Daniel 10:2
In those days I Daniel was mourning three full weeks. Daniel 10:3
I ate no pleasant bread, neither came flesh nor wine in my mouth,
neither did I anoint myself at all, till three whole weeks were
fulfilled. Dan 10:4 And in the four and twentieth day of the
first month, as I was by the side of the great river, which is Hiddekel; Daniel 10:5 Then I lifted up mine eyes,
and looked, and behold a certain man clothed in linen, whose loins were girded with fine gold of Uphaz: Daniel 10:6 His
body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of
lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet
like in colour to polished brass, and the voice of his words like
the voice of a multitude. Daniel 10:7 And I Daniel alone saw
the vision: for the men that were with me saw not the vision; but a
great quaking fell upon them, so that they fled to hide themselves.
As you read on,
bear in mind that the scope of the ministry which the Lord has
committed into our hands is purely to act as witnesses to the true
perfect heavenly model for all men to see, and by it be saved. The
true heavenly model is all embedded in God’s offspring whom we call
Christ Jesus in this present time. I am careful to mention this
present time, because you need discerning eyes to recognize Him
after the Spirit not after some form of outer human derived identity
or name tag. If you have a true revelation of Christ, you will know
that He is simply the living one, who can manifest Himself in any
form that He so chooses to, for all things are His and for His
pleasure [Revelations 4:11]. The good news from
heaven known as the gospel, only seeks to awaken us to the reality
that we originated from that perfect heavenly model and remain part
and parcel of that model.
In this
article, we will by the Spirit, decode Daniel’s encounter with a man
from Heaven and see what God was trying to transmit to us through
this encounter. Some of the things you will read about might
initially sound disturbing, because humanly conceived concepts of
Christ, ourselves, angels, prayers, fasting, principalities and
powers, spiritual warfare etc will be overturned. Patient scrutiny
of the words by the Spirit will cause you to see light, for in His
light we see light.
Confirming
the manifold and unsearchable wisdom, and the consistency of the
word of God, many hundred years before the Apostle John had His
heavenly encounter with the Alpha and the Omega, while on the Island
of Patmos, as recorded in the book of Revelations, the Prophet
Daniel had already seen it and recorded it in His manuscripts.
Revelation translated in the Greek to mean “the Apocalypse of
Jesus”, is all about the unveiling, manifestation, revealing etc….
of the invisible and incorruptible Son of God who is from eternity.
You can never know that Daniel saw this same revelation, if your
eyes are stayed on Jesus after the flesh. We must grow up and awaken
to the reality that He simply is, without any genealogy that ties
Him to a natural birth. If we still try to pin point Him to some
visible form or nameable entity upon the earth, we only create
imaginary idols in our mind that cannot in any way give life.
During the
time of Daniel, His native country, Israel, which was meant to be
the epitome of perfection and joy above all the nations of the
earth, was reduced to rubbles and it’s inhabitants dispersed among
the nations with no land of theirs. Seeing the desolation of Israel,
Daniel in intercession mode, sought the Lord in prayers and
supplication; He sought to enquire about the end, when Israel will
be restored back to their country as prophesied by the Prophets of
old (Daniel 9). In the same vain in which the
Prophets of old prophesied calamity, destruction and the dispersing
of Israel among the Nations, they all prophesied of the glorious
return of the Israelites, back to the Promised Land, never to be
destroyed again. Israel like we know was brutally sacked from the
promise land because they failed to fulfil their part of their
covenant with God, and further failed to heed to the voices of the
many prophets God sent to them warning them of impending doom.
Jeremiah 25:4 And the LORD hath sent unto you all his
servants the prophets, rising early and sending them; but ye have not hearkened, nor inclined your ear to
hear. -------------------------------------- 9 Behold, I will
send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and
Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them
against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against
all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and
make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual
desolations. 10 moreover I will take from them the voice of
mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and
the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light
of the candle. 11 And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king
of Babylon seventy years.
Daniel however,
knew from the books of the prophets that God promised a glorious end
for His people dispersed among the nations (Jeremiah 29:10-14). After seventy years of desolations and
tribulation among the nations, Gods promise was that he will restore
them to their land, never to be taken away from it again because God
had promised to write his laws in their hearts and give them a new
Spirit so that they never ever transgress against Him anymore [Jeremiah
31:33-37], [Ezekiel 36].
