“And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. [2] In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations [3] And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him: [4] And they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads. [5] And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever.” (Rev. 22:1-5). It will take the Lord God Himself to cause them to reign forever and ever. This chapter further spoke about prophecy. In Revelation 22:6-10, we see that the sayings of the book is a prophecy that must be kept.
“And I John saw these things, and heard them. And when I had heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel which shewed me these things. [9] Then saith he unto me, See thou do it not: for I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book: worship God. [10] And he saith unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand.” (Rev. 22:8-10). The angel here is a fellow in service. By his calibre of service, this angel is of the same kind of brethren as John; he is also a keeper of the sayings of the book.
“And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.” (Rev. 19:10). The testimony of Jesus is the same as the book of prophecy. It means there are sayings of this book which are prophecy.
You cannot serve God without everlasting life; the purpose of the revelation of everlasting life is to induce the purpose of serving God. The first servant of God in this order was the Man the testimony was patented to. He was the first Person to serve God according to this prophecy; He used the book to serve God.
God ought to be served. This is why Jesus took the form of a servant because the form of a servant counts down from heaven to earth. Any creature that has the ability to break through into understanding of light is a potential servant of God. The least of such kind of creature that can be enrolled into service is man.
“And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.” (Phil. 2:8). To humble oneself is a posture to commence service. Obedience is the response to service. You need to take the posture of humility before you can begin to serve. Service is wound up in obedience – we serve God in obedience.
“Unto death” is obedience unto life everlasting. Death here is an everlasting demand of God from one who serves. God receives the death of the saints because they are precious in His sight. We must serve God unto death; but Jesus crowned it with the death of the cross.
“Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints. [16] O Lord, truly I am thy servant; I am thy servant, and the son of thine handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds.” (Ps. 116:16). This is the attitude of a servant. For a son of the handmaid to be taken out of that fashion, such a son must offer unto God the precious death of the saints. When God is loosening your bonds, He is taking you out of your descent, your father and mother.
Your mother has the power to develop you while your father produced the seed that triggered your formation. There are three bonds in that handmaid – descent, father and mother. However, when serving God, he will salvage you from these bonds after you serve unto death.
You serve God until you are without father, mother and descent. Jesus served God, even on the cross. When He was about to finish the work on the cross, He transferred His humanity to John (John 19:26-27).
The angel told John that they both belong to the same fellowship – they are both disposed to obedience in the same way. The common thing between them in service is the testimony of Jesus. The testament is the spirit of prophecy.
“Prophecy” here is not forthtelling; it is a prophecy to come into a brotherhood. These brethren here are siblings. Siblings have one tie – blood; they are born of the same blood. The offering of the testimony is also the introduction of the blood; it is an opportunity for the gift of blood. Brethren here are those that have drank into the same blood/cup. Blood and cup are the same.
The blood is the owner of the testament; what the blood carries is testimony. The offering of the blood is the giving of the testament. John and the angel are brethren because they obey the same blood; they fellowship with the same cup. Fellowship is drinking into a communion for the purpose of service. Fellows are doers of the same thing.
Everlasting life is a meat and Jesus ate all the everlasting meat. In the blood of Jesus, there is a first measure which is Christ that He gave the church to start with. This first measure is to bring the church into Kingdom; but there is also another measure of blood that should be drank when one is in the Kingdom – the cup of the Father. Jesus knew a time will come that the disciples will come into the Father’s Kingdom (Matt. 26:29).
The Kingdom of God is Eternal Life; the Kingdom of the Father is everlasting life; and the Kingdom of Christ is life. The Father divided Himself into two for men who have just been redeemed from men to take: everlasting life and Eternal life. Such men who have just been redeemed are introduced to the demands of everlasting life, as they cannot take the demands of Eternal Life. Without everlasting life, one cannot serve God. The purpose of giving life to a being is to produce service. When God gives life, He is expecting service in return.
The book is a book of prophecy. A book is a volume with things written inside. If the things written therein are deleted, what will be left will just be the binding materials. Therefore, what makes a book are the contents. The book was looking for a landing material where it can be collected and what was collected was the book not the binding materials. The binding materials were only put together to collect the book.
What makes the Bible is not the binding materials, but the contents. No one can buy a book (the contents therein); but paper and the binding materials can be bought. What makes the book is what the ink did and obeyed. In the spirit, the book is gotten from the gene of divine character; therefore, the book is divine. As a man, the book will not look like what you think because it is from the gene of God.
