Writing the Vision Prayer Meeting (17th May, 2021)
Topic: Death: the Key to the Resurrection of the Dead
Ministering: Reverend Kayode Oyegoke
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“And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth. [19] And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament: and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail.” (Rev. 11:18-19).
‘The time of the dead’ is very significant in scripture because it is a time that will come to be after everything about the Holy Place has been fully learnt. It will open the operation of the temple of God. The time of the dead commences with the third temple, which is the Most Holy Place. This is because the Most Holy season is the time of the dead. The Most Holy Place is not easily opened up to men. However, God is opening it to us now because the time of the dead has come.
God is working on men, so that they will come to a ‘time of judgement’ because this is His plan and program for all men. The ‘time of the dead’ is a time when men will make their final choices about their eternal destinies. Many men who will decide at this point to turn away from God would have gone through the activities that took place in Revelation 11 and 12 and yet, refuse to turn to God.
There were records of earthquakes in various parts of the book of Revelation, which typify the harvest of souls. There were earthquakes at the opening of the sixth seal and at the sounding of the seventh trumpet (Rev. 6:12, 11:13). The purpose of the earthquake was to open the Most Holy Place.
“And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven.” (Rev. 11:13). The tenth part of the city that fell is Babylon; this is the “great city”. These men who gave glory to God were not men who were harvested. They were men who were on their way to perdition because there was a type of conversion in their hearts. However, the quaking of the earth was a sign of mercy because it also made their hearts quake. These men were not overcome by the seals. It had to take the trumpet to make their hearts quake.
“But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.” (Isa. 11:4). This ‘earth’ is beyond this present earth, it is the negative aspect of the earth that is constituted by Satan. The arrangement of this earth is not of God and therefore needs to be quaked. The essence of the ministry of Judgement, just like it was described in Hebrews 12:25-27, is to shake the heavens and earth. God is the judge of all and the giver of the kingdom which cannot be moved. It is for this purpose that Jesus, who is the mediator of the new covenant, mediates for those who will receive it. He does this by speaking that which the Judge of All is judging. It is part of God’s judgement to smite the earth and make it quake. It is the mercy of God that will smite the earth of the ungodly, for it is not easy to save the ungodly.
The essence of the seals are to help both the sinners and the ungodly. The harvest that God reaped at this point is the first harvest. It is a harvest of those who are sinners but whose hearts are not yet developed to a stature that is against the sanctuary. Some people have disobeyed to the level of the sanctuary (in the negative), such that if the veil of the Most Holy is opened to them, they will carry disobedience along. Such people will follow the antichrist into the temple of God. Revelation 11 describes how the antichrist strove to move into the Most Holy Place.
The Most Holy Place in the heart of men typifies a dimension of no return. When a person does not repent (turn to God) in the Holy Place and takes that attitude into the Most Holy Place, he cannot change anymore. This however does not refer to weaknesses because we will still move into the Most Holy Place with our weaknesses, like the Hebrew church. This was why Peter admonished them to desire the sincere milk of the word, that they may grow into the grace of the everlasting life (1 Pet. 2:2).
The sincere milk of the word is the pure water that should wash the body. This water is not the water of Christ; it is the milk of the blood and it is stronger than meat. It is the milk of the incorruptible seed. Christ is not the incorruptible seed; He is a holy seed. Although Paul was referring to sanctified brethren, who have used (lived by and partaken of the nature of) ‘Christ’ for a long time and had living bodies, he still admonished them to wash their bodies with pure water. The reason for this was because God was about to deal with their iniquities and not just their sins. They had made an end of sins, but God wanted to make reconciliation for their iniquities.
“Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.” (Dan. 9:24). This prophecy is ‘the prophecy of this book’ and it is life everlasting. The word ‘anoint’ does not just mean to raise the Most Holy but to reward it after it has been raised. Therefore, the Most Holy is the temple of God (those who have become God's temple). There are people who will not move forward, even after they have made an end of sins. However, some will move further and cut covenant with reconciliation. These are the people who will seal up the vision, finish the prophecy and come out as the most holy. The Most Holy is not a physical temple like the one Moses and Aaron anointed; they are people. This temple is the last temple that God will anoint. This is the temple that the Messiah will build for God.
