Part 15: The Magician & The Messiah

Part 15: The Magician & The Messiah 3/20/2026 Part 15 — The Magician & The Messiah Rev. John Shane Vaughn — First Harvest Ministries International — 3/20/26 ________________ 1 I want to pick up; I've — I've — it's been so long; I feel like I've been gone for a month; I'm trying to remember where we left off; it's been a — it's been a journey in the Magician and the Messiah; been a — wow, what a journey it has been. 2 Before we continue, there is something that I left off that I want to go back; we've been talking about the two threads of the Magician and the Messiah, the true church versus the false church; remember, there's always twin spirits; always; the church is made up of twins; they're called the tares and the wheat. 3 And in tracing that lineage, there was a group of our ancestors; when I was teaching you about the Petalon and the early believers, there was a group that I skipped over, not the Ebionites; we've already talked about them a few weeks ago. 4 But right after the Ebionites, there was a group that history has lost, but I have found; and I'm just going — I'm not staying there long — I'm just going to try to give you this word, this name so that you can, if you're taking notes, have your dates and everything. 5 And by the way, if you're not, I have a 500-page book coming out called The Magician and the Messiah — tracing the remnant and the rest; so all of that is coming; but anyway, if you are taking notes, there was a group in 156 AD. 6 Now this would have put us in the second century right after the apostles; and some of their followers were still alive at this time; remember that John the apostle lived to almost 100 AD and so this is 156 AD; so this is right after Polycarp in that time period. 7 And this group of people were of course from Asia, the Asian churches; and they were known as the Montanist — M O N T A N I S T; now why were they called Montanist? Because like every other move of God that we have traced, most of the time the group became known after the name of their leader, the man or the woman that God used and raised up. 8 And such is the case with this group of people who followed a man by the name of Montanus — M O N T A N U S; now, Montanus — remember, we're chasing two streams, spirit and truth; I spent the first part of this series chasing after the truth side, those that kept the Sabbath, those that kept the feast days, those that kept the name. 9 We followed them and we're going to continue following them tonight; but there was another stream that we failed to follow from that time period because we were so focused on the truth people that we didn't focus on the spirit people there; and we have found them; they were called the Montanist and their leader was Montanus and his followers were named after him. 10 Well, Montanus began to prophesy in 152; he would fall out in the spirit; he would speak in tongues and deliver what became to be known as prophetic words in 152 AD; and interestingly enough, Montanus was not the only leader of the Montanist; there were two women that were equal in authority and stature to Montanus; one of them was Priscilla and the other one is Maxilla. 11 Now again here we find women at the very forefront of the move of Yahweh; and the Lord is really dealing with me; he's been dealing with me for months now about the role of women; I've expressed — I've shared this with Elder Jan and a few others, and because I want to be right with Yahweh; but I'm making — I feel some shifting going on in my spirit mind and I'll be announcing some of this soon. 12 But these two women, Priscilla and Maxilla, they joined with Montanus and they were known as the three; and they were there filled with the Holy Ghost, keeping alive the moving of the spirit of Yahweh; while the other groups were holding on to the truth, the Montanists were holding on to the move of the spirit; and they all prophesied; every one of them prophesied. 13 And here is what they were known for: ecstatic praise and worship; prophecy; speaking in tongues; trances and visions; radical holiness and separation from the world; and an expectation of Christ's imminent return; and they were known for women in leadership; and so this was some of their primary traits. 14 Now here's something that I'm afraid many people do not comprehend and understand, and I want to help you understand it real quickly; I'm not teaching on this tonight, but I need to teach on it soon; there are two very different speaking in tongues. 15 Now I want — Elder Anikowitch did such a marvelous job last Sabbath; I want to thank him preaching his own testimony of speaking in tongues; and I want to say this to all of you tonight — you have to know the difference in the unknown tongue and the known tongue; that's paramount. 16 Everyone on the day of Pentecost, Shavuot, did not speak in unknown tongues; this is imperative that you realize what happened at the upper room — it was known languages; and now it was supernatural because none of the disciples knew these foreign languages; and yet for a great missionary outreach, the Holy Ghost endued them with power from on high to begin speaking in a known language; it was not glossolalia as we know it today. 17 The Greek word glossolalia — theirs was known languages; now the same thing happened in Topeka, Kansas with Sister Agnes Osman; she spoke in 1903 in perfect Chinese, although she had never knew the Chinese language; and so, if you'll remember, the young girl from France in the 1800s was speaking in a dialect and a language she had never learned; this is the true Pentecostal outpouring. 18 Now Paul tells us that there is another kind of tongue and that tongue is not for the edification of the church; it is a private prayer language communication between you and Yahweh; and if you speak in that unknown tongue, it is only between you and Yahweh. 19 Now if it is spoken in the assembly publicly, then if it's not prayer, if it's not worship, if it's not private between you and Yahweh, then if it's spoken in the assembly, it must be interpreted; in other words, if we're having service and suddenly there is a coming forth of speaking in tongues, there must be — if it has interrupted the flow of the service — and now that's a good interruption, I don't mean that in a negative way. 20 But if it has stopped the flow of the natural, let's put it that way, then it is demanded because that does no good for the church; none whatsoever; that doesn't help anybody except who? You; it does help you; the Bible said that it is words that cannot be uttered; no one knows that language; it is the heavenly language. 21 But that's not what happened at Pentecost; that don't make you a Pentecostal; okay? So now Paul said that we should never, ever, ever deny or forbid speaking in tongues; if you go to a church that forbids speaking in tongues, you're in an Antichrist church; and if you go to a church that magnifies speaking in unknown tongues, you're in an Antichrist church; okay? The truth is always in the middle. 