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The Shout, The Voice of The Archangel and The Trump of God
In the previous episode, we did explain that the five-fold ministry is not the Voice of an Archangel in 1 Thessalonians 4:16. You can click here to read that. This will lead us today, to understanding the three ministries penned down in that verse.
The SHOUT
Quite alright, we know what the SHOUT is now. It is the message of the Seventh Messenger to the Seventh Church Age, who came in the spirit and power of Elijah -to turn the heart (faith) of the children to their Fathers. He fulfilled the ‘part b’ of Malachi 4:5-6, and this ministry has three descriptions in the bible, it is called the SHOUT, the CRY, and the VOICE.
And this message gave birth to the five-fold ministries who would continue the message of the SHOUT till the Church has come into the unity of faith, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the fullness of the stature of Christ. The ministry of the five-fold which God did not differentiate from the SHOUT was given for the perfecting of the Saint. That’s continuous work, right? Let me pause to say to you at this point, “that now is your time for perfection” You really are missing it, if you are postponing the things you ought to be doing now to make yourself ready for the rapture. God has not calved out any other way by which He would perfect His church, aside from this ministry of the five-fold, which is a continuation of the SHOUT. You saw from scriptures, that when the MIDNIGHT CRY was made, all the virgins arose and began to trim their lambs. Are you trimming your lamb, O sleeping virgin, or do you still want to sleep a little? It might be later than you think. Wake up!!
- There is no way you can hear the Voice of Resurrection if you did not hear the SHOUT!
Can God Give the Fivefold New Revelation?
We cannot say that the totality of the mysteries encoded in scriptures was revealed by the Prophet-Messenger. He may have hinted at it one way or the other in his sermons but not detailed. It is the responsibility of the five-fold, as God gives them the grace to expound the truth of God to God’s elects and prepare them for the GROOM. The BRIDE belongs to One -that is, the GROOM -JESUS CHRIST. The five-fold ministers are therefore stewards, and eunuchs, to adorn the bride with the desires of the Groom and present them as Chaste Virgins, not corrupted by the mess of religion, drinking from the cup of fornication of the Great Harlot, or even with the mere statements of the Seventh Messenger which cannot be underpinned by the Bible. We don’t build upon the quotes of the Prophet and expect to be a bride adorned for the bridegroom. Even those in the message should be more careful. The sermons and sermon books of the Prophet are “an absolute” that should lead you to “the ABSOLUTE” -which is the BIBLE.
God can give them new revelations, but their revelation will not terminate the ministry of the Star Messenger, otherwise, they are perverting the gospel to their own damnation.
More so, where the Prophet made dual statements or statements that don’t outrightly have scriptural backings, the five-fold will straighten them out by the scripture, and not just gulp everything said by the Prophet. The Bible remains THE ABSOLUTE! And every man’s word should bow to it.
“…Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:”
The Voice of the Archangel
Moving to the next ministry in 1Thessalonains 4:16 is the “VOICE OF THE ARCHANGEL”, which we did explain to us that, it is not the ministry of the fivefold, which some people are saying is today.
It would not be out of place to say that the next two ministries (the voice of the archangel and the trump of God) are not teaching ministry. The SHOUT which holds the mystery of God, in which the end of it would conclude the en-grafting of the Gentiles will put an end to doctrines and teaching. This we see displayed in the five-fold ministry. The Church has been perfected, the wise virgins have trimmed their lamb and are ready for the coming of the bridegroom. Thus, the VOICE of the ARCHANGEL is neither coming to perfect an unbelieving brother nor wake a carnal sister, the SHOUT had taken care of that. These subsequent ministries are only for those who have been perfected by the SHOUT, it is not for the world at large.
- If the world must believe Christ, now is their time, the Lifeline is still very much available, that is why you should continue to preach the gospel, the world should hear the SHOUT, and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ. Throw out the lifeline now! Save a brother!
The voice of the archangel was mentioned in the Bible, in Revelation 10:1-3:
And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire: And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth, And cried with a loud VOICE, as when a lion roareth: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices.
This Mighty Angel is the very personification of the Lord Jesus Christ (Yes, Jesus in an Angelic form), ready to come for His bride. This loud VOICE is a ministry that sounded in the heavenly realm, and the implication of this voice brought about the seven thunders uttering their voices. Could this VOICE be of RESURRECTION? For when it sounded, and the trump followed, the dead in Christ will rise as Paul explained it in Thessalonians. We can be sure that, whatever it holds, the effect of this ministry will affect both the living Saint and the Dead saint. Without a doubt, the VOICE of this Mighty Angel is the Voice of the Archangel.
- Let me iterate here that when God moves to the ministry of this VOICE, the message of the SHOUT will be over. We will no longer need the CRY of the Seventh Angel -it has expired.
To clearly understand this, we need to consider from scriptures, the ministry of angels but before that, you need to know this:
- The bride would have been in a certain condition before she would be able to hear this VOICE and receive the message of the TRUMP. Yes, she would be able to see/hear the Supernatural.
The Ministry of Angels
Genesis 16:7, Genesis 19:1, Genesis 1:1, Hebrew 2:5, 2 Peter 2:4, Isaiah 14:12, Jude 1:6, Hebrew 1:4, Genesis 1:26, 1 King 22:19
Meanwhile, the first time the word, ‘angel’ was seen in scriptures is in Genesis 16:7. This was when Hagar was by the water in the wilderness. Although there was no place in the scriptures where we saw the creation of the angels, of course, they were created. Interestingly, there was a world in Genesis 1:1, which we call the “Prehistoric World”, this was the world of angels, where Lucifer was the head. That was the world that was frozen by God when a part of the angels fell from their first estate at the deceit of Lucifer who became the devil at his rebellion. That was why in verse three, (which of course spanned eons of years apart from verse 1), God came to recreate the world again out of her chaos. The world wherein Adam lived and was given authority over did not begin the history of the earth at inception. Archaeologists today are still discovering bones of dinosaurs and many other animals whose ages are millions of years and more. They are correct! The earth has been for ‘only God knows’ years -to say in million years could even be an understatement. The angels lived with these giant animals, and Lucifer was both the head of the angels and the animals. No sooner than he began to conceive pride in himself, he smuggled one-third of the angels to himself through his subtlety. And God judged both the angels that fell and the world. That was what rendered the world in gross darkness and was left in shambles. It is important to understand that the earth is not 6000 years old.
Angels are messengers and servants of God. They are both spirits and flames of fires -ministers to the heirs of salvation. Since servants, they respond to God’s bidding. Thus, it should not be difficult to understand that when God said, “let us make man in our image”, he wasn’t talking to other Gods, (No, there are no three Gods). He was referring to his angels, declaring His intention to them, not that they would help Him in creating man.