“And speak unto him, saying, Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying, Behold the man whose name is The BRANCH; and he shall grow up out of his place, and he shall build the temple of the Lord: [13] Even he shall build the temple of the Lord; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne; and he shall be a priest upon his throne: and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.” (Zech. 6:12-13). It is Jesus, the High Priest who will build this temple. “But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.” (Heb. 3:6). This temple or house refers to men and the building process is completed when the house is fully remitted from iniquity. It must not have any shadow of turning or variableness. If God can still see refractions, reflections, any flick of turning or things that will make Him doubt such a man, it means that he still has variance.
“Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.” (Dan. 9:24). The complete deliverance of the Jews will come when this is finished. Deliverance will begin after the sixth seal because at this time, eyes will be opened. The Israelites, even those whose names are written in the book of life, will be delivered. They will rise from the dust of the earth. The Most Holy must be anointed, otherwise, the people of Israel may not be completely healed.
There must be judgement because we cannot receive the kingdom when the Judge of All is not sounding. “But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, [23] To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, [24] And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.” (Heb. 12:22-24). The Judge of All is He who bears all judgement; He is God. Therefore, everything must be done according to His alignment. We should also be able to come to a place where we can judge angels.
Anything that shakes is lower in discernment than the thing that is being given. What God is giving us is higher than angels and the spirits of just men made perfect. Nonetheless, what God is giving will not shake Jesus because He has the nature of the spoken word. It is through Jesus that God is speaking to us and Jesus is completely aligned under this word. This word will not jolt Jesus but will preserve Him. When the word is being spoken, it will discern angels. It will prove itself to be better than them and the just men made perfect.
The blood of Abel is for the just men made perfect because it spoke the just men to Mount Zion. The blood of bulls and goats had no standing at this point; it could only take the blood of a man like Abel to help men come to Mount Zion. Moses walked in the line of this testament; he obeyed it in the spirit. The blood of Abel is also the blood of the book. The quality of this blood is more than the blood that can make an end of sins. It can also entreat one against iniquity in its own order. Iniquity had already been dealt with in a man like Moses while a man like Balaam had made an end of sins, but had not yet finished the work of ending iniquity. That is why his doctrine - the doctrine of Balaam was that of iniquity and not sin (Rev. 2:14). Jesus hated the doctrine of iniquity. The doctrine of Balaam is equal to the doctrine of Nicolatians and Jezebel because they are all iniquities. An Idol is a symbol of iniquity in the spirit.
“But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication. [15] So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which thing I hate.” (Rev. 2:14-15). Jesus was fighting for His servants to rise and beat iniquity. What the churches were reproved of were more than sins; they were iniquities, which are the things that Jesus hates. Their reward then came after Jesus had fought them. In the same way, it was when Jesus disobeyed iniquity that He was anointed with the oil of gladness.
“Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.” (Heb. 1:9). The ‘anointing upon’ is a validation for rule and reign. It is necessary for a soul to get to Mount Zion because this is the place where the feather of death will be ‘clipped’. Death cannot be destroyed anywhere else but on Zion.
What God wants to shake is iniquity. It is during the shaking that Jesus will be mediating for us, so that we will be able to receive the kingdom that cannot be shaken. Iniquity can be shaken because it is the core building block of a fallen cherub. It needs to be removed through these shakings; however, it cannot shake until the voice comes. It is the ministry of reconciliation that can address iniquity. When iniquity begins to shake, there is a hope. The essence of the shaking is to trouble the kingdom of iniquity.
Iniquity has been fastened tightly to men; it is steadfast. Iniquity is a heavenly mind, therefore it can still be evil. This is because things that are heavenly can also be evil. Satan has painted heaven to men as if everything about it is righteous, but they do not know that temptations or things that pull us away from God are heavenly (from angels who fell). The peace that the world gives is of the second heaven. The lower sins outside the tabernacle are of the third heaven. This temptation occurs by using the luster of a heaven that has been perverted to pull men; it is a twisted heavenly work.
