Date: Friday, 13th August 2021
Title: X-raying the Reward of Everlasting Life
Ministering: Reverend Kayode Oyegoke
"And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; [13] And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs when she is shaken of a mighty wind." (Rev. 6:12-13). “Figs” in this scripture signify the stars in the sky. These stars are not the ones we can see in the skies; they are creatures. These stars are satanic mights and dominion that will fall to the earth; they are also referred to as the rulers of the darkness of this world in Ephesians 6:12.
“And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places." (Rev. 6:14). That which was unscrolled in the heavens was a veil. It was a blindness to men in the world. The world is a veil that keeps men consistently pursuing it. The stars of heaven that fell are the stars that keep that veil in the heavens. The present heaven (or air) over the world is being held by the rulers of the darkness of this world.
The evil spirits of this present world are principalities and power, and rulers of the darkness of this world. They used to be angels under God but fell for the deception of Lucifer. Principalities and powers are tutors; while the rulers of the darkness of this world are governors in the realm of the spirit.
“And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. [7] And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. [8] And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.” (Gen. 1:6-8). There was a heaven that God created on the second day (a firmament), but there is another heaven which is a heaven of heavens (1 Kings 8:27). This heaven of heavens is from the beginning. The heaven of heavens consists of three heavens – the first, second and third heavens. Beneath this heaven is a mini heaven (the firmament) that is called ‘the air’. This air also has layers, the lowest being the realm that is occupied by spiritual wickedness.
In ascending order (from the earth upwards), there are two major veils before the first heaven. The spirits who hold the first veil are the rulers of the darkness of this world. They used to be mights and dominion or thrones and dominion before they fell. Principalities and power, rulers of the darkness of this world, and spiritual wickedness in high places did not exist in our sphere. They used to occupy a higher dimension than the realm referred to as ‘high places’, which are high places of the earth.
When Lucifer fell in the beginning, he and the angels that fell with him fell from heaven to hell. However, by temptation, they began to come to the earth. Satan came to the earth, and then gradually began to bring other spirits as well. Satan was not allowed access to the earth immediately he fell because the soul of Adam was still intact. However, as man’s soul began to depreciate through generations, Satan began to gain more access to the earth. As such, even though sin was in the world, it did not reign until a certain time (Rom. 5:13-14).
These evil spirits that invaded the earth do not want us to do righteousness because when we do righteousness, angels will invade earth. Therefore, we need to keep doing righteousness so that heaven will touch down to the earth; and the earth will become a common place for heavenly activities. What will expand their reign on earth is obedience to the laws of God.
Anytime the eyes of your understanding is enlightened, you tamper with the reign of the rebel holders of authority. These are the spirits who are the gate keepers of darkened understanding – they are the rulers of the darkness of the world. These spirts keep men perpetually worldly. They are the constructors of ungodly men and the givers of idols of the ungodly stature. The strength of the veil that they cast on men are worldly lust and ungodliness.
Worldly lust are controlled and tutored by principalities and power while ungodliness is the matured worldliness (Titus 2:12). This is why it is not easy to turn some ungodly men to God. It is not all unbelievers that are ungodly. Some of them can quickly repent and turn to God; but it will take the dethroning of dominions to turn those who have become ungodly. A dominion is a footstool of those stars (the rulers of the darkness of this world). Herbalists and the likes are weaker than these ungodly men because they deal with demons (who are lower). This ungodly operation however, has to do with nature formation. These stars can raise men. As such, Pharoah could persist and strive with God; even when his magicians gave up and came to warn him of the hand of God in the signs that Moses performed (Exo 15:3).
When the rulers of the darkness of this world fell from the heavens in Revelation 6:13, the eyes of men were opened. We need to cut through the veils of these rulers; they must not govern us because this is not the system that God created for man.
