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2Kings 2:11-12 And it came to pass, as they still went on, and
talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and
horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by
a whirlwind into heaven. 12 And Elisha saw it, and he cried,
My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen
thereof. And he saw him no more: and he took hold of his own
clothes, and rent them in two pieces.
The prophet Elijah had come to the conclusion of His race and the
set time had come for Him to depart, He would do this in a manner in
which most men never have the privilege of doing. Instead of going
downwards into death and corruption, He was quickened and taken up
into an incorruptible dimension where true life reigns supreme.
While Elijah was being taken up by the whirlwind into heaven,
Elisha, His servant and successor had a rare revelation of the
invisible host of heaven appearing as a chariot of fire driven by
fiery horses and a whirlwind. At this awesome sighting, He cried out
MY FATHER, MY FATHER, THE CHARIOT OF ISRAEL AND THE HORSEMEN
THEREOF. There is no way Elisha could have gotten a clear revelation
of what He saw, but rather it is for we today who are called into
God’s kingdom to be partakers of the mysterious fellowship of the
saints in light. It is given to us to know the mysteries of the
kingdom and to be partakers of divinity and heavenly glory [Mark
4:11].
The same way Elijah was taken up in a whirlwind along with the fiery
horses and chariot of fire, is the same glorification path that all
those predestined for glory will take. Like Elijah, many will escape
the power of death; some will be exalted and will stand eternally in
the place of life. I am speaking here in a spiritual tongue, because
in reality Elijah’s translation is only a shadow of the true
translation and glorification that occurs in those who are to
inherit eternal life. At that point in time Elijah never tasted true
eternal life, confirming the saying of Jesus that the least in God’s
kingdom is greater than John the Baptist who is greater than all the
prophets that were before Him. What happen to Elijah was simply a
pointer or we can call it a shadow of greater things to come
regarding the glory of Christ.
This topic is wide and can in no way be exhausted by one article,
but we will try to unlock some mysteries locked up in the
translation of Elijah and the transformation of Elisha His servant
and successor. Bear it in mind that articles like this, go forth to
refresh the saints and strengthen their faith so that they remain
unmoved and unshaken by the appearance of things in this Dark Age.
We should meditate day and night on these things so that they become
life to us.
Our Father, the only true Father, is teaching us how to get back to
Him, so that we can once more find the place of glory which He
ordained for each and every one of us from the beginning. The focal
point of the gospel is reconciliation with the Father, because when
we have the Father we have all things. He says, “I am your
exceeding great reward [Genesis 15.1]”, meaning
discovering ourselves in and as Him is the ultimate reward for any
man who can comprehend what the spirit is saying in this hour. Jesus
confirms this when he says great is your reward in heaven,
because in heaven, we are united in one with the Father; the Father
who sees in secret rewards us with every thing that He is.
Paul made reference to our consolation and reward is beyond the veil
where Jesus has gone ahead of the other brethren as fore runner for
those who will inherit life [Hebrew 6:11-20]. The consolation
beyond the veil is, the glory of the Father found beyond the veil in
the holies of holies and appeared as a cloud hovering over the mercy
seat between the two cherubims [Leviticus 6:2]. Now we
understand what Jesus mean when he prayed: “Father glory me with
yourself with the glory I had with you before this world was [John
17:5]” and “I go to the Father [John 16:6]”. Jesus was
glorified and caught up in the glory cloud at the end of His
ministry [Acts 1:9]; the glory cloud is simply that glory of
the Father that dwells beyond the veil of human consciousness and
awareness, in the invisible. It is out of this cloud that the Father
thundered, saying this is by beloved son in whom I am well pleased.
Having found himself in a mortal dead human body, and tasted what it
means to be separated from the Father, he retraced his steps back to
His immortal glory in God, knowing that He descended from that same
glory. His ascension in the cloud shows us that Jesus ended up in
the glory of the Father, so that every trace of that dead human
identity He bore in the days of the flesh was totally dissolved.
Jesus as a man born of Mary and Joseph, knew the secret of life, for
this reason He let go of His life as a mortal and held on to the
revelation of the true inner man of the Spirit. “I AM
the way, I AM the truth and I am the
life, no man in His natural state of flesh and blood can inherit the
glory of the Father, unless he recognizes the “I” (the Christ
within) on the inside of Himself and lives by Him. If I discover the
mystery of the I on the inside of me as revealed by
the Father and humble myself unto the death of the cross, putting
aside the false identity I bore in ignorance, I will discover
that I and the Father are one. I will discover that
I rule over all and all things serve me, I will discover
myself in the glory cloud of the Father, united in one with His
heavenly host as one universal Spirit and in truth.
Our high calling in Christ is far higher than the things that are
exalted in the mind of mortal man, it is far above gold and silver,
big banks accounts and whatever form of gathering that men seek
after, be it for fame, protection, satisfaction or self
immortalization. Discovering the Father is life unlimited, joy
unspeakable, peace abundant and self containment in all things. Any
man who retains the mistaken image he has borne in His human
experience and does not experience the true inner life in the son is
as one that enters into darkness and departs in darkness, because He
has not seen the light of the world. This is the coded message in
Ecclesiates 6:3-4.
Ecclesiates 6:3-4 If a man beget an hundred children, and
live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul
be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial (death
to mortal sense of life); I say, that an untimely
birth is better than he. 4 For he cometh in with vanity, and
departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.
The fullness of time has come and we are being educated on how we
can be gathered back unto the Father who is the only true God and
eternal life. The spirit is in our midst today teaching and
instructing us on how we can be gathered back into that one
celestial, invisible and spiritual body of innumerable saints,
angels and perfected spirits which has been ever before the world
was, and remains throughout all eternity. This body of perfected
spirits functions together as the son in absolute oneness and is the
only God and eternal life.
