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“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. And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.” (Rev. 22:9, 12). The works that precedes the reward is being done when we are keeping the sayings of this book. The sayings are instructions for a work that should be done in the spirit. The sayings are to be kept by doing works. The word “keep” implies that you are applying yourself to the demands of the sayings. You are doing the things that the sayings want done.
The sayings are the sayings of the prophecy of this book. The testimony testifies of these sayings. The testimony is a living one. There are three things to note: sayings, prophecy, and book. The book is testifying and what the book is testifying is a prophecy. Prophecy here doesn’t refer to foretelling; that is, talking about a physical event that would happen in the future and it comes to pass. Prophets in this order are the keepers of the sayings of this book. These prophets are the ones who can keep the prophecy of the book. This can be explained in two ways: firstly, keepers are doing what makes a man to become a prophet. Secondly, keepers do that which only prophets can keep.
Outside the external manifestation of the gift of prophecy, there is a secret nature that makes prophets who are keepers of the sayings of the book. The fact that a person operates the gift of word of knowledge or word of wisdom does not mean that he or she is prophetic as in the New Testament sense. An evangelist can give word of knowledge in a meeting; but that does not mean that the meeting is prophetic. The very understanding of today’s church concerning prophets are those who foresee the future. But Revelation 22:9 renders an understanding to us concerning who a prophet is, such that is more than a foreteller.
“Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book.” (Rev. 22:7). The prophetic provision or the way to blessing is embedded in the prophetic obedience. God decided to put everlasting blessings, or things that endure in the prophetic way or manner of life. Those whom God will ever bless indeed are prophets. These are those who are blessed with faithful Abraham (Gal. 3:8-9). This is faithfulness in hearing prophetic instructions and keeping them. The kind of men who can escape death are prophets of this order (1 Cor. 15:53). A prophet is he who is an escapee from the curse of the prince of the power of the air. The prophetic spirit or attitude is the only thing that can discern the snare of the adversary or fowler. It will take the prophetic ingenuity or nature to see dangers that mere men cannot see; dangers that look good to the physical eyes. So prophets are those who will escape the edge of the sword of the adversary.
The prophetic nature is what is provided or laid up for us in the Bible. The nature is called prophecy. All the natures embedded in the New Testament are prophecy. There is a way a man who is a prophet moves or behaves in the spirit. Prophetic men are not known by prophetic gift or anointing upon; that is a partial or miniature understanding of a prophet. There are prophets who fall into trance with their eyes (of understanding) closed (Numbers 24:4). But those are not the kind of prophets being described in Revelations 22:9. There is a vital ingredient that makes a prophet of this kind; it’s the nature they have imbibed. And these natures are stored in the light of scriptures.
A man eats into the nature of a prophet when he is partaking of the bread or the manna of this prophecy. God knew we couldn’t eat all of this manna in one day, so He decided to give us the bread bit by bit. This is so that the prophetic nature can be formed in you. In the books of the prophet, something was prophesied and this prophecy itself is a prophetic nature. These prophets who are blessed by keeping the sayings of this book are prophets of salvation (Rev. 22:7). They are prophets who arrived at salvation by obeying prophecy. This is why an angel (or spirits) of salvation will refuse the worship of John because he is also a fellow servant of God (Rev. 22:9). In other words, the angel is saying that he also serves prophetically, and this manner of service is highly prophetic. The angel possessed a prophetic nature of salvation and that’s why he could recognise John. The angel was sent to John and indirectly to the churches who will inherit salvation. This prophetic angel was not identifying a prophet (John) by the anointing upon but rather in his inward nature. The angel was unveiling what makes a prophet; he is relating to prophetic spirits according to works. Works are things you do that makes you a prophet.
“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). Brethren means siblings, people of the same gene. They are offspring of the same source. That is, they sprang from the same place. Jesus is called the dayspring from on high (Luke 1:78). These brethren were taken from the same (Holy) place. In other words, they sprang from the same place in other to take part in another spring. To “spring” in scriptures is to be birthed or to partake of a gene; it’s coming off the spring of a particular gene. The spring or fountain of the living water is a birth water; it’s a flow or rising of genetics.
“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). The time that is at hand does not refer to the time of rapture; it is the time of fulfilment of prophecy. It means that the season of entering this prophetic blessing is at hand. It begins with reading the prophecy. One must read it, and some must hear it. Everyone cannot all read the prophecy; there is one who must read the prophecy so that people can hear. A reader is a seer; one who reads the gene or prophecy of the book. He would be reading what natural eyes cannot see. Reading means to decode things that are kept secret. The moment there is a decoder of this prophecy, and some people can hear it, then the time is at hand. We cannot tell the time of fulfilment of the prophecy, if there is no understanding of the prophecy. It means that people can now get the blessedness of this prophecy. This prophecy is able to make people blessed.
