The Trials and Contradictions of Prophets of the World to come
We are grateful to God for the alignment of God’s servants and handmaiden to the burden of the Season of the Spirit 2026. The blessings we received came because they were well aligned. All that the Lord’s servant, Daddy Emeka and Mummy Lilian Egwuchukwu have gone through is because of those who are tied to their loins in the spirit.
Those who are tied to their loins may never go through these same things or might go through it at a lower degree. We see this in the life of Jesus and His disciples, who all partook of a cup of suffering in their varying degrees.
The only way we can show appreciation to God’s servants is by becoming doers of what they profess. We bless God that through their experiences, a base for God’s work has been put in our souls.If we were to look for a common denominator in all the messages during the Season of the Spirit, it would be for men to live the life of the world to come.
The theme of the Meeting also summarised the kind of people who can live the life of the world to come. The theme puts a particular emphasis on “the world” which was to come.
We see the use of the definite article “the” when Paul referred to the families in heaven and earth (Ephesians 3:15). We also see the same thing in Luke 1:76, concerning the Prophet of the Highest.
John the Baptist was able to live the highest life of the Old Testament prophetic order; he lived out a higher quality of life than the prophets of the Old Testament (Mathew 11:9).
This was shown in his selflessness, as he lived most of his life for others. The measurement of John the Baptist as the greatest was by how much he lived for others.
This is the definition of love. What John the Baptist endured for the sake of the name of the Lord was more qualitative than the prophets of the Old Testament and that was how he obtained a higher nature than them (Matthew 11:11).
The only person that exceeded him was our Lord Jesus. Jesus spent all His life becoming all things to all men (1 Corinthians 9:22). Men with a high love walk usually have a greater impact on future generations than others because of the death they bare for others.
Our measure of greatness in this company is the count of life we have lived for others (2 Corinthians 5:14-15). Before we came to this season, we lacked judgment, but in this season, we can judge and live for others.
There is a judgement that one possesses in the season called the “love of Christ”. Whenever we are not living for others, we are not living at all.Whenever we are suffering in the flesh, we are living (1 Peter 4:1-2), but when we do otherwise, we are not living. Suffering means training, denying, refusing, enduring pressure, chastening and being dishonoured; it is also not having our own way.
Romans 8 is the summary of all we heard in the Season of the Spirit. The manifestation of the sons of God is the manifestation of prophets of the world to come, who are men that will come into the glorious liberty that comes after justification, even in the days of their flesh.
Before the Hebrew church came to Zion (Hebrews 12:22), they had been made prophets of this present world. Hebrews 11 is the catalogue of the prophets of the world to come. The Hebrew church were prophets of a particular realm in the spirit.
The soul state of the Hebrew saints was lesser than the state of many of the saints that were being referenced in Hebrews 11. Hebrews 11 is a divine motivation message for divine men. Our Father, Daddy Oyegoke, has taught that Hebrews 11 saints were divine men.
A season comes when the Lord begins to instruct a company of believers to look unto Abraham (Isaiah 51:2). A season comes when a believer is Christ in his spirit but not in his soul (Ephesians 2:1-6), but another season comes when the believer is Christ in his spirit and soul.
It is at this state that a believer can be espoused to a higher love. To look unto Abraham, is to look unto how God glorified him. The process of the glorification of Abraham typifies the journey of a believer from the stature of Christ to a point where he is espoused to the love of Christ.
This was the point when God demanded him to sacrifice his only son (Genesis 22). The season of the love of Christ is when we begin to have affection for the things behind the veil. There is something God ordained for every man to look up to in the name of Abraham. There was a blessing that Abraham came into when His name was changed (Genesis 17:4-5).
Abraham came into a dominion where he had a measure of image and likeness. The same is the path of every believer called first unto justification and then unto glory (Romans 8:30).
