Text: Revelation 22:1-21
“The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.” (Rev. 22:21) The grace of our Lord Jesus that is supposed to be with us all is beyond the word of His grace commission. It is beyond the grace dealing for the Word of His grace which is able to build you up (Acts 20:32). The grace being referred to in Revelation 22:21 is the grace of the Son of God; the Offspring and the Root of David, the Bright and Morning star. He is both the Bright and the Morning star. If He is bright, it is because He is wise. And if He is a star, then He is a turner; He turns.
“And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.” (Dan. 12:3) Anyone who is wise is bright - He is like the brightness of the firmament. A turner is a star for ever and ever. This is referring to everlasting star. The righteousness here is not to make people Christ. Otherwise, one won't be a star for ever and ever.
“So also Christ glorified not Himself to be made an High Priest; but He that said unto Him, Thou art my Son, to day have I begotten Thee. As He saith also in another place, Thou art a Priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.” (Heb. 5:5-6) This everlasting priesthood is the begetting of Jesus into this dimension; where He is going to sit on the right hand side of God. “But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom.” (Heb. 1:8) All these things came along; they are words that came along the meaning of Jesus after He was begotten that day. Sceptre means authority of righteousness; it implies that His kingdom is sustained by an everlasting strength. It is a kind of righteousness. Sceptre is not referring to an extension of a physical dimensional rod. It is referring to some kind of strength that this King or this Son has (the strength of what is right). The laws of His dominion is righteousness.
“To whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all; first being by interpretation King of righteousness, and after that also King of Salem, which is, King of peace; Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually.” (Heb. 7:2-3) Melchisedec’s first degree of Kingship is King of righteousness. After that, King of Salem who is also King of Peace; then the name still continues (unto the Son of God). Everything about this person (Melchisedec) is about all these constitutions. The way God will name you is all that makes you - that he calls you. Name is the abbreviation or summation of everything a person is.
“Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days…” (Heb. 7:3a) means you cannot trace his beginning. God stretched Melchisedec beyond descent and gave him a training that outstretched parenthood. God can rewrite a person and equip him with a different descent. To God, you do not have to express before He can tell who you are. God knows what is inside every soul whether he/she expresses it or not; He knows the content of every soul. What matters to God is the content of the soul. A content cannot be more than what it's containing. A content will always generate what it is made up of.
This is similar to the book of prophecy. The book has some kind of age in it. The book is referred to as the cup. It is the cup of the everlasting blessing, or the cup of the Father. A cup is similar to a book - a trapper of liquid (information). The cup of the New Testament is in a similar fashion. When the scriptures speak about a cup, it is really referring to the amount of the content. The volume of the cup can be measured just as the volume of the book.
“Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you.” (Luke 22:20) Blood and book are the same. Blood can call forth the book because deep calleth unto deep. Man’s problem is his cup which Satan has filled. The secret of sin is the cup: the strength of sin is the cup of iniquity. Satan did a terrible work in secret and then distracted man with a lesser work. The secret work of Satan itself has not fully been understood. We still see his work under the definition and interpretation of a carnal mind. Satan moved man too far and took him very far from where he finished the work; so that man would never trace where the secret is. He did this so that man would never agree that he has a problem.
The Lord just said to my heart that: “everything everlasting is a love walk”. The realm of the everlasting dimension is an offer or a job of love; it is a gift of love. It is a design that your love cannot resist. There is a pit or a depth in every man's soul, and it is a pit of everlasting environment. It has ability to do everlasting works. When we say everlasting work, there is a veil to men's understanding. This veil will not allow us cross into understanding and breakthrough as against what Satan has done. Satan can do an everlasting work in a man though he might not live long on earth. Therefore, works follow a soul. This is referring to what is in the soul.
Death is measured in works. Works have different qualities, not quantity. You can tell works first by its kind, or quality; not by its mass. I wonder why some people have elongated strength to things of the world. Our strength as against what attracts differ. Some would easily break away; while some will still be in love with this world. When you see such a thing, it is not just this world; there is an everlasting work. A work has been done inside the person more than just the world. It is not even really about what a person is exposed to. Someone may not live in luxury, but still love this world.