The aim of the prophecy is to bring people into a particular spring. The essence of the prophecy is to get people blessed by a spring. It’s for people to spring by the prophecy. God wants people to spring up by this book. The book itself is a prophecy. And if any man is able to read this book, he would be reading into a spring of the Almighty God. This spring is the spring of our Lord Jesus Christ. Offspring is different from what is made externally by hands; it’s something that founts out of a person. Offspring comes out of the fountain of a man. Your children or seed is what comes out from your midst; it’s a water out of you. It’s your river.
“Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well. Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.” (Prov. 5:15-16). This depicts husband and wife; that is, a male and female. What founts out of both of them is their waters. Streets means paths in scriptures, where a soul walks in. So God’s ordination is that the rivers of waters fountaining out of the man will run in the streets or paths of the woman and vice versa. The key to this is through the intercourse communion between the husband and wife, until the heart of the husband is filled with the water of the spouse and vice versa, so much that they both can no longer assimilate a third party walking through their paths. Any marriage that has come to this point will overcome any kind of external temptation. Satan hates to see the waters of couples to be dispersed abroad and the rivers of their waters in their streets.
Streets refer to thought path, or the way in the heart. God desires to see that the only water running on the street of the man is the water of the wife, and vice versa. When streets lack water; there is trouble. The couple must be possessed with the gene (waters) of each other. However, Satan fights this. He lays siege against this; he damns the water. He stops the fountains because he doesn’t want the waters to be dispersed abroad. Satan makes men to go through many women and there is no way that many women will satisfy a man; it is sorrow to a soul. This is why that woman of Samaria was looking for a cistern. She was in need of waters from a man. And Jesus knew that all of her husbands could not give her waters; so she kept changing men. We also saw Jesus turning water into wine at the marriage in Cana of Galilee (John 3:1-10). Part of the everlasting commission is to heal marriages. It will take everlasting life for marriages to be healed completely.
Everlasting life is a trail to Eternal Life; it is the high healing of (or in) Eternal Life. The tree of Life has fruits and leaves. The leaves connote everlasting life, which is the healing aspect of the tree of life. Beyond the forgiveness of sins obtained in the blood of Christ, the leaves of tree of life will heal death in souls. The leaf (or leaflet) is the testimony or the book. It’s the palm of a tree; this is why a tree can be read through its leaf. We have to go through the curriculum of the leaf before we can partake of the fruit. You have not partaken of the tree of life when you only take the leaf. The healing in the leaves is a preparation to later partake of the tree.
“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.” (Rev. 22:2). Eternal Life is not for healing; but everlasting life is a very high healing life. The everlasting seed is for the healing of the nations. Nations of the earth cannot first partake of the tree of life without first going through the healing that comes through the leaves. A man cannot touch the tree of life if he has not been healed completely.
Water can spring; and there is the spring of the living water and also the fountains of the living water. These are wells of everlasting life. “I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star. And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.” (Rev. 22:16-17). The Spirit and the bride are calling those who are athirst to come, not the Lord. That is, the preacher of this message is the Spirit and the bride. They are the ones who can call anyone into everlasting life. However, you must be athirst to take of the water of life freely. This well of the water of life is what Jesus called the living water and it is a free gift of God (John 4:10). This water is something that God wants to give to everyone who is athirst. The Samaritan woman was thirsty but not for the living water. Even when she asked Jesus to give her the water, she wasn’t asking for living water. She never knew the living water and she couldn’t have asked for it. She got what she asked for and that was the word of knowledge concerning her past.
Calling those who are athirst is a high responsibility that the bride will herald. The Spirit is the Holy Spirit, and it is the spirit of the bride. This Spirit is the glory of God. The glory of God is the Jasper upon the bride which connotes the authority she’d possess. The bride, and the Spirit will then say “come” to those who are athirst. Those who are thirsty are those who are already Christ in their souls, they are the precious stones. We should not be tired or weary of being thirsty.
“Jesus swered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again: But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.” (John 4:13-14). The living waters that Jesus will give will firstly drill or make a well in the soul. Then this well will begin to spring into life everlasting. This means that the real manifestation of everlasting life does not occur immediately the living water is served to a man. The living water will spring and will make the man to locate everlasting life.
The prophets are those who will fulfil the call or demands of everlasting life. They are the offspring of everlasting life. They arose by the reason of everlasting springing. The life of the living waters will be springing until it springs fully into life everlasting. This means that we will gradually develop into everlasting life.
The book is not the letters of the word, it’s a keeper of information. The book is a spirit in God that keeps God’s everlasting character. The book is a high water of the Kingdom. Out of the water, springs come. This shows that water has ability to shoot water. It’s a living water, so it can rise. The water can show characteristics of the living. So the living water goes right inside us, dig or bore a hole in our soul, then it would begin to show it’s rising. The rising of the water is a demand of obedience from us.
“Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.” (John 3:5). This water of Christ is not an ordinary one, it’s spirit. Spirit does not intercourse with flesh. This water is a spiritual material; it’s Christ and it’s a living thing. So, birth into the Kingdom is by spirit and Spirit. Holyghost cannot use physical water to birth any man into the Kingdom. Jesus called it water because of a behaviour in the spirit. God wants us to see (understand) spiritual realities, so they used physical terms.