If we are able to use our dealings and the light we are being exposed to, we will also be able to come to our Mount Moriah in the spirit (Genesis 22:2). We must all get to Mount Moriah, if truly Jesus is our example. It is just that the experiences that will bring us there will be different.
Jacob had a similar Mount Moriah experience when he wrestled against the angel and obtained a name change (Genesis 32:28). “And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.” (Romans 8:28-29).
There is a stature in Christ that is a mini-prophet who has not experienced this good. However, once one attains the measure of this good, such a person will become better and have a greater inheritance than what the saints in Hebrews 11 had.
What will make a Christ become a prophet of the world to come is what Romans 8 calls good. Father Abraham went through a season when he was justified and had peace with God (Romans 5:1); he had peace with God when he gave up his love (Isaac).
This is the same demand that God has of every man from Adam. This demand is to enable man to express a life like the Godhead – to live selflessly for others. John the Baptist did not live for himself, but journeyed to the place where he could point men to the Lamb (John 1:29).“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?” (Romans 8:35).
Those who have been justified are those who have come into the name of Christ. These are men who have experienced the peace that Jesus gives (John 14:27). “My peace” is the Son of God while “the peace I leave with you” is Christ.“
Charity bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.” (1 Corinthians 13:7). Charity operates along two directions – to the brethren and to God. The ability to bear all things, believe all things, hope all things and endure all things is the love for the things beyond the veil, which is the love of the things of God.
1 Corinthians 13 is the love of Christ; it is a Christ going through all things to be made a son of God. The things Paul mentioned in Roman 8:35 that cannot separate us from the love of Christ are the things he had overcome by virtue of the love of Christ he had come into.
“For the love of Christ compels us, because we judge thus: that if One died for all, then all died…” (2 Corinthians 5:14). The love of Christ is receiving the judgment to love what the Father loves and those who have come into that season are the sons of God; they have come into the season of living.
The season a believer has amassed this judgment is the season where it can be said that the believer has come into the love of Christ. Such can no longer be separated (Romans 8:35). We cannot become prophets without going through the experiences of Romans 8.
All these experiences are what a soul must go through to inherit all things of the Father, which is the blessing of the Father. It is coming into this judgment that makes us not to be offended in God (Matthew 11:6). The saints in Hebrews 11 overcame the world in Romans 8:35 in their dispensation.
This was when they were admitted into the world of the living. There are fears that are on earth now that were not existent some 5 to 10 years ago. There are various levels of fear on the earth because of the race to raise two kinds of prophets; God wants to raise prophets of the world to come and so does Satan.
Satan is tired of this world because he cannot use it to kill men twice. Satan has only been able to use this world to introduce men to sin and death, which is called small death, but he has not been able to introduce men en masse into hell and death.
Jesus spoke about the Pharisees who would make a proselyte twice the child of hell (Mattew 23:15). Jude also refers to some who are “twice dead, plucked up from their roots” (Jude 1:12); such men can never respond to God.
This present world, though a present evil world, has only been able to produce a few prophets for Satan. Those who are troubling the earth now and driving this world into a one-world order, which is Satan’s world to come, are prophets.
Some men already possess the negative nature of what God wants to give us as prophets. He called some of them servants of corruption (2 Peter 2:19) because Satan has been able to journey to their midst.
Satan entered into the midst of Judas, which is why he was able to sell the Lord for thirty pieces of silver (Matthew 26:15). Immediately Satan entered Judas, he experienced thesecond death. He had died twice, which is why he could sell an innocent blood for 30 pieces of silver. That ín itself is an exploit of second death. Satan has not been able to enter into the midst of many like the beast (Revelation 13) and the man of sin (2 Thessalonians 2:2-4) would.
Satan would prefer to do it by himself, but this world is limited. Babylon is the reason many of us have not overcome; it is what we overcome when we endure what is written in Romans 8:35. By journeying from having Christ and loving the things behind the veil, we refuse to love the world. The person behind the veil is the Father, and by loving Him we are not loving the world. It is when this happens that the Father will ask Christ for “self” – this is all the Father asks for. “I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge…” (John 5:30).
