Apollo C. Quiboloy
Exposed
IntroductionIf you have done any TV channel checking on Sunday
afternoon, you may have come across the broadcast of Apollo C. Quiboloy,
the self-proclaimed “Appointed Son of God” who claims to have ushered
in the Kingdom of Christ on earth. His ministry is based in Davao City,
the Philippines. The phrases “Gospel of the Kingdom” and “The Kingdom
of Jesus Christ” are prominent in his ministry. The problem is his
ministry has nothing to do with the Kingdom of Christ, nothing to do
with Christ himself and nothing to do with the gospel of the grace of
God. The
apostle Paul, in writing to the church
at Corinth, warned them concerning a counterfeit Christ, a counterfeit
gospel and a counterfeit Spirit. He wrote: “But I fear, lest by any
means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds
should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. For if he
that cometh preacheth ANOTHER Jesus, whom we have not preached, or
if
ye receive ANOTHER Spirit, which ye have not received, or ANOTHER
gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him” (2
Corinthians 11:3-4). Later in the same chapter, he adds: “For such are
false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the
apostles of Christ. And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed
into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers
also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall
be according to their works” (11:13-15). Apollo
C. Quiboloy is a minister of Satan notwithstanding his repeated claims
to be “The Appointed Son of God” and to oppose “Satan Lucifer the
Devil.” He comes across to viewers as an angel of light, but is a
minister of Satan transformed. His gospel is essentially the religion
of Cain clothed in biblical terminology. His is a typical cult movement
in that it has its roots in an extra-biblical personal experience. The
two words that best describe his ministry are: (1) blasphemy—applying the words Jesus used to describe his unique relationship to the Father as a reference to himself, and (2) bastardization—misapplying
the scriptures in violation of their contexts. His preaching, which has
a strong persuasive element, literally exudes blasphemy. In my mind,
only the Antichrist, when he finally manifests himself on the world
scene, will be more blasphemous. Quiboloy is clever, but he's a
counterfeit! A true disciple of Jesus Christ with a rudimentary
knowledge of scripture would be able to spot this deceiver a mile
away. Personal TestimonyAlmost
all cult leaders claim to have had some personal experience with God
wherein they claim God gave them a revelation that became the basis of
their ministry. They liken it to Moses at the burning bush or Paul on
the
road to Damascus. Quiboloy claims God spoke to him, saying: “I will use
you!” He goes on to describe his journey to ascertain whose voice he
heard and what it meant. His experience, he says, took him to two mountains where he
ate bananas for five years, all the while God answering his questions.
He claims he finally came to the point where he said in his heart:
“Father, I will do your will no matter what!” This was the moment, he
says, that he was “born again in the spirit of obedience to the
Father's will” and became “The Appointed Son of God.” He
now tells audiences the voice he heard was the same
voice Moses (Burning Bush) and Paul (Damascus Road) heard, his
experience being only the third time
in history God spoke to a man in similar fashion. In his
testimony, he claims both Moses and Paul were his predecessors. In
other words, he claims to be the third member of a three-man club.
Think of the arrogance required to make such a boast. As
God spoke to Moses about leading Israel out of Egypt
and spoke to Paul about preaching the Church-age gospel,
so the voice of God told him to abandon the Church in order to
establish the Kingdom of Jesus Christ on earth. Quiboloy
tells his followers the Church Age is OVER and that the "Almighty Father"
told him so. Anyone
who understands NT teaching about the Church knows: (1) Jesus
Christ is the HEAD of HIS Church, (2) The Church is HIS body,
(3) ALL believers
in the Church Age are MEMBERS of HIS body, and (4) The Church
Age will NOT be OVER
UNTIL the HEAD of the Church extracts HIS body from this
earth in the Rapture to meet HIM in the air. According to
scripture, the coming of Jesus for HIS Church (Rapture) is
"the blessed hope" for believers in this Age. If Quiboloy is
correct, the Head of the Church has abandoned HIS OWN
body, called off the Rapture and left HIS Church
hopeless. It is obvious to ANY serious student of scripture whose
voice Quiboloy heard and who is using him! Question: How could so
many millions of his followers be so wrong? Answer: Spiritual blindness
and abject biblical ignorance! Quiboloy cites Revelation 21:7 as proof of his unique position: “He that
overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he
shall be my son.” He claims to have overcome “Satan Lucifer the Devil”
at that moment and that God made him “The Appointed Son of God.” As
such, he claims he is now “The Model” for all who would become sons and
daughters in the Kingdom of Christ. In John 10:10, Jesus affirmed: “I
