Eternal Glorious Fountain Ministry (EGFM)
Programme: School of the Spirit (SOS)
Date: Thursday, 19th May 2022
Ministering: Rev. Kayode Oyegoke
“And God spake all these words, saying, I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;” (Exodus 20:1-5). These verses of the scripture describe a process. A man cannot have a god that he bows to without firstly making an image. One of the most grievous sins to God is to have another god besides Him; this is what scriptures call iniquity.
“Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:” (Exodus 20:8-10). The Sabbath is the day of God’s rest. Observing Sabbath in the natural human time is obsolete. God’s Sabbath is much heavier than one Saturday. There is a Saturday in the spirit that men have not attended to, that day is called “To day” (Heb. 4:7).
God, in a figure, preached His Sabbath that is yet to come in Genesis. God did not really rest on the seventh day of creation; He only rested in a figure. If God had truly rested, David would not have spoken of another day of rest, or Sabbath. “Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts. For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.” (Heb. 4:7-8). This tells that God has not rested, and therefore, man has not rested. If God has not rested, no one can rest.
The major work of God, or what God commanded us to do to achieve peace, is to make an image. To make an image is to have God to yourself and this is the only criterion for man to rest. Jesus said that we should come unto Him and He will give us rest. However, in subsequent verses, He said the rest can only come as we carry His yoke and learn of Him (Matt. 11:28-29). When a man is yoked, it means that he is about to start working. It is when a man has worked that He will find rest for his soul.
The yoke/burden of the Christian faith is to do the work of God, which is the work of making His image, for to find rest. The demand of God from man is to make His image. This is what is called the love of God or what determines how much a man loves God. To love God is to meet His need. It’s not every Christian that can meet God’s need, it is a work that belongs to those who are fathers in the spirit.
God cannot give a spiritual infant the agenda of His own need, because such a one is consumed with his own carnal needs. If a spiritual infant gets an audience with God, he will spend the whole time making an endless list of his carnal requests and would not allow God to state His own need. So God knows that He cannot place the demand of meeting His need on a child.
After the first six commandments, God then gave the commandments on how they will relate with their neighbours (Exo. 20:12-17). Having given the ten commandments, there was an interjection or interlude with thundering and lightning (Exo. 20:18).
It was in Exodus 24 that all the words spoken by God were written in a book. “And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the Lord hath said will we do, and be obedient.” (Exodus 24:7). God first spake the ten commandments and then the judgments (Exo. 20:3-17/21:1). The ten commandments are not the same as the judgments. The judgments speak of the skill needed to do the commandments. The commandments are ten, but the judgments are so many. The book of the covenant collected all these words of God.
What was written in the book was a testimony. Covenant is different from testimony. A testimony is what becomes a covenant. You cannot say you have covenants when you have not done the testimony. So also, a man cannot say he has done the testimony without the ordinances or statutes. The ten commandments are more than the testimony. If the children of Israel had come close to the mountain and allowed the ten commandments that God spake to fall into their hearts, there would not have been a need for God to speak the subsequent ordinances. Ordinances speak of how to get covenants. The people were not ready for God to write His covenants in their hearts, so they stayed afar off and were watching God and Moses.
God then made a decision to take the children of Israel through the wilderness. God did not take them through the wilderness to give them the picture of the tabernacle, its utensils, the dimensions of the ark, or to put the stone of the covenant in the ark, but to put what He put in the ark in the hearts and minds of the people. If God succeeded in writing those laws into their hearts, there wouldn’t be a need for the ark of the testimony that was always going ahead of them. Had the laws been written in their hearts, river Jordan would have parted ways without the ark in front of them. This is because the ministry written in their souls would be speaking.
A man cannot be afar off and claim to have a covenant with God. To have covenant with God, you have to close the gap between yourself and Him. Covenant-making closes the gap between God and man, and this covenant speaks of the very laws of God.
What was written in the book of covenant was a testimony. The testimony is a book or collection when it has not found a landing place. The landing place for testimony is a table. God needs a table for His testament. In the Old Testament, God wrote the testimony on a table of stone but in the New Testament, He is demanding a fleshy table of the heart. Had it been the Jews allowed the words God spoke in Sinai to land in their hearts, Israel would never have been a backsliding nation.
