The incorruptible seed has since been promised in scriptures, but it is possible to study the bible for many years and not come into understanding of how God laid or kept this seed in scriptures. A man can learn scriptures and never come into the knowledge of truth (2 Tim. 3:7). It is interesting to know that only few men on earth have found the truth of Christ, talk less of the higher truth (of perfection) that the learning of Christ is ordained to lead us to (Heb. 6:1). God is currently preparing us to meet the need of this present age, and this ministry is going to continue even in the world to come. This ministry of the New testament will continue in the world to come. Men who will allow the work of God to be finished in them will have a responsibility to feed men in the world to come.
There is a far-fetched thought that many believers have about the future world, even those imaginations of angels, wings, clouds etc. However, the future world will not be different from the present, it will be a world of humanity at a very high voltage. It will have standards and spiritual structures that will enable men to learn God. The future (or the world to come) will be mainly dedicated to knowing God. This is not going to be the work of God the Father; because He would have raised ministers who will do the work. This is not going to be a ministry of the fivefold gifts of Christ as we have it on earth now (Eph. 4:7-11). The work will be done by men with (high) priestly posture or stature.
“The earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.” (Psalms 24:1-2). God used waters for the foundation of this present earth. The (pluralised) word “seas” indicates that God made differentials in waters. It’s not all the waters that are of the same gene or character. Rivers of water are not as voluminous as sea water. And it’s not all seas that are the same; sea waters develop into an ocean.
“And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.” (Gen. 1:6). These waters are sea waters. In the beginning, sea waters enveloped the earth. It means that God must have created the sea before He created the earth. The sea water is the foundation while the earth is the building. Scientists have shifted from scriptures, because they believe something else. They don’t want the bible, but the bible remains the manual or the book of the Creator. This present earth is not a product of some Big Bang theory. If that’s the case, then we would have seen more realities evolving out of nothing since then.
There is a divine determinate counsel concerning the earth. The course of the earth was well done and perfected by God. Evolution would never have balanced green grass and mountains. Nothing can balance colour like nature; we see green grasses, grey mountains, and a blue sky. The colour of nature is divine. We see a display of forces balancing each other in the way the earth is aligned.
In the beginning, there were no planets, neither were there stars. Therefore, the sand or earth is older than the stars. Scriptures say that the earth were of old; old means ancient (Psa. 102:25). The earth has the age of the beginning. If God laid the foundation of the earth as waters, we can imagine how massive the waters must have been. In the beginning God hid the earth from spirits. He covered the earth with darkness; such that cannot be pierced through by spirits.
The waters covered the earth so much. Then God made a firmament and moved some waters above it (Gen. 1:7). So there are waters above heaven (or firmament) and they are in layers. There are waters upon the earth also (Gen. 1:9). Satan doesn’t want believers to learn the bible, and this is why he surrounds us with cares of life to take our attention. Many believers only use the bible to solve their carnal problems or troubles. Satan wants us to focus on solving earthly problems and not learn the bible. This “Lekki Soul Centre” is for to learn the bible; it is ordained to make us ascend out of our troubles.
Spirits know how to trouble waters. The troubles of humanity are coming from a stirred foundation (or waters). God never made the foundation to trouble us, but Satan stirred our water. Satan comes on waters as we see in Daniel 7:2-3. Similarly, an angel comes to stir the water (or pool) of Bethsaida for healing; but fallen angels can also stir waters for troubles (John 5:4). From time to time, fallen spirits come to stir the waters of the spiritual landscape of earth so that men can have troubles. But Jesus has purposed to spare us through our learning of God. We should learn (God) in other to arise and ascend out of troubles.
The firmament that God used to barricade the waters above from falling is not like a flat roof; it’s circular in shape. So we cannot really tell which point is the heaven of angels (or of God). We look up to the firmament when we pray but we don’t really know which point leads to the northside. So anytime we “look up to God”, we face the firmament and we are not really facing the particular point of the heaven where God dwells. The firmament is thus, an altar of answer for men. It’s an heaven of blessing. The firmament is a point from where we can relate with the actual heavens of angels. So God created an heaven for our earth (firmament) so that anytime we face it, we have an heaven consciousness. That firmament is our blessing and Jesus also looked up to it when He was on earth (Mark 6:41). Anytime we look up to that firmament, we are looking up to someone higher than us -- God.