and my Father are one.” In a stroke of utter blasphemy, he applies this
scripture to himself. While I have never heard him claim to be God in
the flesh, that is what he effectively does in claiming that the unique
union that exists between Jesus with the Father applies to him. In
one message, I heard him issue a warning to anyone who would criticize
him, question his authority or speak evil of him. He used this
scripture in his warning: “Jesus answered, I have not a devil; but I
honour my Father, and ye do dishonour me” (John 8:49). People who
dishonored him, he said, also (1) dishonored the Father that dwells in
him, and (2) did the work of Satan Lucifer the Devil. Quiboloy
repeatedly puts himself in the stead of Christ. In doing so, he is
guilty of blasphemy of the highest order. Again, only the Antichrist
will be a more blasphemous personality when he finally manifests
himself on the world scene. In fact, Quiboloy in his deception could
well be a forerunner of Antichrist. Here
are a few more examples of Quiboloy blasphemy. First, he quotes John
14:6, wherein Jesus self-identified as “the way, the truth and the
life.” These words of Jesus Quiboloy says now apply to him, reinforcing
the false notion he is the “Model” for all who would be saved. This is
blasphemy of the first order. Secondly,
when Jesus spoke to the church at Laodicea, he counseled them to buy of
him “gold tried in the fire” (Revelation 3:18). The fire
to which Jesus refers is clearly the death he died for sinners and his
unimaginable substitutionary suffering, as he “became sin for us, who
knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him” (2
Corinthians 5:21). The “gold” he offered to the Laodiceans was his own
perfect righteousness, which he imputes to believers as a free gift of
grace. Quiboloy applies these words of Jesus to himself. He claims he
was tried in the fire with his five years of eating bananas and bids
his listeners buy of him the gold of obedience to the Father's will.
Can you imagine the utter blasphemy of equating his dietary restraints
to the sufferings of Christ? Thirdly,
scripture says God the Father appointed his Son, the Lord Jesus, to be
“heir of all things” (Hebrews 1:2). Jesus of Nazareth is the ONLY
APPOINTED SON of God. If we accept Paul's guidance—“Let God be true,
but every man a liar”—we must conclude that Quiboloy is a LIAR and
Satan is his father. Attack on the Trinity A
doctrinal staple in the Quiboloy cult is a denial of the Triune nature
of the Godhead—the Trinity. I've seldom heard him speak without
assailing the Trinity as the machination of Satan Lucifer the Devil.
His teaching about the Nicaean Council of 325 A.D. and Athanasius is an
outright LIE and a gross misrepresentation. He claims the doctrine of
the Trinity found its origin at the Nicaean Council. He asserts
Athanasius, under pressure from the Emperor Constantine, invented
the idea of a Triune God (or three gods) to better meld the Christian
faith with a multiplicity of Roman gods, making Christianity more
palatable to the masses. This is a total misrepresentation of the
facts, an exercise in intellectual dishonesty. What Athanasius and the
Council did was combat the error of one named Arius, who taught Jesus
was NOT God, but a created being. His heresy became known as the Arian
Controversy, or Arianism. Arius denied the deity of Christ. The Council
of Nicaea in 325 AD did nothing more than affirm the deity of Christ
and apostolic doctrine! Quiboloy claims the Council of Nicaea was the
time and place where Athanasius and fellow church bishops concocted
Trinitarian doctrine. Such was not the case. When one
reads the NT, it is abundantly clear the Father is God, the Son is God
and the Spirit is God. This was apostolic teaching—Trinitarian
teaching—for nearly 300 years before the Nicaean Council. 1 John 5:7
validates this truth: “For there are THREE that bear record in heaven,
the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these THREE are one.” The
Council of Nicaea did not invent the Trinity, but simply formalized
Trinitarian teaching in response to the heresy of Arius. If you had
belonged to the church at Ephesus circa 60 A.D., where Paul spent 3
years preaching and teaching the gospel of grace, you would have heard
Trinitarian doctrine. If Jesus is not God and the Godhead is not
Triune, there is neither mediation nor salvation possible for lost
sinners. An attack on the Trinity is an attack on the Godhead and the
gospel. Opponents of the Trinity are their own worst enemies! The
Trinity is not RATIONAL doctrine, but REVELATIONAL truth! Opponents of
Trinitarian doctrine typically resort to one of two devices to gainsay
this truth. The first is to deny the deity of Jesus Christ, the Son of
God, which was the device Arius chose. In this way, Arius could still
maintain Jesus and the Father were two distinct individuals, as the NT
attests. The second is to claim the Father and Jesus Christ are the
same Person. Quiboloy resorts to this second device. Let
me try to explain his logic. It begins with the proposition you cannot
separate the words of a person from the person himself. Words are
merely an extension of the man. This logical-sounding premise then
allows him to say that Jesus, as the Word of God, was merely an