As Daniel
sought the face of the Lord, His mind was set on the glorious return
of The Hebrews back into their inheritance. His waiting on the Lord
led to a series of visions revealing prophetic events pertaining to
the end and the restoration of Israel. Some say that the restoration
of Israel was fulfilled in the time of Zerubabel; others say it was
fulfilled when Israel was restored to their land through the
unexpected United Nations resolution. Many today still look towards
the Middle East, expecting that something will happen there, but
they are greatly mistaken. If you have ears, hear, nothing will
happen in the middle east, even if something happens, it has nothing
to do with the ingathering of the Lord’s people into their glorious
land. From generation to generation, as people look out for signs, a
people will always enter in unnoticed by the outer world.
We are however
discovering that those prophesies of old, concerning the restoration
of Israel, are mere shadows of that eternal work which God is
performing in his people today. Unknown to Daniel and many others,
what He was seeing in His visions were simply parables and pointers
to God’s eternal plan to redeem his people from among the nations
where we were once pining away in the transgression of Adam. For we
know His good will is to gather all of us from among the nations in
one in Christ, the offspring of God. This is why he is sounding the
trumpet today, to awaken his people and to gather them from among
the nations into His everlasting Kingdom (the New Jerusalem) where
they can find the true beauty and glory of the living God.
Isaiah 27:13
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come
which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts
in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the LORD in the holy mount
at Jerusalem.
You see, from
the perspective of God, His people, His Kingdom or Garden city is
not some piece of land in the Middle East, but rather it is His
eternal celestial kingdom, otherwise known as the heavenly Jerusalem
or the Garden and Paradise of God. This is the thing that the Father
is revealing to us today. We all originated from that celestial
City, but we descended in what we can call the transgression of
Adam. The transgression of Adam is all about a conformation from the
incorruptible celestial nature of God to that which is earthly and
corruptible. As long as a man goes this way, He transgresses against
God and loses out on His inheritance in the eternal city of light.
This is the way we were when we walked like the earthly minded
gentiles (the nations) who walk according to the vanity of their
minds [Ephesians 4:17-19]. God in His mercy seeks
to gather us from among the gentiles, back into His celestial
everlasting kingdom, where we can once more live in the totality of
His glory. All this is fulfilled in His people who are Jews after
the Spirit, not after the flesh, so if you have your mind focused on
a physical nation you better sit back and listen to what the Spirit
has to say. We must awaken from the realms of parables and begin to
see truth as it is in the mind of God.
INSIGHT INTO
THE END
The visions of
Daniel were all visions concerning the end, which is why Jesus
quoted Him when He was speaking of the signs of the end in Matthew
24.
Matthew 24:14
And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world
for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come. 15 When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation,
spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso
readeth, let him understand:) 16 Then let them which be in
Judaea flee into the mountains:
One might ask,
“What is this end that Jesus was speaking about?” The end that Jesus
was referring to is directed to the Disciples of Christ not to the
world. If you study Matthew 24 properly, you will know that Jesus
was addressing the disciples who hear His voice and are being
gathered unto Him, in God’s kingdom, the city set upon the Hill. Of
course by now we know that the words of Jesus, being the voice of
the spirit, is the same throughout all eternity, meaning those words
of Jesus are still applicable to we who hear the voice of the Spirit
today. So never be fooled into thinking that the end is reference to
some event that occurred some time back, or some event that will
happen tomorrow, it is applicable to those who are awakening in
Christ and gathering unto Him NOW!. The end is the realization of the accomplished redemptive work of God in our individual lives, which we
know is none other that we be found perfect in Christ the offspring
of God.
The end comes
after the gospel is preached, and received with gratitude by those
who are about to be saved. What is the gospel that Jesus was
referring to? It is the message from above, revealing the mystery of
Christ the image and glory of God within us [2 Corinthians
4:4, Colossians 1:25-27 ]. As you receive the light of the
gospel of God’s Kingdom within, the abomination of desolation
standing in the Holy Place is exposed and we see Him (know or identify Him). That abomination of
desolation is the beastly image of mortal man that we bore in our
ignorance. He is the man of Sin that sits in the Temple of God (the
holy place), as if he is God, but He must be swept away by the
brightness of the revelation of Christ through the evangel from
above [2 Thessalonians 2:3-4].
