Everlasting Life is a kind of Eternal Life. It is a life that is incorruptible, undefiled and does not fade away, if done well (1 Pet. 1:4). It is a life that has to be brought to the finish. Everlasting Life also has works, which are the works of God. It is God’s building and it is the stature of God. The stature of God is Life Eternal and it precedes the Godhead.
“For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:” (Rom. 1:20). God showed us the things that are not seen (the invisible things of Himself) by using creation as a prototype. As such, these invisible things are revealed by the things that are seen. The reason why God yearns to create is to explain Himself. He is not a wicked God; therefore, He is trying to explain Himself because His mind is intelligent and far beyond creation.
The invisible things of God comprises two major things – His eternal power and Godhead. If anyone comes to know these but still refuses God, the bible says that there is no more sacrifice for him (Heb. 10:26). Those who come to know God but turn away from Him are transgressors. Knowing God is not just having an idea of Him, it means that you have God. This is because you cannot know God and not have Him. If you know God, it means that you have inherited Him. Therefore, a person who rejects or cuts off or removes the things of God from within him is a transgressor. Some people will refuse this revelation of God when they are not yet on His side. However, when God is able to get through to such people and show them this revelation and yet, they refuse Him, He will send them a strong delusion to believe something else. This was how the eyes of human beings became darkened (Rom. 1:21-22).
What characterized the earth before was that mankind had the knowledge and training of God. There was a season when nearly all men knew God, but a time came when nearly all departed from Him. They became fools because they did not retain the knowledge of God that they had (Rom. 1:28). As such, they traded it for something else. A time came when man was no longer giving God glory or submitting to Him in glory because they felt it was worthless. They were not seeing Him as their Head, they were no longer willing to be subject to Him and they refused to be thankful. A thankful attitude is a sign of submission. A lot of people thank God, even though they do not know Him.
It is not only this present age that is experiencing civilization. There was another age of pride that also encountered civilization. Satan has deceived some generations in the past; therefore, this will not be the first time that a generation will try to prove that God does not exist. A time came when people were tired of submitting to God, being subject under Him and giving Him all the glory. The syndrome that man could do things by Himself creeped into the earth and it came through Satan, who came to deceive them. Satan is a very jealous and mean creature. If he is not getting anything from human beings and does not have subjects among them, he will deceive them.
There is one deception he always sells – he tells man that he is sufficient of himself and should not give any glory to God. This is an evil and diabolic pride. He will inflate man’s ego in nothingness, with an intention to steal something from him. He stole sight from men and they became vain in their imaginations because of their darkened understanding and the darkness in them (Eph 4:17-18). What used to see God (the blessed sight of creation from the beginning) was stolen in man.
When Adam was born, he could study the geography of God and read Him. Asides hearing God, he also understood Him because he was seeing Him. When he came out of Eden, he still had that sight and God protected it, even in Noah and his children. After a while, men multiplied and this sight was still in them. However, a time came when someone deceived them. Satan raised his own son called Nimrod, who knew God and began to hunt men from His presence. “And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth. [9] He was a mighty hunter before the Lord: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord.” (Gen. 10:8-9). He was a mighty hunter before the Lord.
The original Greek version of the word 'Lord' is translated as ‘Faces of Yahweh’. Nimrod was not hunting animals down before God's face because this does not get God angry. You do not need God's face to hunt animals because the essence of face is for communicating knowledge. The evidence of the face of God is in Genesis, where it was recorded that Cain left the presence of God (Gen. 4:16). This presence is also translated as the ‘Faces of Yahweh’. Faces are tools for communicating knowledge because knowledge is in the face. The essence of the face is for knowing.
God's presence was on earth from Genesis 1 till Genesis 11, but that ministry was truncated. God, then, had to do something to resurrect it in Abraham. Abraham’s record is another kind of testament. It is different from that of Genesis 1-11. The men with whom God had dealings in that period were not Hebrews. They were men on earth, who knew God and knew how they departed from His presence.
However, Genesis 12 was about the call of Abraham, in order to resurrect the knowledge of God again on earth. God has to start from the least of His faces in dealing with Abraham, till he came to a place where he knew God. After Abraham was Isaac, and after Isaac was Jacob. Thereafter was the four hundred years when the Israelites had to journey in Egypt. However, there was no successive transfer from Jacob to the tribes of Israel (the many children that were begotten from the twelve tribes of Israel). They were completely ignorant, and their souls went beyond the state of their fathers. Therefore, man depreciated in knowledge.
