Programme: Anamnesis Prayer Meeting (Week 2_Day 2)
Date: Tuesday, 14th November 2023
Transcript Summary
1. “But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels…” (Heb. 12:22). This scripture about coming to mount Zion is not a claim for every christian. This is because the new birth, which is the quickening of the human spirit (being born again), is exclusive of “coming”. However, there are other births that are “comings”. It is God’s desire, as seen in scripture, for men to be saved and to “come” to the knowledge of the truth (1 Tim. 2:4). This means coming occurs after a people are quickened in their spirit. The reason for quickening is for people to come.
2. In Acts 2, the Church was born, but as at the time of the book of Hebrews, they had come to Mount Zion (Heb. 12:25). The Church was not in Zion in Acts 2 because what was required for them to come there was not yet ministered to them. Many births occur before a saint arrives in Zion. When one arrives in Zion, such a one has been born of the Spirit. Those who come to Zion are ‘stones’. They have been born ‘stones’; and this birth that will take one to Zion is the birth of the soul by the Spirit of God. The soul of a man gets born again by coming, but the spirit does not need the journey of coming. The spirit of a man was born a Zion member the day it was quickened (Eph. 2:1-5). But such a man would never be regarded as one who has 'come' until his soul has undertaken the process of ‘coming’.
3. God created man in His own image and likeness. But as weighty and real as the spirit of man is in the realm of the spirit, he was not placed in his inheritance immediately, not until Genesis chapter 2, when his body was formed. This tells us that the spirit alone is not enough to name a person. For a person’s name or identity to be given such a placement, his entire spirit, soul and body must be together, that is, he must function in all his facilities. In Genesis 1, God had created the spirit, which had life; the nature of the spirit man, which was created in God’s image and likeness, had all the things God said (Gen. 1:27). However, the soul was not created like this. The soul was living (not as in a living soul), that is, it was conscious, waiting for identity. Immediately God molded the body, God put the spirit and the soul in it (Gen. 2:7).
4. When the body is present, there is a natural attraction of the spirit and soul by the body, unless the person has violated some laws that have made God prevent that person from having access into his body. But by the laws of creation, it is natural to gravitate to and stay in one’s body because one has been ordained by God to be in the body. No man will be bodiless in eternity. A man and his body have a covenant once a man has been created by God. No man was created to be just spirit and soul without a body. When a spirit and soul are bodiless, such a person is functionless. Man entered his body before God breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. This breath is a spirit for the soul; and man became a living soul (Gen. 2:7).
5. (Isaiah 14:12-14). After Satan fell, he was still in a particular heaven (the realm of "O my soul") and no matter how low this heaven was, it was still profitable for him. In Revelation 12, we saw that he also appeared in this lower heaven because he was there. Satan never wanted anyone to also appear there, but his curiosity was raised when the woman with the man-child appeared there first. No one can appear in the third heaven unless such has appeared in this heaven first, which is the lifting point. This is where the man-child that was caught up to the throne of God was given birth to. It is from this heaven that he was caught up from, to the highest point in the present heaven—the throne, above the height of the clouds. And this is important because this present heaven shows that one is a man, not an angel. So, one who will overcome Satan will not be born in the heavens of angels but in this heaven.
6. (Rev. 12:5-6). There is a “catch up” that must be done which is legal for occupation of the realm of authority. Therefore, being caught up has variances. There is a final catch up that is the main “catch up”; as a man can be caught up (at a level) and is still prone to being devoured by the adversary. However, there is a catch up position that is beyond the reach of the adversary. The "catch up" that the man-child had in spirit and doctrine was such that he was higher (before birth) than where Satan was. In stature, he was not where the dragon was. When the catching up of the man-child is still in formation, he is in a position where Satan can still see him. But when the cycle is completed, he would be in a position where Satan can no longer reach him. Catching up would end when the soul cannot be tempted any more.
7. (Rev. 12:4). To devour does not refer to an outright assault. The legal way Satan devours is by the pull of temptations. Satan does not break the laws God has set. He knows his bounds. Ascension is being taken up. However, one cannot be caught up fully to God until one overcomes. At this point, the saint has shown that he has fully beaten Satan, and Satan can attest to this too. This is when the saint can be adopted up to God.
8. “But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.” (Isa. 11:4). The rod comes from His mouth and the breath from His lips. One smites or breaks configuration, while the other slays, but both are mouth operations. These operations went into the nostrils of Adam – God breathed into his nostrils the spirit of life, and Adam became a living soul. This is the same way God breathed into the nostrils of angels. God formed angels the same way He formed man. When God made works, He gave them breath (Ps. 33:6); He breathed into their nostrils the breath of life. The giving of the breath of life is the giving of the spirit of life.
9. There is a spirit in Adam that made him a living soul. That spirit was the gift God gave to Adam. This spirit was not given to Adam’s children when they were born; they had to be men before it could be given to them. God does not breathe into babies but into men. God was waiting to breathe into man, but before the time was ripe, Satan had breathed into him; but God was able to breathe into Abel, and Abel became a living soul. A living soul is a heaven.
10. “The LORD hath prepared his throne in the heavens; and his kingdom ruleth over all. [20] Bless the LORD, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word. [21] Bless ye the LORD, all ye his hosts; ye ministers of his, that do his pleasure. [22] Bless the LORD, all his works in all places of his dominion: bless the LORD, O my soul.” (Ps. 103:19-22). The heaven closer to the rule of God’s throne is the one referred to in verse 20. These dominions are under the kingdom of God. The next dominion is the dominion of fire, or ministers – verse 21. It speaks of habitats and inhabitants. What makes a land are the people in that land; they must have become one with that land and have a covenant with it. There is something about the arrangement of the strata of heavens— the places of ministers and angels. The works of His dominion cannot be taken to the third heaven because they would not be able to function well. The air/climate there is different. It is a different heaven with more spirit.
