The Seventh Seal: the revealing of mysteries - Bola Olu-Jordan
As it was in the days of Samuel, the Bible says ‘the Word of the Lord was precious in those days’ (1Sam.3:1), (i.e. scarce, dare, costly), so also it is in this generation: the true Word of God has become so lamentably scarce that it takes a man who has heard the gospel unmixed before, to discern that most of what is called the Word of God today is actually the word of man! Many fellowships have been reduced to adoration of the god of man and the celebration of pulpit professionalism and display of religious intellectualism to make merchandize of the innocent congregation.
Attention is being diverted from spiritual things with eternal value to mundane things with immediate gains. People are introduced to the gift and not the giver. Benefits, dividends and gains are emphasized and used as baits to lure people to religion and denomination (Satan’s strategy against the church), but never a personal encounter with Christ or the need for the redemption of their soul and eternity.
Melt down of morals among Christian is on the increase, as excesses of many so called leaders on the bill of liberty in Christ has emboldened many young believers to do things with questionable social virtue, let alone Christ’s example. There is no longer a discernable difference between an average Christian and an unbeliever in dressing, talking, etc. We see more of the talk, and less of the walk.
Magicians, politicians and entertainers with different titles have comically taken over the pulpit; stealing away the hearts of many with their sugar-coated mouths; preaching words of wisdom of men, devoid of the power of God. They arrest the souls of innocents with spell-bound, calculating display of psychology, philosophy, quotable quotes of dead philosophers, who never believed in God, let alone Jesus Christ.
The Church of miracles, blessing, prosperity, breakthrough, healing, etc, is more than the church of Jesus Christ. Many gatherings are no longer unto the Lord but to fulfill religious responsibility and to let out bottled up social instincts through dancing and celebration orgies, devoid of true heart of the worship to God.
Services have sadly been reduced to festivities, rendezvous and celebration galore! It is no longer a place to give God quality worship but to dance to satanic songs with religious tones and rhythms.
THE OPENING OF THE SEALS.
These are the characteristics of the last days. The Bible says in 1Tim.3:1: ‘at the last days, perilous times shall come’; (i.e. difficult and dangerous times). This suggests a reduction in strength or thawing out of value or virtue in something. But the striking characteristic of the last days is that knowledge will increase, both of God and of Satan. Many mysteries leading to inventions, discoveries, knowledge, hitherto unknown to many generations past; good and bad, would be revealed to His saints in these last days; and many seals hitherto hidden would be broken.
Daniel was commanded to ‘shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased’ (Dan.12:4). In the Apocalypse of John, six seals (mysteries) were broken in the sixth chapter. As the angel opened each seal, he would always say to John: ‘come and see’ (Rev.6). So, all the six seals were opened and John wrote down what he saw.
But at the opening of the seventh seal, John said; ‘And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea’ (Rev.7:2).
Note here, that John said he saw another angel entirely different from the one that opened the six previous seals, coming from the east having the seal of the living God. East signifies knowledge. Many esoteric, Transcendental Meditation (T.M.) and New Age Movements (NAM) originated from the East, especially, the Far East! Buddha, Hindu, Hare Krishna, Confucius, Mahikari, etc are few of the ancient religions originating from that region.
DECEMBER 25 IS THE BIRTHDAY OF A DEMON GOD, AND NOT CHRIST.
Note also, that during the time of the birth of Jesus, the Bible says ‘wise men came from the east’. Many have erroneously confused and mistaken these wise men to be the shepherds that watched their flocks by night! There is also this erroneous belief that these wise men were three! These assertions are not correct. The wise men are different from the shepherds.
The angel of the Lord appeared to the shepherds at the field while watching their flocks by night (Lk.2:8). This, definitely, cannot be during the winter time. This also buttresses the fact that the time of celebration of Christ’s birth cannot be December 25, because it would have been a suicide for shepherds to be out tending their sheep in winter! The date was chosen hundred of years after Jesus’ death. This particular date was the date of the celebration of the sun-god or the worship of mother and son, which began in the Semitic culture and spread to Rome and other European and Latin nations. The early church never celebrated it, neither did the Apostles, nor the disciples. The first celebration of it was in Rome in 350 A.D.
This pagan worship was imported to the Church during the time of Constantine, the Emperor of Rome, who became a Christian (nominal) and declared Christianity as the State religion. He disbanded all other religion in the Roman Empire, making everybody ‘Catholic’; meaning ‘universal’ or ‘for all’.
In conformity with the order, the church was syncretized as worshippers of the mother- son religion, as well as other religions were permitted to continue their worship, as long as they bore the name ‘Christian’. The progenitor of this religion was said to be Nimrod, the initiator of the Tower of Babel (Gen.11:4), and a man described as a mighty hunter before God (Gen.10:9). He was said to have had a son through his mother; and when he died, the son was claimed to be his incarnation and thus, worshipped along side with his mother/wife. The son was called Jesus and the mother, (also called the queen of heaven), who was called Mary.
Because of the emergency admission into the church, services had to be done in civic buildings so as to accommodate all, contrary to the original church pattern of meeting in house cells. Becoming a Christian was no longer by being born again but by force, punishable by death! Baptism was no longer to those who believed but conducted en-masse to all, without the experience of salvation, and infants were baptized to make them Christian at birth. The disciples who opposed to this were killed and imprisoned. Many were martyred: fed to lions at the coliseum, burned at stake, persecuted until they were forced under. What followed was the ‘dark ages’ of over one thousand years of persecution of true Christian by the state sponsored church, who grew in number without the experience of salvation. But the real church of Christ were scattered about, though but maintained house cell meetings secretly. It is however tragic to know that the present church is an offshoot of the state sponsored church!
The priests of the worshippers of mother/son who were usually eunuchs and called ‘Fathers’ were then appointed as the church leaders, who simply continued with their own worship, under the name of Christianity. At this time, the celebration and worship of the mother-son, which was usually celebrated in December 25, with the sacrifice to the sun-god, through a bloodless sacrifice represented with a round wafer to depict the sun, was formally and officially changed to the birth of the son, to conform with the Christian religion and celebrated by all. Such is the Christmas we celebrate today!