You see nobody
is doing anything to us; we suffer what we suffer because we lived
in ignorance of the nature our true selves. When the light shines,
you begin to realize that your problem is the carnal identity we put
on in ignorance, and as long as we continue in carnality we lose out
on the unlimited spiritual blessings committed to us from the
foundation of the world. If a man sees the light and reverts back to
truth, by putting on the spiritual man of God from heaven, who is
created perfect, in the image of God, He once more rediscovers that
all things are positively His, for His pleasure [Colossians
3:9-10].
As our eyes of
understanding are being enlightened, we recognize the futility of
the lawless and boastful man of the flesh. When we see Him, we are
admonished to flee into the high mountains of Zion, where God’s
kingdom is situated. We flee the abomination of our earthly identity
by ascending by the spirit of truth back into the image of Christ
that we had in the beginning. It’s all about leaving aside the
corrupt image of the earthly and putting on the image of the
heavenly [1Corinthians 15:49].
The Spirit
says, “Ascend up unto the spiritual heights of God until every
shadow that has beclouded your comprehension of your celestial
nature be no more” [Solomon 2:17, Solomon 4:6 ]. For where the eagles are gathered (The mountain peak),
that is where the celestial body of Christ is.
Matthew 24:28
For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered
together.
As the shadows
flee, the morning star dawns in our hearts and the beauty of God’s
creation within and without us is unveiled before our very eyes.
This is the famous lightening coming out of the east unto the west;
it is the movement of the sun (the morning star) as it comes out of
its hidden chamber and dawns in us.
Matthew 24:27
For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto
the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
As all this
occurs in the elect, Death is no more, and its fruits of pain, fear
and anxiety pass away and in its place, life, eternal security,
abundance and everlasting joy and laughter are ushered in.
This is the end of the matter, for those who know truth.
The end comes,
when we have consciously rediscovered ourselves in Christ, who
inherits God’s kingdom. In that day, man awakens to the reality that
we are Him, and He is us, and we are in God the Father [John
14:20]. So you see the end has nothing to do with the fairy
tale versions that we hear from pulpits and many other sources
today, it is all within we who are consciously being gathered out of
the outer darkness that consists of our mortal identities and this
present world system into Christ the image of God.
DANIEL IN
PRAYER AND FASTING
When Daniel
set out to humble Himself in fasting and prayers, his mind was
stayed on one thing, and that is the restoration of Israel back to
their land. When we pray today what is our focus and drive? Jesus
once gave us a clue on how to pray [Matthew 6:7-13].
It was a simple prayer that was focused on realizing the kingdom
within (Thy Kingdom come), because He recognized that all we ever
need for our prosperity and peace is the realization of God’s
kingdom in us.
In terms of
needs in this present world, as lowly mortal men we truly do not
know what to pray about. A man is programmed to think that He needs
money, a marriage partner, a good family, good job, good health,
extra money and investments to secure Him in His old age and many
others but He is greatly mistaken. Those things men try to lay hold
on in this world as a covering or some form of security, only
evaporate with time, your pensions or savings can vanish in a
moment; health can disappoint when you least expect it, your loved
ones whom you invest and hope in, can turn against you, we see this
so often that is why people get heart broken and miserable. These
things that men hope on have no eternal value, what we need is the
kingdom and the power therein, this is what we ever need to seek and
lay a hold on throughout all eternity. We must grow and learn to
believe that our God and Father is in charge and have our eyes
focused in the spirit, at the right hand of God where the throne of
Christ is situated.
This might
sound alien, but better believe it, the power of God is enough to
sustain the sons of God in all things. This was the original design
in the beginning, not for us to go about struggling for survival
like the nations who do not know the power of God do. When Adam, was
reigning in glory in Eden, there was no thought for tomorrow, nor
the anxieties that we experience as men because He was enveloped in
the knowledge and the power of God. It was that same power that
clothed Jesus, fed Him, multiplied the loaves of bread and fed
multitudes, paid his taxes, provided His transportation, kept Him in
perfect peace in the midst of the raging sea and kept Him save and
untouchable until the appointed time of His Crucifixion. So our part
is to seek the kingdom and its power diligently, and to keep it,
knowing every other thing will be added.
