The Church of the 6th Week of Darkness

In the introduction, presented by my wife, Teacher Maria vonAnderseck, we saw God’s plan of the ages and how He divided His plan into weeks and stewards. We recognized the steward of each week from Enoch to Jesus, and the significant role each steward played as God initiated His perfect will through them.

We saw God announce the Second 8th Week in 1 Enoch 91:12.

1 Enoch 91:12
Then after that there shall occur the Second 8th Week; the week of righteousness. A sword shall be given to it in order that judgment shall be executed in righteousness on the oppressors, and sinners shall be delivered into the hands of the righteous.

In this installment of the lesson series, The Second 8th Week, we’ll take a deep dive into the abyss of the 6th Week church to learn why so many ministers find themselves stubbornly stuck there.

We’ll start by looking at the timeline again. You’ll notice in God’s timeline below that the Sixth Enochian Week is positioned between the First and Second 8th Week – the Week of Jesus’ stewardship.

The First 8th Week is the beginning of Jesus’ stewardship and the Second 8th Week is the restoration of His stewardship in these end times. We remember Hosea’s prophecy that “after two days [after two thousand years of darkness] He will revive us”, and that’s what God has done through the things He restored to the church. (Hos. 6:2a)

We see on the timeline illustration the things God has restored to the church… the apostles’ calling has been restored, Jesus’ covenant and original foundation of truth have been restored, the priesthood of the believer, and true prophecy have also been restored and are ready for you to begin a new journey in Christ.

Ministers At The Crossroad of Covenant

There are many in the crossroad of covenant, comparing the old wine of the 6th Week to the new wine of the Second 8th Week and they have said that the old wine is better. As we explore the 6th Week of darkness and the stewardship of the 6th Week, we’ll find out why the old wine is preferred, why God calls the ministry of the fake church “darkness”, and why major ministry leaders are calling it something else.

God is revealing what ministers are doing in the crossroad of the covenant in His time of correction. As they continue to deny Jesus’ covenant and the stewardship of His covenant, they are curating their own crossroad stories to shield themselves behind many layers of lies that are built upon their own traditions.

We’ll get into the threshing floor of God’s rebukes against ministers of darkness, we’ll find out who they are, and why their crossroad stories should not be accepted.

We’ll also get into your own personal crossroad story, which God will curate for you. I’ll share more about the apostles’ calling and how it functions in the church, and share more about the testimony that Jesus built into His calling upon me.

It’s vital to understand God’s work today to shift the church from the confusion that dominated and ruled the perception of believers during the 6th Week of darkness to the blessing of restoration that is now happening in the Second 8th Week of righteousness.

– The Second 8th Week (s8w) is a new beginning for the church.

The anointing that was upon Jesus when He was on earth was transferred to the apostles of the First 8th Week and now also is upon the apostles of the Second 8th Week.

The apostolic anointing renewed to the church: I saw this in a vision I received on October 12, 2024. I saw Jesus standing at the mouth of a cave and I saw myself standing just inside the cave. Jesus had a bright halo upon His head that shone with a supernatural brilliance. He took a portion of the His Light (halo) from His head and placed it on my head, thus sanctifying the birth of the new apostolic stewardship of the Second 8th Week to preach the gospel of His covenant. (Lk. 4:18)

Ministers Feel God’s Challenge in the Crossroad

The introduction of the First 8th Week presented multiple challenges to the religious reason of the time, but all those who prepared their hearts through the preaching of John the Baptist were quickened by the Spirit to hear the words of life from Jesus. (Jn. 6:63)

Jesus said to Nathaniel, “Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!” But to the religious leaders of the time, He said, “Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.” (Jn. 1:47; Mt.23:24)

While the common people heard Jesus gladly, the religious scholars and teachers questioned His every move; they questioned His claims to be our Messiah, they questioned God’s timing, they took the middle of the road, and twisted Jesus’ words. (Mk. 12:37; Mk. 11:33)

Why would the religious leaders neglect to prepare their hearts? Why would they refuse to accept Jesus? Simply because they were waiting for something else and Jesus’ words represented a transition, a changing of the guard, and they felt that their position was being threatened. The same thing is happening today.

A Hard Look at the Major Movers and Shakers

As we take a good hard look at major movers and shakers of the church today, we’re looking at the very ministers who helped shape the Sixth Week church as we see it now, spiritually blind, under Satan’s influence, and groping in the dark for direction. We understand God’s quarrel against them.

Ministry heads, prophetic ministry leaders, theologians, apologists, and Christian authors and conference speakers who have long entrenched themselves as the leaders of the church have responded to God’s challenge by asking, “Are you saying that we are blind?”

Many of you will remember that the Pharisees also asked Jesus the same thing when they heard Him proclaim that He not only came to give hope to the people, but to reveal hearts. Jesus said, “For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind.”

Upon hearing this, the Pharisees were pricked with conviction because they already knew that the truth they argued was flavored with their own prejudices. They knew that God’s searchlight had already visited them on many occasions and each time yielded the same results: their repentance went no further than to cover their own nakedness. They were blind leaders of the blind, meaning that they were keeping God’s people in the dark.

So, they challenged Jesus, “Are we blind also?” And Jesus responded, “If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin remains.” (John 9:39-41)

Jesus knew that every time the religious leaders side-stepped His challenges and formed their own discussion groups to circle the wagons, it was because they thought that they were the eyes of the people. In other words, we’re not blind, we are well informed, we read the same scriptures you do and God is showing us something else.

Regardless of the fact that Jesus, the Son of God was standing in front of them as the key to transition, being the new covenant, they chose to repeat what they heard in their own echo chamber, and that was the darkened perception they claimed as their light. Jesus was preparing the people for the transition of weeks and the Pharisees and religious thinkers decided that this was not the direction they wanted to go in, so they stood in the way.

The body of Christ is in the same spot today as God introduces a new week, the Second 8th Week. The apostles today are the key to transition, being the stewards of the covenant. Through them, Jesus is re-equipping the church with the original foundational knowledge to transition your faith from the shadows of darkness into the glorious light of Christ.

Many ministers today are repeating the destructive pattern of the Pharisees, resisting Jesus, circling the wagons and repeating what they hear in their own echo chambers – the darkened perception they claim as their light.

This is a challenging season for the church.

While there are many Nathaniel hearts who hear the voice of the Lord and therefore accept the voice of stewardship, there are many ministers of the fake gospel who want to remain blind, and as Jesus said, their sin remains.

This study into the Sixth Week church is about making sure that everyone has a chance to leave that system. Many do hear God’s call to leave behind the broken system of the fake church, but they take God’s commandment as an opportunity for self-reflection to render their own crossroad stories. Determined to make a stand for themselves in the 6th Week, they are determined to turn their failures into something worth celebrating.

Believers who resist God’s covenant follow the path of their own pleasures and build with false knowledge that opposes the stewardship of the house, committing spiritual adultery and playing the harlot. (Rev. 2:22)

Adultery = bonding with another to build trust which is idolatry. (2 Pet. 2:14)
Harlot = unprofitable contact also called spiritual fornication. (Rev. 17:5)

The apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers of the Second 8th Week are the real apostolic wave. We are leading believers into Jesus’ covenant to meet God there, but ministers of the false church body are still peddling the dream that God will suddenly burst on the scene to sweep them into something new, without taking responsibility to God’s covenant in Jesus.

– Ignoring Jesus’ covenant, ministers hope to keep you detained behind the bars of their fake gospel and counterfeit stewardship.

– Their false teachings and fake declarations are daily released to a global audience via social media, religious publications and commentaries. They warn you against the truth and subvert the apostolic stewardship by taking it to themselves. Woe unto them, says the Lord.

The teaching of the 6th Week of darkness is a cautionary tale. You, as a believer in Christ, need to know the WHO and the WHY.

The WHO: When you hear crossroad stories and testimonies of God doing something new in the church, but no mention is made of Jesus’ covenant and the apostolic stewardship of the covenant; and the tools of the covenant are intentionally excluded, and no connections are made to your priesthood, these are Satan’s ministers preaching to you. (2 Cor. 11:13; Rev. 2:13)

God is giving you permission to flee from them. They promise liberty in fake deliverance teaching and fake prophetic teaching, but they themselves serve corruption and are the servants of corruption. They are overcome by the serpent of deception and turn Christians into daughters of darkness.

This happened in the First 8th Week when the apostles guided the church and the ministers of the 6th Week began to arise. Apostle Peter gave instruction to the church about why the servants of corruption must be turned away.

2 Peter 2:19
While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.

The counterfeit apostolic and prophetic waves have made known their heart. The words of the ungodly will destroy, but the words of the righteous will restore.

Psalms 93:3
The floods have lifted up, O Lord, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves.

Ministers Who Are Caught up in the 6th Week of Darkness

Each crossroad story that is published in the fake church contains dozens of poisonous confessions that resonate with a broken body. But just because the damage done to you in the 6th Week of darkness resonates with you does NOT give ministers permission to continue to commune with you there.

They’re hiding the fact that they have not transitioned to Jesus’ covenant – they’re still caught up in the 6th Week of darkness and they want to keep you bound there, too.

You have heard the testimonies of confusion and frustration, exhaustion and embarrassment. And it is true, ministers are owning up to their negligence; but God does not want you to establish your testimony there. God wants to move your testimony from that which destroys to that which restores and builds.

For everyone’s understanding, the testimonies of the fake gospel follow a pattern of cultural bias and denial, whereas the heart of the broken church is celebrated while Jesus’ covenant is denied.

Ministry leaders carefully curate a story of near misses and heartfelt searching. They curate a testimony out of darkness, but God wants to author your testimony in Christ, in His covenant. You no longer need others to curate your story.

You will notice that ministers continue to state what is true about the 6th Week of darkness, but not that which is true about the restoration of the church to the Second 8th Week. Where does that leave you?

– The Second 8th Week (s8w) is God’s call back to Jesus’ covenant.

There are many misunderstandings of the true gospel of Jesus Christ and for a time God did wink at these, patiently overlooking the violations to His new covenant, knowing that Satan worked a great transgression in removing all traces of it from the church. God knew that He would open up a new week – the Second 8th Week to awaken the church out of her slumber. (Acts 17:30)

God, in His great love, has allowed for this time to transition your faith back to Him. His door is open. As we watch the Lord break the bonds of the false religious system, we are in prayer for each submissive heart. Believers with patience of faith are ready to hear the steward, rather than give heed to the counsel of the foolish.

Did you know: The time of “winking” at misunderstandings is over. Once the door has been opened, God holds believers accountable for their choices. God has a transitional story with your name on it and He is ready to help you.

The Eagle Flutters Over Her Young

God is addressing a church that has lost her way and has fallen into the trance of sleep. That’s the naked and hard truth. The church has been under the shadows of darkness since the conclusion of the First 8th Week, but now the eagle flutters over her young again in the Second 8th Week.

Deuteronomy 32:11
As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings:

The eagle represents the reality of the apostolic stewardship. Moses came among the people to awaken them to the time of transition by the power of God. It was through Moses’ stewardship that the children of Israel came out of the bondage of Egypt and were led by God to receive His covenant.

– The true stewardship awakens the people to Jesus’ covenant, while the fake stewardship puts them back to sleep.