No idol will be able to confront the Tree of life; therefore, we need to be purged of every form of idolatry. Idols are the things we love; therefore, we should ensure to check them. Be careful with what you love, no matter how good they are. This is because these things you love can get to you and take you over. Parenting would not be perfect until parents have grown to check their children from cleaving to idols; and have also purged themselves from idols. Even in ministry, we will never be completely healed if we are still driven by idols. Our worship should only be to God.
Adam was the highest prophet and he used to occupy where Satan is currently occupying in the air. This is the realm that is ‘a little lower than the angels’ (Heb. 2:6-8). It is in this realm that the sons of God dwell and it is the plain where spiritual wickedness occupy. This realm is higher than the realm of the rulers of the darkness of this world. The dimension of the rulers of the darkness of this world are the dimensions of the sons of men. Prophets like Jeremiah down to Malachi occupied that realm; while prophets like Enoch, Methuselah, Noah, Seth, Abel, Moses and Elijah, who were sons of God, occupied the higher realms.
Heavens are the worlds of prophets, and they occupy them through service. This service is obedience to God. Satan was troubled by the generations of the sons of God that were birthed overtime, as seen in Genesis 5, because they hindered the reign of sin. This was why he caused them to fall in Genesis 6:1-3, through the daughters of men. Men should be occupying the heaven where Satan currently occupies, just like Jesus did while he was on earth. When you walk in the spirit, your soul appears in realms and you become visible to spirits.
Satan hates heavenly occupiers and will fight tooth and nail to cause them to fall. Many have fallen from this height. Sons of God are prophets with Adamic stature. They are the ones who can take the heights of the spiritual wickedness. For you to walk in the high places, God needs to make your feet like that of the hind. Jesus also came in this order as the highest prophet, just like Adam.
“And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. [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.” (Rev. 12:3-4). Rulers of the darkness of this world occupy the first heaven of the dark world; but there is a last heaven, which is the highest point. This heaven is not the heaven of heavens but ‘the air’. Satan cast two-third of the stars to the earth, but he (the dragon) will still be in the air with his angels. As such, the removal of the first veil will take care of certain spirits.
“And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, [8] And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.” (Rev. 12:7-8). After Michael warred with them, they were no more found in the heaven but were cast to the earth (Rev. 12:9). When they fall, veils would be taken away from men’s eyes. At that season, everyone on earth will no longer be blinded and there will not be deception anymore. Then, we will all know that Jesus is the Lord. Then, many will repent rapidly.
The events that occurred in Revelation 7:1-9 could happen because veils had fallen; Dominions had fallen. These people did not just get born again but had a white robe with palms in their hands. The white robe connotes an entrance into the court of the Lord. They were not just born again but became Levites to resume service.
Every spirit of the child of God that is born again is a priest in the holy place, but they can be killed. Our spirts were born with the covenant of life and peace; but Satan can war with them and steal life out of them, if our souls are not taken care of. The nature of life and peace is still in our spirits and not our souls, because we have not yet inherited those natures in our souls. We inherit these natures by walking in them. It is when the soul has walked in this path that it will have the white robe. The white robe is a covenant of life that is ready to enter into the temple.
The end time harvest is not just about getting people born again, but also opening their eyes and bringing them into a preserved place, where they will be able to resume service and start worshipping God. As the people who are born again are graduating to serve, they are entering into everlasting life and are being sealed. They will quickly seal the one hundred and forty-four thousand because they are the servants of our God. These men have graduated from serving Christ to serving God. They have come to the end of service and as such, they were sealed with everlasting life.
“And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea,” (Rev. 7:2). The seal of the Living God is the seal of the Everlasting God. The order is life, peace, living and eternal life. Life refers to the Court, the Sanctuary is peace, living is the Most Holy while Eternal Life is upon the Ark of the covenant. What a soul will do from the point of the Most Holy Place to the Ark (the real of everlasting) is ‘living’. As such, when it was said that Adam was a living soul, it means that he was a soul of everlasting life in Eden (1 Cor. 15:45). The Adamic stature is more than the staure of Christ because it is everlasting.