This was how Jesus laid down self or His rights because Christ still has rights.Romans 8:35 are the contrary experiences that every Christ has to go through to become a prophet. The saints of Hebrews 11 went through it. There was an activity of Babylon in their day. Babylon is not just what we have in our present day, it has been from Genesis.
By choosing to stand for what the Lord stands for, which is faith and things that are not seen, the saints in Hebrews 11 attracted all the contradictions they went through and that is how they were made prophets.“Look to Abraham…” (Isaiah 51:2).
This was an instruction to a christ-company. This is what will raise a Christ to become a son of the living God, which is the making of a prophet and this is the season we are in. God is waiting for those who are Christ. Many of those in the seven churches in Revelation 2 and 3 had the stature (or things) of sons of the living God; they had passed through the contradictions in Romans 8:35, which God used to birth them.
Romans 8:35 shows the sufferings a Christ man must endure to become a son of the living God, and then ultimately become a son of the true God or become a prophet and then become a full prophet.
A Christ will have to believe all things. “All things that the Father hath are mine…” (John 16:15). “All things” are the things we are hearing. The word of God is a thing, the testimony is a thing and the book of prophecy, which would make the testimony of Jesus, is a thing.
At Jordan, there were things the Father had that Jesus had, but there were also some things He did not have at the time. At the age of 12, Jesus was living the life of Christ (charity). While doing so, He got to a season where He began to believe all things, hope all things and endure all things (1 Corinthians 13:7).
Between the age of 12 and 30, Jesus did all that was required of Him to become the Son of the living God, as proclaimed at Jordan (Matthew 3:17). Jesus did so in the house of Joseph, while relating with the work that the world has done in men and in the institutions of this world.
What we are currently experiencing in Nigeria is an economic persecution from the world which can only be overcome by faith. Faith is a vehicle by which we walk in the Sanctuary.
However, when we are coming to the Most Holy Place, we must use that vehicle of faith to run. Faith is the same vehicle we would use to mount up with wings (Isaiah 40:31).
As such, all the contradictions that the Hebrews 11 saints faced were from the world (or Babylon).Sometimes, brethren go through things, but are unable to draw comfort from God’s word regarding what they are experiencing.
If God’s word cannot comfort you, then you cannot be comforted by God (2 Corinthians 1:3-4). One who is faced with situations that cause anxiety and cannot get into the scriptures to look to Abraham would limit the Holy Ghost.
Oftentimes, when one seeks counsel from a pastor, it is a function of that pastor being comforted by God’s word. Thus, it is a comfort in God’s word that the person cannot relate with that the pastor is using to comfort such a person in that situation.
Troubles and tribulations are what God uses to separate us, that is, “set us apart to rate us”. As such, what is received as counsel from a pastor is a word that has been made flesh while he went through his own customised trials and he lived by a particular word that has proceeded out of the mouth of the Father.
One can only imagine how the church in China comforts themselves. I had a witness that many of the manchild company are in China. What we read of in Romans 8:35 is their living reality. What the church in China is going through is separating them, hence, they would have more entrance than those who do not or who simply hear revelation.
What they are going through, which is what Romans 8:35 summarises, is what the 7 churches in Revelation 2 and 3 went through. This is what the Philadelphia church had a passmark in how they were faring (Revelation 3:8-10). They were using those contradictions to deny themselves and become selfless, thereby, preparing to become all things to all men.
However, many of them drew back in the process.The life of Father Abraham has not been able to comfort many of us, even though some of us are going through situations where we need that comfort. Our parents in the faith in this house, Pastor Emeka and Pastor (Mrs.) Lilian Egwuchukwu, have looked up to father Abraham and Sarah, and have drawn comfort. It is that comfort that is making them to contend earnestly for the faith.