The knowledge of God was stolen from them when they spent those four hundred years in Egypt. As such, God had to lead and help them in order to being them to a place where they would know God. All those who came out of the wilderness were not first taught the faces of Yahweh. They were taught another knowledge of the Lord, which is the first Christ on earth. It was the first time they would bring the idea and revelation of Christ in a figure to earth.
Abraham did not need to be taught this kind of dimension of knowledge because the eyes of men were not completely gone in his time. There was something in them that could learn El-Shaddai and know the Almighty directly. Man had not been completely impoverished or stolen from. However, when man journeyed till the time of Exodus, they could not start from where Abraham, Isaac and Jacob started from. These Patriachs were higher in stature when God met them; therefore, there had to be a wilderness experience.
The wilderness is the learning of the Lord that precedes the learning of the faces of Jehovah or Yahweh. The name ‘Lord’ is in different categories – there is a Lord for ‘Almighty’; there is a Lord for ‘Lord God Almighty’; there is a Lord in reward; there is a Lord in God’s works; there is a Lord in the Holy Place; and there is a Lord in the Outer Court. The learning of the Lord is longer and it stretches even to the end of the learning. The Lord is the revelation of the oil (the anointing upon). This is not the anointing for miracles but the custodian of a thing.
Without a Lord, you cannot know a thing. There is a Lord for God Himself and there is a Lord for the Almighty. Abraham knew the Almighty through the Lord of the Almighty and not directly. There is a Lord portion attached for learning the Almighty. The revelation of the Lordship refers to the teacher of realms in God and they are not of the same. The Spirit of the Lord (our Almighty and Eternal God is also a Lord). “The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.” (Psalm 110:1). This means that there is a Lord on the throne and He will put another Lord beside Him. The position of He who is seated at the right hand is the position of an overcomer; it is a position of reward.
The revelation of the Lord is signified by the Olive tree. One thing that is important about this olive tree is its oil. You anoint at all realms with the olive oil. There is an anointing of the olive in the Most Holy. This means that there is a Lord in the Most Holy Place, The Holy Place, in the Outer Court and outside the Outer Court. The olive can travel from outward to within the tabernacle. This is why he can be Lord everywhere, even Lord on the throne. At intervals, the olive oil is a sign of learning, help, aid and an enablement at all realms. It is in the Holy Place that we will see it as trees because it is resting there.
Jesus took off from the Mount of Olives. The Mount of Olives is the highest Mountain. Solomon also used Olive trees to carve the Cherubims of glory in the tabernacle. As such, they represent Trees of Witnesses. “And within the oracle he made two cherubims of olive tree, each ten cubits high.” (1 Kings 6:23). Solomon used Olive trees because the cherubs are witnesses who had placements in the Holy of Holies.
There are two things that speak of God’s invisibility; therefore, we can understand why He swore by two immutable things (Heb. 6:18). “For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself,” (Heb. 6:13). This means that God did not just swear with words, but He used Himself as a surety of this oath. One who is a user of milk cannot know the two immutable things by which God swore because this is at the level of strong meat. You cannot come into oath without knowing the things in oath. The tools for oath are these two immutable things.
“In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;” (Titus 2:1). This also means that God swore an oath to the promise. The promise of eternal life was not just any kind of promise; the power behind it is an oath. As such, God cannot turn from what He promised because what He promised was great. If what God promised was great, and was such that He had to stick to it, He also had to make Himself the surety of that promise, so that He would not turn from it. He swore because He knew that man would back out of the agreement and discourage the promise.
Our weaknesses make us not to have a frame that can endure the promise. Therefore, God had to raise an oath for the promise and also raise a priest of oath who cannot fail; so that we can inherit the promise. God did something very firm to make sure we come into the promise; He made and oath and engaged the forces of oath to raise a priest. This priest (Jesus) is an oath product; therefore, He cannot turn, lie, be defiled or change because of our weaknesses. He will have to pray through for us. He has been interceding for two thousand years to make sure that people hold this promise. He is a competent Saviour.
We have an x-ray of what this Priest used as a tool of promise – He used Himself. The two things by which He swore are Himself. “For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:” (Rom. 1:20). These invisible things are of God. There is a priesthood that is joined to these things – the priesthood of Melchizedek. Moses’ and Aaron’s priesthoods were not raised by oath but by the law of the carnal commandments. They became weak and unprofitable; therefore, they had to switch to Melchizedek’s order. Many of those priests were not made by oath; but this priesthood was made with an oath (Heb. 7:21). This means that Melchizedek has a tie to oath. God did not use the oath to make a priest with Jesus only. Other priests who came forth from Melchizedek must have also experienced oath; they were priests of oath.
