The thing uppermost on the mind of man is security, peace and
prosperity; He seeks salvation so to say, but from the look of
things, salvation continues to elude Him because He simply has not
known the ways of the Lord the only author of salvation for all
mankind. For this reason any man truly seeking the salvation of the
Lord must humble himself and learn of the Lord with a meek spirit;
He must let go of all and empty Himself of all that He ever knew in
relation to this present world and receive from the Lamb of God,
because Him alone is able to give rest for the burdened and weary
souls of those who follow Him diligently [Matthew 11:28-30].
The lamb will led us unto the place where living waters can be
found, the place of pleasures and delights, a place where the
horrors of humanity will be just like one old nightmare, because he
will make us glad and open our mouths to sing again [Revelations
7:14-17]. Any man that seeks to wisely partake of the salvation
of God must become a fool in this present world, because the wisdom
and pomp of man no matter how outwardly orderly and intelligent they
seem to look, are all foolishness in the sight of God [1Corinthians
3:18-19]. The seven eyes of the lamb signifying the seven
spirits, will lead us to the right hand of God, the destination of
all those that are saved.
The lamb restores comfort to us by revealing the truth, exactly the
way it is in the beginning in God; He dispels the lies of the devil
by illuminating us with the truth and committing into our hands all
that is of the Father, which is truth [John 17:7-8].
God is love, in the day you truly behold Him the way He truly is,
you will marvel at how much men do not know God. Woe is me if I do
preach the gospel and tell all men of the innocence and the love of
God, woe is me if I do not reveal what God has showed me in the
secret place of thunder about His loving kindness and His desire to
see all men saved. The darkness or the lies of this age has brought
about so much misery in man, but the lamb is leading us back to the
beginning. So as He illuminates us we must let go of all in the
light of our veiled understanding, to gain all in the light of His
understanding.
THE VEILED NATURE OF MORTAL MAN
In one of His numerous encounters with the Scribes and Pharisees who
represent the principalities and custodians of this Dark Age, they
sought to test Jesus concerning an issue uppermost in the minds of
men called marriage.
Matthew 19:3-11 The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and
saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for
every cause? 4 And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not
read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male
and female, 5 And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and
mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one
flesh? 6 Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What
therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. 7
They say unto him, why did Moses then command to give a writing of
divorcement, and to put her away? 8 He saith unto them, Moses
because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your
wives: but from the beginning it was not so. 9 And I say unto
you, whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for
fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso
marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery. 10 His
disciples say unto him, If the case of the man be so with his
wife, it is not good to marry. 11 But he said unto them, All men cannot receive this saying, save
they to whom it is
given.
We are about to hear things that will cause us to marvel, so let us
fasten our seat belts. The intellectuals of this age seeking to
fault Jesus sought his opinion concerning marriage; they asked: “Is
it lawful for a man to divorce His wife at all?” Jesus response
irked them because it contradicted the laws of Moses whose laws they
had accepted as the standard word from God. His response was: “have
you not heard that at the beginning God made
them male and female and that man and woman shall cleave together
and form one flesh and what God has joined let no man put asunder?”
This response contradicts the laws of Moses which actually gives
provision for divorce causing the Pharisees to confront Him asking;
“then why did Moses allow it?” Jesus’ response was simple; “Moses
gave you the law due to the hardness of your heart but it was not so
in the beginning”. Jesus was saying that they truly didn’t receive
the truth from Moses, what they received was simply a function of
the state of their hearts.
Let us closely examine what Moses and the hardness of the heart
means in this context because they go hand in hand. The hardened
heart is the unbelieving heart that turns away from the truth unto
the lie; it deviates from knowledge of the living God unto vanity
and is therefore dead [Hebrews 3:12]. The hardened heart
otherwise known as the heart of stone reflects the deadness of man
which can not perceive the things that are of the only true and
invisible God. This is the state of every man born into this present
material world, because he now lives in relation to a false temporal
order that truly has no eternal Value, an order where there is no
knowledge of the living God. He identifies Himself with form and
appearances in the natural realm and identifies Himself externally
according to the flesh not realizing the true man on the inside. In
this dead state the law represented by Moses becomes alive in man,
meaning all men born into this world are under law. You do not need
any man to recite the Ten Commandments to you because they are
already alive and working in men who live in the transgression of
Adam.
The transgression of Adam is all about deviation from the truth
which is their true incorruptible selves in the image of the living
God unto the lie which is a carnally derived identity. In the day
Adam identified Himself with the outer man and started to sow to the
flesh, He died because the Law (knowledge of good and evil)
represented symbolically by Moses became alive on the inside of Him
and consequently sin and death. The law working in the minds of
natural mortal man comes alive in His conscience to contain man and
to place some form of orderliness otherwise it would mean utter
chaos. You can compare the law to the cages or chains used on wild
beasts to contain their beastly unbraided excesses.
Like Paul says in His letter to the Romans, He was once alive when
the knowledge of law did not exist, but He died when the knowledge
of law came alive in Him. He was simply trying to say that in the
beginning, when he was in the spirit with the Father, He was not
conscious of the law, but that consciousness came alive in Him when
He found Himself bearing the image of mortal man of the dust. Most
people can not comprehend the fact that their true inner life has
always been before they were born into this world with a flesh and
blood identity, but in due season they will remember.
Romans 7:9 for I was alive without the law once: but when the
commandment came, sin revived, and I died. 10 And the commandment,
which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.
11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by
it slew me. 12 Wherefore the law is holy, and the
commandment holy, and just, and good………………………………..