Lucifer (Satan) was a third heavenly being, but the fact that he has fallen does not make him less heavenly in his thinking pattern, even in the New Testament. A powerful kingdom does not underrate anyone; as such, God does not underrate His enemies. He will first study his enemy to understand the amount of power he has and then know an equal amount of power to measure to take him down. God did not deal with Satan anyhow because He knows what He put in him.
Lucifer said, “I will exalt my throne above the clouds and will be like the most high” (Isa. 14:14). An ordinary angel could not have made such a statement. Lucifer is not just an enemy but an adversary. He is the one who elongated the time before salvation is attained by man; He made people to whom God gave time to not be ready for salvation. As such, God will keep postponing the time. The men in the Church are scattered in their minds and do not even understand timing in the spirit. However, evil spirits know times in the spirit and they know by arrangement that Jesus will not cast them into lake yet. Little demons understand scriptures.
Scripture is divided into milk, meat and strong meat and these are how the heavens and earth are aligned. These three meals have seasons, and God does His things around these seasons.
“And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.” (Rev. 11:18). The destroyers of the earth are the workers of iniquity. They are already on earth and are looking to destroy it. These men are mostly those who are in power in different places on the earth. However, they cannot destroy the earth because the earth is owned by someone else (God). You cannot destroy what God created because there is a time guiding it.
“And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever. [16] And the four and twenty elders, which sat before God on their seats, fell upon their faces, and worshipped God…”(Rev. 11:15-16). It is not by taking over the secular system of this world that we will make the kingdom of this world to become the kingdom of our Lord. This is because it is not going to be by a reformation. The seven trumpets need to sound, the seals must be opened and the heavens must depart, like a scroll (Rev. 6, 8-11).
The seals of the outer court have to do with the workings of the altar of brass (the fifth seal). The seventh seal has to do with the altar of incense; it is an altar of the Holy Place. Things must first be altered on that altar, in order to measure the altar on earth. The essence of the working of the altar through those seven trumpets is to make an end of sins. These men got to a place where sins ended, which is the realm of the book. The outer court speaks of the sixth seal, while the Holy Place speaks of the seventh seal. The Most Holy is the world of the Book and the Book deals with iniquity. When the seventh trumpet sounds, the earth will reap its harvest. At this point, the hearts of men who had previously turned away from God will begin to break; this is the sixth seal.
Breaking the hearts of these men means breaking their resolve concerning those types of sins. Some men will not give up at the Outer Court, just like everybody gave up in Egypt, except Pharoah, who pursued the Israelites as far as the Red Sea. This therefore shows us that hearts are different. Pharoah could go that far because he was raised by the laws of the grave. It means he was not just raised anyhow but was raised by Satan. It is usually not an easy thing to raise a Pharaoh, but this Pharaoh was no ordinary one; he was a Pharaoh of the fourth generation. “The LORD is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.” (Num. 14:18). The fourth generation is usually stronger than the previous generations. As such, this Pharaoh was in a state that was completely dead to God and was already buried. He was as a grave before God.
God loves the challenge of making His power known to men. Satan can only do things because God permits Him to do them. This is because God is lofty. Even in the natural, there cannot be men in seats of authority without God’s permission, no matter how stubborn and wicked they are. He can decide to cut them down but He knows how to use them all for His purpose.
When Moses came to announce himself to Pharaoh saying ‘let my people go’, it was confrontational to Pharaoh (Exo. 5:1). God had been waiting for ages for this Pharaoh to be raised up. God judged graves and death in Egypt and then, Israel was released to go.
The Most Holy in Daniel 9 is also the same as the one described in Revelation 12, through the Man Child. He will be anointed, therefore, he can sit on the throne. It is at the same time that the Man Child is sitting on the throne that he will be anointed. The most holy saints are the prophets.