When raising a priest, the tools for making him must be put into consideration. If there was a change of priesthood, then, there must have of necessity been a change of the law also (Heb. 7:12). The power of an endless life was the means by which the priests in Melchizedek’s order or in the New Testament order were raised. God had to import Melchizedek’s order that was laying silent. It had been around but was just omitted for Israel because they were too weak to bear that order.
“For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was since the law, maketh the Son, who is consecrated for evermore.” (Heb. 7:28). The word of the oath was since the law because it was in existence while the law was in operation. It did not cease, although it had been before. This verse was to make us see that this oath was existing along with the law but just put aside, so that the law can have an expression. However, it was stronger and better than the law.
Even in the era of the law, David prophesied that Jesus was a priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek (Psa. 110:4). He was referring to a priesthood that would still arise in the order of Melchizedek. This means that the Melchizedek’s priesthood was still in operation but was just silent. God cannot do away with it because it is far stronger than the law of the carnal commandment. The Melchizedek priesthood was an oath priesthood. Oath cannot lie, turn or go away. Aaron and his sons were not made by oath; but this man was made with an oath. “(For those priests were made without an oath; but this with an oath by him that said unto him, The Lord sware and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec:)” (Heb. 7:21). These priests (children of Aaron) were not priests in the Holy Place but High Priests. The real priest is the High Priest, while the rest are still under tutelage.
The order of Melchizedek has been in existence before the law. Melchizedek blessed Abraham, for he was a priest who was sustained by an oath; He was an oath priest. The Lord will not use the oath for Aaron because his priesthood is too weak for oath. There was no need to sware on a priesthood that will not continue forever. The Lord swore and would not repent because it was Melchizedek’s priesthood. If oath is attached to Melchizedek, then, the other priesthood does not have an oath backing it because oath has been in existence since the law. If it had been in existence since the law, then it was still at work when they were enacting the law of Moses. God was using oath to make priests in the early days. If Abraham was not a High Priest, God would not have sworn to him. He was a father and yet a priest. He was a priest under the order of Melchizedek.
The men in Genesis 1-11, before Abraham, were High Priests of oath. It was from that order that Melchizedek came from. He was older than Abraham and anointed a priest for Abraham, because Abraham was towing that line. Melchizedek means King of Righteousness and King of Peace. Abraham was on a training of righteousness, as such, he believed God and it was counted to him as righteousness (Gen. 15:6). Even right after Melchizedek left Abraham and God met with him, he believed God because God showed him what would happen to his children in the land of Egypt. That righteousness was counting for Abraham means it was accruing until he became a king. This means that the amount of our righteousness counts. We need to have an account that can make us kings. When a person is a king of something, it means that he has done something to earn that estate.
Abraham was on the path of righteousness. He met with Melchizedek after the war and was blessed by him. This means that Melchizedek was already a king of what Abraham wanted to be a king of. He may not have had the regalia of a priest in the physical but he was a peace man. In the same way, John the Baptist was a King of Peace and King of Righteousness but did not look like it in the physical. He was a Priest of the Most High God; He was another Melchizedek. He had a relationship with Jesus’ Father (God) because he knew Him. Adam was a natural Melchizedek. He was a priest of the Most High God on earth. However, due to the transgression and the weaknesses of men, the oath went into abeyance for a while.
The promise God made to Noah was not for the blessing of the incorruptible. Its purpose was just to keep men from disintegrating completely. He promised that he would not annihilate men any more (Gen. 9:11-13). For God to be true to His promise, He had to find a way out. So, he decided that he will not use water to destroy men anymore because that era had passed. He will not use water again because water will get the job (destruction of flesh) done quicker and God will not have to go through long suffering. Therefore, God took another route and made provision of Himself to suffer, so He will be more elastic, patient, allow forces to be at play; and must have done everything to the uttermost to make sure that man is not destroyed again. However, He did not say that He will not destroy man again. He just would not use water. This was why He used a ‘bow’ (the rainbow) as a tool for remembrance. This rainbow also surrounds the throne (Gen. 9:16, Rev. 4:3).
God did not swear by Himself in this case because He was not giving Himself. He was just making a promise for the salvation of man. Noah was not made a High Priest on that day; for it was not a time of initiating Noah as a priest. It was a season where God made provision in his heart capacity (in himself) to make sure that mankind will not be completely destroyed anymore. This task was for God and not for giving man what oath holds. God will not give man the gift of oath because there are two things that make oath – His eternal power and the Godhead. These things are in Himself.