In the further verses of Romans chapter 7, Paul says that the law is
not the problem; the problem is the material form He has put on in
this age. The law is spiritual and is fulfilled spontaneously by
only those who are spiritual (in God’s image); He is thus unable to
fulfill the requirements of the law because He is bound to an
earthly carnal nature.
So we see that the law is applicable to all, but fulfilled only by
those who are awake and aware of their true eternal spiritual form
from the beginning. As long as a man walks ignorantly in a flesh and
blood identity He will hear the voice of Moses which represents law
and consequently He sins and dies off. If however a man awakens from
the dust (flesh and blood consciousness) and hears the voice of
truth revealing Christ within, He receives grace unto life because
the law, sin and death comes by Moses and grace unto life by Christ.
John 1:17 for the law was given by Moses,
but grace and truth
came by Jesus Christ.
In the beginning when God created man, He was a pure spiritual being
living according to the spirit and he had his being in the living
God, meaning He had no life of His own, God was all in all; He was
also united along with the other innumerable spirits in the one man
known of God who we call Christ today. In that original celestial
state from the beginning, loving God with all His heart, soul, mind
and strength and loving His neighbor as Himself also meant loving
Himself because they were all united into one inseparable being in
the original design. This means there is no such thing as law or
condemnation unto death for those who live in Christ Jesus according
to the spirit because they fulfill it spontaneously.
Romans
8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are
in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me
free from the law of sin and death.
So we see the main purpose of the gospel is to gather us from among
the nations of this world whose foundation is upon the dust, back
into that one spiritual celestial body (Christ) that was from the
beginning [Ephesians 1:9-10], because it is only in Him that
the law and the prophets are fulfilled[Matthew 5:17].
THE TRUE MARRIAGE MODEL FROM THE BEGINNING
God has spoken through His prophets that He will convert the
hardened hearts of mortal man of the dust back to the truth so that
men can once more live in the full glory of God, far away from the
power of death, sin and the law. The move of the spirit is designed
to awaken us so that we can once more enjoy the glory which God
freely gave us to enjoy in the beginning.
Ezechiele 36:26
A new heart also will I give you, and a new
spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart
out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. 27 And
I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my
statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them. 28 And
ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall
be my people, and I will be your God.
As men begin to awaken once more and the hearts of stone become
converted into living hearts that know and perceive truth, then they
will understand what Jesus meant when he said, “the two (male and
female or man and woman) shall be one flesh and what God has joined
together let no man put asunder”. In reality no ordinary mortal man
can receive these words because his heart is set on vanity and
therefore ignorant of the things that are of God [Matthew 19:11].
Thank God, because we hear what God is saying this hour as He
awakens us from the deadness of our human lives. For this reason he
says blessed are your eyes for they see and your ears for they hear,
because in perceiving you are converted from the deadness of Adam of
the dust into the Christ the living one.
Matthew 13:15 For this people's heart is waxed gross, and
their
ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at
any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with
their heart, and
should be converted, and I should heal them. 16 But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear.
17 For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous
men have desired to see those things which ye see, and
have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye
hear, and have not heard them.
You see, we should always have the attitude of praise because by the
grace of God we are hearing things that not even Moses or the other
known great prophets heard. If they heard what we hear they would
have tasted of eternal life but they were all dead in the trespass
of Adam and as result had hardened hearts that can’t perceive truth.
Today, we are being lifted up from the gates of death unto the gates
of life, from the graveyard into the land of the living because we
can hear the voice of truth.
In the beginning, meaning in truth or the originality of all things,
not six thousand or seven thousand years ago like theologians or
man’s intellectual faculty would like to believe, God created man
and that is it; He never created another man anywhere. That man was
in the image of God; He was like God and He ruled over all the works
of God’s hands without any inhibitions. He was abundantly fruitful
and had every thing at His disposal for his enjoyment. That model is
the true model which God created in the beginning a model that is
infinitely flawless.
The bible records that in the day God created man; He created Him
male and female and then blessed them.
Genesis 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our
likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and
over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the
earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of
God created he him; male and female created he them. 28 And
God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful,
and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and
have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the
air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
Another account says He created man male and female and called their
name Adam.
Genesis 5:1 This
is the book of the generations of Adam. In
the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him; 2
Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called
their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
What is God trying to say here? Is God contradicting Himself when he
says he created Man, and then He says he created them male and
female? Of course not; what God is doing, is revealing to us that
sacred union called marriage that was there from the beginning, this
is the true wedding that is known of our heavenly father. The Father
in this case acts as the officiating priest and brings the male and
female together in union into one unit called man who is the image
of the living God. Unlike the earthly marriage model which says till
death do we part, this union is meant to be eternal without end.
That man which represents the seed of the marriage was the one flesh
that God formed out of this union between male and female and
blessed.
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We can discern clearly that there will be no man if there is
neither female or male, the two must coexist together to form that
unit called man. Paul explains this in a letter to the Corinthians.
1Corinthians 11:11 Nevertheless neither is the man without the
woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord. 1Co 11:12
For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man
also by the woman; but all things of God.
This means that this union between male and female is meant to
remain unbreakable, because they are one flesh, or in other words
one body. The union from the beginning is non other than the Church
and Christ the spirit which God has joined with an everlasting bond
from the foundation of the world. Christ is the Bridegroom while the
Church is the bride, which is why Christ Jesus often referred to
Himself as the bridegroom in the gospel accounts [Mark: 2-19]. The
church which represents the bride is actually the body of the souls
of men that unites with Christ the spirit. Without this union there
is no man appearing in the image of the living God, neither is there
a Sabbath where the rest of God can be found.
