God brings understanding to raise us up to the pace of the programme of redemption which He is doing amidst men. There is a wisdom that is used to lay truth, even though it may not be understandable at first. God would bring subsequent words to fit the puzzle and bring an understanding to the people. We should be encouraged to continue to hear even when we do not understand some things.
This present truth of the unveiling of God is the summation of the matter and the end of all things. The period of teaching Christ is to culminate in the teaching of God. The season we are in now, is one of the fullness of the stature of Christ. And Jesus came to give everyone this comprehension.
The disciples were able to deny their natural goods after a while because they were being filled with the things of the incorruptible. They no longer had room for the incorruptible. The reason why men are not able to relinquish physical things is because they are still full of the corruptible. No one hears the things of God and remains ordinary. Anyone who would be able to hear God must have heard the things of Christ in previous seasons. Hearing God is not accomplished with the physical ear, but it is the ability to understand and process the thoughts of God.
What is being unveiled to us at this time is the form of God. God is many things but yet He is also one thing. Just having the knowledge of the thoughts of God is filling and fulfilling, how much more inheriting God? God is revealing and exposing the things that make Him up to us to learn and comprehend. God is both God and the Father. These two entities are a name. The Father is the carrier of God; the walk of God. God walks as a Father, while He abides as God. The Father is the inheritance, while God is the reward. God revealed Himself to Abraham saying; “I am thy shield (the father) and thy exceeding great reward (God)” (Gen 15:1). This reminds me of the tree of life.
The holy of holies is an upward growth. The growth Peter was admonishing the saints to grow (2 Pet. 3:18) was not of the knowledge of Christ but that of a Saviour. God is the only one capable of saving, hence this position is one in which God exalted our Lord to; a realm/position of salvation. The ministry of glory would come into ‘now’ to those who have entered into the ‘then’- those who have finished the courses of faith, hope and charity. To such men, the realm of ‘then’ has become their own ‘now’. While Jesus was on earth, He was operating in the ‘then’ while still in the ‘now’.
The saving knowledge of God is not the sacrifice that has to do with the new birth or the quickening of the spirit. The word ‘saviour’ entails everything that heaven calls salvation; salvation to the uttermost.
He who dwells between the cherubims is the shepherd of the throne (Psa 80:1-2). He “comes” to save us by first blessing us with an understanding of the inheritance. The coming of the Father to save, starts with the giving of this understanding. Job was a shadow of the end of salvation which is to come. God first elevated Job’s judgement by giving him things and raising him up to Him. After this, Job's soul was raised and His body accordingly and afterwards lived for another four generations (Job 42:16). The appearance of God to Job was an appearance of reward. There are appearances in the comings of God to us. The appearances become progressively stronger till the last appearance which is called quickening.
The most holy knowledge is a saving knowledge; a message of the salvation of the soul. No one can enter the Most Holy without first passing through the Holy place. Such a person is now ready for a teaching beyond life. Life is Christ; life is Holy but there is something better than life - the loving kindness of God. Christ is the life required before a better life can be learnt.
Eternal life is given at the entrance into the Holy of Holies (the Most Holy). Anyone who has entered here cannot die anymore in His spirit. The new birth experience is the gift of God, which takes a man’s spirit into the Holy place while his soul would have to learn the package of resurrection in the church. God has blessed the church to save the soul. Any church that is unable to run the program of salvation of the soul has not yet found her true purpose. The Holy Ghost is the only One who can lead a man from being a mere man. Since we became carnal as a result of wrong leading, we must also become spiritual by a holy leading.
A carnal man is one who cannot rely on the hope of the unseen. Carnal men are not naturally designed to have hunger for spiritual things. To raise a carnal man to being spiritual, the Holy Ghost may first have to come to his level and meet his carnal needs.