God wants us to have an understanding that they came into, if only we can cooperate with the customized experiences and trials we are going through. There is no one here who does not have an unanswered prayer or delayed prayer. However, that delayed prayer is what God wants to use as a crucible to give us a breath (life) that we previously did not have.
The life of father Abraham was full of contradictions because of the promise; he had a lot of wars within him until he was able to see what God was doing with the eyes of faith and he came into peace. Abraham was called the father of many nations (Genesis 17:6), hence, Sarah was the mother of many nations yet endured barrenness.
Those who will become prophets of the world to come are those whose life will affect generations after them. After the fall, the world became God’s tool to save man. Sarah got to a point where she judged God faithful (Hebrews 11:11). This was the love of Christ that constrained her. What the love of Christ gives to a soul is judgement, but the process is one customised contradiction or the other.
It took Sarah almost 24 years to attain this stature of being able to judge God faithful. She did not know that the reproachful situation is what God was using to save her. If she had a child another way, future generations would not look up to her and her name would probably not have been heard of. One of the things the Spirit of the Lord is doing through this appearing is to equip us such that we do not repeat some of these people’s stories. We know of Isaac as well who was almost offered as a sacrifice by Abraham.
We know of Joseph, who went through things that were contrary to what God told him (Genesis 37). Such contradictions are God’s means of making us prophets and if we take away such dealings, God cannot make us prophets.
Joseph had to endure his contradictions like betrayal, being abandoned for several years. Some of the things we are going through are the best things that can happen to us, so that it can be said of us that we inherited the promise through faith.
What is celebrated in the Kingdom is our cup, that is, how we endured. Many of us still need to change our mental picture of our hope. We read the stories of the prophets of old and in our days but we do not know what it is to be in their shoes. To come into all God has for us, we need the vehicle of suffering. What we will go through is less than what many of the Hebrews 11 saints went through yet God wants to give us what they were not given, but only lived as witnesses to.
We will forever be thanking God for mercy in the world to come, knowing we are not deserving of what we got. Whenever we are enduring, we are firstly serving, then we begin to worship. The life of John the Baptist was full of contradiction, yet he endured. The same was the life of father Abraham. What our brethren in China are facing is what will make them prophets.
Jesus is feeling the pain we are feeling more than we can imagine, but He comforts Himself with the fact that the dealings can make us prophets of the world to come, and we should also comfort ourselves with this. There are things we will go through as a part of this Kingdom that we cannot pray away.
Our paths to greatness are customized; a believer who is not going through anything is not going anywhere. A believer who is constantly going through trials will become a prophet faster than others. Some believers are not going through trials because they cannot endure it; they will draw back, but blessed is he that endures temptations and affliction (James 1:12).
We cannot own anything revelation without some contradictory experiences. There are trials that will arise as a result of becoming prophets of the world to come. In the seasons we are being distressed, we are being enlarged. What makes us great are the things that we go through.
There is no enlargement without affliction, yet if one can endure till the end, we will be able to say like David “it was good that I was afflicted” (Psalm 119:71). These are the things that make us sons of God.
“And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, and was in the deserts till the day of his shewing unto Israel.” (Luke 1:80). The impartation of the Season of the Spirit is to empower us to do things differently and take heed, lest the things we have received by impartation will slip from us (Hebrews 2:1).
When we do not relate with the things we have received to birth fruits in 30, 60, and 100 folds, the devil might come to steal those things away from us (Matthew 13:23; Luke 8:12). We would not have profited from the blessings of the Season of the Spirit if we still find ourselves doing things the way we have always done it.
The reason some of our relationships are not the way they should be is because we are not seeing how to do things differently, and this is because we are not selfless. When we put ourselves in the shoes of our bosses or other relationships we have, we will see how to do things differently.
If we can take stock of how to do things differently, we will have a renewed mind. Some of us need to ask our parents and bosses how we can do things differently.