22 And at FHMI, we have found that truth and we teach that truth and we promote speaking in tongues; we promote order; but if you're going to speak in tongues in the assembly, there must be an interpretation; now somebody says, well, what if nobody interprets it? I'm glad you asked; Paul answers that question. 23 He says, if you speak in an unknown tongue — not a known tongue, because if you speak in a known tongue supernaturally that don't need interpretation — but if it's unknown, then you are required to interpret it if no one else does; your Bible said, pray that you might interpret. 24 So we need to understand as we go into some of the gifts of the spirit tonight that at FHMI, we believe like the Apostle Paul that no one should be forbidden to speak in tongues; we also believe that tongues should not be the primary gift of the spirit, nor does it prove anything other than any of the other gifts of the spirit does; they're all gifts of the spirit. 25 Now Paul did say, I thank God that I speak in tongues more than all of you; he spoke in tongues every day as do I; however, when you understand that speaking in tongues, the main purpose is the edification of your spirit mind, your spirit man; that is the purpose of it in your prayer life and in your personal life; in the assembly, it serves a different purpose; so we need to remember that because the Montanist held on to speaking in tongues when the Catholic Church and the others began to forbid speaking in tongues. 26 Now the encyclopedia says that in the meeting of the Montanists they would have trances or what they called convulsions; you would probably think, if you came in our church, you would probably call some of what we do convulsions; and so we go — our stream goes way back even here. 27 And the encyclopedia said that they had experiences that had not been seen in the established church until the Camisards and the Shakers of the 17th century; so there's your direct connection to the Shakers and the Camisards, which are the direct ancestors of the Quakers — or from descendants of the Quakers, rather. 28 Now let me tell you an interesting story about Tertullian; Tertullian was a man from the Catholic church; he was a theologian, a priest; and Tertullian gave us the trinity doctrine; it had come from Tertullian in 207 AD; but he became disenfranchised with the Catholic Church and went and joined the Montanist; now this is important — Tertullian became a Montanist. 29 And when they asked him why did he do it, he made it very plain; because the Holy Spirit, he said, has ceased to be the teacher of the church; and the Holy Spirit has not fled the true church; he was saying that the Roman Catholic Church had lost the fire; they had lost the teacher; they had lost the spirit; but he believed that somewhere the spirit was still speaking, still prophesying and still revealing. 30 Now the bishop of Rome, the pope, initially approved of the Montanist; he approved of Priscilla and Maxilla and Montanus and actually allowed them to prophesy in the Roman Catholic churches; there was a letter written by a man named Praius and he was against this move of the spirit and convinced the pope to get rid of it. 31 And here is what Tertullian wrote when the pope turned against the Montanist; he said, by the hand of Praius did a twofold service for the devil at Rome — he drove away prophecy and he put to flight the Paraclete; now, who is the Paraclete? The Holy Spirit; Tertullian said that he admits that there was no gifts of the spirit, no moving of the spirit in the Roman Catholic Church. 32 The only place the spirit was moving in the whole earth was among the Montanists; and those Montanists survived; we have their history for 600 years; finally, the bishop of Rome had had enough of them and he demanded that they convert to Trinitarianism; he demanded they submit to the Holy Roman Church. 33 Finally, Emperor Justinian expelled them and the final order was given to convert or face death; and I want you to hear what the Montanist did; your ancestors — the spirit side of your ancestry, not the truth side, the spirit side; they literally walked into their house of worship; they locked the door; they set the building on fire and they perished in the flames. 34 And gave their — they sealed their testimony with their lives; and they all perished from the earth in one day rather than become a Trinitarian. 35 Amen; amen; that's how serious; that's how serious they were; that's beyond — about truth; amazing; amen; they would not give up the moving of the spirit; they would not give up speaking in heavenly languages; they would not give up prophecy; they would not give it up to go to church; they had to have the moving of the spirit of God among them. 36 And they gave their lives for truth; and they will be among that 144,000 because they cared not for their lives even unto death; and brothers and sisters, that is your ancestry; the spirit stream has been on this earth looking for people to carry it until it finally found the Camisards, which I talked about later. 37 After those people died, it seemed that the spirit of Yahweh left the earth; we do not see in all of history another — this is important — there is no historical documents of speaking in tongues and the moving of the spirit for 400 years after all those tongue talkers died in the flame; it's what was called the dark ages, if you will; there was no move of the spirit of Yahweh. 38 And this is important for you to understand because what you are a part of today — when those flames begin to burn those people, I believe they knew in their heart that at the end of time there would be more people like them that would hold on to the moving of the spirit; that's why so many of you, when you come to this ministry, you think it's just a Bible study. 39 No, no, no; we know our ancestors on both sides; hallelujah; we know who we are; we know where we came from; we won't give up the moving of the spirit for a Bible study; amen; we won't give up the presence just for a lesson; we want it all; we're poor in spirit; we want it all. 40 Both veins that flow through this ministry came — oh, did it ever come at a price; it did not begin what you and I have; somebody said, the reason we don't call ourselves Pentecostals is because we didn't begin at Azusa Street; oh, no; we know where we began; hallelujah. 41 Brothers and sisters, when you understand our ancestry, you will cherish and preserve and be consumed with holding on to the treasures that have been given to us; amen, and amen; so I didn't even really want to go there tonight, but I felt I left the Montanists out and I needed to put them in their proper place for you. 42 So tonight we're going to pick back up where the spirit of Yahweh comes to America; and I want to give you the timeline starting at 150 AD; we're going to run through it real fast of the spirit side of our ancestry. 43 150 AD is where we find Irenaeus confirming that he had heard many brethren that were still speaking in tongues in the spirit; 150 AD; from 156 to 172 is the Montanists; and then we have no more historical record until 1688. 