Becoming The Prophets of The World to Come
Minister: Reverend Olabode Busuyi
The emphasis of this season has been on the operation of the Son of God; the description of what every Son of God should be i.e. a prophet, because God Himself is a prophet.
“God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets…” (Hebrews 1:1). God has been speaking from the beginning by the prophets. Prophets do not only refer to men like Abraham; Adam and Enoch were also prophets.
Abraham was referred to as a prophet by God (Genesis 20:7). The reason for the creation of Israel is to raise prophets. An average Israelite is a prophet by ordination, irrespective of whether he fulfils the purpose or not (Psalm 105:10 – 15). “Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm” (Psalm 105:15).
The reference to prophets, here, was not just referring to the prophets in Israel but all the children of the household of Israel. God called them His anointed, and instructed that no man should do them any harm as “prophets”. They were a breed of an order of prophets, different from the order of the patriarchs. What we know as prophets today is taken from the order of the prophets in the house of Israel.
This teaching on prophets does not include the manifestation of prophetic types that have been seen and established. Nowadays, prophets are only likened to Prophet Elijah, Elisha, Jeremiah, Zephaniah, Isaiah, Hosea and others.
The present church does not know who prophets are; the closest interpretation of prophets is seers and soothsayers, but there have been prophets before the likes of Isaiah and Elijah.
The fathers had more stature than the children of Israel. The prophetic nature expressed in the fathers was higher than in the children. The prophetic nature expressed in Abraham is higher than the prophetic stature of Isaiah. Abraham was not consecrated to be a prophet but grew into it.
Among the children of Israel (and not the patriarchs), Moses was the highest of the prophets (Deut. 18:18 – 19), then Elijah, and the last of them was John the Baptist (Matthew 11:13). Moses brought both the law and also lived the life. Elijah was a witness to Moses. None of the prophets were able to bring life, except Moses, Elijah and Jesus (Mark 9:4).
This class of the prophets pointed to the very promise of the prophetic. Moses was a figure for Jesus, while Elijah was a witness to say that the people of God must inherit the life that Moses expressed; Elijah means “Lord is God”. What Moses brought is the Lord and Elijah affirmed that the same Lord of Moses is God. The last is Jesus, who is meant to open us to the new age or the world that is to come.
We cannot understand the prophetic nature by observing the church, otherwise, we will have a wrong impression of it. The work of the Lord, in the last day, is to ensure that the present world is folded up and the new world is revealed (Matthew 24:35).
No matter how the present world is glorious, it must be folded up because as long as it remains, the dragon has its relevance. The present world is in the hands of angels, and the enemy of man is of the high class of angels. Satan understands the element of the present world, which is also the material used to fabricate the angels; this is why every angel of the present world regards him.
The elements of the heaven and the earth existed before the places (heaven and earth) were created. The creatures of those domains are the real constituents of the elements. The earth was made for man (1 Corinthians 15:47); the original material of earth is man.
The true earth is man; God took dust from the earth and breathed into him (Genesis 2:7). God framed man’s habitation and put him there. Similarly, God made all angels in heaven after their habitation, and therefore, heaven and earth is in the custody of angels.
Angels are the highest creatures fabricated from the heavens, which is why heaven is compliant with them; this does not mean they are better than man. The earth is not compliant to them, although the earth is subjected to them. The present man is made to live on the earth, hence, heaven cannot be man’s home. The constituents of man (spirit, soul, and body) are earth compliant. This is why it is not easy to detach man from earth because he is forged for his habitation.
The present heaven and earth cannot pass away until people who can expire it are raised; this breed of people will bring in another world to speed up the present world and expire it. The present world is comfortable with its current structure; it needs to be accelerated for it to be folded up.
The earth must be folded up because we cannot get the best from the present world. A man can get possessions from the present world, but the best of man’s full frame (spirit, soul, and body) cannot be gotten from the earth.