The blood of God is beyond the red pigment; what makes blood are things of God and the things that are of God are a book. Spiritual realities that ought to be known of God are in the book and are of the book. When we take out those things, we have taken out the book.
The book can also be an invisible rod in the spirit. It is made up of microscopic entities that make up God. The DNA of a person contains information about him; they cannot be seen. Therefore, God’s own cannot be seen. The DNA of God is a book; that is where God stored information about Himself. God’s things are however not given to man to see; you cannot have access to them by yourself.
There is an intelligence in the realm of the spirit concerning spirits. An angel does not need a microscope to see the things of man, for they are spirits. An angel does not need to go to school to study the things of man because it is an inbuilt intelligence. God is a quickening spirit and can read angels and their genes. Heavens, angels and men are naked before Jesus because He can see through them (Heb. 4:13).
The book contains information of service and it is kept secret from men. Lucifer served and he never became like the Most High God; God placed an impediment for changing to be like God in the first creation. The design of creation is that those who are in the heavens will not change state even after service. The purpose of service is to change and be rewarded. As you serve, you change; when you receive secrets on how to serve God, you are receiving secrets of changing order.
The book of Revelation was given for servants to serve and later be exalted. God gave the servants secrets of reward through this book. Even when you have done the will of God, you need patience to receive the promise (Heb.10:36).
Angels cannot change state to a higher state because they are made so. However, one of them broke allegiance and turned. Angels who fell filled their midst with violence and could only fall. (Eze. 28:26).
The New Testament is the everlasting covenant. In the new covenant, there is a covenant that is lower than the everlasting. The covenant of Christ is the covenant of Life; though it can last forever, it has opposition. However, Christ alone is not enough; you need something more in God. Christ precedes God and brings us into Everlasting Life.
Everlasting covenant will war with Satan and at the end, overcome him. Satan as a serpent can war with Christ and Christ will overcome him. As a dragon however, we need more than this stature of Christ. Some angels are even more than the stature of Christ, therefore, what will expire Satan is everlasting life.
“And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels...” (Rev. 12:7). There are two wars in Revelation 12 – spiritual war and angelic war. When service is taking place, war is taking place. Jesus did not have to confront Satan to destroy him; He just kept obeying God. Jesus obeyed God until He destroyed him that had the power of death (Heb. 2:14). As such, anytime you are obeying God, Satan will trouble you because you are destroying him.
Before the archangel Michael will war with Satan and bring him down, some people have to obey God to bring him down. Jesus has destroyed Satan, but Satan is still in the air because God needs men to acquire life. Jesus must have seen him as He was ascending to heaven; but God told Him to sit at His right hand till He makes His enemy His footstool (Matt. 22:44).
Jesus did not commit any sin while on earth, but man has Satan’s things. We may not lose it all when we come for meetings, but when we come, we are stirred up to drop them. Our High Priest is merciful and faithful; He is the only One that can save us. We cannot save ourselves. We are standing and taking covering under His blood to destroy the works of Satan.
Jesus unlearned humanity to inherit divinity; He was no longer linked with Adam. The fact that Jesus was born of a virgin and not by any man did not exempt Him from humanity. He was born into it and partook of it, so He could lead us out of it. However, a time came when Jesus had to be loosened from this bond so He can truly be called a servant of God. Jesus had to die the death of deliverance from bonds. The reason for this is because Lucifer did not allow men that are in bonds to be free.
The book is a container of prophecy. This book can talk because it is a spirit. One who has the book has everlasting life. There is no life without its testimony. The spirit of prophecy, which is the testimony of Jesus, is everlasting life. You cannot inherit everlasting life just by hearing it, but by keeping it. We hear it from those who read it.
“Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.” (Rev. 1:3). This service will break Satan over and over again. Satan survives by men who serve him; but a time will come when men will not serve him again. God can endure within because He is a quickening Spirit. He is not just Everlasting God but eternal God, which is God at rest. He is not just looking for service to live, but to give. He is so blessed that He can give – He wants to give life.
The book is a book of prophecy and the sayings of the book are prophetic sayings. Prophecy are things that need to be expressed. The book however needs a container (man) to express it and it can also take one over – it is everlasting life. Everlasting life is a high prophecy; it is God’s love. The Word is a better testament. Everlasting life is better than other everlasting lives that have existed; it is better than Christ.
“But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions; partly, whilst ye were made a gazing-stock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were so used. For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance.” (Heb. 10:32-34).
“For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.” (1 Cor. 13:9-10)
When you have something in part, it is Christ; but the perfect is the better and enduring substance, which is Everlasting Life.