Hendrik Leendert Heijkoop

Hendrik Leendert Heijkoop , usually called HL Heijkoop as an author , (born September 25, 1906 in the Netherlands ; † August 31, 1995 in Mehlem ) was a Dutch accountant , tax advisor , preacher , Bible teacher and author of the Brethren movement .

Live and act

Heijkoop was born in the Netherlands as the tenth child of a religious family. Between the ages of 17 and 19 he experienced a conversion and found the certainty of salvation . At the age of 21, he was already leading a small Bible study group in Winschoten , which forced him to study the Bible a lot himself . In order to earn a living, he trained as an accountant and tax advisor.

Even before the Second World War he established relationships with German brothers and sisters in faith in the “closed” Brethren movement and supported them, in particular Otto Müller, Otto Bubenzer and Paul Schwefel, whose meetings were banned in Germany from 1937 onwards. He was arrested in October 1942 for helping a Jewish client during the early war years and imprisoned in the Winschoten Police Office. He was taken to the Scholtenshaus, the office of the security service, in Groningen and in the evening to a communal cell in the detention center there. On November 20, 1942, he and 14 prisoners were transferred to the police transit camp in Amersfoort . On January 13, 1943, he and more than 250 fellow prisoners were sent to the Herzogenbusch concentration camp in Vught near Eindhoven , because he was to be killed. Although he fell ill there, he was forced to work on electronic products at Philips . A young German officer released him from this forced labor without permission, which, however, cost them their lives.

After World War II, Heijkoop received many opportunities to serve as a Bible teacher in Canada, Spain, Great Britain, Switzerland, and Germany. At the beginning of the 1960s he co-founded the Winschoten Conference. In the 1960s he also spent some time in his own house in Vevey on Lake Geneva to work as a Bible teacher in French-speaking Switzerland. On a trip to India he maintained contacts with Ronny Fernandes in Bombay and K. Yohan in Tenali .

Heijkoop had the Collected Writings of John Nelson Darby and in 1969 the Bible study magazine The Bible Treasury published by William Kelly (1856-1920) reprinted to make these 19th century authors accessible. Shortly before his death in 1995, the Uit het Woord der Waarheid foundation he founded, in collaboration with the publishers Chapter Two in London and GBV in Dillenburg, carried out a further reprint to meet global demand. Heijkoop was also the editor of some works by William Kelly, Charles Henry Mackintosh and George Vicesimus Wigram .

In the last years of his life he suffered from Alzheimer's disease and suffered from a complete loss of memory so that he could no longer work. He lived with his wife in a retirement home run by the Brothers' Movement in Mehlem , Germany, which belongs to Bonn . The couple had no children.

Teaching

For Heijkoop, the gospel of Jesus Christ was central. He also consistently interpreted the Old Testament in the sense that it was indicative of Jesus Christ, his community and the future heaven.

Fonts (selection)

Heijkoop published a Dutch monthly magazine called Uit het Woord der Waarheid ("From the Word of Truth"). In the supplement De Morgenster ("The Morning Star") he interpreted the prophetic word . The following of his books have been translated into German:

The future according to the instructions / prophecies of the word of God , 1951 and 1985, Christian Written Distribution , Hückeswagen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89287-552-9

The Letter of Judas , Ernst-Paulus-Verlag , Neustadt 1961

Put to rest: edifying reflections on the book Ruth , publishing house and writing mission of the Evangelical Society for Germany , Elberfeld 1963 and 1977

The first letter from Petrus , Ernst-Paulus-Verlag, Neustadt 1966

The Holy Spirit , 1975

The Son of God, Who Loved Me , Christian Written Distribution, Hückeswagen 1977 and Ernst-Paulus-Verlag, Neustadt 1994

The Place of Gathering for the Believers , Christian Written Distribution, Hückeswagen 1983

From the word of truth. Collected lectures , 5 volumes, Christian writings spread, Hückeswagen 1986–2003, ISBN 978-3-89287-170-5 .

Volume 1: Topics from Books 1 to 3 , ISBN 978-3-89287171-2
Volume 2: Topics from 4th and 5th Book of Moses , ISBN 978-3-89287172-9
Volume 3: Topics from Joshua to Ezekiel , ISBN 978-3-89287-177-4 or ISBN 978-3-89287173-6
Volume 4: Topics: Matthew to Romans , ISBN 978-389287174-3
Volume 5: Topics: 1. Corinthians to Ephesians , ISBN 978-3-89287177-4

Prayer healings, speaking in tongues, signs and miracles in the light of scripture , Ernst-Paulus-Verlag, Neustadt 1990, ISBN 978-3-254803504

Letters to young people , Ernst-Paulus-Verlag, Neustadt 1993

The victims. The Spiritual Significance of the Sacrifice in the Old Testament, Lectures 1968–70 , Christian Written Distribution, Hückeswagen 2011 and 2013, ISBN 978-3-8928-7318-1 or ISBN 978-3-89287-533-8

Topic series: May He lead us to God , with the following lectures: 1. Who is God and who is man, 2. Repentance and new birth, 3. Justification and peace with God, 4. Liberation and salvation, 5. Sealing, 6 Eternal life, 7th leadership of the Holy Spirit and 8th election , Christian literature distribution, Hückeswagen, ISBN 978-3892873198

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personal data
SURNAME	Heijkoop, Hendrik Leendert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Heijkoop, HL (author name); Heijkoop, Henk (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Dutch preacher, Bible teacher and author of the Brethren movement
DATE OF BIRTH	September 25, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH	Netherlands
DATE OF DEATH	August 31, 1995
Place of death	Flour

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