Many people have preached sermons on marriage over the years using
biblical scriptures, but you can either receive this mystery in
veiled form as earthly minded men do to this day when they limit
marriage within the scope of mortal man and woman of the earth, or
with unveiled faces revealing the eternal spiritual union between
Christ and His Church. We must awake from the lower realms of
shadows and parables and begin to hear what the spirit is saying
because if we continue on in the shadow, we simply forsake our grace
and go down the same way as Jonah did. If you remember, Jonah made a
powerful statement when God delivered Him from the jaws of death, He
said: “Those that observe and embrace vanities (shadows and lies)
forsake there mercy until unto life”. So as a generation called into
a new dispensation in Christ let us incline our hearts to spiritual
truths, let us not be like the princes of this age who hear the
words of truth in parable due to their veiled understanding.
THE
MYSTERIOUS ONENESS OF CHRIST AND THE CHURCH
Paul makes reference to the mysterious marriage union from the
beginning between Christ and the Church. This is the mysterious
union God wants all men to be aware of so that they can be saved.
Ephesians 5:30 For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of
his bones. 31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and
mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one
flesh. 32 This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and
the church. 33 Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so
love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she
reverence her husband.
Most people in this world read these scriptures and speak of the
spiritual aspect of marriage between the Church and Christ 5% of the
time, while they concentrate on earthly marriages between men and
women but they are greatly mistaken. The flesh has no profit, it is
the spirit which gives life and is profitable in all things [John
6:63]. This means that in the original design man lived as a
spirit being in the invisible realm where the eternal spring of life
originates from, being the very heart of God. That inner unending
source of life was designed to quicken the outer man with life and
with every good attribute of the spirit. However in this world, man
is disconnected from the spirit life and seeks to derive some sort
of quickening and fulfillment from without (the visible) by edifying
the outer man of the flesh. He has been trying this since the days
of the fall of Adam all to no avail, until he discovers that you
first of all start off from the spirit and every other thing will be
perfected. So we should learn to go first for that which is of the
spirit, and then we can be rest assured that other things will
follow. We are admonished therefore to shun old religion and
traditions of men which exercise only the flesh body, and begin
exercising ourselves in godliness (spirituality).
1Timothy 4:7 But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise
thyself rather unto godliness. 8 For bodily exercise
profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things,
having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to
come.
Many people run after human marriage counselors, to first of all fix
up their earthly marriages thinking that they will get fulfillment
in one way of the other, but I tell you, let us first of all fix
that marriage that been from the beginning of the world and all
other things will follow. When this sacred eternal marriage is fixed
up then, you will discover your earthly marriages fixed up because
you will truly become one again. Paul says Husbands love your wives
as yourselves, and wives reverence your husbands. This message is
directed at those who know the true mystery of marriage and walk in
relation to it, not to mere mortals who walk in the vanity of their
minds.
True to the word of God, there is nothing hidden that will not be
revealed, for this reason God is revealing the marriage model for us
to understand and adhere to. In His letters, Paul speaks in in-depth
clear tone of the marriage union that men of this age are not aware
of, You see this in Ephesians Chapter 5.
Ephesians 5:22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as
unto the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as
Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.
24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the
wives be to their own husbands in every thing. 28 So ought
men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife
loveth himself. 29 for no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but
nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:
In this celestial marriage model between Christ (the male
counterpart) and the Church (the female counterpart), Paul says the
following:
a)
Husband
is the head of the wife [Ephesians
5:23]: This means that the husband is the intellectual
faculty and the leader in this union. The woman sees what he sees;
she hears what he hears and is constantly lead by him. This is why
we are urged to put on the mind of Christ, meaning we should lose
our own heads (our natural mind) for His own head. Any man who does
not hold on to the true head (Christ) is vainly puffed up and will
not see life.
Colossians 2:18 Let no man beguile you of your reward in a
voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those
things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly
mind, 19 And not holding the Head, from which all the body
by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit
together, increaseth with the increase of God.
b)
The wife
reverences and submits to her husband in EVERY THING
Ephesians 5:33: This means
she has absolutely no will of her own, her Husband is the sole
captain of the boat. She is meant to be silent and totally
submissive to her husband’s will, never speaking her own words or
doing her own things.
1Timothy 2:11 Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
12 But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over
the man, but to be in silence.
In this model, the husband has all authority and is to be
worshipped.
c)
The
husband and wife are one flesh, the wife becomes the husbands own
body: meaning that she is not her own but her Husbands. He works
through her and uses her body as an interface with which He
expresses himself to the world.
1Corinthians 6:19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of
the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye
are not your own? 6:20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore
glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
Being the head and control tower of this body, the Christ transmits
His will to the body which is the Church, so that she is always led
by Him in all things.
d)
The wife
is co worker and help mate: This means that she unites with her
husband in agreement to aid Him in all that he seeks to do.
e)
The
husband loves His wife and cares for his wife [Ephesians
5:28-29]: Meaning that it is the Husband’s responsibility
to nourish His wife and provide for all her needs. She is His
responsibility in all things, both in the spiritual and natural
sense. He provides for her spiritually by causing her to constantly
increase and be kept in the knowledge of the truth, this provides
for her spiritual covering, keeping Her sanctified, holy and without
blemish and uniting her therefore with her eternal soul mate [Ephesians
5:25-27]. As long as this union is in place the
omnipotent power of the living God is present and all things are
possible. The promise of the husband to His wife is that I will
never leave you nor will I forsake you, but I will always be by your
side to faithfully provide for your every need. So the only charge
to the wife is to remain faithful and submissive to her husband, He
will take care of the rest.
