THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL - PHILIP

 

 

According to Acts chapter 8, Philip around the area of Gaza ministered the Apostolic Doctrine to the Ethiopian eunuch, who was the treasurer for a Queen Candace of Meroe in Ethiopia.  This eunuch as courtier to the Queen was responsible for carrying the gospel back to Ethiopia. He spread the Everlasting Gospel (the Death, Burial, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ) throughout Axum, then northward along the Nile River to Alexandria and from there westward into Libya and to Carthage. What resulted were massive groups of Jewish Christians and hundreds of thousands of Gentile believers that were later known in religious history as tongues-speaking Montanists, Manichaeans, Sabellians, and Donatists. Donatists were led by a famous Oneness preacher from Carthage named Donatus. Unlike what historians try to propagate, Donatus was not a denomination-type of believer, but was a Oneness Apostolic. (Reference: Dr. Marvin M. Arnold, D.D., Th.D, Christian Church History)

 

Numerous references like the following are recorded in history:  In AD 180, the North African Apostolic Church has been referenced with the Apostolic message. In July, AD 180, a document known as the “Acts of Scillitan,” was a Oneness document that authenticated their speaking out against denominational immorality.  Oneness Ethiopians actively challenged those that did not preach the Everlasting Gospel. They were persecuted for their belief along with the Jews in Africa and Europe. From AD 545-900, Ethiopian Christianity spread all across Northern Africa, and was dominant. True to form, it is supported by Ursinus in 1284 from Africa that water baptism into the Name of Jesus Christ alone was valid.  The Everlasting Gospel carried by the eunuch from Philip is still preached to the multitudes in Ethiopia to this day.

 

A story is told about an Ethiopian Prince who visited the Christ Church Apostolic in Royal Oak, Michigan in 1936. This Prince related that he had been baptized into the Name of Jesus Christ, and had experienced the Holy Ghost speaking in tongues. He stated that the Christian Oneness doctrine preached by the Apostles as in Acts two had never ceased to exist in Ethiopia.

 

Ethiopia today is experiencing a phenomenal move of God with thousands receiving the speaking in tongues experience of the Holy Ghost in individual services scattered over the hillsides in special tent meetings. Philip was led of the Lord to that Ethiopian courtier that carried the Everlasting Gospel back to Africa and with the help of the Apostolic ministry, evangelists and missionaries, the message of Jesus Name Baptism and the infilling of the Holy Ghost speaking in tongues has been preserved through the centuries. Will you accept Jerusalem's teaching from Philip as he ministered the Everlasting Gospel to the Samaritans (Acts 8:12-17 -- "…only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus…") or will you accept what was invented in the 2^nd or 3^rd century?

Referring to recently elected Pope Benedict XVI, formerly--Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger: He makes this confession as to the origin of the chief Trinity text of Matthew 28:19. "The basic form of our (Matthew 28:19 Trinitarian) profession of faith took shape during the course of the second and third centuries in connection with the ceremony of baptism. So far as its place of origin is concerned, the text (Matthew 28:19) came from the city of Rome."  The Trinity baptism and text of Matthew 28:19 therefore did not originate from the original Church that started in Jerusalem around AD 33. It was rather as the evidence proves a later invention… Very few know about these historical facts.   (A Collection of Evidence Against the Traditional Wording of Matthew 28:19; Clinton D. Willis, http://www.apostolic.net/biblicalstudies/ matt2819-willis.htm). Quoted from: Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Introduction to Christianity, pp.50-53.

If you have the teaching of Rome, and have been baptized different than Jesus and the Apostles instituted, reconsider. Repent of your tradition. The example of those who think another baptism will suffice is shown in Acts 19:1-7. It did not suffice for the Ephesians mentioned, who had to be re-baptized the right way -- in the Name of Jesus, and it will not suffice today. I had to repent of my inaccurate baptism from a denominal Church and you may need to do likewise. I had to obey the command to have the Name of Jesus that contains the Blood of Jesus in Baptism (immersion) that washes sins away. Refer to Acts 22:16: Saul, the Apostle Paul, was told to "Arise, and be baptized and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord." That calling on the name of the Lord occurred when he was baptized in water in the name of the Lord Jesus. Also, Acts 10:48 let's us know baptism in the name of the Lord Jesus is a command. If you love the Lord Jesus, you will keep the commands of the Apostles. Luke 24:47 -- The resurrected Savior let us know that (1) Repentance and (2) Remission of sins would first be preached in Jesus Name beginning at Jerusalem.

 

Philip received the message of the Everlasting Gospel that he preached from the Apostle Peter in Jerusalem on the Feast Day of Pentecost: "Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all who are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call." (Acts 2:38-39)

The Everlasting Gospel will prevail. With joy shall you draw water out of the wells