44 I want you to look at those numbers — 172 to 1688; there is not one document in all of the world of anyone speaking in tongues; 1688 we find the Camisards; I've already taught you about the Camisards; those were called the child prophets where they begin to speak and prophesy in languages they did not know; it was not unknown language, it was known language; and we have the documents; we have the records starting at 1688 over in Cévennes, France with the Camisards. 45 And then the Camisards came over to England; and there they found John Wesley, which was preaching entire sanctification, the second blessing; and then the Quakers, 1747; and then the Shakers, 1758; then Mother Ann Lee crosses over in 1774, two years before America becomes a nation. 46 Yahweh sends both streams to Rhode Island; Mother Ann Lee and the Sabbath keepers, John Mumford; they begin — two streams — spirit; Mother Ann Lee didn't have a Sabbath; she had — but she was speaking in a heavenly language; see, John Mumford wouldn't dare speak in a heavenly language, but he had Sabbath; here comes both streams. 47 1774; and then in 1830 in Scotland and London, Edward Irving began speaking in tongues in Scotland and they were known as the Irvingites; 1836, Sister Phoebe Palmer in New York City began having Tuesday meetings for the promotion of holiness. 48 And then in 1837, the Shaker communities begin to rise all over America; they spoke in tongues, they had visions, they prophesied, 1837; and then they die out in the 1850s; and then we come to Vineland, New Jersey, 1867, the National Holiness Association; 10,000 people was at that camp meeting. 49 And then in the nation of Armenia, Pentecostal speaking in tongues breaks out, but not yet in America; and then in 1885, Sister Maria Woodworth Etter begins her healing ministry and there was speaking in tongues in her ministry; and then in 1895 in Iowa, the fire-baptized Holiness Church under Benjamin Irwin — his followers were called Irwinites. 50 And that brings us up to today's lesson where we're getting started — 1896; I don't know if you watched our live, but there were some of us that went and retraced these steps of the move of God on the spirit side in 1896; and here we find a little place called Shearer Schoolhouse; the first mass outpouring of speaking in tongues in the United States of America outside of the Shaker communities; this was the first time that it was massively poured out. 51 In the summer of 1896, on one side of the nation, we find the Church of God's Seventh Day with Duggar and all of those men and they're sorting out the Sabbath day; they're debating Sabbath doctrine in the Midwest, Oregon, and — name just slipped my mind — anyway, over in the Midwest they're debating the Sabbath day. 52 But here is what you need to remember — there is something else happening over in the mountains of North Carolina on the other side of the nation; two streams are being stirred up by the spirit of Yahweh; the Midwest, the mountains of North Carolina — two separate streams are forming. 53 And in the mountains of North Carolina, there was a group of evangelists — William Martin, Billy Hamby, Joe Tipton, and Milton McNab; they held a 10-day revival in a schoolhouse in the middle of nowhere; I've been there; my feet have stood there; I remember the feeling sitting there. 54 As we begin to sing that song, The Wind Is Blowing Again — sitting there, I listened in my spirit to hear these men preaching about the fire baptism; and while they were preaching it, now remember — when we say a hundred believers, this is in the rural mountains, horse and buggy; no phones, no television, no — the people that live there scattered all through the mountains. 55 A hundred people in that rural area would be like 10,000 people in a city; and this was so massive what happened; and here's a direct quote: the Holy Ghost began to fall on the honest, the humble, the sincere seekers after God; and while the meetings were in progress, one after another, people began to fall out under the power of God; see, that's my ancestors. 56 And soon, quite a number were speaking in tongues as the spirit gave them the utterance; after that 10-day revival, those preachers went on down the road; they were finished; they had planted the seed; what was the seed? God has more for you — by baptism, that's what they preached. 57 But after they left, the revival did not leave; every day the meetings did not end; people then were no longer meeting at Shearer Schoolhouse; they started meeting in their homes and under brush arbors; and the news began to spread all over the mountains; people came from miles around to witness what was happening; over a hundred people speaking in tongues in that sparsely populated mountain region. 58 Now unlike the Shakers who lived in isolated communities, this was happening to prominent mainstream Protestant Christians; this was five years before Topeka, Kansas, ten years before Azusa Street; and those people eventually became known as the Church of God, Cleveland, Tennessee. 59 Now let me explain something and I need everyone to hear me carefully; those people that were speaking in tongues knew nothing about a doctrine that would come much later called initial evidence; they believed these were gifts of the spirit, but they were not an initial evidence — no one knew what that meant. 60 So when you hear churches today say I received the Holy Ghost, gift of the Holy Ghost — but the initial evidence of speaking in tongues — remember that word, initial evidence, was unknown in ten, twenty years after people were speaking in tongues; they never correlated it as the evidence or the initial evidence. 61 They believed exactly as we believe — that it was a gift of the spirit that everyone should desire, but that no one should be judging their walk with God by; okay? In other words, it was a gift to be desired but it was evidence of nothing; it was not evidence that because that person across the street had not spoken in tongues they didn't have the Holy Ghost; that was unheard of; that was not a doctrine in the Church of God; nobody held that doctrine at that time. 62 That doctrine would come much later and it would be invented by men, not the scriptures; the Bible said in Acts 2:38 and 39, if you repent and be baptized in the name of Yeshua, you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit — if you speak in tongues; it don't say that; it said you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. 63 Somebody said, well, Pastor, how will I know I got it? Have you ever heard of that little word called faith? If you can see it, it's not faith; I don't need anything to prove I got anything; my faith says if God said I received it, I received it; and there'll be no deception if you walk by faith and not by sight; amen. 64 So that came much, much, much later; now, nobody believes in speaking in tongues more than this preacher; but I believe in doctrine being correct; and what happened at Shearer Schoolhouse was not initial evidence; it was gifts of the spirit. 