When John was to be born, when Jesus was to be born, God sent an angel to herald their message. Angel Gabriel went to Zachariah, as well as to Mary. [Luke 1:13, Luke 1:26-38]. Things are settled in the spirit realm before materializing on earth for humans to see. When the gospel will return to the Jews by the ministry of Moses and Elijah, we saw an occurrence of angels in Revelation 7. Asides from the four angels who hold the winds of the earth, there was another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God. This angel spoke to the four angels to, “…not harm the earth, the sea or the trees till we have sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads.” [Revelation 7:3]. This ministry of the angel is the ministry of the two witnesses God would send to the land of Israel in their last week, to seal one hundred and forty-four thousand man-servants for the everlasting gospel. This would happen in the first half of their week (three and half years). Thus, angels have always been servants of God, saddled with heavenly responsibilities, whose effect, men on earth would see.
One profound understanding of this Voice of the Archangel is that it is a Voice of Resurrection -it will cause the dead in Christ to resurrect. We see a type of this in the scenario of Jesus and Lazarus. Jesus Christ, after four days of Lazarus’ death, went down to wake him. And the bible records that Jesus cried with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come forth!”, and he who was dead came forth alive.
In Matthew 27, when Jesus was crucified, at some point on the tree, when He was about to give up His ghost, he cried with a loud voice, that caused the veil of the temple to rent, the earth to quake, and the graves were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep in the Lord were raised. Hallelujah! It is no secret what God can do, what He has done before, He’s able to do it again! The Voice of the Archangel is Jesus Christ in an Angelic form, in a spiritual phenomenon -yes, it is what happened in the heavenly realm. No voice will resound on earth for everyone to hear. In fact, the only ministry that the earth (all people) would hear out of these three ministries is the SHOUT. The remaining are for the brides of Christ. Considering these precedences, when the Bible says, “…and the dead in Christ shall rise first”, we can understand that there is a voice of resurrection in the line. Amen!
The Trump of God
Trumpet in Israel has quite a few signals because it is used to pass certain messages. We should be able to calibrate our hearts to the distinctions to know what message a trumpet at a time is passing across. There is the sounding of the trumpet for war, there is the sounding of the trumpet for the feast, and there is the sounding of the trumpet for gathering. The sounding of one differs from another. They neither would give an uncertain sound, else, no one would decode what that means, nor would they misconstrue their sounds for another -because it may lead to doing the otherwise. Imagine hearing a sound of war, when the intention is for the feast, instead of coming with eating utensils for food, it is armor and warfare garment. Thus, a trumpet should not give an uncertain sound.
Our prophet (William Branham) told us, however, that this trump is for gathering. And following the sequence of what God has been doing, that is true. The Shout has called forth God’s people out of the leaven of the false doctrine and ungodly lifestyle into the liberty of the Spirit where they are led by the Spirit of God, and she has been perfected under that Shout through the Five-fold ministry meant to bring her up to the fullness of the stature of the perfect man. Then the Voice of the Archangel has sounded in the heavenly realm -that which the dead saints also would hear and receive revival in the graves, and now the Trump to gather both the living and the dead saints together (this is called the Great Gathering). At this point, Christ is ready to catch His earthly bride away to heaven for the Grand Wedding Supper for a period of seven years.
This trump is a message and is going to be sounded by some men (God knowing His works perfectly well), and that is the hope of every believer of the true gospel of Christ. This ministry would cause the full adoption of our bodies because we know that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God. We must put off this prison so-called body and enter the full liberty of our salvation, even the glorified body that Christ has prepared for His own. There is no death, no sickness, no pain, no sorrow in that body. That is when death would be swallowed up in victory. Paul saw this and screamed, “Oh death, where is your sting, oh grave, where is your victory”. Immortality will swallow up death, and we would reign eternally with our Lovely Groom! All who have this hope in themselves purify themselves! Amen!
See what 1Cortinthians 15:51-53 says:
Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
Brethren, this is our assurance, that if we stay faithful in God’s program which He has called us to be partakers, we would have a fruitful end. Shalom!
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The Voice of 1 Thessalonians 4:16 is Not the Ministry of the Five-fold
In scriptures, the brides of Jesus Christ are promised three different ministries, by which they can be perfected, and fit to meet their Lord in the air. And it will do us good to pay diligence to understand how Christ intends to have His bride raptured so that we can position ourselves right for that glorious appearance.
Text: Malachi 4:4-6, Ephesians 4:11-13, 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17, Revelation 19:11-13, John 3:26-31, John 1:35-37, Revelation 10:1-3, Revelation 10:7, Matthew 25:1-6, Acts 19:1-5, Act 18:24-26, Exodus 14:1-2, Joshua 1:1-6, Joshua 3:14-17, Matthew 9:16.
The coming of Jesus Christ for His earthly bride is first spiritual before His physical coming. Christ, who is the WORD would first come to establish His bride in divine intimacy and union to the end that the brides are blessed with an assurance of resurrection (even if they sleep) for the rapture of the Church. An assurance that comes through a Knowing (knowledge), sustained by intimate fellowship as of a man with his wife. And without muddling words, Christ indeed has come in the WORD-FORM for His bride, and gradually through spiritual intercourse, she’s being made perfect -to the stature of the fullness of Christ to receive her Lord. Just as every man has a taste of what he wants in his wife, Christ does, and even more. So, He fashioned out ways by which He would present Himself a glorious Church, not having spots or wrinkles, such that Christ would see her at the end and exclaim, “This is my truly Wife!” Do you desire to be amongst them? Then stay with me as we receive enlightenment from the scriptures on how to position ourselves for this great blessing.
We did say that Christ has come in the WORD-FORM, and I’m sure you’re curious to ask, how? Before the first coming of Christ, and in this second coming, a ministry of Elijah was promised to awake those who would not miss Him when He comes on the scene, Let’s see that in Malachi 4:5-6:
Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord: And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.
Unequivocally, there are two ministries here, joined together by the conjunction, “and”, but these ministries are thousands of years apart. The first part of this ministry is for the first coming of Christ, God would raise a man in the anointing of Elijah (not the Elijah of Tishbite), to forerun the first coming of Christ, and that was fulfilled by John the Baptist. He would turn the heart of the Jewish fathers to the Apostles of Christ (who then would be the children). The second part of this promise in Malachi was for the end time before Christ would come for the Church. Another ministry would rise with the same anointing of Elijah to point the people (who of course must have derailed from the Faith of the Apostles which Jesus Christ sowed in them due to the darkness that Satan would fight the Church with) to the faith of the Apostolic Fathers of Jesus Christ. God who knew beforehand that Satan would sow tares amongst His wheat had already smoothed out a way to bring His elect out of darkness, ever before it’ll happen. Glory to His Name!
