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AGAPE LESSON 38
THE APOSTOLIC PROPHETIC ASSIGNMENT
Put together by Bongie Kuzwayo
An apostle is a sent one.
Apostolic is a position of being sent.
A prophet is one who speaks the oracles of God under divine inspiration.
Prophetic is a position of deputizing and speaking the words of another.
Apostolic prophetic: is an anointing that has clear recognition of the divine mandate, of a people
group, a divine message, divine empowerment and divine accountability; and is not determined by
audience receptivity.
[Ezekiel 2v3—6] And He said to me, “Son of man, I am sending you to the children of Israel, to a
rebellious nation that has rebelled against Me; they and their fathers have transgressed against Me
to this very day. (4) For they are impudent and stubborn children. I am sending you to them, ‘Thus
says the Lord God.’ (5) As for them, whether they hear or whether they refuse—for they are a
rebellious house—yet they will know that a prophet has been sent to them. (5) And you, son of man,
do not be afraid of them nor be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns are with you and you
dwell among scorpions; do not be afraid of their words or dismayed by their looks, though they are a
rebellious house.”
This anointing carries the grace to suffer. The messenger and the message are one. The speech and
the lifestyle match. [Jeremiah20v7—11] O Lord, You induced me, and I was persuaded; You are
stronger than I, and have prevailed. I am in derision daily, everyone mocks me. (8) For when I spoke,
I cried out; I shouted, ‘Violence and plunder!’ Because the word of the Lord was made to me a
reproach and a derision daily. (9) Then I said, ‘I will not make mention of Him, nor speak anymore in
His name.’ But His word was in my heart like a burning fire shut up in my bones; I was weary of
holding it back, and I could not. (10) For I heard many mocking: “Fear on every side!” “Report,” they
say, “and we will report it!” All my acquaintances watched for my stumbling, saying, “Perhaps he can
be induced; then we will prevail against him, and we will take our vengeance on him.
The presence of the Lord is ever there to protect and give strength. [Jeremiah20v11] But the Lord is
with me, as a mighty awesome One. Therefore, my persecutors will stumble, and will not prevail.
They will be greatly ashamed, for they will not prosper. Their everlasting confusion will never be
forgotten.
Jeremiah was also a sent prophet.
His assignment is apostolic prophetic. A word from his mouth will either be redemptive or will come
to judge, in a given situation.
[Jeremiah1v9—10, 17—19] Then the Lord put forth His hand and touched my mouth, and the LORD
said to me, “Behold, I have put my words in your mouth. (10) See, I have this day set you over the
nations and over the kingdoms, to root out and to pull down, to destroy and to throw down, to build
and to plant.” (17) “Therefore, prepare yourself and arise, and speak to them all that I command you.
Do not be dismayed at their faces, lest I dismay you before them. (18) For behold, I have made you
this day a fortified city and an iron pillar, and bronze walls against the whole land—against the kings
of Judah, against its princes, against its priests, and against the people of the land. (19) They will
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fight against you, but they will not prevail against you, for I am with you,” says the LORD, “to deliver
you.”
This anointing is confrontational and it is antagonistic to those who build inaccurately: [1Kings18v21]
And Elijah came to all the people, and said, “How long will you falter between two opinions? If the
LORD is God, follow Him; but if Baal, follow him.” But the people answered him not a word.
This anointing will give judgement on the spot. [Acts8v18—23] And when Simon saw that through
the laying on of the apostles ’hands, the Holy Spirit was given, he offered them money, (19) saying,
“Give me this power also, that anyone on whom I lay hands may receive the Holy Spirit.” (20) But
Peter said to him, “Your money perish with you, because you thought that the gift of God could be
purchased with money! (21) You have neither part nor portion in this matter, for your heart is not
right in the sight of God. (22) Repent therefore, of this your wickedness, and pray God if perhaps
the thought of your heart may be forgiven you. (23) For I see that you are poisoned by bitterness
and bound by iniquity.