CHRIST-MAS IS CHRIST’S DEATH NOT CHRIST’S BIRTH.
The ‘mass’, actually means death and so Christ-mas means ‘christ’s death,’ and not ‘Christ’s birth’ as we commonly believe. The ‘mass’ (death) is carried out by eating the wafer (Christ) in the eucharis, which is a bloodless sacrifice of the son. This is erroneously equated to the Lord’s supper. This is what Paul referred to in 1Cor.10:21: ‘Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord’s table, and of the table of devils’.
This particular religion was popular in those days and part of their worship was a practice similar to the Lord’s Table, which Paul called, ‘the table of demons’. He called it so because it is the actual eating of the flesh of the ‘son’ in a ‘bloodless sacrifice’ called ‘transubstantiation’. Whereas, in the Lord’s Supper, it is done in remembrance of Jesus, while the ‘body’ remains the bread and the blood remains a wine, done only in remembrance of Jesus. (Read 1Cor.11:24-29). But in the other table, it is a fresh sacrifice every time: it is taking the flesh and the wine in a mystical transubstantiation of a bloodless sacrifice! That is why it is called Mass; killing it in sacrifice. (For more on this, please write to request for the booklet, ‘Celebrating Babylon: the truth about Christmas’!)
Whereas, the Bible says of Jesus: ‘But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God’ (Heb10:12). There is no other sacrifice again that any man can make aside from that of Jesus, whether mystical or religious, even the sacrifice of rams and works ‘for if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second’ (Heb.8:7). It is complete and finished (Jn.19:30).
The shepherds were on the field watching their flocks by night and the Angel of the Lord appeared unto them saying “Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger’. And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and ‘saying, Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men’” (Lk.2:11-14).
The wise men came from the East! They were actually astrologers, noble and powerful and moved in caravans. They actually saw the star of Jesus from there and journeyed to Jerusalem to worship Him. They probably arrived Jerusalem two years after the birth of Jesus.
The Bible says, ‘King Herod was troubled and all Jerusalem with him’ (Mat.2:3). This is because wise men from the east were known and respected for their wisdom and astrology. For them to journey for two whole years to worship someone in Jerusalem, was a real threat to Herod. More so, they got to Jerusalem in such a large convoy that attracted heavy attention. They were led to the palace where they were hosted and their mission stated.
Herod was so troubled to the extent of gathering all ‘the chief priests and scribes of the people together, he demanded of them where Christ should be born. And they said unto him, In Bethlehem of Judaea: for thus it is written by the prophet’ (Mat.2:5). The wise men had being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way… Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently enquired of the wise men’ (Mt.11-16).
Meanwhile, the angel of the Lord had appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word: for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him (Mat.2:13).
THE MARK OF THE BEAST.
Here in Revelation chapter seven, another angel came from the east and had in his hands the seal of the living God which is special and different from all other seals earlier opened (Rev.7:2). (It took a special angel from the east to bring it). This accounts for the explosion of knowledge, wisdom, inventions, technology in this last day.
It is interesting to know that the angel cried with a loud voice saying, ‘Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads’ (Rev.7:3). The saints would be sealed in their fore heads in preparation for the opening of the seal; otherwise, the abundance of wisdom and knowledge will be so much that Mt. 24:24 says ‘if it were possible the very elect will be deceived’. There is a mark of Christ on the forehead of the saints that makes it impossible for them to receive the mark of the beast (Rev.13:17). This mark is a latter day super invention brought about by the high-tech discoveries. It has the data of every soul under the surface of the earth and no one will be able to buy or sell except he has the mark on his forehead or in his right hand.
The West has developed a (computer) biochip implant that is more powerful and secure than the eye scan finger prints, etc. It can locate anyone on the surface of the earth and all payments would no longer be done by Credit Cards, cheques, etc, but by the biochip. Remember, no one will be able to buy or sell, without the mark of the beast! (For more on this, please read ‘666: The Mark of the beast is here at last! Computer (micro) biochip’).
The saints have been sealed so that they will not be able to receive the mark of the beast on their forehead (Rev.7:9), but still we must work out our salvation with fear and trembling because many ‘giants’ will fall out, at these last days.
In chapter eight, ‘And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour’ (Rev.8:1). This never happened in all the opening of the previous six seals. The seventh seal is something significant and has something to do with the last days. The opening of the seventh seal brought out eight other angels, seven of them with trumpets and the eighth one with a golden censer and incense which he used to offer the prayers of the saints upon the golden altar before the throne (Rev.8:3).
DESTRUCTION BY FIRE
These prayers ascended to the throne of God and caused God to send voices, thunders, lightings and earthquakes upon the earth (Rev.8:5). After these, each of the seven angels began to sound their trumpets. Each sound produced different terrible things (Rev.8:7-12, 9:1-21). Recent global insurgences are evidences of these. Hardly would a week pass now without an earthquake somewhere, a flood, bomb explosions, hurricane or other ‘natural’ disaster.
God has promised never to send a deluge to the earth as He did in the time of Noah (Gen.9:15), but fire (2Pet.3:7)! The scientists have described the ‘big bang’ again as a possible catalyst of ending this world. The ozone layers and other green houses having being perforated by our air planes, rockets, gas flaring etc to the extent now that the effect of the heat is becoming worse and the weather unpredictable. The recent London bomb blasts and incessant Middle East explosions might as well be the introduction to the end of the age. The Far Eastern countries are also breeding their nuclear threats, challenging America not to dare or underestimate their nuclear potentials. The world will be destroyed by fire!
But at the sound of the voice of the seventh angel, whose ‘face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire and he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth, And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices. And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not (Rev.10:1-4).
John was prevented from writing what the seven thunders uttered. The seventh seal thus remains a mystery, until now; all other seals from seal one to six have been opened! From this time forth and up until now, no one has been able to open the seal, not even Apostle Paul; and as you would know, so many mysteries were singularly revealed to Paul alone.