The Second Elijah of Malachi 4:5-6
First, let’s discuss the essence of this ministry.
Christ established His Church on the day of Pentecost, and through Paul, the gospel light came to us -Gentiles. A commandment was given us in Jude to earnestly contend for that Faith that was delivered unto them because Christ would not have a substitute of that Faith to Himself, He is coming to harvest the exact He sowed. This means that our defense to being considered as members of Christ’s body is our being in that Faith of the Lord Jesus Christ, and Satan, knowing this, would fight us so that we would either not hold to the Faith at all, or give us something else as a substitute, and that would not guarantee any resurrection. The Devil did just exactly this, in the process of time, people began to slip away from the truth, submitting to the deception of Satan that crept into the Church seemingly harmless, people began to breed suggestions that are not bad in themselves, but are unscriptural. The growth of this led to a deep slumbering and sleeping of the church. The tarrying of the Bridegroom caused all (both wise and foolish) to sleep. This simply means that they went haywire in the religion, it was a heyday for the doctrines of men to thrive above what Jesus handed over to the disciples. The Bible was taken away from people, and the revelation of the word was completely lost. By the time we get to the last church age, Jesus who was before, in the midst of the Seven Golden Candlesticks, is now outside, knocking and seeking entrance. He had been pushed out of His church through the traditions of men. What is He going to do to wake men up out of the quagmire they found themselves, out of their deep sleep in the error of what God cannot fellowship in? He had to send a ministry. Hallelujah! This is the ministry of the second Elijah of Malachi 4:5-6.
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 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. Matthew 25:1-6
He came to wake the church world up with a SHOUT, “BEHOLD THE BRIDEGROOM IS COMING, COME OUT TO MEET HIM”. Yes, this messenger was the only one God did not allow to sleep in the mess of religion. He screamed out with a CRY and call out to those who had ears to hear.
His ministry had three descriptions in the Bible, to show you the importance of His message in this last age. If not for this message, Christ would have nothing to harvest upon coming for the church, He would have no more to do than smite the earth with a curse.
- His ministry was referred to as the SHOUT, the CRY, and the VOICE!
Of course, if you must wake someone who is lost and gone in a deep sleep, do you whisper his name to wake him up -especially when he was drunk to sleep? No! Instead, you SHOUT! And because you know the importance of his waking up out of his mess, you will not stop until he is fully awake!! The messenger God used was the Angel to the last church age -the Laodicea Church Age. Christ, who in His good pleasure had planned to have a bride for Himself nonetheless sent us this message of the SHOUT. There is so much relevance in this message, that the death of the messenger would not end the message. The message would not expire even if the pioneer is off the scene.
But in the days of the VOICE of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets. Revelation 10:7
WHAT IS THE MYSTERY OF GOD?
Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ) Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit; That the Gentiles should be fellow heirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel: Ephesians 3:4-6
The above scripture explains to us this same ministry of Elijah, which fulfilled the second part of Malachi 4:5-6b, telling us that when this VOICE begins to sound, “…the mystery of God should be finished…”
The mystery of God is the engrafting of the Gentiles into the Vine. This means that what God started through Paul, shining the Light to the Gentiles should be finished in the days of the VOICE of this Seventh Angel.
Here comes the question we need to resolve, because, it pleased God to fulfill this ministry through the man, William Marrion Branham. We know that confidently, without any shadow of a doubt. But this humble servant of God has slept in the Lord, does it mean God has finished engrafting the Gentiles? Does it mean no Gentile can be saved anymore since the pioneer of this message is no longer on earth? Has the mystery of God come to an end? Is God done with the Gentiles? We can go on and on with questions. But there is an answer.
“…in the days of the voice…” is talking about the days of his message, regardless of whether the Seventh Messenger is still alive. God knew best how to further this message (VOICE) so that His will would be accomplished. It wasn’t written that in the days of the messenger, but rather in the days of his voice, which is the days of his message. This brings us to Ephesians 4:11-13
The Fivefold Ministry
And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ:
The message Jesus brought did not vanish when Jesus went up to heaven, the disciples of Jesus Christ were saddled with the responsibility to contend for that faith and carry it to other nations of the earth. The ministry of Jesus produced the apostles. The same thing with Paul, when God decided to shine His Light amongst us who are drawn to dumb idols, it lightens us up, and it of course birthed ministries even amongst us. The ministry of Paul produced Titus, Timothy, and many more.
Yes, when the church entered darkness during the church ages, the gifts also slept even as men slept in the doctrines of men. And the SHOUT which came forth to wake us up to meet the bridegroom woke the gifts in the lives of men likewise. These gifts of the apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, of teachers, would continue the SHOUT of the Seventh Messenger. When you believe the Message of the hour, you become a messenger yourself, because God is not done engrafting the Gentiles to be fellow heirs of the gospel.
The Fivefold Ministry did not put an end to the message of the SHOUT, instead, it continues it. The Ministry of the Fivefold is a continuation of the SHOUT, being a baby of the ministry of the Seventh Angel.
The Misplacement of the Fivefold Ministry
There is a doctrine in town, that the ministry of the fivefold is the “voice of the archangel” in 1Thessalonains 4:16, How true is this?
This is in no way scriptural! Believing that the ministry of the fivefold is the voice of the archangel is believing that:
- The message of Malachi 4:5-6b has expired,
- The mystery of God (the engrafting of the Gentiles) has ended.
And this has no root in the scriptures. What then is the fate of us who believe after the going home of the Seventh Angel if the ministry of the Fivefold is the voice of the archangel? Does it mean no Gentile can be saved anymore?
- The fivefold Ministry is a continuation of the SHOUT, God did not differentiate the ministry of the fivefold from the CRY of the Seventh Church Messenger -the engrafting of the Gentiles is not finished yet! AMEN
Friends and Elders, we are supposed to be circumspect, rightly dividing the word of truth. The Voice of the Archangel in 1Thessalonians 4:16 is not the voice of the Ministry of the Fivefold.
In our next episode, we would explain the ministries in 1 Thessalonians 4:16, which are the three ministries by which Christ would minister to His bride, before He comes for her physically, as earlier pointed out in this episode.
