Restoring
True Apostolic Vision
The time has come to sound a trumpet over
this land to tear down and to build up.
I pray to tear down that portion of the current apostolic vision which
has at its center the things of men rather than the things of God, and
consequently sees a different finish line to this Christian race than the one
described in the Bible. I pray to tear
down all of our seemingly finest evangelistic, musical, and other religious
efforts which have as their foundation the talents and zeal and agendas of men
but have done away with the cross in which we must only glory. I pray destruction of these things that the
true might be raised up out of their ashes.
I pray for saints of true apostolic vision
to be raised up. These saints will have
as their vision the things of God rather than the things of men. These saints will glory in nothing save in
the cross of Jesus Christ, for they will know that the cross of Christ is the
wisdom and power of God, and that to remove the centrality of the cross from
our vision is the agenda of the antichrist.
The time has come to call forth those who will be the true leaders in
our final battle. Where are they? Come forth you hidden ones. The time to stand up is at hand. Come forth you true remnant of the Body of
Christ! Come forth you broken and rejected ones who have been discarded on the
trash heap of modern Christendom. Come
forth and take your place as the true men and women of God that you are called
to be.
The two witnesses in Revelation Chapter
11 do not overhaul the judicial, financial, education, and political systems of
this world. They preach the true gospel
in the midst of a wicked Babylonian system, and consequently they are killed and
their bodies thrown into the streets for the system to gloat over. That is the fullness of true apostolic
vision, because it has at its center the demonstration of the cross of Jesus
Christ that God is going to bring forth at the end of this age. Unless a man lay down his life, no further
multiplication of life comes forth.
God’s redemptive plan for His church at the end of this age is not that
she rescue the systems of this world by overhauling them, but that she die for
those held captive in them so that they might be released that the harvest
might be greater. For when a seed falls
to the ground, many come forth.
The book of Daniel says the saints will
be victorious and receive the kingdom forever.
But the book of Daniel goes on to say the path to this victory will be
the pathway of the cross, whereupon the saints will be warred against, worn
down, and crushed. The end of the age
will come when the power of the holy people has been shattered. Then and only then will Jesus return.
Our vision is to follow Jesus. And He is leading those who follow Him to
the destiny described in the Bible.
Even as the religious structure of Jesus’ time expected Him to overhaul
their worldly systems, so the religious structure of today expects the same of
the end-time church. But the true end-time
church will once again come as a suffering servant to lay down her life,
because the life of Christ flows in and through her and she will march to no
other drummer. And then, when her robes
have been fully whitened and prepared as that befitting a bride, her bridegroom
will return. And then the systems of
this world will be overhauled. And then
the lion will lie down with the lamb.
But not before.
The true church of Jesus Christ will
conquer by the Blood of the Lamb, the word of her testimony, and by loving not
her life unto death. There is no other
pathway to victory. I pray that we lay
down our political agendas and pick up our crosses and follow Jesus. I pray
against all forms of ecumenical unity which are man’s agenda and are not the unity
in the Holy Spirit that Jesus meant. I
pray that we restore that vision which embraces the centrality of the cross and
glories in nothing save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. I pray to call forth the true disciples of
Christ to stand together in unity in this march to victory. And I pray that we might have strength to
stand in unity and defeat the false religious system which has done away with
the cross and glories in all things other than the cross of Jesus Christ. Will you stand with me? Will you die for those trapped in this
system that they might be set free?
Will you offer yourself as living sacrifices in God’s redemptive plan to
restore His creation by demonstration of the wisdom and power of the cross
through His church? Be encouraged and
rallied, saints of the Lord.
Vern Kuenzi
www.restoringthevision.com