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The Man Abraham
It’s a great privilege to have God gather us once again in his presence. And he does this to always bless us. Today we’ll be reviewing our newest teaching title “The Man Abraham” as you go through this instilling topic about the life of Abraham, I pray the lord open our heart help us pick impactful lessons to apply to our lives.
Who is Abraham?
Abraham is a great man in the sight of God and even one of the great men in the history of the bible. A dipper look into his life is what we can study in the book of Genesis, and the book of genesis is a unique chapter of the bible that has everything we see on the earth today, its uniqueness is that it has the root of everything we see concluding in the book of revelation, a quick run through the book of Genesis, we can see a Noah, Enoch, Abel, Nimrod, all these have one or two things we have to learn from, all these are people we can ask if our life reflect what they did or stood for as described in the book Genesis – Are you a Nimrod who has no regards for God, or Are you a Noah who stood with God by Faith?. And that’s the chapter we’ll approach as we seek to understand the man, Abraham.
The journey of Abraham was not started by him, his father was the brain behind it, and God took things over by separating Abraham from his family, this goes to tell us that in Abraham we can see the following
- Predestination
- Election
- The Grace of God
- Faith
- The Righteousness of God
Tera in this picture is a type of denomination Churches which all of us came out from, they assume themselves to be in God’s plan, God’s doctrine but they are far away from God’s definition of faith and are spiritually dead, because they have separated themselves from the true word of God embracing three Godhead doctrine, women mounting pulpit to preach and all sorts. It took God to separate us from their falsehood just like he did with Abraham. Brethren it has nothing to do with our gifts, or religious activities, even Cain had had an altar to make sacrifices to God -But what was his Sacrifice? Was it an acceptable one? if you are not in the apostolic standard of what God has given the church you are spiritually alienated from God. Separation is a key factor for all who came to Christ, separation from denominationalism into the message of the hour (Malachi 4:5&6b), practically a separation from Tera (The worldly system and it religious decay). Abraham went through this process and mind you it was not smooth, so don’t just sit there claiming the blessings of Abraham, there were work done by him.
We have Christian who find it difficult to do away with tribalism and its practices and such people are bold to call themselves seeds of Abraham. this can’t work. Our calling out of the world is with a price, if you can’t pay it, you can make it. You must come out of your kindred, come out of your people, come out of your unbelief and pay the price. You can’t dress like the world again, you just can’t act like they do again because you have been called into separation from your will, and if you want God to own you, you must deliberately come out of yourself.
Do you think God made the process of separation easy for Abraham? And example is you relocating from your current location to another place with a destination, how do you think that will be, smooth?
Spiritual Ingredient Found in Abraham
Brethren when God want to use men, he calls them out of the burden of the Egyptians, and “burden of the Egyptians” in the context are all the activities of this world which we need to find rest from, and this rest is in Christ Jesus, and that was exactly what God did for Abraham.
- Election
You will agree that Abraham didn’t start the journey all by himself, he was with family members, people who were close, there was a brother Lot who also was with his own family, but one thing God did was to bring about total separation from all excesses, so he can have only Abraham to himself, and this is why we also were separated from friends and family to be dining only with God by his world, because it’s a nature of God to have his people separated for him and him alone. You didn’t attain this by your work (at all !!) this is the pure definition of God’s love over our lives, and that’s why if we don’t appreciate the love of God towards us, he won’t be happy. If God so love us and elected us amid thousands of people and we are still daledalin with demons he won’t’ be happy with that.
If think about how God separated you from your worldly friends, especially what you do together in sin you’ll see that you can’t fathom it, the mystery behind this is Election, God hand picking you to be a part of him because there is something inside of you deposited by him and that’s your peculiarity, so you should not look down on yourself.
What did Abraham do that God elected him and left the rest?
Here is the reason:
Inside Abraham, there was something in Abraham that God deposited in him, it is called “The Seed of God’ and that’s what you have inside of you too, so it’s not as if God is clueless about where he kept his property, he knows where he planted his seed, when it was time to harvest he went to the heap that has Abraham and brought him out, he went to our own heap too and brought us out – There is a seed in us, and that’s why the devil is fighting us, he know what we carry, it is you and I that still looks confuse about who we are, but I tell you the devil will not overcome you provided we did not leave God just like Abraham embraced God till death.
