THE MAKEUP OF THE LAMB'S BRIDE

Reverend Kayode OyegokeJuly 19, 202637 min read

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There are things the Lord desires to give us but we will not seek these things until we have desire for them. Only then can we own them; they become ours. A lot of believers do not appreciate the works of God within; many times we do not appreciate when God wants to give us what we lack. One of the functions of Jesus as our Shepherd is to make us not to want. Jesus’s responsibility is to give us what we lack; these are the things that were stolen from the sheep. These things are not material things, but the sheep, oblivious of this, goes about looking for material things. God desires to awaken the senses of the sheep to know that what they need is not what they have hitherto been praying to the Lord for. (Psalm 23:1)
Jesus told His disciples in Matthew 6:33 to not be like the Gentiles who seek what to eat, drink, and put on, but to seek the kingdom of God and His righteousness. There are ministers of the gospel who claim to preach the kingdom of God, but with an undertone of what the Gentiles seek. This shows us the compelling strength of the things the Gentiles seek. It is the work of a king in man that makes man seek what the Gentiles seek.
One of the signs of a sheep who has strayed is seen in what they seek after. Something is lacking in such a sheep and has tampered with their seeking. Sometimes, we show signs of seeking God, but God knows that we are seeking Him in vain. One of the things God hates is when we take His name in vain; this means to take His name to seek vanity. When we do that, we belittle the Creator of the heavens and the earth. (Exodus 20:7)
Isaiah wrote that the Lord would not hold one who takes His name in vain guiltless. “Vain” constitutes the mind of the fallen sheep; it is a thing the adversary has worked in every sheep, which informs the perishing way and makes the sheep ignorant of the way of peace. (Isaiah 59:8)
Romans 3:16-18 gives a detailed description of a vain mind “ Destruction and misery are in their ways: And the way of peace have they not known: There is no fear of God before their eyes. We see a description of a manner of sheep whose mouths are full of cursing and bitterness. Vanity makes the sheep bitter, it is a sucker of the fear of God and makes souls bold. The greatest product Satan has sold and succeeded in selling to man is the trading of vanity in exchange for his soul. Vanity is a very big industry; bigger than mankind as mankind serves it.
As such, God is careful and skillful with how they teach men to forsake vanity. We can deduce this as heaven oftentimes first comes to souls with things that can pass away to get our attention. For instance, a lot of believers love the God of Elijah who sends down fire than the God of our Jesus Christ. Jesus told His disciples when they wanted to call down fire that they do not know what manner of spirit they were. Thus, it is clear that if Elijah and Jesus were in the same dispensation many will not follow Jesus, but rather follow Elijah because of his operations and spirit.
Satan has done an evil work to the heart of man, to make man unable to seek the truth and that which was taken from us. Satan stole from man and then gave man a substitute life as a replacement for what man really needs; he gave man a false reality.
An engine in the soul of the sheep (man) was stolen and it can only take Jesus Christ to give us a replacement. Satan stole vital organs (things of the sanctuary) from man and then put counterfeit things as replacement to ensure that the sheep loses the hunger and need to seek God. Man thus no longer sees God as what he needs. The sheep however, was designed by God to get and have God.
God is not designed to be our prayer answering machine. We are not meant to use God to get what we want; God is not pleased with this. God wants to be our sole desire. God is love; this means that God should be sought after. To love the Lord is a commandment given in scriptures because it is possible for men to not love Him. Men love other things and pray to God to give them those things they love. (1 John 4:8)
We see in 2 Timothy 4:8 that the Lord will appear to those who love His appearing. Some believers do not want the Lord to come (appear); they only want to get their prayers answered. A lot of people will go after Jesus if He appears physically and begins to preach, but they will eventually turn away from Him because of a lack of desire to receive what He is giving. While it is good to have compassion to heal the sick, Jesus wants to do more than that. Jesus wants to heal the part of the sheep that is missing; preachers cannot readily see this missing part in man, except they have been sent.
A man can be a preacher, yet he may not have been sent. A man must be sent to be able to preach what Jesus wants to give. A man who will bring health to the sheep must first be raised before he is sent. This is because the intention of Jesus is to restore things back to the soul. No soul should stand before God’s presence lacking. That is, no flock should return back to God without the complete parts of their inward. The provision for man to receive the parts stolen from him back is in the journey of coming to God. As such, a man who has come to God has gotten back all that was stolen from him by Satan. A man can say that Satan has not taken anything from him, but that will be folly as Satan already stole things from us before we were born.
Vital organs were stripped off man when man left God, hence he ought not to go back to God the way he left. For instance, as small as a rotor is in a car, if it is taken out of the car, the car would not be able to move. The rotor rotates to complete the ignition cycle of the car from the kickstarter to the combustion chamber. This shows that the rotor is very important in the whole engine of a car. It is not easy to spot when the rotor of a vehicle/machine has been stolen, as the engine would keep making sounds; however, it would not start. Hence, one can have an engine yet something tiny might be missing. In the same way, a man can go to heaven with evidently missing parts in his soul.
In the Nigerian market, it is difficult to get original replacement parts for a faulty engine because the market is infiltrated with counterfeit products. Oftentimes, to get an original part it has to be imported. We can liken this to the work Satan did in man; he not only stole from man, he also gave man counterfeit parts. Hence, for us to receive these missing parts, they must be imported from heaven. Our missing parts are kept in heaven ready to be revealed in the last time, and they can be imported. When any part of a man’s soul is missing, God does not restore former parts or just brand new, He restores superior parts. (1 Peter 1:5, John 10:10)
In essence, preachers ought to be engineers, technicians, architects who can write, design, and read the plan of God for our souls. A preacher ought to be able to touch our spiritual organs and heal them. We see the depicted in the Old Testament; the priests handled inward parts and exposed them to the fire on the altar to treat them. (Leviticus 1:9)
In Ezekiel 36:26, God promised to give the children of Israel a new heart. A minister ought to be able to preach until men are given new hearts and soul sicknesses are healed. For instance, the reason we are being subjected to a certain kind of prayer life in this assembly is so that we can receive the ministry of restoration and our sick souls can be healed. This is also why sitting to hear the word is prioritised rather than the showcasing of ministry gifts. (Ezekiel 36:26)
In Leviticus 21:18, we see that a man who is broken footed in the house of Aaron, ought not to approach the altar; this is because he cannot walk well. Likewise, a hunched man or dwarf ought not come to the altar to offer because he is not up to the height of the altar and therefore cannot minister. Offering follows stature, as such, we cannot resume giving offerings to the Lord when we have anomalies in our souls. (Leviticus 21:18-20)
God sees the intricacies of souls clearly; He sees Satan working in souls designs. Hence when Jesus was healing the bodies of men in the days of His earthly sojourn, He was also seeing the illnesses of the souls. The same word used for sin is the same word used for casting out demons. Jesus bore our sins and carried our diseases; hence, no one should be sick in the church. (Isaiah 53:5)
Revelation 1:1 is the revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto Him; it is not the revelation of the word of God nor is it the revelation of the testimony of God. It is a revelation that God gave to Jesus Christ to show unto His servants things which must shortly come to pass. The reason God reveals things is for them to come to pass. However, things do not come to pass until they have been done. Hence, a revelation that is yet to be done has not come to pass. Revelation is not given easily. Hence God’s intent for giving the revelation to Jesus is for it to be done. (Revelations 1:1-2).
God cannot give anything special to any man who does not belong to Jesus. This is because the revelation is that of Jesus Christ. When God wants to bless a man or give a man a gift from Himself (a gift of work), He patents it after that man. Thus, God gives His revelation to a man to carry out a design meant for Him.
The revelation of Jesus Christ is not the same as other revelation which God gave to other men. John the Baptist was also given a revelation which made him a light; he was a man sent from God. There is no way a man can be a light without having the revelation of what will make him a light. John was not a light from his mother’s womb—though he was filled with the Holy Ghost from the womb—he became a light after God had raised him up. In essence, God did not send John as a baby; he was sent as a man. (John 1:6-8).
God gave John things of illumination; he was thoroughly bred by light. He became a light body. The purpose for making John a luminary was so that he could read the light (Jesus) and bear witness to the light. John was not that true light but he was sent to bear witness to Him. Jesus is the true light; hence we can see that what made Jesus was not given to John.