extension of the Father. He uses this linguistic trickery to allege the
Father and Jesus Christ are the same person. He further alleges that,
upon his ascension back to heaven, Jesus the Word was reunited with the
Father as the one person they've always been. Moreover, Jesus ceased to
be the “Only Begotten Son of God”, being replaced by Quiboloy, the
“Appointed Son of God”, whom he has raised up to establish his kingdom
on earth. He calls his ministry, “The Kingdom of Jesus Christ” and his
TV broadcast, ”The Gospel of the Kingdom.” But his ministry represents
neither Jesus, nor his gospel nor his Kingdom. It is blasphemous to the
core. As Paul taught the Corinthians, Quiboloy is a minister of Satan,
transformed into an angel of light. As a typical heretic, he lambastes
Trinitarianism as a “Three Gods” doctrine and perpetuates the LIE about
Athanasius and the Nicaean Council. In summary,
the apostolic doctrine of the Godhead is One God, Three Persons
(Father, Son and Holy Spirit). The Council of Nicaea simply reaffirmed
it. The opponents of Trinitarianism insist on One God, One Person,
Three Titles or Manifestations (Father, Son and Holy Spirit). This is
the rational, humanistic approach to the Godhead. But as we said
before, Christianity and Trinitarianism are not RATIONAL, but
REVELATIONAL! If there is no Trinity, there is no Christianity! The
scripture in Hebrews 1:1-2 casts some light on Quiboloy's logic: “God,
who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the
fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his
Son.” According to Quiboloy's logic, Jesus became the SON of God
because he was the WORD of God. In scripture, however, Jesus became the
WORD of God because he was the SON of God! Quiboloy's ministry is built
upon another Jesus, another gospel and another spirit, as are so many
ministries in the Church Age that deny the deity of Jesus and the
doctrine of the Trinity! Gospel of Will WorshipIn
addition to being biblically correct about who Jesus is (God in the
flesh) and the composition of the Godhead (Trinitarian), the acid test
of any ministry is the gospel it preaches. Gospel means “good news.”
The good news for any sinner is to learn that God in Christ has done
something about his sins. In providing a full satisfaction for our sins
through his substitutionary death on the cross, the Father offers, on
that basis, forgiveness of sin and the gift of eternal life trough
simple, child-like faith in Jesus. The blood of Jesus washes a believer
from his sins and the Spirit, whom God sends into the heart of every
believer, brings the life of Jesus, eternal life, into his bosom,
enabling him to experience and have fellowship with God. The Bible
expands on the gospel of Jesus Christ with doctrines like
Justification, Regeneration, Redemption, Sanctification,
Predestination, Glorification, Sonship, Discipleship, Fellowship et al.
You will NEVER hear Quiboloy preach on ANY of these topics that relate
to the gospel of the grace of God. The focal
point of Quiboloy's message is repentance. That sounds so biblical and
so fundamental that one might ask: “What's wrong with that? Didn't
Jesus preach repentance?” Yes, he did! But what is biblical repentance?
It's the Greek μετάνοια
(metanoia), which means “a change of mind (resulting in a change of
direction).” Boiling it down to understandable terms, it means coming
around to God's way of thinking. When the sinner comes around to
thinking about himself as God thinks of him (through Holy Ghost
conviction), godly sorrow is inevitable. Repentance that has its proper
effect will result in faith—trusting and calling upon the Lord Jesus
Christ to save him from his sins. Acts 20:21 expresses the gospel
formula: “Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks,
REPENTANCE toward God, and FAITH toward our Lord Jesus Christ.” When
a lost sinner believes upon the Lord Jesus Christ, he is born again
(regenerated). Scripture tells us: “But as many as RECEIVED him, to
them gave he power to become the SONS of God, even to them that BELIEVE
on his name: Which were BORN, not of blood, nor of the will of the
flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God” (John 1:12-13). By way of
illustration, Jesus likened the new birth through faith in him to Moses
raising the serpent of brass in the wilderness, whereby Israelites
bitten by venomous snakes could, with a simple look of faith, receive
healing and preservation of life (John 3:14-15). Jesus described the
new birth as a matter of “LOOK and LIVE!” In addition to being
regenerated, the believer is “justified by faith” and has “peace with
God” (Romans 5:1). Now
that we've established
the biblical gospel of grace, we can consider the Quiboloy gospel of
repentance. As we said before, Quiboloy interprets “born again” as
being “born again in the spirit of obedience to the Father's will.” In
other words, it's when a sinner gets to the place where he says in his
heart: “My heart is fixed, my mind is made up, I will do the Father's
will no matter what!” That attitude is commendable and represents
exactly what God would have every man think. But a spirit of
FIRM RESOLVE is NOT REGENERATION, NOR does it result in being born
again.