Ephesians 1:4 – Explains the perfect work of election. God has foreknown us before the foundation of world and has called us to himself before we were born, so even when you were lost in sin, there was something in you that God has in you that made you responded to God’s call, he didn’t care your past mistakes, what matters was to call you out of your mess and give us his eternal rest.
Therefore, brethren forget about the past, but don’t repeat the life of your past, if you repeat the same past sin, it shows you have not really come out of the world, THE FUTURE IS where you should look into. How you can respond to God’s love of election
I pray God grant us grace.
The Time of the Gentiles, and the Fullness of the Gentiles
In God’s divine plan for salvation for all creatures, The Jewish time would be paused to bring in the Gentiles. Thus, we need to examine as Gentiles, if God has turned to us for salvation and what is necessary for us to do.
Text: Luke 21:24, Romans 11:25, Daniel 9:24, Matthew 10:5-8, John 10:16, Matthew 28:18-19, Romans 15:22, Matthew 27:51, Acts 9:15, Acts 13:44-48, Acts 14:27
When Daniel was praying to know the mind of God concerning their captivity in Babylon, Angel Gabriel appeared to him, to tell him about the fullness of the time of the Jews. That was where we saw that 70 weeks are determined for the people of Israel. It is important to note that God has His divine measurement of time, and seventy weeks would not mean literal seven days of the week. Rather, this is a prophetic week wherein one day is one year. The Jews in total have four hundred and ninety years before the consummation of all things.
And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled. Luke 21:24
However, the Gentile days would come in between the Jewish time, at the 69th year of the Jews, Messiah would be cut off, and the Gentile time would begin. So, the Gentiles have their time, and there is also the fullness of their time, in which their door would close, and salvation would return to the Jews to complete their seventy weeks.
These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not: But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. Matthew 10:5-6
The Gentile Time
For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. Romans 11:25
The mystery of God is the engrafting of the Gentiles, to open the door of salvation to them. And before this could be achieved, the door for the Jews was closed.
And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be onefold, and one shepherd. John 10:16
The Beginning of the Gentile time began when Jesus told the disciples to go to all the world and preach to all nations.
Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen. Matthew 28:19-20
When Christ was to start this, He sent Peter to the house of Cornelius. And after that, God raised Paul as a light to the Gentiles.
But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel: Acts 9:15
Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles. Acts 13:46
God had to blindfold the Jews for the Gentiles to come in, although the Promise belonged to them. That was however the program of God. This is the reason we should not bluff but love God more because it’s only an opportunity given us.
The gospel of Christ that you believe is not by accident, God predestined everything before the foundation of the world. No, God is not partial. None of God’s children will be lost. God will bring everyone of them in one after the other. That is what we call the fullness of the Gentile time.
The fulness of the Gentile time is the when the total number of the Gentile will come in -God knows the actual number He has predestined to be saved amongst the Gentiles, and when the last soul is in, the Gentile door would be closed.
THE OPENING AND CLOSING (COMPARING THE FIRST AND LAST CHURCH AGE)
In the first church age (the Ephesian Church Age), which was the opening of the gospel of Christ to the Gentiles, the door was open so wide that the numbers of people coming in to believe the gospel were massive. Even at Pentecost, three thousand people believed and were baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Later the church grew to five thousand. Scriptures says later that great grace was upon them all.
Also, Christ, who is the Lord of His Church, was in His Church, walking amidst the Seven Golden Candlesticks.
Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write; These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks; Ephesians 2:1
Walking in the midst of the candlesticks talks of the sovereignty of Christ in His church, and in the heart of His own. The love of God was in the heart of everyone, people believed the gospel and were ready to deny worldliness. But when we come to the last church age, which is our age, Laodicea Church Age, Christ has been thrown out of His church, and is outside, knocking.
And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God; I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see. As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. Revelation 3:14-20
WHAT IS EXPECTED OF YOU?
Nothing more than to accept grace whilst it is available, and now that He is knocking at the door of your heart, open to Him. Be counted worthy of the gospel of Christ. The door is closing at the church age. Yes, it is hard to get the massive experience of the gospel again, because the heart of the people has been blinded to see the glorious gospel, thus, God is knocking on a few individuals, who can still hear His gentle salient voice, and will allow Him come in.
Voice? Yes, not that God will speak from heaven, but He sent a messenger, whose voice we need to hear if we don’t want to be lost in our age. It is the voice of the seventh messenger – William Marrion Branham. Scripture says, in the days of his voice, this mystery of engrafting the Gentiles would be finished.
