Fulfilment of a Grand Prophecy - Hazrat Ahmad’s Challenge to John Alexander Dowie — Page 27
Fulfillment of a Grand Prophecy element introduced into the reports is calculated to strengthen his hold upon people already inclined to have him for a leader. Added to great patience in bidding his time is a shrewdness bordering upon hypocrisy, which led an unwary following, step by step, to the place where they must accept the alternative of renouncing him entirely or giving him more authority, until he came to be strong enough to assume absolute authority, and then point back to the beginning of his movement and show that such had been the drift of events from the first" (p. 47-50). . June 2, 1901: Claims to be the Elijah "As the teacher of the Christian Catholic Church in Zion. . . I continued to develop practically these principles in my ministry, and God used me to prepare the church for the declaration of. June 2, 1901. I there stood forth before an immense audience in the Chicago Auditorium and declared that God had sent me as John the. Baptist had been sent, in the Spirit and Power of. Elijah. ". He further said: "The name is not a title, it is a reality. I firmly 27 believe in common with tens of thousands of my followers that I have been sent by God in the *Spirit and Power of Elijah' as the third and last manifestation of that prophet. 'The first manifestation was in Elijah (which means. Jehovah is my God) 28 centuries ago, when the worship of Baal was triumphant in Israel. This was Elijah the Destroyer. ' 'The second manifestation was in the person of John the. Baptist. Mathew 13:14. He was Elijah the. Preparer. The third manifestation of Elijah is in my person, of whom Christ spoke, after John the. Baptist's death, when he admitted the correctness of rabbinical contention, ‘Elijah must first come,' saying 'Elijah indeed cometh and shall restore all things. ' I am Elijah, the. Restorer. ' (p. 53-57) 7 ". September 18, 1904:. Claims to be the First Apostle "I stand hereby today as the High Priest on earth and the First Apostle of the Christian. Catholic and Apostolic Church in Zion of that. High Priest in Heaven. ". Dowie's attitude towards other Christian denominations. John Alexander Dowie stated: "Let me put it simply and plainly. The purpose of the Christian catholic Church in Zion is to smash every other church in existence. ". The Methodist Churches "The Methodist Church, which was the greatest and most spiritual Church in America at one time, is today almost wholly controlled by the. Freemasons. Nine-tenths of the bishops, and nearly all the ministers are Freemasons. . Freemasonry is heathenism; because they cannot get away from the statement that they do not believe in Jesus, the Christ, and dare not mention. His name. . Mormon Church "Zion has no affinity with the false Zion that has sent forth a false Gospel, false prophets and a false religion under the guise of truth to curse the world. " "I never had any understanding with the. Mormon authorities at any time, and I think that it is a base insult; because all of good that. Joseph Smith or Brigham young ever knew, I knew apart from them or any of their followers. I will not be likened unto them for a moment! I am their superior mentally, morally, spiritually intellectually, and every other way, and I will not be likened to these wicked men. "(Leaves of Healing, Vol. XIII, p. 662).