Is The Church (Ekklesia) still present on earth? By Tuese Ahkiong

Is The Church (Ekklesia) still present on earth?

By Tuese Ahkiong 

1. A strong reason why there is no biblical church on earth today is because there is so much division, denominations teaching contrary doctrine and the absence of powerful supernatural miracles of The Holy Spirit from raising the dead to restoring limbs, to multiplying food, to tongues, to surviving snake bites, poisons, to the power of God’s love not present among His own people where there is fighting, division, splits, radical doctrines, fleecing and abuse proving that they are NOT His disciples but people simple playing corporation churchianity.  Why aren’t the physically dead being physically raised to life and so much more?



John 14:12
Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father....  Has the power of the Holy Spirit ceased or diminished and is less powerful than the 1st century?  Is God creating confusion in “the church” today with thousands of different denominations teaching inconsistent doctrine?

Why aren’t the physically dead being physically raised to life?  Why aren’t millions of hospitals being emptied out in Jesus Name!  

John 14:12
Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father.

 

***Was Christ speaking TO YOU reading His words in the 21st Century or was He speaking to His Apostles and Disciples in the 1st century or something else?

2. Another strong argument for no church today is the proper Greek name ekklesia has a completely different definition from the German word “church,” which typically refers to a local building where followers of Christ gather and commence in rituals derived from traditions and myth.  Ekklesia means the called out assembly/ congregation of The Lord. The context is God scattering Israel in the OT and promising to regather them which He does by the gospel in the NT. Israel only is called out from every nation, tongue, tribe...(or from the pagan nation where they were scattered).  At the end of the story, only the 12 tribes of Israel, the 144,000 were called out and redeemed from the nations, tongues, peoples where they were scattered and where the “Great Commission” Gospel trumpet call fished the lost sheep of the house of Israel out of the nations!  

Revelation 7:4
And I heard the number of those that were sealed: and there were sealed a hundred and forty-four thousand of all the tribes of the sons of Israel.
***The 144,000 sealed are from the tribes of the Sons of ISRAEL. 


Revelation 14:1
¶ And I saw and, behold, the Lamb stood upon Mount Sion and with him a hundred and forty-four thousand, having the name of his Father written in their foreheads.
***The 144,000 who are the sons of Israel, had the name of the Lamb’s Father on their foreheads. 


Revelation 14:3
and they sang as it were a new song before the throne and before the four animals and the elders; and no one could learn that song but the hundred and forty-four thousand, who were redeemed from the earth.
***The 144,000 were REDEEMED from the earth or SAVED, JUSTIFIED, RECONCILED, BOUGHT BACK and BROUGHT BACK INTO RELATIONSHIP with YHWH because sinning under The Law brought alienation and separation.  Covenant Israel was the only people YHWH had a relationship with.


Revelation 21:12
And it had a wall great and high, with twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel:
****Whose names were written on gates?  The 12 tribes of the Sons of ISRAEL.

3. The most powerful argument for no church on earth today is Scripture teaches Christ would take His bride, the ekklesia at His return in the first century generation at the destruction of Jerusalem.  The events within The Book of Revelation are said to soon to take place, the time is near, coming quickly, at hand? 1:1,3, 7, 9-11; 22:6, 7, 10, 12, 20

*IS SOON AND NEAR LONGER THAN 2000 YEARS? DOES I AM COMINGQUICKLY MEAN HE’LL BE DELAYED FOR 2000 PLUS YEARS?

2 Corinthians 11:2
For I feel a divine jealousy for you, since I betrothed you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ. 

***Paul was ready to presents the ekklesia as a pure virgin bride to Christ.  

Revelation 14:4
It is these who have not defiled themselves with women, for they are virgins. It is these who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These have been redeemed from mankind as firstfruits for God and the Lamb,

Revelation 19:6-9

6 And I heard as it were the voice of a great company and as the voice of many waters and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Halelu-JAH; for the Lord God almighty reigns.

7 Let us be glad and rejoice and give glory to him; for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his bride has made herself ready.

8 And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and bright: for the fine linen is the righteousness of the saints.

9 And he said unto me, Write, Blessed are those who are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he said unto me, These are the true words of God.

Revelation 21:2
And I, John, saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of the heaven, prepared of God as a brideadorned for her husband. 

Revelation 21:9
¶ And there came unto me one of the seven angels who had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues and talked with me, saying, Come here, I will show thee the bride, the Lamb’s wife. 

Revelation 22:17
And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that hears say, Come. And let him that is thirsty come; and whosoever will, let him take of the water of life freely.