According to the Gospel of the Kingdom Books published between 12/31/1944 and 7/27/1947, there was a specific doctrine built upon the belief of actual Old Testament saints being resurrected in Matthew 27:52-53. The OTW doctrine was taught emphatically that old testament saints were physically raised from the dead after the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Many people saw them as they walked into Jerusalem.
The doctrine of the Old Testament is based on Matthew 27:52-53, connected to Hebrews 11. The saints of Hebrews 11 were not all included because only a chosen number were worthy to be in the pre-resurrection. Only the chosen people, the “heirs to the Promise,” were allowed to be in that special pre-resurrection state.
In order to teach this doctrine of the OTW, they had to create a way to make these resurrected saints special. Names give identity, titles give power and validity to whatever is the subject of concern. They had to project a title for these people to grant these resurrected saints validity and power. They were called the chosen people: “Heirs to God” and “Heirs to the Promise through faith”. They then repeated this part of their doctrine, which was reiterated by others in the ministry. After that, it was repeated by the people, until it became a traditional doctrine, believed even now, among the worldwide churches of the Body of Christ.
The ministry used Romans 4:13 and Romans 4:16 to describe the position given to every saint saved by grace and made an adjective (heir) into a noun, making the new noun into a title giving power to this doctrine.
Romans:13 For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
Romans 4:16 Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all,
The scriptures used changed the meaning of these scriptures giving them an intended dual meaning, which was fashioned to fit the Doctrine of the OTW. This was how they got past the rules of the First and Second Resurrections. The ministry first used this term “Heirs to the Promise” according to the GOK Books, in GOK Book Pg 21 dated 3/25/1945 for the OTW. They later added or changed this term to “Heirs of the righteousness which is by faith” in GOK Book Pg 34 1/19/1947.
An example of another doctrine that was not well thought out and later proven wrong was the Doctrine of the Cleansing of the Blood of the Egyptians from the Children of Israel. It was taught that the Forty-Year March was to cleanse the DNA of the blood of Israel.
The following was taken from the GOKingdoms PDF Pg 24 1/7/1945:
“Therefore, they are going back to receive the promises made to Abraham, – – The Prophets – – and Israel. It is not the German, the Frenchman, the Italian etc. but in Israel – – the Jewish nation! Any time there is any blood of a German, an Italian, etc. in a Jew, it is not the Jew that is being restored back to the promise given them, it is giving it to another nation. One reason God held the Jews in the wilderness for forty years, was because of the intermingling of the Jews in Egypt and their blood was mixed. God never promised anyone that promised land but the Jewish nation. God brought them out of Egypt and left them in the wilderness. And they bred and bred and re-bred and purified themselves, until every drop of Egyptian blood was gone. Then when they were purified, he took them to the promised land. All the mixed multitude fell a lusting in the wilderness.”
This was preached with sincere intentions and from a pure heart in all honesty. The divine truth about this matter was believed to have been revealed by God to them. They believed they had the eyes to see and the ears to hear what God had revealed to them. This misguided truth of this was not only revealed to them, but it was also used to facilitate other misleading teaching agendas.
But, THIS TRUTH IS FALSE, according to modern day genetics: DNA tests can be traced back thousands of years. But they don’t tell you a lot. They can only tell you about a tiny part of your ancestry. These tests are fun though, because you can figure out if you’re related to Genghis Khan or Abraham Lincoln or anyone else famous.
Other tests can tell you a lot more about your relatives. For example, some new tests, like 23andMe, can tell if two people are up to fifth cousins. But these tests won’t reveal how closely related you are. In the case of fifth cousins, they’ll just be able to say that the two of you share great, great-great, and great-great-great grandparents. They can’t tell you where the two of you fit in that family tree. At least not without more family members being tested.
https://genetics.thetech.org/ask-a-geneticist/how-far-back-can-ancestry-test-go
What this means is that forty years wandering in the wilderness is not enough time to purge DNA out of anyone’s ancestry.
The purpose for which the Israelites wandered in the desert for the Forty Year March was to eliminate Jewish idol worshippers from the camp NOT to eliminate bad blood. There are two examples of incorrect doctrines that were not preached from biblical scripture, but made up with incorrect understandings.
OTW doctrine did not consider Spiritual Resurrection. Furthermore, the doctrine of the Cleansing of the Blood of the Egyptians from the Children of Israel did not comprehend genetic DNA testing.
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