65 And so we need to remember that in the fall of 1900, some five years later, Charles Fox Parham founded a Bible school in Topeka, Kansas; and in that Bible school he had a homework assignment, because remember there is news traveling everywhere all over America now of this new thing, speaking in tongues; and here's a Bible college and he gives them a homework assignment. 66 He says, I'm going away; while I'm gone, you search the scripture for the biblical evidence of receiving the Holy Ghost; well, Charles, I could have given you the biblical evidence of the Holy Ghost; it's called Acts 2:38; repent and be baptized and you shall receive the Holy Ghost; there's your biblical evidence; there is nothing after that; there's no add-ons; no, no, no. 67 If I went in that water by faith and was baptized in his name by faith, if I don't come up with the Holy Ghost, then there's no dove in the water; hallelujah; amen; now what Satan has done with this doctrine — everybody that comes out of the water and they're not acting like the other person acts, what's the first thing the devil tells you? You ain't got the Holy Ghost; you don't have the Holy Ghost. 68 Hallelujah; that's when you look him in the face and say, hold on, devil — Acts 2:38; if I stop breaking the commandments of Yahweh, if I turn back from my lawbreaking and I'm baptized in the name of Yeshua the Messiah, I shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost; hallelujah; you throw that in the devil's face the next time he tells you you don't have it. 69 Listen to me — if you're not speaking in tongues, I'll tell you what you don't have; you don't have a blessing that you desperately need; you don't have help that you desperately need; and what you need to do, if you don't speak in tongues in the water, you need to bury your face in the altar until you do; you understand? 70 But until then, you walk by faith and you're not discouraged; you're not downhearted; you believe that you have received and eventually the evidence, the signs will catch up with your faith; hallelujah; I wish everybody would believe — if you've been baptized, you have received the gift of the Holy Ghost; hallelujah; I got it; hallelujah; I've got it; because God's word says I have it; hallelujah. 71 That settles it; that's the final word; the word completes it all; hallelujah; that's it, Elder; that's the final word; now, Paul went on and said, I would that you all spoke in tongues; now what does that tell you in reverse? That there was believers sitting in Paul's church that did not speak in tongues, but he encouraged them to press in to that. 72 And I encourage everyone; I know the day is coming when everybody in the Apostolic Assembly will have that gift; I know it without a shadow of a doubt because if you hang around us, you can't help — as much as we lay hands on you, you're going to catch it by accident; hallelujah; it's like a — you catch it; hallelujah. 73 So I just encourage everybody, press on but stand in faith; and so when Charles Parham returned, his class had concluded that according to Acts 2, 10, and 19 that speaking in tongues was the evidence; because on January the 1st, 1901, Agnes Osman spoke in tongues during a prayer meeting; however, Agnes Osman spoke in Chinese; totally different than what we hear today. 74 1916 — by the way, nobody at Azusa Street believed that speaking in tongues was the initial evidence; although everybody was speaking in tongues, the doctrine of initial evidence was not codified until 1916 by the Assemblies of God in Hot Springs, Arkansas. 75 Now here is something I find very important; the Assemblies of God — in 1914, by the way, the largest Pentecostal denomination in the world — the Assemblies of God was not the first; the Church of God was; now why did the Assemblies of God split, or not join, the Church of God? They should have because they were exactly the same except in one area. 76 The Assemblies of God did not believe in true biblical government; they believed the church ruled the leaders; and the Church of God was total opposite; they were a centralized form of government; the Assemblies of God was a congregational form of government. 77 What I'm going to show you when I get done tonight — you're going to find out that every move of God crumbles over one subject, one; and it's going to be the subject Yahweh's going to restore in the end time that somebody's going to get it right; every move of God ends over government; government; amen, Apostle; mark it down because I'm going to show you the receipts. 78 I'm going to show you how government is what Yahweh is going to restore last in the earth; because every move of God — do you know, if the Church of God and the Assemblies of God would have stayed together, their influence would be twice as powerful? What you're going to find as we move along this line tonight, you're going to find that if the church would have accepted the next truth that came along, it would have already taken over the world, but it always splinters over the next truth. 79 Now there were a few other doctrines accepted by the Assemblies of God in 1916; the finished work of the cross — another false doctrine accepted by the Assemblies of God — and the initial evidence debate; so there it was written down, article 8 in the Assemblies of God manual; the first time the word initial evidence ever appeared in church history. 80 Right after they adopted that language, so did the Church of God out of Cleveland — article 9, we believe in speaking with other tongues as the spirit gives utterance, and that is the initial evidence of the baptism of the Holy Ghost; and so there we are; the Church of God and the Assemblies of God now is teaching what Shearer Schoolhouse never taught and what Azusa Street never taught; this is called adding the traditions of men to the word of God. 81 You will not find initial evidence in the New Testament, in the writings of the early leaders; and the Waldensians didn't believe it, and none of Shearer Schoolhouse; it was invented in 1916 and it was part of a denominational power struggle and then it was copied by other Pentecostal bodies; I want to make it clear tonight — tongues is a gift of the spirit; it is not a required test or evidence; it is a gift. 82 All right, now let's move on from that point and let's go to 1913; because when we get to 1913, something else is about to be restored to the end-time seventh temple; and we need to follow this restoration the best we can; if I can find it; bear with me; I want to show you this man that you've never heard of, but he may be one of the greatest restorers in our generation that none of us have ever heard of. 83 Let's show him to you; the name that you've probably never heard; here we go; you can barely see him — it's the only picture in history I could find of this man; that is Brother McAlister; Brother McAlister; he was part of the Assemblies of God; but he went to a camp meeting in Arroyo Seco, California — I hope that's how you pronounce it — Arroyo Seco, California; it's near Los Angeles; and this brother was from Canada; he was part of the Pentecostals of Canada. 