The married model we have just examined is the only union that
attracts the blessings of God. God blessed them, not the male apart
or the female apart but the two of them in union. To this day the
souls of men are groping in darkness and perishing in the miry clay
of humanity because they have not understood this union that God is
unveiling in these last days. From the beginning we are supposed to
be eternally married to Christ, to become one spiritual celestial
body with Him, being subject to Him in all things, but somehow man’s
system has blinded the eyes of our understanding and put asunder
this union between us and Christ.
VIOLATION OF THE MARRIAGE UNION
Jesus said what God has joined together let
no man put asunder;
he was referring to that blessed union in the beginning between man
and woman that formed the original celestial man by the name Adam.
People are not experiencing the unlimited abundant spiritual
blessings of God simply because that blessed union has been put
asunder by man. Man in this sense represents the wisdom or spirit of
this Dark Age; this is the thing that has put asunder the only
blessed union between the church and the spirit (Christ). Christ is
in our midst to restore the original creation of God where there is
no flaw, the union which has been put asunder by man in the
transgression of Adam; the bridegroom has descended to restore His
marriage union.
Adam like we know was one marriage unit composed of male and female
or in other words, Christ and the Church (Souls of men). The
boundless blessing of this union is revealed in the Garden of Eden
and as long as they continued on in that marriage model, nothing
could tamper with their prosperity. They were to continue on with
nourishment from the tree of life which refers to truth administered
by Christ the spirit, and to abstain from lies which is represented
by the tree of the knowledge of good and evil which is administered
by mortal man of the dust (The serpent). In the celestial marriage
union Adam was a purely spiritual being who had His being nested in
the living God, and was totally undefiled by the corrupting powers
of this material world. In that day He had His being in God and
moved in God and there was no conscious knowledge of law. The Law of
sin and death was revived when the union was put asunder; it was put
asunder when Eve was deceived by the deceitful glories of mortal
mans world and united herself with the serpent (The carnal mind or
the spirit of this age). Eve who represents the soul was enticed by
the serpent which represents the wisdom of the outer man of the
flesh and joined herself to it, therefore neglecting her first love.
In the union with the serpent she divorces herself from the bond of
one spirit with the Lord and now becomes one flesh with the outer
world in a union that is spiritually termed fornication.
In the transgression the marriage bond is broken, and the female
(soul) is now guided by the spirit of this world (Ephesians
2:2) because her true Head (Christ) is substituted for
the head of the serpent (the carnal mind); she is no longer
submissive to her true Husband (Christ the spirit); she has not
honored Him by letting Him rule over her body. She neglects the fact
that her body is not her own but the Lord’s (the spirit). She now
becomes one flesh with the world in the most despicable of
abominations.
Let us understand that the putting asunder of our eternal marriage
bond with the spirit of Christ occurs right from the moment a man is
born into this world. Unknowingly the wisdom and teachings of this
age hide this celestial marriage union from us and therefore
systematically put asunder the bond of oneness hidden in the heart
of God. The whole world lies in desolation and ruins, and men
continue down the slippery path into death because they have turned
aside from their true marriage union with Christ. Men are classified
as fornicators, whoremongers and enemies of God because they all
partake in that violation of the marriage which God ordained from
the beginning and charged that no man put asunder.
Psalms 73:27 For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish:
thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee.
The darkness is passing and the true light is shining so that all
men may be saved; as the spirit of truth illuminates the eyes of our
understanding by bringing to our awareness the spiritual marriage
union from the beginning, we are admonished to flee fornication. We
should grow in the knowledge that we are married to Christ the
spirit and therefore we are not our own but the Lord’s; He is our
head and we are His body and temple, and He is to be reverenced in
this marriage union. Continued violation of this union like the rest
of the world only leads to troubles and death. [1Corinthians
6:15-20]
Now we are beginning to understand the reason for the hardships and
tribulation seen in mankind. Men live in the curse because they have
neglected their first love which is the spirit of Christ, and they
have become one flesh with the spirit of this age. Instead of the
blossoming garden of pleasure which God gave man as an inheritance
to freely enjoy, man is now subject to barrenness, pain and fatigue
with death to crown it all.
ETERNAL INVITATION TO THE MARRIAGE FEAST
I
you have ears to hear, you will hear the gentle spirit inviting us
back to our celestial union with Christ, he does not impose Himself
on anyone, but seeks to reason with us and cause us to be aware of
the glory in his union. The gospel that is preached to all the
nations is simply an invitation to the marriage union with Christ,
where we can once more partake of the fellowship in light that has
been from the foundation of the world. In is a spiritual union in
the invisible, which has been hidden in God from the foundation of
the world, meaning in man’s descent into mortality He lost knowledge
of this marvelous fellowship in lights.
The mandate of the ministry of Christ is to make all men know or
rather come to remembrance of this fellowship of the mystery:
Ephesian 3:8-9 Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints,
is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the
unsearchable riches of Christ; 9 And to make all men see
what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the
beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things
by Jesus Christ:
The word fellowship is gotten from the Greek word called
koy-nohn-ee'-ah
which means: partnership,
participation, or (social)
intercourse, or (pecuniary) benefaction: - (to)
communicate (-ation), communion, (contri-), distribution,
fellowship.
The fellowship of the mystery is non other than our partnership and
marital intercourse with Christ from the foundation of the world.
The gentiles who represent men of this age who walk in ignorance of
this fellowship are being invited to partake of this divine union
where the omnipotent God can be located. It is in the deep intimacy
of this celestial love union that all things both visible and
invisible came forth into being; if you open your eyes you will know
that everything created are simply tales of this love affair hidden
in God. The animals, the trees, the flowers, scientific theories and
discoveries, human relations and works, just name them they all
represent tales of the marriage union hidden in God. It is here that
all power in heaven and earth is located for when two (Christ and
the Church) or three (God, Christ and the Church) are gathered the
living one is also present.