The core of Paul’s conversation could not be said in 1 Corinthians because the Corinthians did not have the stature for it. It was not until 2 Corinthians 3, that he began to teach about the testament (2 Corinthians 3:18). He then proceeded to 2 Corinthians 4 to speak concerning the attitude needed for the ministry of glory (2 Corinthians 4:1 – 3). “But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost” (2 Corinthians 4:3).
The gospel of the face of the Son of God can be hid. It is a sheep that can be lost, not a goat. A goat is never lost because everywhere is home to a goat. So, 2 Corinthians 4:3 was referring to sheep i.e. men who had handled the gospel of Christ and need to come into the glorious gospel of Christ.
“In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.” (2 Corinthians 4:4).
There is the gospel of Christ, the beloved Son and the gospel of Christ, the image of God. Paul’s gospel is the gospel of Christ and not the gospel that was hid to them that are blind.
This latter gospel was given to the apostles. The apostles learnt Christ from Paul and moved onward to the glorious gospel of seeing the face of the Son who is the image of the invisible God and who is brightness of His glory and express image of the invisible God (Hebrews 1:3).
The gospel being hidden infers that a believer hears the message and does not believe it. Unbelievers cannot hear this message; it is the message preached to sheep so they can come into the gospel of the face of the Son of God.
It is the face of the Son of God that will expire this present world, so men must receive this gospel. Everyone who has enjoyed the first gospel ought to also enjoy the gospel of the face, but something went wrong when the sheep became lost.
This gospel of the face of the Son of God is not yet made manifest to the larger church (children of God) and the few to whom it has been manifested to are being hindered from taking it, but mercy has returned for the gospel to shine again (2 Corinthians 2:2).
We can never know the true prophets except this glorious gospel shines, and this is why many of God’s children are falling prey. God commanded that witches, observers of times, palm readers, and star gazers were not to be permitted among Israel (Deuteronomy 18:10 – 11). All these were tellers of a future which is not of God. God knew that if His people were deceived by these operations, they will arrive at a point prepared by the enemy.
The ability to know the future (like who to marry or where to relocate to) does not define our eternal destiny. All of these are to perish with the present world and are designed to kill faith which we ought to live by (Romans 1:17). If a person connects to these arrangements of foretelling, his/her faith will be eroded.
God instructed the house of Israel against such foretellers because Israel is a household of prophets and prophets live by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God (Deuteronomy 8:3).
The present man, even when born again, does not have the energy of faith to believe God without an anchor of assurance and to depend on the word of God. Foretelling arrangements are of the present world, so it must fold up because it cannot generate Sons.
What the Lord is emphasizing in this time points us to a harvest that God has been waiting for a long time on earth i.e. a people that will do the work of folding up the present world. God has commanded that His face should shine, men should receive the face and change to become entities of the world to come. The reason we speak of the world to come is so that men will become entities of the world to come.
“ … [10] And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands: [11] They shall perish; but thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment; [12] And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.” (Hebrews 1:7 – 12).
Heaven and earth were ordained to perish even before they were corrupted, although it may have taken longer time. “…and thy years shall not fail.” (Hebrews 1:12) describes a message and a person; it refers to the world to come which is not just a place, but also a person.
In this present world, we want to go to heaven but the real heaven is the Son of God who remains the same and whose years shall not fail (Hebrews 1:12). The world to come is a world of eternal fiber; it would have ages, but it would have no end. “[10] To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God; [11] According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord…” (Ephesians 3:10 – 11).
We might not care about being eternal, so we would have to be upgraded in knowledge to appreciate the eternal. This is why some seek to get rich quickly in this present world and die; man has been crumbled by death and blinded by the devil such that he does not appreciate the eternal.
For Adam, the true number of his days is unknown because his days were only counted from the fall (Genesis 5:5). Also, in the days of the patriarchs, many of them did not give birth until they were 300 years old.