84 They invited Brother McAlister to California to preach on the importance of water baptism; and while Brother McAlister was preaching in 1913, he made this statement: the apostles baptized their converts one time in the name of Jesus; the words Father, Son, and Holy Ghost were never used in Christian baptism. 85 There was an eyewitness that heard him say that; and here's what they wrote: there was an audible shudder that swept the preachers on the platform; the entire 10,000 people went dead silent; for the first time, for the very first time since the time of the apostles in all of history, did truth come back in California under Brother McAlister. 86 This man, by the way, he didn't even believe what he was preaching; he was Assemblies of God; he didn't; there was no such thing as Jesus name baptism; none; nobody had been baptized in the name of Jesus since the days of the apostles; they had all been baptized in the Roman Catholic Protestant baptism — Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. 87 Brother McAlister's up preaching; and that night, another man by the name of John Scheppe — S C H E P E — stood up and he said, that's a revelation, a divine revelation; another man, Frank Ewart in Los Angeles, stood up and he said, that's a revelation. 88 And on April the 15th, 1914, he put up a tent — Brother Frank Ewart did — in Belvedere, California, and preached the first public sermon on Acts 2:38; you listen and make this sink in your mind; for the first time since the days of the apostles, Acts 2:38 was preached; out of thousands of years of church history, Acts 2:38 was preached. 89 Now here's my question to you — how many people in history had read Acts 2:38 and never saw it? Thousands, multiplied thousands had read Acts 2:38; why does it jump off the page suddenly? Books were sealed up to the right time, Apostle; amen. 90 Because Yahweh is restoring the temple in the same way it was destroyed; and brothers and sisters, here a little, there a little is being restored; by the way, all these great people we're talking about, they knew nothing that you know; they knew nothing about the Melchizedek Priesthood; they knew nothing about the seventh temple; they know nothing; you know nothing. 91 I know an apostle that came and started preaching Malachi 4:5 and 6; hallelujah; they knew nothing about Malachi 4:5 and 6; none of them, none of them; we are living; they knew nothing about the Mazzaroth; they knew nothing about these wonderful things that we're walking in today; because now what was new to them is old to us; and yet it's new; don't ever let it get old; hallelujah; it's old but yet it's new; it's powerful and it's true. 92 And so for the first time, truth — Acts 2:38, how you must be baptized — is restored to the seventh temple; during that revival, there was an evangelist, Brother Glenn Cook; and him and Brother Frank Ewart walked down to the water; now watch this, I really want you to see this; they were Assemblies of God. 93 These two men walked down to the water and did what I've seen the elders of this ministry do in the waters; they rebaptized one another; hallelujah; they had received another revelation; hallelujah; they — my God — they walked in the water and put each other under the water in the name above every name; the only name they knew at the time; hallelujah. 94 And the Bible said it would be counted unto them as righteousness because they did all that God had given to them; they jumped in the water; they jumped in the water just like so many of you — when you found out the name you jumped back in the water; do you not see you are their prodigy? Hallelujah; your water jumpers; praise the Lord. 95 We just had so many; do you know — do you know last week we had an entire family — the Woodward family all jumped in the water; people I didn't even know; and they did the same thing Brother McAlister did and Brother Ewart did and Brother Cook; they got more so they went in for more; hallelujah; oh; oh; oh. 96 Sister Holly — do you know Holly Hollandworth drove from South Carolina up to Virginia by herself, without her husband, for me to put her in the water? Why? She had heard another message and knew that she had to put her faith in action; oh; hallelujah; oh; hallelujah; amen; oh. 97 This work — while people try to destroy this work — is doing the work of the kingdom; and you better know that this is end-time work that we're doing; hallelujah. 98 Brother Glenn Cook baptized him in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ; that was the first time anyone had been baptized correctly in nearly 2,000 years; and suddenly, Brother Howard Goss, who was the superintendent of the Assemblies of God, one of the founders, heard this message. 99 Now, Howard Goss is my new hero because Howard Goss was the most powerful man in the Assemblies of God in 1914; and the minute he heard about this baptism, the minute he did it, he went and jumped in the water; and then he was kicked out of his own movement because he was chasing the water; he was chasing truth; he literally was the top man at the Assemblies of God; gave it all up to jump back in the water; hallelujah, hallelujah. 100 Now, sadly, that movement did what every other movement does; it produced error in doctrine; on the other side of the country, Duggar had restored truth about Unitarianism, the father and the son; Duggar had it over there. 101 But here, among the Jesus name people, instead of embracing correct theology, they embraced modalism or oneness theology; they did not return to the apostolic position as they should have, because they were running from the Trinity; good for them; but in running from the Trinity they created the polar opposite and yet the same. 102 Only Duggar had the truth over there about the nature of God and his son; but the oneness began to teach that Jesus is the Father, he is the Son, he is the Holy Ghost, that that flesh man was Yahweh — Jesus only, as it's referred to; that came out of that Jesus name baptism. 103 Now, now — see, you see what happens? That Jesus name baptism was truth; amen; but now we go into Jesus only because we've forgotten the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost; we've gone Jesus only; and so what we did — we let truth — and that's the same thing the Sabbath keepers have done; they don't want anything to do with the moving of the spirit because they got truth and yet messed it all up. 104 And so from that movement came false doctrine and false teaching; who was teaching the truth? Cranmer; anybody remember Cranmer? Duggar; they were all over there teaching the truth of who Yeshua was; that Yahweh is the Father; Yeshua is a distinct person, the Son begotten, not eternal; and that the Holy Spirit is Yahweh's power and his presence, not a separate person; that Yahweh did not die, only Yeshua died. 105 That truth was in the other camp — Cranmer; but all early Pentecostals, every one of the assembly, all were Trinitarian; and so was the early Sabbath keepers; if you go to a Seventh Day Adventist church, get out; you're in Babylon; they are Trinitarian; I don't care if they keep the Sabbath or not; they're Trinitarian; Trinitarianism is Babylonian deities; get out of there; come out of her, my people. 