The covenant stewardship sets order to your faith. As long as stewardship is denied, Christians continue to make exhaustive lists about what they are not sure about. Prophecy remains at the top of most lists. The buzz around prophecy and prophetic accountability has the church in a fateful tailspin. It is only now, as God sets order to His covenant, that believers are learning how God designed priesthood prophecy to minister to us and through us.

– The Second 8th Week (s8w) is the restoration of true prophecy.

The prophecy of scripture speaks of the stewardship and covenant of our Lord, Jesus Christ and now that He is here and we’re living the reality of His present work to create in us His nature, its proper interpretation is no longer hidden in the allegories and no longer mistakenly aligned to our fallen nature. Let’s see how Apostle Peter lays out this instruction.

2 Peter 1:19
We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:

Jesus is the Daystar that arises; for it was prophesied that a stewardship would arise to bring salvation. The light of the knowledge of Jesus Christ, God’s Son, rose in the hearts during the First 8th Week and now again through His apostolic stewardship in the Second 8th Week.

Jesus is the revelation of all prophecy. The sure word of prophecy has its beginnings in the apostolic stewardship and in turn ripples throughout the body as all believers share in the prophecy of the priesthood to testify of Jesus. (Rev. 19:10; Is. 9:6; Lk. 2:11; Rom. 13:11)

The Daystar arises again in these last days to bring the church back to Himself, just as the eagle flutters over her young.

What is your Crossroad Story?

How have you responded to God’s challenge? A middle of the road mindset is often taken, whereas a Christian will say that we should simply allow the false teachings and proclamations of false prophets to die down. However, the message of the fake church will not die down. In truth, we know that the voice of the false religious system has not died down for 2,000 years.

God has a divine order in which He addresses the fake gospel and fake prophetic utterances. God works through His apostolic voice to restore His beloved saints to the gospel for which Jesus shed His blood.

Believers have a heart for this and have prayed for the return of God’s seamless grace and profound wisdom to the church. And that’s why we have to get into YOUR own crossroad story.

Every believer has a crossroad story.

It’s about how they found God, then slid into doubt and lost their faith. That being said, a lot happened between the bright star of finding God and the final snuffing out of that flame, and what follows as Christians sift through the ashes to try to find meaning again.

First of all, believers usually deal with their disconnection by putting on the “conference” hat, or “revival” hat, hoping that attending such meetings will address their fears and doubts and help them conquer them and allow them to break through into a new liberty in Christ.

There are so many slogans out there about breakthroughs. When believers cry out saying, we want to see revival in our day!! Or, send your fire, Lord!! it’s because they have missed out on God’s covenant connections and are looking for something to spark their faith anew.

One of the most popular things we hear along these same lines is that “there’s a time coming of an even greater outpouring of the Holy Spirit.” Whenever you hear a minister saying that something “greater” is coming it is because what they are currently experiencing has failed and has come short of their expectations. They’re constantly thinking about what could be. This is one way of pinpointing how darkness has been normalized in the fake church.

As the enthusiasm grows weak again, ministers have to keep pumping everyone up, promising something even greater to come. But God did not design your faith that way, to grow dim, and for grace to wear off, leaving you in need of something “greater”. When you accept God’s covenant through Jesus, His gifts are renewed daily for your labor with Him and your faith grows as He sustains it. You never lack His gifts or His presence.

Ministers who are caught up in the fake church are playing the same game as Balak and Balaam. They were both trying to better position themselves to receive from God, and after each failure, a new place was sought out. (Num.23:13; Jude 1:11)

Every message from this platform (promising a greater outpouring) has a dual meaning. It is often stated that something must be done to better position yourself to receive God’s new outpouring. A minister recently posted, “we are in a time of spiritual pruning to see a greater outpouring of the Holy Spirit.”

We just talked about that last part about seeing a “greater outpouring of the Holy Spirit”, now we see how it is positioned with “spiritual pruning”. Ministry leaders have taken note of God’s correction through the apostolic stewardship of the Second 8th Week, but rather than repent, they reposition themselves.

Did you know: You can’t purge yourself of false knowledge. You have to offer yourself upon the altar of instruction to be taught by the apostles of the Second 8th Week.

– TRUE REPENTANCE means accepting the covenant record of Jesus Christ.
– FALSE REPENTANCE means to better position one’s self to receive from God.

False repentance is woven into the ambiguous language that is taught to the church in darkness. While God points out their shame, ministers seek out more opportunities to reshape their messages and make more declarations to give feet to their passions, leading the church further into bondage.

Maybe you’ve noticed how the constant repositioning of your faith has left you weary, or maybe you have picked up on the endless tug of war going on in your mind and you’re looking for ways to conquer mindsets. Maybe you feel that you need to learn about spiritual warfare (again). In truth, all you need to do is learn how God designed your faith to function in His covenant. Nothing else will tether you to His power.

It is doubtful that the minister who has taken the stage has any clue about what you are going through. The proof of that is in what happens after you get home from a conference when you’re back into your routine and you discover that nothing has changed.

Did you know: Leading believers to reexamine their faith on the basis of your own struggles is not breakthrough.

Everyone has a crossroad story and let me assure you that there are no small stories, there are no unimportant stories. They are all laced with heartfelt meaning as people grapple with their love for God. Why did it start with such hope, being set aflame by the Spirit, only to end in the ashes of fallen dreams?

At first, there’s a lot of denial.

It’s not unusual for Christians to respond by saying, “You don’t know my heart!!” You can’t judge my faith because you don’t know where I’ve been!!” Christians feel judged because they want to be seen as the sum of their prayers, not the sum of their struggles. But, in truth, God wants to see each of us in the image and likeness of Christ and that requires covenant contact. The plain truth is, if you deny yourself the covenant, you deny yourself contact with God.

When believers say, “You can’t judge me”, they actually mean that they cannot discern where their faith came from and what it is made of, and where it is headed. Judging and discerning are not the same thing. God called the apostles as the Urim of the church and called all believers to discern by the doctrine of Christ that apostles set in the heart. (1 Cor. 2:14; Heb. 5:14)

Unable to discern, all crossroad stories heavily feature doubt because outside of Jesus’ covenant, you will never know where you stand with God. Because you can’t function with His new spiritual tools, you can’t progress with His fruit bearing goals for you.

What is YOUR crossroad story and how many years have you been at the crossroad?

Crossroad Stories Are Years in the Making

Crossroad stories are many years in the making, and doubt is the main character of each story. Are you still battling with doubt? Believers say that once they were able to put their doubt into words, it was clear why they felt like their faith in God shuttered and turned to stone.

Doubt is what changed the current Christian landscape, covering it with miles of tombstones left in its wake. Every tombstone reads, “I believe in God but…”

1. I don’t experience God’s presence daily. Spiritual highs don’t translate into spiritual growth.
2. I’ve heard so many conflicting truths about God, I’m at a loss to know what to believe or how God designed my connection with Him to flourish.
3. I lost the true meaning of God’s purpose of the church.
4. I lost the true foundational building blocks.
5. I play a good game online, saying “amen” to everything I believe God wants me to have, but I doubt my ability to continue living that out. Every amen feels like a promise I’ve made to God that I’ve broken.
6. I was devastated at the loss of vision to truly represent God’s kingdom. Where was God’s dream for us? Why can’t I see it preached? Why can’t I live it?
7. My heart still longs for God, but I’m finding it harder and harder to realize God’s true purpose. My faith feels fragile and broken.

Most of you can put a personal stamp on one or more of these points as they have featured in your story and your prayers. If I missed anything that is vital to your story, take a moment to acknowledge it before God and journal it into your reflection book.

We now know why God is no longer winking at the fake gospel and the many misunderstandings preached. We see the devastating impact of the fake gospel of the 6th Week, as believers labor under false assumptions and deviations of God’s truth. Satan works to keep believers blind to Jesus’ covenant and the apostolic stewardship of the Second 8th Week.

Where Does YOUR Faith Intersect?

Did you know: In the absence of real apostolic stewardship, believers are expected to build their faith without the foundation of truth that Jesus gave His apostles to give to the church. Building without Jesus’ foundation means that all the questions about faith intersect with man’s fallen nature without Jesus’ oversight.

For example, questions about anger intersect with the nature of man and become a thorny issue and begs more questions, like when does anger become a problem, when is anger personal. But because God does not intersect your faith with your nature, none of these questions are for you.

The simple truth is that when a covenant relationship with God is entered into, the thorns of man’s nature are removed. You’ll learn all about God’s Intelligent Design for Christ-Centered Spiritual Transformation® when you begin a covenant relationship with Him.

Another old question frequently pops up when your faith intersects with the fallen nature of man: can a Christian be demon possessed? This question obviously comes from the wrong foundation. A popular minister replied to this question by saying, “I believe a Christian can have anything he wants.” Yet, he has entirely missed God’s goal and teaching point that God wants us to have the nature of Christ, and that daily transitional power intersects with the tools of His covenant.

God gave us a clear and simple allegory to show us the importance of the provisions He made for us in His covenant tools in the woman who “touched” Jesus. She physically touched His garment to receive from Him. For she said in her heart, If I may “touch” but his clothes, I shall be whole. And when she touched Jesus, she was healed.

Jesus, wanting to lift this allegory out for our benefit, asked, Who touched my clothes? For He immediately knew in himself that “virtue had gone out of him”. (Mk. 5:28-31)

The allegory has become the reality.

Even though Jesus is now in heaven and we are on earth, we daily touch Him to receive His covenant benefits. I’m not talking about physical healing (although God often physically heals the body), but rather the healing of the soul.

To clarify further, I’m not talking about emotional stirring as people sway to music, or an emotional, gut response as a preacher hits the mark of your vulnerabilities. I’m also not talking about deliverance lines that are generated to “get a touch from God”. I’m talking about an equal exchange with God.

– The Second 8th Week (s8w) is a shift as God again teaches the church to touch Jesus.

We can only touch Jesus with the spiritual tools that God sanctified with His blood for our benefit. The new tools are designed by God for us to bond and build with Him. God put a measure of His grace in all of Jesus’ tools so that when we use them, grace is transferred to our soul. There are 9 operations of God in grace that directly benefit and impact us every day. A divine exchange takes place as our faith intersects with God, meaning that we reciprocate to Him, rather than to self.

The tools of Jesus’ covenant that God blessed for us are living tokens to transfer the reality of Christ in a measure of grace that God multiplies to us daily. Apostle Peter gives instruction on this transference of grace. He says that joining, or intersecting our faith to Jesus’ new altar in His new priesthood, we also are as “living stones”.

1 Peter 2:5
Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

Living stones speak. The stone that is dead is silent, meaning that the dead stone does not reciprocate to God. The law is that dead stone, for it mirrors the pattern of the fall and man’s transgressions and vulnerabilities. When ministers intersect your faith there, they take from what is natural to perpetuate a response. They’re celebrating a fleshly priesthood that leaves believers in bondage. The coal that at one time burned brightly with God’s grace has grown dim and believers mourn the loss of their light.