They used the period before childbirth to live a life which was more than begetting. This is not the case now; man is now expected to go to school, earn money, get married, reproduce and repeat without “living”. Faith gave the patriarchs a life worth living.
This is why it is said that the just shall live by faith. Nowadays, success in the natural has become a reward for living and removing success from our lives, makes life seem meaningless. However, we see Jesus who lived for 33 years without getting married or building a house and without a business, yet He lived and is successful according to God’s standard. If all these things we value as success are removed from our lives, our lives will lose meaning in man’s judgment.
We must know what Jesus found that gave Him meaning for living; we must come to understand that a world exists without these things. The Sadducees did not believe in resurrection and came to meet Jesus about the issue of resurrection because they defined their lives by cares of this present life. They crafted an example of a woman who married seven brothers, they could not see beyond the cares of this life (Matthew 22:25 – 28). There are other matters outside the cares of this life that must be discussed. Jesus had to point them to another world where marriage does not matter (Matthew 22:29 – 30). This world resists certain things that belong to another world.
Things exist by their laws; every life exists by its law, and when the law is taken away, the life is expunged. The strength of sin is the law (1 Corinthians 15:56). On earth, gravity exists by its law but ceases to exist outside earth.
As we can see how natural laws are initiated and terminated, we also ought to see how we can converse with another world to a point of reality to see how the Son is represented.
God has made provisions in the gospel to raise men of that world. These are the men referred to as an exceeding great army in the book of Ezekieland they are many (Ezekiel 37:10). These will be the men capable of managing the world to come.
There are many places in the Son. The book of Revelation shows 4 classes of people in the Son. All believers are in Christ, but not all believers are in the Son. This is why the gospel of the Son must be preached to those who have believed in Christ.
The Kingdom of God is the Son; it is the world of the Son; it is the world to come. The world to come is the world of the Father and Sons. We are born again to see this world, but after seeing it, we must believe for entrance. To reach the end of Christ, the Son must be seen.
If there is no hope of entrance into the Son, there will be nothing to propel man to finish Christ. This is also because Christ men are good men who already receive praises for their stature. The deacons in the book of Acts were men raised by the milk of the word (Acts 6) and yet they were described as good men in the society. However, they were not good enough for entrance into the realm of Sons.
“… [22] Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently…” (1 Peter 1:19 – 22). ‘Seeing’, here, indicates a commitment to the purification of one’s soul.
This is not possible if there is no promise before us, i.e. a future in God, to move us forward. If we do not see a future in God, we will not care much as long as we are good in the society. The hope of a future in God is the force that makes us want to purify our souls to the point of loving with pure hearts fervently.
God desires that a large number is raised in this order; this is the reason he is making the gospel manifest in the church. He desires a great army of people that can expire the present world and rescue men from the darkest parts of the earth and from the hold of the grave.
This will be a generation empowered with the authority of the world to come. That is why salvation will move into all places of the earth.
Joel 2 describes these men as people who will scale over every wall and be without limitation (Joel 2:7 – 10). This scripture is what Jesus infers in Matthew 24:29 – 36. There will be men who would cause the constitution of the earth to stop moving in its natural order.
What will shake the heavens and earth must be something away from it; something from another world. We must move into another world to bring about the shaking of this present earth.
“Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh…” (Matthew 24:32). This is the shaking of the fig tree in an unripe time, such that it is forced to fall.
Summer is the fairest season that allows high activities; it tells of a season in the spirit where there would be high activities in the spirit and which will only be known by those in the spirit. It is a signal of a time of great harvest: a harvest of the prophets. The highest prophets are prophets of the world to come.
“And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.” (Revelation 19:10). ‘Spirit’, here, means nature or essence.
The testimony of Jesus has a primary duty, which is to give the spirit/nature of prophecy. Jesus was connected to a force of life that connected Him to eternity, such that even His laughter was fulfilling prophecy. This is why His disciples did not take any time with Him for granted. They saw firsthand how the life of a man was playing out as it had been written.