106 And the same thing on the other side — come out and come to biblical Unitarianism where we know the Father and his Son; hallelujah. 107 Now let's move forward; I'm going to try to cover a few more things before my time runs out tonight; when the spirit of Yahweh fell at Shearer Schoolhouse, let's back up there; it produced an outpouring; it produced a revelation; the spirit fell, the fire fell, but the power and the fire — listen to this — could not build a movement; because fire needs a builder. 108 In 1903, about seven years after the Holy Ghost fell at Shearer Schoolhouse, that movement would have died without one man; his name — Ambrose Jessup Tomlinson; he was called AJ Tomlinson; Brother Tomlinson was there in the mountains of North Carolina and he encountered these people at Shearer Schoolhouse; he walked into that meeting and then in 1903, June the 13th, he joined their church. 109 He was a preacher, but more than that, AJ Tomlinson was an apostle; he was a man that could organize the move of God, that could bring theological clarity and the apostolic drive to build what the revival had begun; do you know why the Brownsville revival fell apart? It didn't have an apostle; do you know why every great move of God — the fire and the power is not enough to organize it; it's not enough to turn it into a movement. 110 AJ Tomlinson walked into Shearer Schoolhouse and immediately — he's not the one that started that revelation — but immediately they said, everyone in that church knew he was their leader; they just knew it supernaturally by the spirit of Yahweh; and when he walked in, there was another man by the name of RG Spurling that had spearheaded this entire movement. 111 Brother Spurling stepped down when an apostle walked in; he stepped down, and so did Benjamin Harding's group; they all stepped down because there was no apostle to organize the move; AJ Tomlinson became that apostle; under his leadership, all those scattered mountain congregations were unified; I'm looking at those scattered congregations on my screen right now; they were scattered all over the mountains; ours is scattered all over the nation and the world; he was able to unite those congregations. 112 And then he gave it a name; that movement needed a name; it was the Church of God; and then they needed a general assembly; he called them together; and then it needed a government structure and he gave them one — a theocracy; this is why the Assemblies of God pulled out of AJ Tomlinson's movement; they didn't like one man being in charge. 113 But it was this one man that brought that Shearer Schoolhouse revival to the ends of the earth; in 1896, that outpouring did not produce eight million members in 189 countries of the world — AJ Tomlinson did; the appointment of one man produced that; not the move of God. 114 Do you know why Azusa Street fell apart and the doors were shut? Brother Seymour died; he was the apostle; it was AJ Tomlinson that God used to take what he had released and form it and unite it and gather it together under clear, clear leadership. 115 AJ Tomlinson presided over that work called the Church of God with extraordinary results; he established a printing press; speaking of, we just bought our second new printer at the church; printing press was the main thing in every move of God; sounds like FHMI; amen; he established an orphanage which we call the Home of Hope; and then he formed a theocratic government with himself as the singular overseer accountable to Yahweh; and that is the government of the Church of God; he brought that move of God around the world because there was a leader that could unite the people. 116 Well, that went on from 1903 to 1922; he had been the most effective leader the Church of God has ever had; but then in 1922, by the time he had raised up some elders under him and some men — I don't even have to tell you the rest of this story, do I? Oh, no. 117 In 1922, they charged AJ Tomlinson with misusing the money and it turned into a war; the surface argument was financial, but the deeper argument was he wouldn't give up control; and the majority faction wanted the church governed by a council of 12 elders, a democratic body; but Tomlinson would not give it to them; he said that Yahweh had appointed him as the singular overseer for life. 118 They hated Tomlinson for that; he founded it, he built it, and now they wanted it; and so they went to the Supreme Court of Tennessee; and sadly the courts of this world sided with the opponents of AJ Tomlinson; and in 1927, AJ Tomlinson was kicked out of his own church. 119 But here's the rest of the story; that video we showed you on Prayer Mountain the other day, that beautiful place, was a picture of where AJ Tomlinson prayed and where God gave him the vision; and you need to know something — God raises up a man; if you throw him out of one place, God will put him in another. 120 And from that event, AJ Tomlinson had a group of people that knew he was the leader; they knew that the way the Church of God was restructuring was not biblical; it all started over government; at the end of the day, the people want control. 121 And AJ Tomlinson — when they kicked him out, half of the church stood up and said, no, that's our apostle, that's our leader; and even though you might keep the name and the property, we will take the government; and they did, and started a church known today as the Church of God of Prophecy. 122 Originally it was called the Tomlinson Church of God and then they changed it to the Church of God of Prophecy; why? They kept the same government that Tomlinson taught them; in the Church of God of Prophecy, until he died, and then his son Milton took his place; and the Church of God of Prophecy grew to over a million members worldwide. 123 So now Tomlinson has not only founded the first move — that church with millions — now he's founded another move with over a million members in it; however, after Tomlinson died, the pressure came on his son to do the same thing the Church of God had done — to turn it to being governed by 12 elders instead of one man. 124 And when they agreed to that, Milton Tomlinson moved towards a committee government in 1948; when that happened, there was another man that was a disciple of Tomlinson, and I'm going to show him to you; never heard of him, I'm sure; but I'm fixing to show you what God did with this man because he understood government. 125 The Church of God and the Church of God of Prophecy, both started by Tomlinson, was taken over by his son Milton Tomlinson; and they decided no more theocratic government, which was true government; when they did, the man at the bottom by the name of Grady Kent stood up and said, that's not biblical government; that was taught to us by AJ Tomlinson. 