John the Apostle, the one who knew the heartbeat of Christ,
eloquently reveals a mystery that many men who read the bible to
this very day have not been able to comprehend. He reveals our
origin and our destination in the faith of our Lord Jesus. He
reveals our origin in the son who is called Christ Jesus in this
present time; I say in this present time because He has been even
before audible names came into being, He simply is. The
Apostle John reveals that this mysterious body from which we
originated from, is the only true God and eternal life.
1John 5:20 And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given
us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and
we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus
Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
John is saying in plain language that God is revealed in this Body
with many members of which we are part of. There is no other place
where the true and living God can be found except in this body which
we are all part of. Wherever God is present the body is always
present and wherever the body is present God is present. This is the
same glorious spiritual body that hovered over the waters in the
beginning when God commanded things into existence, it is the same
body that created all things in heaven and on earth whether they are
invisible or visible. It has pleased God that His fullness dwells in
this body, so that seeing this body is seeing God, touching this
body is touching God [Colossians 1:15-19].
In man’s transgression in Adam He is slain and cast out of this body
and reduced to a mere mortal creature under the dominion of the
wicked one. In the state of deep sleep otherwise known as the realm
of the dead, man walks in ignorance of who He truly is and
consequently roams the earth like a hypnotized soul not
understanding the substance they are made of. Christ has come to
awaken and revive us, causing us to once more partake of the
fellowship of the saints in this one body in which lies all the
goodness and blessings of God [Colossians 1:12-13]. Our
fellowship with the Father is possible only as we are transported
into the conscious knowledge of the son. The transportation occurs
by a mighty spiritual shift from an earthly and elementary
consciousness into a purely spiritual consciousness, causing one to
awaken to an infinite glorious realm in the knowledge of the living
God.
Paul recognized this eternal spiritual body and humbled Himself,
becoming a servant serving this body day and night hoping that He
might be found perfectly fitted into this body [Philippians
3:8-10]. His words are “That I may win Christ”, “That I may be
found in Him”, “that I may know Him”, “that I may taste of the power
of the resurrection”. The power of the resurrection is the mighty
power that works in us who are called to glory, it brings about an
inward awakening out of the depths of human ignorance and causes us
to be found once more united in one in the body of Christ, which is
also the body of the living God, like we saw earlier on.
Allegorically, this is the same power that was working in Elijah as
He was translated from an earthly man to a heavenly man. This should
be our hope also, that we should be grow in the unity of the faith
into that one spiritual body that rules over all. The blessing of
the living God rests upon this tightly knitted body of spirits who
dwell as one upon the peaks of Zion, it is here that life and favor
is found [Psalm 133].
Our gathering unto the Lord can also be likened as a gathering unto
this myriads and multitudes of perfected spirit for fellowship in
love, where the anointing of life flows and all live by the
countenance of the glory of God. Mount Zion is the city (habitation)
of the living God, which is the church of the first born, the
gathering of angels (God’s messengers of truth) and perfected
spirits [Hebrews: 21-23]. These multitudes are also
likened to the chariots of God that together form the army of God.
Wherever these chariots (angels) are the Lord is always present, and
vice versa.
Psalm 68:17 The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even
thousands of angels: the Lord is among them, as in
Sinai [shadow of Zion], in the holy place.
In one interesting manifestation of God’s glory to Moses, He
descended with the cloud which I pointed out is a body of
innumerable company of His mighty ones otherwise known as the
chariot[s] of God [Psalms
104:3].
A proclamation went forth saying “The LORD God, merciful and
gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, Keeping
mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin,
and that will by no means clear the guilty;” [Exodus:5-7].
PRAISE GOD !!! What Moses was beholding is the glorious body of
Christ; God was revealing a picture of our ourselves gathered in
that one body which we call Christ; He also reveals the goodness and
kindness that is laid up for His innumerable company of redeemed
ones who are gathered in Christ; it also reveals the consequence of
transgression against this body. Understand that true sin and
transgression before God is refusing to be gathered into that cloud
which represents Christ; if any man therefore is not gathered in
Christ He perishes in His sins and trespasses.
Paul had a revelation of the grace that lies with those who are
gathered in the Lord in the cloud, He emphatically states that this
is the mystery of God’s will in other words the ultimate reward for
us. Those who have any other type of hope, should read carefully.
Ephesians 1:5-10 Having predestinated us unto the adoption of
children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good
pleasure of his will, 6 To the praise of the glory of his grace,
wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved. 7 In
whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of
sins, according to the riches of his grace; 8 Wherein he hath
abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence; 9 Having made
known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good
pleasure which he hath purposed in himself: 10 That in the
dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in
one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and
which are on earth; even in him:
When Elijah was taken up in a whirlwind along with the fiery horses
and chariot of fire, God was allegorically demonstrating our
envelopment into the body of Christ to be united with myriads of
other brethren in one in heavenly places. Of course the Father is
found only in this gathering that is why Elisha yelled, MY FATHER,
MY FATHER; beholding this congregation is beholding God because that
is God’s body. Elijah was taken into the congregation of the mighty
ones of God (Elohims) where God is found (Allegorically). This is
our ultimate hope and calling, to be gathered into that one body and
to fit in, in perfect harmony. It is something for the now not
tomorrow when something happens like many end time preachers preach,
all you need to do is comprehend this mystery and enter into it.
Like Jonah, any man looking for some form of external sign or event
like the forecasters predict will only sink further down into the
pit of misery and destruction.
