Felix Manalo is said to be the restorer of the church of Christ, and "God's last messenger.." INC says that Manalo is the "angel from the east", mentioned in Revelation 7:1–3 who started the INC at the same time that World War I broke out. ..Felix Manalo is from the Philippines, which they say is in the ‘center’ of the Far East.[50] The ‘four winds’ in Revelation 7:1-3, they say refers to World War I and the four angels are the four leaders known as the big four (Woodrow Wilson, Lloyd George, Georges Clemenceau, and Vittorio Orlando) who they say worked on the prevention of the war.
As the one who established the INC, Manalo was the chief administrator, chief theologian and spiritual leader of the church.[11] As such, he was the ultimate authority in all aspects of the church, and effectively "the foremost Biblical authority for all humanity and the divinely designated leader of a reestablished church of Christ in the modern world."
Thus we have a pope, not a real Protestant/evangelical. Actually I found he was another of those Catholics trying to scratch away the itch of his baptism, becoming another Protestant/Evangelical sect or cult in a futile attempt to restart an authentic apostolic faith.
In his teenage years, Manalo became dissatisfied with Roman Catholic theology. According to the National Historical Commission of the Philippines, the establishment of the Philippine Independent Church or the Aglipayan Church was his major turning point but Manalo remained uninterested since its doctrines were mainly Catholic. In 1904, he joined the Methodist Episcopal Church,[5] entered the Methodist seminary, and became a pastor for a while.[6] He also sought through various denominations, including the Presbyterian Church, Christian Mission, and finally Seventh-day Adventist Church in 1911. Manalo left the Adventist church in 1913, and associated himself with atheist and agnostic peers.[7][8]
On November 1913, Manalo secluded himself with religious literature and unused notebooks in a friend's house in Pasay, instructing everyone in the house not to disturb him. He emerged from seclusion three days later with his new-found doctrines.[7]
Manalo, together with his wife, went to Punta, Santa Ana, Manila on November 1913, and started preaching. He left the congregation in the care of his first ordained minister, and returned to Taguig to evangelize. In Taguig he was ridiculed and stoned in his meetings with locals. He was later able to baptize a few converts, including some of his persecutors. He later registered his new-found religion as the Iglesia ni Kristo (English: Church of Christ; Spanish: Iglesia de Cristo) on July 27, 1914 one day before the start of World War 1 at the Bureau of Commerce as a corporation sole with himself as the first executive minister.[7][5][8] Expansion followed as INC started building congregations in the provinces in 1916.[9] The first three ministers were ordained in 1919.
Actually I found he was another of those Catholics trying to scratch away the itch of his baptism, becoming another Protestant/Evangelical sect or cult in a futile attempt to restart an authentic apostolic faith. Which is absurd, as "another Protestant/Evangelical sect or cult," are fundamentally two different things, as a historically Prot. Evangelical church does not,
Hold that it alone is the one true church - which both Rome and cults do;
Hold that its head is infallible, whether formally stated or implicitly conveyed, which excludes dissent - which both Rome and cults do (evangelicals must rest the weight of the veracity of their truth claims upon Scriptural substantiation);
Hold another source of Divine revelation as being equal to Scripture - which both Rome and cults do.
Thus it is cults that are closest to Rome, and which INC is.