Eternal Glorious Fountain Ministry (EGFM)
Programme: Writing The Vision (February Edition)
Date: Saturday, 19th February 2022
Speaker 5: Reverend Kayode Oyegoke
When the invisible things of God are being taught, they come with evidences from the visible things God created (Rom. 1:20). God cannot communicate Himself directly to us because He is invisible. As such, He had to create visible things to communicate Himself.
A precious stone cannot be eaten, for it adds no nutritional value to a man. One of the greatest advantages of precious stones is admiration – beholding its beauty. This beauty is not within but upon. It is not the body of a man that benefits from precious stones but the soul. It is the soul of man that has pleasure in precious stones.
Precious stones do not add any nutritional value to a man’s existence, rather, they are for admiration. The major purpose of precious stones is for learning. God put precious stones on earth for man to learn from and not for transacting. God gave precious stones the capacity to exist for a long time because God wants to translate what He has kept in those precious stones to man through understanding.
Precious stones are nothing to men, even though man has monetized them. One colour that was used to describe the throne is sapphire (Ezek 1:26). The first manifestation of the Throne of God is sapphire and it is eternal.
All of heaven is compared with stones and the essence of these stones is to know God. God ordered these stones for us to break into His secrets. The colour of the stone of the Throne tells the color of the manifestation of He who sits on the Throne. The One who sits on the Throne is more than just a Father, He is the Almighty God.
“And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it" (Ezek 1:26). The Being described here had the appearance of a man. However, this Being is not a creature. Creature may copy His bodily design but God is not a creature. What makes a creature is not the outward appearance but things within.
“And I saw as the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire round about within it, from the appearance of his loins even upward, and from the appearance of his loins even downward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had brightness round about” (Ezek. 1:27). The loins upward and downward both had the same colour, which is the colour of fire. This means that it was a fire manifestation/appearance from the top to feet. The Throne changes colour when He changes.
The Father created precious stones and these stones are bodies of knowledge. Gemstones house treasures that man does not know of. God used visible things to reveal invisible things to some men of old. In the book of Daniel, we see the same sapphire stone. “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 is the ministry of the Sapphire Throne. The Sapphire Throne is still the flaming Throne. In this scripture, the sapphire was burning. This means the Throne was issuing out fiery flame which proceeded from the colour of the sapphire.
This sapphire is a ministry that the Throne wants to minister. Although, there are several stones but all stones do not have the same exact shape or colour. The sapphire stone is in a precious state. In a state, it is harboring the sapphire nature but it is a stone that can burn. In the book of Ezekiel, it is sapphire; but in the book of Daniel, it had become fire. To emit the fire, the Throne has to burn.
“A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousand thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him: the judgment was set, and the books were opened” (Dan 7:10). This fiery stream proceeds from the Throne. There is another manifestation of the Throne in the book of Revelation. “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 is a stream that was fire in the book of Daniel but is seen as water in this scripture. This means that the Throne can change/morph, which shows that the Throne is a spirit.
The first manifestation of the Throne is fire and another manifestation is water issuing out of it. “His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire…” (Rev. 1:14). The Lord came for judgement because the seven churches were delaying Him (Rev. 2-3). The churches had everything that God had shown to them but what God left was reward.
The work of God is always before Him and His reward will follow (Isa. 40:10). You cannot take one and leave the other. The churches were already using the works but were turning their eyes away from the reward. As such, the Lord came to tell them that the works they were doing had a reward attached to it. When one is doing the works, such a person is calling for a reward.
God’s work means a lot to Him because it is over the works that He puts the reward. The reward cannot exist alone – it must be attached to the works. In Revelation 2 and 3, at the end of every rebuke or commendation, God will attach a reward. God did not come to the seven churches because of works, but to give them reward. At the end of the book of Revelation, He warned the churches that He would come quickly with His reward (Rev. 22:20).
Flaming eyes are manifestations of the sapphire. All precious stones fall under the twelve stones mentioned in Revelation (Rev. 21:19-20). Other names of stones that we have are just variations. The most precious of these twelve stones is jasper. All the stones bear the twelve names of Israel. Those names are the names of the twelve natures of God. As such, to raise a people for God, all the stones (with their names and colour) must be put together. God gave man these precious stones so that man can know Him. The name of the sapphire stone is Issachar, who were known for discerning times and seasons (1 Chr. 12:32).
“And thou shalt set in it settings of stones, even four rows of stones: the first row shall be a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this shall be the first row. [18] And the second row shall be an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond.” (Exo. 28:17-18). The fifth stone is sapphire. The name of the stones are according to the number of the children of Israel. The first stone is the sardine stone and the last stone is the jasper stone. Hence, the Almighty God is said to be like unto a Sardine stone and a Jasper stone (Rev. 4:3). The last stone is jasper, which is Benjamin. This is why God is referred to as the first and the last (Rev. 1:11).