The chariots of God are the same that appear as a pillar of fire at
night and as clouds by day throughout the forty years the Israelites
spent in the wilderness. Paul described what transpired spiritually
when the Israelites left Egypt; He said that they were baptized into
the cloud which spiritually represents the many membered body of
Christ. This again reveals the whole essence of our calling which is
to be gathered from the dead and united with the Lord in that one
body and to remain there forever. WHAT MEN HAVE INTERPRETED
ERRONEOUSLY AS THE RAPTURE IS SIMPLY OUR QUICKENING EXALTATION FROM
THE LOWER REALMS OF EXISTENCE (DEATH) WHERE THERE IS NO KNOWLEDGE OF
GOD, INTO PERFECT UNITY WITH THE BODY OF CHRIST REPRESENTED BY THE
CLOUDS OR THE CHARIOTS OF GOD WHERE GOD IS PRESENT.
Let us examine the verses in 1Thessalonians 4:16 -18.
1Thessalonians 4:16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven
with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of
God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: 17 Then we which are
alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the
clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with
the Lord. 18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
You can see from the verses in 1Thessalonians 4:18 that this
celestial gathering in the cloud is the hope of every well
instructed believer. In the clouds which is a Spiritual invisible
cloud, man awakens from the illusion of an independent life from the
life of God and is consciously fused in one with the Lord, so that
He is one Spirit with God. In this sacred consciousness, fear, pain
and tribulation pass away. Remember the word’s of Paul which say
that, “Him that is joined to the Lord is one Spirit with the Lord”.
Ignorance of this union is death, this is the deceitful sense of
separation induced by Satan that plunges man into hell and death.
If we are united with the chariots of God we appear with Him as He
appears before the whole world. We who have physical bodies are the
interface with which the Lord appears in the natural realm as He
rides on with His glory cloud (company of Chariots). This implies
that men should stop looking at the physical sky thinking that
Jesus will appear there, He is already appearing through His
gathered ones who have heard the inner voice of truth and obeyed it
with gratitude. He has appeared before, He is appearing now and will
appear again and again. If any man looks out for physical external
prophetic signs, He risks missing it exactly like those in the days
of Jesus were unable to discern the signs of the time, for had they
known they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. I have seen
Him riding in the clouds of heaven and I will see Him again and
again, AMEN.
Jesus walked knitted together in one with the heavenly body so that
as He went around demonstrating the mystery of the kingdom he was
not alone; He was always in the company of the multitudes of virgin
spirits otherwise known as the company of thousands. From the moment
of His symbolic baptism, He was initiated into that body of God. The
spirit of God descended upon Him as a dove descends, this is
the same glory that descended as clouds when Moses dedicated the
tabernacle and when Solomon dedicated the temple and later on when
the disciples received the baptism of the Holy Ghost. The baptism of
Jesus was very much the same consecration and dedication of Himself
unto the service of God after which He was gathered into that one
body. On the mount of transfiguration the eyes of the disciples were
opened to behold Jesus in that glory cloud and the Father’s voice
was heard from the cloud because that is where He is found. As Jesus
went about demonstration the mystery of God, it was the myriads of
Chariots appearing, using the physical body of Jesus as an interface
in this natural dimension.
Jesus knew He was in the company of this chariots of God that is why
He made statements like: “Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray
to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve
legions of angels? (Matthew 26:53 )”, and “Behold,
the hour cometh, yea, is now come, that ye shall be scattered, every
man to his own, and shall leave me alone: and yet I am not alone,
because the Father is with me (John 16:32)”. This invisible
host aided Jesus in times of difficulty and was very much involved
in the work of the ministry, so that Jesus was never alone. It did
not end there, Jesus had to buffet His flesh and remain in alignment
with the glory cloud. He too had His temptations in the flesh to
walk contrary to the spiritual body but he overcame through
perseverance obedience and faithfulness.
Today we are called to walk the same path which Jesus walked and
into that same glory He entered into. Like we just read, He too had
to work his salvation by humbling Himself to the death of the cross.
The death of the cross is the bringing to naught of the human
identity of flesh that we were in this natural world, because that
man of the flesh cannot be initiated into this celestial body of
God. The body of God is a purely spiritual body and any man who will
be fitted into this body must have a transformation take place in
Him, which we will look into shortly.
Again using Israel as an example, many of those of old who left
Egypt and were baptized into the cloud perished along the way and
their dead bodies littered the wilderness because they resisted the
work of transformation that the Lord intended for them. God was
indicating that they could not enter the Promised Land (God’s
Kingdom) with their Egyptian ways which represents the carnal
nature; they had to conform to live a new life in relation to the
cloud (Christ) in which they were baptized into. For this reason
they had to go through a forty year period of refining and
regeneration in the midst of the clouds, a period of incubation so
to say, so that Christ is formed in them. The manna and water they
drank all came from the cloud and represented spiritual food and
water to cause them to grow into the full statue of Christ [1
Corinthians 10:2-12]. Any man who will see the streams flowing
with milk and honey on the other side, has to let go of all, so that
He can take a hold of that which is true.
FOLLOWING CHRIST IN THE REGENERATION (THE ELIJAH-ELISHA EXAMPLE)
LEAVING ALL FOR THE GLORY AHEAD
Elijah in His glory is a Shadow of the spiritual man walking in the
glory of Christ. Like Jesus, He was encompassed by a heavenly host
in which He was swallowed up at the end of His ministry. He worked
miracles like raising the dead, multiplying bread for the widow and
caused rain to fall in times of harsh drought. All those signs
prophetically point to the ability to give life which lies in the
Father and equally in the Son.