What the angel has as the seal of the living God is the conclusion of their work (John 4:34). The finishing of the work is the sealing. The seal of the living God is not a stamp on the foreheads, but the fullness of the revelation of the everlasting gospel.
"I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death." (Rev. 1:18). The keys of death and hell are everlasting life, which is Alpha and Omega. The keys are works because hell and death is what the father of lies does. Therefore, to unlock them, you need to do another work of another Father, who is the Father of lights.
"Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning." (James 1:17). There are many things that make up good gift and many things that make up perfect gift; and they are from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variableness or shadow of turning. Good gift will give a man invariability, but perfect gift will not allow him to turn. These gifts are the things that God will give to any man to make him everlasting. They are the lights of the living God. The living God is the everlasting arms and the eternal power that trains or raises children for the eternal God. He condescends to train and adopt children.
From the Sanctuary, the High Priest receives children into the Most Holy, so that they can be brought to glory. Before a soul can receive glory however, he will be taught the wisdom of imaging. He will be taught how to work, so that he can look exactly like God and have these things.
The good gift is Alpha while the perfect gift is Omega. Good gift is Urim while perfect gift is Thummim. As such, everlasting life has its night. The night of everlasting life is the junction to Eternal Life. Anyone who is in everlasting life and has not come to its night, cannot enter Eternal Life.
“He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.” (Psa. 18:11). God surrounds Himself with darkness. This darkness is the veil after everlasting life that we have to cross to come into eternal life. This veil is our death, which is a commandment. It is obedience to the end. This is the point where God expires creatures and deals with any thing of Satan left in them. It is at this point that God deals with hell and death. Sin and death are the war against Christ, but hell and death are forces against the Son of God.
It takes death to cross from eternal life to everlasting life. What breaks the veil that leads to Eternal Life is the death of a man. You cannot enter the Outer Court except through some degree of death. The major strength of each of the compartments in the tabernacle are the altars, for they are the highest forces in each compartment. When you get to the altar, you break the veil. The first altar is made up of shittim wood and overlayed with brass. They burn coal on it. To offer coal, you must be a wood. Every altar is a stature of finished work in these places.
Before you can offer up wood, you must be a dead wood. Wood is cut from trees. Trees are alive, but wood are dead. You need to first grow to a stature to become a tree. When you have endured growth, they will cut you and then, take your life from you. They will then dry you, varnish you, work on you and then preserve you. This is the process by which they make the tabernacle.
Crossing into Eternal Life from everlasting life is a high life sacrifice. From the second veil - the Most Holy Place to the ark - there are first and last works that get a man to the ark. God’s goal for us is that we become God’s ark. Immediately you get into the Most Holy Place, you are given the living testimony. After you have done the living testimony, you die by it. Then, it will no longer be a living testimony but an inheritance. Then, it becomes your testimony. You cannot overcome the dragon till we get to the night time of everlasting life.
The Lord God dwells in the midst of thick darkness (2 Chron. 6:1). He does this to veil Himself away from creation. He is higher than creation. That borderline of darkness is the distance between creation and the Eternal God. Creation could see the living God but they do not know the Godhead fully. Even when they are with Him and can see His posture, they are still dark; they cannot understand Him, phantom Him fully nor comprehend Him. If they understand Him, they would have known what He hid in Himself before the foundation of the world. It is still dark to them. This dark realm is incomprehensible; they are the realms of eternity and we cannot break through to them.
The portion of the Melchizedek priesthood is an instrument for reading God. It is the finished work. Everyone who has come to Thummim has died. We must be dead completely in this way - lifeless in everlasting life; and then, they can now carry us into Eternal Life. God uses things that are dead and not things that are alive. He uses things that are dead to their environment, to Satan and to this world. He uses things that Satan cannot use.
