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     There are particular,  additional Scriptures that seem to apply to the History of the Full Ministry Offices within a Church Assembly or Congregation as shown to us in Ephesians 4.  These Scriptures are:       

     1 Cor 13:9-13 "For we know in part and we prophesy in part. 10 But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away. 11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known. 13 And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love." NKJV

     In this dissertation, or paper as the academics say, I am primarily addressing the subject of loss of the Apostle, Prophet and Evangelist as instituted by Christ and set plainly forth in the Forth Chapter of Ephesians.  At times I will also bring to light other ministries within the Church while also repudiating certain offices and practices of religious bodies that have promoted, magnified or exemplified great heresy among the people of God.

     History of this subject has been researched from the Birth of Jesus, through the intervening years until the present by this author over a period of 33 years, who will have as of this year celebrated 66 years as a truly born again Christian. There has never been such a great opportunity for the examination of History, such as we now have, due to the fact of the Information Age being upon us and the resources of the Modern Computer Age in which we now live.

     Let us not kid ourselves!  It would be an impossibility to think that we can provide the world a one volume explaining all the actions, good works or bad, of the Kingdom of God, the Church, the multiplicity of churches or denominations, the religious minds of men, the struggles for ecclesiastical power over men, much more the works of Satan in attempt to annihilate the Church or pervert the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ!  However, there is the Ever Living Word, together with Heavenly Testimony that assures all the Children of God, with unction, about the Truth of the Matter.  Should we put a name upon the One and Only Book encompassing Eternity, we would most humbly say,  "HIS STORY"!

     Wherefore, let us examine at least a few of the historical details of why there are now Ministries Lost!  And, further, let us examine the mind of Christ in the supply of Ministers for His Church!

• It was John, the Lord's beloved disciple,, who wrote in I John about the Spirit of Antichrist... so that the young Church and Christians would know what to expect.

• It was James, the brother of the Lord Jesus,  who first fell victim to the vicious Spirit of Antichrist.

• It was Peter who came to know great boldness, with no fear, as he went about proclaiming the Gospel and doing mighty works.

• It was Andrew who perished at the hands of the Greeks who were infected with the Spirit of Antichrist.

• It was Paul, the Apostle, who also proclaimed the Gospel after meeting the Christ on the road to Damascus, who was beheaded in Rome by the ungodly, Antichrist spirit that possessed Nero.

• It was Stephen being both an ordained Deacon and an Evangelist that was stoned to death by a crowd of Antichrists as he preached in the power of the Holy Spirit.

• It was Agabus, a prophet, who prophesied the famine, dearth and destruction of Jerusalem, during the reign of Titus and Vaspeusian.

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