Those who
seek the kingdom of God, also seek to be aligned with His will,
because only those who do His will, can experience the unfolding of
His kingdom and power within [(Thy will be done .....)Matthew
7:21]. What is the will of God? The will of God is that we
live after our true celestial model from the beginning and retain it
throughout all eternity. Like we know Christ is the truth, He is the
true creature known of God, so conformation to Christ the Spirit is
the will of God; we must recognize Him first and conform ourselves
to that celestial image by faith in meditation, prayers and fasting.
Today we
pray and fast by exercising ourselves in the mystery of godliness
being revealed from heaven today. True prayer and fasting is
abstention from the flesh (the carnal mindset) and walking in the
spirit (spiritual mindset) by faith, this is the fast acceptable to
God [Isaiah 58]. It is all about exercising
ourselves in godliness, while awaiting the coming or the unveiling
of God’s kingdom and omnipotent power of God within us. Exercising
ourselves in the mystery of godliness is about changing our mindset
and exercising ourselves to speak His word and do His will.
As Daniel
humbled Himself and walked soberly before the Lord in fasting and
prayers, He experienced a great visitation by the river of Hiddekel
[Daniel 10:4-7]. Daniel saw a man clothed in linen,
with a body like a precious transparent gem stone; He had a belt
made of pure gold, eyes burning like lamps of fire, arms and feet as
polished brass and a voice like the voice of a multitude. The
appearance of the man was so dreadful and glorious that those who
were by the river fled.
That thing
Daniel saw, is the same thing that any man who is determined to
humble Himself before the face of the living God, and receive
understanding from above, will see this very day [Daniel
10:12].
Daniels 10:12 Then said he unto me, Fear not, Daniel: for from
the first day that thou didst set thine heart to understand, and to
chasten thyself before thy God, thy words were heard, and I am come
for thy words.
THE CELESTIAL
MAN FROM PARADISE
Allegorically speaking, what the Spirit was trying to demonstrate,
is that in waiting on the Lord, Daniel was able to reach out to the
other side of the river to contact that celestial man from Eden.
Remember that the river Hiddekel (Same as Tigris) is one of the four
rivers of Eden, and Eden like we know represents God’s Kingdom and
Paradise [Genesis 2:10]. In the man’s descent
(transgression), He finds Himself on the other side of the river,
dispersed among the nations of the earth. Today those who have the
true vision of the Kingdom, seek to connect to that celestial man
who only inhabits the paradise of God.
That celestial man is the one we call the Lord Jesus Christ this
very day; it represents the image of the invisible living one, which
Jesus was trying to reveal to world, so that through Him all men can
be saved. This is the Alpha and Omega, the bright and morning star,
the Almighty one, who is was and is to come [Revelations
22:13, Revelations 22:16]. He is the answer to prayers
of the saints and indeed all men, for He will appear again to
those who earnestly seek Him.
Hebrews 9:28 So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of
many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second
time without sin unto salvation.
Meditate on
the words of Jesus: “I am come that you might have
life in abundance”; “because I am the way the truth and the life”. These words of Jesus can be matched with the words of the
man from heaven, who told Daniel I am come for thy words [Daniel 10:12].
When we seek the Lord in truth, our reward is realizing the I AM
coming in us, so that where He is, is where we will be for we are
Him.
His coming or appearing is after a secretive manner within those
that have this mystery and guard it jealously. Everyman should lift
up His face to the everlasting hills in prayers and expectation,
awaiting the unspeakable mercy of the Lord unto salvation. If you
can comprehend this marvellous hope, like Paul, your prayer will be, “that I might be found
in Him” [Philippians 3:8-9]; like Peter you
will say, “That we may be found in Him in peace, without spot, and
blameless” [2 Peter 3:14]. He represents the
salvation of God for all men, because in Him lies the totality of
everything that God is and has [Colossians 2:9-10].
