Diotrephes

The first accounted record of sh`mad, from the emissary Yochanan's own letter in the Bible:

"Beloved ones, you are acting trustworthily in whatever you do for the brothers and for strangers, who have borne witness of your love before the assembly. If you send them forward worthily of Elohim, you shall do well, because they went out for the sake of the Name, receiving naught from the nations.

"Therefore we ought to receive such, so that we become fellow workers for the truth. I wrote to the assembly, but Diotrephes, who loves to be the first among them, does not receive us. So if I come, I shall call to mind his works which he does, babbling against us with wicked words. And not satisfied with that, he himself does not receive the brothers, and forbids those who wish to, putting them out of the assembly. Beloved ones, do not imitate the evil, but the good. The one who is doing good is of Elohim, but he who is doing evil has not seen Elohim." - Yochanan Gimel 1:5-11

It started at the beginning, among the assemblies that the emissaries of Messiah Yeshua started. And this wasn't the end ...

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