When a man becomes born again, it is not the heart that becomes born again, but the spirit. This is a difficult truth for many to accept in the body of Christ. However, time will compel the Church to take this thought. A time will come when the Church will call for help and God will let her know that her heart needs to be born again. God will let the Church know that a man’s spirit can be born again but his heart is not yet born again.
A man who is born again can still be involved in the act of stealing and this is because his heart has not been captured by God. In the book of Acts of Apostles, Satan filled the heart of some people whose spirits were born again and that are filled the Holy Ghost (Acts 5:3). Satan did not drive away the Holy Ghost from the spirits of Ananias and Sapphira, yet they lied to the Apostles.
There is a dread a man would have in the face of Apostles like Peter, such that he will lose the boldness to lie. However, when Satan filled Ananias and Sapphira, they became dead to the anointing of the Apostles. When people are filled with the devil, just the same way the devil does not fear God, they won’t have fear. As a criminal, Satan still entered into heaven and was negotiating against a righteous man (Job). This is not because Satan is bold but because he had died and did not know himself anymore.
May God help the Church to accept the fact that the heart is not yet born again even at New Birth. The day the Church can clearly make a distinction between the human spirit and his heart is a day of great victory in the spirit.
Many believers would come to realise that their hearts can still be desperately wicked even when the spirit has been born again (Jer. 17:9). To get the heart born again is not an earthly thing, it’s a heavenly job. This is because the forces holding the heart are not ordinary. To get the heart born again is not an easy job.
The spirits holding the heart in darkness are not ordinary, they are holding the heart in darkness by oath. Just when we think we have been set free from a darkness in the heart, another shows up and leaves us wondering where it has been all the while. There are different compartments of darkness in the heart, and they must all be dealt with gradually. This is why God needs to keep on killing those sinful members of our hearts all day long.
Jesus has not yet made a covenant with the Church. The Church is under the new covenant but not yet in the new covenant. We are no more under the law of Moses but under grace (Romans 6:14). However, to be “under” grace means that we are lower than grace. The Church needs to come up to where the covenant is and inherit it. At the New Birth, we have not inherited the testimony. We are born again, waiting to come into the testimony of Jesus.
The law came from Moses, but grace and truth came from Jesus Christ (Jn. 1:17). A man can only come to this truth through the knowledge of Jesus. When a man is born again, he has not known the truth but has only been assigned as a candidate of truth. We became candidates of truth so that we can come to learn it.
The knowledge of the truth is the testimony of God; it is what conveys the New Testament to the people of that testimony. Without truth or testament, a people will perish. “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge…” (Hosea 4:6). This knowledge is not information but the ingredients of covenant. When God gives so much time to a people and they misuse it, God can allow Satan to assault the nation. If they spend the whole time building houses, and mansions, fornicating, and misinterpreting everything about Christianity instead of attending to the covenant, God can allow terrorists to assault them. This is because God has given so much time for them to learn and grow but they refused. So a Christian who is learning the truth should not be angry with those who are not doing so, because he is doing it for their sake.
Grace will always precede truth and truth later brings grace. Truth cannot come to a man except there is first the grace. When God gives grace (especially the grace of the covenant), He has given the power to know the truth. There is a grace for healing the sick but there is a grace to know God. The grace of the covenant was what was on our Lord Jesus and John the Baptist. The grace was making them know and they were cutting covenants thereby. All of the thirty (30) years of Jesus was a season of the download of grace and truth.
“And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.” (John 1:14) Grace and Truth were the ingredients responsible for the spiritual age of Jesus. The stature of Jesus was full of grace. Jesus grew by grace and truth. Similarly, it was what God had wrought in Moses that was put in the testimony. God trained Moses to a place where he could not have any other god besides Him.