If God teaches a man these two things, He has sworn to him. This means that He does not necessarily have to call that man to swear to him, like He did to Abraham. What that oath is holding are those blessings. “Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.” (Heb. 6:14). God has blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places (Eph. 1:3). He will not just bless us but also multiply us. He will use these two things both to bless and multiply. Blessing comes first and then, multiplying follows.
When God is giving His eternal power and Godhead to a man, He is swearing to him because these are the things that the oath holds. “For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was since the law, maketh the Son, who is consecrated for evermore.” (Heb 7:28). Once the oath comes to a man, he becomes a son. The oath comes through the word of the oath – through teaching and knowledge, and not through swearing. Teaching refers to knowledge. Therefore, the oath is attached to a word. If one knows this word, he would be changed. A man cannot even know this word except the oath is on him. This oath contains riches and God will melt it like wax so that its riches can come to you. When this happens, he has sworn to you and oath is engaged.
The men in Genesis 1-11 were men of oath; yet, they could be swayed by those daughters of men. The reason was because they had not yet finished oath school. They were supposed to overcome. “And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,”(Gen 6:1). This multiplication is higher than blessing. Satan also blesses because of his capacity as a god; but he had moved them from just blessing to multiplying them. It was in their multiplication that they begat daughters who were offsprings of High Priests (in the negative). This was why they could sway those sons of God.
These ladies were almost equal to the stature of those sons; but in the opposite. They were an equivalent of the spirit of Jezebel that fought the church (Rev. 2:20). Jezebel showed up in the promised land and not in the wilderness. She showed up in the era of the kings and held the king and the nation. Daughters are actually products of everlasting force. In the New Testament, these daughters will not be humans but will come forth from men’s works when they must have come to a place where they can birth. They will produce things on earth that can stop sons. It is men with Everlasting Life that will combat with these daughters.
“And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father's name written in their foreheads. [2] And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps: [3] And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth. [4] These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb.” (Rev. 14:1-4). This is not Babylon because these ones had overcome Babylon. This was a battle of Everlasting Life. They were ‘daughters’. If these daughters are physical women, then it means that the brethren of the lamb will all be males; but this is not so. These daughters are spirits.
There are spirits that the sons of God can marry. These are not the type we know as “spirit-wives” because men can marry anything (even with their hearts). Whether we like it or not, we all have a male and female dimension in the spirit. This is why we are Jesus’ brothers and also His spouse (Luke 8:21, Rev. 19:7-8). In the dimension of our souls, we can all be tempted in the spirit by male spiritual forces because we also have a dimension in our souls that is feminine and can be wooed. There is also a dimension whereby this soul’s characteristics can also behave as a male.
In the physical, God has identified us naturally according to our genders; this estate should not be broken. However, in the soul, we have the dimensions of the different genders. The way we were made in the physical shows us how God wants us to be (whether male or female). Satan can deceive anybody and bring out an aspect which God did not give to us in the natural. As such, men should not conclude that they are born gay because no one was born gay. Everybody can be tempted, for we all have the capacity to go into homosexuality. However, the laws in our natural bodies have made it clear to us who we really are. It is Satan who makes men to begin to work on laws that are not in existence in man.
Homosexuals are not involved in those acts because of the responsibility of bearing children. They just like the evil pleasure they get in the flesh. Men even go as far as having sexual relationships with animals, depending on how depraved they are in their minds. However, many of these homosexuals will later turn back to God. God will touch them because powers that are beyond Satan’s power are coming to earth. If the power of God alone can turn men, how much more eternal power? When Jesus said all power was given to Him, this power comprised the eternal power, God’s power and the least of the powers, which is the Holy Ghost’s (Matt. 28:18). We are currently in the school of eternal power and it is for turning hearts. We have not learnt all that there is to this power. We are still at the beginning of it.
We will also find those daughters of Satan in Genesis at the end of our journey (Gen. 6:2). This time however, they will not be in physical form but spiritual. They will be in form of things that Satan will send to the church which will be feminine in nature; because they can attract all of us to leave God and be committed with them. The ladies in Genesis were not ordinary women. They are not like the harlots that men go into and can later be separated from. They will demand a vocational settlement because they will separate a man from his vocation or service to God. The sons of God in Genesis hanged their hands down. They were not angry with God but were just tired because Satan gave them weariness.