Anytime we beseech heaven, we are beseeching the altar of blessing (the firmament). The Lord left the firmament as a blessing and to raise man’s consciousness from the earth. We are saying that our help comes from above when we look up. Help is not coming from the heaven of earth because God is higher than that; help comes from the heaven beyond the waters above. However, our mind’s consciousness is limited to looking up to our heaven.
No man or rocket has been able to go beyond that firmament because it’s a whole world underneath the water or in the firmament. The waters above the firmament are so high.
Deep inside the heart of the scientists, they want to go to heaven, because they have an inkling that there is something hiding there. The best that man can do is to journey in a solar system. No man can understand creation without having an accurate bible mind.
God created all manners of waters to keep the earth. The fact that God moved waters above does not mean that it has lost its essence as a foundation for the earth. The waters or seas is doing two things for the present creation. It’s firstly a boundary between the heaven (of angels) and the earth. Secondly, the sea that takes some part of the earth is a means of livelihood for the earth; it’s also a means of transport.
“And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.” (Rev. 21:1). The new heavens (of the world to come) will not have seas. In the same vein, the foundation of the new earth will not be waters. If this present earth had to be kept by waters, then it shows that the present heaven and earth was not built with a solid structure. It means that the earth is not as solid as the one that is coming. The new earth will not need the sea for a foundation. In physical terms, if the new earth will be founded, it’s going to be on another kind of sea -- the water of the word of God. The foundation of the new earth will be invisible. The new earth will be suspended by a higher power than that of the present. There will be a new geography in the world to come.
“And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.” (Rev. 21:2). This means that everyone who will attain unto the company of this holy city will eventually come to the new earth to live. The home of the company of the holy city will be heavenly (i.e., the new heaven). But these occupants of the new heaven will have to condescend to the new earth.
The Lamb’s wife is a city but not a physical building. The word “city” is used as an abstract for a reality in the spirit. The city connotes the structure of the bride, a company of people who have come into the calling of whom Jesus will marry. As powerful as angels or cherubs are, the world to come is not put in their hands but they could point to it. An angel pointed the Lamb’s wife and the new heaven to John.
A whole lot of christians do not see the need to learn this book of Revelation. Many think that there is nothing to learn in the book of Revelation, since every Christian will walk on the street of gold when they get to heaven. No! The book of Revelation is relevant, and we must learn it. It’s not every Christian that will eventually become the bride of the Lamb. It’s not every Christian that Jesus will marry.
“And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. 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.” (Rev. 21:22-23). The city doesn’t need the sun and moon. It’s very possible that the new earth will still have sun and moon, but the city doesn’t need those. The city came down with her light because she is purely heavenly and doesn’t need the facilities of the earth to lighten it. Those who will be using the energy of the earth are the earthly believers.
“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. 21:24). The word “it” refers to the city. Apart from the city who is the Lamb’s wife, there are nations. To every nation, there will be a king. It means that the earth dwellers will have kings and this kingship will not be determined by family but by God’s appointment or allotment. Men who only worked miracles while on this present earth will not be kings in the future; kings would be men who have used light (of Christ) to a degree. They will be the least kings in the world to come. These are men who used the light of Christ while in this present earth but not enough to grant them entrance into the Kingdom of God (John 3:5). Just like John the Baptist was a king but could not enter into the Kingdom (Matt. 11:11).
John the Baptist was approaching the Kingdom of God but did not enter. In the same vein, there were kings and righteous men who sought to enter into the Kingdom but could not (Luke 10:24). Therefore, blessed is a man whose eyes and ears are seeing and hearing these things that are able bring a man into the Kingdom of God. God mercifully gifted the entrance into His Kingdom to the New Testament era. John the Baptist was not in the Kingdom of God and he died without entering. His death was not natural, he was killed. So the kings in Revelation 21:24 are men of spiritual stature who did not make entrance into the Kingdom.