To every law, there is a way. God can take a man through a way, such that the man will inherit a gene that will make him unable to have another god or make another image. Moses was so trained by God without anyone physically teaching him until he became holy. At the age of eighty (80), Moses was still shepherding the flocks of Jethro and had no natural success story to boast of. However, God had raised him to be a law by that seemingly foolish situation.
God uses men with no success story, but many people in the Church hate such men. When you feel you are useless, you will become a specimen for heaven to work on. God uses what man has thrown away; what man does not have an answer for (1 Cor. 1:27). God wants to make us a success, He wants to give us more than what our earthly parents desire for us. All that our earthly parents see as success is having breakthroughs in the natural, but real success is to have a breakthrough into where God is. It is a success story for God to like a man.
The covenant is the ten commandments, after which there are the ordinances or statutes of the covenant. They are also commandments. Immediately after God mentioned the ten commandments, there was an interlude characterised by thundering and lightning. So the children of Israel ran away, and God stopped for a while. God looked at the children of Israel and saw that they could not take the ten commandments. Then God began to speak the ordinances, which are the means to get the covenant or the ten commandments. The giving of the ordinances took about three chapters of Exodus.
The ordinances make up the testimony, while the ten commandments make up the covenant. However, they are both commandments. You cannot have the covenant without the testimony. What believers have in the New Testament is the book of the testimony, waiting to be written upon the fleshy tables of hearts. The book was generated from Jesus and kept in the ark for saints who can get to the Holy of Holies in the heavens.
It took some time before the covenant was put on stones; this tells us that God was waiting for Israelites to make up their mind. Then God took Moses up, and he began to intercede for Israel. However, a spirit saw what God was trying to do in getting the people back to the covenant. The spirit quickly moved to teach the people things that were directly opposite and against the covenant. God told them not to have any other god besides Him and Satan was teaching them how to make their own god. Satan knows that if they can break the first commandment in the covenant, they have broken the rest of the commandments (which is to neighbours).
The two tablets of stones contained the ten commandments on each of the stones; one set was meant for the heart and the other set for the mind. So the two tablets were two witnesses. If it was five commandments that were written on each of the tablets, then it’s not yet a witness. To be a witness, the ten commandments must be written completely on each stone of the tablet. It means that God is saying that He will write His laws in our hearts and minds. This means that there would be two witnesses in a man–that’s a great honour.
When Moses was on top of the mountain, Satan began to teach the children of Isreal against the covenant. Similarly, our Lord Jesus is currently in heaven at the right hand of the majesty on high, and He is with the testament. However, Satan is delaying the children of God on earth and causing them not to be interested in the testimony. The same scenario that happened in the Old Testament is playing out now. God in His mercy wrote the covenant on a stone and gave it to the Jews; else no covenant would have been made with the Jews. However, the actual place of the covenant was not supposed to be on stones but in their hearts. God’s intent was to move the covenant into their heart.
God waited for the hearts of the children of Israel to turn so that they could take the covenant. God was buying time because He wanted the people of Israel to repent. Instead, they turned aside to the tabernacle of Moloch (Acts 7:43). A tabernacle is an image. Moloch is the image of a cow; it is the image of a god that the children of Israel were worshipping. When you want to worship a god, do not refuse the image that the god is projecting. This is because a god cannot be separated from its image. It’s a biblical ordinance that evil spirits stole from God. A dumb idol that people worship is the image of an actual god.
Moloch is a particular spirit called Rephaim; it projected what is inside him for Israel to worship. To worship Moloch is to do its modules of life or to be like a cow. To be like a cow does not speak of physically transforming into a cow but to live out the nature of a cow. There is something that a cow encapsulates–it is always bent down to the earth. A cow always looks down, always busy on the earth. That is a curse. To be married to the earth is an image. So images are not ordinary.
“And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.” (Romans 1:23). This is foolishness to God but it was an intelligent evil spirit that gave them this pattern. The physical evidence of bowing down physically to the beast is not the obeisance they pay to it, but a way of life that is being carried out and supervised by the god that is being worshipped. When a man is living that life, he is making an image. So the obeisance to a dumb idol is the making of an image. When a man is making an image, he is serving a god. It’s not easy to take a worshipper from the image of the god he is worshipping; a worshipper and an image are one. Worship is the endpoint; service is the way through or the formation.