“And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,” (Gen. 6:1). These daughters will stop a man’s journey to God; just like Jezebel who seduces the servants of God to eat things sacrificed unto idols (Rev. 2:20). Jezebel was a prophetess and a teacher. Her work was to seduce, unlike the foretelling ministry of prophets that we know on earth. She can discern a servant of God (a highly trained ambassador) and can recruit or offer him an alternative worship or service. It is coming to pass that we will meet with Jezebels’ but we have to overcome them.
“Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.” (Rev. 2:20). We should not commit fornication, or join ourselves to or marry a harlot (this spirit). When you commit fornication with her, you will give birth to children. She currently has children in churches because after some time of fellowshipping with men, she began to give birth to children.
“Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds. [23] And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works.” (Rev. 2:22-23). She had these children through multiplication, when the servants of God fornicated (agreed or allowed her into them and intermingled themselves) with her. What she was looking for was her fruit. This woman was a spirit. She is not such that you can point to a particular spirit; but she created an operation. Satan sent this woman out of his vomit to stop the work of God in men. However, Jesus said He will kill her with her works.
The teaching in Genesis was about blessing and multiplication. Adam had his works in a figure. He was a shadow of the last man from heaven; the Lord himself. The natural man (Adam) had the stature of a living soul, which is a shadow of the quickening spirit. He was a living soul who operated by a kind of eternal power or Everlasting Life. God did not build Adam up while he was in Eden. He had put all of the stature of a man in him and it was complete (Ecc. 7:29).
“For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:” (Rom. 1:20). At each plain or quarter, there is a communication of eternal power and the Godhead. God showed it in the past to some, but He did not give them the original substance. He gave them blessings, which were a type of the original substance. There is a type of eternal power learning and a type of the Godhead, which He gave all of them. Even in angels, these two things are also clearly given. This was why Satan had the confidence to leave God.
There was a way Adam saw the invisible things of God and a way Satan or an angel will see these invisible things. These invisible things are the eternal power and Godhead. Angels also knew these things but God used different spiritual materials to communicate the eternal power and the Godhead. When you have known or seen it, nothing can take it from you. Adam knew the eternal power and Godhead, but what was remaining was for him to know the original. All of these were in the tree of life. It was a reward, but by reason of where Adam was, he could learn it.
God was trying to protect the era in Genesis, for there was a war of preservation at that time. However, men kept depreciating. This made God to start producing imitations from the originality. The first one that was given to Adam was more original than the one Enoch had. The one Enoch had was more original than the one Abraham had. The one Abraham had was the last and this was what moved and cultured the last two patriarchs (Isaac and Jacob). Of all the children of Jacob, it was only Joseph that came close to being a prophet and a priest, although not fully. As they all died, it kept falling till it fell below Christ.
If we use the journey of the Israelites as a roadmap for the journey of man, it can be said that Canaan land typifies Eden. When man left Canaan land, he began backsliding. He passed through all the realms and entered the wilderness. In the wilderness, there will still be some form of Christ in him. As such, he will still need three wildernesses to break Christ down – there is a wilderness of sin, wilderness of zeal, and the wilderness of Paran. Jesus is hope, faith and charity and these are all wildernesses. Man kept retrogressing until he entered Egypt. This was why the scripture recorded that God called His church (son) out of Egypt (Matt. 2:15).
When God said that Israel was His first born, He was referring to the church. This was the revelation of God’s seed as the church (His own people). It was a new invention that God had to undertake, for it had not existed before. As a result of the fall, He had to take this measure, so that He will not need to destroy the earth with water. God had to make remedy of redemption and condescend from His standard. It was difficult for God to leave the realm of the Almighty, which is Everlasting Life. At this time, he had to even leave the Holy Place, come out into the Outer Court, move through the camp and eventually get to Egypt.
“And was there until the death of Herod: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt have I called my son.” (Matt. 2:15). When Jesus was born, he was taken to Egypt to demonstrate how far man went away from God. God therefore had to call Him out of there. “My Son” typifies the church and it shows us that God had the patience to deal with men from their cradle. In the time of Genesis, God could not deal with man as flesh. He had to leave flesh alone (Gen. 6:3). Abraham was not completely flesh because flesh cannot respond to God. God started with Abraham with the revelation of the name ‘Almighty’. This was the realm of Everlasting. Jesus however grew from flesh. He was not made ‘Almighty’ or a living soul but was made flesh.
When the Israelites got to the promised land, all they could respond to were miracles and signs. God did not give them the voice of the word but the voice of miracles. They were waiting for signs and wonders because they were dead like the Egyptians. God had to operate through signs and wonders when Moses was sent to Egypt for the Israelites to respond to Him; because this was what they could hear.