What Jesus captured is the spirit of prophecy. The realm of testimony is a long realm; it is captured gradually. Before a man can have testimony, he must have obeyed testament until testimony is fully formed. Testimony time is a program with a beginning and an end. A person may have full testimony, and another may not, but Jesus has the full testimony.
The ‘servants’ in Revelation 19:10 are servants of the message and are not of the order of servants in the epistles like deacons. Men are meant to serve the message. We cannot inherit Christ or attain to charity until we serve the message called Christ.
We obey to serve; we ought to obey to a point where we are yielded completely to the message and serving under it (Romans 6:16 – 18). There is a season where we are just believing and obeying but have not served. Believing Christ message does not make one free from sin; it gradually frees one from sin, but not yet completely free.
At this stage, one serves God and asks for forgiveness when he serves sin. We served sin completely, and this made us its servants, so, we also need to come to a point where we serve righteousness against all odds. When we serve righteousness, it makes us free. Being servants of Christ is a training ground for those who would serve God.
“[17] For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. [18] For he that in these things serveth Christ is acceptable to God, and approved of men.” (Romans 14:17 – 18).We ought to be servants of Christ; this is when we become constrained by a law within us not to do anything other than Christ.
As we obey consistently, we become servants of Christ. As servants of Christ, we are to become acceptable to God and then approved of men. The servants in Revelation 19:10 are different from servants at this level.
We must move to the Father’s word, and serve the message of the Father like we served Christ; we must serve everlasting righteousness. It is in this realm we are instructed to love our enemies (Matthew 5:44); we are given a higher law that does not make sense. We believe this law and start serving it.
Jesus always preached the Father and never preached Christ. All His teachings in the books of the gospel (Matthew, Mark, Luke and John) were laws of everlasting righteousness.
After we have been made free from sin, we begin to serve from holiness to holiness, and end in everlasting life (Romans 6:22 – 23). All the apostles served everlasting righteousness till they became servants of God. This is the basis for the instructions in 2 Peter 1:5 – 8 which the apostles used to serve everlasting righteousness. By serving in the Father’s dominion, they served the word of God.
“The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John…” (Revelation 1:1). In the church at the time of this verse, there were many who had served Christ and were now serving the word of God.
To serve the word of God is to serve the incorruptible seed (1 Peter 1:23). When we serve the living word and the abiding word, we have served the word of God (1 Peter 1:23).
“For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. [13] Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.” (Hebrews 4:12).
Verse 12 differentiates the word of God from the word of Christ. The word of Christ does not get to the joints and marrow; this is why we can relate with it.
The word of God goes deeper to our thoughts and intents (Hebrews 4:12 – 13); it is the word that frames the man of the world to come. It, therefore, becomes such a man’s constitution forever. Putting on the word of God is where framing starts from.
The word of Christ prepares one for the word of God. The word of God then frames a man of the world to come. When we start handling the word of God, He exposes every element of unrighteousness in us, so we do exhibit that nature, even though we are forgiven.
It brings about a cleansing and shines light on every issue we encounter. This is when we become servants of God.
Some have been serving the word of God (Revelation 1:1) and this is not the whole church. The seven churches of Asia were in this service of the word of God, and God wanted them to finish the service. It is in serving the word that the testimony is acquired; it is a confirmation that the word has been served.
The life of the word is the testimony; it means that one has served and therefore, his nature has been imparted, not just the frame. A man is not just a frame; a man is both a frame and a life.
The servants, in Revelation 1:1, are a kind of prophets because they can start showing the Son. The Son of the world to come is both living and abiding word. If one has served Him, he will be given the testimony as proof of service.
The proof of service of Christ is charity. Charity is not what we do but what we become. Unfeigned love for the brethren is to receive the reward of charity (1 Peter 1:22). Charity is the nature acquired after completing the obedience of unfeigned love of the brethren.