God gave John the Baptist and Jesus revelation. From John 1, we see that two lights came: one (John the Baptist) went ahead of the other (Jesus); the previous announced the eventual. (John 1:9, John 3:30 -32, John 3:25-29)
In John 3, there was a dispute between the disciples of John the Baptist and the Jews, concerning Jewish purification. The Jews questioned who John was to forgive sins through water, without obeying the laws of Moses concerning purification. Afterwards, questions arose from the disciples of John the Baptist when they saw Jesus was also baptising with water and all men followed Him. John’s response was that he is not the Christ, but he was sent before Him, and He who has the bride is the Bridegroom. This response shows us that John was faithful and never stopped the shining of Jesus. John was content with hearing the voice of the Bridegroom. (John 3:24-30)
At the time when John made the statement in John 3:39 about the Bridegroom, the bride had not yet been born. Yet when John saw Jesus, he saw the Bridegroom. The Groom is He who has enough material to raise the bride and get them connected to God; this is a man who is able to marry souls and connect them to the Trinity. He is a man who has what it takes to raise men to a capacity where they will be due for marriage to God. (John 3:29-30)
To marry God is to have the right to all that God owns. Our contract of marriage is what guarantees that we get all that God owns. If this contract is not fulfilled, we will not get there. The Groom is He who can raise the wife to a stature where the wife will have the capacity to marry God to get the bidding of God done. There is something God wants to do on earth but to bring all men here is difficult. Capacity must therefore be raised among men who will marry God and through them the whole earth will be blessed.
God is a Spirit and does not have the form of man. Hence, God had to send One who will raise men. One who will raise men must have the nature of men. This is one of the reasons Jesus became a man; He became a man to enter into a marriage covenant with men. This is the only way to solve the issue of men. From Hebrews 2:16, we see that when Jesus came to earth, He did not take the nature of angels, but took the nature of the seed of Abraham. (Hebrews 2:16)
The bride constitutes men whom Jesus will raise into the capacity which God put as a mark to minister to men. That is, the bride ought to minister God to men; however, they cannot minister God to men until they marry the Lamb. From Revelation 19, we see that the bride made herself ready for the marriage of the Lamb. (Revelation 19:7).
Hence, there must be a marriage before duty; the marriage of the bride and the Lamb is for the dispensing of eternal duty which God wants to do. This duty cannot be done on this present earth because the earth's geographical make cannot contain this kind of ministry. For instance, if twenty billion people were placed on this present earth, it would lead to a crisis because there is a number of people the earth can take. God does the statistics of those who are to die and those who are to live, to keep the equation of dwellers on earth balanced.
There will be new heaven and new earth in the world to come. The earth is not a refurbished earth, rather the present will be taken away and a bigger one would be built. The bible counts generation by 14 generations and this gives us an insight of the capacity of generations the new earth and lake of fire would have: the lake of fire must therefore be very big, it is not going to be in one corner of the new earth.
The new earth is a spiritual earth, it is not an earth where we would inhale oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide; rather it is going to be a superior world entirely, where we would breathe another kind of air. Our souls do not need oxygen to live; as such, what God breathed into our nostrils in Genesis was not oxygen. Adam’s body was breathing when God breathed into his nostril in Genesis 2:7. From Genesis 2, we were not told that the man woke up when God breathed into his nostrils; man was existing already, thus he became a living soul.
We see this also with Jesus, He did not breathe on His disciples to receive the Spirit while they were sleeping; rather, it was while they were standing. God breathed the breath of life into an already formed man through his nostrils. That is, God gave him a spirit of life; this breath of life is a breath of understanding to know God. As such, Adam knew God. Immediately, God breathed into him; he had a life called living soul. (John 20:22)
What gives a soul life is breath. Breathe is a component of understanding; for God to give breath to a man is an investment of understanding. Adam had this spirit of understanding—he knew God. From John 17:2, we see that life eternal is to know the only true God and Jesus whom He has sent. Therefore, knowing God is having life. However, we do not begin with knowing God as we must firstly know the word. To have the word is to know to a degree; knowing in this capacity gives testimony and when we know the testimony, we have the ability to know God.
There are three breaths: the first breath makes us know the word, the second breath makes us know the testimony, and the third breath makes us know God. One can have the first two breaths, but is yet to come into life. Such a man only knows His things; that is, he knows him partially. We know God when we see Him; thus, we ought to be seeing Him, then would we know Him. This sight is not a vision of God, as one can see Him seated on the throne and yet do not know Him. In Ezekiel 1:26, Ezekiel saw God but did not know Him; thus, he did not really see Him. Ezekiel saw a shape of God which was like unto a man, but this is not His shape. Though God appeared like and He was the one Ezekiel saw, that was not His real shape as His shape is hidden. From John 5:37, the statement Jesus made shows us that He had heard the Father and seen His shape.
The first enablement to see God is His word. The word means His flesh. We must know His flesh after which we know His blood; to know His blood is to have His testimony. In the book of Revelation, we see that John bore records of the word and testimony; he came into Patmos with these two records, but there was still a revelation for him to know. (Revelation 1:2)
God gave Jesus a kind of revelation; He then said that the revelation given to Him is Jesus’ own. God has been looking for a way to give this gift of knowing Him to man; the Godhead owns the gift but never gave it. No angel has this gift. From John 3, we see that the Father loves the Son and has given all things into His hands; these are the things God does not give to any man. For God to give a man the word, He has to love him. There must be some kind of favour for God to give a man Christ, much more God. God first gives us Christ to see if we can be given God. (John 3:33-35).
For us to begin to know God, God first gives us His things. From John 3, it is clear that love commended God to give His things. That is, if God does not love a man, He would not give His things to him. No one can advise God on why He should fall in love with a man. God told Moses that He will have mercy and compassion on whom He wills; which means He will reveal Himself to whom He wills. (Exodus 33:19, Romans 9:15)
In Romans 8, Paul was talking about the sons of God who would deliver creation from the bondage of corruption. Then in Romans 9, he began to talk about the Jews who were zealous but not according to knowledge and that the Gentiles had attained the righteousness of God which the Jews were unable to attain. God did not do this because He has forsaken His people, but for the earth to know, He will call people His who were previously not His. (Romans 9:15, Romans 9:25)
The way God demonstrated love to the Jews puffed their mind, so God was moved to the Gentiles. God must have seen some humility in the Gentile nation; The Jewish nation on the other hand were proud. There is a natural glory the Jew had because of the encounter they had with God—they ate with God in the wilderness for forty years. Some nations hate the Jews because of the jealousy God had towards them.
It is a privilege for us in the New Testament, that God wants us, who are Gentiles, as lovers. Many Gentile Christians do not know what it took God to graft us in; as such, when one tries to teach them what God gave to the Gentiles, they belittle it and talk down on it. The Gentiles place premium on physical things but the common wealth of Israel is not money, not theories that birthed inventions, or weapons of war; what God gave the Jews is Himself in a shadow. (Ephesians 2:12)
From the book of Genesis, we see that Isaac had two children: Jacob and Esau. Before they were born, God spoke to their mother about the two nations in her womb, and that the elder will serve the younger. Hence, what Paul was saying in Romans 9 is that the Gentile nation is the elder who was hitherto rejected, and has now been grafted in. This is a mystery. Paul was letting the Gentiles know that it was the falling away of the Jews that brought them mercy. God’s intention is to also stir up the Jews to jealousy through the obedience of the Gentiles. As such, Paul warned the Gentile church to make sure they attain and fulfil the will of God so that they can help the Jews. (read Romans 11 and 12)
When God found Israel as an olive, He planted them with Himself. To Israel was Christ sent, and as a branch they were meant to bear fruit for God. The word olive means witness tree. This shows that Israel ought to fulfil the mandate of being a witness on earth, but they failed. The Messiah was sent to them to help them fulfill the mandate, yet they killed Him. This was an utter rejection of Christ. As such, a time came when there was no longer a Jewish Christian, though Christianity first began with them. That age expired then God moved to the Gentile nations.
