After the Holy Spirit had wrought through Moses
and other Prophets in the Old Testament came the custodians of the Holy
religion centuries later, the Sadducees and Pharisees who practiced the
religion as written and handed down to them by their fathers. Then came Jesus
Christ with his disciples whom the Pharisees and Sadducees were not comfortable
with for their fathers sharpened and taught them the things of Moses and all
the Prophets in the Holy books and for that purpose they condemned and
persecuted Jesus Christ and his message, because he did not follow in the steps
of their fathers and in the ways of the official religion of God as being
practiced by the Prophets in the lives of the chief priest.
After Jesus ascended to heaven, the
apostles worked as the Spirit directed, until Peter left for Rome and became
the first Pope. Fast forward to centuries later, the Jesus message had
saturated the Pharisees and Sadducees territory and many pagans and followers
of Moses had converted leaving the diehard conservative believers to hold onto
their believe.
The
Colonial and spiritual power of Rome that was the Pope, had a great influence
in all the Holy Roman Empire, it was controlled by the religion and the
religion was taught and spoken in the official language as directed by the
Catholic Church throughout the world.
The Popish people thought of the religion
handed to them by the Apostles as their birth right just like a succession to
kingship and that the Catholic ideology was the only way to heaven, a vivid
example of what the Sadducees and Pharisees established at the early stages of
Christianity.
Then came the Lutheran revolution after his 95 thesis on October
31st, 1517, which gave rise to what is known as the Protestant
church, the new church rejected the Holy Papal rule all over Europe and other Roman
empires in the 16th century. The rise of the Evangelical church
started gradually and they translated the Bible in to different national
languages, but the Popish people believed and told the Protestants that they
were un-sharpened instruments to translate the Bible for they do not have the
knowledge of how the Spirit of God operates.
Fast forward again, to the latter end of
the 20th century and early 21st century, and one will
discover that in different Christian societies is the rise of a new generation
of those that are hungry for the move of the Holy Spirit in union to settling their
physical challenges which they have read in the book of Acts of the Apostles
and the New Testament, which the archaic way of the Protestant church cannot
offer them. They look tired spiritually following the same worship mode, having
the fragile old preacher in every holy and religious gathering giving the
sermon, having discovered that their grandfather and father’s church could not
provide that desire in them; the youths in the Protestant churches began to
jump out for safety into the rebellious fast growing New Generation churches.
Again, the elders and priest of the
Evangelical churches and the Catholic Church wing that have been able to reform
itself due to pressure, have developed doctrines over the years since their
emancipation from the Pope. And they do have their official way of serving the
Lord and engaging in marriage to non-denominational person, just like the
Sadducees and Pharisees would not allow any who does not belong to the Jewish
religion a convert.
It was a great debate 20 years ago, when
the New Generation churches were fishing on members of the Protestant churches
with the inspiring Word of the Bible and probably miracles. The New Generation
church members are those who are sinners, heading toward hell and would not
obey the laws of the New Testament and probably the Old for their female
worship without covering their heads and put on trousers to the house of the
Holy One, after all the road to perdition and hell was wider and free for many
who do not believe in convention and doctrine were the comments made by the elders
and diehard members of the Protestants church, a similar way the Moses law
handlers and the Popish diehard members felt centuries ago.
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