The Kingdom of Heaven and the Kingdom of God

Who was this person called Apollos spoken of in Acts 19 quoted above? 

Acts 18:24-28 A certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria, an eloquent man, mighty in the scriptures, came to Ephesus. This man was instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in the spirit, he spoke and taught diligently the things of the Lord, knowing only the baptism of John. He began to speak boldly in the synagogue: whom when Aquila and Priscilla had heard, they took him aside, and expounded to him the way of God more perfectly. And when he was disposed to pass into Achaia, the brethren wrote, exhorting the disciples to receive him: who, when he was come, helped them much which had believed through grace: For he mightily convinced the Jews, publicly, showing by the scriptures that Jesus was Christ.

We can draw from Apollos' description that he as a learned man who had been baptized by John for repentance and that he was also of the Priesthood because he was allowed to speak in the Jewish synagogues. But he was also somewhat unlearned of the Christ because Aquila and Priscilla took he aside to explain more fully the things that they had learned of Him through their mentor Paul. He was also a quick learner, possible because he had the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Truth within him who confirmed all that was told him by his new mentors. I do not think that it would be presumptuous to say that Peter, John, James and Jude speak from the same Spirit of Truth in their short writings.

From what we have just had revealed, John the Baptist was God's man for the hour who came in the likeness and spirit of Elijah the Prophet. Who's name means, Yehovah is God, and was translated to heaven as recorded in 2Kings 2:1-15, he joined Enoch who also walked with God and who was also translated in Genesis 5:24 and referenced to by Jude in verses 14,15. I might note that this same Enoch wrote of his encounters with God and the things that were told and revealed to him. John as a Prophet bears witness to the Son of man, who the world did not know, this included those of Israel's Priesthood, who were by this time part of the Apostate church. Which in my opinion does not speak well of them. It was John the Baptist who made the first appearance and introduced Israel to the kingdom of heaven message as God's herald and as a Prophet after the fashion (in the spirit) of Elijah. Because he was the end of God's dealing solely with the nation of Israel as a nation, though He may continue with them in that fashion again. John the Baptist and Jesus both become the consummation of all things prior to John by their vicarious deaths and Jesus, as predicted by God's Prophets. And since Jesus' death and ascension as the Christ, God has inaugurated a whole new method of dealing with His creation of man, again this was also predicted by the Prophets as a New thing being done in the earth. This is the message then that the Lord Jesus as the Son of man and as God, then proclaims as the kingdom of heaven and of God depending on the synoptic gospel writer and how they were led by the Holy Spirit, the Essence of Christ to reveal Christ's revelation.

The following is a mystery which the unredeemed and the Religious do not understand and this brings to bear on what is revealed throughout this paper. The true question is this, do you believe the Lord or just believe in the Lord? To believe Him is to hear His voice and then to take the necessary action required by Him. I must again emphasis that the translators of the text may have carried into their interpretation their particular denominational thinking, thusly violating and contaminating the purity of the word.

"Why don't "repeat after me's" work? Psuedo-Salvation is NOT Salvation.

I want you to repeat these words out loud, "Fred's pickled fish farm." Where did those words come from? Did they come from you? No, they came from me. You see, not all the words we say come from us. Repeat after me, "I believe Jesus is the Son of God." Those words weren't any more yours than, "Fred's pickled fish farm." You may believe what they say but they are still not your words. Our personal declaration or confession of faith must come from us, No! from within us, not someone else. When the Lord dealt with me about this He showed me a door. I knew in the vision that this door was not movable. The Lord said, "This is a one-man door." I kept looking at the door and He said again, "This is a one-man door." The vision didn't end until I understood that two men were trying to go through the door at the same time, and this is impossible. Both the sheepfold and the garden door as well as the tomb door are all one person doors or gates through which we are to pass alone.

To receive His Redemption is only the beginning of the process of entry into His Salvation and is a purely personal thing. It is the further walk of trusting in Him and our trusting Him, which is to say we repeat the same course as required to enter and accept Redemption, but now with a totally different course because of a greater understanding of Christ Jesus. Jesus is the door and each individual must go through Him to be saved. When a person is led through a confession by repeating words, the words they are repeating are not their words but the person's leading them. (Two men trying to go through the door at the same time.) You can't get saved by repeating someone else's confession. Only you can establish what you believe, not anyone else.