Satan’s ministers are constantly laboring to blow on dead coals by attending to the tombstones of doubt, vulnerability, and transgression. They were responsible for the death of faith and now continue to whitewash their errors. (Mt. 23:27-33)

God designed our faith to intersect with Himself by giving us the terms or grounds He set in place for our contact with Him. Covenant faith is a living tradition, a living stewardship. Faith is the power that virtue takes on to complete the image of Christ in the inner man, and that virtue is the beauty that does not offend, nor fade with time. Faith is absent the offense and therefore God takes pleasure in the relationship that increases His kingdom. (Col. 3:10; 2 Pet. 1:3-4; Heb. 11:6)

How has the simple covenant gospel been so misunderstood, abandoned and shamed? Ministers who are still caught up in the 6th Week of darkness are negative role models of the GOOD (they believe in Jesus’ cross), the BAD (they preach a gospel that intersects with the fleshly nature of man), and the UGLY (they work with seducing spirits and they teach doctrines of devils).

The Condition of the Church: Dream Vision 1981

I remember what Jesus said to me on September 14, 1981 in a dream vision. I saw Jesus and walked with Him as He showed me the condition of the church in bondage. Jesus showed me a prison with many prison cells representing the different independent ministries that sprang out of reformation movements, revival movements, and the Jesus Movement.

Jesus made the point of telling me that everyone was in this prison. Everyone includes the popular figureheads and ministry leaders that had risen up at that time and those risen up today. Those who claim to show the way of salvation are leading people into prison.

As I walked with Jesus through the prison, He stopped and stood before a cell door and instructed me to open it. I was standing next to Jesus listening to Him and the next instant, in the flash of an eye, I was inside Jesus’ body. I thought as He thought, I spoke as He spoke, I walked as He walked. Everything I did was directed by God and every step was powerful.

The prison doors opened by the power of God. The dream vision continued where I (as Jesus) walked into a large cafeteria. I saw inmates sitting at long tables. They had just consumed an enormous meal, yet were still hungry. The bread (knowledge) of this world cannot fill the soul.

I said to them in the voice of the Lord, “You have desired the true bread of Christ.” I held in my hand something that looked like heavenly fruit. It represented the true knowledge of God in Jesus Christ. I bowed my head and a tremendous power was released through me that radiated all around me as the fruit that I held was multiplied to all.

Jesus’ presence is again made known in the calling of the apostle to bring the church out of the darkness of the 6th Week and into the restoration of His covenant that God initiated in these end times to bring the church back to Him. The humble shall hear and know.

The Church of the Sixth Week is Off Balance

Jesus showed us the condition of the church in bondage back in 1981, but He also gave me His covenant to restore the church and it is this knowledge that God empowers to bring His people out of the bondage of confusion.

There have been many other testimonies and revelations about the condition of the church that you have no doubt heard. One minister said, “The Lord showed me that I was embracing a headless Jesus.” A headless Jesus is a church without His government with Jesus as the head. That’s the church of the 6th Week.

That confirmation is sobering, but necessary because God has been announcing that He would restore His apostolic government with Jesus as the head.

In the past 40 years, many ministers have stepped forward to share the revelations they received concerning the church being off balance, but what’s missing from their testimonies is God’s covenant map in Jesus. Just because God confirms the broken and confused state of the church in revelations and dreams does not mean that these ministers have the solution. In other words, the condition is not the solution.

The condition of the church has not changed since 1981. A generation later, ministers are still complaining that the church is off balance and ministers are still trying to self-diagnose and heal the confusion they created by making even more prayer declarations based on false teachings.

But again, the condition is not the solution.

Pointing to the obvious confusion and saying, “God is not the author of confusion or fear, and if words bring about these items, then their validity must be questioned” is not the solution. The minister who said this thought she was offering Godly counsel, but she was not.

Let’s take a moment to look at Apostle Paul’s instruction that is so often referenced out of context of Jesus’ covenant.

1 Corinthians 14:33
For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.

Who is the one confused? Those who were operating independently of the government of God were confused and causing confusion. God did not create differing and conflicting truths. God is not the one misdirecting the church. The thing is, God is rebuking and challenging the church and many use their “confusion” as a scale for discernment and God is taking away that false justification.

When Jesus spoke to the religious leaders of His time, they were caught off guard and felt that Jesus was upsetting their carefully constructed mindsets and they accused Him of bringing confusion, and they cast His words behind their back. But we know that Jesus did not confuse them; they were already confused because they had not prepared themselves for the transition Jesus came to make and were fighting against Him.

So then, the religious minded were confused, but God did not author their confusion; they chose it for themselves. Another way to say that is, God was not the one confused, they were. It was time to transition from Moses to Jesus and their confidence was in the roots of their own traditions. Jesus threatened their popularity among the people. Jesus’ words and teaching were in great conflict with what they had already established for themselves and they felt like they were losing their footing – they felt confused.

So, we’re unwrapping what “confusion” is from God’s perspective to bring true discernment. You can take note of those who point to the condition, but do not point to Jesus and His covenant as God’s solution.

The church is again in a time of transition, and so we see the same thing happening today. As ministry leaders seek to stay the course that they designed for themselves to self-diagnose, they continue to steer the church even further into darkness. The teaching of the covenant is in conflict with what they have already established for themselves, so they quote “God is not the author of confusion” when they are confused.

Whenever you see ministry leaders hang their hats on that peg, you can be sure that they do not represent the kingdom and glory of God. You should not intersect your faith with them.

Satan’s ministers gain the upper theological seats, and begin to write many books about how to serve God. Their doctrine is disconnected from Jesus’ covenant. Sixth Week ministers use scripture to misdirect the believer’s enthusiasm and then present alternative authors that set down their own theological puzzles to describe the intersection of faith to the nature of man’s constantly evolving truths.

Let’s look at a few examples of these theological puzzles:

1. Is speaking in tongues for everyone?
2. Is baptism by immersion or sprinkling?
3. Should infants be baptized?
4. How should we judge prophecy?
5. What is our authority, Jesus or the Bible?
6. Can women preach?
7. Should a man have long hair?
8. Is jewelry sin?
9. Are believers to be rich or poor?
10. Is tithing for today?
11. How do I deal with my emotions?
12. Voting and politics, what does God say?
13. Can a Christian be demon possessed?
14. Are my sins forgiven every time I sin?
15. Why does God allow hunger, famine, floods and troubles?

Your crossroad story, while under the influence of these ministers of unrighteousness, is about being fed the diet of man’s doctrine. Alarmingly, the church of the Sixth Week has found itself off balance, wondering if the minister who sold them the lie (the covenant-less gospel) has any answers.

Don’t let your crossroad story end here. It is because ministers authorized and built the off balanced church that God is rebuking them, saying, “Let my people go!”

Christians are looking to God for practical guidance in their daily growth cycles, but you won’t find that guidance in the current pool of ministers.

The apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers of the Second 8th Week all point to the same covenant foundation and knowledge that God sanctified for you to have. Everything practical about your faith comes from the foundation.

God’s second injection of the apostolic calling into the church is by divine design. All Jesus’ apostles are servants of God, serving the body of Christ living knowledge. The glory of God is contained in the letter of Jesus Christ, which is written in our hearts.

Christians Allow Themselves Time to Grieve

We can’t miss the many opportunities that Christians have given themselves to grieve the loss of their first love for God. For the past 40+ years God has announced that His will is to return the church to Jesus’ covenant, yet ministers of influence are slow to believe and have insisted that they can repair the church on their own.

As so often is the case, ministers invent their own challenges for change and transfer those challenges to you. That’s a mistake because God’s unique challenge for change is ignored and neglected. Refusing to accept Jesus’ covenant and stewardship, sin remains. (Rom. 14:23)

Satan attacks the church with false knowledge to destroy your true heritage and legacy in Christ.

The 6th Week is a Time of Spiritual Blindness Over the Church

I want to get deeper into the teaching about spiritual blindness. Spiritual blindness is a culture-bound phenomenon in the church wherein people, after exposure to the fake gospel, are fearful of moving away from familiar ground because the special language (meaningless clichés and empty phraseology) are hooks of promise they were told they have to see through on threat of consequence.

Ministers confess to hearing a “constant knock at the door of what could be” but don’t realize that’s the devil knocking. If it were not for God turning on the light, believers would remain imprisoned behind these bars of ignorance and fear.

– The Second 8th Week (s8w) is about God taking on the tough questions about faith and how it intersects with Him.

-The Second 8th Week (s8w) is about equipping you to take your place in the body of Christ.

No one is left behind. God’s message to this generation is that faith in God cannot become active sitting on the sidelines. Sitting on the sidelines is another way of saying that the church has become ineffectual when believers are inactive with Jesus’ covenant, and that describes the church of the 6th Week.

God is not sending the church into another maze of theological findings, or psychological musings about how faith intersects with the nature of man. You can forget about that failed message once and for all.

The blessing of the gospel of the Second 8th Week is the unveiling of all that is in Christ for you. But… God is also revealing how Satan removed your sight… effectively blinding you. Spiritual blindness has to do with censoring and denigrating the knowledge of God and changing it to mirror self. Rather than teach God’s covenant in Jesus, faith is given another purpose.

– The Second 8th Week (s8w) is the restoration of sight to the church.

God restores sight to a church. God’s purpose to reignite the apostolic calling today with the same measure of grace as the apostles of the First 8th Week is to turn the church back to Jesus’ original gospel.

By the cords of God’s light, the righteous are tethered together as one house, the house of His throne. Believers walking in the covenant of faith are “untouchable”. I’m talking about the religious aspirations of the Sixth Week ministers. Believers who are of Jesus’ household stand apart from the bribes of flattery and the loud aspirations that many believers in leadership offer as snares.

Ephesians 5:14-15
¹⁴ Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.

¹⁵ See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,

It might be hard for some to grasp the extent to which spiritual blindness has spread and become the norm for the church. God is speaking specifically to the Charismatic and Pentecostal movements that came out of the Jesus Movement of the 60s and 70s, and every church, ministry head, body ministry styles and worship styles that were born out of that. What God had intended for good (to bring people out of denominational houses into one house) stopped short of fulfilling His covenant purpose.

People came out of denominational houses, but did not enter into a covenant relationship with God, but rather entered into many independent ministry houses that did not provide the fulness of Christ. That dealt a crushing blow that still ripples through the body of Christ.

And as a result, ministers today who align themselves with the Jesus Movement and claim their roots in those ministry fathers (as well as earlier revivalists, reformers, and figureheads) continue to battle against pervasive gaps of faith each had a hand in creating and offloading to unsuspecting believers. Every book tackles the same issues over and over again, without scratching the surface of the true problem – the covenant of Jesus Christ has been denigrated, sidelined, forgotten, and abandoned.

While God’s call is to return to Jesus’ covenant, ministers of the 6th Week of darkness branded their own call to evangelism in hopes of sweeping their problems under the rug as they hit the reset button. The problem that God is correcting is that they are evangelizing people into ministry houses and churches that are broken away from Jesus and His covenant.

Because they are not leading people into Jesus’ covenant house, the same crippling gaps they created for themselves are being passed on to the next generation. This is not what God had in mind for discipleship.

How does the average Christian deal with these crippling gaps in their faith?

They try to overcome them. Believers have become experts at articulating what they are seeking to overcome: unbelief, doubt, temptations, fear, guilt, remorse, shame, regret to name a few, but at the top of the list is the bombardment of false gospels, the false prophetic movement, false teachings, and false doctrines.