Many children of God cannot hear the voice of God’s word but can hear the voice of His sign. You will only hear the voice of your nature. God knows how to speak to the nature of a man. This is why men who are in the pedigree of responding to signs will be angry when under a ‘word’ ministration. God had to even give Moses an additional sign, because there are also different levels in this pedigree. Some would not have listened to the sign of the snake turning to a rod but would listen to the sign of his hand withering (Ex. 4:1-8). God was condescending because He had vowed that He would save flesh. This was why John the Baptist said that all flesh shall see the salvation of God (Luke 3:6).
God used eternal power and the Godhead to raise the men in Genesis, but as at Exodus, He knew that this method would not work because men were far gone from it. As such, He raised Moses to take them out of the pit where they were (Egypt). Moses had to condescend and to raise them. It is not coincidental that we find some places in the bible, where it was recorded that “they went up from Egypt” or that “they went down from Canaan”.
Many souls are in Egypt and what suffices them is that their land (Goshen) is prospering. This is why many cannot respond to the call of Eternal Life. The character of Egypt will question if Eternal Life can provide for his needs. God then had to introduce Christ to man. Man has to be weaned from Egypt, drawn from the breast, weaned from milk to bring them out. This is because in Egypt, you also have access to what the Egyptians eat, only that it is sanctified. Some believers like the carnal meal which flesh likes. Egypt also has an operation of carnal signs and wonders. This was why they kept reproducing the same signs that Moses did. Satan can duplicate every miracle but when you are about to leave Egypt, the duplication will stop. If God loves you, He can even increase the voltage of things.
From miracles, it increased to judgement. This was when some men counselled Pharoah to let the Israelites go, but when he refused, they started having frogs, lice and the other plagues that befell them. They were supposed to stop and allow the Israelites go, but they dragged until the first-borns of the Egyptians were killed. When God wants to drag you out, He will not give up hope. The same hope will compel Him to bring you out. A time is coming when God will drag the church out of the pit. God will kill first-borns, so that His people can go and the Pharoah who is holding His people down will be broken. God is not bending or relenting. The same unrepenting oath will cause Him to behave like this, even at the milk level, to make us grow. Growth is not a suggestion - it is a command!
The men (priests) in Genesis 1-11 knew eternal power in a figure but the original thing was committed to our Lord Jesus Christ. John saw this and said that the Father loves the Son and has given to Him all things (John 3:35). God gave us all things, but not as the way He gave the Son because we are still earthly. “He that cometh from above is above all: he that is of the earth is earthly, and speaketh of the earth: he that cometh from heaven is above all.” (John 3:31). God is the God of heaven and the earth; so, there are earthly, heavenly and eternal portions of the eternal power and the Godhead.
What creatures have been handling is a prototype of God’s knowledge. The original one was not given to anyone but Jesus. If in a figure, God gave these things to men and yet they disdained it, something will happen to them. The bible also says that in the last days, God will still show these things. When the revelation of Christ is being taught and you are able to open up to it, you are actually knocking at the door of the everlasting gospel. When Christ is being taught, we are being given the anchor that will invite the rest of the gospel to a man. If some people are able to obey Christ, God will avenge disobedience, for vengeance is in the day of our God (2 Cor. 10:6, Isaiah 61:2).
Every thought must be brought to the obedience of Christ. Therefore, when obedience of Christ is fulfilled, God will begin to avenge because He will reveal His own day. Judgement comes in God’s day. This means that when God is beginning to teach people about Himself, vengeance has arrived.
“To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;” (Isa. 61:2). This day is also the time of comforting all that are Christ, because it is Christ that mourns. “To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified.” (Isa. 61:3). There are general mourners; but there are also specific mourners who will choose to continue mourning, when others want to rest. At the same time that they mourn in Christ, they will give them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning and the garments of praise.
Eternal power is Everlasting Life. “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:” (John 1:12). It is those who have Christ that He will give the power to be called the sons of God. The power to become the sons of God is more than the power of God unto salvation. The purpose of the gospel of John is to show us the way into Everlasting Life. “But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.” (John 20:31). You cannot be a son of God except you have Christ, which is life. This book of John was written so that we can have Christ. After we have had Christ, we can then go on to believe that He is the son of God. It is through the name of the Son of God that you will have life. This name is not Christ but a name that will give you Everlasting Life.