We stay in charity until the nature appears in us. Charity has two sides; it has a side of brethren and a side of God. The side of brethren is seen in 1 Corinthians 13:4 – 6, while the side of God is seen in 1 Corinthians 13:7 – 8. If the side of God is not completed, a person would not be able to respond to God. We must also serve the word till we have the testimony.
The book of Revelation is written to those who have served the word, to admonish them, to serve and bear the testimony. Serving the testimony means one has nature and the prophecy i.e. having the spirit of the message.
This is why everyone who has served the word, can instruct Christ life; Christ life flows out of conversations even without preaching. This servant is not designed for fivefold ministry (Ephesians 4:11) but for those who are in the message.
Everyone can carry the prophecy. Testimony and prophecy are intertwined; where there is testimony, there will be prophecy. Prophecy is the inscription of the message, while testimony is the life of the message. This means one must have the inscription and life.
Through inscription, the life can be spoken about and interpreted. Otherwise, natural men would only assume and misunderstand what servants are doing without interpretation. For example, at Pentecost, the disciples were misunderstood by others to be drunk until Peter interpreted the speaking of tongues to them (Acts 2:1 – 36).
Therefore, when situations arise and try to describe us, we ought to answer with hope (1 Peter 3:15). We can give answers with words and thoughts. This is why the deacons who were not ministers of the word, were able to respond rightly (Acts 6).
Stephen was able to respond from within without pre-meditation. He was not preaching but was defending. God expects men to live this way.
The expected frame when we move to a higher degree is to have the word and the testimony i.e. the spirit/nature of prophecy. There are servants and there are fellow servants of those who have the testimony of Jesus. Anyone with the testimony should rise above this world.
To have the testimony, one must have fought and overcome this world. If any man loves this world, the love of the Father is not in him (1 John 2:15). The love of the Father is testimony.
Every faith ends with love. Love is the testimony of every faith. Christ faith is the beginning of Christ, while Christ love is the end or testimony of it. The realm of Most Holy faith also has its love which is called Father’s love. We cannot arrive there without overcoming the world. The love that shines in the Father’s realm exposes the world and teaches how to overcome the world.
In that realm, one can know the world, see it, understand it and overcome it. The two phases in this love are to overcome the wicked one and then, to become strong (1 John 2:14).
Such a person will have used the word until it abides in him and by the word, overcome the wicked one who is behind the world. No one can come to the love of the Father who has not overcome the world.
Christ the Son is the living God. He showed us the Father and also showed the other father (Satan). There are two fathers: the Father of light and the father of lies (John 8:44).
The light in the love of the Father shows the two fathers and the world built by the other father against man to anchor the souls of men. Once Satan built the world, he went to rest because he knows that every man would be bound by that world.
The world is made of the lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes and pride of life (1 John 2:16). Satan put his “world” on top of the harmless world that God originally created. For example, when God gives a house for shelter, Satan anoints it and makes it an idol. Satan ensures that all things become a trap of idols of man.
The living light exposes the world. Jesus would not have been able to handle the temptation (of the world) after Jordan if He did not know the world and its glories. The Father had shown the world to Him when showing Himself (the Father) to Jesus.
The Father initially protects us from the world, but in becoming servants, we must see the world, know it and reject it (Matthew 6:13). Jesus triumphed in every area Adam failed.
He overcame the world (John 16:33), demystified it and put it under Him. He came to a place of understanding it; what a person understands cannot tempt him again.
A son would understand the hidden mystery of the world while other men are trapped by it. The secrets of a place can be exposed to a person despite not being physically there. Jesus did not leave Israel yet He knew the glories of the kingdoms of the world by revelation.
Jesus lived in the times of Plato and Socrates, and by the time the Greeks came to see Him, the mystery has already been closed among His disciples (John 12:20 – 23). The Father can show this world to us so what is being exalted to men means nothing to us. This is what the living word does; it exposes.