Going into the kingdom is an attitude of prophets and righteous men (Matt. 13:17). The beginning of our journey to God is a response to a prophetic call. Immediately a man begins to walk (or obey) towards the Kingdom, he is a prophet. Such is a prophet, not by foretelling or telling visions, but by walk (or obedience). Whosoever is walking towards God is a prophet. Such will journey until he or she gets to a point where entrance is granted into (the starting point) of God’s dominion. There are dominions that come before God’s actual dominion. When God begins to call a man, he or she would prophetically walk from one level of dominion to another. There are dimensions in the path of our walk to God. There are authorities, mights and dominions until one comes into God’s dominion (Eph. 1:21).
There are dominions outside God’s sphere or dominion. People like John the Baptist, Moses, Enoch all have dominions but not in the actual Kingdom of God. John the Baptist was a kind of Melchizedek and nobody knew who he was except Jesus. Jesus Christ is a perfect Melchizedek. The Melchizedek who appeared to Abraham was a type or kind of a son of God (Heb. 7:3). He was a king of righteousness, a king of peace and priest of the Most High God. The bible says that John the Baptist was a prophet of the Highest; this means that he was an high priest (Luke 1:76).
John the Baptist had an everlasting sense and knew that there is Eternal Life; he had a type of everlasting life that is very relative to that of Jesus. John’s everlasting life was of more quality than that which was in the Old Testament (Exodus). John the Baptist was not made a high priest by the law of Moses but by the law of nature. Adam was an everlasting man as well, because scripture says that the first Adam was a natural man (1 Cor. 15:45-46).
Adam was not a type of Christ but a type of an everlasting man and that was why he was very close to Eternal Life (i.e., the Tree of Life). God planted Eternal Life in his garden.
The stature of Jesus on earth was exactly like that of Adam in the garden of Eden. In other words, Jesus who grew on earth was in Eden (spiritually). John the Baptist was a kind of Adam outside the garden of Eden. We see how John the Baptist was dressing exactly the way Adam dressed after he was sent out of Eden (Matt. 3:4, Gen. 3:21). The man who can bear witness of the man in Eden (Jesus) must be an Adam outside Eden. Such would be a man who is higher than the law and with an everlasting life and that was John the Baptist. To produce John the Baptist, his parents had to be perfect, blameless and well stricken in years. Even the books of the prophets prophesied about him (Isa. 40:3). Jesus also mentioned that John the Baptist was the messenger prophesised in Malachi 3:1; he was the Elijah to come. John the Baptist heralded the coming of our Lord Jesus and showed Him to Israel.
“Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.” (Matt. 11:11). This means that whosoever will be higher than John the Baptist should not be born of a woman. The only person that was higher than John the Baptist was Adam. John the Baptist was higher than Enoch, Abraham etc. The word “risen” implies that he grew and became the prophet of the Highest. John the Baptist whom Herod killed was a king. Since John could be killed, then it means that the earth could kill Christ (Matt. 17:12). It was not just a man who killed John the Baptist, it was Satan. Satan beheaded John. John’s death was a death of humiliation; it was mete with anger. Satan used the emotion of the queen who had felt scorn because she was a queen.
The queen is in hell right now, getting ready for the lake of fire. Because it is an Antichrist venture to behead a prophet. She’s got the mark of the beast. We can tell or learn judgement from scriptures. Judgement refers to what God is saying concerning matters. So we can have sound judgement when we have accurate scriptural alignment. She has killed her conscience to have been able to kill John the Baptist. Satan held John down in prison because he knew that one day, the king’s stepdaughter will dance for him. The king was a whoremonger, so much that he could give a blank cheque to a little girl because of a dance. His soul was low; he was a debased fellow.
The new Jerusalem will choose people on earth to be kings before she lands. The election of these kings will be by spiritual orderly alignment. Men will already have spiritual order in their hearts. Whosoever will be in new earth would have been purified. Naturally, every man on the new earth will submit to authority. The biblical submission to authorities that is practised in church today will translate into a dominion in the future. It will be a usual or common practice in the future. God will make sure that men are proved in this present earth. Disobeying or resisting authorities in this present earth indicates that such a one will do the same in the world to come. God will do a lot to purify or rid the soul of the nature that is unable to submit to authorities before we get to the world to come.