In the book of revelations, a scene of great rejoicing and praise
unto God was revealed to John, they rejoiced with the voice of many
waters saying, “the omnipotent reigneth and the marriage supper of
the lamb is come and the wife has made herself ready”. From this we
can discern that the omnipotent power of God is revealed as the
marriage supper of the lamb takes place and it can take place only
when the bride prepares herself.
Revelations 19:6 And I heard as it were the voice of a great
multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of
mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent
reigneth. 7 Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him:
for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made
herself ready. 8 And to her was granted that she should be
arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the
righteousness of saints. 9 And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed
are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the
Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God.
The messenger who revealed the scene to John further said, “Blessed
are they which are called to the marriage supper of the lamb”. The
messenger says this because the boundless blessings and grace of God
is located only in this heavenly marriage feast where people united
with the Lamb of God. The marriage feast we are not talking about is
not a feast that will occur up in the physical skies somewhere after
some sought of rapture of the church while the world suffers in
tribulation; those types of doctrines are simple thought up by the
princes of this age who are unaware of the things of God. The
marriage feast is a purely spiritual event that is past, present and
continuous, all you need is hear the call, understand it and enter
in by faith to participate in the love feast. Blessed are those
who hear the call or invitation of the spirit in this hour beckoning
on them to come up hither and be united once more with Christ in
heavenly place.
Many are called but few are chosen, because many are not able to
discern the hidden boundless riches associated with Christ. The
bride who makes herself ready is the Church or company of saints
that make up the body of Christ. They make themselves ready by
purifying themselves by faith in the blood of the lamb and the
washing and regeneration from the water of the word of truth. The
word of truth is given to us to purge ourselves from the corruption
of the outer material world by also transforms our minds and turning
it away from vanity. It is only as we put on the garments of
righteousness that we can realize the union with the lamb. For those
who are bumping into this site for the first time, I encourage you
to read an online article on the righteous covering of linen over
the bride, known as the righteousness of the saints
REDISCOVERING OUR LIGHT GARMENTS(HTML).
To confirm this celestial marriage feast, in
Matthew 22:1-14 Jesus gives a parable that speaks of this invaluable celestial
marriage. It talks of a king who organized a marriage for the son
and invited many to attend the feast in honor of His son (Matthew
22:1).
The invitation was extended out to many people but most turned down
the invitation because they were occupied with merchandising and
gain (Matthew 22:3-6); the few who entered were the poor and
people of no repute [Matthew 8-10]. Let us careful read this
parable prayerfully because Jesus is revealing this to us so that we
do not let this salvation pass us by.
In this context, the king represents God the Father and the son
represent Christ the only begotten of God and the one who inherits
all things. The invitation is the trumpet call of the spirit
inviting men of this world to leave all and be partakers of the
wedding feast of the lamb. Attending the wedding feast means being
part of the bridal company which is the Church (ek-klay-see'-ah
in the greek: meaning the called out).
Those who discern this call and are able to recognize the priceless
worth of it and obey it by uniting themselves with the Lord in
marriage will escape the powers of death that rules this Dark Age.
Many however are not able to comprehend the invisible and eternal
glory associated with the Christ, for this reason they carry on in
pursuit of vanity, seeking to gain the world by hanging on to their
fleshy earthly identities. In this parable these people are
represented by the merchants and farmers who reject the grace of our
Lord Jesus and try to hang out with the lie. Some others are carried
away with human activities for survival and vain glory, but like
Jesus says to attain to the place, we must learn to live for the
moment, do not try to live a life worrying about tomorrow, stand in
the present and concentrate on the word that is flowing from the
throne of grace in this hour. We should always ask God to turn away
our eyes from the deceitfulness of riches and the glories of this
world so that they do not obscure our view of God’s kingdom. The
secret is that if any man forsakes all to unite in one with the
spirit of Christ, He inherits all things, in heaven and on earth,
the omnipotent power of God included. Anyhow if we reject this call
to obedience and fellowship with Christ we can be rest assured that
someone else will accept it and receive the glorious blessings of
God, because God is able to raise up stones to praise Him, so we
ought to set our priorities right.
The parable indicates that all the guests had to be clothed in
wedding garments, meaning they have to put on Christ. We put on
Christ in our consciousness so that it is no more I but Christ, this
is done by allowing the word of truth to transform our minds from
that of the natural man to that of Christ so that we can
consequently rediscover the true inner man created perfect without
guile. So the invitation goes hand in hand with repentance from dead
works of the flesh unto a new life dedicated to the living God.
There must be continuity and progress in this, otherwise we risk
losing the sight of this called to intimate fellowship with Christ.
The man who was found without a wedding garment is the one who puts
His plough on the ground and looks back, meaning He does not keep
Himself in the knowledge of the truth and consequently losses His
place among the saints in light and returns to the outer darkness
where He loses knowledge of the Father and the son [Matthew
22:11-13].
If any man can hear the cry of the spirit inviting Him to come in
and participate in the sacred matrimonial fellowship in light, Let
Him count Himself blessed, because God is extending His right hand
to deliver Him from the grip of death and to crown Him with life.
Let willingly let go of all the things that tie us to this world and
come in freely into the heavenly wedding chamber to love and
contemplate the glory of our God.
SALVATION THROUGH CHILD BEARING
The
fruit of the womb is the blessing of God for His people, because the
seed is the one that inherits all.
Psalms 127:3 Lo, children
are an heritage of the LORD: and
the fruit of the womb is his reward.