The problem is, the continuous flow of false knowledge that earmarks the fake gospel can only be overcome by the instruction of truth, and that’s God’s purpose for His apostles.

In the absence of God’s sanctified apostles, every gap identified in the church, every drift in the wrong direction, every way in which the church has become like the world is because of spiritual blindness which hangs over the church like a blanket on account of the absence of the apostolic calling.

– Believers coming off the Jesus Movement are caught in a no-win situation, helplessly fighting to be sheltered by God while neglecting to take refuge in His covenant.

God’s purpose for the rebirth of the apostolical character and influence in the church is to bring the church back to the covenant He designed in Jesus Christ for us to know Him and walk with Him, love Him and love one another.

A New Injection of the Apostolic Calling

The Second 8th Week is about the rebirth of the church through a new injection of the apostolic calling. God reintroduced the apostles to reorient believers to Jesus’ covenant.

There is no salvation outside of Jesus.

God has now restored the original foundation of truth through the apostle’s calling and restored all that belonged to Christ for the church to function in His fulness. So then, setting order to the apostolic presence, function, and operation is going to be a constant thread in these lessons as we observe how the church was held captive in the 6th Week and how God turned the tide now in the Second 8th Week.

It’s easy to see what the First 8th Week apostles did, but you might be wondering what this second generation of apostles of the Second 8th Week are sent to do. God is bringing much need clarity to commonly asked questions about the apostolic calling:

– What are apostles in the modern church?
– How do apostles function in the church today?
– What is the particular operation of an apostle?

Sadly, the church of the 6th Week functioned without the oversight of the calling of the apostle, and as we take a look at the damaging results of that choice, we see that the seeds of Satan’s sowing has completely overgrown the church to where God’s purpose can’t be seen or identified in this wilderness of weeds.

We see the need to spend some time unfolding the true function of the apostolic calling today by clearing away the weeds of false knowledge. Though the voices of many leaders echo in the media, yet the true apostolic is the clear voice of God.

Psalms 93:4
The Lord on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea.

Apostles Restore the Original Foundation of Truth

The church of the 6th Week of darkness first sprouted in the First 8th Week to contest Jesus’ apostles on the basis of knowledge. Hold onto that thought because it’s very important. Back in the day when the apostles taught the church what to believe about Jesus and how to serve God in this new covenant way, false ministers began to build another foundation that spoke about Jesus, but changed His covenant building blocks. They preached another Jesus and turned the gospel of regeneration into a self-serving gospel. (2 Cor. 11:4)

If I asked for a show of hands right now to see how many of you have observed that there is something wrong with the present church, we’d see that not only were we all afflicted, but that false knowledge is the root of deception and the reason behind crisis of faith.

How apostles functioned in the First 8th Week to address that same crisis of faith informs our understanding of apostles today. Without the function of living apostles, thousands of people strike off on their own to attack the jungle of false knowledge armed with a machete (the truths of their own studies) to blaze a trail for others, but they’re only going in theological circles.

There’s a good reason behind Apostle Paul’s deliberate choice to introduce himself as an apostle – an apostle of Jesus Christ (an apostle of Jesus’ covenant). This assured the saints of the source of the knowledge they were receiving from him. They were assured that God gives only one framework of truth to bind all believers to Himself and through this tethering of knowledge, they were equipped to weigh all things to Christ. They were assured that God Himself would continually lead them as He creates in them the fruits that glorify His name.

Let’s look at how the Apostle Paul identified his calling in Ephesians chapter one, verse one.

Ephesians 1:1
Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus:

We asked, what are apostles in the modern church? The apostles can be identified by their function. What do we see Apostle Paul doing? He’s uniting the will of God to Jesus Christ and to his own stewardship as an apostle to oversee the growth of the saints as they faithfully draw from Jesus’ covenant to walk with God.

Paul says that he is an apostle of Jesus Christ, meaning that the calling represents Jesus and as such is not a title as men would suppose, but a measure of grace to make known the mystery of Christ. Paul, an apostle, meaning “I don’t come in my own name; I represent Jesus as I draw from His covenant to teach you how to serve God with Jesus’ new tools. I am not drawing from my own nature to teach a self-referencing message of reform.” (Eph. 2:20; Eph. 3:3-4; Eph. 6:19; 1 Cor. 3:10-11)

The same is true today in this new apostolic season, or new apostolic era. The apostolic calling establishes your faith in the covenant of Jesus Christ.

The apostles represent Jesus in the authorized, sanctified system of salvation that God sprinkled with Jesus’ blood to initiate and seal our redemption in Him.

1 Corinthians 1:30
But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption.

Apostles join your faith to Jesus Christ who is our righteousness. Righteousness means that even though God first showed His love toward us while we were lost in the kingdom of darkness, He does not accept us the way we are, in darkness, without Christ. God accepts our faith on the grounds of Jesus Christ to begin and sustain a covenant relationship.

Only Jesus qualifies our faith as competent to meet God’s expectations.

When we say that Jesus Christ is our righteousness, we mean that He is the exacting standard by which God measures our faith and judges our soul. Jesus qualifies our faith by His knowledge, stewardship, and tools to reflect His likeness, and this meets God’s expectation perfectly, thus He declares us righteous. Nothing of man is added to our faith, and nothing of Jesus is missing.

We exercise our faith with His knowledge and, therefore, our faith is reflective of the power of who Jesus is. Only Jesus pleases God, as He said, “Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased.” Unless our faith reflects Jesus, it is impossible to please God. (Luke 3:22; Heb. 11:6)

God set a policy for our faith to reflect Jesus to reciprocate Him. The policy God set is in accordance with the token we receive. All Jesus’ tokens reflect Him and are life giving, so that we are not condemned with the world.

Apostle Paul continually points out God’s will for apostles to unfold the mystery of Christ in the knowledge of Jesus’ covenant. Apostles not only lay the original foundation of truth in the heart, but oversee the understanding of it by overseeing the growth of the saints as they assist their priesthood.

When we recognize the calling God placed upon a person, we honor the One who gave it.
Believers today receive Jesus’ apostles as He said, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that receiveth whomsoever I send receiveth me; and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.” (John 13:20)

The name of Jesus is the authorized, sanctified system of His redemption.

The name of Jesus is the kingdom, covenant, and tokens that represent Him, which means that these are the things He oversees to present us holy and unblameable before God; these are the tokens God empowers for us to express Jesus and reflect Him; these are the tokens that identify us with His house and join us to Him.

The name of Jesus is not in its pronunciation, but it has to do with a kingdom practice, a kingdom activity, and kingdom terms. Not a dogma, not a philosophy, but a person – Jesus Christ. The 12 elements of the gospel are the sum of Jesus’ name, to fully manifest in us what He is as we daily labor with the tokens that bear His name.

An independent ministry is a service apart from (absent of) the Godhead.

An independent minister is one who does not function as part of God’s restored spiritual government (kingdom), but has set up his own house of ministry, serving the church with unclean knowledge. He comes in the authority of his own name, while claiming the name of Jesus Christ.

John 5:43
I am come in my Father’s name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.

The restoration of apostles today is God’s calling card and healing hand, as He reverses the many wounds Satan inflicted upon the church. Jesus’ church, restored to His new covenant, is risen in His full stature and in the power of His virtue. All believers now have access to daily partake of all the spiritual blessings that God placed in Jesus.

Apostles Hold the Key of Knowledge

Knowledge is key and God placed the key in the hands of Jesus’ apostles to set the standard of our faith in Him according to His covenant promise of life. We’re talking about the knowledge of the mystery of Christ. God has an expectation for our faith in regard to His work in our soul that can only be realized when we restrict our faith to the message of the cross (Jesus’ covenant).

In Galatians chapter one, verse one Paul continues his tradition to identify the calling that he received of God – Paul, an apostle – and he goes on to explain that he is going to set knowledge in order. That is the primary function of an apostle.

Galatians 1:1
Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;)

Apostle Paul is aware that various teachings were circulating in the body that originated from independent ministry heads and even counterfeit apostles. These teachings were not from God, and Apostle Paul is going to make distinction by setting knowledge in order to show the saints how God sanctifies the activity of their faith. (2 Cor. 11:13)

Galatians 1:6-7
⁶ I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel [another form of knowledge]:

⁷ Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ [self-referencing knowledge].

2 Corinthians 11:4
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.

Here is where God begins to inform us of the importance He places on the apostolic calling and why knowledge is key. Apostles are living tokens and need to be presently active in the church to set order to knowledge.

The modern church today finds itself in the same position at the churches of Galatia and Corinth, whereas many ministers crawl out of the woodwork to take up the torch of leadership with their own take on the gospel, their own brand of scripture interpretation, their own visions for ministry, their own gifts and their own vision for God’s purpose. They introduced another gospel – another Jesus – by another spirit.

These false ministers want to get the church motivated to save the world, but they themselves cast aside God’s call to covenant. They are not equipped to help themselves; how can they help others?

The Apostle Paul identifies his calling according to the function God gave to the calling.

In his epistle to the saints in Galatia, he corrects the many truths that were circulating about Jesus that were developed and pushed by ministers who were not apostles called of God, but apostles called of man who were preaching and teaching their own agendas.

Although they claimed a foundation in scripture, the Apostle Paul saw that these ministers were using their own conversion stories and passionate appeals to create another gospel. Their foundation was not in Jesus’ covenant, and the same is true today.

The ministers of the 6th Week introduced false knowledge to the church (called another gospel) that is based on their own conversion stories and their alignment with false revival movements (like the laughter movement) and false prophetic movements (like the name-it-claim-it declarations) and false discipleship movements that set the standard in man’s nature rather than Jesus’ divine nature.

– This is not God’s dream for you.
– This is not the foundation you should be building on.

The culture of the church today self-identifies with the culture of the 6th Week.

The Real Jewel of the Christian Faith

Building on the foundation of the 6th Week, ministers are sweeping the floor to gather anything that can be gleaned from the real jewel of the Christian faith. Because they don’t understand the work of regeneration within, they pick up on the outward effects to create another gospel that carries with it the social habits of people: husbands love your wives, children obey your parents, don’t plunder, don’t lie. Forgive your neighbor, love your neighbor, give from the heart, be of a humble heart.

Ministers believe that repentance and water baptism produce the jewel, but they don’t.

Jesus didn’t die on the cross for social reform, He died on the cross for true regeneration, the inner work as His jewel is formed within.

Those who are sweeping the floor to gather up the fragments of the outward effect preach another Jesus. Let’s look at that closer. Chasing down the outward effect carries with it the law of Moses whereas a person mentally rewards his behavior with the law. But in Christ, the knowledge of His kingdom and the operation of His work in you is carried by another power – His grace.

When people asked the apostles, what must we do to be saved, the apostles pointed to the covenant of Jesus. But without the covenant, the law is used as a substitute. The law of Moses is valued while the law of grace and truth that God set within the process of regeneration to govern your growth remains hidden and lost to the church.

Do Apostles “Govern” the Church?

Many are afraid of apostolic puppetries. Church leaders are asking, “Am I going to be your puppet?”

The fear that pastors, ministry leaders, and church board members have is that they will play second fiddle to the apostles – “you’re going to rob me of what God wants me to do!” In addition, there’s a fear of changing generations of church tradition. What is our new identity to be? Believers also exhibit these same fears and cry out, “Are you going to tell me what to believe!”