The great sea is the Mediterranean Sea, it is the sea of the Bible/epistles; it depicts the movement of the word. The word of God traveled through the sea to end in Rome. The book of Acts ended in Rome; the Aegean sea is the sea of the Grecians, through which one gets to the European waters. This journey was a spiritual one, from Israel to Rome to Europe. It was Jesus who told Paul to move to Europe, as Rome was still very close to the Jews. Rome took the gospel; however, they perverted it and this birthed the Roman Catholic Church. Though the gospel traveled to all parts of the earth, true Christians could not be ascertained as catholicism spread.
The word catholicism itself is not bad, as it means a universal church. However, it was corrupted. Catholicism traveled through Europe. In Eastern Europe they had issues with their doctrine; thus, they changed their name to orthodox Christians and introduced honour to Mary. Eastern Orthodox churches include churches in Russia and Armenia. This corruption came when Christian religion was invented. Satan warred to take the essence of Christianity because he does not want fruits unto God; he does not want witnesses from earth.
Olive is a witness tree. Anyone who is an olive branch will need to give fruits to God. The fruit of an olive is to be a full witness. Israel could not bear fruits, so God cut them off and then grafted in a wild olive which is still grafted till date. Paul thus warned in the book of Romans that the times of the Gentiles will have to fully come in before the Jews will be visited again. God will still bring in the Jews, but the Gentiles must first bear fruits. The fruit of the Gentile church is to be a witness. In essence, God is giving the last chance of the church to the Gentiles. This is why Christians must quickly move out of preaching faith in God to receive things; the success we have attained here is enough. The true success of a Gentile nation is to stand as a witness for God.
A sign of a branch is a sign of a bearer; fruits are found on branches. A branch is a wife. Therefore, the word “engrafted” is marriage. A believer is married to the Lord, but we need to be cultured. Though we are married, we have not celebrated our marriage supper which is necessary. One can be a bride but has not taken up the responsibility of a wife. This is why we must pray for the Gentile church to not be cut off. From John 15:2, we see that unfruitful branches will be cut off by the Father, men will gather it, and burn it with fire. This fire is not physical fire: legislations, policies, laws, decrees, are fires. A church that law can burn is not a church. A church ought not be gathered by man.
We must know that we have a destiny as men; as a church. God has moved to the Gentile regions and He is visiting the nations for a purpose. God will visit a nation and stay there, but if this nation does not get the essence of His visitation, He will move away from them. However, God can give them many blessings: word of knowledge, physical resources can all be acquired through the gospel.
Men have hitherto prospered in other areas of life through the gospel, but not in the life of God. God has fulfilled His part and it is high time for us to obey God. The reason for the church is not for her to have plenty of money. That is, money is not the means to the dominion of a church. Jesus never reigned on earth with money. One of His disciples was taking from the purse and Jesus was not bothered. This shows us that it was not money that publicized Jesus’ gospel on earth; rather the glory on Him. Jesus was a kind of light; He became influential not because of friendship to Pilate or the government. Jesus stood in one place to speak yet His influence was felt all over the world. Angels ministered to His kingdom.
From John 3, John the Baptist acknowledged that he did not have what it takes to raise the bride of the Lamb. However, he prepared a people for the owner of the bride. The owner of the bride is the Bridegroom. When John the Baptist heard the voice of the Bridegroom he rejoiced because he is his friend. In the world to come, we will see the friends of the Bridegroom (companies) attending the marriage ceremony of the Lamb and His bride. Abraham, for instance, can never be in the bridal company because in the flesh, he is the father of the Groom and the bride. Jesus has friends, for instance, men like Melchizedek, who are not in bride company. (John 3:29)
The election of the bride is a different kind of election. From generation to generation, the bridal company is already being put together until the last age when the number of the bride is complete, after which God will close the age. The number of the bride is strictly said in the book of Revelation: the height of the city is 12,000 furlongs. This gives us an idea of how many souls will be put together to get this height. The city is four square; hence those who would be in the bridal company are from generation to generation. (John 3:29, Revelation 21:16)
We must have something in us to hit the bridal mark. The bride of the Lamb is the company of saints who can interpret the Lamb. The Lamb wants to be the light of men in the world to come. However, the Lamb would need help to do this. This is because normal men of the world to come cannot interpret this light as it is too raw and concentrated. It can only take the stature of the bride to use this light. The bride also needs an adornment that the light will fall on for the ministry of dispensing it to men.
“Anion” means the little Lamb; who is the only true/begotten Son of God is a being of light. He is the One who transacts with the raw Person of eternal life—He is the One looking at God and beams of light from God falls on Him. As it falls on Him, the bride takes it. As the light falls on the bride, men will then be able to read it. This shows a process: the Minister (the Lamb) is needed to take the light and ministries (the bride) are needed to minister the light to men.
God is a high light. We need instruments, which can be likened to engines and rotors to process the high light of God. God is light—God is a subject we must learn. He is a course. There are components that framed God and He has desired that man must learn Him. God wants us to have Him. This is what the church ought to be hearing and not how to get material things. The Gentiles seek material things and there is a way a soul who seeks such things would look like. This also shows us that there is someone who is making men seek these material things, as he knows what light can do to us. He knows that when we seek the kingdom of God and His righteousness, we will be delivered from his hold. We would be so good and raised above his reach. (1 John 1:5, Matthew 6:32-33)
Men spend huge amounts of money learning about things in school. A stone for instance, has the chemistry of its formation which a man can spend years studying. When one learns such things over time, he comes into a kind of light that can make his countenance shine as a result of the knowledge he has acquired. Such men become luminaries/light bearers as their countenance has been sharpened by the reason of the light that has fallen on their souls. Much more, when we learn God, we become brighter than any man. Hence, Jesus is called the bright and morning star; we need His light to read, get, give, and dispense God. (Revelation 22:16)
The new earth would be massive and vast; it would be larger than the present earth. The present earth is extremely inferior in comparison to it. The new earth is also superior to this present heaven. We cannot dwell in the new earth if we do not have a measure of redemption. To come to the new earth, the soul has to come to some degrees of purification, although that soul may not have inheritance. There are people who will have inheritance of the new earth and become kings of the new earth. The bridal world is the new heaven. Hence, when the bride is coming from the new heaven to the new earth, not every dweller of the new earth would be able to interface with her as they do not have what it takes (the required stature).
From Revelation 21, we see that there are gates of pearls to the wall of the city. This shows us that there is a protocol of entrance. The gates are not just ordinary pearls; they are spirits (men). Creatures which God created are gates; they can give access. For instance, we see how God decked angels with some kind of ability, much so that an angel can teach a man about God; they can give access into the invisible realm. This is because God put knowing in them. Hence, there is no angel that does not know God at their level; their knowing of God differs at their different levels. The amount of life in an angel is according to how much he knows God. (Revelation 21:21)
The highest angel knew God at a high level; as a result of this, we can say that they have a full life because what God gave to them is a knowing of Himself. God showed an inferiority of Himself (not Himself in entirety). Lucifer saw this and thought he could overthrow God but unknown to him God is still hidden. God is vast and unending; if a measure of Him is captured, another would appear. Hence, no creature has the capacity to travel the miles of the end of God. This is where God’s shape is; it is in the place hidden from creation. Hence, we need an eye to travel there to show Him to us.
The seven eyes of Anion (the little Lamb) are for seeing God. He sees the structure and shape of God. A form of God is a demonstration of light (bars of light and each bar is a wheel). This light of God is a conglomerate of wheels within which is an inner wheel that controls the rest of the wheels. God is will. Hence, we must be people who are keen on doing His will—His will is who He is and what He loves.
Prophets are those who see God and who have wisdom to say God; that is, to prophesy is to say God. It is not everyone that has the capacity to say God. Hence, one’s tongue must be open to say God; he must have stature to speak God. Prophets are beings who have done God’s will and are able to see Him, do Him and then the body is given to speak Him. When we do will, we build Him and then we have the ability to do and say Him. When doing prophecy, we are doing Him and not just His testimony and word.
The flesh (the coverings of God) is also a will. Before we can get to Him, we have to first get the will of His flesh. To get to the core of God, we must first hit the word. This shows us that God puts on wearings according to the people He is dealing with. God wears trails and garments. Hence, there is a way He appears to angels; they see Him from the veil which cannot be removed. The veil is exactly fitted to His outward shape and posture. God’s veils are unending. Hence, God can hide Himself a billion years away and man will think he has seen and known Him. As such, He is called the only wise God.