A lot of poor people on earth was God's design to help their souls. Many of them are weaker to this world. Many people who have stolen money are actually poor men. An everlasting work can be done in people across different classes (as measured by the world’s standard). Satan can make a soul lustfully prefer to live in a particular geographical location to another not just for safety sake but for attainment sake. A carnal man’s love for certain carnal substances is a display of the everlasting strength done in him. These are ways through which Satan tension souls. Anytime there is a drawing from Satan, there is also a wining (feasting). Drawing and wining go together. Those activities transpire in the soul.
“But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. [15] Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.” (James 1:14-15) This verse of scripture speaks about more than works of the flesh but much more; it refers to seemingly good things that have the power to kill a soul. These are secrets to the everlasting works of Satan which he teaches, cultures and trains a soul to inherit. There is a pattern of inheritance which does not happen by happenstance. When you go to some homes, you can literarily smell lust; while some are free of it. We all come from different home structures and atmospheres. Also, the provisions at the time of our upbringing also differs. However, we must not hate our parents for not measuring up to the standards that we have set for ourselves. Doing so is iniquity from which we must repent.
There are good works and there are everlasting works. Everlasting works are works of “good works of good”. Good works are works that publish peace. Satan has his opposite of this, which publishes wrath. Evil works are everlasting. What makes it everlasting is because love is involved. If our love is not dealt with, ‘Nicolaitans’ can arise from there. We should all check our love. This message is not to puff us up but to judge filth in us (Rev. 22:11-12).
“Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually” (Heb. 7:3) All the constitutions listed in the above scripture: father, mother, descent, are all entities of life that end in the natural. This is a definition of death. This means that all these cannot go beyond death physically. If you are within this confluence, you will have an end. Anyone who has beginning of days will also have end of life. Beginning of days and end of life were seasons of training for Melchisedek. He was not born Melchisedek; he was ‘made’ like unto the Son of God. The making is not creation. It is the same word - ‘made’- which was used in Hebrews 1:4 “Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.” God is saying that what Satan has will eventually end man. When Adam disobeyed, all his children were living souls. However, Satan wrote another code of life (father, mother, descent, beginning of days, and end of life) for living soul; and gave it to them to terminate them.
A son of God should be without father, mother or descent; should not have beginning of days nor end of life. In Genesis 5, even though the sons after Abraham could live up to a millennium, they could still trace their lineage. That testament (of being able to live long) thrived and was okay; but God offered a better one through Jesus. Jesus brought the solution to dissolve death -- everlasting life. When Satan wanted to end man, he gave them a future, and a hope. “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.” (Jer. 29:11) Hope is called expected end. End is a Most Holy gift.
What you are learning is a secret. What I am teaching this night is life - everlasting life. You cannot understand everlasting life if you do not understand the other side. Hope is an expected end because hope entereth into that within the veil (Heb. 6:19). However, Satan also packaged an end in a manner of promise in offering a life to man which he used to trap him. Satan has no gift of life, so he put it in the bloodline. He did that because he knows that man’s life does not end in the body. So, Satan wants to culture man with his life that even when the man dies, Satan can still have claim over the soul.
“For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” (Rom. 6:23) Wages is what is offered as a result of sin. This death is not sin and death; but hell and death. This death has a pedigree of Eternal life. There's a death that is standing side by side with life and peace; but there's another that stands by Eternal life. The tree of life had the tree of the knowledge of good and evil standing by it. So, Eternal life has a rival or a competitor. So, the death here in Romans 6:23 is life. It is not seen as wage in the sight of a carnal man, but an attainment; it is seen as a gift. That sin is iniquity. Iniquity is everlasting strength; it is a life. Anyone who has iniquity can never love the Father, such will naturally love the world. By encounter, iniquity can leave a man.
Some people on earth, who are even Christians right now, may not be able to give up their hold on iniquity. There is nothing in being blessed to meet needs. However, for some people, it becomes a love when the soul uses it as an edge; taking glory in it. You can use money for life and you can use money for use. Any status that you are in life, do not let Satan pump it. One of the greatest reasons why people steal is not just to have money. They want to convert it to buy life: a promising life.