Testimony contains the information on how to make an image. Testimonies are laws of an image. So spirits are not stupid. Angels (including fallen ones) are not dull. There are all kinds of men on earth, some may not worship a dumb idol, but there is an idol in the spirit that they are worshipping.
A man is truly known not by the laws of earth or how the world describes good men; just like the Pharisees and Sadducees looked upright amongst the Israelites, but they were the ones who killed Jesus. When a soul has been arranged uprightly by the world, it won’t allow the spirit of God to work.
A man’s heart can be hardened against God even though he is born again, filled with the Holy Ghost and occupies the position of an elder or deacon in the Church. Those things do not change an image that has been formed in the soul. God does not judge a man by outward appearance, even when all men approve of him. To know a man who is good in the sight of God, put him through the test that Joseph went through—get his wife pregnant before marriage and ask him to love her. Joseph was not even told this physically but by a dream. A mere man would ignore the instruction and call it an ordinary dream. One of the most painful things to a boy is that another man gets his girl. However, that’s how God tests men.
The Bible records that “Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a publick example, was minded to put her away privily.” (Matt. 1:19). A man who is good is a man like Joseph who would cover his virgin wife with a child he never gave birth to. That’s how God tests men to prove that they are good. Everybody can be nice but it’s not everybody that is good (in the sight of God). It’s not easy to find men who are good according to God’s judgment. The purpose of God can only survive in the hands of good men. If the husband of Mary was to be of some wicked Pharisees and Sadducees, he would have killed the baby. Jesus could have been stoned to death and we wouldn't have had a saviour. The true test of a man passes beyond what a natural man will measure out; it can only take God’s judgment to truly discern a man.
Some brothers cannot marry certain sisters and it’s because such sisters are not good enough in their souls. A brother can be troubled with the fact that a sister’s nose is flat. Every man has a wrong image in him–there are things (of Satan) we are keeping. This is why God will oftentimes design a wife for us who is against the image we have in us. God’s gift or choice is often designed to break down the tabernacle (or image) of Satan in us. God can use our companion in marriage as a solution to the groove that Satan has hewed in us for years. Preaching may sometimes not do the job but a dealing shrouded around God’s gift to us when we find grace to accept it.
Image is a lifeline, so it doesn’t go easily. God wants to rewrite the wrong image in our hearts. A man is on his way to true deliverance when he can sincerely acknowledge the vain and unprofitable image he has in his soul.
Image cannot be produced in a creature without the works of that image. The testament is a container of those works. “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). The testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. Those who bear the testimony of Jesus are those who are already bearing the image of our Lord Jesus or those who are on their way to making this image of the Son of God. A time will come when the testimony becomes a covenant. The ark of the covenant in the Old Testament is not the ark of the book but the ark of the stones. The stones contain a testimony that is a covenant. Some people have the testimony. Giving you testimony is different from giving you access to the covenant.
“For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh: Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;” (Romans 9:3-4). The promise is life, starting from the life of Christ. The first thing that happens to a man when God wants to give His covenant is that He gives him the law. The giving of the law will generate service. The law is the testimony, which is the instruction for work. When you are doing the testimony, you are serving God.
A testimony can be a law or a covenant. It is not all laws that are covenants or that have become a covenant, but all laws are first testimony. The ten commandments are the measurements of image; it is a covenant and not just a testimony. It is a law and a covenant. A covenant is the image of the law. Serving the law is making an image. Making an image is the same as making a covenant.
God mentioned His intention in Exodus when He said that He is interested in an image and that the children of Israel should not hew one for Him. God wants to give His image to us because we do not know what it is. You cannot have an image without agreement. Writing is chiselling or digging to form an image. The phrase “Thou shall not…”, is an image and there is a way it looks in the spirit. A stubborn man sees his tough image within before his words. It’s not just words that tempt souls but pictures or images. Image is what lures souls.