In Revelation 12, there are 3 classes of believers – the manchild, the woman and the remnant of her seed. The first class is the man-child that was caught up to God (Revelation 12:5). All classes were living by the word and were fed with the light of the Father. After they fed on that light, the first emergence is the man-child who is meant to time the world i.e. to break the strength of nations with the rod of iron (Revelation 12:5).
Iron is one of the natures of the beast (Daniel 2:33); it is the rod of iron that can break the kingdom of iron mixed with clay. The rod of iron is an authority of nature ingrained inside our being that will make nations listen to us.
When we understand what God is doing in the last times, no nation will be a threat to us because we will be holding something more powerful than what they hold.
What God is building is beyond the church world. The church is the place of incubation but it is to be manifested across the earth.
This is why many are needed. In going to God, we will be used. We cannot get to God without being exercised. We need authority to make known to all men the future in God they ought to come into.
The manchild company finished his work because they overcame by the blood of the Lamb (Revelation 12:11). They also had the word of God because the latter cannot be obtained without the blood of the Lamb.
The blood of the lamb is the testimony. Furthermore, they had the word of their testimony; this means they had the word of God, the blood (which is testimony) and the word of their testimony. The essence of the little book is to receive the word of their testimony.
The second class are the remnants of the woman’s seed that keep the commandment of God and have the testimony of Jesus (Revelation 12:17). This implies that there are remnants which did not keep the commandment of God. The commandment of God means to have the word of testimony.
The commandment of Christ is faith and charity, which is to love one another (John 13:34). The commandment of the Father is also faith and love. The love, here, however, becomes towards one’s brethren (1 John 3:14). Loving “one’s brethren” differs from loving “one another”.
One’s brethren are those who are handling the same prophecy/light. So, there is a larger church, but the light being handled is not the same. Brethren are those who are using the light of the Father. Even among the brethren, there are still children, young men and fathers.
We should believe on the name of the Son of God (1 John 5:13) as there is a revelation the name of the Son God shows. The revelation of the Son of God is the living light and the true light.
We must continue believing, even through trials and tribulations. We must continue even when our human nature is uncomfortable with hearing/speaking this message.
A false prophet is one who does not speak of the world to come; this is how false prophets are identified. Some people must be apprehended to keep speaking of the world to come; it is the Son speaking through them.
In the last days, it is the Son speaking to us (Hebrews 1:2). We need these men/prophets that can hijack us to eternal life when our flesh is too heavy. They can speak to our spirits which can then carry our bodies.
Having the testimony is not enough to overcome the dragon. The mother (woman) escaped the serpent but not the dragon (Revelation 12:14 – 16); she could trample over the serpent (Luke 10:19).
The red dragon is a testimony creature. A man who has testimony has only one lap left and is therefore a problem to the dragon. This is because such a man can overcome it and help others to overcome it. Love is the end of the commandment in all manifestations of the Son (1 Timothy 1:5).
The manifestations of the Son are Christ, the Son of the living Father, the Son of the true Father, and the Son of eternal glory (i.e. the Son who is the brightness of His glory and express image) (Hebrews 1:3).
There are angels that have a type (measure) of the testimony given to Jesus; these angels have the word of God, have the testimony and are fellow servants. They cannot minister the word of salvation if they do not have it. They will also be participants of the world to come because they understand it but cannot change estate like men.
We should apply ourselves to these things we are hearing now and not when situations force us to believe or align ourselves. There is a blessing when we can access these things by message. We are hearing these things because we have been loved and ought to love also (John 13:34). The lovingkindness of God is light; it is a higher light.
The ultimate status for every believer is to be a prophet of the world to come; it is the status for harvest, as the present world will not go until the harvest. We need men who will make the earth uncomfortable for men. In the days of Samuel, men trembled at his coming (1 Samuel 16:4).
There are prophets who are keeping the commandment of God and those who are not. The testimony of the second set of prophets cannot be full. These two classes of prophets show that the manchild finished the commandment of God.