One of the defilements of the soul that will not pass into the future world is that lack of submission to authority. To “come under” is a phrase that carries a lot of weight in the spirit. Heaven will make every arrangement to make sure men who will come into the future world would have been beaten to shape. Some people had visions of heaven and came back to say that everyone is a brother in heaven and there are no hierarchy or status. This is not true! Some of those visions are not pure. Men who will come into the future world will not be of the same cadre. If this present creation has varying status as powers, principalities, mights and dominion, then it means that the future world will not be different. The present creation is a perfect picture of the future world.
The world to come will have the new earth and people will be inhabiting there. Those are new earth dwellers. The passport, or visa required to come into the new earth is that your spirit must be recreated (i.e., born again); and you must agree with all the heavenly order. The world to come will be operated with nothing but the alignments in scriptures. Anything outside heavenly alignment is not permitted in the world to come. So, the church should practice submission to one to another for the purpose of the world to come.
The kings of the earth will bring their glory and honour to the city or new Jerusalem. “Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth.” (Psa. 45:16). Fathers are the men of the past or former Testament. People like Samuel will come to be the kings of the earth. These are the fathers that the queen will make princes in all the earth. Fathers are those who are older than the New Testament church. “Fathers” talk about a people of a testimony that is before the New Testament. The church was hewed from the New Testament; but there are men who were born of the testimony of the past. They are fathers because we use them as point of references. Some of them prophesied about the New Testament, while some of them are characters in scriptures that we use as life examples. However, a company of the New Testament church is the queen who will be given things that were not given to the fathers. The fathers are the ones referred to as “righteous men or kings” (Luke 10:24, Matt:13:17).
In the world to come, the men or nations of those who have been saved will be on earth and they would need to be taken care of. This responsibility will be handled by men who have the life of Christ (to a degree) in their souls. They are men who had walked with God according to the Old Testament; they walked in a righteous path and are now made perfect in Christ (Heb. 12:23). So, the New Testament will perfect the state of such men on earth. They will be given the privilege to rule the earth for some time before the bride would come. The bride would initially stay in the new heavens because she is heavenly. The moment God speaks the new world into existence, or move the new world into its place, spirits will find their order.
“And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.” (Rev. 20:12). Small death and great death refer to the death calibrations in the souls of some men. Death is first small and can graduate to become great. The works here are not such as fornication nor other works of the flesh. They are things that these men did on the outward that resulted to a work or nature on their inside. “Works” refer to the amount of death that they have wrought on their inside. Heaven does not judge by outward works or by habit per habit; they judge by what a soul has become. So God can tell a man’s death, whether it’s small or great. Small death is the first death, which is the one Adam had. Men with great death are those who increased death work in themselves, beyond what Adam brought. They had died highly, and this is the second death.
The dead will be judged according to their works. Works are things a man will do that will result to a posture in the soul. Every man is identified in the realm of the spirit by the work that is already done in the soul. This means that the man will naturally carry out that work. External works are pointers because they are easily seen but such are not enough to tell who a man is on the inside. God is also particular about His own works too, and we should get them done quickly (Rev. 22:12).
We inherited a death portion in our souls when Adam died spiritually. Adam’s spirit was cut off, but something was transferred in the realm of the spirit to man. When a child is given birth to and the child dies after existing for a short time; the soul of that baby has not yet done any work. Such a soul hasn’t become some things. It takes time for a soul to get inheritance of death from the spirit. Work is said to be done when what is in the spirit is transferred into the soul. Work in the soul is done when there is a transfer of the nature of the spirit into the soul. In other words, work is nature wrought in the soul. It’s on this basis that mankind will be judged.
Books are divided into two: books of small dead works and books of great dead works. Small death is a work and you need books to get it done, same with great death. In other words, it will take works for a soul to die greatly or small. Small or great death is a death acquired in the soul. So the judgment in Revelation 20:12 is not a judgement based on the state of the human spirit only. No man would not be sent to the lake of fire just because of the death of his spirit alone, but mainly because of what his soul has become through works that it has carried out. The death of the spirit is the inheritance of every man (from Adam) without doing anything. Hell is a prison yard, but the lake of fire is not a prison; it is earned by works done in the soul. Unbelievers who did not do anything that translates to a nature in their souls will go to hell when they die. However, it takes more to go to lake of fire. It is what the soul of a man has become that determines whether a man goes to lake of fire or not.