The moment Elisha received His calling from His master to be,
Elijah, the bible records that he left all to follow Him [1Kings
19:19-21].
(Note that He had twelve oxen and He was the twelfth son of His
Father, the holy spirit is indicating discipleship and sonship).
Discerning the greater prize that is His calling he left every thing
that pertained His own life so that He could gain the glory of
Elijah. He let go of His source of income knowing that the God of
Elijah would be His sufficiency. He also left His family after
saying a big good bye, knowing that He would inherit a true eternal
family.
The price that we must pay as Children of God called to glory is to
leave all including associations after the flesh and upon the earth
so that our heart and mind is focused on that which is true,
heavenly and purely spirit. Any man who will walk in heavenly glory
and splendor can not be entangled with the things of this present
material world. If we have had family members, friends and other
associates after the flesh, remember that they appear as family
members and friends only for a season in this material world after
which they are gone forever. In other words these earthly
relationships do not exist; they are only formations of our carnal
minds. In Christ however we are united in one true universal family
that never passes away, we inherit hundred fold brothers, sisters,
mothers and eternal life because we now know the true Father. These
are the brethren that unite in the cloud of His glory or His
innumerable chariots, for they are all gathered in one from
different tongues, nations and orientations into one in God. Read
what Jesus said in relation to this.
Matthew 19:27-29 Then answered Peter and said unto him, Behold, we
have forsaken all, and followed thee; what shall we have therefore?
28 And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That ye which
have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit
in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones,
judging the twelve tribes of Israel. 29 And every one that hath
forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or
wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an
hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life. 30 But many
that are first shall be last; and the last shall be
first.
In this new heavenly family offences seizes and a true model of love
and oneness is experienced, no more the things people experience in
their earthly families. What people do not realize is that most of
the negativity and hurts people grow up with comes from their
associations with their earthly families right from the moment they
entered this world. It is not that family members are bad; it is the
mistaken earthly model which is embedded in darkness. No matter how
men try, those earthly carnal structures can never be perfected
except they themselves unite with the truth and recognize the true
universal family of Christ. So we have to let go of our associations
after the flesh and unite once more with that which is heavenly. The
best you can do to family members after the flesh is to preach the
gospel of truth and manifest the fruits of the kingdom for them to
believe and in their time they will be saved. They may be bitter
initially, but they will bless you when their eyes are opened to
comprehend what you did.
Leaving associations in the flesh might not be a physical thing, it
all depends on how the Father will direct you, what matters most is
severing in our minds the illusion of relationships in the flesh and
focus on the spirit recognizing people only after the spirit. It is
only then you can discern the seed of Christ buried in them and
truly manifest love without offending and being offended.
SERVANTHOOD
One important thing to notice is that Elisha was called to be a
servant of Elijah [1kings 19:19-21, 2kings 3.11], this was a
necessary pass for Him if He was to inherit Elijah’s glory. This is
one very important step for any man who seeks to inherit true
eternal glory, we must single mindedly convert ourselves to be
servants of Christ, no strings attached. A servant seeks only to
glorify His master and nothing more; those who are able to discern
the Lord’s body and humble themselves and dedicate themselves to
serving Him will stand in the place of glory where Christ stands
eternally before the Father.
John 12:26 If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I
am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me,
him will my Father honour.
The ones that stand where he stands are those who live in the
countenance of God’s glory emitting immortal light; they will never
taste death.
Luke 9:27 But I tell you of a truth, there be some standing here,
which shall not taste of death, till they see the kingdom of God.
Blessed is the man who discerns the body of Christ and bows down
before Him and serves Him. Abraham saw and recognized this body as
it appeared as three men in the plains of Mamre and He humbled
Himself to serve that Body and received the promise He sought
shortly afterwards [Genesis 18:1-14]. The same goes to Lot
who discerned and recognized this body in the form of two angels and
He washed their feet and honored them and got saved from the
destruction that was to follow [Genesis 19:1-15]. We are
called today to begin to discern the Lord’s body and to serve,
worship and honor it so that we can be counted worthy to partake of
His glory and reap the benefits of life.
Jesus demonstrated servant-hood during the last supper when He left
aside he garments and bowed down to wash the feet of the saints, He
further admonished that we do the same [John 13:4-17]. We
should be able to discern the Lord’s body in all men and as all men
and humbly serve it because what you are beholding is the body of
God manifesting as man. It could mean serving by edifying and
refreshing with the word, it could be by ministering materially in
whatever form we can. I have seen some great men God who have
faithfully ministered the word of life as servants of God these ones
never ask for a dime, shouldn’t common sense tell me that I should
minister to Him materially in what ever way I can. As a matured
Christian do I need to be manipulated before I minister to members
of the body of Christ financially or materially? [1 John 3:16-17]
When doing this you are actually serving the Lord God creator of the
heavens and the earth, SOME ENTERTAIN DIGNITARIES AND ANGELS WITHOUT
KNOWING IT [Hebrews 13:1-2].
Hebrews 13:1-3 Let brotherly love continue. 2 Be not forgetful to
entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels
unawares. 3 Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them;
and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the
body.
Over the years I have recognized brethren in the spirit realm
serving me by refreshing my faith in the Lord through spiritual
prophesies, visions and have received transmitted messages that even
those giving the messages didn’t understand. We are called to serve,
the higher we go the greater servants we become in Christ, like
Jesus Christ said, he has come to serve and not to be served.
BEWARE OF EVIL COMMUNICATION AND DISTRACTIONS
The time had come for Elijah to be taken up into glory and Elisha
knew His moment had come to inherit His master’s glory, He knew He
had to stand by His master and watch His every move so that He does
not lose His reward. While on the way with Elijah, Elisha met a
couple of prophets who did not have the same insight that he had and
they all sought to dissuade Him but he was firm in his resolve to
diligently follow His master and conseguently inherit the glory of
His master [2Kings
2:1 -9
].