But of interest is it again to note that before the end of the age and before the advent of our Lord Jesus Christ, the mysteries that the seven thunders uttered MUST be revealed to His Church!
AFTER THE OPENING OF THE SEAL IN THE LAST DAYS, THE ANGEL SWORE THAT THERE WOULD BE TIME NO LONGER, (Rev.10:6), i.e., the coming of the Lord. The revealing of the mysteries will usher in the return of the King of Glory!
What are the mysteries contained in the seventh seal which was revealed by seven thunders which uttered their voices? Revelation 10: 7 gives us a clue: ‘But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets’. When the mysteries finishes, the next is His return!
We are in such days and the Lord is revealing some of these secrets to His servants already. These secrets are not found in messages of ‘seven steps to breakthrough’, ‘three things to do to become super rich’; crusades where babies are distributed or gatherings where ‘automatic miracles’ and questionable healings are on parade! The mysteries of God are deep and are far greater than pursuing shadows and mundane things of the world. It is heavenly and can only be received by the revelation of the Holy Spirit for His own purpose and fulfillment of His will in this dispensation. We have so many preachers but few teachers.
Satan will also reveal many ‘mysteries’, at these last days. He will give knowledge of ‘how to get rich quick using the innate power in you’. The knowledge of ‘getting the miracle you need just by the power of your confession’. The climax of it is that he will transform as angel of light (2Cor.11:4) so that he can deceive many. This is a mystery because he will enter into the unguarded hearts of so many ambitious ‘men of God’; who desire fame, crowd, money and title, and preach a message of lawlessness through them, in the name of the Lord. With outstanding results of breakthroughs and miracles, many shall be deceived and led astray. Many shall depart from the faith by giving heed to such seducing spirits and doctrines of devils (1Tim.4:1).
Satan will perform many great lying signs and wonders to the extent that the very elect will almost be deceived (Mat.24:24). Deception at the last days will be so close to the original that it will take the spirit of God alone to decipher. Matthew says, except the days are shortened, no flesh will be saved (Mat.24:22).
Church growth
Other mystery that the devil will be using at these last days is the mystery of church multiplicity and proliferation. IT IS SAD THAT MANY CHURCHES FILLED TO CAPACITY TODAY ARE CROWDED BY MIRACLE SEEKERS, AND NOT GOD SEEKERS. Satan has put the spirit of religion into the church; the spirit of performance! They are maintained and over hauled by quotable quotes, philosophy, media advertising, words of wisdom, psychology and many shouting gimmicks and not by the Living Word.
Churches have become a place of information and not of formation in Christ. Latest fashion, cat walk, dress, music, hair-do, etc can only be gotten in the church. After the government, the church has become the second employer of ‘professionals (Pastors)’. Unlike in the past, pastoring is now a lucrative ‘profession’. THOSE WHO CAN QUOTE SOME BIBLE PASSAGES AND MAKE SOME NOISE OR ARRANGE WORDS IN RHYMES AND LOGICAL SEQUENCE HAVE TRAGICALLY FOUND THEMSELVES TO BECOME OVERNIGHT PASTORS. THEY TRULY HAVE THE HEIGHT, BUT THERE IS NO DEPTH.
In the same manner, God is anointing His own people with revelatory insights into the deep things of the Spirit. Mysteries that have been hidden for ages and must be revealed before the end of the age are coming to pass, through the revelation of God. God uses those who desire Him alone, and not His; His person, and not His gifts; His ways, and not His acts. The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever (Deut.29:29). The secret of the LORD is with them that fear him; and he will shew them his covenant (Ps.25:14).
PRIEST AND PROPHETS
God does not commit the revealing of His secrets to His Priests ever since ages immemorial: ‘Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly’ (Job 4:18). He uses prophets; not because they are greater, but because He so chooses to reveal His secrets through special envoys: those that count not their lives as nothing. Those that do not depend on or run after tithes and offerings. Those that have a deep faith walk with God; who not only talk to God but hear from Him. Those that knows His mind and His ways; not those interested in His gifts so as to gather crowd unto themselves for commercial purposes.
Amos 3:7 says ‘Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets’. When God wanted to destroy the city of Sodom and Gomorrah, he said ‘shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do’? (Gen.18:17) Enoch also walked with God and He was not (Gen.5:24)
When Jesus would be sent to the world, there were uncountable pastors in the temple. Many of them were reputable and responsible. Simeon was one of such: ‘Behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon; and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel: and the Holy Ghost was upon him. And it was revealed unto him by the Holy Ghost, that he should not see death, before he had seen the Lord's Christ’ (Lk.2:25-26). But still, God had to choose a prophet to forerun the coming of the Messiah! John came for a special purpose and after which he was taken away from the scene.
Between the Old Testament and the New Testament, there was a span of four hundred years. It was assumed that God did not speak to Israel, simply because there was no prophet. Same in the time of Samuel, there was no teaching priest. Today, we have less teachers; but more preachers.
After Prophet Malachi, there was no other prophet until John the Baptist, but there were so many priests, and it was reckoned that God did not speak because God speaks through prophets: they are His mouth piece. He uses them to declare His mind and purpose.
Down through the testaments, one of the attributes of the Priests (Pastors) is their compromise. This is owing to the nature of their calling: to tend the sheep. Prophets are visionary leaders and are called to provide leadership direction: to declare the mind of God, regardless of whose ox is gored. While Priests (pastors) are trying to maintain their congregation so that they can grow and thus be called a success in ministry, prophets are interested in ‘thus saith the Lord’.
The Priests could not unravel the person of Jesus, which prophet John had declared by revelation, several years earlier! They must have said he was a mad man, while they were busy organizing rallies, crusades and programs and motivational talks (devils style of taking people’s souls) that would swell up their church attendance and bring good returns! That does not say they are not pastors; it is just that it is difficult for them to understand the dynamic operation of the Holy Spirit when it comes to doing something purely of the Spirit, compared to their own strategies and systems that they have been used to or taught in the theology school.
