Program: Lekki Soul Centre (LSC)
Date: Wednesday, 22nd March 2023
Transcript Summary
1. (Mal. 3:1-3). The first sitting position of the Lord is the setting of His throne of purification in the Sanctuary (Holy Place). This is where He sits to purge the sons of Levi. These are men who can respond to Him because they are priests. In the New Testament, a man is a Levite when he begins to undertake a positive response to the faith of the Son of God (Gal. 2:20). The purpose of the purification is to help the sons of Levi to perfect their offering or service of ministry. “Offering” has to do with responding to God in obedience via His commandment.
2. The Messenger of the covenant can only be found in His temple or Sanctuary. When we arrive in the Sanctuary, we beckon on Him; this is when He comes to purify us. The training of charity heals one’s discernment and makes it whole for everlasting life. One who gets to everlasting life is pure and clean in the Holy Place, fit to be admitted into the Holiest of All. Purging takes place in the Sanctuary; the Messenger purges us before offering us. After this is done, we will be made to offer an offering of righteousness ‒ everlasting righteousness. To offer offerings of everlasting righteousness, we must obey everlasting laws. After this is done, we become saints of the Most High (Dan. 7:22).
3. Jesus entered into a heavenly tabernacle so that service will be 'heavenward' and heavenly. The commandments of God when kept have the ability to raise a fellow (at any level), and cause him to sit in heaven. We gain access to heaven by obeying laws and commandments. Obedience is a superior sacrifice. The task of obedience as against disobedience is often a struggle and warfare; this is because the kingdom of God is at stake and at the same time, evil spirits do not want men to leave the realm of disobedience because that will see them losing their ground. Evil spirits and Satan use believers as grounds to bring accusations against us. We ought to dissolve Satan’s ground and make his stand become nothing by disobeying him.
4. (Dan. 7:9-11). The burning operation of the throne (fiery flame and fiery stream), is a very high operation resulting from the working of everlasting life at its peak. After the Lord has purged the sons of Levi, the next agenda is the manifestation of the everlasting throne in its fullness. It is also called the throne of judgment. This throne is the ministry of the Minister of the true tabernacle ‒ Jesus. The throne is a person. There is an eternal throne that the Son has constituted.
5. “I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire.” (Dan. 7:9). This description of the head of the Ancient of Days is a description of knowledge and judgment. “Ancient of Days” means the giver of judgment ‒ He who keeps days. Each of the thrones is a pack of judgment and days. “Days” or “dawning” means discernment, understanding or awareness. It means breaking into a clue one was not previously aware of. “Ancient of days” also means “transferer of days”; this is because He is the fullest form of 'day'.
6. (Heb. 1:4-8). Jesus was made so much better than angels. Angels are also thrones. However, their throne is lower than that of the Son. Jesus spoke a lot about His own throne – on how He is coming to sit on it with His holy angels. However, these other thrones must first be set before the throne of the Son of God would be set. Thrones are set as we listen to the beings that the throne sends. Hence, we must never refuse the ministry of angels because they constitute the thrones that are being cast down to bring in the Ancient of Days. Angels know how to respond to God; they have the ability to minister to Him and do His bidding.
7. God sent angels ahead of man as the first creation to manage the heavens. However, God also had the present state of the earth in mind. Therefore, He raised prophets who began to search for things concerning salvation in those times (1 Pet. 1:10-11). Salvation was not conclusive in the Church at that time because the actual time had not come. The prophets spoke of a future world that would have all the statistics needed to bring salvation to earth. To bring this salvation, the cup of Lucifer must have been full; iniquity must have come to its worst state. It is in such a season that God desires to shine His light.
8. (Heb. 1:14; Heb. 2:2-5). Angels bring things of the world to come to saints. Although Jesus is set on His throne, He has sent angels to men and we are not to refuse their ministry. Angels accompanied Jesus during His earthly sojourn; from the time He was to be conceived as a seed in the womb, an angel announced it. The day He resurrected, angels appeared. Angels guided Him from the beginning of His journey to the end of it. If angels were crucial to Jesus's journey, it means we also need them.
9. Angels are thrones around God’s throne, and they minister to the sons of God. Anyone who does not receive their ministry will not be saved nor be made to sit on the throne of God. The appearance of angels to us is the voice of the Son coming to us. Angels are often present in meetings; they minister with ministers to ensure that the work of judgment is growing and the throne is built. They order the meeting/message in specific directions and give instructions, all because of salvation. If salvation must occur in the souls of men, ministers ought to be sensitive to them and minister with them. This is because it takes a lot to bring freedom to the souls of men; powers must dethrone powers.
10. Judgment is weight; it is the bringing in of everlasting weight. Everlasting life is weighty. The wind will blow away people who are not qualified to stand in judgment (Ps. 1:5-6). Such people will always “go” away from the path because there is something in them that will not allow them to stay. The wind will blow them away because they are not stuffy and weighty enough to wait for judgment.
11. The saints of the Most High are saints of the Supreme One; they are not ordinary. These are men who have grown in judgment and can receive things that are of the Ancient of Days. Their obedience paved the way for the Most High and His throne to come. When the "Ancient of Days" appears, it would be clear that every “day” comes from Him. This shows in His garment that is white as snow and His hair that is white as wool (Dan. 7:9). "Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord : though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool." (Isa. 1:18). This verse makes it clear that the significance of His character – with garment white as snow and hair white as wool – is to deal with sins. This means His "wearing" is judgment, and this would be accomplished in us by “reasoning together” with Him. This is how God will give us judgment. This is what makes the saints of the Most High (Dan. 7:18); it is the giving of “days” to them.
12. Every “day” can be done; what we are doing is “a day”. We are given a lot of days until “a day” is done. A thousand years is like a day before the Lord of judgment (2 Pet. 3:8). This means the season of the Sanctuary – which is “years” – is like “a day”. Many years of Christ are one day in God. When a man has “a day”, he is wise. Every “day” is bread, and every “day” is living water. When God is giving us water to drink, He is giving us “a day”. This means when we know Him, we are having “a day”, just like Jesus who is called the ‘Dayspring from on high’ (Luke 1:78).
13. “Dayspring” means a son/an offspring of the day. We need daysprings on earth; Jesus ascended to raise daysprings. The single fountain in Jesus would be spread in men for them to become fountains (Rev. 7:17); this is how men come into a “day” – having new judgment. What would defeat the evil day is God’s day. One would need all the armory of God to remove the evil day because it was given by a covering cast. “Evil day” is a darkness that people live in, and they are drunk in it. It is a day with activities that compel men to die because they cannot see. In the evil day, some men swear an oath and lift up their souls unto vanity. Nonetheless, the "Sun of righteousness" is arising with healing in His wings in our day, to heal men from evil/wrong discernment.
Blessings!