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The Divine Measurement of Time
In this subject, we want to see by the scriptures how many years it took God to create the whole earth. Is God’s time, day, year, or even hour the same as we humans? The answer is No, God’s own time is absolutely different from ours, his calculation, and analysis of time is divine and prophetic. An example is revelation 10:7 – But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets. Days in this context is not 24hrs rather it’s a prophetic day. Now let us pick some references from the scriptures to explain this subject:
Text: Isaiah 40:26-27, Psalm 90:4, 2Peter 3:5-8, Isaiah 55:8, Daniel 9:23, Isaiah 14:12, 2Peter 2:4, Jude 1:6, Revelation 12:4, Jeremiah 4:23, Job 38:4, Isaiah 6:1, Isaiah 45:1, Hosea 6:2, Genesis 2:17, Genesis 3:21, Isaiah 65:20
Daniel Seventy Weeks (Daniel 9:23)
We have the following timing detailed out in the above scriptures – Seventy weeks, seven-week, two weeks, by our own human calculation seventy weeks is about a year and 3 months with little add ups, but with God, it depicts many years, which is about 490 years prophetically. Also, you will agree with me that seven weeks by human calculation is not up to two months, but with God, it outlines a period that is more than 3 years prophetically. This goes to tell us that God’s divine measurement of time and time itself is way different from natural time and its measurement, and there is a need for us believers to understand God’s time and how he measures it. (Amen).
Anything we are preaching must be validated by the scriptures, you can’t pick quotes from the sermons of books of the prophet (William Marion Branham) and build doctrines on them, every quote must align with the scriptures. Anything short of this is erotic. Now let us check out Apostle Peter’s revelation on God’s measurement of time.
2Peter 3:8 – But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day.
When do we apply this scripture? Is it at the beginning or end of the new testament? No, it has to be from the beginning (Genesis), because it’s a divine measurement of time. David in psalms 90:4 also gave a revelation of God’s measurement of time which correlates with the revelation apostle peter was sharing in his epistle, so brethren we can’t afford to ignore this, we must apply this scripture and find its root from the beginning.
How many years did it take God to create The Earth?
Now when we talk about time and days, it did not start from Genesis 1:1, God did not create the earth within 6 days as it is commonly explained. Follow along as we answer the question that just sprung up in your heart.
Genesis 1:1 – In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
Genesis 1:1 ended with a full stop, there was no specified timing on how long it took to complete its creation. Time, day, and month did not start in the above scripture, nobody knows when or how long. God created the heaven and the earth period! there was no plus no minus. But when you extend further to the fifth verse, the first-day activity has nothing to do with Genesis 1:1, because prior to that, something had happened. So, what took place? verse 2 gives an answer – And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters,
Brethren God cannot create something that is void and without form, it’s not possible !!!, Do you want to tell me that when God created the heaven and the earth in Genesis 1:1, he had to put them in darkness? That’s not possible, the earth he created was occupied, I’m sure you want to ask “occupied with or by what”? It was a world occupied by angels, gigantic animals, etc. it was called the pre-historic world, a timeless world, and the head of that world was Lucifer, not Devil. Lucifer became devil. I’m sure you want to ask how? Follow along as we give answers to these questions.
The earth is the footstool of God, not his dwelling place he created it for dominion, the first world was governed by lucifer, and we can see this world in Isaiah 14:12 – 27, and in that world, lucifer was tested and he failed which resulted to judgment; more reasons why believers need to be careful with God and not get too comfortable, No matter the position, or ministry God has placed in our hands we need to know that God will test us, no man is immune to God’s test, if you fail, God will judge you. The first world was judged by God because they failed his test, and this brought about the change of name from Lucifer to Devil and angels to fallen angels, I pray God will not change our names as children of God, because of our rebellious acts. (Amen)
The money, Education, beauty, and knowledge God gave you, he will test you with them, in as much as you are a child of God, you will be tested for spiritual fitness. He tested Adam, he tested the Lord Jesus Christ, then why do you think you’ll be exempted? The failure of Lucifer and his converted angels to pass God’s test brought about the destruction we saw in Genesis 1:2 because they were not spared.
2peter 2:4 – For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
Jude 1:6 – And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
Revelation 12:4 – And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.
They were cast out of the then world and were judged as a result of rebelliousness. Today we have them as demons disturbing this present world because they had lost their place and final destruction awaits them.
Now we need to project our understanding beyond what scientists are defining for us, today we have people say that the earth was created 6000 years ago, but that’s not the world God first created, I believe we must have gotten this understanding. The first world God created was timeless, he created the first world and destroyed it as a result of sin. Jeremiah saw the destruction of the first world in a vision. (Jeremiah 4:23). The earth that was created 6000 years ago was a reformation, a recreation of what was destroyed, and that is why water was not recreated nor was land recreated, they had been before the reformation, all God did was to call them out because they existed before.
God Created Three world (Heaven and Earth)
God Is perfected in three (3). Mind you there is no three God, and this we can see in the creation of the world, there are three worlds created by God:
- Genesis 1:1
- Recreation of the first world under the care of Adam (Adamic World)
- A new Heaven and new Earth yet to come (Revelation 21)
The third one which is to come is our world, I beseech us not to miss this because it’s a world with unspeakable joy and peace. It’s a world where we would not have to worry about things in this present world, it’s a world free from sin. And we are waiting for that third world that is without corruption because God has judged the first one, he’s coming to judge this present one, and the third one is coming to stay. (Hallelujah).
More emphasis can be seen in Job 38:4, it was more of a question where God had to ask Job where he was when he laid the foundation of the earth, he had no answer because obviously, no one has the answer to the specific time it took God to create the earth.
The whole time you and I will spend on earth in the eyes of God is not up to an hour, and this period is a testing time for you and me, it is how we use the allotted time that will determine our position in the kingdom of God. Salvation is free but the position in the kingdom of God is not free, it’s by your Labor here on earth. When the things of God are going on and you’re an observer, you are making yourself wretched and poor in the world to come.
Is God the creator one or Three?
In all of this understanding shared it’s important to know if God who created the heaven and the earth is one or three, the Bible definitely has the right answer to this question. When God was saying in Genesis 1:27, let us create man in our own image, he wasn’t talking to any other god just like we have this misconception around denominational churches today, brethren he was talking to his trusted angels, the ones that survived his test in the pre-historic world, the ones he gave the key to true worship. Isaiah in Isaiah 6:1-8 saw in a vision how the almighty God was worshipped in the beauty of his holiness by the angels who kept their first estate, he saw the glory of God and was humbled. This vision further explained how God projected a message to his seraphim asking who is ready to carry a message to the people and Isaiah responded to be used, this gives a clear picture of one God who created the universe, so it is foolishness to say God was talking to himself or talking to another co-equal god in Genesis 1:27.
God in Recreation (Isaiah 45:18)
God did not create the earth to be formless he created the world for habitation, so after the first destruction he didn’t start something different, he commanded things back to existence because they were there on the onset, it was sin that brought darkness to all things and that’s why Genesis 1:3 depicts God calling back things to life.
Genesis 1:3 – And God said, let there be light: and there was light.