While the prophets draw their inspiration from revelation from God, they draw theirs from the dogmas, creeds, doctrine, constitutions of the Church! Even when the Holy Spirit is doing a new thing, they are blind to it. This is what made them to slay the king of glory: they were looking for He that is greater than the law in the law itself (Rom.10:4). IT IS SADDENING THAT IT WAS NOT THE GENTILES, UNBELIEVERS OR FOREIGNERS THAT KILLED JESUS, BUT THE PASTORS OF HIS DAYS. Many disciples were also killed by them and in the dark ages, the greatest number of martyrs and murders of Christians were performed by the church! They simply could not perceive the power of operation of God. They were energized by the law and the letter that kills.
This is why at the last days, the mysteries of God would be revealed to His servants, the prophets! Not those whose god is their belly and who mind earthly things (Phil.3:19) and are servants of corruption (2Pet.2:19); but those who walk by faith alone, (sola fidei) in grace (sola gracia) alone and in Christ alone (sola christos)!
However, when I talk about prophets, I do not mean seers and mediums, who go by the title of prophets in our churches today. BECAUSE THEY CAN SEE ONE VISION OR THE OTHER, THEY NAME THEMSELVES ONE AND OPEN A SHOP WITH A BIG SIGN BOARD, WHICH SAYS MUCH OF THEIR PROFESSIONAL ABILITY, THAN THE POWER OF GOD. IT IS BOTH ADVERTISING AND MERCHANDIZING! THE TITLE IN FRONT OF THEIR NAME IS A COMPLETE SENTENCE!
There is a difference between the office of the prophets and the gift of prophecy. Many who go by that title today, are those who only have the gifts but never called into the office; unfortunately, they do not know the difference! Those called into the office of the prophets need not put the title before their names: people know them when they see them, because they see the signs of the prophet in them. John need not call himself a prophet. Elijah need not call himself a prophet or Jeremiah, etc. That is their mission and their purpose in life, whether willingly or out of compulsion. Paul said ‘necessity is laid on me and woe is me if I preach not the gospel’ (1Cor.9:16).
Prophets of the New Testament church are not those that see commercial visions, but those who are able to declare direction for the church. They see clearly the operation of God in a particular age and dispensation. They see His move and His direction.
THE PENTECOSTAL CHURCH: THE LAODECIAN CHURCH
Just like in the church ages, when a movement becomes denominational, the Holy Spirit moves ahead to begin a new work entirely. The Anglican movement paved way for the Methodist, and in succession, Baptist and then the Pentecostal. But the Pentecostal again has encumbered herself with so much weight, finding romance with titles and diocese and other trivialities than they accused the orthodox of, particularly, boxing the Holy Spirit with their wisdom, systems and strategies to manage the church, living the owner of the church hapless.
They themselves have fallen head long to the very thing they crusaded against. They have lost the vision; carried away by success, fame, crowd, money and the attractions and the lure of the world which Jesus rejected in His temptations, not because it was not lawful but it was not expedient (1Cor.6:12,1Cor.10:23). What remain of it is now the display of affluence, grammar, hawking of miracles, prosperity and idolatry of the oil, water, mantle and the worship of the god of man, who is obviously ‘the owner’ of the church (not Christ).
This is the Laodecian Church-age which prides herself in her empire. Suddenly, the church has been entangled again in building permanent structures, edifices and cathedrals again! She is more earthly conscious than ever. God warned the children of Israel against this. He asked them to live in tents so that it will be easy for them to shift base when they see the cloud move. Permanent structure would be an attachment to them and would not allow them to leave easily, just as we read in the story of Lot: his wife had so much treasure in Sodom, a God-cursed city, that when she managed to escape from judgment from that city, her heart was already attached that she could not let go, easily. It was too painful to lose all those in a swipe because of one movement. But we have been warned!
Many today have built religious empire of titles, fame, success, etc that they are not even aware of the movement of any cloud, let alone, moving with it. Yet the cloud is moving. Only the men of Issachar who understood the times and season would know.
Pentecostal is still busy celebrating her self, not knowing the cloud as moved. They read about the movement from previous organizations and that she is the final age. Indeed she is just like the Laodecia Church in the final age.
OPENING OF THE SEVENTH SEAL
But the final seal, which is the seventh seal, is characterized by the seven thunders and lightning, yet the seal was not opened! It is the seal of mystery and ONE OF THE MYSTERIES IS THAT THE CLOUD IS MOVING, YET THE CHURCH DOES NOT SEE. She rather says she is rich, and increased with goods and is self sufficient. But Jesus tell her in Revelation 3:15-18: 'I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see’.
Church now engage in the use of laws, denominational doctrines and titles to tie people down so as to command their loyalty and allegiance. These keep them admitted as members of their movement with less regard to whether they are members of the Body of Christ, (the church spiritual), which cannot be seen physically but expressed in body ministry, with Christ as the Spiritual Head!
The Bible says the first shall become the last and the last become the first. Flame is returning to some of these past movements as revival is springing forth. But the Pentecostal that thinks she has the monopoly of the move of God (the Holy Spirit) is about being left behind, yet they do not see!
In our last edition, the cover message was ‘Positive Thinking/Confession: The Mystery of Iniquity’. This is the use of the so called Positive Confession by Faith Preachers. It is one of the mysteries being revealed, at the last days. We call it faith, but it is fake. It is a new age practice, and occultic. Satan persuaded Eve to use it in the garden; although her eyes were opened and she knew she was naked but it sent her away from God’s presence. Nimrod also persuaded people to build a tower that reached up to God, but God dispersed them abroad. Truly, Positive Confession opens ones eyes to civilization, but also brings separation from God!
Satan is bringing it back to the church and the church is accepting it hook line and sinker because of the miracles, signs and wonders they see. It is soulish, compared to Faith Confession which is of God. Positive Confession is feeding from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, bringing the good first which is only the wrapper and hiding the evil, which is the main course.
There are so many mysteries to be revealed in these last days. One of such mysteries concealed in the seven seal and forbidden to be opened until the time of the end is the move of the Holy Spirit from the present church age (Laodecia) to that which will usher in the return of the king: the age of the Remnant: the Philadelphia Church! Only those who are hungry in the spirit will be able to understand and perceive it in their spirit. The elects according the election of grace; whose names are written in the lamb’s book of lamb before the foundation of the world.