Those who overcame Satan did not do so with their lives intact; they loved not their lives (in everlasting life) unto the death (Rev. 12:11). This means that the living testimony is to make us silent and to take our lives completely from us. Satan cannot do anything to a dead man. It is when we are dead that they will come to carry us and raise us into Eternal Life.
Resurrection from the dead is Christ, while resurrection of the dead is the stature of the Son of God. Jesus Christ is the faithful witness and the first begotten of the dead (Rev. 1:5). This means that He is the first dead man that God raised. If you are not of the dead, you will not be raised. This is not just physical body but an inward stature. The layers of the death stature is an overcoming layer against every sin, hell and death. You need every good gift for every hell and every perfect gift for every death.
Light (Satan's) teaches us how to be useless such that we will not have relationship with death. The reason why you cannot tempt God is because of death. God did not create the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. He tempts no man. He did not create lust because He has no lust in Him (James 1:14). Lust is not necessarily evil but refers to what can be pulled or drawn. It is when lust is finished or conceived that it brings forth sin; and when sin is conceived that it brings forth death (Jam. 1:15).
Everything God made with His hands are not that perfect and as such, can be pulled by temptation. What is not susceptible to pulls are what are in God. God then brought out His gifts to give to us so that when we know how to use them, the pulls will cease. These pulls are means by which we will be perfected. When you are not being tempted, God is not sure of you. However, when you break a pull, you conquer it through the looking on the perfect law of liberty and the using of the gifts. When you use the gift, the pull will cease. After some time, when you have this lights, you will inherit them as your nature. After a while, when Satan comes to pull you, you will not be able to be pulled.
We should master the breaking of pulls, for after we have used it consistently, Satan will leave us alone This is why it is said that the evil one touches Him not because he keeps Himself. He keeps Himself by cutting pulls when they come to Him. Satan will be afraid to come to such a man because he is overcoming him. Every time we overcome a temptation, there is a crown of life over our heads that makes us eligible to mastery. Crowns are masteries. Jesus got many crowns because He kept overcoming temptations, till the last crown where He broke the jaws of hell.
What makes us better is that we do not react when Satan draws us. The key to dying is those gifts, for they will help us to be cut from those trees; and then we'll be laid, dried and then completely dead. A dead man cannot be tempted. They want to get us to the position of a wood. When they dry us, we are gaining a configuration and doing the everlasting work. It is by temptation that you known that work is being done. As such, temptation is necessary.
The resurrection of the dead is to raise dead men completely. When you are dead then they will take you to Eternal life and you will reign with Him. Eternal life is the life of complete death. there are three death order in Satan’s category: small death, great death and second death.
“And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. [14] And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death." (Rev. 20:13-14). The sea represents sin and death. The last one is death and hell. Death and hell were cast into lake but the sea was not cast into lake because they had just died in a small measure and can repent. However, you cannot turn in death and hell.
It is those who have great life that will be taken to Eternal life. Great life is everlasting life while the small life is Christ. The reward of everlasting life is Eternal life. On the other hand, great death is taken to lake. The second death refers to eternal lake or eternal fire. The fact that you’re a Christian doesn’t mean you have escaped lake. One of the ways to escape lake is to not love this world. A sign of the love of this world in a man can take a man to lake. Anyone who loves the world too much can end up in lake. This world prepares men for great death; therefore we should not love the world (1 John 2:15-16).
"Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. [16] For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. [17] And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever. [18] Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time." (1 John 2:15-18). The world transfers people to great death. Small death will handover men to great death. These men are those whom the small death has reserved for the great death. The world is a reserve for small death, so we should not play with death. The great death is when the antichrist is coming to teach people how to die greatly.
God wants us to be sealed. He wants the forces of the things that contend with us to drop. We should therefore make up our minds for sealing.
Seeing is the unveiling of the knowledge of God from His face and this is what Jesus has done to us. As understanding comes, we will be seeing. When we do the everlasting gospel, we will then wait for the Eternal Gospel.