Keeping commandments and doing commandments are not the same. A keeper of commandments is a learner, and a doer of commandments is a practitioner.
God’s instructions to the Israelites were always to keep His commandments and do them (Leviticus 20:22). A person who keeps and does commandments indicates a completion of testimony and eligibility for the word of their testimony (the prophecy of the little book).
The prophecy of the little book is from His testimony; it is to make His testimony our testimony. We can have His testimony yet it is not ours. For instance, a person in need of blood transfusion receives another’s blood to live, yet it is not his blood he is using to live.
The DNA of the blood received can still be identified separately from that person’s DNA. In a similar way, as the dragon drags us on, we need what can keep producing (The testimony) to expire the dragon, and not a temporary/repeated solution.
To change one’s DNA is not easy (even naturally), one must move from keeping commandments to doing commandments i.e. doing the love of God which we do not know yet. The love of God is in God, so we must be shown how to love God. To love God is the primary commandment; loving one’s neighbour is an appendage (i.e. secondary or incidental to it) (Luke 10:27).
This commandment is the anchor for the law and the prophets and is a demand to man. “He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?” (Micah 6:8).
We need testimony of God to walk with God; Enoch walked with God and had the testimony that He pleased God (Hebrews 11:5). Testimony teaches how to love God, as the realm of the love of God is God’s secret.
No one can know how to love another without full knowledge of the other person. This is why no one knows a man like his wife, not even his children. The marriage bed is a place of knowing, not pleasure alone.
The role of the testimony is to roll out the love of God. In this realm, we cannot see many higher things in the Bible as we easily see Christ’s life. The Bible becomes elusive until one is shown the things of that realm.
We cannot love our lives unto death without being taught (Revelation 12:11). The reason for the testimony is to inscribe in us i.e. to activate the program of the love of God, such that we will not love our lives.
We cannot love our lives unto death without the testimony; anything otherwise will be damaging.
“[9] Then saith he unto me, See thou do it not: for I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book: worship God…” (Revelation 22:9 – 13). The sayings of the book are the commandments of God, or the commandments to love God and how not to love your life unto death (Revelation 22:9).
A believer can have the testimony and yet not know the book. If a believer does not receive testimony to a point where he can be moved to the book i.e. keeping and doing the commandment), he may never have access to the sayings of the book. “Blessed are they that dohis commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.” (Revelation 22:14).
The city, here, is called the Holy city i.e. the bride (Revelation 21:2). This “bride” is an army of the prophets of the world to come who are essentially part of the city (New Jerusalem) because they have moved to a place where they are doers of the commandment of God.
The end of those who keep His commandment is to have testimony, but the end of those who do His commandment is to have the word of testimony or to inherit their testimony.
“…[27] That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish;” (Ephesians 5: 25 – 27).
Not having spot is sinlessness or being incorruptible, while not having wrinkle is deathlessness. The destiny of marriage is to lay down your life. It is only dead men that have marriage. A spot is a sign of sin or stain, while a wrinkle is a sign of aging to death.
“So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself;” (Ephesians 5:28). The husband is to give everything to his wife; the wife has all that the house is made up of, including her husband. The woman is also raised to manage the house and ensure that the man’s dictate is what she carries out.
The man is the head of the house, but the woman is the administrator. “For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church” (Ephesians 5:29). “Hateth”, here, means to prefer less. Therefore, the commandment of marriage demands that the husband must always prefer his wife.
The words of a good man are for his house; a man should be willing to talk with his wife and listen when she speaks.
The head of the church is a speaking prophet. Without the testimony, the utterance of speaking will not be opened. What makes the Son a speaker is the testimony in His bone, not in His blood. Bone is another level of blood; it is the source of blood . As our eternal destiny, we are members of the glorious body (Ephesians 5:30).
The power that destroys death is in the bone. When a man gets born again, he becomes a member of the resurrected body; then of His flesh and bones. This is our future. His breath comes from his bones.