Like Elisha who sought the glory of Elijah, we are constantly on a
mission to win the totality of the glory of God which is Christ,
this is our goal and our crown; we seek to be found fitted into that
body. If we have experienced Him to some level, we seek to
experience Him in greater depth and this should remain the focus of
our faith.
While on the way we should learn to shut up the mouth of religious
and traditionally indoctrinated brethren who do not have the same
vision as we do, listening to them will only open room for unbelief
and doubt in your quest for glory. Do not expect them to understand
what you see ahead; neither should you bother to try convincing them
by discuss it with them because they will rob you of your crown.
Remember the words of the Lord; let no man rob you of your crown of
glory:
Revelations 3:11 Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou
hast, that no man take thy crown.
Men rob you of you crown by first of all subtly causing unbelief and
fear to take a hope of you, SO LEARN TO SHUT THEIR MOUTHS. If you
listen to their seducing words, they will use biblical scriptures
and laid down moral concepts and traditions of men to sow doubt in
your vision towards omnipotence in Christ. Some of the things they
will tell you are:
1)
They will tell you not to forsake the gathering of the brethren,
meaning that you must belong to a physical church on the earth,
not understanding that the Church of God is actually within the
confines of that heavenly body called Christ.
2)
They will say if they were one of us they would have remain with us.
In reality we are not part of them, our part is in Christ.
3)
They will say beware of false prophets, in the last days they will
many. They say this not knowing that they themselves are the
false prophets. A false prophet doesn’t have to come with
spectacular signs, they are the ones that have not truly
comprehended the mystery of Christ in you the hope of glory.
Unknowingly, they lead many astray by denying them access to the
glory of God, which is Christ. While the true prophet tells you that
you are part and parcel of Christ from the foundation of the world,
the false prophets preach a Christ without who is a separate entity
from us. Any spirit that does not confess that Christ IS COME
(present tense) is a lying spirit or a false Prophet, these are the
ones that go about scattering instead of gathering into Christ.
1Jn 4:1-3 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits
whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out
into the world. Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that
confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: And
every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the
flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof
ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the
world.
4)
They will remind you that their Church has thousands of members,
meaning God is with them increasing them daily. What people do
not realize is God’s chosen ones are gathered spiritually in
heavenly places and they are generally not reckoned or acknowledged
among the nations of the earth, they are in this world but they
relatively unknown [Numbers 23:9-10]. Remember that the
world, religious men alike did not know Jesus, so never expect them
to recognize you either.
1John 3:1 Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon
us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world
knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
If numbers is the center piece of attraction, why are they called
the little flock; why did Jesus take only three disciples to behold
His glory upon the mountain of transfiguration, shouldn’t he have
taken the multitudes?
5)
They will remind you of some of your family members after the flesh
who might be having health or moral problems. They might point to
some form of imperfection in your own human life. Remember that
even at some point in time that even the brethren of Jesus were
unbelievers.
6)
They will do anything to make you remain conformed to the lowly
image of mortal man, to reason otherwise is madness to them.
Remember the words of Jesus:
Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be betrayed
unto the chief priests and unto the scribes, and they shall condemn
him to death, And shall deliver him to the Gentiles to mock, and to
scourge, and to crucify him: and the third day he shall rise again
[Matthew 20:18].
This describes what men who seek excellence in Christ will suffer in
the hands of the principalities and powers of this world system,
because the wisdom of God seems like utter foolishness to the
natural men.
Just remember that all that these prophets will seek to do, is to
cause you to seize confessing that you are Christ manifest in the
flesh, they will seek to convince you that you are a separate entity
from Christ. Do not bother trying to convince them, if they are of
the truth they will hear you [John 18:37].
This applies also to friends and family members who do not have the
same vision as you do, they too stand as prophets in their own
right, they prophesy in the name of their traditions and idols in
their minds. We should never expect encouragement or some form of
input towards our progress from them in the things that pertain to
God. In fact even the brethren of Jesus did not believe Him at a
point in time, all they were seeing is the ordinary child that was
born in a manger thirty years earlier on. Even with the prophesies
and the signs and wonders that followed Jesus, they still did not
believe because they were beholding His imperfection in the flesh.
This is food for thought for those who think that the man Jesus
in His human existence was any different from the ordinary man. It
is important to realize that there is nothing like a good human
(flesh and blood), we are good only as we put on our true original
celestial state which is none other than Christ. When you get
this revelation and walk by faith in relation to Christ, never
expect men who do not have the same revelation as you have to
understand you. At a point they even tried to persuade Him to stop
fooling himself and come back home. Just read this
Mark 3:21 When his family heard about it, they set out to take
charge of him, because people were saying, "He's gone mad!" [GMB
VERSION]
Mark 3:21 When his family heard about it, they went to restrain
him. For they kept saying, "He's out of his mind!" [ISV VERSION]
If Jesus was so misunderstood and went through these kinds of
provoking temptations from his close ones, never expect anything
better, be prepared for a long solitary journey alone with the
brethren in heavenly places as we follow Christ in the regeneration.
Those who do not understand you now, will understand later when
they see you coming with the son of man in great glory and power.
