@ HereIam60: your quote -
"Many Through the Hands of a Few" used Jesus' miraculous feeding of the large crowd listening to him as the basis for this change, in that only his apostles passed out the food to the crowd."
July 2013 Study Watchtower, par. 6 - "He was evidently
preparing them for a key role after his death and return to heaven."
TRUE!
par.
7.
- "What
would be the role
of the apostles? As Pentecost 33 C.E. drew near, it was clear
that the apostles would serve in an “office of oversight.”
FALSE!
This was
the apostles role & assigned commission - no one else's:
Matthew
24:14 -
"..."this
good news of the Kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth
for a witness to all the nations, and then the end (of the Jewish system) will come."
Matthew
28:16,18,19
- "...the
11 disciples
[apostles] went to
Galilee to the mountain where Jesus had arranged for them
to meet.
18 Jesus
approached and spoke to them,
saying.....
19 Go,
therefore, and make disciples of people of all the nations....
Acts
1:2,6,8
- "...after
he had given instructions through holy spirit to the
apostles he had
chosen.
6
- "So
when they had assembled, they asked him: “Lord, are you restoring
the kingdom to Israel at this time?”
8
- But
you will receive power when the holy spirit comes upon you, and you
[apostles]
will be witnesses of
me...to
the most distant part of the earth.”
(in fulfillment of Matthew
24:14)*
Acts
6:4 - "We (not you!) will devote ourselves
to...the ministry of the word.”
*
Romans 1:8
- "...because
your faith is talked about throughout the whole world."
Colossians
1:23 - "...that
good news that you heard and that was preached in all creation under
heaven." 1
Timothy 3:16 -
"...was preached
about among nations, was believed upon in the world,..."
R & F Christians (disciples) were never given the apostles' commission to preach.