This is the
same image of the invisible and incorruptible son of God that Jesus
was revealing to His handful of dedicated disciples as He went up
the isolated mountain and transfigured before them. It is also the
same image that the Apostle John saw while in isolation on the
Island of Patmos, as He stood before the Alfa and the Omega. One
thing you will notice about these visitations is that they are
always hidden from the multitudes who mind earthly things. If you
will see the living one, you must go into the quiet far away from
the many contradicting voices of the world below; it’s a place for
the solitary, those who choose to fast away from the world to gain
Christ.
Let us examine the striking similarities in these three
manifestations of Christ, the celestial man, in the table below.
DANIEL’S ACCOUNT
Daniel
10:5-7 |
REVELATIONS ACCOUNT
Revelations 1:11-16 |
TRANSFIGURATION ACCOUNT
Matthew
17:1-5 |
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|
|
He was
clothed in linen, |
He was
clothed with a garment down to the foot |
His
raiment was white as the light |
His
face as the appearance of lightning |
His
countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength |
His
face did shine as the sun |
His
loins were girded with fine gold of Uphaz |
and
girt about the paps with a golden girdle. |
|
His
eyes as lamps of fire |
His
eyes were as a flame of fire |
|
His
arms and his feet like in colour to polished brass |
His
feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace |
|
The
voice of his words were like the voice of a multitude |
His
voice as the sound of many water |
|
His
body also was like the beryl |
|
|
What
Daniel was beholding was our pure individual and cooperate
immaculate image in Eden before the foundation of the world. When we
hear terms like, “before the foundation of the world”, or “the
beginning”, it is simple reference to true perfect states before we
descended into mortality. Remember the words of Jesus: “You
have been with me (in me) from the beginning (originality, in truth)” [John 15:27]. When Jesus
made that statement, He was speaking in His capacity as the man from
heaven, and it was addressed to His disciple, those who have been
taken out of the world and gathered unto Him in one upon His holy
Hill.
Remember the
parable of the great harvest at the end of the world? Jesus says the
righteous will shine as the sun in their Father’s kingdom [Matthew
13:36-43]. When the tares which represent the veil of the
flesh is weeded out and destroyed in man by the revelation of truth
(fire), the image of Christ in its brilliance is unveiled in Him
exactly the way Daniel saw it in the appearance of the man from
Heaven. The sun shining in its brilliance is pure immaculate light
image of Christ that is unveiled within us as this world passes
away.
When Daniel saw
the celestial man, He observed that His voice was like the voice of
a multitude, some versions likened it to a roar of a great crowd;
John later described it as the voice of many waters. The many waters
representing the multitudes, nations and tongues gathered in one in
Christ [Revelations 17:15]. This multitude
represents the cooperate body of Christ which consists of redeemed
and perfected spirits of men in the unity of the faith in Christ.
It’s one celestial spiritual body with many members who are divinely
and perfectly fitted in one, in a manner that is unimaginable to
man.
1Corinthians
12:14 For the body is not one member, but many.
This perfect
union is achieved only in those have converted themselves to that
spiritual image of man; they become one spirit with Him [1
Corinthians 6:17]. It is not possible for those who live
after the flesh to speak in one accord, the more they try the more
they get divided as typified by the confusion of Babylon. The spirit
was trying to communicate this perfect celestial union through the
Psalmist, when He says, “How lovely is it when the brethren dwell in
unity”……
Psalms 133:1
A Song of degrees of David. Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! 2 It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down
upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his
garments; 3 As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion:
for there the LORD commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.
If we truly
want access into God’s kingdom we must be aware of our celestial
union with each other, for we are members of one another, we are
one. We form the body of the invisible and incorruptible son of God,
in whom is invested the fullness of God. In the last chapter of the
book of Daniel, when Daniel was told that He will stand in His lot
at the end of days, it was reference to His joining His other
brethren who have awoken from the dust and rediscovered themselves
among the innumerable perfected spirits that make up the man from
heaven.
Daniel 12:13
But go thou thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of
the days.
If you open
your spiritual eyes, you will see yourself among that multitude
speaking in unity with that one voice of the man from heaven.