It is therefore a blessing to know the program of God for your day and walk in that program. That is all God requires from you. If you can believe in the voice of God through this messenger of your day and walk in it, you have nothing to fear.
Walk in the Light, while you have the light. Shalom!
God of Simplicity
Text: I Corinthians 1:18 – 29, Deuteronomy 6:3-5, Act 2:37, Acts 1:9, Romans 6:2 -, Matthew 11:25, I Corinthians 1:26, Genesis 6:1, 2 Timothy 3:1-7, I Corinthians 14:34, I Timothy 2:11
What is the meaning of simplicity?
Simplicity by definition simply means “very simple”, “Uncomplicated”, “Uncompounded” and that’s the nature of the God we are serving, he’s so great that without any explanation, nobody can argue that God who created the heaven and the earth is not the greatest, but the mystery of this greatness is that he hides himself in simplicity, and he does his things in simplicity; that’s the reason the whole world is missing him. They miss him because the way he makes himself known is so low. The people of the world had so made themselves great that they can’t see him in his lowliness, an example is how the so-called big men of this world can’t be accessible until when people gets to book appointments to see them, but our great God who is bigger than all men combined, had made himself so accessible to us all, without collecting a dine. Isn’t that wonderful?
The Gospel in Simplicity
This Gospel that we bring to you today was not a gospel God entrusted into the hands of brilliant people of the world – At all – He chose the foolish things of this world to confound the wise. We serve a God who reveals himself in simplicity that even a babe can see him, only those who are destined for destruction cannot see God’s simplicity. Look at “salvation” that God made free for us to access, to those who are perishing the process to it is foolishness. And that’s why we have different religious sect promoting false doctrines about the God-head, and we even have some not believing God had a son; we have people question the redemptive mission of the Lord Jesus Christ, saying how can one man die for the sin of the whole world, they are like this because the preaching of the gospel is foolishness unto them, and to us it is the power of God. (Amen)
Sometimes we can’t really blame them for their school of thoughts and carnal questions, it is because denominationally churches had painted three Gods to them. (God the father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit). This is the highest order of idolatry, there is no one God in three persons, there is no three separate God anywhere; There is only One God (Deuteronomy 6:3-5). Polytheism is idolatry, and that’s why God in his simplicity made himself known that he’s one not three in one or three separate God.
Dear reader, if you want to follow God, and also have a hope of seeing God on the last day, you have to be humble and believe the word of God than the word (doctrines) of men, no matter the status of the man in as much as what he’s saying is not in the bible you don’t have to believe such, because God will not judge us on the last day by the word of men, – He will judge us by the bible (The word of God). Doctrines like trinity, baptism outside the name of the Lord Jesus Christ have no foundation in the bible and should be vomited from our spiritual tommy if actually we want to start a walk with God.
Today, we claim to be married to Christ, if you are married to Jesus Christ as you supposedly claim, you have to take his name in Baptism, name here, is not God the father, God the son, and God the Holy ghost, – if you are reading and you have being baptized in the name of the father, and of the son and of the Holy Ghost, you have to be rebaptize using the redemptive name of our Lord Jesus Christ, because Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit are not the names given for baptisms (redemption), rather they depict titles; and that’s why even a man cannot have the name father, A father must have a name !!!, Because father is a title given to a man who had attain a fatherhood position and we have several people out there who had attained this position – Then who owns the name Father?.
Wife, daddy, father, mother, daughter cannot be a name of a person, they are all titles. Jesus said in Matthew 28:19 “Go ye therefore Baptizing them in the name, not names of the father, and of the son and of the Holy Spirit” and the apostle were able to understand this and they baptize in the name of Jesus Christ which is the name of the Father, the name of the son, which is also the name of the Holy Spirit; this is God in simplicity – There is nothing of God you have to go to school to learn, you learn the things of God by the Holy Spirit (The spirit of God in You)
“You have a sacrifice to Pay if you want to see Jesus Christ”
God of Simplicity in Choices
Declaration of Peter in Acts 2:28
God is so simple that even in his choices he picks people with no class, people with no education. He went on to pick fisher men, men of low class to share with them his mind, there where men of dignities, men like Nicodemus but God choose the likes of peter, James and others. Peter who was given the key to the kingdom had no education, but he had one thing that every believer should seek after and that is the Holy Spirit, by the Spirit of God he was able to declare the right water baptism in Acts 2:38 in a simple way with a number of 120 believers.