These fears are built into the church of the 6th Week of darkness, whereas the church was structured without the framework of truth and a lot went wrong. People wanted the freedom to govern their own faith, meaning that everyone fought for the right to determine for themselves what truth meant to them, claiming that the Holy Spirit was guiding them and teaching them.

But seeing that the Holy Spirit is apparently teaching 45,000 different belief systems about Jesus and we know that God did not design this confusion, we also know that this is not the way God teaches truth to the body. (1 Cor. 14:33)

God’s plan is to govern our faith individually with His grace and truth. That includes you and me.

John 1:17
For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

God’s new law of grace and truth governs those who have entered into a covenant agreement with Him, meaning that we accept God’s terms and He in turn governs our faith. Let’s look at how that works out in a practical way, in a way that relates to how God actually works in us rather than continue to follow ideas borrowed from failure.

God governs our cycles of growth by giving us the tools of Jesus to freely use. Grace is administered to us individually from God’s throne to our hearts; God governs how our love is to be expressed in building with Him through the 12 elements of the gospel; God governs the cleansing of our hearts by giving us a new priesthood in Jesus; God governs how we overcome ourselves, Satan, and the world by giving distinction in Christ for our separation to Him; God governs how He creates His nature in us by separating our faith from our own nature. God answers every prayer and is intimately involved with every detail of our life.

– If I haven’t said it enough, God governs our faith INSIDE His new covenant in Jesus.

Inside Jesus’ covenant, believers are properly discipled. They learn how to access Jesus’ tools to partake of Him in the free flow of God’s grace. God connects your faith to all the things He provided in Christ to govern your soul in His mercy and peace. (Eph. 3:16-21)

Knowing how God’s grace works with truth and is administered through His spiritual tools teaches us how to use Jesus as our scale of discernment. This speaks of making distinction for our faith in order to stand separate from the things God is not working with. God gave us a new law in grace and truth that is separate from the law of Moses and the law of our own nature.

Why is this separation important? Why can’t believers simply learn through trial and error what God is doing in their life?

God’s way of equipping us with the law of grace and truth is His love to connect us to Himself. A law identifies that which the Holy Spirit works with. God set a pattern (knowledge) for our hope by putting our faith within the boundaries that He would make living. God set certain boundaries and conditions on His law so we don’t step outside of what He has provided through Jesus’ blood to establish our contact with Him.

God announced a new priesthood when He offered up His only begotten Son for our redemption. This also signaled the inauguration of a new covenant, new doctrine, new tools, and a new law, the law of grace and truth. This is the law of the Spirit that replaced the law of sin and death – the law that condemns – the law that recalls sin, and thus keeps the conscience under Satan’s shadow.

Romans 8:2
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

To be in Christ is to be in covenant with God through His new terms, being in submission to the law of Christ. We no longer observe the law of Moses, we no longer practice that law. God now writes His commandments in our hearts as we practice our faith with the new celestial tools that have been sprinkled with the blood of Jesus to touch Him. These commandments of grace produce the divine likeness in the soul, thus fulfilling and completing our obedience to God’s commandment that we reciprocate His likeness. (Heb. 8:10; Heb. 10:16)

We understand why God’s new covenant commandments cannot be set aside and why God does not govern our faith when we stand outside of His new covenant.

When TRUTH Is Put Off, TRUIMS Are Put On

The result of walking in covenant with God is that we remain actively reconciled to God and redeemed by Him as the offspring that He cares for. To break the law of God is to set aside the terms of His new covenant in Jesus, choosing rather to accept and live by a list of truisms.

What is a truism? A truism is a true fact about Jesus that is not connected to His covenant terms, so it has no real function or benefit. The truism is used to support a philosophy about God to indicate that a person is on the right track with the mind of God. For example, you might have heard this truism: God’s law is that we should put Him first in our lives.

What’s wrong with this instruction?

It’s true, we should put God first, but practically speaking, God first restricted our faith to the record of Jesus Christ so that He could govern the function of our faith. So, we can’t say that we are putting God first and foremost if we aren’t doing what God said to do first.

What would happen if we ignored God’s commandment to first restrict our faith to the record of Christ? Our faith and our life would be governed by our moral code that is seated in our own record. It would be impossible to put God first if we did not first separate our faith to function only with Jesus’ record. God’s law is that we put the function of the covenant first.

Here’s another truism you might have heard: it’s often said that God’s law is summed up in one word – love. It sounds so right, but why is it wrong? Again, it is a truism, meaning that it’s a true fact that is not connected to Jesus’ covenant terms, so it’s a function-less word – a word that has been robbed of it’s true function. It’s a truism that is governed by the record of man.

What would happen if we ignored God’s commandment to keep love connected to Him? Our love for God would not be given a real function in the priesthood where God’s effectual working power reciprocates Christ, therefore love cannot benefit you, or your neighbor, or God.

God’s law is broken when Jesus is broken from the covenant.

Did you know: When we are in covenant with God the conscience is attended to by the anointing, and then it is as the Shekinah of God that covered the tabernacle of Moses.

The lineup of truisms that are daily passed off as Christian beliefs is extensive and each truism has its origins in the 6th Week of darkness. All truisms are self-referencing. When talking about the importance of God’s love, it might feel like you’re talking about the real thing, but we can observe when Jesus’ covenant is missing, believers are using another standard to qualify love – self. And that’s a confusing value because it’s not the same value God placed on His love.

Qualifying God’s love by our own record means to put our own value on God’s love and that’s in conflict with the value God placed on His love – Jesus Christ.

Apostles Confirm God’s Dream for the Church

The awakening of the church has to do with God’s dream for the church, which hasn’t been realized, but has been kept in the shadows of the nature of man (our own record). The way that truth is engineered in the false church body, God’s dream is mistakenly set on the shores of the kingdom of the flesh – one’s own issues and signature values – the state of the nation – the state of the world – the state of your own soul. Each person dreamed about what God could do for them.

God is giving His dream to you on another shore – His covenant terms that He designed in Jesus for His personal contact with you.

When faith is shipwrecked upon the shores of man’s nature, God’s love and His grace is falsely defined by the struggles that are honed in that kingdom. Because ministers don’t know what grace is they don’t understand the purpose of the anointing and what it plays into and the value it has on the apostolic calling.

Just like God sent Apostle Paul to correct errors of thinking in the church as He placed a spotlight on the false Jesus and false gospel, God is doing the same thing today. God sent apostles into the church to again to take possession of the key of knowledge and turn His spotlight on the fake gospel. This puts a pin on the apostolic purpose, function, and operation.

Daily, ministers crawl out of the woodwork to offer correction, but they are simply complaining about what they see as wrong: wrong prophetic practices, wrong prosperity messages, wrong tithing practices, wrong leadership practices. However, they are not bringing the remedy that God placed in Jesus’ covenant, so are they apostles or prophets? No.

True apostles return the church to the covenant of Jesus Christ. And it is this qualification of an apostle – to teach Jesus’ covenant – that puts false apostles in a pinch.

Where people are heard to say that the apostle’s calling can’t be about knowledge, we hear God saying, it IS about knowledge. You can’t introduce your own brand of knowledge to the church and expect God to support it. How can you know God if your faith is bereft of the covenant knowledge that God works with? You have not only lost your way, but barring the door for others to find Jesus.

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.

The 6th Week of darkness stands in sharp contrast to the Second 8th Week of righteousness. As we move on in this teaching, you will see how God sets order to these contrasts, and you get an idea of what God is delivering you from. It’s hard to see the shift when you are still part of that culture. It’s like trying to read a compass in a dark forest.

Apostles Facilitate God’s Shift From Good Intentions to the Unity of the Faith

It’s also hard to see God’s shift when Satan leads the church to believe that sharing good intentions is the same as standing in the unity of the faith, when God says that it is not. We don’t see that darkened perspective in the First 8th Week when the apostles functioned in the full capacity of the calling as they led the church.

What do I mean by good intentions? As we listen to the fake gospel message preached today, we hear a message that is laced with good intentions that are meant to fill the many gaps where they have been observed. As ministers shake hands on a simple theme, the outcome remains a mystery because they don’t know what to look for.

What are some of these good intentions? Let’s consider a few made popular in modern Christianity that most have been exposed to. As we go through this list of good intentions, be sure to place a check mark next to the item(s) that speak to you.

1. Good intentions about being of a humble heart.
2. Good intentions to love one another as God loves us.
3. Good intentions to be the right role model for others.
4. Good intentions to have your faith be Christ-Centered.
5. Good intentions to be Spirit-led.
6. Good intentions to prophesy correctly.
7. Good intentions to be transparent and vulnerable.
8. Good intentions to be obedient to God.
9. Good intentions to reach the lost.
10. Good intentions to have God change you.

In other words, good intentions are another way of saying that, this is what I want to live out and here’s what I think that would look like. Each good intention is extremely heartfelt. I’m sure that many of you agree with the things itemized here and have also added to the list your own well-intentioned goals that you hold close to your heart.

The good intentions of the ministers of the 6th Week show us an error of thinking: that the effect of Christ can be experienced and become part of our life without our obedience to God’s due process. We talked about that a bit earlier when we said that false ministers are seen “sweeping the floor to gather up the fragments of the outward effect”.

In other words, the thinking is that we can have the effect without the framework of truth God set in place to govern and oversee the process to interact with us His way.

Here’s the reality: without God’s due process, the list of good intentions becomes nothing more than a cliché or a phrase we drop into our teaching with no reference to Jesus’ covenant terms and how we are walking in the priesthood where He engages with us – it’s another truism.

– Where there is no reference to Jesus’ covenant, there is no anchor for your faith no tether to God.

– Ministers famously tell the Architect (God) what they want to see and God is telling them that this is not possible with the current design they have chosen.

There’s a dangerous assumption that the virtue can be embraced, possessed, and walked in without God’s three-fold cord: 1) His spiritual government 2) His truth 3) His Spirit, which works with His new covenant in Jesus. There is an upsetting consequence to this lapse in judgment to ignore Jesus’ covenant. Let’s look at a few examples.

Why Love Language is NOT God’s Breadcrumb Trail

We just talked about love, so we’ll use love as an example again. There is nothing more applauded than love. False apostles and false ministers think they can hit a home run with love language, believing that the only commandment of the new covenant is to love God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself.

How can you make a mistake with something as simple as love?

When we touched on this earlier, we said that love becomes a truism when it is separated from Jesus’ covenant and made to reference self. You will notice love language peppered into everything from revamped communion prayers to fake revival calls, and new ministry visions as fake apostles try to show that they are on the verge of something new.

These are like breadcrumbs left on the path in the wilderness church for believers to find. Love breadcrumbs are left in sermons and teachings as signals that you are on the right path, but God is revealing the source of these breadcrumbs and where they lead.

I want to revisit physical communion services for a moment. Something to keep in mind about physical communion as it now features heavily into things Christians can do to show that they love Jesus, is that partaking of physical communion is NOT a tool (token) of the new covenant.