126 He left the Church of God of Prophecy and started in 1948 a Church of God called Church of God Jerusalem Acres; and there — there's his emblem — the Star of David, the cross, and the menorah; right on time; right on time; this man started the Jerusalem Acres Church of God. 127 This is very important, because when he left — watch this — when he left that Babylonian church government for true godly government to start this congregation, look how many he took with him; 300; wow; army; hallelujah. 128 Amen; hallelujah; and now today, if you go to Cleveland, Tennessee, you can pull up to that beautiful place; I'll show it to you; it's in Cleveland, Tennessee; Jerusalem Acres; but it gets even more powerful. 129 This is the entrance to it; the Church of God Jerusalem Acres was established in the exact same year that Judah went back home; hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah; the exact same year that Judah went back to the land, this group of 300 went back to the covenant. 130 The first time in America that there is any kind of Star of David or combining it with Christianity and a menorah — the first emblem ever — came up in the same year in America that it was established in Jerusalem. 131 If you'll look at 1948, you'll see the Tomlinson branches bringing in the spirit; Armstrong, Duggar, and Dodd are bringing in the truth; you have a parallel aliyah of revival and restoration happening in the same moment. 132 Isaiah 66 and 8 said a nation would be born in one day; that happened on May the 14th; and at the same time, AJ Tomlinson is bringing the Ephraimites — the Ephraimites — back to the covenant through Jerusalem Acres; the first time the word Jerusalem ever used in the United States of America on any religious organization. 133 Grady Kent followed his apostle and left with 300 members and built Jerusalem Acres while Yahweh built Jerusalem across the pond; hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah; oh, he's so good; this is a parallel aliyah; the Jews were returning to the land; Ephraim was returning to the covenant, all at the same time; oh; oh, hallelujah; all of it returning to the land. 134 There was a fourth branch under AJ Tomlinson; all of these works came out from this one apostle — called the Church of God, Huntsville, Alabama; and what did they teach? Theocratic government; and they taught one day we would rule the world. 135 Now let me show you something on the other side of the nation; what's happening at the same moment of AJ Tomlinson? Him — AJ Tomlinson did not know Andrew Duggar; neither man knew one another; they never sat together in the same room; they moved in different styles; they didn't have all that tongue talking that AJ Tomlinson had; one was in the mountains of Appalachia, one's in the Midwest and West Virginia; one is restoring the spirit — AJ Tomlinson — and one is restoring the truth. 136 And they were both pulling the same thread; they were both restoring the government of heaven to earth; why? Why? Do you not remember why the Church of God Seventh Day got rid of Duggar? Let's go back a little bit; they got rid of Duggar for the same reason the Church of God got rid of Tomlinson; one man rule. 137 Duggar said, no, God appointed me for life; and they said, no, we want the council to rule; and so what did Duggar do? He did the same thing Tomlinson did; he went over to West Virginia; and who came up from Duggar? Herbert Armstrong; who came up from Tomlinson? Grady Kent; does anybody see what I do? You see what I — oh; my; what — both men were trying to restore government? 138 But if there's one thing Christians will not allow, it is government — not theocratic heavenly government; but Yahweh was using both men to restore government; when Tomlinson organized the Church of God, he didn't build a denomination after boardrooms; he built a theocracy; it was told in the writings, everybody knew who was in charge. 139 When Tomlinson — it was a government that looked so much like the government of heaven on earth; because in the government of heaven, Yahweh is the head, Yeshua is the king under that head, and everyone is appointed from above, not elected from beneath. 140 You know, I never knew why Yahweh used Professor Toto to fight against democracy so hard; it became my message to America; go back to the republic; go back to the rule of where the word of Yahweh is; the law of the land is king; the law of God is king, not the men, not the population; I didn't understand why Toto went that vein so much, but now I do. 141 Yahweh's been trying to use my voice to restore government properly, the way he designed it in heaven, as it shall be on earth; amen, Apostle; hallelujah; amen; hallelujah; when you see it, you see it and you can't unsee it. 142 Any other government is demonic; whether it's in the nation or the church, brothers and sisters, we the people is as demonic as it gets; because it is not we the people that rules America — it's the law of the land; and brothers and sisters, the first government in Israel was not a democracy; the first government in Israel was the Torah, the law of the land; before there was a King Saul or a King David, there was Torah; it was a republic; it was not ruled by the people. 143 God established a general overseer with AJ Tomlinson; a singular apostolic office, not a committee, not a board, not a democratic vote; one man appointed by Yahweh, accountable upwards, not sideways; and those general overseers that God raised up was there to serve the people; now that is the theology of AJ Tomlinson. 144 That's why he was gotten rid of — not because of misappropriating funds, but because he wouldn't give up control; and therefore, if we can't get you to give it up, then we will bring every false accusation against you we can; we will get you out of office; but all they did with AJ — when they ran him out, he started another million-member church that's still going today, and then Jerusalem Acres, and then Huntsville, Alabama; so you're never going to stop an anointed man of Yahweh; just not going to happen. 145 Tomlinson was building a rehearsal for what is coming; when they removed him, they chose democracy over theocracy; and then Duggar, 1933, did the same thing. 146 Now I want to move on to the scripture that says, thy kingdom come, thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven; this was not a prayer just for the future millennium that Yeshua prayed; he literally was praying for the mandate that was in heaven to fall on the present community of believers; the church, the kahal, the assembly is meant to be a visible demonstration of the government that will cover the earth when Yeshua returns. 147 And because your mind cannot grasp it, you have no right to pray the prayer; thy government come today on this earth as it's operating in heaven; Yeshua said, if you'll pray that one prayer, if you'll pray that one prayer and believe it, you'll overcome every devil; you'll overcome; you'll say, thine is the kingdom, the power, the glory forever. 