Now, we are not referring to earthly things here, but to things that
are spiritual and eternal. When God told man (MALE + FEMALE) to be
fruitful and multiply, he was not talking about littering the earth
with flesh and blood, He was talking about bringing forth according
to the spirit in the image and in the likeness of God. In the union
between male and female, a son emerges who rules over all and reigns
over all, but this is only possible if that original celestial
marriage union is intact. In other words the evidence of the blessed
married union is in the seed. It is the seed of the union between
the male and female that actual inherits God’s Paradise; that seed
is the one flesh. As long as Adam and eve remain one, they had the
Garden of Eden to jump around in and enjoy freely, but all that
changes when Eve violates her wedding vow.
Revisiting the beguilement of Eve, we should understand that Eve was
never created to have a life and a will of her own, she was meant to
be submissive to her husband in all things. As the head of the
relationship, Adam only was to do the speaking and reasoning because
the mouth, mind and all other coordinating organs of the body are
attached to the head. Eve was meant to be always silent and to
prophesy only with her covering over her head [1 Corinthians
11:5-6, 1Timothy 2:11-12]. The covering over the head of the
woman is the husband not some sort of scarf like religion makes
people believe. This means that if the woman prophesies, she
prophesies only what she hears Him say otherwise she dishonors Him
and brings shame. This was the very thing Eve did when she
transgressed the commandment of God; in the first place she was not
supposed to speak with the serpent, neither was she supposed to act
on her own by observing with her own eyes. If she had remained
subject to her soul mate there would have been no occasion for
stumbling.
IT IS IMPORTANT TO REALIZE THAT THIS IS ONLY APPLICABLE IN THE TRUE
CELESTIAL MARRIAGE NOT TO EARTHLY MARRIAGES. I am stressing this
because some men misuse these scriptures into maltreating their
wives. We see this in predominantly in third world countries and
various religious sects where women are enslaved with religious
doctrines of men who understand the bible only according to letters.
Even Satan appears as an angel of light and he uses the letters
which is a veiled version of the word as an instrument of cruelty to
put brethren into greater bondage. The earlier we realize that our
earthly wives only put on those female vessels for a season after
which they return to their true spiritual form, the closer we are to
God’s kingdom. If you are connected to your true spiritual eyes, you
will discern that we are all brethren in Christ where we know no man
after the flesh.
The moment Eve acted on her own and was seduced into joining herself
with the Serpent of the dust (carnal spirit of this world) and
therefore violated her union with her true soul mate (Christ), a
spiritual abortion occurred. The seed of the blessed union was put
asunder and to this day she has remains barren, unable to bring
forth the blessing of God. The celestial seed from the beginning was
no more and a new seed of the dust emerged, an offspring of the
serpent so to say. The Adam that received the curse saying dust you
are and to dust you will return is not the man God created in the
beginning but a counterfeit, the offspring of Eve and the serpent.
In the transgression Eve’s womb is now sealed from bringing forth
the blessing of God, she now brings forth the offspring of the
serpent which is flesh and blood (earthly man); so we see a
counterfeit Adam of the dust appears no more the celestial being
ruling and reigning in the glory of God. In her transgression the
curse of Eve was that in pain will she bring forth, explaining her
inability to be fruitful; she now brings forth after the wind, her
seed is cursed and inhabits the wilderness places far away from the
presence of God where eternal life in its fullness is located.
1Timothy 2:9 In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in
modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided
hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array; 10 But (which becometh
women professing godliness) with good works. 13 For Adam was first
formed, then Eve.
We should know that it was Eve (the soul in this context), the
female aspect of the union that was actually lured away by the
temptation of the devil [1Timothy 2:14]. Adam (the male
aspect of the union) who represents the spirit of Christ in this
context cannot sin; He cannot deny Himself He remains the truth
forever. One may ask, “but didn’t Adam eat also of the forbidden
fruit?” Of course He is ever present with Eve as she goes about
playing the harlot with idols of this world. Adam who represents
Christ the spirit is not complete without the woman, so he will
always be by her side until the day she comes to her senses and
rediscovers Her true soul mate is always by her side and has never
left her.
The soul which by now has seen and experienced great tribulation
while roaming the earth flirting with those that her not her
rightful husband will once more find true salvation when she repents
and turns once more to her true soul mate. Her barren spiritual womb
which has continuously brought forth after the wind will be healed
only as she unites once more with her true husband from the
foundation of the world. In separating herself from her idols and
joining herself with the spirit of Christ, she finds true salvation
in the holy seed that will be born.
The bridegroom (the Spirit of Christ) is beckoning to His bride in
this hour, if she can hear Him and repent of her unfaithfulness and
return to Him, He is ever willing to receive her back because He is
not complete without her.
Jeremiah 3:1 They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from
him, and become another man's, shall he return unto her again? shall
not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot
with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the LORD.
The world and the lusts found therein can not give satisfaction to
the soul, true salvation from the horrors and loneliness of the
outer world comes to her when she renews her marriage vow from the
foundation of the world and resubmits herself totally to the spirit
of Christ [1Timothy 2:9-12]. As she purifies herself from the
filth of this world, by applying the water of the word provided by
the groom and enters into the marriage chamber of her beloved, the
barren womb will become fruitful again, so that she once more brings
forth the promised seed of God. It calls for patience and continuity
on the part of the bride in faith and good works unto the Lord.
1Timothy 2:14 And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being
deceived was in the transgression. 15 notwithstanding she shall be
saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and
holiness with sobriety.