May the Lord count us worthy to be raptured with Him at His coming, so as to be a bride in the marriage supper of the Lamb. Marantha!
Attention is being diverted from spiritual things with eternal value to mundane things with immediate gains. People are introduced to the gift and not the giver. Benefits, dividends and gains are emphasized and used as baits to lure people to religion and denomination (Satan’s strategy against the church), but never a personal encounter with Christ or the need for the redemption of their soul and eternity.
Melt down of morals among Christian is on the increase, as excesses of many so called leaders on the bill of liberty in Christ has emboldened many young believers to do things with questionable social virtue, let alone Christ’s example. There is no longer a discernable difference between an average Christian and an unbeliever in dressing, talking, etc. We see more of the talk, and less of the walk.
Magicians, politicians and entertainers with different titles have comically taken over the pulpit; stealing away the hearts of many with their sugar-coated mouths; preaching words of wisdom of men, devoid of the power of God. They arrest the souls of innocents with spell-bound, calculating display of psychology, philosophy, quotable quotes of dead philosophers, who never believed in God, let alone Jesus Christ.
The Church of miracles, blessing, prosperity, breakthrough, healing, etc, is more than the church of Jesus Christ. Many gatherings are no longer unto the Lord but to fulfill religious responsibility and to let out bottled up social instincts through dancing and celebration orgies, devoid of true heart of the worship to God.
Services have sadly been reduced to festivities, rendezvous and celebration galore! It is no longer a place to give God quality worship but to dance to satanic songs with religious tones and rhythms.
THE OPENING OF THE SEALS.
These are the characteristics of the last days. The Bible says in 1Tim.3:1: ‘at the last days, perilous times shall come’; (i.e. difficult and dangerous times). This suggests a reduction in strength or thawing out of value or virtue in something. But the striking characteristic of the last days is that knowledge will increase, both of God and of Satan. Many mysteries leading to inventions, discoveries, knowledge, hitherto unknown to many generations past; good and bad, would be revealed to His saints in these last days; and many seals hitherto hidden would be broken.
Daniel was commanded to ‘shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased’ (Dan.12:4). In the Apocalypse of John, six seals (mysteries) were broken in the sixth chapter. As the angel opened each seal, he would always say to John: ‘come and see’ (Rev.6). So, all the six seals were opened and John wrote down what he saw.
But at the opening of the seventh seal, John said; ‘And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea’ (Rev.7:2).
Note here, that John said he saw another angel entirely different from the one that opened the six previous seals, coming from the east having the seal of the living God. East signifies knowledge. Many esoteric, Transcendental Meditation (T.M.) and New Age Movements (NAM) originated from the East, especially, the Far East! Buddha, Hindu, Hare Krishna, Confucius, Mahikari, etc are few of the ancient religions originating from that region.
DECEMBER 25 IS THE BIRTHDAY OF A DEMON GOD, AND NOT CHRIST.
Note also, that during the time of the birth of Jesus, the Bible says ‘wise men came from the east’. Many have erroneously confused and mistaken these wise men to be the shepherds that watched their flocks by night! There is also this erroneous belief that these wise men were three! These assertions are not correct. The wise men are different from the shepherds.
The angel of the Lord appeared to the shepherds at the field while watching their flocks by night (Lk.2:8). This, definitely, cannot be during the winter time. This also buttresses the fact that the time of celebration of Christ’s birth cannot be December 25, because it would have been a suicide for shepherds to be out tending their sheep in winter! The date was chosen hundred of years after Jesus’ death. This particular date was the date of the celebration of the sun-god or the worship of mother and son, which began in the Semitic culture and spread to Rome and other European and Latin nations. The early church never celebrated it, neither did the Apostles, nor the disciples. The first celebration of it was in Rome in 350 A.D.
This pagan worship was imported to the Church during the time of Constantine, the Emperor of Rome, who became a Christian (nominal) and declared Christianity as the State religion. He disbanded all other religion in the Roman Empire, making everybody ‘Catholic’; meaning ‘universal’ or ‘for all’.
In conformity with the order, the church was syncretized as worshippers of the mother- son religion, as well as other religions were permitted to continue their worship, as long as they bore the name ‘Christian’. The progenitor of this religion was said to be Nimrod, the initiator of the Tower of Babel (Gen.11:4), and a man described as a mighty hunter before God (Gen.10:9). He was said to have had a son through his mother; and when he died, the son was claimed to be his incarnation and thus, worshipped along side with his mother/wife. The son was called Jesus and the mother, (also called the queen of heaven), who was called Mary.
Because of the emergency admission into the church, services had to be done in civic buildings so as to accommodate all, contrary to the original church pattern of meeting in house cells. Becoming a Christian was no longer by being born again but by force, punishable by death! Baptism was no longer to those who believed but conducted en-masse to all, without the experience of salvation, and infants were baptized to make them Christian at birth. The disciples who opposed to this were killed and imprisoned. Many were martyred: fed to lions at the coliseum, burned at stake, persecuted until they were forced under. What followed was the ‘dark ages’ of over one thousand years of persecution of true Christian by the state sponsored church, who grew in number without the experience of salvation. But the real church of Christ were scattered about, though but maintained house cell meetings secretly. It is however tragic to know that the present church is an offshoot of the state sponsored church!
The priests of the worshippers of mother/son who were usually eunuchs and called ‘Fathers’ were then appointed as the church leaders, who simply continued with their own worship, under the name of Christianity. At this time, the celebration and worship of the mother-son, which was usually celebrated in December 25, with the sacrifice to the sun-god, through a bloodless sacrifice represented with a round wafer to depict the sun, was formally and officially changed to the birth of the son, to conform with the Christian religion and celebrated by all. Such is the Christmas we celebrate today!
CHRIST-MAS IS CHRIST’S DEATH NOT CHRIST’S BIRTH.
