Another Gospel

Galatians 1:8-9 “But though we, or an angel from heaven , preach any other gospel unto you than that which we preached unto you, let him be accursed. – As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.
1. The government of 12 is an addition, a different gospel to the Gospel
a. It is based on an imperfect logic
The conclusion on the example of Elisha plowing with 12 oxen not 11 or 13
“What would be, if what had been had not been.”
The altar built with 12 stones (MT Carmel duel); 12 stones on which the priest carrying the ark stood when the Hebrews crossed the flooded Jordan River. The coming of the Holy Spirit with the addition of Mathias taking the place of Judas.
(Truth. The Holy Spirit came at Pentecost)
b. Spiritualizing the number 12.
2. Unscriptural comparison of the blood of sacrificial animals to the blood of Jesus shed at the cross. – As in the Old Testament the priests applied the blood on the people , so in the New Testament the believer can apply the blood of Jesus Christ on their needs – healing, exorcism, fear, needs.
3. What the Holy Scriptures say Hebrews 9:11ff. But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building; Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. … 24. For Christ is not entered into the holly place made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us; Nor yet should he offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with the blood of others; For then he should have suffered since the foundation of the world; but now once in the end of the world he appeared to put away sin by the sacrificed of himself. … 10:9-11 “Then said he, Lo, I come to do they will , O God. He take away the first, that he may establish the second. By which will we are justified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.”
To teach that every believer as a member of the ‘royal priesthood’ can apply the blood of Jesus on every and any need, circumstance as the priest of the OT did would be guilty of using “Strange Fire.”
4. The way to the holy of holiest is through the cross. The cross is personified. When the veil that separates the holy place from the holy of holiest to God was destroyed during the crucifixion, access to the presence of God is through Christ Jesus alone. There is no need for any substitution for the veil; no need for any human intermediary or man-made devises to have access to God. Just faith in Jesus Christ alone.
5. There is a tendency to break apart the finished work of Christ at the cross: the seven times Jesus shed his blood, the crown of thorns on his head, his blood, and the cross. (back to Roman catholic mysticism, scholasticism, etc.)
6. Wrapping a purple cloth around the cross as Roman Catholics do.