Babylon is the enabler of small death in men; she has the book of such works. Babylon is the writer of the antichrist nature in men. Every man is Babylonish at first, we came from there. She gave us the spot and wrinkles in our souls. Babylon blamed our souls but the precious blood of the Lamb (the water of the word or of Christ) is able to cleanse us from Babylonish works or stain (1 Pet. 1:19).
Babylon serves small death to men. Men with great death are those who have done more than what Babylon has offered. The beast, or the Antichrist is the one who wrought great death in people (Rev. 13:4-5). The beast has got the keys to give great death to a soul. The beast is a teacher, a communicator and his dominion will impart great death on souls. Even before the beast appeared, there were men who journeyed to the world of the beast before it arrived. Such are those who will have great work already being done in them. They made partnership or agreement with hell and death and they will have great death.
Many people are in hell right now who have great death in their souls, they are great in death. An example is the prince of Tyre in Ezekiel 28:2-3; he has great death. Nebuchadnezzar was someone who had great death but had not yet finished the course before God saved him. There was something about Nebuchadnezzar’s heart; he had a childish or foolish mind but he was very bold. And that was why God was engaging him. Nebuchadnezzar worshipped Daniel after helping to interpret the dream he had (Daniel 2:46). This shows that he was not jealous, he had some kind of respect and honour but he was operating by a principle blindly. Nebuchadnezzar is like Donald Trump. People may say that he is narcissistic but he won’t allow the church to be humiliated or treated with disdain. He is very brash but has fear for God. Some people are clean on the outside but they can partner with hell. So for us to be able to tell the amount of death in men, we must have the judgement of scriptures. Some men have small death while some others have great death.
The bible did not say, “for God so loved the Antichrist…” but “for God so loved the world…” (John 3:16). The death in men was not yet “great” when Jesus came; it was moving towards great death. Small death is not an ordinary thing if it’s fully finished in a man.
“And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.” (Rev. 20:13-14). The “sea” here refers to this world while death and hell is the Antichrist. And Jesus said “I have the keys of hell and death” (Rev. 1:18). Death and hell is great death while the sea is the small death.
Jesus taught on this operation of the “white throne judgement” in the book of Matthew chapter twenty-five and it is evident that it’s not the judgement seat of Christ meant for all Christians (2 Cor. 5:9-10). “Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:” (Matt. 25:41). This everlasting fire is the lake of fire. The one who sat on the throne in Revelation 20:11 is not God the Father, but our Lord Jesus Christ. The holy angels that He came down with are His brethren.
Jesus moved old (i.e., this present) heaven and earth away and sat on the white throne to proceed with the program of the age to come. However, there was an interlude, which is to settle the issue of beings who are held up in the dungeon of darkness (physical hell). He raised the dead (physically) and their death rate was displayed before Him. He knew to what extent have they committed themselves to death. They were categorised into two kinds of people – the dead in sea and the dead in death and hell. Sea is small death while death and hell is great death. The dead in death and hell were cast into the lake of fire because men with great death are meant for the lake of fire.
Immediately Jesus settled the issue of the destination of those who have died greatly, He moved on to the next program which is the world to come. “And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.” (Rev. 21:1). The pressing issue on Jesus’ mind was to begin His ministry in a different perspective and in its full measure, with all the facilities on ground. Jesus was sent by God to do one thing -- reconcile men unto Eternal life or to God (2 Cor. 5:19). This is what Jesus wants to do with the new heavens and new earth, because such is the only facility that can carry out this job of reconciliation. The purpose of the world to come is to give Eternal Life to men. This present earth is too weak to carry out this job, so they need the new heavens and new earth. In the world to come, Jesus won’t have any interference. God allowed the devil to interfere with this work here on earth in other to help Him raise everlasting workers. These everlasting workers are those who will help the work, or those who will minister Eternal Life along with Jesus in the world to come.
“And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.” (Rev. 21:2). The bride (i.e., the city) has one purpose which can be understood from the book of the beginning (Genesis). God raised the woman as a help meet for the man (Gen. 2:18-22). The bride is a help meet for the Lamb of God. The purpose of man is to tender the garden, and this will touch the earth. This is because the fulcrum of the earth was Eden. So Jesus has to be in the garden, work from the garden and eventually get to the rest of the earth.