Brethren, let conscious knowledge of the inner man within (Christ),
increase, let brotherly kindness and love increase through this
sacred revelation of Christ from heaven today, in so doing, the
passage way back to God’s kingdom is made plain to us [2Peter
1:2-11]. This is the unity and end of the faith that Paul
so often wrote about in His letters to the brethren.
The power of
the resurrection (awakening) is working in the saints today to bring
them back from the deadness (ignorance) of their falsely derived
mortal image and cause them to realize that same image Daniel Saw by
the river Tigris. That is our image from the beginning (the first)
and the image we put on at the end (the last) when death is no more.
For this cause He says “I am the first and the last [Revelation 22:13].” and “the
first shall be the last and the last the first” [Matthew
19:30]. Yes, we were once dead in the ignorance of the
nations below when we bore the beastly image of the man of the dust,
but the time has come to put on Christ our true celestial image and
live. For this cause He says: “I was dead, but now I live forever”.
Revelations 1:18 I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive
for evermore, Amen;
Those
who rediscover their first states in Eden and continue in truth,
will live forever, never to taste death again, for this reason He
says some standing here (in Eden, in Christ) will not taste death [Matthew
16:28].
REGAINING OUR STATES IN EDEN
If any man can perceive the beauty, the majesty and the glory of His
image in the true creature of God who is also the beginning of the
creation of God, He will realize how miserable, wretched, blind,
poor and naked He is in is humanity.
Revelation 3:14 And unto the
angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the
Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation
of God; …… …… ……… ……… Revevelation 3:17 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:
The god of this
world whom we will identify shortly, had blinded our inner eyes of
comprehension by quenched our flaming eyes burning with pure
celestial intelligence, so that we lived in relation to vanity and
consequently suffered tribulation and spiritual poverty. In the
deception, we were also striped of our spiritual covering and
suffered a total loss of awareness of our perfection and
righteousness before the Father. All these describe the pitiable
manner in which we descended in that Adam-like shift and lost all
awareness of our true selves and God’s paradise.
The workings
the Spirit within us, is to restore us back to that celestial image,
which is why He is giving us such illumination in this hour. He
wants to anoint our eyes with the anointing of the holy Ghost and
restore the burning lamps so that we can once more see clearly into
His vast spiritual kingdom and be free from the beggarly elements of
this material age (Revelations 3:18). This was what
Jesus was trying to demonstrate in the healing of the blind man, as
He led the blind man out of the city and anointed His eyes with
saliva [Mark 8:22-25]. The saliva represents truth
from the depths of God which restores our sight. Initially when the
man’s eyes were opened, He saw men as trees, because God was
demonstrating that His eyes were opened to the realm of Eden where
you find the trees of life. Notice that Jesus had to lead the man
out of the city to accomplish this miracle. God divinely ordered it
this way to demonstrate that truth cannot be found among the systems
of men and the systems of religion; you find truth and healing only
as you let the Spirit lead you into the quiet. Like I earlier wrote,
this healing is for the solitary to who leave all to walk by faith
with Spirit and the Spirit alone.
Eden, the realm
of God’s presence never left us; it is always present in and without
us. It is the darkened comprehension of man’s inner eyes that hides
that realm from man. Jesus says, “If the light in you is darkness,
how great is that darkness”; seeing and living in relation to the
natural is darkness, seeing into the invisible with the eyes of the
spirit is light. Eyes of the carnal man have not and cannot see the
ever present blooming realm of Eden, but by the inner anointing of
God’s Spirit we become consciously aware of Eden and all the things
freely given to us by the Father, for our enjoyment.
1Corinthians
2:9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard,
neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God
hath prepared for them that love him. 10 But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all
things, yea, the deep things of God. 11 For what man knoweth
the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so
the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. 12
Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit
which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given
to us of God.
When the inner
eyes of our understanding are totally illumed as depicted by the
flaming eyes of the man from heaven, the power of lust and sin is
broken and we can once more walk in the liberty of the son of God.
This is what Paul, calls the glorious liberty of the Son(s) of God.
The spiritual
consciousness of I, called, the Christ consciousness is restored.
This is the linen covering seen over the celestial man, depicting
the covering of the glory of God. This is the same garment man lost
in His descent in Adam. Along with the loss of the covering of the
glory the Son of God, came sin consciousness, guilt, fear,
diminished faith and consequent banishment from God’s presence. The
Spirit wants to restore that covering and cause us to once more walk
immaculate and blameless with boldness before the face of the
Father.