The ‘mass’, actually means death and so Christ-mas means ‘christ’s death,’ and not ‘Christ’s birth’ as we commonly believe. The ‘mass’ (death) is carried out by eating the wafer (Christ) in the eucharis, which is a bloodless sacrifice of the son. This is erroneously equated to the Lord’s supper. This is what Paul referred to in 1Cor.10:21: ‘Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord’s table, and of the table of devils’.
This particular religion was popular in those days and part of their worship was a practice similar to the Lord’s Table, which Paul called, ‘the table of demons’. He called it so because it is the actual eating of the flesh of the ‘son’ in a ‘bloodless sacrifice’ called ‘transubstantiation’. Whereas, in the Lord’s Supper, it is done in remembrance of Jesus, while the ‘body’ remains the bread and the blood remains a wine, done only in remembrance of Jesus. (Read 1Cor.11:24-29). But in the other table, it is a fresh sacrifice every time: it is taking the flesh and the wine in a mystical transubstantiation of a bloodless sacrifice! That is why it is called Mass; killing it in sacrifice. (For more on this, please write to request for the booklet, ‘Celebrating Babylon: the truth about Christmas’!)
Whereas, the Bible says of Jesus: ‘But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God’ (Heb10:12). There is no other sacrifice again that any man can make aside from that of Jesus, whether mystical or religious, even the sacrifice of rams and works ‘for if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second’ (Heb.8:7). It is complete and finished (Jn.19:30).
The shepherds were on the field watching their flocks by night and the Angel of the Lord appeared unto them saying “Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger’. And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and ‘saying, Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men’” (Lk.2:11-14).
The wise men came from the East! They were actually astrologers, noble and powerful and moved in caravans. They actually saw the star of Jesus from there and journeyed to Jerusalem to worship Him. They probably arrived Jerusalem two years after the birth of Jesus.
The Bible says, ‘King Herod was troubled and all Jerusalem with him’ (Mat.2:3). This is because wise men from the east were known and respected for their wisdom and astrology. For them to journey for two whole years to worship someone in Jerusalem, was a real threat to Herod. More so, they got to Jerusalem in such a large convoy that attracted heavy attention. They were led to the palace where they were hosted and their mission stated.
Herod was so troubled to the extent of gathering all ‘the chief priests and scribes of the people together, he demanded of them where Christ should be born. And they said unto him, In Bethlehem of Judaea: for thus it is written by the prophet’ (Mat.2:5). The wise men had being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way… Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently enquired of the wise men’ (Mt.11-16).
Meanwhile, the angel of the Lord had appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word: for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him (Mat.2:13).
THE MARK OF THE BEAST.
Here in Revelation chapter seven, another angel came from the east and had in his hands the seal of the living God which is special and different from all other seals earlier opened (Rev.7:2). (It took a special angel from the east to bring it). This accounts for the explosion of knowledge, wisdom, inventions, technology in this last day.
It is interesting to know that the angel cried with a loud voice saying, ‘Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads’ (Rev.7:3). The saints would be sealed in their fore heads in preparation for the opening of the seal; otherwise, the abundance of wisdom and knowledge will be so much that Mt. 24:24 says ‘if it were possible the very elect will be deceived’. There is a mark of Christ on the forehead of the saints that makes it impossible for them to receive the mark of the beast (Rev.13:17). This mark is a latter day super invention brought about by the high-tech discoveries. It has the data of every soul under the surface of the earth and no one will be able to buy or sell except he has the mark on his forehead or in his right hand.
The West has developed a (computer) biochip implant that is more powerful and secure than the eye scan finger prints, etc. It can locate anyone on the surface of the earth and all payments would no longer be done by Credit Cards, cheques, etc, but by the biochip. Remember, no one will be able to buy or sell, without the mark of the beast! (For more on this, please read ‘666: The Mark of the beast is here at last! Computer (micro) biochip’).
The saints have been sealed so that they will not be able to receive the mark of the beast on their forehead (Rev.7:9), but still we must work out our salvation with fear and trembling because many ‘giants’ will fall out, at these last days.
In chapter eight, ‘And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour’ (Rev.8:1). This never happened in all the opening of the previous six seals. The seventh seal is something significant and has something to do with the last days. The opening of the seventh seal brought out eight other angels, seven of them with trumpets and the eighth one with a golden censer and incense which he used to offer the prayers of the saints upon the golden altar before the throne (Rev.8:3).
DESTRUCTION BY FIRE
These prayers ascended to the throne of God and caused God to send voices, thunders, lightings and earthquakes upon the earth (Rev.8:5). After these, each of the seven angels began to sound their trumpets. Each sound produced different terrible things (Rev.8:7-12, 9:1-21). Recent global insurgences are evidences of these. Hardly would a week pass now without an earthquake somewhere, a flood, bomb explosions, hurricane or other ‘natural’ disaster.
God has promised never to send a deluge to the earth as He did in the time of Noah (Gen.9:15), but fire (2Pet.3:7)! The scientists have described the ‘big bang’ again as a possible catalyst of ending this world. The ozone layers and other green houses having being perforated by our air planes, rockets, gas flaring etc to the extent now that the effect of the heat is becoming worse and the weather unpredictable. The recent London bomb blasts and incessant Middle East explosions might as well be the introduction to the end of the age. The Far Eastern countries are also breeding their nuclear threats, challenging America not to dare or underestimate their nuclear potentials. The world will be destroyed by fire!
But at the sound of the voice of the seventh angel, whose ‘face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire and he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth, And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices. And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not (Rev.10:1-4).
John was prevented from writing what the seven thunders uttered. The seventh seal thus remains a mystery, until now; all other seals from seal one to six have been opened! From this time forth and up until now, no one has been able to open the seal, not even Apostle Paul; and as you would know, so many mysteries were singularly revealed to Paul alone.
But of interest is it again to note that before the end of the age and before the advent of our Lord Jesus Christ, the mysteries that the seven thunders uttered MUST be revealed to His Church!
AFTER THE OPENING OF THE SEAL IN THE LAST DAYS, THE ANGEL SWORE THAT THERE WOULD BE TIME NO LONGER, (Rev.10:6), i.e., the coming of the Lord. The revealing of the mysteries will usher in the return of the King of Glory!
