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ARE THEIR TWO CHURCHES OR JUST ONE?
By: doug Date: October 17, 2025, 11:44 am
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Here we will examine, that if indeed, there is only one church.
The first notion to dispel is, that scripture identifies there
being only one church in existence.
There was a church ( a congregation) in the wilderness before
Christ came that worshiped the Lord...........[Acts 7:38 KJV] 38
This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the
angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and [with] our
fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:
[Exodus 34:14 KJV] 14 For thou shalt worship no other god: for
the LORD, whose name [is] Jealous, [is] a jealous God:
If this church is acknowledged, is it unimaginable that there
could be others formed during other dispensations?
Jesus established his church...........[Matthew 16:18 KJV] 18
And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this
rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not
prevail against it.............Lord Jesus chose twelve disciples
to be apostles............[Luke 6:13 KJV] 13 And when it was
day, he called [unto him] his disciples: and of them he chose
twelve, whom also he named apostles;
[Acts 2:14 KJV] 14 But Peter, standing up with the eleven,
lifted up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judaea, and
all [ye] that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and
hearken to my words:
[Acts 2:41 KJV] 41 Then they that gladly received his word were
baptized: and the same day there were added [unto them] about
three thousand souls...........those that believed Peter were
baptized, and were ADDED to them..............[Acts 2:47 KJV] 47
Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the
Lord added to the church daily such as should be
saved..........The Lord ADDED to them, the existing church, the
church Jesus built during his time on earth. A new church was
NOT formed at Pentecost. This church continued thru, and beyond
the conversion of Paul.
This existing church, built by Jesus, was the church that Paul
persecuted before his conversion. This was the church of God,
the church at Jerusalem, the little flock........[Acts 8:1 KJV]
1 And Saul was consenting unto his death. And at that time there
was a great persecution against the church which was at
Jerusalem; and they were all scattered abroad throughout the
regions of Judaea and Samaria, except the apostles.
[1Corinthians 15:9 KJV] 9 For I am the least of the apostles,
that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted
the church of God.
This church was never called the body of Christ.
Paul was saved and chosen by the Lord Jesus to be an apostle to
the Gentiles...........[Romans 11:13 KJV] 13 For I speak to you
Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I
magnify mine office:
Peter and Paul had separate apostleship..............[Galatians
2:8 KJV] 8 (For he that wrought effectually in Peter to the
apostleship of the circumcision, the same was mighty in me
toward the Gentiles:)..........Peter was apostle to the Jews,
and Paul to the Gentiles. Peter and Paul were not apostles over
the same church. Their was no animosity between Peter and Paul.
Paul could never have been selected as an apostle to the church
in Jerusalem because he didn't meet the requirements. To be an
apostle with Peter and the twelve, he would have to have been
with the other apostles during the entire time Jesus was on
earth, beginning from the baptism of John until the ascension of
Christ..........[Acts 1:21-22 KJV] 21 Wherefore of these men
which have companied with us all the time that the Lord Jesus
went in and out among us, 22 Beginning from the baptism of John,
unto that same day that he was taken up from us, must one be
ordained to be a witness with us of his resurrection.
Paul received revelations from the risen Christ
Jesus............[Ephesians 3:3-4 KJV] 3 How that by revelation
he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few
words, 4 Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge
in the mystery of Christ)...............Among these revelations,
Paul received knowledge of the church Jesus formed for this
dispensation of grace. Christ revealed that the church in this
dispensation was the body of Christ, and it's members are
members of his body. Christ revealed offices and functions to be
set in place in the body of Christ.............[1Corinthians
12:27-28 KJV] 27 Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in
particular. 28 And God hath set some in the church, first
apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that
miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments,
diversities of tongues.........................Revealed was
Christ as the head of the body............. [Colossians 1:18
KJV] 18 And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the
beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all [things] he
might have the preeminence..............Nowhere was the church
in Jerusalem, overseen by Peter and the apostles, referred to as
being the body of Christ. Nowhere was it said that Jew and
Gentile were one body in the church overseen by Peter. Only in
the body of Christ was Jew and Gentile revealed to be reconciled
in one body............... [Ephesians 2:16 KJV] 16 And that he
might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having
slain the enmity thereby:
Paul said that the body of Christ would sit in heavenly
places..........[Ephesians 1:3 KJV] 3 Blessed [be] the God and
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all
spiritual blessings in heavenly [places] in Christ:
[Ephesians 2:6 KJV] 6 And hath raised [us] up together, and made
[us] sit together in heavenly [places] in Christ
Jesus:..........Peter never spoke of himself, or his church, as
sitting in heavenly places. Paul said that by the church, the
body of Christ, the principalities and powers in heavenly places
would know by the church, the body of Christ, the manifold
wisdom of God..............[Ephesians 3:10 KJV] 10 To the intent
that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly [places]
might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of
God,..............this was not made known by Peter's church.
What was made known by the preaching of the gospel of the
kingdom by Peter and the apostles was that their believing
members, would become a holy nation and a kingdom of priests;
they would reign with Christ in his earthly
kingdom.................[Exodus 19:6 KJV] 6 And ye shall be unto
me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These [are] the
words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.
[Revelation 20:6 KJV] 6 Blessed and holy [is] he that hath part
in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no
power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall
reign with him a thousand years..............Only Israel was
told they would be a kingdom of priests. Nowhere does Paul say
the members of the body of Christ are, or will be made priests;
this differentiates Peter's church from the body of Christ. Only
Peter's church could have the expectation of being priests in
the kingdom on earth.
It has been determined that Paul was not qualified to be an
apostle along with the twelve apostles in Peter's church
according to Acts 1:21-22, as discussed above, yet PAUL IS AN
APOSTLE............[Romans 1:1 KJV] 1 Paul, a servant of Jesus
Christ, called [to be] an apostle, separated unto the gospel of
God,...............One of the qualifications in Acts 1 :21-22
was "must one be ordained to be a witness with us of his
resurrection.", Paul did see the risen Christ, and did meet this
qualification to be an apostle.......................[1Co 9:1
KJV] 1 Am I not an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus
Christ our Lord? are not ye my work in the
Lord?..............Paul however, not only could he not be a
replacement apostle for Judas, but he also could not be set
equally beside Peter and the others as an apostle if there was
just one church at the time.
For Paul to be an apostle, he would have had to be an apostle
for a DIFFERENT CHURCH. Paul is an apostle to the church, the
body of Christ, which means, the body of Christ IS A DIFFERENT
CHURCH, ANOTHER CHURCH.
The only conclusion that can be reached is that there are TWO
CHURCHES. There is Peter's church and there is the body of
Christ. Peter's church was still in operation during Paul's
ministry to the body of Christ. The body of Christ is not the
same church as Peter's church. Neither is it Peter's church
fully manifested in knowledge thru the completed progressive
revelation given to the apostle Paul. These two churches have
different apostles. These two churches have different destinies;
Peter's church is destined to reign with Christ on earth; the
body of Christ is destined to dwell in heavenly places. Two
churches with different purposes; Peter's church will reconcile
the earth and be a blessing to the nations in the kingdom on
earth; the body of Christ will reconcile the heavens and make
know the wisdom of God. Scripture presents two distinct churches
in Christ Jesus.
Footnote: In describing the church at Jerusalem I used the term
"Peter's church" only out of convenience It was not Peter's
church, It was The Lord Jesus Christ's church.
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