In the God dimension, there are levels of salvation. The first delivery of salvation is after the pattern of inheritance and the other is after the pattern of reward. One who has received the inheritance has been saved to a level. Also, the first lesson in the holy place is the giving of a measure of the inheritance, which is the first level of eternal life. This is the giving of the Son of God - the measure of the stature of the fullness of God. Inheritance in the holy place is built upon the full stature of Christ: faith, hope and charity.
The Faith lesson is the first height above carnality; faith opens the door of the spiritual. A faith man is one who has emerged as a spiritual man. Next, is the season of hope where every shame is gone and boldness is endued. The time of hope is a time of great fruiting. A man who has come to Hope is gradually attaining purity. The end of the course of Hope produces a pure man who can be led into a season of the Love of the brethren—Charity. Charity is the crown of Christ; it’s the crown of the spiritual man and the end of the commandment of Christ that began by faith.
What makes a man spiritual is not visions and other encounters but the obedience to commandments and laws. God is more pleased when a man can do the invisible while in the body than out of the body. Infect, every taking out of the body in visions or encounters must result in taking steps in the physical. We would cheat the body if we attempt to get spiritual outside the body. Even Jesus pleaded that His body may not see corruption nor be suffered in hell (Psa. 16:10). There is a recompense for sin done in the body (Rom. 8:13) .
For the soul to partake of the spiritual, the lesson of faith must have been undertaken by the soul. The doors of faith are spirits that beckon to men to bring them up from carnality to spirituality. Carnality is in dimensions and every dimension has a key that can terminate it.
A perfect man is one who has fully learnt faith, hope and charity. Faith lessons start before the outer court. Faith is what takes a soul out of Egypt into the wilderness and helps one to find the tabernacle and become a Levite (by faith). Hope is what brings a soul into the holy place to complete the course of charity. Faith is the longest leg/course of the three and is what brings a soul into the kingdom.
What cleanses the soul is the washing with pure water. Only a Levite (the separate) is entitled to the pure water. Separation is first done by gathering and sprinkling with clean water (Ezekiel. 36:25-26). Clean water takes a soul into the holy place until the soul accesses the holy bread. Bread is the last commodity of water because it would take many days to find it (Ecc. 11:1). The bread is found much later and is not for just any kind of people. The shewbread is given to prepare one for life in the most Hholy. For the shewbread to be seen, the Menorah light (Christ light) must be fully in place.
Every one with a higher Christ stature does not use the sunlight to live but the manorah light. The seraphims live by seeing through darkness; that is, seeing darkly. This burning sight accomplishes holiness and brings it to perfection; this is because it brings a narrow corridor to sight to break into the holy of holies. The flame of light that sheds the brightness of burning speaks greatly and installs confidence for the life ahead.
Sanctification means preparation for the most holy. Only those who use the light of the night can be made holy. Christ is our light; He is the light of the night. This is also an escape of the scourging of the sunlight and the moon by day and night respectively. The inheritance is built on this pedestal. The most holy place is the realm of inheritance and reward. Eternal life is both an inheritance and a reward. Our inheritance is eternal. Our inheritance lies between the veil and the ark. The reward is the ark; everything that constitutes the ark is what makes up the reward.
To be kept by the power of God in the sanctuary (to be sanctified) is to have come to the end of the course of the holy place and waiting unto salvation (1 Pet. 1:5). The last time is a time when all the things concerning a Christian’s journey is concluded. The Christians in 1 Peter are overcomers who are now waiting for salvation. They would need to first overcome before the inheritance can be given. They must prove their worthiness of the inheritance to God.
After overcoming, we inherit all things so that God can afterwards become our God. The giving of God is the giving of the reward (Rev 21:7). The composition called God is a constitution of reward. Inheritance is pillar while God is a Covering. The inheritance needs to be covered by the reward. The season of teaching is one of the giving of the inheritance wherein a soul must overcome the dragon to own the inheritance. No one can receive the reward except he first becomes incorruptible. A father is a building/the house of the incorruptible; all incorruptible beings are fathers. Both the inheritance (the father) and the reward (God) are eternal life. In the Godhood dimension, our thinking patterns are completely altered.