What are the mysteries contained in the seventh seal which was revealed by seven thunders which uttered their voices? Revelation 10: 7 gives us a clue: ‘But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets’. When the mysteries finishes, the next is His return!
We are in such days and the Lord is revealing some of these secrets to His servants already. These secrets are not found in messages of ‘seven steps to breakthrough’, ‘three things to do to become super rich’; crusades where babies are distributed or gatherings where ‘automatic miracles’ and questionable healings are on parade! The mysteries of God are deep and are far greater than pursuing shadows and mundane things of the world. It is heavenly and can only be received by the revelation of the Holy Spirit for His own purpose and fulfillment of His will in this dispensation. We have so many preachers but few teachers.
Satan will also reveal many ‘mysteries’, at these last days. He will give knowledge of ‘how to get rich quick using the innate power in you’. The knowledge of ‘getting the miracle you need just by the power of your confession’. The climax of it is that he will transform as angel of light (2Cor.11:4) so that he can deceive many. This is a mystery because he will enter into the unguarded hearts of so many ambitious ‘men of God’; who desire fame, crowd, money and title, and preach a message of lawlessness through them, in the name of the Lord. With outstanding results of breakthroughs and miracles, many shall be deceived and led astray. Many shall depart from the faith by giving heed to such seducing spirits and doctrines of devils (1Tim.4:1).
Satan will perform many great lying signs and wonders to the extent that the very elect will almost be deceived (Mat.24:24). Deception at the last days will be so close to the original that it will take the spirit of God alone to decipher. Matthew says, except the days are shortened, no flesh will be saved (Mat.24:22).
Church growth
Other mystery that the devil will be using at these last days is the mystery of church multiplicity and proliferation. IT IS SAD THAT MANY CHURCHES FILLED TO CAPACITY TODAY ARE CROWDED BY MIRACLE SEEKERS, AND NOT GOD SEEKERS. Satan has put the spirit of religion into the church; the spirit of performance! They are maintained and over hauled by quotable quotes, philosophy, media advertising, words of wisdom, psychology and many shouting gimmicks and not by the Living Word.
Churches have become a place of information and not of formation in Christ. Latest fashion, cat walk, dress, music, hair-do, etc can only be gotten in the church. After the government, the church has become the second employer of ‘professionals (Pastors)’. Unlike in the past, pastoring is now a lucrative ‘profession’. THOSE WHO CAN QUOTE SOME BIBLE PASSAGES AND MAKE SOME NOISE OR ARRANGE WORDS IN RHYMES AND LOGICAL SEQUENCE HAVE TRAGICALLY FOUND THEMSELVES TO BECOME OVERNIGHT PASTORS. THEY TRULY HAVE THE HEIGHT, BUT THERE IS NO DEPTH.
In the same manner, God is anointing His own people with revelatory insights into the deep things of the Spirit. Mysteries that have been hidden for ages and must be revealed before the end of the age are coming to pass, through the revelation of God. God uses those who desire Him alone, and not His; His person, and not His gifts; His ways, and not His acts. The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever (Deut.29:29). The secret of the LORD is with them that fear him; and he will shew them his covenant (Ps.25:14).
PRIEST AND PROPHETS
God does not commit the revealing of His secrets to His Priests ever since ages immemorial: ‘Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly’ (Job 4:18). He uses prophets; not because they are greater, but because He so chooses to reveal His secrets through special envoys: those that count not their lives as nothing. Those that do not depend on or run after tithes and offerings. Those that have a deep faith walk with God; who not only talk to God but hear from Him. Those that knows His mind and His ways; not those interested in His gifts so as to gather crowd unto themselves for commercial purposes.
Amos 3:7 says ‘Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets’. When God wanted to destroy the city of Sodom and Gomorrah, he said ‘shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do’? (Gen.18:17) Enoch also walked with God and He was not (Gen.5:24)
When Jesus would be sent to the world, there were uncountable pastors in the temple. Many of them were reputable and responsible. Simeon was one of such: ‘Behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon; and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel: and the Holy Ghost was upon him. And it was revealed unto him by the Holy Ghost, that he should not see death, before he had seen the Lord's Christ’ (Lk.2:25-26). But still, God had to choose a prophet to forerun the coming of the Messiah! John came for a special purpose and after which he was taken away from the scene.
Between the Old Testament and the New Testament, there was a span of four hundred years. It was assumed that God did not speak to Israel, simply because there was no prophet. Same in the time of Samuel, there was no teaching priest. Today, we have less teachers; but more preachers.
After Prophet Malachi, there was no other prophet until John the Baptist, but there were so many priests, and it was reckoned that God did not speak because God speaks through prophets: they are His mouth piece. He uses them to declare His mind and purpose.
Down through the testaments, one of the attributes of the Priests (Pastors) is their compromise. This is owing to the nature of their calling: to tend the sheep. Prophets are visionary leaders and are called to provide leadership direction: to declare the mind of God, regardless of whose ox is gored. While Priests (pastors) are trying to maintain their congregation so that they can grow and thus be called a success in ministry, prophets are interested in ‘thus saith the Lord’.
The Priests could not unravel the person of Jesus, which prophet John had declared by revelation, several years earlier! They must have said he was a mad man, while they were busy organizing rallies, crusades and programs and motivational talks (devils style of taking people’s souls) that would swell up their church attendance and bring good returns! That does not say they are not pastors; it is just that it is difficult for them to understand the dynamic operation of the Holy Spirit when it comes to doing something purely of the Spirit, compared to their own strategies and systems that they have been used to or taught in the theology school.
While the prophets draw their inspiration from revelation from God, they draw theirs from the dogmas, creeds, doctrine, constitutions of the Church! Even when the Holy Spirit is doing a new thing, they are blind to it. This is what made them to slay the king of glory: they were looking for He that is greater than the law in the law itself (Rom.10:4). IT IS SADDENING THAT IT WAS NOT THE GENTILES, UNBELIEVERS OR FOREIGNERS THAT KILLED JESUS, BUT THE PASTORS OF HIS DAYS. Many disciples were also killed by them and in the dark ages, the greatest number of martyrs and murders of Christians were performed by the church! They simply could not perceive the power of operation of God. They were energized by the law and the letter that kills.