Lucifer, for instance, was too sure he had seen all of God, not knowing there was more of God. Immediately we meet the originality of God—which Jesus came to epitomize—the first thing we will see is His word called His flesh. The flesh of God is not skin; it is a covering which is the actual veil of God. After the flesh is His testimony which is the Spirit of prophecy; this is found in His blood which is His cup. The Blood is not in liquid form; it is a person. The Spirit is a person that can hide in the Word and give life to the Word. The third thing after the testimony (the Spirit) is Him; that is God.
Before we get to Him (Elo-Him) we have to get to two things: flesh and testimony. God is Elohim, the Word is also Elohim and the Holy Ghost as well is Elohim. That is, the three have these three things—word (flesh), testimony (blood), and Him—and these three things are their essence. The Holy Ghost is a Spirit but He also has flesh. The Word is peculiar among the Godhead. There is also Elohim called the Father. When we read their materials, we should be able to dissect each of them. As we are hearing these things being said in LoveSeal, God is sealing us.
“Him” is a “prophecy”. This prophecy is not just to prophesy; it is not to capture an event that should occur as the Bible is more than this. Prophecy is a person. Testimony is the Spirit of Prophecy; if we do not have testimony, we will not get good prophecy—prophecy is Him and this is the first layer of understanding. Prophecy is what and whom we ought to see.
The final definition of Him (after word and testimony) is Book. We ought to see the book as a person, not as a page. The Lamb has a book of life. Book is a being; a prophecy. The best place to hide things is in book; the book is the last treasure, it is the background and foundation. Anything not laid in a book cannot be appended.
God is a book. When we hear a book, we think of pages, but the book is the book of prophecy. From Revelations 1:3, John, the beloved, wrote that blessed are they who read and hear words of the prophecy and keep those things which are written therein. As we read the book of Revelation further, we see that prophecy is not all about an account of what ought to happen. Though prophecy can generate this attitude, it is more than that. If someone is a prophecy, it means that he/she is to come. From Revelation 22, it was written that any man who hears the words of the prophecy and adds to it, God would add to him the plague written in the book. (Revelation 1:3, Revelation 22:18).
The flesh of God (covering/house) which is the body of God is made with the Word of God. God gave us a physical body (flesh) because He wants to teach us about Himself. A tripartite being has a spirit, soul, body—we have book, testimony and word. Our book is our spirit. The book is stronger than the testimony; if one kills the word and destroys the testimony, but leaves the book; the book will produce the word and testimony. In other words, we get blood from the book, and inside the blood we get flesh. Flesh like genes are in the blood.
Man is a message; when man moves, God is seeing Himself. However, we need light for the Godhead to teach us who they are. They use us to teach us of themselves. From Romans 1, we see that the things we can see and the things that are made speak of the invisible things of God—“For the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:”—eternal power as used in this scripture is everlasting life, while Godhead is eternal life. (Romans 1:20)
The everlasting God is underneath the eternal God. The eternal God is our refuge of strength. Refuge is eternal, it cannot be destroyed. The refuge of everlasting life is the eternal God. Therefore, this tells us that everlasting life came from eternal life. Eternal life sheds everlasting life so that we can come to Him.
No one can relate with the eternal God raw. Jesus obeyed the order, He captured the everlasting God and began to relate, then got to be caught up to the eternal God. When He went to heaven, the eternal God—the same God who sat on the throne talking from His eternal self—said to Him, “You are My Son and today have I begotten thee.” The angels heard this declaration, and wondered if it was to them; but the person spoken of was inside God. Prophets of the New Testament have the privilege to hold the reality of the everlasting God and to also see the Eternal One, who is the Great God of glory. (Hebrews 1:8, Hebrews 1:5)
From John 3, John the Baptist said the Bridegroom has the bride—who will groom men to share God with Him. The bride are those who in this side of life (not in eternity/the world to come) will use their life to get God and get Him optimally and maximumly. They will maximize the learning of God; thus, we have to listen and follow the Groom. It is a privilege to use this impossible place to learn God; it is a mercy we have found.
The little book is a very pivotal book. In Revelation 10:9, when John the Beloved ate the little book it was not just papers he ate, but spirit. Immediately the book was given, the book was revealed. The book deals with the end of the mystery of God which should be finished. In John 4, Jesus said His meat is to do the will of Him that sent Him and to finish His work. The finishing of His work is what the book archives; that is, the book is His work—the work of God is God. (John 4:34)
The mystery is about finishing the book; the book is a finishing thing. When God produced the little book and gave it to the angel to give John to eat, it contained a revelation and understanding of Himself—these are mysteries of knowing God. This understanding is a vehicle; a spirit of knowing Him. The spirit of knowing Him is also a book to transact with Him that ought to be known.
Hence, when we meet/see God, He generates book, His skin, or His understanding; they roll out of Him. As testimony has understanding, covenant also has understanding, and the word has understanding, so also the book has understanding. When we meet the book, we have come to the finish of the mystery of God. Everything of God is a mystery.
What makes God’s Son, is that He is a carrier of the work; the work is God—He is carrying God, His flesh, His blood—He is born of God, born of the will of the flesh, and born of the blood of God. Will comes from these things. In essence, testimony is a will, the word of God is also God’s will and God is will. Comparing this with Romans 12: flesh (word) is good will, testament (blood) is acceptable will, and the perfect will of God is Himself (the book). When we have these three things, the will of God is perfected in us. (John 1:13, Romans 12:1-2)
These things are many and complex; it can be likened to the complexity in the engineering of an engine. Angels must have come to help men build the engine of a car. It took centuries for the intelligence of how to build engines hit the western world; to have something which could burn fuel and make sound. Man thought of how to put engines to use and make it drive. Then, man thought of creating wheels (tyres). To engage these wheels, man introduced an axle, which is a gear system but not a full gear. The intention of an axle is to propel the car from behind but to roll the front wheels a propeller is connected to a gear box. The gear box is attached to pedals, using a lever to select different gears, which hooks the front wheels. The engine is attached to the gear box, and as each component works together the vehicle moves.
In essence, the process to make a car move takes time and it is complex. Likewise, a flying angel is a complex machine; much more God. Thus, God cannot be learnt in a day. God is an engine of eternity—He is an eternal engine. God is the one who gave men gifts to make inventions such as planes and cars. God is a flight. For instance, we see how God built the tabernacle of birds. There is an engine inside birds. God gave birds the shape that will collaborate with the law of flying (lift). Birds break the law of gravity through the aerodynamic force; their shape is an advantage which they use to penetrate into the air. Man saw this and copied it to be able to build a system to make a plane fly.
Two major things must be built for a plane to fly: an engine room must be built and then the body of the plane. Likewise, when God built the body of man, He built an engine room within us. There are many things we ought to be doing but are unable to do because someone has stolen things from us. Oil will naturally leak out of a cracked engine, hence, our engine must be changed for God to put oil of gladness in it.
We need to buy a body that can house the components of an engine which would produce the sound God wants to hear. We ought to be sensitive to sounds, naturally and spiritually. We must be able to endure sound doctrine and we must not compromise the word of God. Some believers are not sounding well, as they sound sick. For instance, some local bus drivers pour condemned engine oils into their vehicles, and this produces a kind of sound and smell. This can also be likened to a carnal soul; they use any kind of oil for the engine or their souls.
Cars also have rings which should be tightly fitted into the pistons of the engine; otherwise, the engine will not sound well and the combustion cycle would not be fully completed. As we ought to be sensitive to the sound of our physical cars, we also ought to be sensitive to the engine of our souls. The Holy Ghost will not drive a believer who is not sounding well. Such a believer has to take down his engine block and replace his faulty components with good ones.
God is overhauling our engines. The word engine is a mechanical term; an engine is where mechanical and thermal (burning) combustion occur. We see similarities of engines with the design of cherubs. From Ezekiel 10:21, we see that when cherubs let down their wings, they have a similitude of a man’s hand which are brass in nature. But within cherubs is a burning fire. God also has fire; He is burning, but His fire should not be kindled. Out of His fire, God made the lake of fire. Hence, no one should go to the lake of fire. Fire has its characteristics, every fire has its translation, but that’s not our destination. Our destination is God.