When Jesus said to “do this” in remembrance of me, He did not mean that we should re-enact the consumption of bread and wine as an act of devotion, but rather, Jesus was giving a nod toward those spiritual tools that would follow His resurrection beginning with the baptism of the Holy Spirit with the sign of togues that would seal our adoption. We would pray in tongues and use this tool to reflect His virtue. (1 Cor. 11:23-29)

Jesus was going to the cross to shed His blood for His new and living covenant. The bread and wine He shared with His apostles were symbolic of the new knowledge and new spiritual tokens God designed in Him that we would use to partake of Him in remembrance of Him. These are living tokens.

The SYMBOL Versus the REALITY

Now that Jesus rose from the dead, we don’t use the symbols to touch Him, we use His living tokens to touch Him. Jesus’ spiritual government confirms this, His truth confirms it, and the Holy Spirit confirms it.

I want to show you the difference between the symbol (communion wafer and cup) and the reality. The real tools or tokens of the covenant represent God in your faith, and as you exercise your faith with them, they represent you before the throne of God.

The tools of the old covenant were physical, meaning that you could touch, taste, and handle them. But the tools of the new covenant are spiritual, meaning that Jesus completed our redemption in Himself. He is the token power of our redemption. (Col. 2:20-23)

There are 9 spiritual tools (tokens) of the new covenant that God sprinkled with Jesus’ blood to thus sanctify them for our use: government (apostolic stewardship), truth (the foundation), and Spirit (seal of our adoption and witness); the gifts, callings, and graces of God (stewardship of grace); prayer (praying in tongues), preaching (not a calling to preach, not evangelism, but rather to listen to the preaching of God’s government), and prophecy (priesthood prophecy).

– These 9 tools are of great consequence in terms of fruit bearing. They are the means by which we touch Jesus with our faith and He in turn touches us with His virtue.

– Our faith has no life of its own; it is Jesus who gives it life. God is redeeming us to Himself by Himself; hence Jesus is in the “token” or “tool”.

Your heart is turned to God by the token. Jesus is the one establishing a testimony for us in Himself. Man does not possess the virtue of God and cannot use love language to create it. Man is not born with the virtue of God. It is not in him. It is granted to us by faith. This helps define faith as our obedience to observe Christ in His tools to access His grace.

Each token in Jesus’ covenant is ordained of God to carry this divine legacy.

The tokens were prepared in Him before the foundation of the world in order to find their expression in us. These things identify us with His kingdom and seal our adoption for the inheritance that is yet to come as heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ (Rom. 8:17).

God’s mercy is upon Jesus Christ. God’s mercy is upon His token. The transference from the kingdom of darkness to the kingdom of light takes place through Jesus Christ. The transference of the mercy of God and the blessings of God comes through Jesus Christ. The transference of grace to the heart is through Jesus Christ. Jesus is the token of transference. Therefore, we love God by reciprocating Christ according to His covenant.

Jesus’ instruction to us: “Your faith cannot labor with what I am without the power of my tokens that express who I am.” Hence, we use the token of our redemption—Jesus Christ. Daily, when you touch Jesus by using His tools, His virtue touches you to heal your soul. That virtue is called grace and that’s why grace is called a power and His tools are called power tools. That’s the living priesthood of the new covenant.

Now that we are equipped to observe Jesus in the tools of His own covenant, which we use daily to touch Him in our priesthood, we can discern why those who take physical communion are making a mistake. The symbolism does not carry the reality. You can’t pump love language into something that stood symbolically for the work Jesus would do through His covenant, to try to give meaning to your faith.

The assumption: The assumption is that the intent of the heart is nine-tenths possession of the virtue, and that’s a big barrier God is thankfully shattering. It assumes that the evidence of our heart’s desire should stand as a witness for truth, but it doesn’t.

Love language cannot bridge the gap.

Reciting love prayers while taking physical communion is a good example of how ministers of the 6th Week of darkness invented empty religious practices that are void of the power of God. When you say “amen” to the self-referencing love language that earmarks the fake gospel, you are agreeing to that hypocrisy.

Did you know: A hypocrite is one that is true to himself.

The reality: The fact is, the Holy Spirit will only bear witness to Jesus Christ’s covenant knowledge and tools because it is this foundation of truth and this sanctified activity of faith that God uses to form Christ in you.

– God uses apostles to create a covenant environment for your faith to be joined to all the things of Christ that God uses to build with you. Discipled and fully equipped, you are ready to build one another up in the faith with the measure of grace that gives daily gives you.

However, without a functioning knowledge of the new covenant of Jesus Christ, your faith continues to function with what you know – your natural design.

At this point, Christians who have been fathered in the faith during the 6th Week of darkness are seen to grab their Bibles to use scripture to talk through their points of reasoning as they move through their list of well-intentioned goals to self-justify that mindset and that labor.

Apostles Facilitate a Shift in Context

There’s a good reason why we’re not going to talk about what the Bible says about your specific list of well-intentioned goals. At first that might sound confusing, but stay with me on this point. The simple reason why we are not going to talk about what the Bible says is because God doesn’t start there to reason with us.

You will notice that true apostles guide the church in this shift in context from what the scriptures are supposedly saying to what God laid out for us in Jesus’ covenant. So, let’s do that now.

– The church of the 6th Week of darkness uses scripture to create context. They thought that God married scripture to scripture for them to validate their spiritual life apart from God’s covenant provisions in Christ. Their formula is that scripture answers scripture.

An example of this is seen when claiming to believe that there can be no other foundation but Jesus Christ. This is another truism, a true fact that is not connected to Jesus’ covenant terms, so it has no real function and is used to support a philosophy about God. It’s self-referencing knowledge, “turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness”, as Apostle Jude pointed out. (Jude 1:4)

When ministry heads and leaders quote the scripture that says that the church is built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone, it sounds agreeable only because they’re quoting scripture.

But they are NOT talking about God’s process. They neglect to point out that their belief system is constructed of many conflicting truths, half-truths, and partial truths, which all point to a pile of rubble, not Jesus’ foundation.

What happens is that each minister holds in his hand a chisel, the tool of his imagination and he begins to work the problem he sees with this chisel, and in the process, he changes the stones of God’s foundation. One-by-one he changes each stone (element) to make the gospel into his own likeness. Is he still building on God’s foundation? No.

God gave the same commandment in Exodus 20:25, “And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.”

So, God gives a commandment to teach us His will that each of Jesus’ stones remain whole, not chiseled by our imagination. This confirms the oversight of apostles, God’s master builders. (1 Cor. 3:10-11)

-The Second 8th Week (s8w) is a return of God’s master builders (apostles).

Can you see the trick of the eye to claim what scripture says, but to walk contrary to it? Ministers also claim the effect of salvation without God’s process. They don’t have a priesthood, so they have to create something in its place.

Beyond question, God’s original foundation of truth IS rock solid, but the foundation of error ministers build upon is not. There is an assumption that scripture creates the reality, but in truth, scripture points to the process that takes place as apostles are actively present in the church to teach the foundation of truth which they set in the hearts of all of God’s saints.

Scripture cannot be used as a substitute for the foundation.

Why is that true? Scripture cannot be used as a substitute for the foundation because scripture does not create the reality – God does. God and His Word (Jesus) are one in purpose and one in power. We cannot build a foundation upon scripture, but upon Jesus himself – His covenant knowledge and terms for contact.

By this long-standing tradition to substitute scripture for the foundation of truth, we can see how scriptures are quoted and applied to a broken system. But that’s not how God works. We’re still talking about context.

God placed context in the covenant of Jesus for us to see His face.

– In truth, God placed context in the covenant of Jesus for us to see His face and to take on His likeness. God joins our faith to the things of Jesus’ covenant and the Holy Spirit bears witness to Jesus in the mobility of our faith for fruit bearing. This is God’s purpose. (2 Cor. 3:18; 2 Cor. 4:6)

God marries the covenant terms to Jesus’ tools, His apostolic stewardship, the priesthood of the saints, and the daily gifts of His propitiation that we all receive. All these work Christ in you.

Looking back on the list of good intentions, I want you to see something else: people use the scriptures to confirm their heart’s desire for God, but scripture does not confirm the heart of man, it confirms the heart of God and God’s promise in Jesus Christ, which comes from the covenant He paid for with His blood.

That’s what Jesus said: the scriptures were written to confirm ME.

John 5:46
For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me; for he wrote of me.

Apostles Lead Believers to Abandon the Old Wine

The mindset of good intentions that earmarked the church of the 6th Week of darkness has become the language of the lost. It occupies Christian thought and conversation. We begin to understand why God identifies the church of the 6th Week as the false religious system – the false church body – the old wine.

Most believers are hungry for this needful examination in the light of God’s truth in the presence of His anointing as they prepare themselves to shift to God’s covenant perspective, but some ministry leaders will continue to say that the old wine is better as they wrap the apostolic calling with evangelistic overtones.

The old wine thinking is to ignore the new covenant God made with us through Jesus and ignore that foundational knowledge and stewardship God called to get the church aligned to Him. The old wine thinking turns its back on God to continue to build with Christian concepts that were not born in His heart, but rather were born in the hearts of those who wanted to explore their faith without God’s oversight.

You will see God’s spotlight on today’s Christian culture and teaching to observe how far ministers have shifted away from the covenant God established for us in Jesus.

False Apostles Network for Damage Control

God’s rebuke against ministry leaders can seem harsh in light of the thousands of articles and books that are being written from the view point of ministry leaders who are now trying to network to recover from mistakes, looking for ways to police themselves rather than obey God.

And as they police themselves in an effort to self-govern, they point to what they believe they are accomplishing for God (bringing lost souls to Jesus), yet they cannot see that having rejected Jesus’ covenant, they are leading the lost to join them in a message God is a not a part of. They’re leading the church in the wrong direction.

Jesus brought this out to the church through Apostle John in Revelation chapters two and three. Jesus used the word “hate” in regard to false doctrine and He used the words “Satan’s seat” to refer to the origin of false knowledge used by ministers to govern His church. Jesus said that such independent truths would be “spit out” of His mouth.

This is language Jesus uses to tell us of His displeasure against ministry leaders who are non-confirming to His truth and nonproductive in results.

Damage control for ministry leaders means controlling the narrative.

Notice that God isn’t saying anything against the current Christian culture that ministers haven’t said themselves. It is often difficult for ministers to give up their assumed position at the helm of the church (a Diotrephes government). (3 Jn. 1:9-11)

It is easier to rewrite mission statements and rebrand failed revivals and movements as hallmarks of achievement as they lead the church back to baptismal pools as lambs to the slaughter.

Historically, mission statements and purpose statements borrow meaning from the turmoil of the 6th Week of darkness, hoping to articulate how change can be implemented to fix this or that. But that’s not the same as returning the church to Jesus’ covenant – that’s damage control.

– Counterfeit apostles and false apostolic interpretations are seen to operate in this damage control mode to work the problem rather than work from Jesus’ covenant.

The problem is that the apostolic calling cannot be defined with the language of the 6th Week. To those who are not walking with God according to His covenant in Jesus, defining the apostles calling is like unraveling a linguistic puzzle.

Forced to talk about what apostles do and how they operate without functioning in the calling and without operating in Jesus’ covenant, no concrete meaning can be forthcoming.

– God uses apostles as guides who hold the map to His covenant with us in Jesus. Without the map, people get lost in their walk with God.