There are many examples of barren women who eventually brought forth
great men after divine intervention; they all serve as examples of
the glorious work of redemption which God is performing in the midst
of the earth today. Some notable examples of barren women who
eventually had the last laugh are the likes Sarah, who brought forth
the seed of promise in her old age when it would have seemed
impossible from mans perspective. Showing that no matter the
hopelessness and seemingly deadness of our states God is able to
revive us. The Mother of Samson is another example of a barren woman
who brought forth after the word of the Lord; she brought forth
Samson a super human in His time. Samson is a shadow of the sons of
God manifesting the omnipotent power of God. Another example of the
barren whose tears are turned into laughter is Hannah the Mother of
Samuel the great prophet of Israel. Her prophetic song reveals the
saving hand of God and the salvation that God is revealing today on
the earth. Some extracts from her song are
1Samuel 2:5
The barren hath born seven:
This
is prophetic reference to the perfect seed of Christ which the
barren woman has birthed. Seven in this context is the number of
perfection and lights. We who follow on to know the Lord will
experience the divine miracle, which is birthing the Christ the Son
of the living God.
1Samuel 2:6 The LORD killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to
the grave, and bringeth up:
Here we see a reference to the quickening power of the
resurrection. Awakening from the graveyard of humanity where lost
souls unite with idols and shadows and reuniting with Christ into
that one spiritual body know of God is what occurs as we birth the
Christ. Any man living outside the union with Christ is dead in His
sins and trespasses.
1Samuel 2:7 The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth
low, and lifteth up. 8 He raiseth up the poor out of the dust,
and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them
among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: Again
we see prophetic utterance in relation to our elevation and
exaltation from the lower places of the earth where ignorance and
spiritual poverty reigns supreme to the throne of God where we seat
in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. The fruit of the womb is the one
that sits on the throne of God and rules over all the works of God’s
hands as demonstrated in the revelation of the man child church in
the book of revelation [Revelations 12:1-5].
Seeing all these confirmations in the bible, we ought to stir up
ourselves and patiently wait for the birthing of the seed of God on
the inside of us. It calls for patience, sobriety and continuity. In
the natural, a woman who has conceived in her womb will be careful
to keep the fruit of the womb until the day it completes its
development cycle and comes forth. While she waits, she might want
to change her diet and eats things that will have a positive impact
on the fruit of her womb, she will abstain from negativity and
engage in less outward and demanding activities. Yes like Jesus
says, the world might carry on in their earthly pleasure, while you
wait with all perseverance, but your sorrow will be turned into Joy,
because you will bring forth the only man known of God, the man from
the beginning who rules and reigns over all [John 16:20-23].
In that day mans system will no more be able to dampen the joy of
your salvation because you will remain secure in the eternal arms of
the almighty, then you will know that all power in heaven and on
earth is at your very disposal and it will never be taken away from
you.
THE VIRTUOUS WOMAN WORTHY OF HONOR
The
groom has been speaking to us in different ways using parables and
examples to furnish us thoroughly with the goods needed to realize
this marriage union we have been talking about. We who are called to
be partakers of this unspeakable glory are admonished to always make
our election and calling sure, no more turning aside from the truth
unto the lie.
We
are going to briefly examine the secret behind Rebecca’s election
into becoming the bride of Isaac the son of the then rich and
accomplished Abraham [Genesis 24].
Moses sent His most senior and well trusted servant who was
custodian of all that He had to go out to search for a wife for His
son. In this story we see God speaking to us again using types.
In
this riddle Abraham acts as God the Father who owns all things in
heaven and on earth, while Isaac the son represents Christ who
inherits all. The servant that goes forth to search for a wife for
the son is the Holy Spirit sent out to fetch the bride (Christ) and
to lead her would be husband, the son so that they can be united in
one in the bond of marriage.
It
is interesting to note her humility and willingness to serve the
servant of Abraham when He asked for water to drink after a long
journey through desert territories. Not minding that he was a
stranger, from whom she never expected reward, she went an extra
mile to fetch water for the camels also. The bible is careful to
record that she did this hastily showing her commitment to sincerely
satisfying the weary soul of Abraham’s servant and His beasts.
Genesis 24:17 And the servant ran to meet her, and said, Let me, I
pray thee, drink a little water of thy pitcher. 18 And she said,
Drink, my lord: and she hasted, and let down her pitcher upon her
hand, and gave him drink. 19 And when she had done giving him drink,
she said, I will draw water for thy camels also, until they
have done drinking. 20 And she hasted, and emptied her pitcher
into the trough, and ran again unto the well to draw water,
and drew for all his camels.
For
this, she unknowingly won the election into becoming the wife of the
most influential man on the earth at that time, because the promise
was to come from his loins. A moment of pride, hesitation,
insensitivity and lack of discernment would have robbed her of the
election. This calls for an attitude of discernment and
watchfulness, because if we sleep like the world sleeps carried away
as it may be by the innumerable distractions seen in this world
there is a possibility of losing out on the grace of God.
Those who have ears to hear this silent voice of the messenger of
God and humble themselves into servants will be exalted. Our calling
is to exercise ourselves in truth, by fetch the word (water) out of
the deep resources (well) of God and refreshing the souls of men who
are wearied and burden. God will not come down from heaven to tell
you to start manifesting His love; you must awake and do this by
faith. We are called to wash each others feet in the selfless spirit
of love, because the way to up into glory is by humbling ourselves.
Forget big and bogus ideas of what men think ministry is all about;
simply do what you see the Father do.
In
reference to those who will inherit glory and honor, Jesus once said
that the least you do unto these little ones, you do also to me [Matthew
25:35-40]. This means that if we can awaken from the
deadness of human reasoning and recognize His seed in all men and
humble ourselves into becoming couriers of truth to loosening the
souls of men in the dungeons of death, satisfying the famished souls
and covering the naked, we will also be loosened from the chains of
death, clothed in glory and exalted in a realm of abundance.