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Spirit Life Ministration

THE MAKEUP OF THE LAMB'S BRIDE

Reverend Kayode OyegokeJuly 19, 202637 min read

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There are things the Lord desires to give us but we will not seek these things until we have desire for them. Only then can we own them; they become ours. A lot of believers do not appreciate the works of God within; many times we do not appreciate when God wants to give us what we lack. One of the functions of Jesus as our Shepherd is to make us not to want. Jesus’s responsibility is to give us what we lack; these are the things that were stolen from the sheep. These things are not material things, but the sheep, oblivious of this, goes about looking for material things. God desires to awaken the senses of the sheep to know that what they need is not what they have hitherto been praying to the Lord for. (Psalm 23:1)
Jesus told His disciples in Matthew 6:33 to not be like the Gentiles who seek what to eat, drink, and put on, but to seek the kingdom of God and His righteousness. There are ministers of the gospel who claim to preach the kingdom of God, but with an undertone of what the Gentiles seek. This shows us the compelling strength of the things the Gentiles seek. It is the work of a king in man that makes man seek what the Gentiles seek.
One of the signs of a sheep who has strayed is seen in what they seek after. Something is lacking in such a sheep and has tampered with their seeking. Sometimes, we show signs of seeking God, but God knows that we are seeking Him in vain. One of the things God hates is when we take His name in vain; this means to take His name to seek vanity. When we do that, we belittle the Creator of the heavens and the earth. (Exodus 20:7)
Isaiah wrote that the Lord would not hold one who takes His name in vain guiltless. “Vain” constitutes the mind of the fallen sheep; it is a thing the adversary has worked in every sheep, which informs the perishing way and makes the sheep ignorant of the way of peace. (Isaiah 59:8)
Romans 3:16-18 gives a detailed description of a vain mind “ Destruction and misery are in their ways: And the way of peace have they not known: There is no fear of God before their eyes. We see a description of a manner of sheep whose mouths are full of cursing and bitterness. Vanity makes the sheep bitter, it is a sucker of the fear of God and makes souls bold. The greatest product Satan has sold and succeeded in selling to man is the trading of vanity in exchange for his soul. Vanity is a very big industry; bigger than mankind as mankind serves it.
As such, God is careful and skillful with how they teach men to forsake vanity. We can deduce this as heaven oftentimes first comes to souls with things that can pass away to get our attention. For instance, a lot of believers love the God of Elijah who sends down fire than the God of our Jesus Christ. Jesus told His disciples when they wanted to call down fire that they do not know what manner of spirit they were. Thus, it is clear that if Elijah and Jesus were in the same dispensation many will not follow Jesus, but rather follow Elijah because of his operations and spirit.
Satan has done an evil work to the heart of man, to make man unable to seek the truth and that which was taken from us. Satan stole from man and then gave man a substitute life as a replacement for what man really needs; he gave man a false reality.
An engine in the soul of the sheep (man) was stolen and it can only take Jesus Christ to give us a replacement. Satan stole vital organs (things of the sanctuary) from man and then put counterfeit things as replacement to ensure that the sheep loses the hunger and need to seek God. Man thus no longer sees God as what he needs. The sheep however, was designed by God to get and have God.
God is not designed to be our prayer answering machine. We are not meant to use God to get what we want; God is not pleased with this. God wants to be our sole desire. God is love; this means that God should be sought after. To love the Lord is a commandment given in scriptures because it is possible for men to not love Him. Men love other things and pray to God to give them those things they love. (1 John 4:8)
We see in 2 Timothy 4:8 that the Lord will appear to those who love His appearing. Some believers do not want the Lord to come (appear); they only want to get their prayers answered. A lot of people will go after Jesus if He appears physically and begins to preach, but they will eventually turn away from Him because of a lack of desire to receive what He is giving. While it is good to have compassion to heal the sick, Jesus wants to do more than that. Jesus wants to heal the part of the sheep that is missing; preachers cannot readily see this missing part in man, except they have been sent.
A man can be a preacher, yet he may not have been sent. A man must be sent to be able to preach what Jesus wants to give. A man who will bring health to the sheep must first be raised before he is sent. This is because the intention of Jesus is to restore things back to the soul. No soul should stand before God’s presence lacking. That is, no flock should return back to God without the complete parts of their inward. The provision for man to receive the parts stolen from him back is in the journey of coming to God. As such, a man who has come to God has gotten back all that was stolen from him by Satan. A man can say that Satan has not taken anything from him, but that will be folly as Satan already stole things from us before we were born.
Vital organs were stripped off man when man left God, hence he ought not to go back to God the way he left. For instance, as small as a rotor is in a car, if it is taken out of the car, the car would not be able to move. The rotor rotates to complete the ignition cycle of the car from the kickstarter to the combustion chamber. This shows that the rotor is very important in the whole engine of a car. It is not easy to spot when the rotor of a vehicle/machine has been stolen, as the engine would keep making sounds; however, it would not start. Hence, one can have an engine yet something tiny might be missing. In the same way, a man can go to heaven with evidently missing parts in his soul.
In the Nigerian market, it is difficult to get original replacement parts for a faulty engine because the market is infiltrated with counterfeit products. Oftentimes, to get an original part it has to be imported. We can liken this to the work Satan did in man; he not only stole from man, he also gave man counterfeit parts. Hence, for us to receive these missing parts, they must be imported from heaven. Our missing parts are kept in heaven ready to be revealed in the last time, and they can be imported. When any part of a man’s soul is missing, God does not restore former parts or just brand new, He restores superior parts. (1 Peter 1:5, John 10:10)
In essence, preachers ought to be engineers, technicians, architects who can write, design, and read the plan of God for our souls. A preacher ought to be able to touch our spiritual organs and heal them. We see the depicted in the Old Testament; the priests handled inward parts and exposed them to the fire on the altar to treat them. (Leviticus 1:9)
In Ezekiel 36:26, God promised to give the children of Israel a new heart. A minister ought to be able to preach until men are given new hearts and soul sicknesses are healed. For instance, the reason we are being subjected to a certain kind of prayer life in this assembly is so that we can receive the ministry of restoration and our sick souls can be healed. This is also why sitting to hear the word is prioritised rather than the showcasing of ministry gifts. (Ezekiel 36:26)
In Leviticus 21:18, we see that a man who is broken footed in the house of Aaron, ought not to approach the altar; this is because he cannot walk well. Likewise, a hunched man or dwarf ought not come to the altar to offer because he is not up to the height of the altar and therefore cannot minister. Offering follows stature, as such, we cannot resume giving offerings to the Lord when we have anomalies in our souls. (Leviticus 21:18-20)
God sees the intricacies of souls clearly; He sees Satan working in souls designs. Hence when Jesus was healing the bodies of men in the days of His earthly sojourn, He was also seeing the illnesses of the souls. The same word used for sin is the same word used for casting out demons. Jesus bore our sins and carried our diseases; hence, no one should be sick in the church. (Isaiah 53:5)
Revelation 1:1 is the revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto Him; it is not the revelation of the word of God nor is it the revelation of the testimony of God. It is a revelation that God gave to Jesus Christ to show unto His servants things which must shortly come to pass. The reason God reveals things is for them to come to pass. However, things do not come to pass until they have been done. Hence, a revelation that is yet to be done has not come to pass. Revelation is not given easily. Hence God’s intent for giving the revelation to Jesus is for it to be done. (Revelations 1:1-2).
God cannot give anything special to any man who does not belong to Jesus. This is because the revelation is that of Jesus Christ. When God wants to bless a man or give a man a gift from Himself (a gift of work), He patents it after that man. Thus, God gives His revelation to a man to carry out a design meant for Him.
The revelation of Jesus Christ is not the same as other revelation which God gave to other men. John the Baptist was also given a revelation which made him a light; he was a man sent from God. There is no way a man can be a light without having the revelation of what will make him a light. John was not a light from his mother’s womb—though he was filled with the Holy Ghost from the womb—he became a light after God had raised him up. In essence, God did not send John as a baby; he was sent as a man. (John 1:6-8).
God gave John things of illumination; he was thoroughly bred by light. He became a light body. The purpose for making John a luminary was so that he could read the light (Jesus) and bear witness to the light. John was not that true light but he was sent to bear witness to Him. Jesus is the true light; hence we can see that what made Jesus was not given to John.
