Moving in the Apostolic

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Moving in the Apostolic

apostles, second prophets, third teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, administrations, varieties of tongues (1 Cor. 12:28). The nineteenth and twentieth centuries have seen 150 years of increasing restoration for the Church. The order of this restoration has roughly corresponded to a reversal of 1 Corinthians 12:28, with the last things restored first and the first last (see Matt. 19:30). The precursors of the modern restoration were the healing movements in the American holiness movement in the 1830s under Charles Finney and Phoebe Palmer, the 1860s under Dr. Charles Cullis, the Keswick movement (with internationally famous leaders such as William Boardman, A. J. Gordon, R. L. Stanton, R. Kelso Carter, Andrew Murray and A. B. Simpson), Carrie Judd, Maria Woodworth-Etter and John Alexander Dowie. 2 Diversities of tongues were restored with the outpouring of the Holy Spirit at Azusa Street in Los Angeles (1906-1909). Helps and governments followed with the establishing and structuring of many Pentecostal fellowships, which continued the move of the Holy Spirit. The 1940s and 1950s saw a further restoration of healing and miracles with the coming of many healing evangelists. The restoration of the teacher came in the 1970s, followed by a strong move of the prophetic in the 1980s. Finally, the 1990s have seen the beginning of the restoration of the apostolic office. I am not implying that no one walked in the apostolic office before the 1990s. There have always been those who operated under this anointing throughout the history of the Church. I am talking about this office being restored in its fullness. The Lord is putting honor upon the part of the Body that has been lacking (see 1 Cor. 12:24). The Lord is honoring the office of the apostle by putting His glory upon it in this hour. As we honor what God honors, we will receive the blessing and fullness of what the Lord has reserved for the last-days Church. With the restoration of the office of the apostle, there is a restoration of apostolic doctrine, apostolic binding and loosing,