Art Katz

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1.) Apostolic Foundations - Apostolic Character: Meekness
      Apostolic meekness is that quality of character by which we shall be able to discern those who 'say they are apostles and are not.' One of the dangers of the Last Days is the presumptuous apostles who throw their weight around, and who seem to have a measure of authority and knowledge that seems to impress the undiscerning. There is, fortunately, o ...read more

2.) Apostolic Foundations - Apostolic Confrontation: Paul on Mars Hill (The Areopagus)
      Paul on Mars Hill is the sacred man confronting the secular; the spiritual mind verses the worldly mind; the heavenly perspective brought to bear toward that which is earthly. It is an ultimate, classic, and eternal confrontation, and therefore every element in this text, and everything that the Spirit of God is expressing through Paul to men, is n ...read more

3.) Apostolic Foundations - Apostolic Perception: Eternity
      Therefore, we do not lose heart, but though our outer man is decaying, yet our inner man is being renewed day by day. For momentary, light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison, while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are tempor ...read more

4.) Apostolic Foundations - Apostolic Proclamation: The Mystery of Preaching
      If we are called to anything, it is to be the bearers of God's word. There is a profusion of speaking, welters of tapes and videos, yet in the midst of it all, there is little that can be labeled the word of the Lord. We need a deep and new perception of this ‘holy sacrament.' The first statement of the anointed ministry of Jesus took place in ...read more

5.) Apostolic Foundations - Apostolic Realities: The Principalities and Powers
      The theme of the principalities and the powers of the air is foundational to all true seeing. The remarkable thing, though, is that it has to do with something totally invisible. There is a whole realm of invisible, angelic ‘spirit-entities,' who have a profound influence over the conduct and course of individuals and nations. This topic is both di ...read more

6.) Apostolic Foundations - Apostolic Service: Priestliness
      The Mystery of Priesthood Priesthood is at the heart of everything, and probably one of the most lamentable needs in modern Christianity is the absence of the sense of priestliness. If someone had asked me in my adolescence in Brooklyn, New York, as a troubled and perplexed kid, trying to make sense out of a bewildering universe, "What is your ...read more

7.) Apostolic Foundations - Introduction
      There is no word that should be more alive in our consciousness than the word apostolic. It is a word that says everything about the nature and the genius of the church, and all that God expects from it, and intends for it. Like all other great biblical words, we cannot find a definition for them by reaching for a dictionary. It is a word that we n ...read more

8.) Apostolic Foundations - Preface
       I have a very special respect for the word apostolic. To lose its meaning threatens the loss of the faith itself. It is not a word that is easy to define, and yet there is something about this word and its meaning that is at the heart of the faith. It is an ultimate word, and it is a word that needs to be resuscitated, and not be thought of ...read more

9.) Exploring Israel's Deliverance through Zion
      "And so all Israel shall be saved; as it is written, There shall come out of Zion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob; for this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins" (Rom. 11:26-27). I have long been intrigued by the phrase, "There shall come out of Zion the Deliverer." Clearly Israel's deliverance is a ...read more

10.) Israel and the Powers
      There is an invisible realm over the nations and over every locality occupied by an order of fallen, rebellious angels. They have influenced, and continue to influence, the course of history in nations, races and men. The genocidal horrors that are taking place worldwide have their source and origin in the influence that is being exerted by these a ...read more

11.) Israel's Restoration
      The eternal wisdom of God, demonstrated through the Church, as the necessary prelude to Messiah's parousia --- (Delivered in Kent, England; September 1995) There are two great English Hebrew-Christian scholars: David Baron and Adolph Saphir. Both are outstanding and sensitive men of God whose writing is eloquent and contains an extraordinar ...read more

12.) Some Thoughts on Romans 10
      But what does it say? 'The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart' -that is, the word of faith which we are preaching, that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you shall be saved (8,9). Both the issue of believing "unto righteousness" (v.10) and confessing Jesus as ...read more

13.) Some Thoughts on Romans 11
      I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy (11:11). In one of the most remarkable strokes of the divine genius, God turns the tragedy of divine judgment, Israel's casting away, as the very means for the 'grafting in' of the Ge ...read more

14.) The Necessary Death and Resurrection of Israel
      Ezekiel Chapter 37 As with the prophetic 'son of man' of this dread and glorious chapter, so also are we, the prophetic people of God, required to be set down in the midst of a valley full of dry bones (See verses 1-2). Here one is required to dismiss all wishful thinking of things as we would like them to be and to consider them as they in fact ...read more

15.) The Prophetic Call - Elijah: Prophet of Restoration
      "Now then send and gather to me all Israel at Mount Carmel, together with 450 prophets of Baal and 400 prophets of the Asherah, who eat at Jezebel's table." So Ahab sent a message among all the sons of Israel, and brought the prophets together at Mount Carmel. And Elijah came near to all the people and said, "How long will you hesitate between two ...read more

16.) The Prophetic Call - Ezekiel: Prophet of the Resurrection
      I want to give a perception or perspective of the issue of Israel, and one that I can freely commend, if indeed we have serious intention of being an apostolic and prophetic body, which is to say, an authentic expression of the 'called-out' ones;the church. There is something that needs to be fitted into our end-time perception, and it is the issue ...read more

17.) The Prophetic Call - Introduction
      There are two great words that I guard with a fierce jealousy, namely, prophetic and apostolic. The church is "...built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets...(Eph. 2:20b)", and if those two words are ruined, cheapened, made merchandise of, lose their meaning or are made to stand for something that God did not intend, then we have lost ...read more

18.) The Prophetic Call - The Anatomy of False Prophet
      We need to be jealous for the truth of the prophetic calling, for if the church is built upon the foundation of the apostles and the prophets, then we cannot be careful enough in the consideration of this subject. Do our present-day prophets speak out of their own hearts and spirits? Do they draw from each other, or do they come to us out of the se ...read more

19.) The Prophetic Call - What is Prophetic Anointing?
      The prophetic ministry is an enlightened ministry. It is that which under the anointing is to bring things back to that position because it is true to divine principle. (T. Austin-Sparks). What is anointing, therefore, and to what degree do we respect it, recognize it, esteem it and are jealous for it, and know that except that what we speak ...read more