The beginning of the church started in a very simple way, and the great men of that time knew nothing about it. The Apostles gathered in humility and in expectant from God because they listened to Jesus Christ who had instructed them before hand to gather and wait for the promise of Father (The Holy Spirit) that should fill them before they could be witness of him to the world. That simple obedience of “waiting” brought about the wonderful message that pricked the heart of over 3000 people at Pentecost, they weren’t like our so-called preachers today who think they can learn God in a school, and that’s why they are empty. – you have to wait to be filled with the Holy Spirit to be a witness of God, not by graduating from a theological school. Peter on the day of Pentecost inaugurated the church by the Holy Spirit, and he stated what it entails to be part of the body of Christ. Below was what he declared and it still holds today:
“Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call. And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation.”
Baptism is our spiritual rite which signifies burial and resurrection with Christ. It’s an important and simple action that we must take using the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, (even though to those that are full of the wisdom of this world are blinded to it). It’s a pity today we have people running around doing baptism in the of the father and of the son and of the Holy Spirit which has no reference by the scripture where it was done. Baptism is by immersion into the water (which depicts our burial with Christ and our pulling out from the water depicts our resurrection with Christ). – If anyone refuse to take the name of Jesus Christ in baptism, they cannot rise with him on the that of resurrection – For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection
The Birth of Jesus in Simplicity
God is a God of simplicity, he was to send his only begotten son, and his son was to be born using a human womb, he went to pick a woman with no class in the whole of Jerusalem, if it was today, the choice of men would have been queen Elizabeth of England, because of her reputation; but God does not work like that, he’s an epitome of humility. Brethren please don’t ever try to be proud before God, stay humble, no matter what you think you have today God made them. The greatest human being that ever walked on earth, the son of God was portrayed by God in humility, then who are you? He by passed the best of hospitals to birth the savior of the whole world in a manger, it’s so simple that it became a stumbling block to the Jews and it flew over their head knowledge because God hid himself in simplicity. He chose the foolish things of the world to confound the wise. – you want to find God? be humble, you want to know the truth of the bible? you can only see it in God’s simplicity
God’s Simplicity in The Days of Noah
Remember that Jesus Christ compared the days of Noah with what it will also look like when the son of man (Jesus Christ) shall come. If the same way we have churches spread across today, we have the same exact attribute in the days of Noah, God in his simplicity bypassed all the big men of that day and picked a farmer to walk with, a farmer who had no standard of education in his days. The world then was full of abomination, people no longer fear the lord just as we have it today in our world, men today are marrying men, practicing all sort of perversion but Noah found favor in the sight of the Lord, and God revealed his mind to him in a simple way, he gave him a message to counter those acts, but they refused to listen because the preaching of the cross is foolishness to them that are perishing. Who would have imagined an ark could save people from flood? Noah in his days was tagged a foolish man with no education, because they feel it’s unrealistic; But when God’s time came it caught up them like a whirl wind, and they all perish because they refuse the word of God.
In this age we are in, God is purging his people, please let us repent, and make ourselves ready for the bridegroom, the world can never get better, don’t be deceived, thing will only get worst (II Tim 3:1). God has prophesied these things that are to be in this end time in the scriptures and nothing can stop them, God is just obligated to take care of his children because we believe the truth (in him).
I Corinthians 14:34 & 1 Timothy 2:11 (God positioning Women in simplicity)
Today we have people contest the position of women in the church fighting the word of God, we even have people say there was a problem in Corinthians church and that’s why Paul gave them a law, but the same problem cannot be in the church of Corinthians and Ephesus – it was an instruction of God through apostle Paul to establish the mind of God in simplicity. There is no women pastors in the body of Christ, their God’s given position is to learn in subjection to the word of God and not assume a position of authority in the church. It’s okay for a woman to be a keyboardist, a singer, a prophesier, etc., but when it comes to leading the church of God, it’s a bridge to God’s word. The lord in his simplicity has placed us in our given positions, let us remain there and enjoy his blessings
Shalom!
The Church Ages
This sequel is a continuation of The Seven Church Ages we started last week. Having understood that the gospel light has shifted to the Gentiles about two thousand years ago, this episode explains the Covenant which brought us in.
