Eternal Glorious Fountain Ministry (EGFM)
Programme: Anamnesis Prayer Meeting (Grand Finale)
Date: Saturday, 4th December, 2021
Ministering: Reverend Kayode Oyegoke
“And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, [11] Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal..." (Rev. 21:10-11). Apostle John was shown the new Jerusalem (the great city) descending out of heaven and from God. The foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones (Rev. 21:19). The foundation of the wall is different from the foundation of the city because the city is still inside the wall. Out of all the twelve stones mentioned in Revelation 21:19-20, the jasper stone stood on top.
The jasper stone is the most precious stone according to the Bible (Rev. 21:11). Many who trade with stones understand that other stones can be found in a real jasper stone. The summary of all the stones is jasper stone. This is shown in the arrangement of the stones on the breastplate of the high priest in the Old Testament, where the sardine stone is the first and jasper is the last (Exo. 28:17, 20).
“And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald.” (Rev. 4:3). When Apostle John first looked at the Being who sat on the throne, He was first like Jasper; but when he looked deeper, he saw a Sardine stone. In Revelation 21:11, when the city that was with God was coming out of Him, it took a light which was the glory of God. As such, the light of the city was as the most precious stone, even like a jasper. This means that the light of God is jasper. God covers or wears Himself with a glow or light (Psa. 104:1-2). Therefore, what we see in Revelation 4:3 as jasper and sardine stone is the wearing of God and the person of God respectively.
If jasper was the light of the city and the light was the glory of God, then it means sardine (the person of God) was seated in jasper (the light/glory of God). This means that the city that was coming out of God with the light/glory of God must have had the person of God resident inside it. For example, if God found thirty people as a dwelling place, it is because they have been caught up to Him (His life) and His throne. This means when such people are coming or descending from God, they will descend with His glory. Such a company of people will not just get God's glory, they must have first acquired the person of God inside of them.
To be caught up to God is to get God. It is when you have gotten God that you will then get His glory. When you have enough of God, the glory of God will rest on you. This is how you can partake of His glory; you must have been caught up to get enough of Him.
The departure of the man-child in Revelation 12:5 is not a physical one; it is a rapture of the soul. The soul of the man-child was caught up to God and to His throne. The phrase "caught up to God'' means that he was caught up to get God first and then, to get God's throne. God knows how to reward those who seek Him: He is the rewarder of those who diligently seek Him (Heb. 11:6).
Abraham followed God and after a while, God told him that He is his shield and exceeding great reward (Gen. 15:1). The shield is everlasting life while the exceeding great reward is higher than everlasting life. If God is both our shield and exceeding great reward, then we need to get both. The ministry of His shield and the ministry of His exceeding great reward are two ministries. There cannot be a reward unless you have come into God's protection – the shield. The shield of God is incorruptible. As such, God cannot give reward to a man who is still corruptible.
The inner man (the spirit) is not incorruptible when he gets born again; he is only in a state where he is not corrupt. Nonetheless, the soul must also experience this same transformation. This means a man still needs to journey from a state of not being corrupt to a state where he is incorruptible (1 Peter 1:23). The old man is corrupt; he is the power of Satan. However, there is also a corruptible man that is higher than the old man.
The corruptible man is the point where God does not want men to get to. This means that Satan is not done with his work in men; he still wants to drive men to a point where he is corruptible. When people get to the end of this corruptible life, it is difficult to call them back because such souls have finished the work of the father of lies (Satan). The fatherhood of Satan is the teaching of lies (John 8:44). This is why the beast (antichrist) will also be a teacher of lies; he will propagate lies.
God would have done everything to redeem those who would not receive the truth. This is why He would send them a strong delusion for them to believe a lie (2 Thess. 2:11). The reason for the strong delusion is that they cannot love God or leave corruption.
"A lie" is not yet here on earth; it is a corruptible seed that will finally destroy men. If the world has not gotten to the place where they can inherit the corruptible seed, it means that the Church has not gotten to the place of the incorruptible seed. But right now, God is showing us the light of the incorruptible seed – which is the word of God that liveth and abideth forever (1 Peter 1:23). The incorruptible seed is the food of the shield. Therefore, there is no way you can say that God is your shield without having the incorruptible seed. In 1 John 3:9, Apostle John teaches the sides of the incorruptible seed – a point where a man cannot sin because God’s seed 'remaineth' in him.
The word “remaineth” means to abide. When a man lives in everlasting life, he would have done away with some measure of iniquity. But to finally expire iniquity, you need to do well with the incorruptible seed because it is in this seed that you would find the high wisdom against corruption. There is a wisdom of corruption in the devil called a lie. It is more than the corruption that is in the world through lust (2 Peter 1:4). This wisdom is Satan's stature; it was what made him a tree in the Eden of God (Ezekiel 28:13). He then corrupted it by the reason of his brightness (Ezekiel 28:17). After a while, this seed will fully find expression on earth.