The mantle of Elijah has been given to the church and this apostolic prophetic assignment is now in
the hands of the church. Also, the dominion mandate that was given to the first family on earth is
now in the hands of the church.
The church is also sent. [Matthew28v18—20] – – – -, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven
and on earth. (19) Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the
Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, (20) teaching them to observe all things that I have
commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.
When the Angel of the Lord came to give Gideon his assignment, He declared, “The Lord is with you,
you mighty man of valour!” (Judges6v12) This was a prophetic declaration by the Angel that Gideon
would succeed in his assignment.
[Judges6v14, 16] Then the LORD turned to him and said, “Go in this might of yours, and you shall
save Israel from the hand of the Midianites. Have I not sent you?” (16) And the LORD said to him,
“Surely I will be with you, and you shall defeat the Midianites as one man.”
The church is God’s mighty man of valour. Similar promises apply to the church. [Haggai2v9] The
glory of the latter temple will be greater than the former,’ says the Lord of hosts. ‘And in this place, I
will give peace,’ says the LORD of hosts.
[Ecclesiastis7v8] The end of a thing is better than its beginning; the patient in spirit is better than the
proud in spirit.
The LORD is not just with the church, He is in the church. [1Corinthians 6v19] Do you not know that
your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not
your own.
The church is also sent. [Matthew 10v16] Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves.
Therefore, be wise as serpents and harmless as doves.
The church is also promised victory. [1Cotinthians 15v57] But thank be to God who gives us the
victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
• The church and the mantle of Elijah:
[Matthew 17v10—12] And His disciples asked Him, saying, “Why then do the Scribes say that Elijah
must come first?” (11) Jesus answered and said to them, “Indeed, Elijah is coming first and will
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restore all things. (12) But I say to you that Elijah has come already, and they did not know him but
did to him whatever they wished. Likewise, the Son of Man is about to suffer at their hands.
Indeed, Elijah is coming first, is referring to the church that is assigned to restore all things before
the second coming of Christ Jesus.
[Acts3v19—21] Repent therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times
of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, (20) and that He may send Jesus who was
preached to you before, (21) whom heaven must receive until the times of the restoration of all
things, which God has spoken by the mouth of His holy prophets since the world began.
[Malachi 4v5—6] “Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and dreadful day of
the LORD. (6) And he will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the
children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the earth with a curse.”
I will send you Elijah the prophet = Elijah here represents the apostolic dimension of the anointing.
The great day of the Lord, refers to the first coming of the Lord Jesus.
The dreadful day of the Lord refers to Jesus’ second coming.
He will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers =
this Elijah anointing will operate in the spirit of family, that is, father/children relationship, and thus
destroy the clergy-laity distinction which is not relational.
Elijah has come already, refers to John the Baptist who announced the first coming of the Lord Jesus,
whom Herod beheaded. John the Baptist operated in the same mantle of Elijah.
[Luke 1v13—17] But the Angel said to him, “Do not be afraid Zacharias, for your prayer is heard, and
your wife Elisabeth will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John. (14) And you will have joy
and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth. (15) For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and
shall drink neither wine nor strong drink. He will also be filled with the Holy Spirit from his mother’s
womb. (16) And he will turn many of the children of the Israel to the LORD their God. (17) He will also
go before Him in the spirit and power of Elijah, ‘to turn the hearts of the fathers to their children,’
and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make ready a people for the LORD.
[Luke 1v76—79] And you child, shall be called the prophet of the Highest, for you will go before the
face of the Lord to prepare His ways, (77) to give the knowledge of salvation to His people by the
remission of sins, (78) through the tender mercy of our God, with which the Dayspring from on high
has visited us; (79) to give light to those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death, to guide our
feet to the way of peace.”
• The dominion mandate:
[Genesis 1v28] Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply. Fill the earth
and subdue it, have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living
thing that moves over the earth.”
The first family were to multiply the image and the likeness of God, while deputizing for God on the
earth.
We, the church, are to build the lives of the people. Using the word of God as building blocks to
change mindsets, we will multiply the image and likeness of God on the earth.
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