Revelation 3:18 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. 19 As many
as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
When all this
is accomplished in His redeemed ones, the Alfa and Omega power that
created and sustains the universe is once more at our disposal
because we are sit with Him on His throne ruling and reigning as He
ordained from the beginning[Revelation
3:21 ].
Revelations 3:20 Behold, I stand
at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door,
I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. Rev
3:21 To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also
overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne. Rev 3:22
He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the
churches.
All that is required of the saints is to enter into intimate inner
fellowship with the Father. As we patiently dine with the word of
truth, the much needed transformation work occurs and a new realm
unfolds.
RESISTANCE FROM THE PRINCE OF PERSIA
From the little we have read, it is clear that the appearing of the
man from heaven is the much talked about appearing of Christ as he
appears to be glorified in His Saints. Meaning, His coming is within
us, it all about the unveiling of God’s true creature in us.
There is something shocking I want to share, on the resistance that
the man from heaven faced for 21 days before he could get to Daniel.
Daniel 10:12
Then said he unto me, Fear not, Daniel: for from the first day that
thou didst set thine heart to understand, and to chasten thyself
before thy God, thy words were heard, and I am come for thy words.13
But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and twenty
days: but, lo, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me;
and I remained there with the kings of Persia.
The man from
heaven was saying that from the moment Daniel humbled himself in
prayer to seek the face of God, He was dispatched to meet with
Daniel, but He couldn’t get to Daniel immediately because of fierce
resistance from the prince of Persia.
When people
read scriptures like this with the human comprehension, it creates a
false impression that these are references to demons in the spirit
realm that delay your answered prayers from God. Some brethren have
strong convictions within themselves that every country or city has
its own principality and power in the Spirit, so we have to fight
against these spiritual princes to win over those territories to
Christ. In third world countries, many brethren have traditional
beliefs of invisible territorial gods that have to be overcome to
kind of have the victory that Christ intends for us. I have seen
prayers warriors, praying and shouting for long stretches at a time,
probable all night, thinking they are fighting against
principalities in the Spirit. Some go on twenty-one day fasts,
thinking that by so doing, they can overcome the principalities and
received blessings from God. Many people have been doing this year
after year, but never coming to the conscious knowledge of the
truth, that the way His is, is the way we are.
These believes
of men are only deviations from the real source of the Problem. Men
always sort of seek for solutions without themselves not realizing
that the focus is within. The prince of Persia that resisted the man
from heaven for twenty-one days is an allegorical picture of the
thing that resists the coming of Christ within us; we can call Him
the spirit of the anti-Christ, the prince of the world,
principalities and powers, the god of this age etc. They represent
the carnal wisdom of this age that simply does not know the things
that pertain to God and His kingdom, but rather knows the things of
mortal man who perishes.
Like we have
established Christ is the answer to our prayers and passport into
God realm of unlimited blessings. The spirit is simply trying to
explain why some who have this vision have to tarry at times while
awaiting His coming. That which resists the knowledge of Christ in
man is the false beliefs planted in Him by the spirit of this age.
This is the mystery of iniquity at work that has to be first of all
exposed, and then taken away by the spirit of truth proceeding from
the mouth of the Lord.
2Thessalonians
2:7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who
now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. 2Th 2:8
And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume
with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness
of his coming:
The spirit of
this age, also known as the spirit of man, had along moulded out of
us, a beastly creature of the flesh (self) that opposes anything
that is of Christ the Spirit.
The spirit of
truth proceeding from the depths of the lord is the only thing that
can annihilate that beastly creature in man that opposes the
unveiling of Christ in Him. Prince Michael, the archangel who
represents the ministerial arm of the Lord, battles for the saints
by sounding the trumpet of truth. Only our uniting with the truth
can bring victory over the beastly man in us (SELF). Although I have
nothing against fasting the way men go about it, but let us
understand that denying ourselves of food, and praying for
twenty-one days, can in no way bring about that desired victory that
we seek in Christ. It is how we hear the shout of the Archangel Michael (Christ) and
conform ourselves to it that gives us the victory of the prince of
Persia and causes us to stand in our lot in Christ.