Text: Genesis 12:1-3, Genesis 17:4, Romans 9:24, Romans 9:23, Romans 2:10, Romans 6:16, Isaiah 42:6, Daniel 9:24, Luke 21:24, Isaiah 65:1, Romans 11:25, Act 10:11-28, Isaiah 65:5, Act 22:18, Romans 11:26-30
Abraham’s Blessing
Abram was from the lineage of idolaters when God called him, a call to separate him, so that He could make the Promise with him. This covenant covers all of God’s predestined seed – both Jews and Gentiles. It would be needful at this point to understand what exactly Abraham’s blessing is, for in it is all of God’s people called to blessing.
Knowing that Abram really did nothing to merit God’s calling out of his kinsmen and idolatry, while he was yet without strength, God chose him. Does that speak Election? Yes! The Love of God is Election, the Love of God is Predestination, and yes, the Love of God is Correction, the Love of God is Chastisement. Every of God’s seed, like Abraham was, would be partakers of this consequent of this great love. This blessing of Abraham is not money, it is not anything material. The blessing God promised Abraham was Salvation. But there was a way God planned to go about the fulfillment of this covenant in the world.
And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory, Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles? ~Romans 9:23-24
But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile: ~Romans 2:10
God started with the Jews first, but don’t forget that this covenant does not cover all the Jews, but those predestined in God, and the same goes for the Gentiles. The Jewish time was prophesied in Daniel 9:24, there, they have seventy prophetic weeks in total before the regeneration. They have used part of their time, to be precise, they have used sixty-nine weeks, after which God put a pause on their time, to deal with the Gentiles. But note that, these seventy weeks are not literal seven days of a week. One prophetic week is seven years, which means that the seventy weeks are:
70 x 7 = 490 years
By spiritual enlightenment, we understand that they have used 483 years, it was at the verge of this time that Messiah was cut off from them. This was the reason God put a pause on their time. They have one week left, which is seven years. Well, known to God are all His works from before time began. God did it for a purpose! What is the purpose?
The Mystery of God
The purpose is to engraft the Gentiles in to Christ. Remember that the covenant of God did not only speak for the Jews alone, but for the Gentiles also. This Gentile time is in-between the break of the Jewish time. And until the Gentile times are complete, God would not return to the Jews. Talking about the Jews, the scripture gives us this:
And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations. And Jerusalem shall be trodden down by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled ~Luke 21:24
The Jews would never believe that God would turn to the Gentiles for salvation. Even Jesus called us dogs, and that we are indeed, we are drawn to dumb idols, alienated form the life of Christ. But Christ came and showed us His Love, because He had predestined us in Himself before the foundation of the world. This is the mystery that was locked up in God and was not made known to anyone (although God spoke about it with and through His prophets), until the time of fulfillment.
For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in. ~Romans 11:25
To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: ~Colossian 1:27
The duration of the Gentile time is what we call the seven-church age dispensation. God divided the Gentile time to seven different dispensation. What we know by the scripture is that the Gentile has an allotted time that must be fulfilled before God would return to the Jews, but the exact time for the Gentile, the Bible never gave any precision.
The Way of the Light
The movement of the gospel light from the Jews to the Gentiles wasn’t instantaneous, it was gradual. God was closing the door to the Jews, so that the Gentile’s door would be opened. It couldn’t have been that all the Jews turned against God at once, no! But like the Bible says, “blindness in part” happened to them, for the Gentile’s sake. But when the Gentile time was fully activated, the Jewish door was closed. (I doubt if you can get a bible to buy today in the whole of Israel).
Same with the Gentile, we are in the last age, and gradually, God is shutting the Gentile’s door, and the Light is moving gradually to the Jews. Of course, the Gentile days are numbered. That is why the religious world, though learning, are not coming to the knowledge of the truth. They cannot believe the wholesome truth established on the day of Pentecost. The Light is moving.
It even behooves us to be more careful, because we were grafted in, contrary to nature, to be part of the original vine. We therefore ought not to boast, but work out our salvation with fear and trembling, knowing that the privilege given to us would not last forever.
Again, it would be important to reiterate that now is the time for you as a Gentile to believe, and have your lamb trimmed. Now that you have the light, walk in it, believe the Light, before the gospel would return to the Jews, for their one-week left. Now is the time of salvation, the door is almost closed. Come on board!
Shalom!
The Church Ages
God is not oblivious of how the Gospel will go through the ages, or how the people will handle the Faith. Thus, He pictured it in the letter He gave to John on the isle of Patmos to the seven churches selected in Asia Minor. Dive in with me, as we examine ourselves in the mirror of God’s word, in respect to each church’s message.
Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.
~ Revelation 1:3
TEXT: Revelation 1:9, Revelation 1:1-3, Revelation 2:1-11, Revelation 3:14-22
The Seven Churches
John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace be unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne;
There are more than seven churches in Asia minor, but God selected these seven churches (which these letters will go to), upon certain characteristics that these churches possess, which would reflect in the ages unto the consummation. It is not sacrilegious to say that God knows the end from the beginning, and by His foreknowledge, He already revealed to us this quintessence in the seven churches.
Here is it, the Gentile time is divided into seven dispensations, and the characters that each would produce was reflected in the seven churches that Jesus wrote to. And this is what we want to examine, for their messages is written to us. Yes, we are in the last church age, but the messages of the six churches before, is still valid today, and it is very much for us.
Jesus had in His right hand as seen in Revelation 1, seven golden candlesticks and seven stars were in His right hand. What are these? These can’t be taken literally, but symbolically. We don’t need to bog our minds on how to interpret what we read, the Spirit of God is able to interpret His word and reveal it to us. The Bible explained what these mysteries are in Revelation 1:20
The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches.
The First Church Age
Revelation 2:1-7
Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write; These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks;
2 I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars:
3 And hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name’s sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted.
The first thing we can note here is that Jesus was walking in the “midst of the seven golden candlesticks” which means that He was the Lord of the church, controlling it by His word. Since He is the Owner of His Church, He rules and reign in her midst. Amen! Also, He held the Seven Stars in His right hand. These are the messenger to the seven churches whom God speaks through to their age. Each age has a messenger!
The Ephesian Church Age was the standard of all, that was when God first brought the light of the gospel to the Gentiles, using His servant, Paul, after Peter had opened the door for the Gentiles at Cornelius’ house. It was a time of the planting of the word of God. The heart of the people loved the word of God, to the extent that they veted those who called themselves apostles before allowing them on their pulpit, or listening to them. The word of God was dear to them than any man’s word, they would rather cross check what they’ve heard by the Bible instead of correcting the Bible because they heard a professor preach. Their lives were worthy of the gospel, they couldn’t bare evil in their midst. Their labour was second to none, they were zealous for God and His works. Place yourself in that balance and see if you measure up!
This, nonetheless, God had something against them:
Nevertheless, I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.
Can you flash back to when you believed the gospel, and how you were not just regular in church services but also punctual? Can you remember how much you read your Bible day and night, and communed with God? It looked as though a year’s service of everyday fellowship cannot satisfy your hunger and thirst. The question now is, do you still have that same spiritual passion, or you have left your first love? Do you now patch what you once hated as sins to now be your new normal? God wanted the Ephesians church’s love to rather increase instead of diminished, but alas, reverse was the case -they forsook their first love, just like you.
At that point, there were a few people coming up with suggestions and opinions of how the church should be governed, they wanted to set up hierarchies in the church, where you have a General Overseer who oversees all the churches, and everyone submits to him, instead of allowing the Holy Spirit to lead His Church. This is what is referred to as the deed of the Nicolaitan.
“Nico” means to “Conquer”, and “Laity” means “The Church”. They wanted to subject the church under rules and human governorships, and that, Christ hates. Sadly, today, we have embraced that which Christ hated. We have set General Superintendent and Overseers to oversee all the churches, and all branches submits to the headquarter. Any church in this mess is not of God. The Holy Spirit wants to rule His church by Himself, and not by computerised means. This was just an opinion in the first church age, but now, a stronghold in our time – that is all you see around. God commended the Ephesian Age for hating this deed, but it was already on ground as thoughts and what some men wanted to do.
Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.
The words were for them and for us as well, for God has one church on earth. The bride will come from the seven church ages. So, their messages although for their age, is still valid for us today.
He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.
The Second Church Age
And unto the angel of the church in Smyrna write; These things saith the first and the last, which was dead, and is alive; I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.
The second church age was a persecuted church, and a terrible time for the believers. A day that today’s Christianity may not be able to survive because of her love for materialism. The Smyrna church era was an ear of tribulation, poverty and suffering. All for the sake of the gospel. They had ten years of torment from the government of that time.