God gave John the Baptist and Jesus revelation. From John 1, we see that two lights came: one (John the Baptist) went ahead of the other (Jesus); the previous announced the eventual. (John 1:9, John 3:30 -32, John 3:25-29)
In John 3, there was a dispute between the disciples of John the Baptist and the Jews, concerning Jewish purification. The Jews questioned who John was to forgive sins through water, without obeying the laws of Moses concerning purification. Afterwards, questions arose from the disciples of John the Baptist when they saw Jesus was also baptising with water and all men followed Him. John’s response was that he is not the Christ, but he was sent before Him, and He who has the bride is the Bridegroom. This response shows us that John was faithful and never stopped the shining of Jesus. John was content with hearing the voice of the Bridegroom. (John 3:24-30)
At the time when John made the statement in John 3:39 about the Bridegroom, the bride had not yet been born. Yet when John saw Jesus, he saw the Bridegroom. The Groom is He who has enough material to raise the bride and get them connected to God; this is a man who is able to marry souls and connect them to the Trinity. He is a man who has what it takes to raise men to a capacity where they will be due for marriage to God. (John 3:29-30)
To marry God is to have the right to all that God owns. Our contract of marriage is what guarantees that we get all that God owns. If this contract is not fulfilled, we will not get there. The Groom is He who can raise the wife to a stature where the wife will have the capacity to marry God to get the bidding of God done. There is something God wants to do on earth but to bring all men here is difficult. Capacity must therefore be raised among men who will marry God and through them the whole earth will be blessed.
God is a Spirit and does not have the form of man. Hence, God had to send One who will raise men. One who will raise men must have the nature of men. This is one of the reasons Jesus became a man; He became a man to enter into a marriage covenant with men. This is the only way to solve the issue of men. From Hebrews 2:16, we see that when Jesus came to earth, He did not take the nature of angels, but took the nature of the seed of Abraham. (Hebrews 2:16)
The bride constitutes men whom Jesus will raise into the capacity which God put as a mark to minister to men. That is, the bride ought to minister God to men; however, they cannot minister God to men until they marry the Lamb. From Revelation 19, we see that the bride made herself ready for the marriage of the Lamb. (Revelation 19:7).
Hence, there must be a marriage before duty; the marriage of the bride and the Lamb is for the dispensing of eternal duty which God wants to do. This duty cannot be done on this present earth because the earth's geographical make cannot contain this kind of ministry. For instance, if twenty billion people were placed on this present earth, it would lead to a crisis because there is a number of people the earth can take. God does the statistics of those who are to die and those who are to live, to keep the equation of dwellers on earth balanced.
There will be new heaven and new earth in the world to come. The earth is not a refurbished earth, rather the present will be taken away and a bigger one would be built. The bible counts generation by 14 generations and this gives us an insight of the capacity of generations the new earth and lake of fire would have: the lake of fire must therefore be very big, it is not going to be in one corner of the new earth.
The new earth is a spiritual earth, it is not an earth where we would inhale oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide; rather it is going to be a superior world entirely, where we would breathe another kind of air. Our souls do not need oxygen to live; as such, what God breathed into our nostrils in Genesis was not oxygen. Adam’s body was breathing when God breathed into his nostril in Genesis 2:7. From Genesis 2, we were not told that the man woke up when God breathed into his nostrils; man was existing already, thus he became a living soul.
We see this also with Jesus, He did not breathe on His disciples to receive the Spirit while they were sleeping; rather, it was while they were standing. God breathed the breath of life into an already formed man through his nostrils. That is, God gave him a spirit of life; this breath of life is a breath of understanding to know God. As such, Adam knew God. Immediately, God breathed into him; he had a life called living soul. (John 20:22)
What gives a soul life is breath. Breathe is a component of understanding; for God to give breath to a man is an investment of understanding. Adam had this spirit of understanding—he knew God. From John 17:2, we see that life eternal is to know the only true God and Jesus whom He has sent. Therefore, knowing God is having life. However, we do not begin with knowing God as we must firstly know the word. To have the word is to know to a degree; knowing in this capacity gives testimony and when we know the testimony, we have the ability to know God.
There are three breaths: the first breath makes us know the word, the second breath makes us know the testimony, and the third breath makes us know God. One can have the first two breaths, but is yet to come into life. Such a man only knows His things; that is, he knows him partially. We know God when we see Him; thus, we ought to be seeing Him, then would we know Him. This sight is not a vision of God, as one can see Him seated on the throne and yet do not know Him. In Ezekiel 1:26, Ezekiel saw God but did not know Him; thus, he did not really see Him. Ezekiel saw a shape of God which was like unto a man, but this is not His shape. Though God appeared like and He was the one Ezekiel saw, that was not His real shape as His shape is hidden. From John 5:37, the statement Jesus made shows us that He had heard the Father and seen His shape.
The first enablement to see God is His word. The word means His flesh. We must know His flesh after which we know His blood; to know His blood is to have His testimony. In the book of Revelation, we see that John bore records of the word and testimony; he came into Patmos with these two records, but there was still a revelation for him to know. (Revelation 1:2)
God gave Jesus a kind of revelation; He then said that the revelation given to Him is Jesus’ own. God has been looking for a way to give this gift of knowing Him to man; the Godhead owns the gift but never gave it. No angel has this gift. From John 3, we see that the Father loves the Son and has given all things into His hands; these are the things God does not give to any man. For God to give a man the word, He has to love him. There must be some kind of favour for God to give a man Christ, much more God. God first gives us Christ to see if we can be given God. (John 3:33-35).
For us to begin to know God, God first gives us His things. From John 3, it is clear that love commended God to give His things. That is, if God does not love a man, He would not give His things to him. No one can advise God on why He should fall in love with a man. God told Moses that He will have mercy and compassion on whom He wills; which means He will reveal Himself to whom He wills. (Exodus 33:19, Romans 9:15)
In Romans 8, Paul was talking about the sons of God who would deliver creation from the bondage of corruption. Then in Romans 9, he began to talk about the Jews who were zealous but not according to knowledge and that the Gentiles had attained the righteousness of God which the Jews were unable to attain. God did not do this because He has forsaken His people, but for the earth to know, He will call people His who were previously not His. (Romans 9:15, Romans 9:25)
The way God demonstrated love to the Jews puffed their mind, so God was moved to the Gentiles. God must have seen some humility in the Gentile nation; The Jewish nation on the other hand were proud. There is a natural glory the Jew had because of the encounter they had with God—they ate with God in the wilderness for forty years. Some nations hate the Jews because of the jealousy God had towards them.
It is a privilege for us in the New Testament, that God wants us, who are Gentiles, as lovers. Many Gentile Christians do not know what it took God to graft us in; as such, when one tries to teach them what God gave to the Gentiles, they belittle it and talk down on it. The Gentiles place premium on physical things but the common wealth of Israel is not money, not theories that birthed inventions, or weapons of war; what God gave the Jews is Himself in a shadow. (Ephesians 2:12)
From the book of Genesis, we see that Isaac had two children: Jacob and Esau. Before they were born, God spoke to their mother about the two nations in her womb, and that the elder will serve the younger. Hence, what Paul was saying in Romans 9 is that the Gentile nation is the elder who was hitherto rejected, and has now been grafted in. This is a mystery. Paul was letting the Gentiles know that it was the falling away of the Jews that brought them mercy. God’s intention is to also stir up the Jews to jealousy through the obedience of the Gentiles. As such, Paul warned the Gentile church to make sure they attain and fulfil the will of God so that they can help the Jews. (read Romans 11 and 12)
When God found Israel as an olive, He planted them with Himself. To Israel was Christ sent, and as a branch they were meant to bear fruit for God. The word olive means witness tree. This shows that Israel ought to fulfil the mandate of being a witness on earth, but they failed. The Messiah was sent to them to help them fulfill the mandate, yet they killed Him. This was an utter rejection of Christ. As such, a time came when there was no longer a Jewish Christian, though Christianity first began with them. That age expired then God moved to the Gentile nations.