The light was not something that never existed, it was called back for reformation and here is a crucial thing we have to know about this process, when God commanded the light to be, it not something that just sprang up in seconds at all !!, God followed nature, because he’s a God of nature and he doesn’t contradict it accept for some specific mission. Even the womb of Mary carried Jesus for 9 months without bridging nature. Being a God of process, he had to reform the earth following his process. Nothing was recreated magically at all!!, he took his time to call back things to their positions. It’s is here we can relate with apostle peter understanding of God’s measurement of time where he said that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. God followed his protocols when he started calling back what has been in the pre-historic world.
New creation in the second world started in Genesis 1:21, where man was created to dominate the second world because the first world where angels dominated had been judged. The creation of Adam was not once, he created him in the spirit first before he was later formed into a body, and you can’t tell me God did that in just 24 hours, God’s measurement of time is not in 24hrs, nobody knows how long it took for God to call things back to life and also create the few things in created in the second world. Even before eve was brought as a helpmate in the garden of Eden, you cannot tell me all of that happened within 24hrs.
Explanation of day in God’s Language
Hosea 6:1 – 2 – Come, and let us return unto the Lord: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. 2, After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.
Two days in this context is a divine measurement of time, which represent years in the sight of God, it talks about God allotted time for the Jews, to sprout revival among it’s people.
Zachariah 14: 6 – And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark: 7 But it shall be one day which shall be known to the Lord, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light.
9 And the Lord shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one Lord, and his name one.
“In that day” as depicted in the above scripture is not even 10 years. That one day that shall be known to God is the whole gentile age from Ephesus to Laodicean (The Church ages). Laodicean age which started in 1906, God called it the evening of that same day. In verse 9 of the same chapter, we can see the event of the millennium described to be one day, a period where God will be King over all the earth. All of these instances by the scripture explain God’s measurement of time, which is totally different from our natural time. A day with God represents 1000yrs, not 24 hours.
Matthew 12:8 – For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day.
This is not talking about the seventh day of the week, it’s talking about a thousand years when the son of man the Lord Jesus Christ shall be king over the earth. This goes to tell us that every man on earth don’t have up to two hours to spend before God the question is “How are you spending your own allotted time on earth”?
Genesis 2:17 – But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
The question to ask from the above scripture is “That day Adam and Eve ate the fruit did they die?” the answer is NO, you may say they die spiritually, but that is not the death God was talking about, because it means we are all created to die and it is not sin that brought death, meaning God created man to die anytime. The day in this context is not 24 hours, with God it’s a thousand years and that’s why if you check the scripture from the beginning none of them could spend up to one day (1000 years) before dying. Adam spent 930 years, methuselah couldn’t make it to a day, he died at 967 and others. We are all dying before the expiration of one day in the sight of God because sin has brought death and you can beat the Law of God.
Brethren, it’s not a time to be annoyed at the word of God, never allow the word to sound like an insult to you, let it purge you now that is coming to you. Let the word of God hit at your flesh now so that your allotted time on earth will not be a waste
The Lord Bless you.
Has the Message of Malachi 4:5-6 Expired?
The controversies notwithstanding, we cannot be quiet about the fact that God did send us a prophet messenger for this age (Laodicea) in the person of William Marrion Branham. God, through him, fulfilled Malachi 4:6b, of course, a star in the right hand of God. The question now is, since this ministry is fulfilled already, can we say that his ministry has expired? Follow me as we scripturally answer this question.
Text: Matthew 24:24, Malachi 4:5-6, Genesis 3:15, 1Corinthinas 10:1, 1John 1:1-4, Malachi 4:5, 1Corinthians 1:11-, 2Peter 3:15, Philippians 1:12, Galatians 2:7-, 2Timothy 1:8, Revelation 1:20, Matthew 16:1-2, Psalms 119:105, John 9:4, Matthew 11:14, Act 19:1-5
First of all, it was in the mind of God that a new covenant would be established different from what was given to the children of Israel. Through Moses, the law was established for the children of Israel. These commandments were what made them peculiar people to God, that was what differentiated them from every other person in the world. Amen! We have two sets of people in the world according to scriptures: we have the Jews and the Gentiles. Through Moses and other Prophets, God dealt with them, in accordance with the covenant at work with them -the Old Testament.
At a point in time, the children of Israel were drawn to idols under King Ahab, and the commandment of God was obscured from the people such that they didn’t even know their God any longer. Then, God sent His Witness to them -Elijah. The children of Israel were sent two major prophets who, spiritually, are the two witnesses of God having earthly commission. Elijah came up to restore the people back to God and he stood firm against the doctrine (god) of Baal which Jezebel subtly enticed the people with, thus conquering them (Nicolaitan spirit). We see three spirits to be wrestled with against the standard of God’s truth (Nicolaitan spirit, Baal spirit and Jezebel spirit). 1 Kings 18 gives us this record and of course, it’s a known story. Since the debate was between who the true God was, the prophets of baal were summoned to call on their god and likewise did Elijah agree to call on his God, and whosoever answers by fire, would be the true God. This exercise was not foreign to the baal worshippers, their god was a god of fire, meaning they should have the result calling on their god, except that the True God would be known. The prophets of Baal were put to shame and the true God was made known to men. God used the ministry of this Elijah to establish the truth again in the land of Israel.
Because of this type of ministry, and the sovereignty of God to witness Himself throughout the world, He planned that He would raise people to function in the power and spirit of Elijah. Remember that Elisha took up the double portion of Elijah’s anointing which means he also functioned in the ministry of Elijah. Scripturally, this anointing of Elijah would function five times, but let’s consider what pertains to us.
The Gospel
When it was time for God to establish the new covenant, He sent a man to prepare the way before the Messenger of that Covenant would come as seen prophesied in Malachi 3:1
“Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts.”
This ministry was fulfilled by John the Baptist, he was the one God used to prepare the way before the Testator of the New Covenant. His ministry was to the Jewish fathers to point them to the new curve God would be taking through Jesus Christ who is the Messenger of the New Covenant. The Bible explains this to us.
And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord. Luke 1:17
The fathers are the Jews who would be on earth to witness the new shift of the New Covenant, their heart (faith) would be converted to the faith of what the ministry of Jesus Christ would produce. And of course, the ministry of Jesus Christ did produce the apostles of the New Testament -who are referred to in the above scripture as “children”.
On the day of Pentecost, after Jesus had done what was needed for us to have the Holy Spirit. The Bible made us know that all men would be drawn to God once Jesus is glorified, and when he died and tendered his stainless blood on the throne of mercy, privilege was given to us to have the rivers of living water flow through us. And this was experienced first on the day of Pentecost, after they waited for ten days, the Holy Spirit descended on them, and God began to establish the modus operandi of the New Covenant. When Peter stood to preach the gospel to those who came near, surprised at their staggering, he showed them the right way of entering into the salvation Jesus brought us. He said in Act 2:38
And Peter says to them, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Ghost”
Before you argue with Peter, I hope you know that he was the one given the key of the kingdom, and if you must have the Holy Spirit, you need to repent first and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ, then you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit which is the seal of your salvation. You are not saved until you baptize in the name of Jesus Christ and are filled with the Holy Spirit. Amen! When Paul met the disciples of John in Acts 19 who had not the Spirit of God yet, Paul was moved to ask them by what name they were baptized. When he realized they still had the baptism of John, he showed them the New Covenant standard and when they heard the word, they were rebaptized in the name of Jesus Christ. This should let you know there is no other way.