“And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.” (Rev. 11:15). Anyone whom God would reap before the most holy operation is worldly. However, those who did not change at this point are no longer worldly. For such people, the next kingdom after this stage is not the kingdom of this world, but that of the beast. They are not referred to as men anymore because they are of another dominion. However, the Holy Place will do a work that will cause a lot of people to be reaped by the tabernacle. Then, Satan will suffer loss.
“After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;” (Rev. 7:9). A time will come when about three-quarter of the Chinese and Indian nations will repent. The signs of this are already around us, like the COVID-19 disease. The seals are not yet opened, but there is already a proclamation announcing that something is about to happen. After this period, the earth might not return to its normal alignment again.
Things are working in the realm of the spirit. Therefore, we should learn to wait in the spirit concerning how we do things: how we journey, settle and walk because various things are happening in our universe. The spirit realm is shaking and things are working in the realm of the spirit. Although we may think that these shakings are of the devil, it is actually God who is taking the kingdoms of this world through them.
The haste of the ‘gay spirit’ among men is a sign that it is about to be arrested. Evil doers usually hasten in their operations when they know that their time is very short. However, a time is coming when the earth will no longer be in darkness. Darkness will only cover the earth for a while and suddenly, light will flood the universe. “For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.” (Hab. 2:14). Then, all the kingdoms of this world will become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ (Rev. 11:15).
This kingdom is not yet the kingdom of God. Nonetheless, it has two operations, which are Life and Peace. As such, this kingdom is a kingdom of life and peace. However, this kingdom cannot reign with just these two strengths. He has to come into the third, which is the Everlasting kingdom - the Kingdom of our God. “And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.” (Rev. 12:10). At this point, this kingdom has become the Kingdom of our God, for the kingdom has moved higher.
In Revelation 12:10, the word “come” depicts that some people have used the Kingdom as their normal lifestyle. However, the adversary must be cut off. Although people will still be on earth, Satan will be so barricaded from working because of the dominion of God on earth. The heavens would have already been taken and there will be no evil spirit in the air. Men who did not agree or worship God after the sound of the last trumpet will worship Him at this time because the last or third woe involves the adversary coming down. “Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.” (Rev. 12:12).
This woe will make men not go back to God. These men are supposed to escape because outside the confinement of God’s dominion, there is no safety. Some men are still clothed with the ‘earth’; they are still earthly in their thoughts. These men do not want to evolve but want to live their lives freely on earth. The real iniquity of men is when they want to do exploits and succeed in this world, outside God. This is why it is not easy to know evil men. The publicans are wasters of the earth, while the Pharisees are the conservers. However, it is only Jesus who can discern them. This was why men and women like Mary Magdalene, Levi and Zacchaeus would repent. True repentance is in the heart and not in the physical activities that a man does.
Revelation 11 and 12 are about the time of the dead and can be quite difficult to understand. Anyone who has finished the source of the Holy Place is dead. Such a person has attained the beginning of the resurrection of the dead. Death can be in a great or small form.
“And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.” (Rev. 11:18). By the time the antichrist comes to the earth, there will not be small death on earth anymore. All of the deaths will be great because he will teach people great death. The antichrist is a great spirit and the beast has a great name. This name is the name of blasphemy and is full of the stature of the resurrection of the dead. There is going to be a reaping into the kingdom of God, but there will also be a reaping into the kingdom of the beast.
The purpose of the kingdoms is to raise their dead. The achievement of dominions is that they are able to raise their own dead; this is their wisdom. They have raised emissaries whom they will teach how to die to the end. Those who are completely inside the testimony of Satan’s kingdom are in a death agenda program. On the other hand however, what is inside the program of the Almighty is the agenda of dying.
Satan has no power of death. He stole what he has from God, for he knows the secret of death to its end. These secrets of death are similar to the secret of making Egyptian mummies. Through this tradition, Egyptians practice something similar to the resurrection of the dead, although in a shadow.