The season of giving the law is the season of the testimony. When God is putting testament in a man, He is putting the law in him. The testimony is a book of prophecy. A book here is not just a paper but something that contains information. So a gene is a book. Jesus said, “this is the New Testament in my blood” (Luke 22:20). It means God took a book from Jesus’ blood and filled it for man to read. You cannot read this blood except by the Spirit. To read the gene of someone else, you must place it under a magnifying lens. Without the instruments needed to read the testimony of Jesus, the Church will never know it. There can never be a giving of the law of the New Testament without someone to read it.
“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). There is a reading for hearing. Hearers are meant to collect what the reader is reading. There was a time when Ezra the priest read the book of the law to the people. Moses read the law and enjoined the people to the book through the blood.
When God is bringing you to His covenant, He will read His law. The testimony of our Lord Jesus should not remain a book forever, it should be written in our hearts and mind as covenant. In the Old Testament, God wrote the testimony on a stone instead of the heart of the people. So a stone was worthy of receiving what a people could not receive. Then Moses put the stone in an ark of the covenant and built a tabernacle for it and that tabernacle became God’s house instead of man. Man is the one who is supposed to carry the testament and become God’s house.
“Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw” (Rev. 1:2). The testimony of Jesus Christ speaks of how to make a covenant and that is why it is the spirit of prophecy. A lot of things are in the testimony that a man will be doing until it can be said that the man has the word of God. So the testimony are the instructions of the word of God.
“Bless the Lord, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word.” (Psalm 103:20). The voice of His word here is the (angelic) testimony that these angels do as commandments. The book itself is the voice of God’s word that will call a man to make covenant with God as he obeys the voice. The word of God is God’s image.
When God gave His word to angels in the beginning, He gave them an image. The man Jesus was called the word of God. “And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.” (Rev. 19:13) This Word of God is the image of God. Jesus came to show us how to become the Word of God as a man. Jesus used to be a Logos that was not a man (John 1:1-2), but He has now become the Word of God as a man. And yet, Jesus has not changed from being a man.
Jesus now has the likeness of human flesh but as Logos. The form of God before creation is a form that is not comprehensible, but a man came who embodied God in the flesh and now we can comprehend the life of God. When God has given the testimony (which is the law), men should do it because it would begin to speak. It would begin to speak because it’s the spirit of prophecy. When the testimony has not become a covenant, it’s not the word of God.
The testament is a doing word that we obey. When a man has the word of God in him, he has the two-edged sword in him (Heb. 4:12). The testimony is not the two-edged sword. The testimony is a food, but the Word of God is a weapon. These things should generate a dimension of glory.
The glory of God is not just a light around God, it is who God is. Glory is the essence of God. Every part of God is glorious: His thoughts, breath, etc are glorious. Things of glory speak of a character that is expressive alone in a particular height, in the world where glory is being expressed.
It is not every believer or Church that is glorious. The righteousness of God is glorious. This is why it is not easy for a minister of the gospel to preach glory when he is not in the world of glory. You must have entrance into the tabernacle of glory to show or declare glory. A minister of the gospel needs to be glorious to fetch the vocabulary to describe the glory of God.
There is a way a glorious man behaves. The only way to know that a man has become glorious is that he can find the thing of glory, which is the image of God. So ministering the image of God is ministering glory. Giving a man image is giving him glory. Glory is a shining and exalted life. Those who have such lives emanate praise and glory.
The Bible has a glorious message to deliver. To be glorious is not just to get someone born again. The ministration of glory is to give status to a man who is born again. A lot of pastors are tempted with making believers materially rich because they are looking for glory, but that kind of glory is condemnation.
There was a man called the young rich ruler who attained honour and glory by the law of Moses. However, this man saw another man who did not need servants and was almost the same age as him. This young rich ruler saw that the fame of this other man went abroad because he had a glory that cannot be explained. He tried to put words around it and he called it Eternal Life. Something glorious will not bow except it sees something more glorious. We are going to a place of exaltation.
A rich man does not aim to lose, so the young rich ruler wanted to get what Jesus had. However, Jesus gave him a commandment to go and sell all that he had. This commandment is a law for another image that is better than what the young rich ruler had. Companies on earth are always looking for an image in society; they call it “branding”. Image making is to call for worship. What is populating some churches today is a kind of image. They preach for a short time and fill the whole place with ambience, lighting, and good music. Souls like image.