Sinners never REPENT into the Kingdom; they are BORN into the Kingdom
through faith in Jesus Christ! In Quiboloy's gospel, a sinner is saved
by his repentance. In the Christian gospel, a sinner is saved by the
Lord Jesus, the one he trusts to save him from his sins! It's the
difference between Will Worship and Christ worship! The Quiboloy
message of repentance is nothing more than Will Worship. His denial
of the Trinity that alleges the Father and Jesus Christ are the same
person turns the Jesus of the Bible into ANOTHER Jesus, the Holy Spirit
into ANOTHER Spirit and the gospel of grace into ANOTHER gospel. As with all cult
movements, they are conspicuous by what they DO NOT preach as much as
they are by what they DO preach. In Quiboloy's gospel, followers will
NEVER hear the gospel of grace, NEVER hear about redemption and the forgiveness of sins through the
blood of Jesus, NEVER hear the doctrine of justification by faith and
NEVER hear about the ministry of the Holy Spirit in the life of a
believer, in whom he takes up permanent residence as the earnest of the
believer's inheritance. ConclusionThere are other aspects
of the Quiboloy cult that deviate from biblical truth. Among them is
the bastardization of biblical texts divorced from their contexts and
used as proof texts—a typical cult practice. In this article, it will
suffice to expose the fraudulent nature of his banana-eating testimony,
his outright misrepresentation of and LIE about the Council of Nicaea
and Athanasius, and his gospel of repentance—a subtle form of will
worship. If one happens to watch one of his TV programs, one will hear
repeatedly phrases like “Praise the Father”, “Praise the Almighty
Father” and other such attributions to the Father. But the “Father”
Quiboloy and his flock extol should not be mistaken by viewers for the
God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ. Quiboloy
and the religious elites of Jesus' day share the same Father. Jesus
said: “Ye are of your FATHER the DEVIL, and the lusts of your FATHER ye
will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the
truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he
speaketh of his own: for he is a LIAR, and the FATHER of it” (John
8:44). His spiritual kinship bears a strong resemblance to Simon the
sorcerer: “But there was a certain man, called Simon, which beforetime
in the same city used SORCERY, and BEWITCHED the people of Samaria,
giving out that himself was SOME GREAT ONE” (Acts 8:9). There's not a
dime's worth of difference between “Some Great One” and “The Appointed
Son.” Both have Satan for their Father and operate under the same power of
darkness! Quiboloy
leads his followers in the worship
of Satan, the god of this world, who loves to masquerade as Christ, as
will Antichrist. We know this to be the case by his extra-biblical
experience, his anti-Trinitarianism and his gospel of will worship. His
is a latter-day iteration of the gospel of Cain, who sought to find
acceptance with God without the BLOOD of sacrifice. It's
heartbreaking to see thousands of followers assembled in white
garb to
celebrate
“The Almighty Father" and his "Appointed Son.” They are no doubt there
because they desire to
find acceptance with God. In this regard, they're no different than
Muslims, who seek acceptance with Allah. Quiboloy is no more
a spokesman for God than was Mohammad. But Quiboloy is
far more dangerous than Mohammad in that his cult is founded
upon a false
Christ. One last word from scripture. In 2
Timothy 3:1ff, Paul warned Timothy the "last days" would
consist of "perilous times." According to Paul, religious leaders would
exhibit "a form of godliness" but deny the power thereof (3:5). He
added: "But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving,
and being deceived" (3:13). The undeniable truth of deception
is that deceivers are themselves deceived before they go about the
business of deceiving! These evil men, these seducers, have a form of
godliness that the spiritually ignorant easily misconstrue as the real thing.
Apollo C. Quiboloy is such an evil man operating in these last days! An AppealIf
you are a follower of Quiboloy, there are a few things you should know.
The first is Jesus Christ that Quiboloy preaches has no power to save
you from your sins or give you life. Quiboloy manufactured this false
Christ from his bogus personal experience and bastardization of
biblical texts. Secondly, the Jesus of the
Bible is the Second Person of the Trinity. In order to gainsay this
truth, Quiboloy LIES repeatedly about Athanasius and the Council of
Nicaea in 325 A.D. He has to keep telling this LIE to give credence to
his heresy. Jesus, the Son of God, God in the flesh, died for YOUR sins
and rose again for YOUR justification. He is the One Mediator between
God and man. Thirdly, sinners are born again
when they believe on Jesus. Regeneration is the work of God. No amount
of repentance on your part can produce spiritual life. When a sinner
comes to God with empty hands and calls upon the Lord Jesus to save him
from his sins, God does the work of regeneration, gives him a spiritual
birth, makes him a son in response to faith. That's how sinners become
sons and daughters of God. I beg you in
Jesus' name to abandon Quiboloy and his antichristian cult. The
“Almighty Father” you worship is NOT the God of the Bible. He is Satan,
the one that lives within Quiboloy, who loves to be worshiped as God.
If you remain on your current path, you will one day join Quiboloy in
the Lake of Fire. PLEASE GET OUT!
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