The great sea is the Mediterranean Sea, it is the sea of the Bible/epistles; it depicts the movement of the word. The word of God traveled through the sea to end in Rome. The book of Acts ended in Rome; the Aegean sea is the sea of the Grecians, through which one gets to the European waters. This journey was a spiritual one, from Israel to Rome to Europe. It was Jesus who told Paul to move to Europe, as Rome was still very close to the Jews. Rome took the gospel; however, they perverted it and this birthed the Roman Catholic Church. Though the gospel traveled to all parts of the earth, true Christians could not be ascertained as catholicism spread.
The word catholicism itself is not bad, as it means a universal church. However, it was corrupted. Catholicism traveled through Europe. In Eastern Europe they had issues with their doctrine; thus, they changed their name to orthodox Christians and introduced honour to Mary. Eastern Orthodox churches include churches in Russia and Armenia. This corruption came when Christian religion was invented. Satan warred to take the essence of Christianity because he does not want fruits unto God; he does not want witnesses from earth.
Olive is a witness tree. Anyone who is an olive branch will need to give fruits to God. The fruit of an olive is to be a full witness. Israel could not bear fruits, so God cut them off and then grafted in a wild olive which is still grafted till date. Paul thus warned in the book of Romans that the times of the Gentiles will have to fully come in before the Jews will be visited again. God will still bring in the Jews, but the Gentiles must first bear fruits. The fruit of the Gentile church is to be a witness. In essence, God is giving the last chance of the church to the Gentiles. This is why Christians must quickly move out of preaching faith in God to receive things; the success we have attained here is enough. The true success of a Gentile nation is to stand as a witness for God.
A sign of a branch is a sign of a bearer; fruits are found on branches. A branch is a wife. Therefore, the word “engrafted” is marriage. A believer is married to the Lord, but we need to be cultured. Though we are married, we have not celebrated our marriage supper which is necessary. One can be a bride but has not taken up the responsibility of a wife. This is why we must pray for the Gentile church to not be cut off. From John 15:2, we see that unfruitful branches will be cut off by the Father, men will gather it, and burn it with fire. This fire is not physical fire: legislations, policies, laws, decrees, are fires. A church that law can burn is not a church. A church ought not be gathered by man.
We must know that we have a destiny as men; as a church. God has moved to the Gentile regions and He is visiting the nations for a purpose. God will visit a nation and stay there, but if this nation does not get the essence of His visitation, He will move away from them. However, God can give them many blessings: word of knowledge, physical resources can all be acquired through the gospel.
Men have hitherto prospered in other areas of life through the gospel, but not in the life of God. God has fulfilled His part and it is high time for us to obey God. The reason for the church is not for her to have plenty of money. That is, money is not the means to the dominion of a church. Jesus never reigned on earth with money. One of His disciples was taking from the purse and Jesus was not bothered. This shows us that it was not money that publicized Jesus’ gospel on earth; rather the glory on Him. Jesus was a kind of light; He became influential not because of friendship to Pilate or the government. Jesus stood in one place to speak yet His influence was felt all over the world. Angels ministered to His kingdom.
From John 3, John the Baptist acknowledged that he did not have what it takes to raise the bride of the Lamb. However, he prepared a people for the owner of the bride. The owner of the bride is the Bridegroom. When John the Baptist heard the voice of the Bridegroom he rejoiced because he is his friend. In the world to come, we will see the friends of the Bridegroom (companies) attending the marriage ceremony of the Lamb and His bride. Abraham, for instance, can never be in the bridal company because in the flesh, he is the father of the Groom and the bride. Jesus has friends, for instance, men like Melchizedek, who are not in bride company. (John 3:29)
The election of the bride is a different kind of election. From generation to generation, the bridal company is already being put together until the last age when the number of the bride is complete, after which God will close the age. The number of the bride is strictly said in the book of Revelation: the height of the city is 12,000 furlongs. This gives us an idea of how many souls will be put together to get this height. The city is four square; hence those who would be in the bridal company are from generation to generation. (John 3:29, Revelation 21:16)
We must have something in us to hit the bridal mark. The bride of the Lamb is the company of saints who can interpret the Lamb. The Lamb wants to be the light of men in the world to come. However, the Lamb would need help to do this. This is because normal men of the world to come cannot interpret this light as it is too raw and concentrated. It can only take the stature of the bride to use this light. The bride also needs an adornment that the light will fall on for the ministry of dispensing it to men.
“Anion” means the little Lamb; who is the only true/begotten Son of God is a being of light. He is the One who transacts with the raw Person of eternal life—He is the One looking at God and beams of light from God falls on Him. As it falls on Him, the bride takes it. As the light falls on the bride, men will then be able to read it. This shows a process: the Minister (the Lamb) is needed to take the light and ministries (the bride) are needed to minister the light to men.
God is a high light. We need instruments, which can be likened to engines and rotors to process the high light of God. God is light—God is a subject we must learn. He is a course. There are components that framed God and He has desired that man must learn Him. God wants us to have Him. This is what the church ought to be hearing and not how to get material things. The Gentiles seek material things and there is a way a soul who seeks such things would look like. This also shows us that there is someone who is making men seek these material things, as he knows what light can do to us. He knows that when we seek the kingdom of God and His righteousness, we will be delivered from his hold. We would be so good and raised above his reach. (1 John 1:5, Matthew 6:32-33)
Men spend huge amounts of money learning about things in school. A stone for instance, has the chemistry of its formation which a man can spend years studying. When one learns such things over time, he comes into a kind of light that can make his countenance shine as a result of the knowledge he has acquired. Such men become luminaries/light bearers as their countenance has been sharpened by the reason of the light that has fallen on their souls. Much more, when we learn God, we become brighter than any man. Hence, Jesus is called the bright and morning star; we need His light to read, get, give, and dispense God. (Revelation 22:16)
The new earth would be massive and vast; it would be larger than the present earth. The present earth is extremely inferior in comparison to it. The new earth is also superior to this present heaven. We cannot dwell in the new earth if we do not have a measure of redemption. To come to the new earth, the soul has to come to some degrees of purification, although that soul may not have inheritance. There are people who will have inheritance of the new earth and become kings of the new earth. The bridal world is the new heaven. Hence, when the bride is coming from the new heaven to the new earth, not every dweller of the new earth would be able to interface with her as they do not have what it takes (the required stature).
From Revelation 21, we see that there are gates of pearls to the wall of the city. This shows us that there is a protocol of entrance. The gates are not just ordinary pearls; they are spirits (men). Creatures which God created are gates; they can give access. For instance, we see how God decked angels with some kind of ability, much so that an angel can teach a man about God; they can give access into the invisible realm. This is because God put knowing in them. Hence, there is no angel that does not know God at their level; their knowing of God differs at their different levels. The amount of life in an angel is according to how much he knows God. (Revelation 21:21)
The highest angel knew God at a high level; as a result of this, we can say that they have a full life because what God gave to them is a knowing of Himself. God showed an inferiority of Himself (not Himself in entirety). Lucifer saw this and thought he could overthrow God but unknown to him God is still hidden. God is vast and unending; if a measure of Him is captured, another would appear. Hence, no creature has the capacity to travel the miles of the end of God. This is where God’s shape is; it is in the place hidden from creation. Hence, we need an eye to travel there to show Him to us.
The seven eyes of Anion (the little Lamb) are for seeing God. He sees the structure and shape of God. A form of God is a demonstration of light (bars of light and each bar is a wheel). This light of God is a conglomerate of wheels within which is an inner wheel that controls the rest of the wheels. God is will. Hence, we must be people who are keen on doing His will—His will is who He is and what He loves.
Prophets are those who see God and who have wisdom to say God; that is, to prophesy is to say God. It is not everyone that has the capacity to say God. Hence, one’s tongue must be open to say God; he must have stature to speak God. Prophets are beings who have done God’s will and are able to see Him, do Him and then the body is given to speak Him. When we do will, we build Him and then we have the ability to do and say Him. When doing prophecy, we are doing Him and not just His testimony and word.
The flesh (the coverings of God) is also a will. Before we can get to Him, we have to first get the will of His flesh. To get to the core of God, we must first hit the word. This shows us that God puts on wearings according to the people He is dealing with. God wears trails and garments. Hence, there is a way He appears to angels; they see Him from the veil which cannot be removed. The veil is exactly fitted to His outward shape and posture. God’s veils are unending. Hence, God can hide Himself a billion years away and man will think he has seen and known Him. As such, He is called the only wise God.