This was what John came to forerun. Yes, but we need to establish that this John came in the power and spirit of “Elijah” which had been prophesied in Malachi. Let’s consider Malachi.
Malachi 4:5-6
“Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord: And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.”
From the scripture above, we realized two different days which definitely would have two different ministries but both in the power and spirit of Elijah. If you can recall Luke 1:17, you would realize that John the Baptist was the first Elijah who fulfilled the first aspect of the ministry –turning the heart of the fathers to the children.
The two events were joined together by the conjunction “and”. God used to join events that are thousands of years apart with this conjunction, we shouldn’t let that confuse us, please. Having this knowledge, it will be needed to know if the second ministry of Elijah has fulfilled, who fulfilled it and when it was fulfilled, and more so, consider if the fulfillment of the second ministry brought about the expiration of the ministry. But before then, we should consider if the ministry of the first Elijah (John the Baptist expired)
Can a Message Expire?
Truly, a message can expire and so is a ministry. The ministry of John the Baptist has expired (John 10:41). He was sent to prepare the way, and his ministry should decrease the moment the ministry if Jesus Christ is established. The Bible made us understand that John was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness to that Light. What men need is the Light, because everyone who would see God at the end of their race on earth must be lightened up by this Light (Jesus Christ). So, the expiration of his message did not come by his death (no, the death of a messenger does not make the message expire). That was why when Paul saw some disciples of John without the Holy Spirit, he made them know they were carrying over a message that had expired and showed them the new way of baptism.
Another reason for the expiration of his ministry was because he didn’t really come to restore anything, he only came to point men to Jesus Christ who was bringing the New Testament. There would not be any restoration to be done yet, because the New testament is just in view to establishing. The restoration of Malachi 4:5-6 would be accomplished by the second Elijah, we would know the reason for this very soon.
The Gentile Time
Yes, known to God are all His works from the beginning. He had a mystery locked up in Himself to engraft the Gentiles into the commonwealth of Israel such that we can partake of the blessings of Abraham, this mean that the Gentile would be converted from serving their dumb idols to serve the living God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Oh, He had a plan that the middle wall of partition would be broken down and there wouldn’t be differences between Jews and Greeks any longer, for all will be reconciled in the ministry of Jesus Christ. And when God wanted to achieve this, he sent forth a man to bring the message to us -Gentiles, in the person of Paul. Paul was one of the foundational apostles of Jesus Christ through whom the arm of the Lord should spread towards the Gentiles. No one, who would know the true worship of Jehovah and despise the ministry of Paul, would worship right. In fact, the bible already revealed to us that in God’s dealership with the Gentiles, he’s going to operate with Seven stars that would last through the allotted dispensation for God to finish His work with the Gentiles -which of course will be seven dispensations. They are also called the seven church ages. Let’s see that;
“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.” -Revelation 1:20
Paul was one of these stars, who established the Gentiles in the true word of God. he showed us the right baptismal formula, he showed us the position of women in the ministry of Jesus Christ and many more. He simply expounded the Present Truth to us, which is the truth of the New Testament. Paul told us in 1Corinthians 9:17 that a dispensation of the gospel was committed to him. We can also check that up in Ephesians 3:2, Colossians 1:25.
Paul told Timothy in 2Timothy 1:8: “Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner:” Why do you think Paul told Timothy to not also be ashamed of him? Paul was an instrument through whom God shone His Light to the Gentiles. We wouldn’t have known how to approach the God of Israel as Gentiles if Paul was not sent to us. He was one of the foundation apostles who established the truth in the Gentile land. You cannot believe a message and not know the name of the messenger. Every age will have their Messenger (angel) through which the specific message for that age will be spoken. This should mean that, in order not to carry over an expired message, you need to recognize YOUR DAY AND ITS MESSAGE. When you know your day, you will know how to live.
The shape the gospel would take through time was pictured in the seven churches Jesus selected to write to, when he summoned John on the isle of Patmos. Well, the devil is always fighting the things of God, he came for gospel, and sowed tares amongst the wheat of God, and no sooner than the church started, corruption began to set in as the men God used in establishing the truth slept in the Lord. A Mixture of truth and falsehood set in and the church began to commit spiritual fornication, hardly was the doctrines of the apostles known, to talk of believing it or acting on it. Satan fought the church with the three spirits we earlier talked about, and it became necessary for God to send the spirit of Elijah to combat the antichrist’s spirit that had taken over the churches through the ages, and it God deemed it fit to send this Elijah at the close of the ages, the seventh -Laodicea. Now we know why another Elijah was promised to restore us back to the truth. But in this context, the children are no longer children. As the age progressed, the children grew and became fathers and gave birth to children. I’m saying that the ministry of Jesus gave birth to Peter, Paul and the rest of them, and they grew up and gave birth to children. The second Elijah therefore, was to restore the heart of the children who are recipients of the last church age, the Laodicea to the Fathers (the apostles of Jesus Christ). In actual sense, we are restored to their faith, the revelation of the New Testament.
The Seventh Messenger
In Revelation 10:7, the bible says, “But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.”
Unequivocally, we can see that the mystery to engraft the Gentiles in had an allotted time span, and during the voice of the seventh angel, that mystery would end. So, we have a question: is the church in the last church age? Yes! Has God sent us Elijah? Yes! In the person of William Marrion Branham.
Truly, the ministry of Malachi 4:5-6 has been fulfilled. God used William Branham to fulfill the second aspect of the Elijah ministry needed to restore the heart of the children back to the Apostolic Fathers of Jesus Christ. More so, it pleased the Lord to fulfill this ministry in the last dispensation of the Gentile time, which is the Laodicea age, and a messenger’s voice will be relevant as long as his age lasts. Yes, this has indeed been fulfilled but the fulfillment does not render the ministry obsolete so long as his age lasts. Although the Prophet is dead, and has long gone since 1965, his message has not expired! Here’s why?
The restoration God did through William Branham was a staunch restoration from Genesis to Revelation, and His message points to the rapture! As John the Baptist was sent to forerun the first coming of Christ, he was sent with a message to forerun the second coming of Christ, and his restoring us to the whole bible truth, and our aligning to it to the letter makes us fit for the rapture. William Branham did not come with another message outside of the Bible, to say it as it is, His sole message was a shout that yelps, “BACK TO THE BIBLE”. When we are restored back to the Bible, then we can be revived thus, perfected.
