Eternal Glorious Fountain Ministry (EGFM)
Programme: Writing The Vision (WTV), November Edition
Date: Saturday, 20th November, 2021
Speaker 2: Pastor Thompson Ehima
Before now, there was a belief that the Old Testament was for old testament saints, but we are beginning to see that it is the whole counsel of God. It has been a season of speakings about reward, and it has become clear that the rewards are not going to be given all at once; they are parts of a process. Such speakings have brought us into the most recent emphasis of God and His throne.
When God met with Moses in the backside of the wilderness, He sent Him to Egypt to deliver God’s people so that they could come and worship Him on this mountain (Exodus 3:12). Hebrews 12:28 speaks of serving God acceptably; without acceptable service, we will not be caught up to God. The womb is a place of service. Thus, the womb of the woman is a temple for a particular manner of service that precedes being caught up to God.
Moses was not on top of the mountain when God first met with him; he only arrived at the top of that mountain after the children of Israel had spent some time in the wilderness. Thus, He brought the children of Israel to the tail of that same mountain and required certain consecrations from them (Exo. 19:3-20). God was sure that Moses was going to bring His people out of Egypt, and promised Moses that he would come back to serve Him upon that mountain. So, when Moses brought them out of Egypt, he brought them back to that mountain.
Moses went into that mountain on two occasions. At the first instance, he went up with the elders (Exo. 24:9) but on the second occasion, God instructed Him to come up alone (Exo. 24:2). Six days after the first occasion, God girt Moses up and he was there for forty days (Exo. 24:18). It was at this point that the issue of commandments was addressed. The commandments were borne out of a fellowship with God. There was a kind of service that Moses was carrying out in that estate.
The people were at the tail of the mountain while the elders were allowed to come up because of their own stature. However, the elders could not serve God like Moses. The elders were brought into a covenant as symbolized by the feast they ate on the mountain. This can be likened to the woman who fled into the wilderness where she was fed for some time (Rev. 12:6). Thus, the elders were fed with the same things that raised the manchild, even everlasting things.
We are made to partake of these things by knowledge. What breeds knowledge is wisdom. We must therefore be ready to eat just as Elijah was instructed to eat, because the journey is far (1 Kings 19:7). We must continue to eat in order to put off our corruption: the essence of eating is to change corruptibility to incorruptibility. We all have things in us that make us have variableness; and we must be healed of our variableness and falsehood.
The wrath of God is revealed against those who hold the truth in unrighteousness (Rom. 1:18). In this season of everlasting life, it is dangerous for us to have things of unrighteousness in us or be unwilling to let go of falsehood. Hell and death are falsehoods. The book of Psalms speaks of men who can swear to their own hurt (Psa. 15:4). We must be able to swear allegiance to obey God even if it hurts us. This is because, when things are being removed from us, it can hurt us.
Although the sacrifices of loving our brethren in charity take things from us, this present removal is more demanding because They deprive us of our hopes and the agreements with death and hell we have made in our souls. Thus, to move against these agreements, we must be fed with the food of the elders.
The everlasting meals are meant to address our variations -- things that make us turn or change and stop us from being whole. After learning Christ, we must not find any place of rest in anything former or present. By the revelation of the Son of God, God wants to expire the present in us. The presence of former and present things is a ground for corruption to remain. God has provided food to deliver us from the corruption that is in the world.
There are two forms of escape available for us. The first one is the escape from this world through the faith of Christ; there is a lust in the world that we must escape from. The Lord washes us by the teachings of Christ that instruct us to love, give, and humble ourselves amongst others. Hebrews 2 speaks of another escape that is tied to salvation. This is an escape from falsehood, corruption and variableness. We cannot flee for refuge until we have escaped.
In 2 Thessalonians 2, Paul spoke of the secret works of iniquity, including the variable and lies that the enemy has worked in every man. Just as God has purged the deceitfulness of sin from us, He also wants to purge us from natures of lies within us that make us have the tendency to draw back unto perdition. A soul can draw back when he sees the demands of God, especially when it is in regards to the oath.
Paul was addressing the iniquity that is at work in us, including lies and falsehood. These things determine our judgements and how we see our brethren. They are evil works within our chambers which the light of Christ could not x-ray; it takes the gospel of God to bring these things to light.
2 Thessalonians 2:16
"Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace…"
God wants to reinforce us with everlasting substances to make sure that we do not collapse under pressure. This would happen through grace from feeding and obeying commandments; we receive grace by understanding. Our food is understanding; it is by this means we are brought into everlasting consolation. This is the only answer to lies, and to hell and death.
Moses was enveloped in a cloud when he was girt up (Exo. 24:18). This cloud was a womb that received Moses, just as Jesus was received into the heavens (Acts 1:9). If we have not finished our everlasting course, we cannot be received into the womb. It is in the womb we can serve God acceptably; we cannot be received there if we lack a strong consolation.
We need to be made strong in order to serve God. We need strength because we are receiving a kingdom (Heb. 12:28-29). Thus, it is those who have served God in the womb that can receive the kingdom and His throne. To serve God acceptably, we need grace which comes from knowledge and understanding (Heb. 12:28). We cannot separate the kingdom of God from His throne.
On the second ascension of Moses to the mountain, God instructed him to come with no man (Exo. 34:3). It was on this occasion that He was hidden in the cleft of the rock; God was his refuge (Exo. 33:22). At this point, Moses had become an everlasting man.
Moses became a helpless man; this is why some men could gang up against him (Num. 16), and why he interceded to stop God from destroying the people (Exo. 32:11). God made Moses a god to Pharaoh and made Aaron his prophet, at the time He sent him to deliver the people from Egypt (Exo. 7:1). If God called him a god, then he must have gone through a process in the house of Jethro.
The souls that Moses was dealing with in the wilderness were used to expire everlasting works of darkness in him. By stopping the destruction of God’s people, he was declaring that as a man, he did not have that kind of evil in his heart towards God’s people, and expected the same from God (Exo. 32:11). Moses was permitted to see the back of God as a foreshadow of His face which is available to us in the New Testament, even everlasting things.