The second prophecy of Ezekiel was not given until flesh came upon the bone (Ezekiel 37:1 – 10) because the breath of His lips was what he used to slay the wicked (Isaiah 11:4). If the breath does not come from His bone, a believer cannot slay the dragon.
Immediately, the false prophets and the beasts were taken, they were cast to the lake (Revelation 19:20).
The dragon was released after 1000 years without his prophets, and this was when he went to raise the army of Magog because his strength i.e. his prophets, had been taken; he went out to deceive nations (Revelation 20:8).
When Satan got the first beast, he could not do much until the second beast arose. “[11] And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. [12] And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. [13] And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, [14] And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live. [15] And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.” (Revelation 13:11 – 15).
This second beast deceived men and had the power to convert them to the path of death. He knew the image as he can give the image of the beast (dragon); he can create the image in man and give the life of the dragon to make the image speak.
He is called the false prophet because he can raise men to have the mark, to have the number of the image, to receive the mark in their foreheads, and to practise the beast profession. They won’t see dragons but see image.
The things this beast could do, can also be done on the side of the Father. The Son raises the dead and gives life. He has been given the leverage of independence to raise the image in men and give them life as the Father will give. He can reproduce men like Himself. He moved from life to death, and from death to life forever (Revelation 1:18).
So, He can kill and make alive (John 5:21). As men follow the Lamb, death is occurring; the things that did not die when learning Christ will begin to die (Revelation 14:4).
“[5] Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: [6] Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: [7] But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: [8] And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. [9] Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: [10] That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth…” (Philippians 2:6 – 10).
In His program of learning, the Son went through death unto the death (Revelation 12:11). This is the season of learning how to love God. For Jesus, the cross is more than a tree He was tied to; it was the last chapter of “the death”. It was a matter beyond dying daily. Dying daily is a schoolmaster to “the death”; it is learnt through the curriculum/law of Christ.
The cross program is the death; it spans from Christ into the Most Holy. The feet of the cross is outside, while the heart of the cross is in the Most Holy. This design is to deliver us from the things we love. When we move into this realm, everything loses its lustre.
It is at the point of death that exaltation comes; an exaltation that can place us where authority can truly be given. That is how Jesus was exalted above the highest angels. He was made superior with authority which is that everything should bow unto Him (Philippians 2:9 – 10).
God desires that we do not see the promise of the raising of the prophets as a privilege for a few people. The present order of ministry can be a veil in this regard.
Every believer has the right to the glorious gospel because the criteria is not the fivefold ministry (Ephesians 4:11) but in the school of righteousness. Most people when not in the fivefold ministry of the word, recline, assuming they are not cut out for exaltation. Regardless of our earthly professions, we have a destiny in the gospel to fulfill.
Romans 12 describes how we can serve righteousness in various cadres. “[6] Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith; [7] Or ministry, let us wait on our ministering: or he that teacheth, on teaching; [8] Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness” (Romans 12:6 – 8).
An average believer tends to hold back in the word due to a sense of inadequacy. The learning of righteousness is in each believer’s area of instruction. A man in the ministry of the word should also be labouring because he will be evaluated on the standards of faithfulness in his area of instruction.
It takes a lot to attain charity; it requires learning from one level to another to come into righteousness and to unlock the power of love inside a believer. Love is not what we do but what we become. There is a program of righteousness that makes a person love. We must therefore be intentional about what we are hearing, and our learning is not in vain.
What we will become in the gospel is based on the word or the light we are being exposed to.“[4] Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love; [5] Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works…” (Revelation 2:4 – 5). Works are the key to love; they come because of what we hear. As we do what we hear, work is done.
If the works are done, love is restored. We cannot love without the work. Everyone with access to the message has access to the life of the message, and what builds us are the lives of the message. This involves our obedience in ministry, in service and to other instructions. We must not think that our labour in the Lord is in vain (1 Corinthians 15:58); it amounts to works which will build us up.
Amen.
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