In this church, people had begun to implement the deed which God hates in the first church age, but those who loved the truth stayed away from them, and they became the minority. Since dignitaries and men who loved applause of people are claiming to believe the gospel, they formed their cactus also where they would have the liberty to practice their anti-Christ religion -having Arch Bishops, Right Reverend, Most Reverend and all terrible titles that cannot be found in scriptures. They began to build churches of headquarters, having provinces and branches, they call themselves Jews (believers) but they are the synagogue of Satan. These became the majority, persecuting the minority who are standing for the truth.
Check how you handle God now and answer if you’ll be able to survive that age. Christ did not even prevent them from trouble, instead, he told them to be faithful in the ten years of suffering they would undergo. But today, we have believed a gospel of ‘flowery bed of roses’, no preacher preaches about the tribulation we must partake as our inheritance in Christ, it must be ‘for better for better’, not ‘for better for worse’. We believe God for our personal accomplishment, and not because we love Him. What a shame on today’s Christianity! It is obvious we have not gotten it yet -the true meaning of Christianity. We are only practicing a religion.
He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death.
Yes, there is a second death, for those who are not regenerated in heart and mind, -those who refuse the second birth. If you are born once, you will die twice, but if you are born twice, you will die once. For those who would overcome, they will not partake of the second death. Amen.
The Third Church Age
And to the angel of the church in Pergamos write; These things saith he which hath the sharp sword with two edges;I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, even where Satan’s seat is: and thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith, even in those days wherein Antipas was my faithful martyr, who was slain among you, where Satan dwelleth.
How quick are you to deny your faith amongst your friends of the world, a lot of your co-workers don’t even know you to be a Christian, because you hide your faith from them, and flow with them when they are doing their things and come to church to act Christianity. You should be pitied! The saints in the Pergamos age, even in the place where Satan was dwelling, they held fast to Christ’s name. They did not allow glamour to carry them off, they will not forget that they are Christian just because of money. They will not travel to Rome and become Romans. They maintained their identity as followers of Christ. They did not deny their faith, you have all these qualities to check in your life and adjust if they are not there.
Let me say here that the church age overlap, there is no fixed time when we left a church age to resume the next. Thus, the suffering in the previous age may not end in that age, in fact, it didn’t. it continued through. The separation of the cold formal majority and the spiritual minority was still through the age. Gradually, the light of God was fading off, only a few minorities held unto it. Of course, God would not leave Himself without a witness.
Those who conceived and carried out the deed of the Nicolaitan grew even more worse by the time we got to this church age, they were completing running on the opposite direction of God’s word.
But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication.So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitanes, which thing I hate.
They now have added personal gain and profit to their preaching of the gospel. People whose god is their belly, using the name of God to commit lots of atrocities. They imbibed the culture of Balaam, selling the gospel to people, casting stumbling block before God’s people, and giving them idolatrous food (this is talking about the doctrines they preach).
That is what become the prosperity gospel of today, people are now made to believe that money or success is an evidence that God is with you. That’s a lie!
Repent; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.
The Seventh Church Age
The Laodicea Church Age is the last, and this is the culmination of all that has been ongoing through other ages. This is the end of the ages, where all that was sown would have grown and there would be a clear line of divide.
And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
By this time, both the cold formal church and the little spiritual church had mixed because of the deceit of the anti-Christ’s spirit, and they would produce nothing close to what Christ could condone. Your age which is this Laodicea church age has no single commendation. They neither are ready to hold on to God’s pure truth nor are they ready to deny the world. They want to have the two, that put them in a state of lack of identity -not cold, not hot.
Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
This is the age you see them competing with material things, the church has been grossly organized by men in authority to the extent that Christ had completely been pushed out of His own Church. He now stands at the door, knocking to enter. They believe they are rich (rich enough to not need God).
The word of God had completely been lost, no purity, no righteousness, no moral virtue. What we see in today’s church, could that be what Christ sown at the beginning? Certainly not! What a condition! But Christ still shows us His love if we would take it:
I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
We have been called to a renewed life in Christ. That is why God sent a Prophet Messenger to us, to restore us back to the faith of the apostles, so that Christ would not come and smite us with a curse. He CRIED at the church world against their mess, although they hated him and called him all sort of names, those who humbled themselves are enjoying the blessedness of Christ’s love today. His demonstration of Love towards us is His correction. That is why He is calling us out of all traditions of men so that He will not spue us out of His mouth.
Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.
Here is a call for you, and this is your opportunity. The lifeboat soon is coming to gather the Jewels home. Be ready before it is late.
Shalom!