11. From ‘O my soul’ to ‘angels’, all of them are heavens. Note that verse 19 says God has prepared His throne in the heavens, not heaven and earth. This means that ‘o my soul’ also operates in heaven, and this was where Lucifer and the woman with the manchild appeared. Lucifer does not like the earth because he is dysfunctional in it. He functions best in the heavenly climate. If he liked the earth, the scriptures would not tell us he was coming down to earth with great wrath (Rev. 12:12). Any heaven is an advantage for Satan. The lower heaven was not Satan’s original heaven. He came from a superior heaven, which he desired to go back to. But God did not permit it. And like Isaiah prophesied, he would even be dropped from the heaven he is occupying by the development of people who would overcome him. Hence, we need to war against someone to sit on the throne. Anyone who cannot war cannot rise; to rise, the soul must become a warring soul (Ps. 144:1).
12. “And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.” (1 Cor. 15:45). The word ‘made’ means that man was first a man, before he was made a living soul. The breath God breathed into man identifies his function and shows the grade that man is. Living soul is ‘my soul’; therefore, from the enumeration of beings from the heavens of the angels, if man is a living soul and all creatures are called heavens, it means the living soul is a kind of heaven attached to angels. Therefore, what separated man from the angelic was a colon, which is an iota that talks about something. Although heaven and earth may pass away, a jot (that colon) would not pass away from His word. Hence, we need to dig into the meaning of the colon. That colon is a spirit and not just letter.
13. "Bless the LORD, all his works in all places of his dominion: bless the LORD, O my soul.” (Ps. 103:22). After the colon, ‘oh my soul’ is attached to the rest of the heavens, that is, he is part of them. It is the same thing as saying in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth should not be separated from heaven. Earth is a lower heaven and it is important; it is for the rest of the heavens. If the lowest being is referred to as a living soul or heaven, then the next heaven is a soul that is spirit. In the higher cadres of heavens, there are souls, but those souls are not called living souls but spirits. Adam is a little lower than the angels, meaning that they are not so much higher than Adam. It is only a little colon that separates them. When a living soul is worked on and taken up into heavens, the soul changes into ‘works of His dominion’; it is no longer a soul but a work or first heaven. Then we move from one work to another and get to the highest work, which is a dominion or throne.
14. "Who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire…" (Ps. 104:4). Above beings who are works (first heaven entities), God made a category of angels spirits (third heaven entities/cherubims) and another category a flaming fire (second heaven entities/seraphims) for the present heaven. So there are two categories of angels in heaven — those who are 'spirit' (Ps. 103:20, 104:4a) and those who are 'fire' (Ps. 103:21, 104:4b). The third category are 'works' (Ps. 103:22), but the other two are more than works. It is God’s desire that we know these things, else we would not understand inheritance. Inheritance is soul-tied.
15. God placed these spirits according to their make in stratas; the lowest heaven is owned by ‘o my soul’. We were identified with the image of ‘o my soul’; we bore the image of the earthy (1 Corin. 15:47-49). No man can be born into the image of the heavenly without bearing the image of the earthy. Adam was bearing the image of the earthy and was supposed to go up to bear the image of the heavenly. Jesus also did not start with the image of the heavenly. He first bore the image of the earthy and pressed on to move into the image of the heavenly. He moved into the heavens in His soul. After He finished all heavenly courses and quickening-spirit courses, He died and God raised Him up and made Him a quickening Spirit to raise many into that order of soul. Such souls would no longer be just souls, they would be souls that have become spirits—'a spirit soul'; that is, having a soul superior to angels. This feat is more than going to the present heaven which is the hope of some believers. When such souls get to the present heaven, their soul would get tired after a while because that soul cannot be satisfied except with what is in God. God has something inside Him that He wants to give to us to make us spirits. We will have become a wonder when our souls become like that of God.
16. Passing through walls will be inconsequential, compared to the wonder of becoming a soul that is like God. Many think the emphasis is overstretched; they want the spectacular that means nothing before God. The spectacular is too low compared to the agenda of God. We cannot comprehend yet what it would mean when we have a soul that is like God. We are not carrying our former soul. Under this allocation, we are already having the soul of the world to come. Therefore, we should not draw back.
17. Many are so carnal, they are only preoccupied with earthly ministry, they are not concerned about changing state. Many despise the Word in our company but it is not right. Eternal Glorious Fountain Ministry (EGFM) is all about saving the souls of men. It is dangerous now, on earth, to play with the soul. Many ministers waste the souls of men, they do not care about souls. Some care about the future and advancement of ministry alone, and would put the burden of their earthly quests of ministry on the souls of men that should be saved.
18. The purpose of church is for the salvation of souls. Ministers of the gospel must focus on the salvation of the soul. Many love this world; that is why they are leaving the church. We should not leave the church. We should also not stay in a lower place when God has lifted us up. This message is moving us from heaven to heavens. In heaven, Seraphims can never say that they want to look like Dominions; they cannot condescend to another realm. If we know what inheritance is, we would not make the wrong confessions.
19. Some would profess they want to go to where darkness stays. We should be careful about our confessions. Not all places are safe. Low places are not secured places; they are only houses of lies (Isa. 28:15). It is high time for people to rise. Some programs are wasting people's time. Happy are we when we find a ministry that is building and committed to the salvation of the soul. We gladden the heart of God by raising more men to get saved. Some ministers are faithful, but their reward is not in the numbers. Making a soul new is a better opportunity than buying a car. Winning a soul is changing the status of that soul. Churches should be concerned with soul salvation, rather than the irrelevances of the world. Ministry will be redefined and churches will be blessed. Amen.
Blessings!
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