The help meet for the Lamb is that city, that new Jerusalem. The whole city was raised to help her husband, in other to help fulfil his dream. The dream of the husband (our Lord Jesus Christ) is the dream of the father of the husband (God). The bride was adorned for her husband. If not, her husband will not be able to use her. The bride must be attractive to the husband and also to those who are watching her.
She was first made a bride but she still had to adorn herself for the eternal purpose. One thing is to be a bride, another thing is to be adorned. This woman was seen in chapter nineteen of Revelations where she only had a white linen, which is the righteousness of the saints (Rev. 19:7-8). This is what makes her a bride. She’s got everlasting righteousness but that’s not enough. The Lamb was already adorned with garment dipped with blood, and she also needed to be prepared. The Lamb was coming to marry her on earth and this marriage celebration took a thousand years. The sight of an angel binding Lucifer and throwing him into the bottomless pit was one of the entertaining events during this celebration (Rev. 20:1-3). Also, ruling nations with the rod of iron is part of the marriage (Rev. 19:15). Some men who were beheaded for the witness of Jesus were also given the privilege to reign on earth with the bride and the Lamb (Rev. 20:4). These martyrs were given thrones, but these thrones are not as strong as the one the Lamb is sitting on. But the bride will sit with the Lamb on the same throne (Rev. 12:5).
In Revelation 21, the bride has finally been adorned. It took the earth to adorn the bride and took heaven to prepare her for ministry (Rev. 21:2). The ministerial commission is part and parcel of the marriage contract. The church or company of people that would become the Lamb’s wife must be ready to do the Lamb’s work. The major work of the Lamb is to give everlasting and Eternal Life to men. The size of the new earth will be so massive, because it will contain men who have been dying physically from ages past - men who have died from the time of Adam. In the same way, the lake of fire will be massive. The lake of fire will be far bigger than this present earth.
Lake is a world; it’s a bowl planet. The phrase “lake of fire” means that it is a bowl of fire. The lake of fire is not going to be beside the new heaven; it is such that one will have to travel to get there. There is no way one would just cross easily. Just like we see moon from afar off, we would see the lake as a ball that is burning with everlasting fire. People will live there, and it’s going to be a very hot world. The lake of fire is a planet. It’s a highly developed planet meant to swallow those who have died greatly. Many great minds of the earth, men of great stature who oppose God even to the Holiest will be in the lake of fire. Lucifer will be in the lake of fire. The lake of fire won’t be a region in the new earth. Hell is spiritual, but the lake of fire won’t be a spiritual plane. It won’t be a bottom or depth; depth belongs to God.
Lake is a planet. It’s a world that can be physically seen and men can be sent there. There are angels who transfer or escort people there. The fire won’t go down, because it’s supposed to administer torture to the inhabitants. It’s meant to make the inhabitants suffer everlastingly. Lake is a fire built for any man who has attained negative everlasting nature. It’s a fire that Satan himself is also afraid of. Satan is not afraid of anything of the present creation, but he is afraid of something to come -- the judgement of lake. It’s the everlasting fire made for the devil and his angels; some men will go there too. The new earth will then appear after this has been done. The new earth will be very massive.
We are coming to place where the whole world will realise that they are not wise. This is because God will unveil what is hidden in scriptures. God will reveal the treasure of scripture.
Anyone who will preach the everlasting gospel will also need to preach everlasting fire. There will be a foretaste of the lake of fire on earth before the actual lake. The fire that came upon Sodom and Gomorrah is an example of everlasting fire. Jude called it eternal fire (Jude 7). This fire would be seen burning on earth, preparing the sons of disobedience for eternal damnation. Simultaneously, there will be the demonstration of the ministry of Eternal Life. The reason Jesus will choose the bride is to do the ministry of everlasting life in the world to come. So, the new earth will be dedicated to the ministry of everlasting life.