God gave Jesus a stature against death and corruption. For this to happen, He was given the incorruptible seed. All things were given to Jesus by the Father, and these things are the program of incorruption (John 3:35). It is the wisdom of incorruption that kept Jesus without sin (2 Cor. 5:21). Jesus was made sin so that we can be made the righteousness of God, and this righteousness is the everlasting righteousness.
A man who has done everlasting righteousness is an incorruptible man. The word of incorruption will then be committed to such – which is the word of reconciliation. Reconciliation will not occur, as against iniquity, if the incorruptible ministry of everlasting righteousness is not expressing itself (Daniel 9:24). This incorruptible ministry finds expression when a man begins to hate the things contrary to the law of everlasting righteousness.
The incorruptible seed has two major lights: the living light and the abiding light (1 Peter 1:23). Light means wisdom. There is a season when light will teach men how to become living; and as men live and keep that estate, they will make it sure or abide as a living man. When God looks at a man and says he is everlasting, it means he can never change. As light shines, we will see that these things are possible because all things are possible with God (Matt. 19:26).
When a man has attained the state of incorruption, there is still a higher state called the Eternal. Eternal is higher than incorruption. James introduced the ministry or light of everlasting life as the salvation of the soul (James 1:21). Thus, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lusts by the learning of Christ, there is another corruption that needs to be fought – the wisdom of the corruptible. It is this level of corruption that the light of everlasting life will deal with.
The corruptible is what corrupts; it is a higher state of corruption. This high level of corruption is found around men who have become sons; such have journeyed past the level of Christ and now have the stature to fight the corruptible. Principalities, powers, and rulers of the darkness of this world have corruption; but spiritual wickedness and the wicked one are corruptible – they are the raw corruption which is called falsehood and lie (Isaiah 28:15). These two are both hell and death (Isaiah 28:18, Rev. 20:14). This means "hell" is not a particular domain or place; it is a kind of wisdom that is death. "Death" is also a wisdom but it is a great death. Satan has died greatly. This means in the measure of death, he is the greatest.
“Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.” (James 1:17). The good and the perfect gift are the properties of incorruption that the everlasting light will serve. The everlasting light of God is the manifestation of the fatherhood of God. What the Father houses are lights. The lights are many but compounded in one. One needs to learn all the lights. The good light makes a man good while the perfect light makes a man perfect.
The things stated in James 1:17 are things a man must receive to be saved. Christ gives men the power to be saved; He is the power of God unto salvation. However, it is the Father of lights that saves. A perfect man is one who cannot turn. A man who is living cannot vary; such is an abider who does not turn. These are all the properties that should be in the soul.
An overcomer has beaten death but there is still more. Though the evil one cannot touch a man who has come to the end of everlasting life, he can still see such a man. However, there is a place where the evil one cannot see a man again. To be found in such a place, a man must have gone above the evil one (Satan) by entering the realm of Eternal Life through the light in that realm. We need to be caught up to that light.
There are natures of precious stones both in everlasting life and Eternal Life. Eternal and everlasting worlds are abodes for precious stones. Upon the breastplate of the priest are stones that rest on his chest. However, there are stones higher than the twelve stones; they are the Urim and Thummim (Exod. 28:30). They are to make the precious stones of Christ sure. To make Christ sure, you need the two lights. The first light is white, which is the judgment of Urim; and the second one is a dark light called the perfect light, which is the judgment of Thummim. It is the dark light that perfects the twelve stones on the shoulder and makes them into the Onyx stone, which is also dark. Thus, the twelve tribes which are the twelve stones, are on both shoulders with six on each side (Exod. 28:9-12). This is just like the operation of the tree of Eternal Life on either side of the river in Eden (Rev. 22:2); it leads you to the Godhead. It is from the place of the shoulder that the gate to the Godhead will be opened. When scripture says the government is upon the shoulder of Jesus, it is not talking about earthly government; it talks about the government to attain the throne of God (Isaiah 9:6).
“I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name.” (Rev. 3:8). The use of the phrase “little strength” tells us that these men have worked so much that they became little. They are little children who have been converted into the greatest child of the kingdom. This was the reason they could not deny the name of God, and an open door into Eternal Life was set before them.
“After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter. 2 And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne.” (Rev. 4:1). The door here is an open door into Eternal Life. Eternal Life is God and His throne. This is our calling! However, the key of David is needed to be caught up to God and His throne. This is the key of Eliakim in Isaiah 22:20-22. The description of God as a Jasper and Sardine stone does not refer to everlasting light but eternal light. The Being who sat on the throne in Revelation 4:3 is an Eternal Being. It would take men who have been raised by Eternal Life to use God as their light.