SPIRITUAL PROGRESSION INTO THE FULLNESS OF CHRIST
Elijah Paused on three occasions telling Elisha to wait behind, but
Elisha stood his ground to follow Him unto the very end. There are
some deep lessons for each of us here, because God is demonstrating
to us how to get to the very end where we can receive the totality
of the glory of God. Elijah’s movement from the Gilgal to Bethel,
then to Jericho and finally over the river Jordan shows a spiritual
progression that we must fulfill if we want to be perfectly fitted
into the body of Christ [2 kings 2:2-6]. In all of this,
Elisha had the choice of stopping in any of these Cities but He
passed the test by continuing on. This reminds of perseverance and
continuity in the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ.
The diagram below shows the path to glory as demonstrated by
Elijah’s movement. In the diagram I matched the movement to
progression into the holies of holies where the glory cloud of God
dwelt.
As we progress as Christians there are phases of growth in our
Christian experience as we move on to realizing our heaven goal.
Remember nothing but the fullness of Christ will do, we seek to be
perfectly fitted in Him. If we are to arrive at the place of
unlimited blessings in Christ Jesus or in other words arrive at the
peak of the unity of faith we must transcend all the experiences of
our Christian walk. Like the diagram above shows we must come out
from the outer world (Gilgal) and move on by the spirit of God,
passing through the outer court experience of our Christian walk
(Bethel), then passing the holy place experience (Jericho), we
finally pass the veil (The river Jordan) into the holies of holies
where we are united with the totality of the fullness of the glory
of God.
The Bethel experience is the experience we have in our Christian
infancy where we still recognize Christ from without as the flesh of
Jesus. In this realm Christians continue on in the teachings, wisdom
and the traditions of men never having a knowledge of divinity that
is embedded on the inside of us. Some prophets in the City tried to
distract Elisha but he did not lend them a ear, neither did he
bother to enter into dialog with them.
The Jericho experience is the experience Christians have when the go
a step further to recognize divinity on the inside of them. To some
extent they manifest the spiritual gifts of the spirit and
experience the super natural. Some even have a vision of the glory
of Christ to come but they push it forward to some big event in the
future. These ones continue on manifesting spiritual gifts and
wisdom but they never move on to truly manifesting the fullness of
Christ. They might form end time movements and try to distinguish
themselves from the other brethren outside the tabernacle but they
never truly attain to the place of fullness in Christ. Brethren,
look in the mirror and behold the image you are truly wearing, if it
is not that pure spiritual image beyond the veil the time has come
to awake. Enough of the associations with end groups time groups or
systems of men, the time has come for a solitary work with the
Father in the spirit. Enough of knowledge for egoistic purposes, now
is the time to experience the totality of the glory of Christ, we
must move on otherwise we will continue going round in circles never
ever experiencing true life.
The river Jordan represents the veil between mortality and
immortality, the veil between carnality and spirituality, the veil
between the earthly and the heavenly. The way to the glory beyond
this divide has already been parted by the Lord Jesus by His death
on the cross for all men to enter, but the eyes and the ears must be
opened to perceive this opening into the sacred place of God’s
glory. Everyone must enter individually while holding on to the
head, you cannot enter in groups be it religious or otherwise, it is
for those ready to walk strictly by faith in relation to Christ. We
cross it only as the old man of the flesh dies, the veil of the
carnal minds is ripped apart so that we no longer recognize
ourselves after the flesh neither do we perceive things after the
carnal reasoning. The way beyond the veil is found only as we
conscious rediscover the true spiritual man on the inside of us, as
we discover Him we discover ourselves fitted into the body of Christ
represented by the glory cloud beyond the veil.
Beyond the Jordan, the solitary place is likened to the holies of
holies or the secret place of the Most High. Secret place, because
the natural man religious or otherwise cannot discern this place; He
is totally unaware of it. Even though a thin veil separated the
Holiest place no man ever saw what was beyond it. WE THANK GOD FOR
HIS GRACE BECAUSE TODAY WE SEE AND STAND IN THIS PLACE OF LIFE.
Elijah was separated from Elisha during His translation, He was
translated into a spirit being exactly as the horsemen of fire that
appeared and allegorically speaking he remains there to this day.
That separation occurs as some us begin to receive newness of
spiritual life in Christ, because flesh has nothing in common with
spirit (REMEMBER THIS). Elisha also inherited the glory of Elijah,
He had began a new walk in heavenly places while His master had
finished the race. Those who can overcome the veil of self will
discover themselves united in one with the body of the living God.
If we want to experience true life, love and peace we must transcend
our human life of flesh and blood. Jordan, means death meaning that
to live we must die.
TRANSLATION OF ELIJAH AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF ELISHA
At a point after crossing the river Jordan, Elijah was separated
from Elisha by the glory of the Lord appearing as a chariot of fire
and horsemen of fire, after which Elijah was taken up by a whirlwind
into heaven. The Chariot represents the Chariot of the Father and
the horsemen of fire the innumerable company of angels, saints who
carry the presence of God, all this was none other than a
manifestation of the body of Christ. God was demonstrating the
glorification process of all those who are to inherit glory. Our
glorification occurs as we are gathered into this body of perfect
and purely spiritual beings that have no trace of flesh or
materialism in them. Our glorification in Christ is exaltation from
lowly limited earthly creatures into heaven creatures with infinite
resources at our disposal; we are glorified by the Father by
translation into spirits just like those chariots of fire that
appeared. The Father rewards us with immortality and
incorruptibility when we conform ourselves to walking in truth. Any
man that patiently waits for the Lord in truth will inherit
immortality and life [Romans 2:7].