The city is the wife of the Lamb, and everything about the Lamb’s life is stored in her. This is why Satan fights marriages, because he sees the husband and wife as one and knows that they become formidable when they merge their different energies. Satan knows that couples will easily carry out their function when we obey God and align as one. Scriptures says that two shall become one flesh (Eph. 5:31). God will heal marriages in this end time. This is because it’s part and parcel of the program of everlasting life. Marriage is an everlasting venture; it began in the beginning. Marriage took place in Eden, close to the Tree of Life. This is why weak hearts or men that are lifeless can’t handle it. It’s an everlasting responsibility.
God appreciates the nations who have held marriages by culture. However, some nations want to tear the order of marriage (as ordained by God) apart. They want to redefine marriage, but it cannot stand. Marriage should be between a man and a woman. The bride or city carries the ministry of reconciliation within her. A full-grown woman carries everything of her husband. So the bride came to help the nations of the earth who are in the new earth. She has the Tree of Life, the water of life and the throne of God and of the Lamb.
The architectural description speaks of the church, when we are fully saved and put together as city. When we have become adorned and rewarded, the throne of God will be in us. Every person that makes up the city has a measure of the throne in them. So the throne comes in complete when the city is brought together, and the Lamb will sit in the midst of the throne. And the glory of God and of the Lamb will fall on that city to govern the earth, to bless and heal the earth (Rev. 21:23-24). The nations that are saved are now ready for Eternal Life.
Eternal Life is actually a work of the future; that is what Jesus wants to give to the whole earth. In the world to come, the ministry of Eternal Life will be done without interference, opposition, persecution and hinderance. This is when God will prepare a space for a full expansion of that ministry. Men need to be in eternity for them to have this everlasting life. An unfading world will be needed as well as people who are unchangin; such are those who will transmit Eternal Life.
The work of reconciling men to God will take a new turn. God would have raised us to a status where the powers of Eternal Life will be evident on earth and we can give the life with all its witnesses. This is the work of the future. The bride is a heavenly specie but she will come to the new earth to minister to people who are there. Kings of the earth will depend on the bride in other to know God the way He ought to be known.
This present heaven and earth belong to angels; it is not for man. Man was born here as an alien to be later moved into his own world. God borrowed the earth out of creation and that is why the earth is the footstool of angels too. Angels can influence the earth. We see this in how Satan is able to handle or manipulate the earth. The earth can answer to him because it was made of a materiality of close quality. So earth and the heavens are of the same era, both are of the same facility of the present. However, there are things to come that angels cannot handle because the world to come is not put in their hands (Heb. 2:5). The present creation however, is in the angelic hands and this is why the earth can be easily influenced by them. They are the angels or messengers of the present. Angels can beautifully interfere with this present earth. One of the angels fell and the whole earth is troubled.
This present heaven and earth cannot accommodate the ministry of the original life that God ordained to give man. This present heaven is not God’s ideal of heaven. It’s a place that God is still managing (Isa. 66:1-2). Also, this present earth is a prototype of something to come. A far more superior or better earth is coming, talk more of those who will be in a better heaven. The structure of the world to come is already aligned in the spirit. Everything has been finished in God; it just needs to move out from where it’s kept in Him. Those who will stay in either of the two planes (i.e., heaven or earth) are the ones who are currently being prepared. Anyone who will be in the new earth as a child of God will need to learn everlasting life.
The world to come is not meant for singing as some ignorantly think. Some Christians will cry for a long time when they get to heaven, because they will see what they ought to have become while on this present earth (Rev. 21:4). The glory of the future is incredible. There is nothing in this present earth, even the present heavens should not amuse a believer. It is possible to learn scriptures beyond this present heaven, and that is when we can cry for a new one. We need a new heaven and earth, not the heaven where Lucifer fell from. We should desire a heaven where Satan has never touched; an heaven he knows nothing about.
Angels are heavenly beings; but God is making other angels who are of another heavens. The aroma of our priesthood is not after the present heaven but that of the future -- smell of good things to come. We would begin to parade incense of the world to come everywhere we go. The aloes myrrh and cassia are not of the present, they are from the ivory palaces of God. They are new facilities of the future. God is making angels again. He is making men of the heavenly order in the heavenly places in Himself. If we have an opportunity to meet Jesus now, we won’t think of this present heaven but eternity. The smell and impression that He would leave on our minds when fully seen is the world to come.