If you happen to be in this age, let me take the bold to tell you that there’s no other message God is using to restore or will use to harvest His people in the rapture than the message He’s given to His humble messenger. We are not restored to Branham, but God through the sharp sword of His word and revelation through him, restore us back to HIMSELF. Amen!
Yes, this seventh messenger’s ministry also gave birth to the ministry of the fivefold, but that is in no way replacing the position of the seventh messenger. God is not an author of confusion, He won’t raise two voices in an age. We are in the seventh church age, and our messenger is William Branham.
Revival upon this generation can only come when we are in the ministry of Restoration. There’s nowhere God will meet with you except in the message of your day; God is not haphazard.
The Cry, The Shout and the Voice
There are three descriptions the Bible used in telling the ministry of the seventh messenger, all pointing to His ministry. Let’s check the scriptures for that:
“And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.” -Matthew 25:6
“For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout…” -1Thessalonians 4:16
“But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.” – Revelation 10:7
Praise God for this great ministry that revived us back to life, because except that God sent us the prophet, we would all be dead in religion, and our end can only be peril. The message, if you have heard it right, only points us back to one thing -the word of God. The prophet never used the ministry to build an empire for himself, thereby pointing to himself, he stayed with the word and his message was indeed one. The various idolatries we see amongst message believers today did not come from him, to say it really, those in that error are not even message believers, they are idolaters.
The Fivefold Ministry
Like I said before, the ministry of the prophet messenger of the seventh church age gave birth to another ministry. Because God through him had restored the church back to the original word of God, God can then begin a work of perfection, so that the church will be fit for rapture. And that was commissioned to the fivefold ministry. Let’s check the scripture:
And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; -Ephesians 4:11-14
God allowed the prophet to make dual statements, which he really did not live to explain them by the scriptures. Also, the revelation God gave to him needed to be expounded because the essence of God giving revelation is not so we could pile up intellectual properties, but to have a life worthy of the gospel. So, God decided to continue the furtherance of the message of the gospel through the fivefold ministry. But, the ministry of the fivefold cannot replace the position of the prophet. This ministry also is not different from the message of the prophet, but a continuation of it. The fivefold ministry is not preaching a different Godhead doctrine, not another baptism doctrine. There is nothing the fivefold (if she’s the true fivefold), is teaching that wasn’t gotten from the ministry of the seventh messenger. To think that the fivefold is an entirely different ministry from the Shout is nothing but self glorification. Again, God is only using her to further what God achieved through the message of William Branham. We should be humble, please.
The Present Truth
We’ve been able to establish that God only gave two covenants, the Old and the New. The old which came by Moses, and the New which came by Jesus Christ. Therefore, no fivefold ministry preaching a different message today and calling it the present truth is correct. The New Testament is the only present truth because it is actually different from what God brought through Moses. The New Testament which was established by Jesus Christ and through the apostles is the present truth, nothing more.
Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall: For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth. -2Peter 1:10-12.
In conclusion, let me ask you: have you recognized your day? Do you know its message? Have you seen the light? God has got no other medium of harvesting His own than with His pure word. Believe the word, believe the message, don’t make an idol out of the messenger but respect his position, you cannot replace him regardless of how anointed you are in your respective ministries. His ministry cannot be substituted with another. Don’t be part of those who demean the prophet all because they’re trying to avoid extremism. Read the sermon books -they point to the bible.
I encourage you to embrace the gift that God has sent to us in this age, don’t miss out. God has shown us the way brothers, it is none other than the message of the hour.
Balm in Gilead
Text: Jeremiah 8:19 – 22, Genesis 37:25, Jeremiah 46:11.
The inflexibility of humans is the reason they suffer different predicaments, and though God is ever willing to be a Father indeed to us, we care less of that, forsaking the things that pertain to our peace, thus suffering. Believers are beaten down with great injuries, battered here and there giving reasons for questioning, “Is there no balm in Gilead, are there no physicians, why are God’s people suffering?
In the Old Testament, we read of balm in Gilead. The balm is an ointment used to heal and soothe the skin, and Gilead is the place where the balm is gotten for healing. A physician is a specially trained person that knows what your sickness is and what to prescribe for you. In the New Testament, the church of God is the place where God meets with you for healing, the balm is His word and the physicians are the true servant of God trained by the Holy Spirit to diagnose our ailments and prescribe the necessary healing.
In the natural, we know that abuse of drugs is taking drugs without a doctor’s prescription. Anyone sick would desire to heal and therefore would not go to a quack doctor, and you also want to be sure the drugs prescribed to you would work for your healing. You can’t get results by taking another medication for a different ailment, instead, it doubles your problem. Spiritually, you cannot be sick, get a different drug and you expect to be healed. Let’s check the various tendencies around sickness and healing and how it is in relation to our spiritual life:
- When you’re sick, the first thing is a diagnosis. If you are not properly diagnosed, there can’t be a way out of your sickness. Come to think of going to a man who is not a trained medical practitioner, and he diagnoses something different in you, has he not caused you more trouble? We have lots of seminary-trained pastors who know nothing more than letters and rhythms, taking your life to such people will only ruin your life the more. A Christian does not know how many Gods he is serving because that’s what he’s been fed with. What you eat will determine how you will live. You cannot live a quality spiritual life under falsehood and wrong doctrines. When you reject a God-given physician’s instruction, you forfeit your healing.
- After diagnosis, the next thing is prescription: the problem really is that we are trying to be smart, neglecting the prescribed drugs. Have you a child who is sick and instead of using his drugs, throws them away, he is not doing anyone but himself. People suffer because they have no love for truth, they don’t want to receive the word of God, yet want to heal. Natural sicknesses kill truly, but the greatest sickness that kills is sin, and guess what, there is no drug to cure you of sin, the solution is in surrendering to the word of God. You can’t pray yourself out of sins whilst neglecting the word of God. The only way you can have success is by accepting the word of God. Are you taking your pills, rightly? Are you even taking the right pills? To have good success is to do according to the word of God. Whilst people are rejecting the word of God, despising their healing, and living a life of bondage, here’s is what the scripture says regarding those who accept Him: “But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:”
- It’s okay you’ve been diagnosed, it’s okay the physician has prescribed your drugs, but you have to take the responsibility to use the drugs as prescribed. Spiritual healing doesn’t come by taking too many different drugs, only the ‘balm’ in ‘Gilead’ can heal you. When the people desired spiritual healing in the upper room, Peter told them: “Repent and be baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. You cannot boycott your way to having the Holy Spirit. Follow that instruction strictly and you will see the result -healing! God does not have an alternative, only His word. The condition of the churches today is because she has refused to apply the balm. The balm is available, the physicians are available, but people love darkness.