The Rapture
So far, we’ve been able to understand in our little capacity, the three ministries that would precede the rapture of the saints. Here we want to bring you the summary of it all, as we consider the lively hope -the Rapture!
Text: 1 Thessalonains 4:16, Matthew 25:1-6, 1 Corinthians 1, Revelation 19:7, Revelation 7:9, Hebrew 11:5, Jude 1:14
Let me start by saying that this glorious promise of God has happened before, thus, we can catch a glimpse of how ours is going to be. The rapture is not a fairy tale we tell to bamboozle people to believe in wind, it is real, and we know it because it has happened before. God raptured Enoch, God raptured Elijah, and even Jesus also ascended to heaven, and were seen by men. This should cancel any ideology of men that the rapture will cause commotion. No, it won’t. No plane will fall to the ground, no taxi will have accident, no ship will sink. I know you have a question as to what if the man who is piloting the plane is to go in the rapture, won’t the plane crash when it’s time to go?
If truly you are a rapture candidate, prior to the time of ascension, you would know. The rapture won’t meet its candidate suddenly. We are not of the night, that that day should meet us as a thief in the night, we are of the day. Enoch knew he was going in the rapture, so did Elijah, and they took steps towards it. No pilot by profession will fly when it’s time for rapture, no taxi will drive any car. Yes, the bride will know it is time, and all she’s doing at that point is to look up for that, nothing more. It may be sudden to the world, and that is even if the world would know. It is such a dove-like transition, the world may know nothing about it, except the bride.
1 Thessalonians 5:2-9 KJV
For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. [3] For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. [4] But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. [5] Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. [6] Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. [7] For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. [8] But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation. [9] For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ.
Let’s consider Paul in our text:
For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep. For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord. Therefore comfort one another with these words.
This special revelation of the rapture was revealed to Paul alone. This is not to say that others didn’t speak about it. The Bible is full of explanation on rapture. But the sequence of this rapture was revealed to Paul, and that was why he wrote in that manner, because he got what he wrote by the word of the Lord.
In Matthew 25, there was a parable about the virgins. That parable is not talking about the rapture, rather it is talking about the ministry of William Marrion Branham, who came in the anointing of Elijah to snatch Christ’s bride from the denominational world.
“Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. And five of them were wise, and five were foolish.They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them:But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept. And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.”
This is the preparation to meet the bridegroom. God herald a message to wake up the sleeping virgins who are sound asleep in the dogmas of men through the church ages, and get them to trim their lamb, so they could have an intimacy with their bridegroom -Christ, coming to claim His own. The bridegroom came truly, but He came in the Word-Form. And that is why we began to search the scriptures to correct both our lives and our doctrines. The church world has made us believe that there are three Gods, but when we trimmed our lamb, we saw that there is only One God, and quickly, we correct that. We corrected our water baptism that was done for us in trinity titles to the right baptism of the apostles, done in the name of Jesus Christ, and by immersion, and lot more. This is the bride, making herself ready for the rapture.
But realize that there are two categories of virgins. Though virgins, some were wise, and some were foolish. That is dependent on how you take God seriously and allow His purging in your life. It is because he has something that has not come into man’s understanding for us, that is why He is washing us by His word, so that we can be fit to inherit the incorruptible. To the degree to which you surrender yourself, is the extent to which you will see Him work in and through your life.
Now, we are in the time of the Shout, which is the time for the trimming of our lamps, correcting our lives by the word of the Lord. That is the time of our perfection as living saints. That is what will put us in position for the Voice of the Archangel and the Trump of God. Amen!
Like we have explained, there had to be this message of awakening, because enemies had done evil in the field of Christ. And this resulted in the beclouding of men’s heart from the true Light of the gospel, and because Christ can only come to reap what he has sown, He had to send His Prophet to CRY, “Come ye out” -yes, out of worldliness, out of the doctrines of men, out of Romanism, out of Babylon. We are to keep the feast of unleavened bread for seven church age dispensation, and all leaven must be purged out. This is what God is doing at this time, and only those who are partakers can be fit for rapture.
Enoch walked with the Lord, and He had a testimony that he pleased God. That is the same position God is expecting us to assume. Those who don’t please Him can’t go in the rapture. The rapture is for those who have set their affections on things above. I implore you to walk with Him in newness of Spirit and come out of any gospel that is preaching this world to you. God did not promise us this world. It is reserved to be burned with fire! So, look above thee, and be in the program of your Creator.
Shalom!