Psalms 104:3-4 Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters:
who maketh the clouds his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the
wind: 4 Who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming
fire:
He translates His angels into spirits and His ministers
into a flaming fire. Today we are His ministers when we
recognize truth and unite ourselves with it. Truth is Christ is us,
our true image and life, that is truth; this is the only way to the
Father. We who unite ourselves with truth are also likened to angels
whose only purpose is to do the will God and nothing more, they have
no self will nor self identity they appear in the name of the Lord
and act in the name of the Lord. Our high calling in Christ is one
to serve in the house of the living God, and as we faithfully serve
Him, we are granted entrance into that one body of innumerable
angels and Chariots who live by the countenance of His glory. These
ones are the ones who know the meaning of joy and peace; they know
the meaning of praise.
Psalms 89:15 Blessed is the people that know the joyful
sound: they shall walk, O LORD, in the light of thy countenance.
We have all worn a fleshy carnal image of the earthly, but like
Elijah came to the end, we have come to the end of the road; the
moment has come to wear the image of the heavenly. That first man of
the earth is Adam while the second man from heaven is the Lord
(Christ), meaning we have to be converted to becoming Christ. We
know for sure that we shall be as he His as He appears in us or in
other words it becomes apparent that we are Him as He appears.
HALLELUJAH!!
Realizing Christ is our reward and high calling, some will ask: “but
how can I a sinner, a man filled with hate, unforgiveness and
bitterness ever be converted. I have tried fasting; I have tried
night vigils; I have paid all my tithes; I went to bible school what
haven’t I tried but the more I try the more ungodly I seem to get”.
The answer is simple, flesh and blood can not inherit the kingdom of
God. Flesh is flesh and spirit is spirit, they have nothing in
common. If a man will partake of the glory of Christ, he must be
transformed and translated consciously from the earthly creature
that crawls on the ground to a spiritual heavenly creature that
flies in the heavens [1Corinthians 15:46-52].
Glorification and Translation into spiritual beings occurs by an
awakening in our inner consciousness or minds to become aware of our
true spiritual body that we lost sight of as we slept in Adam.
Elijah had walked faithfully as a servant of God and He was now
rewarded with a translation from a lowly dead mortal into in
heavenly glorious creature, never to taste death. Elisha also
received translation, the Elisha that crossed the river Jordan was
different from the Elisha that returned from across the Jordon. When
the prophets saw Him, they discerned that it was Elisha walking in
the glory of Elijah and they bowed down in reference to Him.
2Kings 2:15 And when the sons of the prophets which were to
view at Jericho saw him, they said, The spirit of Elijah doth rest
on Elisha. And they came to meet him, and bowed themselves to the
ground before him.
This confirms the voice of the Spirit in the message to the Church
in Philadelphia for those who have patiently kept the word of truth
and followed Christ in the regeneration which says:
Revelation 3:9 Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan,
which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will
make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I
have loved thee.
Those without will eventually recognize that you are walking in the
name of the Lord because they shall behold the appearing of the
invisible son of God in you and they shall bow to that name which is
above all names, for those who inherit the glory of Christ do appear
in his name.
Elisha also received translation from the ordinary man that He was
into a spiritual man even though he still had a flesh body.
Allegorically Elisha was initiated into the body of God which is
that same body that Elijah was swallowed up into. From that moment
He walked in the midst of those chariots of fire as he went about
doing the works that He did.
To receive this glorification we read earlier on how He served
Elijah, how He left all associations in the flesh, How he insisted
on following Elijah all the way and resisted the religious Prophets.
There is one other important secret that we ought to know, it is
revealed in the last recorded conversation of between Elijah and
Elisha. Elijah said Elisha will inherit His glory in yet greater
proportions only if He saw Him being taken up [2Kings
2:9-10].
This might sound simple to some but it is easier said than done.
This means that Elisha had to be alert without blinking the eye or
even being distracted by anything; he had to stay single mindedly
focused on Elijah which represents the image of the invisible
Christ. How many can truly wait patiently and stayed focused on the
invisible Christ and His kingdom in the midst of a perverse and
crooked generation? With all the many distractions and tribulation
associated with life in this present worlds, how many can truly stay
focused, beholding the glory of the only begotten of God? With the
hassles of making ends meet, maintain a family and doing many other
things how many can truly stand still and behold the glory of
Christ? To inherit glory we must with a single eye behold only
Christ and nothing else, because besides Him there is no other one.
We must see him in all things and as we do this we are consciously
swallowed up in Him.
Watchfulness is the key to inheriting glory, that is why Jesus
always said watch and pray that you do not fall into temptation.
Temptation is that thing that lures men away from the truth and
causes them to loss all awareness of their portion in Christ. To
overcome the many subtle temptations associated with this world, we
must be prayerfully watchful. We can define watchfulness as
spiritual alertness to perceive things in the light of God’s spirit.
If we perceive things according to our carnal mind, spiritually we
are asleep and this is the state of the world today. Men are simply
sleep walking and as long as they sleep they cannot behold the glory
of God. We must learn to perceive things according to the way God
perceives them and stay focused otherwise we will be like the
perishing beasts that have no intelligence; they live by natural
instincts. We who know the truth should walk in it continuously if
we seek true life. This requires sacrifice and dissociation of
things that pertain to men of this age, for the man who seeks
celestial excellencies keeps Himself.
Elisha complied and stayed vigilant and in a flash of a moment He
was able to behold the horsemen and the Chariot of Israel appear as
they swallowed up Elijah. Elisha saw the glory of God
(allegorically), and no man can see the glory of God and live, In
reality Elisha was seeing Elijah in His true form, He was beholding
Him as He is and was transformed into being that same image.
Today we who behold the glory of God with open faces, having the
veil of carnal thinking ripped apart are transformed into that same
spiritual image of the Lord. We behold the glory when we behold all
things with the eye of the spirit, then the transformation begins to
occur in mind.
2Corinthians 3:17-18 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the
Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. 18 But we
all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord,
are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as
by the Spirit of the Lord.