In plain
language, the obstacle to knowing Christ the inner man is self
knowledge after the outer man. Understanding from above is the thing
that can give us the victory. This calls for patience and continuity
on the part of the saints who look out for His coming.
RECEIVE THE PROMISE OF GOD
Let us
meditate on the precious immutable promises of the Father towards
us:
I will cause you to eat of the tree of life in Eden, the Paradise of
God [Revelation 2:7].
I will crown
you with true rich life [Revelation 2:10].
I will give you the morning star [Revelation 2:28].
I will restore your covering that you lost in Adam [Revelation 3:5].
I will grant you entrance into the New Jerusalem [Revelation 3:12].
I will cause you to sit on my throne and to rule and reign with me
[Revelations 3:21].
All these
promises are fulfilled as we awaken to our true celestial image
known of God. Before now, we had been looking darkly through the
lenses of our human understanding and comprehended things in parts
and in shadows (1Corinthians 13:8-13). Man’s
darkened eyes of understanding and His erroneous walk in relation to
shadows is what constitutes the dense covering of death over the
nations today. Insecurity Fear, anxiety, emotional turmoil and name
it, are simply fruits of the man who walks in the gross ignorance of
this present world. However the time has come to put away the
shadows and to begin to see our true immaculate light image through
the mirror of the word from heaven and to know ourselves the way we
are known of the Father, no more after the carnal perceptions that
rule this age.
If you can
see this great gift of life through the knowledge of divinity
shining forth today from the face of Jesus, willingly allow the word
chastise you and remould you into that true perfect creature that
you are. At times correction and truth is bitter, but we are
admonished to receive it with gratitude and live.
Read the following inspiring words from the book of Job.
Job 5:17 Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore
despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty: Job 5:18
For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make
whole. Job 5:19 He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there
shall no evil touch thee. Job 5:20 In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the power
of the sword. Job 5:21 Thou shalt be hid from the scourge
of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it
cometh. Job 5:22 At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be
afraid of the beasts of the earth. Job 5:23 For thou
shalt be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of
the field shall be at peace with thee. Job 5:24 And thou shalt
know that thy tabernacle shall be in peace; and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and
shalt not sin. Job 5:25 Thou shalt know also that thy
seed shall be great, and thine offspring as the grass of the
earth. Job 5:26 Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in
in his season. Job 5:27 Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know thou it for thy good.
Six troubles refer to the troubles of mortal man who lives in
ignorance of the truth, while seven refers to our perfect states in
Christ. So the work of God is to deliver us from a falsely derived
mortal identity and bring us back into the knowledge of His only
begotten. In this sacred consciousness no evil things has power over
you, neither do you suffer the sin consciousness and sense of lack
and annihilation from God that men of this age are subject to. The
power of the accusing and condemning tongue seize to have any power
over you. Peace is restored and flows like the rivers and man sees
the beauty and the glory of God. Correction from the Father is all
about submitting to the celestial model of truth and rediscovering
ourselves the way we are known of the Father who is the true and
righteous God.
We must bear in mind that this is the focus of the gospel that was
preached by Jesus unto this world. He simply came to bear witness of
our true image from the beginning as we are known of the Father;
only in awakening consciously to that image can we rediscover Eden,
the paradise of God.
The way He
is, is the way we are in truth and as we behold Him with unveiled
faces, we are transformed into that same image. We behold Him
through the mirror of the word of truth and are converted to that
same image. The Apostle John confirms this when He says when He
shall appear, we shall be as Him, for we see Him as he is. Today, by
the brightness of the illumination of the Holy Ghost in our hearts,
we are beholding the true image known of God and we being converted
daily into that immaculate image who inherits Eden.
1John 3:2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not
yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear,
we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 3 And
every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he
is pure.
Our calling as
saints of God is to rediscover and maintain ourselves in that true
immaculate image from the foundation of the world exactly the way
the Prophet Daniel, the disciples and the Apostle John saw it.
Hang on tight
to this mystery brethren, and the Lord bless you out of Zion.
In His name
Trevor Eghagha
Trevor@sunrayministry.org