Fathers are in degrees/levels and they all would not come to the point of receiving the inheritance at the same time. Though natural age matters by impacting experience, age in the spirit acquired as a result of teaching overrides the natural age. We must respect elders in the spirit regardless of our level of spirituality or the amount of God’s knowledge we come into. The apostle John respected the elder in Rev. 7:13-14 by calling him Sir. The eldership around the throne typifies the platform of fatherhood. Fathers are those who have been named through inheritance. The major divisions of father are represented by Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
God first spoke the words of incorruptibility to the fathers through the prophets (Heb. 1:1). Jesus permitted John to remain on the earth for the purpose of the giving of the last inheritance. Paul opened the realm of fatherhood and concluded it in the book of Hebrews. The fathers are they who would have a better and an enduring substance in heaven (Heb 10:4-5).
The inheritance incorruptible is a call to fatherhood, (1 Pet 1:4). The “Incorruptible, undefiled and that fadeth not away” represent three orders of patriarchy in the spirit. Without the inheritance, there can never be a reward. The inheritance is the tabernacle of God. To be faithful is to have finished the first work and to be true is to have finished the last work.
The temple/tabernacle of God is God's inheritance (Rev. 21:3). God's inheritance is His works but we cannot enter into His rest until we do the two works. What was required of the Hebrew church was to build a place of rest (a tabernacle) for God. Only a father can own and inherit God; a father is a tabernacle.
We must fight to be incorruptible. In the days to come, the waters of the throne would be so abundant and would cover the earth as the water covers the seas. Out of the waters, comes God's inheritance; His Fatherhood.
Satan has broken free from the restriction of love and would hate anyone who would attain the dimension of God.
To lay hold on eternal life is to lay hold of the father. The giving of the inheritance is an impartation of the stature to bear the reward. We must hold unto eternal life till the rewarder comes. Reward is light and the highest gift of God. The reward and the inheritance can be summarized in two names. The first name is the name of the inheritance and the last name of eternal life is reward. In Hebrews 1:4, we see that Christ was given a name, a vested name and in 2:12, He was given the name of the inheritance.
To be appointed heir of all things is a naming. The name Christ gained when He was anointed with the oil of gladness is a name from God who rewarded Him - this name is a reward. The name in Hebrews 2:12 is not the name of the reward but of the inheritance - to give them the stature for the name of the reward. This is the growth in grace into the fullness of the sonship of God spoken of by Apostle Peter in 2 Pet. 3:18.
There is a season of the declaration of the name of the father which is a season of the giving of His inheritance and there is also a season of the giving of the name. The latter is not by declaration but a reward. The rewarding name encapsulates all other rewards as they tie to the name called ‘God's reward’. One of the gifts to one of the seven churches is the name of God (Rev. 3:12). This name was not an inheritance but was written on an already prepared stature of inheritance. This name was given to Jesus when he attained the resurrection of the dead.
To have the name of God is to be given authority in heaven, earth and below the earth. These sayings are not new; they have been from the beginning and is littered all over the scriptures.
When Jesus was begotten after he had received an inheritance, he received a reward. There is a difference between begetting by inheritance and begetting by reward. Begetting by reward is given to the ‘only’. The word ‘only’ is exclusively reserved for the reward; it pertains to God and cannot be attained by works but God gives it by a special mercy. Whatever is exclusively God’s is a reward; it is Immortal, Incorruptible, undying (1 Tim. 1:27, 1 Tim. 6:16). The only begotten Son is a Son with a reward. The wisdom of the only is one of the deity of God, separated from inheritance. What Jesus received on the third day was the reward. We have also been called to partake of the only blessing. God is a Rewarder of them that diligently seek him (Heb. 11:6).
Jesus is a profession that must be learnt thoroughly. We must take heed to our eternal curriculum and invest heavily in it much more than we would with our earthly profession.