The name “Issachar” means ‘the bringer of reward’. If Issachar can bring reward, it means Issachar refers to Eternal Life. Sapphire is the first manifestation. Whenever there is a manifestation of the Sapphire Throne, the reward is about to come. This is the operation of the Godhead that brings reward to His work. The phrase “I come quickly” is a manifestation of the Sapphire Throne. The Throne is not the manifestation of everlasting life, it is the reigning tool of the Godhead.
Jesus is set on the Throne. One cannot seat on the Throne when works have not been done. There is no way a man will finish the work without overcoming the dragon. It was the dragon that was troubling those seven churches. The Philadelphia church did not have blame concerning the works being kept or done, so God brought them an open door (Rev. 3:8).
The Sapphire Throne came to judge the household of Israel because the work they were doing was evil; they were keeping images and worshiping idols in the temple. God came to expose what the worshippers were doing. The doctrine of Balaam was to stop the church from doing works (Rev. 2:14). As works are being done, worship is being given to God. Lifting up hands is a momentary adoration to God, but it is not the full submission of one’s life to God. True worship is shown in the way a man lives. Worship is a lifestyle; it is a life one adopts to live by while on earth. To worship God is to live for God.
The fiery flame is not everlasting life. The lake of fire is from the Throne; it is a sapphire fire that was mixed with brimstones to burn spirits. Only God knows how to destroy a cherub. God designed the lake of fire to destroy Satan eternally. The lake of fire is spirit; it is an eternal nature that God put together and every evil spirit is afraid of it. Any man that will go into a lake of fire will no longer be a man but an evil spirit in his soul. Second death turns a man into an angel (evil spirit) fit for the lake.
The beast did not die physically but in the soul and became an angel (evil spirit) in his soul as a result. He got to this state as a result of a wrong resurrection while in the flesh. Some people argue that there is no hell or lake of fire. One who has revelation would not engage in such an argument.
One of the two manifestations of the throne is to bring reward. The Sapphire Throne is very close to the firmament according to the book of Ezekiel. That firmament is what separates work from reward. There is still a veil between everlasting life and Eternal Life. As such, there is still a need for He who will bring the reward for one to cross from everlasting life into Eternal Life. When a man does that, he will bring the rest of God to reality and we are in that season.
The nature of Eternal Life is what the Throne serves; it is eternal judgment. “He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still. [22] And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.” (Rev.b 22:11-12). Reward will be given to us by judgment, as it is a thing of the Throne. There cannot be reward outside the Throne. The word “Throne” is not confined to the figure of a seat but the nature of a person. As such, when Jesus is manifesting His Issachar, He is bringing reward.
We need Eternal Life to be fully given to us, but it will be given according to our work (Rev. 22:12). Eternal Life has different shades or names. Jesus chose twelve disciples because of a nature that was in Him, for He was an everlasting man. Jesus exposed His names to the twelve. Three of Jesus’ disciples were close to Him (Matt. 17). This means that there are names that can be closer to Eternal Life. To be “first” means that you have more than the remaining eleven, while the word “twelfth” means the least. There can be the greatest in Eternal Life and it is based on yieldedness. The works a man has will tell how much of Eternal Life a man can carry.
All the natures of God are names. Jesus was given a name above every other name, not just in this world but in the world to come (Philipp. 2:9). It is only Jesus who embodied all the names of Eternal Life. No man can bear the weight of what the Firstborn has carried, but it is an honour for a man to be numbered to share in the glory of His eternal nature. This shows that there is the full manifestation of Eternal Life.
“Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.” (Heb. 1:4). The angels have some natures that are anti-type to eternal. Many of these angels can proclaim reward. They have their own kind of reward, which is their name. There are cherubims that have rewards of eternal nature. There are those whose girdles are on the loins; they are everlasting but they do not speak of the Godhead, as they are not eternal. What they have is a classification of everlasting life that God made for them. The angels with names keep things that others do not keep.
The Only Begotten Son has all the names of God – both everlasting and eternal. Everything about God’s eternal nature is in Jesus Christ. Jesus has all the names. We need to pull out all we can and this is going to be according to our works. There is a way every man will inherit everlasting life. God will check the frame of our pillar to know the kind of weight it can carry.
“For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory…” (2 Cor. 4:17). Men will outdo each other in terms of the way they handle affliction. The way you handle affliction tells the weight you can carry. Everyone will not carry the same weight of eternal nature. No man experienced the affliction of the cross that Jesus bore, and then descended into hell. He was a man of sorrow, acquainted with grief (Isa. 53:3). Our Lord Jesus is a champion of Eternal Life and He has been ordained by God to give it.
The amount of glory you will carry will be dependent on the amount of affliction you can handle. Many Christians do not want to have anything to do with affliction and it is simply because of the world and what it has to offer. Some men fear death and this fear is borne out of losing out on what death has to offer.
Satan has been talking to some people, that the gospel of everlasting life is not real. If the path to the Throne is not the way we have preached it, then it is not true. True ambition is that which is beyond what a creature can crave for.