The
servant of Abraham was later on invited into the Rebecca’s family
house where He stayed the night with them. While in their family
house He dined with them and presented gifts to Rebecca and her
family members. To be more precise, the gifts He handed over to
Rebecca were a golden earring and two bracelets of Gold.
Dining with the servant of God reveals fellowshipping with the word
of truth, this fellowship has to come alive on the inside of all
those who are being elevated in Christ. It is this spiritual
fellowship within that purifies us and keeps us in the knowledge of
the truth. The golden earring presented by the servant of Abraham is
symbolic of the opening up of our ears to hear things that relate to
divinity and truth, it is necessary because salvation comes by
hearing and perceiving the truth. The gold bracelets with their
circular format are symbolic of our divine union with Christ.
Fellowshipping in the Holy Ghost bridges every gap with Christ our
try soul mates.
On
completing His successful mission, carefully leading the bride to
the bridegroom, the servant of Abraham returned home. On getting to
His destination Isaac meets a veiled bride and led her into the
secrecy of His late Mother’s tent, where the veil over her face is
removed and they unite in one in marriage. The once unknown Rebecca
is now exalted from a remote unknown family unto becoming one flesh
with the most influential man in their time.
This is a simple parable of our calling and union with Christ the
son of the living God. Those who hear these words and walks aright
in relation to the truth will inherit all things.
THE FULL ETERNAL PLAN OF GOD
“I and the Father are one”; “if you see me you have seen the
Father”; “It is the Father in that dwells in me (His holy temple)
that does the work”; “Father, not my will but your will be done”;
“Father you have loved me before this world was”. With all these
confessions, Christ was demonstrating His oneness with God the
Father; He is eternally married to God so to say. He was
demonstrating the fact that
1)
God was
His head.
2)
He was
not His own but God’s.
3)
His body
was God’s body.
4)
He was
reverently submissive to God in all things.
5)
God loved
Him and cared for Him.
6)
He was
co-worker with God.
Paul caught a revelation of this married union between God and
Christ:
1Corinthians 11:3 But I would have you know, that the head of every
man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the
head of Christ is God.
Ultimately our marriage union with Christ is a gateway to the living
God; this means that if we are married to Christ and become one body
with Him, we are married to God and He becomes all in all. The only
way back to the Father is through the son, so marriage with the
Christ is the only way by which men be saved. We must unite back to
the inner man of the spirit and let go of all things that attaches
us to the outer man of the flesh who is of this corruptible world.
Ultimately speaking the will of God for us, is to be gathered back
into the Godhead from whence we were all were cast out in the
transgression of Adam. We are all being gathered into the reality of
all that Jesus Christ is because He remains the mark of excellence
throughout eternity. The workings of salvation through the grace of
our Lord Jesus are to bring us into the bond of oneness with Christ
and consequently realize that we are in the God Head.
John 14:20 At that day ye shall know that I
am in my Father,
and ye in me, and I in you.
Every lie that says we are anything other than what God is and has
sought to separate us from His glory will be abolished. As the Lord
opens our eyes of understanding to comprehend the mystery of our
inseparability and oneness with God, it is like the unveiling of the
bride before the groom where they see both see face to face and are
consequently united in one.
The veil over the bride is the veil of death that has blinded the
eyes of understanding of men from the truth, so that they failed to
realize that they are an integral part of Christ and of the living
God. When that veil is removed then they will understand what Jesus
meant when He says that the Israelites received the laws of Moses
due to the hardness of their heart (veiled hearts). When the veil is
removed we then become CONSCIOUSLY AWARE that we are in Christ and
Christ is in God (or Christ is in us and God is in Christ). In this
union there is no law (no Moses), because God is all in all and is
even before Moses ever was.
This is the only eternal union that can never be moved or shaken
with time as demonstrated in the wedding rings which are designed in
a circular format with no starting or end point.
Heaven and earth may pass away; systems of mortal men may pass away;
Men wax old and die off, their glories are for a moment and then
they are no more, but our union with Christ and God is an eternal
union that will never pass away. So we are admonished to unite with
the Lord as he gives us light and distance ourselves from the lies
and pomp of men, because in a moment their glory and self made
images will evaporate and be no more.
This celestial marriage union is the only union that can restore man
back to the pinnacle of Zion where they can live in eternal delights
and pleasures; this is demonstrated in the wedding cake capped with
icing. Have you ever wondered where men got the original design of
normally tall cakes with usually three layers? They extract these
things from the spirit and apply them to their own material world
without even knowing it. Like I mentioned earlier on everything in
this world, whether visible or invisible all originate from the
spirit in the climax of the love union hidden in God from the
foundation of the world. If you enter into this marriage love feast
you will see everything in twos and in threes reflecting the sacred
marriage union. If you see and perceive any other thing apart from
The Father, the son and the Church it is darkness. 
The normally three layers of the wedding cake represent dimensions of existence that we can all
experience.
The first layer which is normally the largest, is the lower carnal
realm where most men walk in the flesh or in other words, according
to their natural instincts. It signifies spiritual poverty,
powerlessness and death (separation from the living God).
The second layer represents an upward movement or ascension from
carnal living and the realm of death where men begin to recognize
Christ as their true soul mates and unite with Him in marriage.
The third layer also known as the third heaven or the third
dimension, is the final destination, where we once more inherit the
blessings of marriage that was from the beginning. This is the
pinnacle of Zion, where all the redeemed brethren gather in one, in
marriage unto Christ and unto God. They now become the body of God,
manifesting God upon the earth for all men to contemplate. This is
the place of salvation and it can be attained to only as we
recognize our true soul mate (Christ the spirit) and unite with him
in marriage.
God bless you as you keep your marriage vows from the foundation of
the world.
Trevor Eghagha
