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In March 1968 the number of apostles was augmented by three to a number of seven, wherefore the expectation that a revival was imminent seemed justified.

Something happened, however, that no one had expected.

The apostle Jacob van der Poorten ( vdp ), recently called for England ( tribe Reuben ), was moved to prophesying grave penance, in which the HAZK was called upon to return to the original apostolic order.

It led to a fierce hurricane which in a short time brought the little hazk-ship to its doom.

The deeper cause of this drama was the late apostle Van Bemmel's contempt for the spiritual law of Schwartz on overseer-ministries, instead of which he had introduced the unwise one-man-rule of the apostle.

This understandably had led to opposition, not only of the Verkruisens, but also of others, among whom the Amsterdam prophet H. M. of Bemmel ( vB ).

They again, however, made the mistake to violate the biblical order by stripping the office of apostle of its authority and to assign the church rule to a general counsel of priests.

Already from the beginning of the commission of apostle Ossebaar, vB had tried to undermine the former's authority and when the apostolate had forbidden a communion-blessing favoured by vB and had forcefully prescribed the consecration form of the mother-church, his aversion towards the apostolate had grown into a bitter feud.

The nucleus of the forbidden blessing read: ' We bless this bread into the sacramental body and this wine into the sacramental blood of our Lord Jesus Christ ,' etc.

As vB had expressly declared in word and writing, his main purpose was the use of the words blessing into, wherefore it had the meaning that the priest made bread and wine into ( sacramental ) flesh and blood.

By the rejection of these consecration-words he was so embittered, that he had considered separating himself.

He even asserted that because of the abolishing of his communion-blessing the HAZK was under the judgement and was punished with satanic prophesying.