The habit has been for ministers to draw their own map by talking about what they know and what they have read in the Bible. False leadership builds around the questions raised to distance themselves from the errors God is correcting through His true apostolic stewardship. As they call out for change (damage control) and go about fixing their own language (damage control), they paint a false picture of what God is doing. God is exposing this shame.

False Apostles Self-Identify the Calling

Regardless of ministry leaders changing their language and updating their points, they still cannot articulate the role apostles play in the modern church or how apostles operate beyond their own experience in the current corrupt system. They’re still setting up revival tents, they’re still leading people to baptismal pools, they’re still setting up communion tables, they’re still resourcing the law for their justification, and still build upon the history of the flesh because it is their foundation.

Self-identifying apostolic reformations never go beyond the scope of that expectation because they can’t go beyond the kingdom they are tethered to.

When God speaks of exacting reparations, He means that He sent apostles into the church to repair the damage done by false ministers of the gospel.

God is correcting those whom He regards as interlopers into the apostolic calling. Seen to peer through the window of the calling to see how they can jump into the role, they have no roots in the covenant of Jesus Christ and have no commitment to build God’s kingdom with His knowledge and tools. They hide in the shadows of Satan’s kingdom.

And although their presence is disruptive, they serve as a needful contrast that God builds between His true apostles today and the counterfeit.

Apostles Discern False Standards

I want you to see the interloper in action to hear what it sounds like when ministers try to unravel the apostles’ calling and describe what they see apostles doing as they measure the calling against what they consider honorable watermarks of achievement. In other words, they reverse engineer the calling by looking at so-called accomplishments in church history.

Brought up spiritually in the 6th Week, one assumes that each work that was set upon the timeline of error was ground breaking for them because they were hoping that each minister’s contribution would eventually lead to God’s great power, as if the ends justify the means. In other words, it doesn’t matter how many mistakes we make, as long as in the end, we’re part of what God is doing. However, a happy accident is not faith in God.

It’s a mistake to use the 6th Week of darkness to reverse engineer the apostolic calling.

The assumption: The assumption that many make is that the works of revivalists, evangelists, authors, and theologians must have been done by those who were apostles although they did not say they were apostles and did not know they were apostles – we can use them as our examples of the apostolic presence.

The truth: This is an example of reverse engineering the calling by building on the timeline of the 6th Week. However, defining the apostles calling in such a generalized way, no concrete meaning or function of an apostle is forthcoming.

Specious reasoning about the apostolic calling and operation is obvious. The interloper carefully sets on the table what he thinks supports the will of God, but it’s superficial knowledge: the substance of Jesus’ covenant is missing, the connection between stewardship and priesthood is broken, and Jesus’ spiritual tools are not used and the minister substitutes his own nature to replace Jesus, so it contradicts God’s will and is wrong.

The interloper of the apostolic also uses love language and gap language to try to relate to the broken state of the church, but he’s made a fatal error in making that the pattern.

The interloper talks about getting closer to God and making sure your heart is right with God (you may recognize these as items from your well-intentioned list), but offers no substance or reality for you to walk that out, so the language never changes because they’re forever trying to get closer to God.

However, when your faith is active in Jesus’ covenant, you are not trying to get closer to God because the tools join us to Him and His power is present as we daily build with Him. You can’t get closer because you have never departed from Him.

The Lord points out the many interlopers into the calling who use ambiguous language to define the function of a modern apostle in the church today. We’re going to look at 3 examples offered by the interlopers of the apostles’ calling to see how they define the calling of the apostle.

I’ll point out the ambiguous, self-referencing truths that earmark each definition. Lacking the key of knowledge to unlock Jesus’ covenant, these ministers fight to preserve a legacy of error.

I’ve added clarifiers in each of our 3 examples for you to see that the watermarks of church history are false measuring rods – the 6th Week of darkness is being referenced rather than Jesus Christ.

1. It has been said that an apostle is a church planter.

This false definition of an apostle was believed because this watermark was observed in their own history (the 6th Week of darkness). Yet we know that error produces error. Planting more church that carry the same error perpetuates error, it does not establish the church in righteousness, or increase the body of Christ in His virtue.

2. It has been said that an apostle is a father of movements.

This false definition of an apostle was believed because this watermark was also observed as many ministers made many attempts to reawaken a dead church (the 6th Week of darkness). Each “movement” was doomed to failure before it even began. Let’s look at a few of these movement.

– The Call was a movement that failed to awaken the church. God’s true purpose for the church was redirected to the false commission – to evangelize souls into the false church. Ministers abandoned God’s covenant goal and drove discipleship in the wrong direction. The saints, robbed of Jesus’ covenant, were unfruitful in God’s kingdom.

– The Laughter Movement, otherwise known as holy laughter, or the Toronto Blessing, or the Brownsville Revival was another movement that failed to awaken the church. Seducing spirits stirred the passion of man and ministers tried to make this a pattern for other churches to follow. Having abandoned Jesus’ apostolic stewardship, His covenant was set aside to pursue false signs.

– The Prophetic Movement, including declaring scripture, praying scripture, prophesying scripture, prophesying into each other’s lives, was another movement that failed to awaken the church to priesthood prophecy – the true tradition of faith where the saints prophesy Christ according to the record established in His blood. The Prophetic Movement introduced the deadly practice of psycho-phecy to prophesy the state of man’s defiled conscience, following the psychology of this world.

– The Prosperity Movement and Healing in the Atonement Movement set forth principles to teach people how to get a touch from God and how to get God involved with their finances. These movements failed to awaken the church and failed to disciple believers in the new covenant practice that God sanctified with Jesus’ blood.

Add to these false movements the many fads and spiritual fast-food markets that were raised up to fill the needs created by neglecting Jesus’ covenant, we see many more heads of the hydra.

Let’s add to the list of movements and ministerial mishaps the following:

1 – the music ministry
2 – the flag waving ministry, puppetry ministry
3 – the blowing of the shofar ministry
4 – children’s ministry, men’s ministry, woman’s ministry, teens ministry
5 – tent ministry, evangelistic ministry
6 – deliverance ministry
7 – prayer ministry
8 – afterglow ministries
9 – celebrating Christ through communion tables
10 – washing feet ministry
11 – Christian counseling ministry

Keep in mind that some of these same things (like prayer, prophecy, reading the scriptures, gifts, and deliverance) have a different function inside Jesus’ covenant. Once they are taken outside of Jesus’ covenant they are used to serve man, not God. Also keep in mind that some of the things we just talked about don’t belong in ministry at all because they are either resourced from Moses’ covenant or the kingdom of the flesh.

So again, God is addressing the church that is anti-covenant. God is addressing those who have for some reason neglected the new covenant terms, meaning that the priesthood of the believer is nonexistent. Robbing the saints of their priesthood, robs God of fruit.

This witness is true and is a black mark against the false religious system.

Every movement in the false church body did only one thing, point to gaps that ministers were trying to fill as they tried to awaken a church they had put to sleep. Every time a minister admitted to his mistakes, he said that he “fixed it”, but in truth he simply adjusted his sights and continued on in error, neglecting Jesus’ covenant and denying His stewardship.

3. It has been said that an apostle oversees a number of churches as a spiritual father.

This false definition of an apostle was believed because this watermark was also observed. Each spiritual franchise seemed to offer a home to the weary, but was actually a breeding ground for false doctrine (the 6th Week of darkness). Denying the saints the covenant of Jesus Christ denies them the power of the resurrected Christ.

In each of these examples, We see a church that is completely devoted to their own particular interest and not the kingdom of God.

We also see the false stones of church history utilized by the false religious system. As ministers of the fake gospel point to the figureheads of their history (both dead and living relics) as the voice of confirmation, the voice of God is silent.

God had not placed these rejected stones upon His prophetic path.

There were many movements in the days of Jesus claiming to bring deliverance because the Messiah was expected on the horizon and God gave many confirming dreams and prophesies about Jesus’ arrival and these revelations were being shared. Some, like Barabas and Judas Iscariot, took it upon themselves to fulfill the vision.

But Jesus never took ownership of these degenerate trees and never directed His disciples to partake of their fruit.

There is a good reason why God called apostles to oversee the diet of the church. Apostles are entrusted with truth and God trusts them not to draw from the well of man’s nature (to please men), but to draw from the well of His covenant knowledge to please Him. (1 Thess. 2:4)

God shows us why the church needs a restart in the covenant of Jesus Christ. The Second 8th Week is the second wave of apostolic influence in the church to bring the church back to Jesus.

Apostles Discern the True Light Versus the False Light

As I brought from the very beginning, God’s correction against the church of the 6th Week is on the basis of knowledge. The light of Christ’s pure knowledge was replaced with the theological traditions, partial truths, and half-truths that is the ambiguous gospel we hear preached today.

This false light is the light of man’s nature, which God calls darkness and likens that darkened perspective to blindness, which we’ll look at now in more detail as we get into the allegory God built for us in Samson.

Notice the confusion that has chased the church for generations. We can now see what apostolic government is moving away from: partial truths, half-truths, ambiguous knowledge, and the tradition of man that brought the church into bondage because God is not working salvation with that mindset. (Mt. 6:23)

Notice what God provides through true apostolic government: He has regifted the church with the one foundation of truth to return the church to Jesus’ covenant, which is the way of the Lord and the path of righteousness.

Samson’s Two Eyes Are Seared by His Captors

God likens the church today to Samson’s tragic loss of sight to make a needful connection to His truth. Originally, God’s power was revealed through Samson’s hair, which secret Samson revealed to the object of his affections, Delilah. This cost him not only God’s power, but his sight which his captors, the Philistines, took away. As they made Samson grind their grain in their mills, he lamented in great sorrow his disobedience to God. (Judg. 16:17-21)

Keep in mind that what happened to Samson is an allegory. God intended to create a testimony in Samson that would be unfolded in Christ to preserve our faith in Him.

So, let’s unpack the symbolism that God placed in Samson.

Samson’s two eyes being put out by his captors represents blindness of the church during the 2,000 years the church would go into captivity (the 6th Week of darkness).

Notice that Samson’s power was placed in the length of his hair; for God’s commandment was that Samson’s hair should not be cut and God said that the day he cut his hair would be the day he lost his power and would become weak like other men. So, God made a connection between Samson’s hair and the power He gave to Samson as a gift.

Taking this symbolism to the condition of the church today, Samson’s hair represents the truth of Jesus Christ which was designed by God to equip our faith with His power as long as His truth was not cut back by the sheers of Satan’s lies, cleverly disguised in appealing doctrines and traditions of men that have won the affections of the church, just as Delilah stole Samson’s heart.

Where does God place His power?

God places His power in Hs truth; the truth of Jesus’ covenant, the terms and tools God vowed to empower to join us to Himself. God set the grounds for our contact with Him to facilitate our increase in His kingdom. God joined the apostolic stewardship to the priesthood of each believer to enable spiritual growth.

The purpose of apostles in the First 8th Week was to set this foundation of truth in the heart of each believer to give them the blueprint of knowledge God empowers with His living, active, present witness, and this is the same thing apostles do today.

There is no denying that the foundation knowledge of Jesus’ covenant is the very truth believers need today. But ministers deny God the fruit of this contact by saying, “We can cut back on Jesus’ covenant knowledge and tools because we are working with another set of knowledge – our good intentions.”