148 Why? Because we are the demonstration of what heavenly government looks like; what does that government look like? Let's look and see — Revelation 4 and 4; let's see what heavenly government looks like; because Yeshua said, you're to pray this prayer that thy government come to earth; he wasn't talking about in the seventh day; he was talking about among the believers today; or why else would we pray it? Read, Elder. 149 Amen, Apostle; Revelation 4 and 4; yes; round about the throne were four and twenty seats, and upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting clothed in white raiment, and they had on their heads crowns of gold; Revelation 5 and 11 — and I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne, and the beast, and the elders, and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands. 150 Tell me — what do you see? Do you see chaos or structure? Structure; structure; do you see democracy or theocracy? Theocracy; theocracy; you see a throne; and structured under that throne is four and twenty elders, layers of government; not every man doing what's right in his own eyes; amen. 151 A throne, around the throne appointed overseers, and beneath them thousands of thousands of ministers; I don't know if you realize — here at the Apostolic Assembly, we are desperately trying to answer the prayer of Christ to show you what beautiful top-down government looks like, how it serves you and how it aligns you, how it takes you out of the driver's seat and makes you what you are — a sheep. 152 This is what Tomlinson was trying to build in Cleveland before they kicked him out; it's what Duggar was trying to build in Salem, West Virginia; neither of them completed it; both of them were removed, impeached, or marginalized because people preferred committees to apostles and votes to divine appointment; but the thread they were pulling was the right thread. 153 This is what the millennium will look like — Zechariah 14 and 9; this is what the millennium government will look like; it will be a theocracy; amen; there's not one of you that will get a vote in any matter; not one of us; no one will ask us our opinion; no one will ask how do we feel about that? You are so American; you may be miserable in the millennial reign. 154 Because brothers and sisters, there will be an order given from the throne — which by the way, I could show you that throne right now, but I can't read that big Bible; the Bible is the throne; that's where the river of fire flows out from under the word of God; every one of us will come under submission to that word; there is no how do you interpret it? No, no, no, no; the word is the throne; read. 155 Amen; and the Lord Yahweh shall be king over all the earth; in that day shall there be one Lord and his name one; how is that going to be when Yeshua is supposed to be king of the earth? It just said Yahweh is going to be king of the earth and there will only be one; anybody want to take a stab at it? 156 Because there will be such unity and obedience that Yeshua and all that are under him will be in such obedience that Yahweh will be king of the earth through them; they will come under such submission that you can't tell the difference in the Son and the Father — only because they are; that's why he said, when you've seen me you've seen the Father, because I'm in perfect unity with his word. 157 I only say what he says; I don't have an opinion; if he tells me to die on the cross, I say, nevertheless, not my will, but — because I don't get a vote in the matter; that's a theocracy — one king, one name. 158 One government, brothers and sisters; when you come to understand what Yahweh is restoring in 1948 — on May the 14th, David Ben-Gurion declared the establishment of the state of Israel after 1,878 years of exile. 159 Now, by the way, remember I told you — it had been almost over 1,600 years since anybody had spoken in tongues that we knew of; about the same amount of time that Jerusalem was in exile; he declared Isaiah 66 and 8 — who has heard such a thing? Who has seen such a thing? Shall the earth be made to give birth in one day? Or shall a nation be born at once? On May the 14th, that prophecy came to pass. 160 The whole world says, wait a minute — these people were scattered; and suddenly in one day the earth's giving birth to a new nation, a new state; Judah was returning to the land, but at the same time Ephraim was returning to the covenant in America. 161 At Jerusalem Acres under AJ Tomlinson, the scattered house of Israel, lost among the nations — we were also returning, not to the land, but to the covenant; and we was returning on two fronts; the spirit through AJ Tomlinson through the gifts of the spirit, and also on the truth front, Herbert Armstrong. 162 This was — what was happening was a dual — you've got to see it; oh, it's so beautiful to behold; that we didn't even realize that a nation was being born over here as well; in a day, quickly, the suddenly of Yahweh; it was all being born in a day. 163 The same time — you look at your screen, this is what was happening; we was having spirit and truth; Tomlinson and Armstrong were the two witnesses of a parallel aliyah with Jerusalem; there was an awakening in all of Israel. 164 At the same time, Armstrong's radio programs covered the world, bringing the Sabbath back; at the same time, Jews were going home; the Plain Truth magazine, started by Armstrong — eight million subscribers every single month; and he sent them out free of charge; eight million magazines; and our folks cry when we have to send out 400. 165 Eight million magazines free of charge; more subscribers than Time magazine, preaching the Sabbath; this is an aliyah, children; Ambassador College under Armstrong training thousands of Sabbath-keeping ministers; feast days were restored under Armstrong; British Israel, all restored. 166 This awakening that was happening was happening in Jerusalem; at the same time, people don't realize that under Herbert Armstrong, he came; he turned on the first radio signal to touch the world from this radio tower in Eugene, Oregon; this is the first time the Sabbath message went out across America — from that particular pole right there in the middle. 167 His voice boomed out across it; boomed out in 1934, but it did not start exploding; nobody listened to him for ten years; but in 1948, his message began to explode; by the 1950s he was on your television — The World Tomorrow; eight million copies a month of his Sabbath day message, happening at the same time Jerusalem — a nation was being born in a day; feast days was restored by Herbert Armstrong. 168 AN Duggar is restoring Unitarianism at the same time; and then CO Dodd — a man you know nothing about, but I'm fixing to teach you about — oh, never mind; it's 9:02. 169 All right; thank you for joining me; I love you; Yahweh bless every one of you; Shabbat shalom; we'll pick up there next week, right? Shalom; thank you; thank you; shalom; shalom; shalom; shalom; shalom; shalom; shalom; shalom; shalom; good; shalom; shalom; shalom.