The glory of God is not only the covering of God. Glory means umbrella/house/witness of God. The glory is the speaker of God; it talks about the things concerning God. It would take jasper light to exhume sardine. This means you cannot read God (Sardine) without that glory (Jasper). The purpose of glory is to explain the Being in glory. This glory is the eternal weight – the weight of God. The glory of God communicates the only true God. The Lamb had this glory before anyone because He entered into Eternal Life. The Lamb was taught of the light and He became God by the glory of God.
The phrase “glory of the Father'' highlighted in Romans 6:4 was used for His stature as Christ; it was not used for His stature as the Son of God. When the "glory of the Father" was coming upon Christ in hell, the Father worked on Christ to become the Son of God; and then the "glory of God" raised the Son.
When the Great Shepherd of the sheep was being introduced in the book of Hebrews, it was said that He was brought 'again' from the dead (Heb. 13:20). This means He was not raised once. There were two resurrections that Jesus experienced: the first one raised Him from the state of Christ into the Son of God, while the second one worked on Him as the Son of God and raised Him into Eternity. This means Jesus did not just remain as an everlasting man; He also came into Eternal Life.
Where we are going is to make jasper light our light. The light of men referred to in John 1:4 is an everlasting light. A man who learns everlasting light would cease from being a man; and then he would approach immortality dwelling in the light which no man can approach (1 Tim. 6:16). You must have ceased from being a man by the learning of everlasting light in order to learn the jasper light. This is because the jasper light is a higher light with high operation and blessing.
“And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof. [24] And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it.” (Rev. 21:23-24). We see clearly that the glory of God which is the light of the city is not the light of the new earth. The people on the new earth could not use this light in its raw form/effulgence, and even the city digested the light because the Lamb is the teacher of the city and is able to communicate that light. There are two expressions of light from the above scripture – “the glory of God did lighten it” and “the Lamb is the light thereof” – and they are not the same. These two lights are the eternal communications to attain Eternal Life.
The city cannot use the light of God directly; the Lamb of God needs to live it out to advance Eternal Life into the city. The Lamb lives Eternal Life and passes the light to the city. It is the city that interprets the Lamb, and by so doing, the city would begin to give the new earth her light. The light that the city gives to the nations that are saved is not Eternal Life; it is the light that would first raise the people to come up and perfect everlasting life until they are able to use Eternal Life (Rev. 23:24). The nations that are saved would also become the city because they have a right of way to the Tree of Life, but it would take a longer time to eat the fruit of the Tree of Life, and ultimately access the throne of God and the Lamb (Rev. 22:1-3).
The throne of God is a gift; the Lamb on the throne is also a gift. These are expressions of God and the throne as seen in Revelation 22, which talks about "the throne of God and of the Lamb". There is no way one can get to (access) the throne without the Lamb. The Lamb declared that He overcame and sat with His Father (Rev. 3:21). Therefore we should also overcome and come to sit with Him where He sits. There are things God cannot give a man directly; they must be given by His Son because they are with Him (Rom. 8:32, Coloss. 2:9). This means both everlasting life and Eternal Life are with the Son.
“And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.” (Rev. 22:1). This crystal clear water is not the living water; it is the eternal water from the throne of God and the Lamb. The Father also has His throne which issues out water. The throne is not a physical seat, it is a system of dominion. Hebrews 4:16 talks about an everlasting throne of the Father which we can come boldly unto; but we can never come to the throne of God and of the Lamb, we must be “caught up” to it (Rev. 12:5). This means one can never gain access to the throne of God and the Lamb without being caught up.
The book of Revelation showed us how we can cross from everlasting life into eternity; we have to be girt up and caught up. For this to happen, we need Eliakim who has the key upon His shoulder (Isa. 22:19-22). This talks of Jesus Christ who has the government upon His shoulder (Isa. 9:6). The word "government" is not referring to the ability to rule on earth; it typifies access to the throne of God.
The phrase "cometh down" in Revelation 3:12 typifies "from eternity". To come to this point, we must first drink Christ and also drink the new cup in the kingdom of the Father. One comes into this newness or the new name after doing the work of the Father and overcoming. It is possible for something to be new to us now, but it may not be new again after we have earned or inherited it. This means after the usage of one newness, you push to a higher level of newness (Rev. 21:5). This is how you would be caught up into a higher name. "My new name" is a higher name than everlasting life; it is an Eternal name (Rev. 3:12).
To make us think eternally, we need help. This is our inheritance. We can attain Eternal Life if we follow God's principle. Amen!