Christ is water, but everlasting life is a very high water. Immediately this everlasting water is dropped in a man, it will begin to spring. This springing is the growth of the man in the everlasting life order. The springs are sayings, and it doesn’t rise above our stature. God won’t say more than our stature. The sayings are communicated to us in accordance with our commitment to everlasting growth. There are many sayings that the water has to say to us until we get to a place where our mind captures and own everlasting life completely.
The water is the testimony of Jesus, the spirit of prophecy. The patriarchs of the Old Testament went about digging wells because they were well carriers. All everlasting men in Genesis searched for wells, and they built their lives around those wells. The well dictated their lives. And when the wells are dried up, they look for another and move their lives and settlement accordingly. The well takes care of their livestock, so they live by water of the well. They spring out water from the well for their survival.
The day we stop fetching from the testimony is the day we stop living. God is giving us the testimony of Jesus which is the spirit of prophecy. So the wells of Abraham are the prophecy of Abraham. The pilgrimage of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob was according to their wells. Abimelech, the King of the Philistine demanded for oath from Abraham, not by land but with well. Well signifies life, or offspring. Abimelech wanted to preserve his own offspring, and this was why he pressed Abraham to swear that his offspring won’t deal cruelly with his.
There are many living births in the New Testament. In other words, the testimony is the incorruptible seed (1 Pet. 1:23). Out of a seed, a tree can come out. The seed contains many things; information of thousand years. The life span of everlasting life is in the seed. The steps, power and how it will spring up is in the seed. It is not enough to become a tree; you need to begin to behave like one. It can take decades for a tree to grow, after which it will begin to function properly as a tree. There are two realms: the season of development and the time of ministering, when the tree will begin to do what it has been called to do. So ministry is beyond what we do for God; but the nature of a spring that should be manifested in us. This is where God wants us to come. Nothing has been done when a man is only surrounded with external works without this inward nature. But when you spring up and carry out your function, that’s ministry.
The living water or the book of prophecy is the incorruptible seed. This means that living water is incorruptible. When a drop of that water is given to a man, he has been given the seed of God. This seed is much more than the whole universe put together. Everlasting life is higher than this present heavens and earth. So when the seed of everlasting life drops in our soul, we have located the well, we then need to obey the demands of the seed. Then as a reader reads the book or gene, the well will begin to spring and manifest its character. The purpose of revelation is so that you can have an affinity for the character of that life that is given to us.
The testimony is the book, and the book is a water. Book is a house of genes. Water is that which carries the offspring or the spring of the prophetic brethren. It is this water that will birth siblings of Eternal Life. The brethren of Eternal Life are brethren who are obeying everlasting life. The book will culture them to become everlasting brethren; they are the ones referred to as brethren the prophets (Jam. 5:10, Rev. 22:9). A man who is carrying out everlasting obedience is carrying out a very high work of God -- such is a father. This is the blessing of Abraham (Gen. 17:4-5). God cannot resist a man who has become a full everlasting life father, He would reward such a man with Eternal Life.
The seed of a man is water, and this was made by God because He operates with the same phenomenon. God has His own fountain too. God and the Lamb sat on a throne and a pure river proceeded out of Their body (Rev. 22:1). Every time They sit, there will be a spill which will then gather as water. This water is the offspring of God and Lamb. However, the water loses life as the offspring travels farther away from God. It means that the water is travelling from eternity (or Eternal Life) to everlasting life.
Eden is everlasting while the east of Eden is eternity. The tree of life is planted in the east of Eden. When the water journey from where God is, farther from Him, it becomes everlasting and when the water breaks the confluence of the everlasting zone, it moves into another dimension and becomes the water of Christ. So these are different water levels and this is why Christ is said to be of God, everlasting life is of God and Eternal Life is of God. The walk between river and its source is a walk of everlasting life. God raises springs or offspring by His testimony; and His testimony is His water.
“Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever. But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.” (1 Peter 1:23, 25). The word or seed being referred to is not the word of Christ, but the everlasting word. The first workings of this word on the brethren is as sincere milk, “As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:” (1 Peter 2:2). We should desire this milk so that we can spring or grow up thereby.
Jesus referred to Himself as the offspring of David; this means that He is a son of David or sprang out of David (Rev. 22:16). A man who has sprang up is called a tree or a son. This spring is a spring of everlasting life. Water can spring, tree can spring, and a man can spring. A man who has sprang is a tree (Isa. 61:3). A prophecy that is still concealed is not yet a spring, it’s still in a seed state. But when it has been read and opened, it becomes a spring. Inside the living water are voices and they are saying that we should grow up in everlasting life. There are divisions in the waters. Just as in the days of Noah, the proclamation of the ark of God must begin with the everlasting gospel of the Kingdom.
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