Remember this is a place for the solitary; you do not need to be
distracted by the activities on the other side of the river. Do not
be moved by the appearance of things in this physical plane, let the
mind be focused on the spirit from where our salvation comes.
On beholding the glory of His master, Elisha tore His cloths in two
and took the mantle of Elijah. This symbolizes annihilation of the
old man and the putting on of a new man; the ripping of the old
garment stained with flesh and obtaining the new light garment of
the Lord from heaven. The earthly lowly glory of the man of the
earth is substituted for the glory of the man from heaven. As we
behold the glory of Christ the corrupt man in which we have had our
being is destroyed, so that the new man who is true, righteous and
holy emerges.
Ephesians 4:22-24 That ye put off concerning the former
conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the
deceitful lusts; 23 And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; 24
And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in
righteousness and true holiness.
When this man is discovered then you know that as he is so are you
in this world, without guile, you will know that you are in the
Father. No more we will seek the cover of religion, or material
riches because our covering is the glory of God.
We must pause for a moment to contemplate the glory of Christ,
transcending the mountain and leaving things that tie us down and
let us behold the glory on the face of the transfigured Jesus. Let
the ray penetrate our minds and burn of all trace of carnality so
that we can rediscover ourselves tightly knitted with the body of
Christ.
ELISHA APPEARING IN GREAT GLORY AND POWER
After receiving the twofold portion of the spirit Elisha parted the
river Jordan and returned to the other side of Jordon, this was a
new Elisha appearing in the glory of His mentor Elijah. He was now
gathered into that same heavenly body in which Elijah walked during
the days of His ministry and was eventually taken into, It was
Elisha appearing along with the chariots of fire otherwise known as
the clouds of glory. This is confirmed when Elisha and His servant
Gehazi were encompassed by an army of the enemy, Elisha asked that
the eyes of His servant be opened to behold the presence of the
innumerable heavenly hosts around Him [2Kings 6:15-17].
Prophetically speaking, what Gehazi saw was the multi-member body of
Christ. This is a big lesson for us, we must grow in the
awareness that we are never alone, they that are with us are more
than they that be against us, the Lord is always at our disposal to
fight for us and cause us to prosper in all things.
Like we said, the Prophet recognized He was appearing in the glory
of Elijah and there paid homage to Him by bowing down before Him [2
Kings 2:13-15]. This is the reward for those who persevere unto
the end, because they are the ones who will appear with the Lord in
the clouds of His glory. At the name of Jesus every knee shall bow,
those who follow Jesus in the regeneration appear in THE NAME OF
JESUS and all will see and mourn.
Allegorically speaking, Elisha became the very manifestation of God
here on the earth, administering life and hope to the humble and
needy and extending the rod of judgment to the proud. He is a shadow
of those who attain to fullness and perfection in Christ and
therefore become priests after the endless order of Melchizedek,
administering life to the world throughout all eternity.
Some of the recorded works of Elisha are
1) Healing of the bitter waters and barren lands by pouring in
salt from a new bowl [2Kings 2:21], signifying that He was
the salt of the earth, healer and life giver.
2) He provided water miraculously for the Israelites and their
livestock in the midst of a valley [2Kings 3:17]. Signifying
He quenched their thirst by administering life from the well of God.
3) Multiplication of oil from a small finite source, and
distributing it in vessels [2Kings 4:4]. The empty vessels
represent men who become filled with the word of life.
4) Prophesying life into the womb of a Shunammite woman who was
childless [2Kings 4:16]. In the spiritual sense this points
to birthing Christ.
5) Resurrection of the Shunammite's son [2Kings 4:34].
Demonstrating the ability to restore from the death of Adam and to
give life.
6) Healing Healing of the pot of poisoned stew destined for the
prophets [2Kings 4:41]. The Poisoned stew represents the
poisonous lies that men have feed on right from their descent in
Adam. Elijah put in meal (flour) and healed the stew, a
demonstration He is the word of life.
7) Miracle of the bread [2Kings 4:43]. He multiplied bread
for the prophets Demonstrating He is the bread of life who can truly
bring satisfaction to men.
8) Healing Naaman of His leprosy [2Kings 5:14]. This
miraculous healing of a then incurable disease points to the ability
of Christ to completely heal a man from every trace of a sin
consciousness.
9) Restoring the sight of the Syrian army [2Kings 6:20].
Restoration of sight points to the awakening of the inner spiritual
faculties to behold the glory of God of which are part of.
Jesus had said that these same miraculous signs will follow us, but
to a much higher dimension, because we are the greater than Elijah.
Those who where resurrected by the glory of Elijah never tasted true
resurrection; yes they got back their life after the flesh and
carried on in the old Adamic sinful nature, never truly coming to
the knowledge of the living God and their part in Him. True
resurrection awakens man and causes Him to enter into conscious
oneness with the living God, in this place there is absolutely no
sense of a separation with God, no sin consciousness.
We who are called awaken in the body of Christ and come to the end
where we know we are in Him, the only true God and eternal life. We
become life itself, so that touching us is touching life. Elisha was
so anointed that that even in death His bones were able to still
resurrect a dead man [2Kings 13:21], Meaning he had the glory
in abundance. This is our calling today, to be gathered into the
body of Christ which is the house of the living God, the place where
the anointing of life flows to the fullest. Any man who is not
gathered with the brethren on mount Zion is dead and can’t see life,
while those who lay down all to be united with the one spiritual
body will have life in abundance.
Let us grow in love brethren, let us unite in one among the horsemen
and the chariots of Israel and comprehend together the love of God
which surpasses knowledge.
Blessings
Trevor Eghagha