God’s primary ambition is that men will have life (Christ) and have it more abundantly (John 10:10). Everlasting Life is the Son of God. There are two realms of being the begotten Son of God – there is the begotten Son by the works of God and the begotten Son of God through His reward - this Son is the only begotten of God (Isa. 40:10). Jesus is not just the begotten of God but is also the only begotten Son of God. God has many begotten ones, but the only begotten Son of God means a lot; this title is a reward. “The only true God” was a derivative from the wisdom of immortality.
“That thou keep this commandment without spot, unrebukable, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ:” (1 Tim. 6:14). This appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ begins with Everlasting Life. This ‘appearing’ is continuous. When Jesus Christ begins to appear, He can only appear as the Son of God. The reason why we can see Him while the world cannot see Him is so that we can live. When He is appearing, it means He is coming to you. When you see Him in a stationary state, you can only see Him as Christ; but when He begins to come towards you, He is coming as the Son of God. This is the principle of the Sonship of God that engineers that coming. This is the revelation of Jesus Christ when He is not stationary. When He is stationary, He cannot show you too much but can only reveal Christ to you. However, when you have gone beyond Christ and want to see Him more, He will come.
“Which in his times he shall shew, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords; [16] Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen.” (1 Tim. 6:15-16). Jesus Christ only hath immortality but He also has power everlasting. No one else has immortality. The word ‘only’ is used for one who has crossed into reward. Anyone who is dealing with reward assumes the state of ‘only’, like the only true God and the only Son of God. The word ‘only’ is beyond just an English word.
It is only a priest that will hear the language of God when he reads the bible. It will be by natural effort if we depend on language alone as evidence. Our evidence for scripture is actually the inspiration of the Almighty. It is not the words that give understanding but the inspiration of the Almighty (Job 32:8). Greek words do not know how to communicate Eternal Life because it was not by human language that God communicated these words to us. The original language from the beginning (the time of Adam) was lost because no one is currently speaking it. It is actually a language of Everlasting Life. We need to put all those languages together to be able to get it; but nobody can unite the tongues because God has broken (split) them. He has also limited the ability to convey what is inside Him. As such, the languages of men are actually weak conveyors of spiritual matters.
Up till the time of the tower of Babel, those men had this language; but God broke it because that was their power to tap into unlimited resources for their imaginations. That language was not ordinary; it was strength. This is why when we are dealing with mysteries, we need to go back to tongues; because when we speak in tongues, we speak mysteries which no man understands. We speak to God (1 Cor. 14:2).
Everlasting life is a season of building the stature that can carry reward. After we inherit Christ, we will then inherit the Son of God. However, God wants everybody to get to everlasting life because this is actually the gospel. It is called the everlasting gospel. The everlasting realm is the appreciable realm where God can easily come down to and communicate to you. This means that God wants all of us to be everlasting.
“But those things, which God before had shewed by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled. [19] Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord. [20] And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you: [21] Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.” (Acts 3:18-21). Restitution means a restoration of what was taken away. Jesus will not come back until everything is restituted. Some things were taken away but they need to be put back. When God made man on earth, things were intact but they have been taken away. However, those things need to come back. Things must come back from flesh to Christ and from Christ to Everlasting Life. If we do not get to Everlasting Life, it will not be said that things have been restituted.
That things must come into restitution means that when God looks down to earth, He can see what He can easily relate with or to. The earth was made in alignment to meet heavenly standard. When it was said that the earth was of old, it means that it was ancient. The things on earth were so aligned to the ‘neck’ that God could sit on it as the Head. This means that all the things of God must be found on earth and there should be men in earth holding them, from the grassroot to the highest height. As such, you will find milk, Christ and Everlasting Life (milk, meat and strong meat). When God comes in such instance, He will rejoice that His standard is being held. Somebody removed these things from the earth, but God should come and find these things restored. Some people think that Everlasting Life is a miracle but this is not so.
“The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John: [2] Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw.“ (Rev. 1:1-2). There were other things that John saw, but the major things he saw are the Word of God and the Testimony of Jesus. This Word of God is the Testimony of Jesus Christ. The Word of God is Everlasting Life and it is the power of God. God speaks His own word. In the originality, we have to learn Christ, so that we can meet with God and hear Him talk to us. God communicates to us with an everlasting sense or an everlasting mind.
God will always communicate the width, the length, the breadth and expansion of the word in an everlasting manner. When God is talking, He communicates with an everlasting intention in mind. He communicates with the intent of an everlasting heart. Therefore, when God is going to deal with us, He will teach us everlasting things. This is the word, and it then became the testimony of Jesus. The testimony is called the ‘Testimony of Jesus’ because Jesus was a man who lived it, received it and the word became His own.