Lucifer, for instance, was too sure he had seen all of God, not knowing there was more of God. Immediately we meet the originality of God—which Jesus came to epitomize—the first thing we will see is His word called His flesh. The flesh of God is not skin; it is a covering which is the actual veil of God. After the flesh is His testimony which is the Spirit of prophecy; this is found in His blood which is His cup. The Blood is not in liquid form; it is a person. The Spirit is a person that can hide in the Word and give life to the Word. The third thing after the testimony (the Spirit) is Him; that is God.
Before we get to Him (Elo-Him) we have to get to two things: flesh and testimony. God is Elohim, the Word is also Elohim and the Holy Ghost as well is Elohim. That is, the three have these three things—word (flesh), testimony (blood), and Him—and these three things are their essence. The Holy Ghost is a Spirit but He also has flesh. The Word is peculiar among the Godhead. There is also Elohim called the Father. When we read their materials, we should be able to dissect each of them. As we are hearing these things being said in LoveSeal, God is sealing us.
“Him” is a “prophecy”. This prophecy is not just to prophesy; it is not to capture an event that should occur as the Bible is more than this. Prophecy is a person. Testimony is the Spirit of Prophecy; if we do not have testimony, we will not get good prophecy—prophecy is Him and this is the first layer of understanding. Prophecy is what and whom we ought to see.
The final definition of Him (after word and testimony) is Book. We ought to see the book as a person, not as a page. The Lamb has a book of life. Book is a being; a prophecy. The best place to hide things is in book; the book is the last treasure, it is the background and foundation. Anything not laid in a book cannot be appended.
God is a book. When we hear a book, we think of pages, but the book is the book of prophecy. From Revelations 1:3, John, the beloved, wrote that blessed are they who read and hear words of the prophecy and keep those things which are written therein. As we read the book of Revelation further, we see that prophecy is not all about an account of what ought to happen. Though prophecy can generate this attitude, it is more than that. If someone is a prophecy, it means that he/she is to come. From Revelation 22, it was written that any man who hears the words of the prophecy and adds to it, God would add to him the plague written in the book. (Revelation 1:3, Revelation 22:18).
The flesh of God (covering/house) which is the body of God is made with the Word of God. God gave us a physical body (flesh) because He wants to teach us about Himself. A tripartite being has a spirit, soul, body—we have book, testimony and word. Our book is our spirit. The book is stronger than the testimony; if one kills the word and destroys the testimony, but leaves the book; the book will produce the word and testimony. In other words, we get blood from the book, and inside the blood we get flesh. Flesh like genes are in the blood.
Man is a message; when man moves, God is seeing Himself. However, we need light for the Godhead to teach us who they are. They use us to teach us of themselves. From Romans 1, we see that the things we can see and the things that are made speak of the invisible things of God—“For the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:”—eternal power as used in this scripture is everlasting life, while Godhead is eternal life. (Romans 1:20)
The everlasting God is underneath the eternal God. The eternal God is our refuge of strength. Refuge is eternal, it cannot be destroyed. The refuge of everlasting life is the eternal God. Therefore, this tells us that everlasting life came from eternal life. Eternal life sheds everlasting life so that we can come to Him.
No one can relate with the eternal God raw. Jesus obeyed the order, He captured the everlasting God and began to relate, then got to be caught up to the eternal God. When He went to heaven, the eternal God—the same God who sat on the throne talking from His eternal self—said to Him, “You are My Son and today have I begotten thee.” The angels heard this declaration, and wondered if it was to them; but the person spoken of was inside God. Prophets of the New Testament have the privilege to hold the reality of the everlasting God and to also see the Eternal One, who is the Great God of glory. (Hebrews 1:8, Hebrews 1:5)
From John 3, John the Baptist said the Bridegroom has the bride—who will groom men to share God with Him. The bride are those who in this side of life (not in eternity/the world to come) will use their life to get God and get Him optimally and maximumly. They will maximize the learning of God; thus, we have to listen and follow the Groom. It is a privilege to use this impossible place to learn God; it is a mercy we have found.
The little book is a very pivotal book. In Revelation 10:9, when John the Beloved ate the little book it was not just papers he ate, but spirit. Immediately the book was given, the book was revealed. The book deals with the end of the mystery of God which should be finished. In John 4, Jesus said His meat is to do the will of Him that sent Him and to finish His work. The finishing of His work is what the book archives; that is, the book is His work—the work of God is God. (John 4:34)
The mystery is about finishing the book; the book is a finishing thing. When God produced the little book and gave it to the angel to give John to eat, it contained a revelation and understanding of Himself—these are mysteries of knowing God. This understanding is a vehicle; a spirit of knowing Him. The spirit of knowing Him is also a book to transact with Him that ought to be known.
Hence, when we meet/see God, He generates book, His skin, or His understanding; they roll out of Him. As testimony has understanding, covenant also has understanding, and the word has understanding, so also the book has understanding. When we meet the book, we have come to the finish of the mystery of God. Everything of God is a mystery.
What makes God’s Son, is that He is a carrier of the work; the work is God—He is carrying God, His flesh, His blood—He is born of God, born of the will of the flesh, and born of the blood of God. Will comes from these things. In essence, testimony is a will, the word of God is also God’s will and God is will. Comparing this with Romans 12: flesh (word) is good will, testament (blood) is acceptable will, and the perfect will of God is Himself (the book). When we have these three things, the will of God is perfected in us. (John 1:13, Romans 12:1-2)
These things are many and complex; it can be likened to the complexity in the engineering of an engine. Angels must have come to help men build the engine of a car. It took centuries for the intelligence of how to build engines hit the western world; to have something which could burn fuel and make sound. Man thought of how to put engines to use and make it drive. Then, man thought of creating wheels (tyres). To engage these wheels, man introduced an axle, which is a gear system but not a full gear. The intention of an axle is to propel the car from behind but to roll the front wheels a propeller is connected to a gear box. The gear box is attached to pedals, using a lever to select different gears, which hooks the front wheels. The engine is attached to the gear box, and as each component works together the vehicle moves.
In essence, the process to make a car move takes time and it is complex. Likewise, a flying angel is a complex machine; much more God. Thus, God cannot be learnt in a day. God is an engine of eternity—He is an eternal engine. God is the one who gave men gifts to make inventions such as planes and cars. God is a flight. For instance, we see how God built the tabernacle of birds. There is an engine inside birds. God gave birds the shape that will collaborate with the law of flying (lift). Birds break the law of gravity through the aerodynamic force; their shape is an advantage which they use to penetrate into the air. Man saw this and copied it to be able to build a system to make a plane fly.
Two major things must be built for a plane to fly: an engine room must be built and then the body of the plane. Likewise, when God built the body of man, He built an engine room within us. There are many things we ought to be doing but are unable to do because someone has stolen things from us. Oil will naturally leak out of a cracked engine, hence, our engine must be changed for God to put oil of gladness in it.
We need to buy a body that can house the components of an engine which would produce the sound God wants to hear. We ought to be sensitive to sounds, naturally and spiritually. We must be able to endure sound doctrine and we must not compromise the word of God. Some believers are not sounding well, as they sound sick. For instance, some local bus drivers pour condemned engine oils into their vehicles, and this produces a kind of sound and smell. This can also be likened to a carnal soul; they use any kind of oil for the engine or their souls.
Cars also have rings which should be tightly fitted into the pistons of the engine; otherwise, the engine will not sound well and the combustion cycle would not be fully completed. As we ought to be sensitive to the sound of our physical cars, we also ought to be sensitive to the engine of our souls. The Holy Ghost will not drive a believer who is not sounding well. Such a believer has to take down his engine block and replace his faulty components with good ones.
God is overhauling our engines. The word engine is a mechanical term; an engine is where mechanical and thermal (burning) combustion occur. We see similarities of engines with the design of cherubs. From Ezekiel 10:21, we see that when cherubs let down their wings, they have a similitude of a man’s hand which are brass in nature. But within cherubs is a burning fire. God also has fire; He is burning, but His fire should not be kindled. Out of His fire, God made the lake of fire. Hence, no one should go to the lake of fire. Fire has its characteristics, every fire has its translation, but that’s not our destination. Our destination is God.

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