Through Samson, God is telling the story of the 6th Week of darkness, so let’s move on with more of the symbolism. What did Delilah do in her betrayal of Samson? She cut his hair and then shared his secret to Samson’s enemies as she turned Samson over to them.
And what’s the first thing that Samson’s enemies (the Philistines) did to him? They put out his eyes. So, God creates a connection between truth being cut back and spiritual blindness.

I want to now look more closely at Samson’s labor in the house of the enemy, for he “did grind in the prison house”. (Judg. 16:21)

If we can just picture that for a moment. Samson is blindly going in circles as he grinds the mill that makes the bread that feeds his captors. Here again, God uses symbolism that speaks of the importance of knowledge. Bread = the knowledge that feeds our soul, even as Jesus said He was the true bread that came down from heaven. (Jn. 6:33-35)

God uses Samson to illustrate what it means to labor with false knowledge. Samson is laboring in the knowledge of the enemy to feed them and his captors mocked him for it.

That is a sad but accurate picture of the church today and the history of the church over the last 2,000 years since the early apostles passed from the Christian landscape. The enemy, the devil took the church captive by first robbing faith of the knowledge of Christ (Samson’s hair is cult) and thus removing God’s light, thereby causing spiritual blindness (Samson’s eyes are put out). Christians were forced to labor with false knowledge (Samson grinding at the mill of his captors).

The many books, articles, mission statements, ministry visions, and spiritual movements that are churned out yearly is the bread of this world, made from the knowledge of this world that appeals to the appetite of the natural man. The world sees the many contradictions and mocks our Lord for it.

Seeing that apostles were an unrepresented calling in the body, many tried to fulfill the vision themselves without receiving a calling from God and more importantly, without being schooled in Jesus’ covenant knowledge. So, just as Samson’s hair was cut by Delilah, ministers of unrighteousness deceptively cut the knowledge of Christ from the church.

The Grace of a True Apostle

The measure of grace given to the apostolic calling is to unfold the mystery of Christ in the fulness of Jesus’ covenant to fully equip the saints to function with Jesus’ tools as they work with the anointing in their priesthood in and out of the assembly. God takes all the things of Christ to create in us the likeness of His Son.

However, when men of corrupt minds took up the mantle to teach the church, the bread (knowledge) of this world was chosen to replace God’s truth. You will notice that false apostles describe the function of an apostle by likening the gift of the apostle to human characteristics and human signatures, and human skill factors.

They draw upon the kingdom of the flesh to try to fill a perceived need, to thus represent the calling in a natural way so that it would make sense to the world in which they live, so of course it makes sense to the carnal mind.

However, God divided the nature of man from His divine nature. God divided the spiritual from the natural, the kingdom of the flesh from His kingdom. God did this to give distinction for Christ, where He placed His fulness. God’s fulness is in Christ, not in our human signature placements and alignments.

John 1:16
And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.

Ephesians 1:23
Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.

Romans 15:29
And I am sure that, when I come unto you, I shall come in the fulness of the blessing of the gospel of Christ.

We partake of the fullness of Christ y in the work of His covenant for regeneration – that is what we function with.

Many ministers fall short of God’s glory because they fall short of the perfect will of God. They saw God’s handiwork in their signature skills, they saw His handiwork in their natural moral code, and they saw His handiwork in the God-Code of their own design and thought this raw material could be matched up with scripture to be used to give purpose to the apostolic calling, but it doesn’t.

The nature of man cannot be drawn upon to show God’s Intelligent Design for Christ-Centered Spiritual Transformation because God does not center His work in our nature, He centers it in Christ’s nature for our benefit there.

Just to be clear: we’re looking at how the grace of God for the apostolic calling is confused with signature callings and signature giftings.

False apostolic stewards look for the will of God in earthly things, asking, “What are you good at (naturally speaking, natural skills)? Let’s see how that might play out in God’s kingdom for His good.”

Have you acquired skills as a business man? Then it would make sense that you are that kind of apostle, you are good at networking, you have good organizational skills, you can represent God in that sphere to be an influence. False apostles tie a function to that.

False apostolic leadership asks you to look within. Have you acquired skills as a doctor, or community leader, or mechanic, or food critic? You are encouraged to prospect that natural vein to see how you can use that raw material to contribute to the list of good intentions and visions of pretense.

But you must know that this labor represents the nature of man in his unique signature design, not the nature of Christ. The two are not the same.

Notice that the natural design DOES have a spiritual feel to it because God DID imprint the soul with these unique facets, but God did not place Jesus there, so He did not place our faith there. God separated the nature of man from the divine design in Jesus’ covenant to create contrast and to point out the chaff, how it is different from the wheat. Look at what they pursue! They pursue the natural design to find God’s will there rather than look for the will of God in Jesus.

In Romans chapter 8 verses 4-9, Apostle Paul shows how God set these two kingdoms (flesh and Spirit) against each other for contrast to teach us where the fulness of Christ cannot be found. This also tests the heart. God asks, “Will you love me with the things of Christ that I placed for you in my covenant of love to engage with me, or will you try to love me through the things I placed in your natural design – thus only loving yourself?”

False apostles will NOT choose to stand in the things of Christ’s covenant, but rather choose to find God’s purpose in the natural design of their own soul and thus continue to enslave the body of Christ (just as the Philistines enslaved Samson) to grind for them.

Going back to the dream vision God gave me in in September 14, 1981 where I was inside Jesus, opening the prison cells at His command, not only did God set the prisoners free, but He fed them the true bread (knowledge of Christ).

The function of a true apostle is not in the natural kingdom, but in the kingdom of God working with the tokens of Christ who is the power and will of God, even as Apostle Paul taught in Romans chapter 12.

Romans 12:2
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

We underlined the “good”, “acceptable”, and “perfect” will of God because we’re going to talk about that now.

Good: is found in the biblical history for believers to observe to see God’s handiwork in His plan through the stewards of each Enochian Week. We also see God’s handiwork in the creation of our own natural design and we call that good, too, for our function in this world, but not our function in His kingdom.

Acceptable: is found in the transitions of the covenants and how God introduces change through stewardship. God shows us which covenant is acceptable to Him and which is not, which tools are acceptable now because He sprinkled the blood of His Son upon them, and which tools are not acceptable (those tools that were sprinkled with the blood of an animal).

Perfect will of God: is the present working of the Holy Spirit building faith upon the foundation of truth for regeneration and the purging of the conscience. God uses the covenant tokens of Christ to engage with us to change our nature. Our priesthood is Christ and nothing of man enters into that holy priesthood.

In this new apostolic era, Christians are losing their taste for the bread of bondage and God is again freeing them to accept His perfect will, and to agree to build their faith upon the holy tradition of Christ found only in His covenant truth, to taste of the true bread of life.

Acts 26:18
To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.

At this point of deliverance from the false gospel, there’s a beautiful point that God brings out in Samson that is an allegory for the church today as she casts off the yoke of bondage (false knowledge). You may remember that after a while Samson’s hair grew back and as it did, so did his strength again manifest that gift of God. In his renewed strength, Samson took hold of the two pillars of the idols temple and brought down the house of bondage. (Judg. 16:22-30)

This symbolizes how the pillars of the 6th Week are being brought down by the anointing. Reading the account in Judges, did you catch that Samson died when he brought down the house of idols? Spiritually speaking, this is an allegory to what is happening in the church today. As Christians accept the yoke of Jesus’ covenant knowledge and accept the apostolic stewardship, they die to the religious aspirations that led them astray.

Those religious aspirations are the very thing that is feeding ministers today and fueling ideas about apostles that are contrary to God, and fueling reform messages that are contrary to God.

Every contrary decision to stand against God represents a deep-seated deception, so, let’s talk about that to see how Delilah is represented in those choices.

Money was the condition of betrayal of Jesus and also of Samson, and so it is today. Taking this beyond the obvious prosperity message, let’s talk about gain in another way. Many ministers spent their whole life investing their time building a reputation for themselves in support of the false church body, false revival calls, and false leadership systems.

So, we can see that the Lord is not speaking specifically about financial gains, but achievements while in the 6th Week that they though were ministerial gains. Ministers spent their whole life sowing worthless seed, so now the challenge from the Lord says, “Do you love me more than your life? Are you willing to walk away from a lifetime spent sowing into the wrong kingdom?”

The Lord is saying, “The mixed seed that is in your bag (the knowledge of Moses mixed with the nature of man and the matters of the world, mixed with my knowledge) is worthless seed. Will you remain in the shadows of Satan’s darkened perspective or will you come to partake of my fulness in my house?”

All is forgiven in Jesus’ covenant and none are turned away.

But choosing to turn from the understanding of Jesus’ doctrine and blueprint of truth and choosing to put your trust in false stewards bears the mark of shame. Anything less than Christ is marked by God and given a name “shame” because it bears the likeness of Satan.

The stewardship of error led the church into the house of bondage where believers became blind, unable to see Jesus, meaning that they are unable to distinguish the divine blueprint of truth from the features of their own nature.

When Christians say that they feel lost, or trapped by so many different ministry voices and so many confusing half-truths about Jesus, that’s God’s way of describing spiritual blindness.

You must know that revival is not God’s answer. It is merely a reset button to try to start over and rediscover your first love and avoid the mistakes of the past. It is a rededication of sorts. But God is not asking you to start again to repeat the errors of the past, which is what we see happening in revival meetings everywhere. God is not asking you to extend the 6th Week of darkness.

Ephesians 4:18
Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:

The blindness of the heart that rules the false church body is what God points out through the allegory He planted in Samson. Spiritual blindness begins when the understanding of God’s covenant through Jesus is darkened by false knowledge.

Apostle Paul instructed that the understanding of false ministers is darkened through the ignorance that is IN them. What is the “ignorance that is IN them”? Ministers ignorantly borrow meaning from the record and design of their own souls to try to relate to God’s meaning in the scriptures to create another gospel. They don’t do this on purpose, they do it being ignorant of what’s going on.

Apostle Paul points out how dangerous this ignorance is – it alienates them from the life of God. The blinded heart feels competent to lead the church, but is leading the church further into darkness.

This bad habit to follow the rhythm of the flesh rather than the rhythm of the Spirit has been passed down from generation to generation.

The Apostle Paul saw the false religious system forming and breaking away from the true church in the First 8th Week and he instructed believers how to discern the distinctions between the true church and the false church in his epistles. Apostle John, Apostle Peter, Apostle James, and Apostle Jude did the same thing.

The apostles of the Second 8th Week follow in the footsteps of the original apostles of the First 8th Week to do as they did – we preach and teach the covenant of Jesus Christ in its fulness to lead the church into God’s process of regeneration. We are also guarding the church against the many ministers of unrighteousness who walk in the imagination of their own hearts to take the church captive.

-Apostle Eric vonAnderseck
Founder Second 8th Week® Ministries
Author of the IDCCST® Course

Lesson Two: The Testimony of an Apostle

In the next installment, I will share more about the testimony of Jesus in the apostolic calling He gave to me so that you can take confidence in God’s perfect will to transition the church to the covenant gospel He restored at this time. I have seen Jesus and walked with Him and have recorded over 8,000 heavenly visions and manifestations of the Lord in many signs and wonders.

…Coming soon

…Coming soon.