Some images cause souls to die gradually as it eats them. If pastors can make a good outward image in the Church, they should consider making the good image of God which is able to give life to people. Image-making ministers of the gospel fire glories into souls. They minister or teach glory. The greatest deliverance on earth is to be delivered from the glory of this world.
The testimony of Jesus should no longer suffer; men should ascend to a plane where they can do it. The testimony is in heaven and people should go there to take it. Only a few ministers ascend into heaven to bring down the image of God. “To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,” (1 Peter 1:4). This inheritance is the testimony. It is the translator of the properties of the image into the tablet. When a man is taught the testimony, he is taught to do the work of God or to do what pleases God. The testimony will open your eyes to it. It will empower you to do the service of God.
Serving God is not just about dancing, singing, or working in church; those are things about service. There is no true service except there is the dawning of light on how God wants to be served. A man must be illuminated to do what God wants. When light is not available, men will zealously do things that do not please God just because they feel it is right.
God’s testimony is pure, it enlightens the soul (Psalm 19:7-8). The testament makes the soul see. It is the testimony that will eventually turn into covenant. You must have done all those other things written in the testimony for the summary of the ten commandments. You must be a covenant-keeping being to do the ten commandments. You cannot be a covenant keeper without the body or house of the covenant. The house of the covenant is a perfect liberty tabernacle.
Whosoever has made covenant with God is a high priest. High priests are men who have cut covenant with God. This covenant refers to a superior testimony. A covenant is a finished work. A man who has cut covenant with God has everlasting life. Everlasting life is a life that contains the glory of God. Everlasting life is not just living forever but the reproduction of God’s glory. An everlasting man is someone who can shine God or emanate the glory of God. An everlasting man is someone who is beautiful or who does beauty; beauty is salvation (Psalm 149:4).
God will only beautify the meek with salvation. God told Moses to make a garment of salvation (or beauty) and glory for Aaron. Whosoever wears such garment is saved and will be able to carry out or minister salvation. In the end, such a person will be able to minister glory.
When a man has become fully glorious, there is nothing on earth that Satan can use to entice him. There is nothing Satan can offer a glorious man to tempt him. Such is a man whom the world and all that Satan possesses is not worthy of. We should not be cheap, especially when we have become one with an inheritance incorruptible, undefiled and that does not fade away. Nothing should buy a minister of the gospel. A time will come when God will make a man more glorious than the whole world, even more than evil spirits.
God is bringing men to a place where they are no longer less. God is taking us from less to a place of more. We will gather glory and become a vessel of honour. The mercy of the Lord will get it done.
Blessings!
Summary
1. A man cannot have a god that he bows to without firstly making an image. One of the most grievous sins to God is to have another god besides Him; this is what scriptures call iniquity.
2. The major work of God, or what God commanded us to do to achieve peace, is to make an image. To make an image is to have God to yourself and this is the only criterion for man to rest.
3. When a man is born again, he has not known the truth but has only been assigned as a candidate of truth. We became candidates of truth so that we can come to learn it.
4. The knowledge of the truth is the testimony of God; it is what conveys the New Testament to the people of that testimony. Without truth or testament, a people will perish (Hosea 4:6).
5. Grace will always precede truth and truth later brings grace. When God gives grace (especially the grace of the covenant), He has given the power to know the truth.
6. A god cannot be separated from its image. It is a biblical ordinance that evil spirits stole from God. A dumb idol that people worship is the image of an actual god.
7. Testimony contains the information on how to make an image. Testimonies are laws of an image.
8. A man is on his way to true deliverance when he can sincerely acknowledge the vain and unprofitable image he has in his soul.
9. Image cannot be produced in a creature without the works of that image. The testament is a container of those works.
10. It is not all laws that are covenants or that have become a covenant, but all laws are first testimony. A covenant is the image of the law. Serving the law is making an image. Making an image is the same as making a covenant.