When Satan tempted Cain to go out of God's presence, he never told him that he would not be living long in the flesh. Cain received the gift of sin but did not know the intention of sin. Sin gave Cain a platform for a greater expression for attainment. He was then blind and deaf to all God was doing. If you refuse to follow the leading of God in the area of geographical location, you will never attain everlasting life. Geographical location can steal your life from you. That is why God asked Abraham to leave his father's house. God knew He can’t make him a father of many nations, without him leaving his father’s house
“Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually.” (Heb. 7:3) God is saying to us that this frame is one of our greatest troubles to entering into everlasting life and eternal life. God wants us to continue for ever and ever. People like Paul slept with everlasting life. A whole lot of believers have slept but have not attained unto the resurrection of the dead.
“And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.” (Rev. 20:12-13) Books are works. These are testaments for souls. There are certain works we cannot see; it is only the Father who can see them. There are two major classification of books: book of the small and book of the great. These are the books for the dead; books for judging works.
Sea is a small work. Death and hell is a great work. Small and great are not of the same stature. Some people are great in death and some have small death. What will determine them are books for two measurement: sea books, and hell and death books. These books can determine how much works have been done by a person from their respective realms (small or great). Great death is hell and death; small death is the sea. You have to do the sea to pass into the great. So, when they open the books and see how well one has worked, if the death is able to be worked on, the books will tell. But if the death has no answer, that is the end of the person.
Then, they open the book of life. The first book is Christ. The last book is God. The first book are books of good works. The last book are books of everlasting works. People are judged by their works. A work that can eternally refuse God can be done in a man. When hell and death has worked in a man, he will resist God eternally.
Rev. Kenneth E. Hagin was teaching this thing (on the book of life) many years ago. I was listening to the message and at a point, he said, “there are certain things you see in the spirit you cannot tell. That day (Day of Judgment), you will be surprised that the people you hope to see, you wouldn’t see them and the people you never expected to see, you will see them there. There is no place in the scripture that they write a man’s name (in the book of life); but there is a place where people’s name are blotted out”. It means everyone’s name is there. As long as you are born to this earth, your name is there. However, great works of death can remove one’s name from the book. Christians need to be told this; that a Christian can go into the lake of fire by refusing Jesus consciously.
When the world to come will appear, such will hate it by the reason of death in him. “For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.” (Rev. 22:15) This is one man; it is a stature. It begins with dogs, then sorcerers, whoremongers, murderers... Murderers are higher than whoremongers. A murderer knows how to kill the life of Christ. A murderer can be someone who turns people from faith such that God loses them forever. He can shift people from their eternal destiny. It begins with dogs; a dog is unbelieving. So, it is a progression from small death to great death. When this kind of soul gets to a point where he maketh a lie, he cannot be helped.
“But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.” (Rev. 21:8) It begins with small death; it will end with great death. One man must have all these things. “Maketh a lie” is not when someone does not admit to doing a "wrong thing"; though this is not justifying that kind of lie.
God is interested in turning us; taking away all our weaknesses that is poisonous. Disobedience to parents is wrong and it is a sin of the last days. What God is saying is spiritual and He wants us to learn out of that place, so we won't go with the pollution of Satan. Without father (Heb. 7:3) is not necessarily talking about your biological parents. It is talking about a lifestyle on earth. Satan has captured the lifestyle on earth to limit how we will respond to God highly. When one is free, then you'll be made in the image of the glory of the Son of God.
Jesus is the Bright and Morning star. He is wise and at the same time, He turns many. “For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.” (Heb. 2:10) Jesus is talking about many sons and He wants to bring them to everlasting righteousness. A star of the morning is also a shepherd. You can be wise and not be a shepherd. For God to raise shepherds is for them to be able to turn many to righteousness.
“Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, Thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; Thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine forth. Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up Thy strength, and come and save us. Turn us again, O God, and cause Thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.” (Ps. 80:1-3) That ability of a star, a turner, is with God. A morning star can save a person to the uttermost. Therefore, when Jesus said He would give you the morning star when you overcome, it means that you will be able to turn many to righteousness. To be bright is to be everlasting; but to have morning star is to have eternal life. A morning star is an entity of eternal life; a star who will shine for ever and ever. Stars for ever and ever are stars of eternity. They have ability to turn men to righteousness; and that righteousness is to save one to the uttermost. Jesus wants to save us until we wear righteousness as a garment.