This is why at the last days, the mysteries of God would be revealed to His servants, the prophets! Not those whose god is their belly and who mind earthly things (Phil.3:19) and are servants of corruption (2Pet.2:19); but those who walk by faith alone, (sola fidei) in grace (sola gracia) alone and in Christ alone (sola christos)!
However, when I talk about prophets, I do not mean seers and mediums, who go by the title of prophets in our churches today. BECAUSE THEY CAN SEE ONE VISION OR THE OTHER, THEY NAME THEMSELVES ONE AND OPEN A SHOP WITH A BIG SIGN BOARD, WHICH SAYS MUCH OF THEIR PROFESSIONAL ABILITY, THAN THE POWER OF GOD. IT IS BOTH ADVERTISING AND MERCHANDIZING! THE TITLE IN FRONT OF THEIR NAME IS A COMPLETE SENTENCE!
There is a difference between the office of the prophets and the gift of prophecy. Many who go by that title today, are those who only have the gifts but never called into the office; unfortunately, they do not know the difference! Those called into the office of the prophets need not put the title before their names: people know them when they see them, because they see the signs of the prophet in them. John need not call himself a prophet. Elijah need not call himself a prophet or Jeremiah, etc. That is their mission and their purpose in life, whether willingly or out of compulsion. Paul said ‘necessity is laid on me and woe is me if I preach not the gospel’ (1Cor.9:16).
Prophets of the New Testament church are not those that see commercial visions, but those who are able to declare direction for the church. They see clearly the operation of God in a particular age and dispensation. They see His move and His direction.
THE PENTECOSTAL CHURCH: THE LAODECIAN CHURCH
Just like in the church ages, when a movement becomes denominational, the Holy Spirit moves ahead to begin a new work entirely. The Anglican movement paved way for the Methodist, and in succession, Baptist and then the Pentecostal. But the Pentecostal again has encumbered herself with so much weight, finding romance with titles and diocese and other trivialities than they accused the orthodox of, particularly, boxing the Holy Spirit with their wisdom, systems and strategies to manage the church, living the owner of the church hapless.
They themselves have fallen head long to the very thing they crusaded against. They have lost the vision; carried away by success, fame, crowd, money and the attractions and the lure of the world which Jesus rejected in His temptations, not because it was not lawful but it was not expedient (1Cor.6:12,1Cor.10:23). What remain of it is now the display of affluence, grammar, hawking of miracles, prosperity and idolatry of the oil, water, mantle and the worship of the god of man, who is obviously ‘the owner’ of the church (not Christ).
This is the Laodecian Church-age which prides herself in her empire. Suddenly, the church has been entangled again in building permanent structures, edifices and cathedrals again! She is more earthly conscious than ever. God warned the children of Israel against this. He asked them to live in tents so that it will be easy for them to shift base when they see the cloud move. Permanent structure would be an attachment to them and would not allow them to leave easily, just as we read in the story of Lot: his wife had so much treasure in Sodom, a God-cursed city, that when she managed to escape from judgment from that city, her heart was already attached that she could not let go, easily. It was too painful to lose all those in a swipe because of one movement. But we have been warned!
Many today have built religious empire of titles, fame, success, etc that they are not even aware of the movement of any cloud, let alone, moving with it. Yet the cloud is moving. Only the men of Issachar who understood the times and season would know.
Pentecostal is still busy celebrating her self, not knowing the cloud as moved. They read about the movement from previous organizations and that she is the final age. Indeed she is just like the Laodecia Church in the final age.
OPENING OF THE SEVENTH SEAL
But the final seal, which is the seventh seal, is characterized by the seven thunders and lightning, yet the seal was not opened! It is the seal of mystery and ONE OF THE MYSTERIES IS THAT THE CLOUD IS MOVING, YET THE CHURCH DOES NOT SEE. She rather says she is rich, and increased with goods and is self sufficient. But Jesus tell her in Revelation 3:15-18: 'I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see’.
Church now engage in the use of laws, denominational doctrines and titles to tie people down so as to command their loyalty and allegiance. These keep them admitted as members of their movement with less regard to whether they are members of the Body of Christ, (the church spiritual), which cannot be seen physically but expressed in body ministry, with Christ as the Spiritual Head!
The Bible says the first shall become the last and the last become the first. Flame is returning to some of these past movements as revival is springing forth. But the Pentecostal that thinks she has the monopoly of the move of God (the Holy Spirit) is about being left behind, yet they do not see!
In our last edition, the cover message was ‘Positive Thinking/Confession: The Mystery of Iniquity’. This is the use of the so called Positive Confession by Faith Preachers. It is one of the mysteries being revealed, at the last days. We call it faith, but it is fake. It is a new age practice, and occultic. Satan persuaded Eve to use it in the garden; although her eyes were opened and she knew she was naked but it sent her away from God’s presence. Nimrod also persuaded people to build a tower that reached up to God, but God dispersed them abroad. Truly, Positive Confession opens ones eyes to civilization, but also brings separation from God!
Satan is bringing it back to the church and the church is accepting it hook line and sinker because of the miracles, signs and wonders they see. It is soulish, compared to Faith Confession which is of God. Positive Confession is feeding from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, bringing the good first which is only the wrapper and hiding the evil, which is the main course.
There are so many mysteries to be revealed in these last days. One of such mysteries concealed in the seven seal and forbidden to be opened until the time of the end is the move of the Holy Spirit from the present church age (Laodecia) to that which will usher in the return of the king: the age of the Remnant: the Philadelphia Church! Only those who are hungry in the spirit will be able to understand and perceive it in their spirit. The elects according the election of grace; whose names are written in the lamb’s book of lamb before the foundation of the world.
May the Lord count us worthy to be raptured with Him at His coming, so as to be a bride in the marriage supper of the Lamb. Marantha!