Who was the last Apostle to live, have authority?

Question

Who did he pass it onto

Answer 1

there are two types of priesthood.

the melchezdic and the levitical.
the melchezdi authority was taken away in the first century. but the levitical priesthood of aaron is given through lineage and genaology. So while the authority of the basic priesthood is given throughout all generations, the greater authority was lost.
I believe Peter james and john were the last 3 people to have all the keys of the kingdom, when a mortal person has has this same authority but walks away from the true gospel into their own paths than the holy ghost is removed and the will of God is removed. Jesus is the only authority. his authority in heaven and in earth survives to this day. but men fool themselves if they say they have it, and yet not walk in the ways of the will of the LORD.
the restoration of this greater priesthood authority was given to Joseph smith jr. in the 1800's. at least, thats what he testifies. i believed it for a good 20 years. the priesthood the lds church has will never be taken away from the earth until jesus returns, but in here is the loophole, most mortal men dont have a clue what it means to have this priesthood so the holy ghost is limited in most of the authority on the earth. They either dont have it, or it has become purely politics and functionality.

if everyone had the authority of jesus, the judgments of God would reign down, but i think most of these people are in the same snare as protestants evangelicals and catholics. therefore their priesthood and faith is in vain because they are part of babylon, not of the kingdom of God see rev 18:4

Answer 2

The Last Apostle

Answer 3

the lie-on of Judah is wrong---this concept of the supreme steward is Biblical and has been shown all the way back in time when the people of God have been given over to the care of Moses then Joshua and all the way down the line through the Scriptures.

John was the last Apostle to live but even then the Bishop of Rome was the authoritative figure in the Church as there are writings that show there was a problem that came up in the Church that the people thought that the only way to solve it was to go to John and even he referred them to the Bishop in Rome.

We need to look at the over-all picture and see what was meant to happen. In Jesus' time, the people wanted their Messiah to come and help them conquer their Roman government overseers and they thought this would happen with a great Jewish general that they would make a King like the David of old but, we know that God's ways are not anything like our ways and so it is just like him to have his Church conquer Rome but, in a totally different manner than what was thought. He now is the conqueror of Rome and as such his headquarters is there.

Answer 4

By most accounts I have read.(Non-Biblical accounts) Most think that the Apostle John outlived the others including Paul.
As best as I can see he was the only one to have died of old age. The Catholics say he died about the year 100 ad. This was because he was a young man, much younger than Jesus during his ministry. This is also the real reason John was portrayed as a hairless youth in the now infamous Di Vinci "Last Supper" I hope this answers your question.

Answer 5

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Who was the last Apostle to live, have authority?
Who did he pass it onto

Answer 6

well since there are still apostles today then we don't know who will be the last. The theory of Apostolic succession is not Biblical. Nowhere does it say that this gift has ceased..
Biblical authority comes from God and is given as he chooses among his Christians..

If we were to believe the Catholic church then the Pope would be an apostle as he claims to be directly descended (by authority) from Peter.. As the word Pope does not appear anywhere in the Bible nor the concept of that position..

Answer 7

Apostles no longer exist. They were needed in the days of the early church (the first century a.d.) before we had the entire Bible and before the church was fully established (and I'm not talking about the Catholic Church here....not at all). I'm pretty sure that either Paul or John was the last apostle (actually, now that I think, I am pretty sure it was John). He didn't pass his apostleship on to anybody. The need for that particular office just ended and there were no more.

Answer 8

You're asking two questions. Traditionally, the last Apostle to die, i. e. the one who lived longest, was John, who died in A. D. 100. But according to Matthew 16:17-19 and to Catholic tradition, the last one to "have authority" would have been Peter, the first Pope, and his authority would have been passed on to his successor. That successor, according to many early Chruch hiistorians, was named Linus.

Answer 9

The Last Apostle to live is the next one born and forever. Jesus+ calls us to be apostles and to teach and to proclaim the Gospel in many ways to serve Him. St. John lived on as the last of the first twelve, but surely not the last Apostle as we have seen Pope John Paul II and his successor calling all to Holiness. Surely there have been hundreds following the footsteps of St. John in every walk of life. Let's do our part together.

Answer 10

The Apostle John. To Polycarp.