The wood that God will use in His temple would have been cut off from a tree, dried and drained from every form of life. Then, it will be embalmed and covered. There is something about death that God savours; He is interested in death. The mystery of death is with God. Satan did not know it but he perverted it. Death was a good word until Satan made it a bad one. Death is a positive word and the person who first practiced it is the Almighty. However, the dimension of the physical grave came from an intelligence that a spirit (Satan) brought to the earth.
God has the secret of keeping His own dead, so that they cannot wake up again. You cannot come to God by yourself because by nature, God is a claimer and a taker. This is the death of God. The ark is an eternal coffin, and it is dead wood that is kept here. The secret of being like this is what is in the ark. The living testimony are laws of death that will give you access and make you come into a life that is irreversible. It will teach a man how to die gradually until he dies greatly. Then, the reward will come to pick him. God will not come to pick a man who is sensitive to any other thing. That is why you should not be found in any other place, for God is jealous. He announced Himself to Moses as a ‘jealous’ God.
God the Father is completely different because He does not know how to share; He takes completely. Jesus is an intercessor; He can bear but God (Father) is a consuming fire. This means He will take you over completely and consume you. He is however going to help you, therefore, we need to be prepared to get there.
Every time we take the holy communion, we do show the Lord’s death, till He comes (1 Cor. 11:26). Paul said, “I bear in my body the dying of the Lord Jesus” (Gal 6:17). This means that we must also be doing the same, for it is a commandment. After sometime, death will become demystified to you and you will also have death. Death will become scared of you because you are also a ‘death’. Death will be afraid of you when you possess a kind of death, which is the resurrection of the dead.
It is only death that can withstand and consume another death. If you are just alive and you do not have death, it can eat you up. However, when death discovers that if it eats you, it will die, it will be afraid of you. There are levels of death and God needs to serve you with a portion of death. You can develop to a place where what kills another brother is what you eat. There are scavengers in the seas and on the land. The Hyena for example is a scavenger; it feeds on what kills other animals.
Another example is the eagle, which is always found where there is a carcass. The vulture is an eagle that feasts on dead meat. In the spirit, they are seen as birds that feast on flesh that Satan has killed. There are eagles in the spirit and they feast on what Satan presents to kill men. At the marriage supper of the lamb, eagles and birds will be called to feed on flesh.
God also has death, for death-capacity is the power of a God. God said, “for there shall no man see me and live.” (Exo. 33:20). Thus, we will be seeing the unveiling of the power of God’s death. After a while, the testimony will give you death. It is necessary for a man to have this death inside him. This death is bitterness for this man and it was typified by mara or wormwood in scripture. Men who drank of the water that wormwood fell on died (Rev. 8:11).
The testimony is an expression of death because it has marah. it is an avenue to give you death. When you die, you will become alive (to God). Then, death will work in you so that light can work in other men. Ministers of the gospel must die daily because death must be working in them. Men are living and rising because as death works in them, they lay hold on the mystery and ability to take out spirits. No one who is yet to become dead can deal with the devil.
“And he said unto them, Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness. And they could not in three days expound the riddle” (Judges 14:14). According to Samson’s riddle, sweetness is honey and that which is strong (a Lion) became a place where sweetness can come from. Unfortunately, the church has been feeding from dead ministers. Jesus therefore has to break us down into a cadaver that honey can settle on, untampered. If you are living, honey cannot sit on you and the life of God will not secrete out of you.
The Throne of God is Eternal Life. Reigning together with Christ means carrying His life and becoming His Throne, being the ground of His show, His dominion and kingdom. The kingdom of God is the projection of God’s immortal life. The manchild was seen caught up to God and the throne. Although God is sitting on the Throne, the manchild still sat with Him. No one can sit on the Throne with God unless God has first sat on Him. Our God is a fearful God. He is shrouded in mystery and enclosed in several layers of death, therefore, you also have to be dead. All the realms of death are necessary to keep His power. It is only a dead man that will not violate life.
We should allow eternal life to sprout, for there are eternal conditions that can surround it.
The poor, the meek, and the lowly typify degrees of death. The poor is Christ, the needy is he who wants the Father, while the meek is a person who has been fed with the Father, and has assumed the throne of the Almighty God.
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