesus’ covenant stewardship and knowledge is not a good look for ministry leaders, so the wilderness gospel becomes Satan’s optics—a fabricated narrative constructed to hide rebellion and distort the knowledge and experience of Christ; repeated so consistently, with invented details, that the person believes the fabrication is true.

Satan’s fabrications serve a purpose. He doesn’t just distort—he covers something missing. Confabulation always hides a gap. Here, the gap is the missing covenant foundation. The wilderness is Satan’t confabulation. It’s a cover story to explain the gap created by rejecting Jesus’ covenant and the choice to offer a counterfeit option in its place.

Ministers needed a narrative that excused their ignorance, sanctified their rebellion, normalized their confusion, and justified their rejection of apostolic stewardship and covenant knowledge. They needed a shared wilderness experience and shared wilderness stories that would replace the true testimony of Jesus Christ in His covenant contact. The wilderness gospel accomplishes this with precision.

But now, as the veil lifts, you can see beneath the lie. You can see the cover up of the counterfeit gospel that once felt untouchable. You can see the confabulation for what it is. The apostolic calling is God’s refuge and voice to ensure you remain unspoiled by Satan’s counterfeit knowledge and counterfeit gospels.

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