It is possible for the Word of God to be the testimony of angels but no one receives this kind of word because it is God’s alone. The Godhead had never shared this dimension of themselves with any but their own Son (a man who is Abraham’s seed). God did not give the seed to Abraham or anyone but to Abraham’s seed; His own everlasting nature was given to Abraham’s seed. God gave His gospel to Abraham’s seed and it became a testimony because He gave it to a being who was lesser than Him (Jesus in the flesh). Jesus carried it and patented it. He also made it such that God’s word will also become man’s property and that man will hate his own word and receive that of God. As such, they will not receive the best of the things that God gives man but will only receive the things that are of God alone.
There is no way a creature can carry God’s word, which is in the bosom of the Father and in the womb of the Elohims. Everlasting Life is the secret that they have been keeping to themselves. There is no way you can come around Everlasting Life without everlasting understanding because as a man thinks in his heart, so is he (Prov. 23:7). That man will be thinking the image of that life; he will have an understanding of what that life is and see the expanse of that land. He will also touch the land and have an understanding of it.
The word that Christ carried tried Him in an everlasting manner. This was because the word communicated an everlasting stretch to Him. God will make you to have obeyed everlasting commandment. Everlasting commandment is not just in word, but is a measurement of the perimeters or land, and God wants you to obey Him. He wants us to walk the length and breadth of this land. What makes a land is the judgement by which God manufactured it; then, He will ask you to walk in it. Everlasting life can be in the form of an obedience of love; meanwhile, what you are actually doing is walking in the land to own it. This is a kind of obedience and submission. Jesus obeyed till the death on the cross. This was an everlasting commandment. The three and half years of obedience he did is a movement from everlasting to everlasting. Death on the cross leads to eternal and Jesus had to obey it. He was being stretched.
In obedience, you are being drawn; and in the process, you release energy. When you are stretched beyond the frame of a man, it will be painful initially, but after some time, you will not be able to go back to your former estate. God will stretch you into a son of God and into Himself; because that testimony which Jesus has contains the power to make you become. It will stretch you and give you the capacity of God. It knows how to breed in you the capacity to be like God because you will do the things that He does.
Anybody can operate miracles. We know sons by long suffering and endurance. They are those who are able to carry out the works of God. When God stretches them in an everlasting proportion, they will do his work. Some of our stretches are not ordinary and we should not be ignorant of this. When Satan is coming to lie to you about this, it is because he wants you to break this process and relax so that you will not continue. However, he is seeing what you are becoming. Spirits can tell when you are stretching beyond being a man. God moved Jesus beyond Christ into Godhood. As such, He tapped into testimony, had the words of God and began to live them. Then, they became a testimony.
That spirit of the Word that Jesus inherited became His. After a while, the spirit began to say Jesus’ name instead of calling God. It tapped into Jesus’ gene and Jesus tapped into it too. Thereafter, they became married together. As the spirit is on the inside of God, He also came to live in Jesus. Anywhere this spirit stays, it picks up the nature of the spirit because he will begin to talk of that person. This was why Paul could say, “my gospel” (Rom. 2:16, Rom. 16:25). Gospel means testimony and it can be yours. By the time you have overcome Satan, it is no longer Jesus’ testimony. “And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.” (Rev. 12:11). It must be your testimony; for you must inherit that testament. It is Jesus’ own but at the point of overcoming, it has become your own. As such, when they look at such a person, he has also gained ownership of the testimony of Jesus.
This testament knows how to overcome Satan if you can stay with it. All these teachings are to make you own this testimony now. A time is coming when the testimony will be given to you fully. What we are doing by opening our understanding and receiving this word is that we are inviting the testament because there is a way by which the testimony comes to you.
The day you have received the testimony is the day you stop pitying yourself, by comparing yourself with others. There cannot be a testament except the word has come to you. You must have the Word of God because it is this Word that becomes a testimony. It is the word we learn. As we are hearing the word of God and its revelation, we engage in the exercise of learning that word. We are in the season and dispensation of learning God’s Word. You learn the Word of God and after some time, you make it a testament by walking with it because it will be patterned after Christ’s testament. It is the Spirit of Prophecy.
When you learn the word and have the word, a spirit is born and a gene is given to you. You cannot have that spirit in one day. You need to hear that word very well until that spirit is born. It is called the New Testament; the Testament of Jesus. When you use it, you are overcoming.