Moving in the Apostolic

130 Moving in the Apostolic

Things that the Church has lost over a period of time are restored. As we discussed earlier, these are referred to as "times of restoration" (see Acts 3:21). Apostolic times are times of restoration and restitution. The Church needs the apostolic dimension to be able to build the old places, raise up the former desolations and repair cities that lay waste. The result of the Tabernacle of David being restored is that the Gentiles might seek after the Lord (see Acts 15:16,17). When true worship is restored to the Church, the nations will be affected and sinners will be drawn to the Church. Amos also prophesied that the saints would possess the remnant of Edom and all the heathen. This is a prophetic word concerning possessing the nations with the kingdom of God. It speaks of the advance of the Kingdom. This is why the Tabernacle of David must be and is being rebuilt through the apostolic anointing. Hezekiah restored stature to the house of God. Whenever the house of God loses its stature in the earth, the Lord will raise up apostolic ministries to restore it. Joseph And God sent me before you to preserve a posterity for you in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance (Gen. 45:7). These are the words of Joseph. He realized he had been sent by the Lord into Egypt, ahead of his family, to preserve for them a posterity in the earth. Sent ones preserve a posterity, meaning all future generations collectively. So apostolic ministry affects future generations. Apostolic ministry stops destruction, causing spiritual life to be maintained from one generation to the next. The move of God would cease without sent ones. Joseph described the salvation of his family as "a great deliverance." The apostolic dimension has resident within it a deliverance anointing. The ability to deliver those appointed to death is characteristic of a sent one's ministry. When the Church