You must be desirous of that balm in Gilead to experience spiritual wholesomeness. And that means you have to go all the way to Gilead (the presence of the Lord), regardless of what it’s going to cost you, and your request is one -the balm that can soothe for your healing (the pure word of God). As you meditate on it day and night, you avail yourself of good success
Mixture
Have you considered that the word of God is truly pure as the scriptures say it? If so, have you been able to purely respond to that pure word? On the flip side, what if you’re mixing something else with the word, how pure will your result be? There are many kinds of mixtures -some which can be good whilst some, bad. Most of the time, when a bad mixture is formulated, it is impossible to correct it. Dive in with me as we scripturally examine by the word of God, how the devil crept in and is still creeping into our service, contaminating us.
Text: Revelation 2:12-15, 1 Corinthians 10:6
Since the devil is always at war with God, he can’t be far from what God wants to do or who God wants to use. Judas who betrayed Jesus was so close to him, and that tells you that when the devil wants to contaminate the pearl God has given to you, he won’t do it from afar, as a matter of fact, his messages won’t be too difficult for you to decode -they actually will be reasonable to the carnal mind. He can suggest to you, things that look like scriptures, placing false interpretations on them, and once your mind is beclouded to not discern between right and almost right, you will fall prey to deceit and the subtility of Satan.
No sooner than Christ sowed His word, Satan, through craftiness, also sowed something that appeared so much like the word of God -tares amongst the wheat. This became so grievous to Christ that in the commendations and rebuke to the churches, He had so much to point out regarding how the devil had swayed them away from their first love. The major strongholds the devil hid behind to perpetuate his falsehood are -the doctrine of Balaam, the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, and Jezebelism.
In Revelation 17, the Bible explained to us the cup in the hands of a great whore, which was a cup full of abominable things, and she made the inhabitants of the earth drink from the cup, thus committing fornication. These are spiritually encoded and should be elucidated. The cup is actually full of mixture, and the woman that has this cup is a system -the Roman System, which had been in the political world but is now hidden in religion. Her subjects, therefore, are beyond the free thinkers in the world, but also the sincere religious people, who would not submit to the revelation of the word of God to recognize their day and its message. Satan will always seek a covering whenever he wants to do his work, hiding under a coven. That is why one of the things Jesus did when he came was to crack religion. this is because religion became Satan’s coven.
The spirit of Balaam
When a man begins to lose his first love, he gives chance for this spirit to creep into him, suddenly there is no reason to contend earnestly for the faith that was once committed. Compromise and excuses set in, no more do we have a love for God’s truth. The doctrine of Balaam is the doctrine of Reward. Balak, at some point needed to seek Balaam’s help against the children of God. He sent him honorable men whose stunning pigmentations were too wonderful for Balaam to stand for the word of God. He surrendered to compromise at the expense of God’s love -because of reward. You’re guilty of that likewise, aren’t you? Dancing in church, but you are not known for your faith outside. You’re ashamed to be identified with Christ in your marketplaces. You have never given tract to anyone, yet you are good at marketing your business for network purposes, no strength at all is communicated towards the advancement of the gospel -no love for truth -no first love!
Or do we talk about the pastors who become agents for God to preach success and money, summoning the laity to sow unnecessary seeds because of miracles? Both the giver and the receiver are guilty of this. Do you know that Balaam was Moses’ contemporary? Seeking to be known, seeking popularity, and of course, kings recognized him. it sounds okay and perhaps scriptural to the religious mind. Didn’t the scripture says our gifts will make way for us? But such are people whose god is their belly, subverting the word of God for personal gains. But Moses had an identity, God was his identity, and neither did the pillar of cloud depart from the congregation by day nor do the pillar of fire departed by night. You can’t mix that up today, you need to know your God. You want to be like Balaam and also want to have the God of Moses as your God, it’s not possible. Balaam cast a stumbling block against the children of Israel by making them eat things sacrificed to idols which ended in fornication. The same is happening spiritually today.
The mystery Babylon has given the religious world false doctrines, and they are altogether wallowing in their quagmire -fornicating with knowledge, subjecting the word of God to debates, disproving, and misplacing scriptures. Subtly, lording over God’s heritage -embracing the Nicolaitan spirit, they conquer the laity, subjecting them to drink from the cup which their mother whore gave to them. What else can be produced out of that than fornication? Now, a man does not know how many Gods he’s serving, because he’s been taught wrongly. The basic principles that ensure eternal life can no longer be honored -to them, Jesus didn’t really mean it when he said that life eternal is to know the “ONLY TRUE GOD”.
Driving this home, the parent can no longer take a stand for God to train their children in the way they should go. It becomes obvious that not many of the parents are regenerated themselves. Because what your child represent is actually what’s rooted in you. You can’t produce them better than what you have seated in you.
Where is the place of prayer in the home, in the church, amongst the youth? Oh, we now know too much that we’re also beginning to fornicate with knowledge, even with the truth in our hands. We claim God to be the same yesterday, today, and forever, but our lives’ result refutes that, we have nothing close to holiness and righteousness to exemplify, we have become the epitome of corruption because we allowed the devil to creep into us. it now looks as though the word of God is not powerful enough to break habits, I cannot but yelp, “where is your first love?”
The youth no longer have glory, the strength with which they are supposed to serve God has been channeled to make technology, their gods, they contemplate the true word of God. There is o patience to wait on God anymore, google is now their Holy Spirit. No sincerity for truth, they rather appreciate God with secret assaults and misbehaviors than live true to Him. It’s clear that our generation needs help, which can only come from a sincere heart to return back to God.
I invite us to restoration, we need to strengthen the things that are left and get back the things we have lost. God wants to gather His brides in all the seven church ages, and we cannot afford to fall short of any standards -He desires quality. I encourage you to get rid of the things you need to get rid of and avoid every distraction and god that you have created for yourself. You cannot want to please God and belong to several associations, no! if you stay with God, God knows how to connect you with your joint-heirs. Only the things done in the Spirit have results, religion only produces death. You should not be a coven for the devil. Come out of Jezebelism -the spirit of filthiness and usurping of God’s authority, come out of the doctrines of the Nicolaitan -worshipping graven images, portraits of the prophet -creating idols for yourself. Come out of the doctrines of Balaam. God is a Jealous Being, you can’t be robbing Him and expect Him to shadow you through the night with His Love. Hear what Peter told us:
“Of a truth, I perceive that God is no respecter of persons: But in every nation, he that feareth Him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with Him” -Acts 10:34-35
Come, dear friends, He has the power to build you up again if you return to Him and amend your ways to cherish His Presence beyond any mundane things of life.
Shalom!