What Was Lost
Within a few generations of the Apostles, the authority, structure, and essential doctrines of the original church were lost. This section traces that loss and the prophetic foreknowledge that it would happen.
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The Apostles: What Happened After Christ
Christ's original apostles served as the governing foundation of the early church, holding keys of authority that held the entire structure together. Their deaths, and the failure to replace them with the same divine calling, set in motion a crisis the world is still living with.
The Great Apostasy
Within generations of Christ's resurrection, the original church fell into a period of spiritual darkness prophesied in both the Old and New Testaments. Doctrines were changed, priesthood authority was lost, and the institutional church that remained bore little resemblance to what Jesus had established.