Hebrews 4:9 There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.
10 For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from
his own works, as God did from his. 11 Let us labour
therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same
example of unbelief.
We ought not to marvel at the strange things happening around us in
this present world, because the Master has already declared that “in
this world you will have nothing but tribulation, but only in me
will you find peace and rest for your souls”. Some this very day say
that the world is getting worse, but if you are careful to look back
into history, you will discover that the world has always been in
this state. Crimes, murders, injustice, diseases, poverty, wars,
natural disasters, depression etc have always been and will always
be in this realm of existence we call the world. Noah and Lot are
allegorical examples of those who discover the secret of life and
escape the corruption that is in this world. If either of the two
were to descend from the High spiritual mountain peak today, they
will recognize that same lawlessness and imperfection that covered
the face of the earth in their days. The world represents spiritual
darkness; it is a dimension of existence which can in no way yield
the peaceable and charitable fruits of God’s Spirit no matter how we
try as men. Research after research will not solve the problems,
theories after theories will only lead to more and more theories,
and neither can the innumerable religions along with their moral
codes of conduct in anyway heal the rot that is in this world. This
is what the preacher meant when He says, “That which is crooked
cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be
numbered (Ecclesiastes 1:15).”
There is a way out of this madness and rot though, a way that the
wise of the age refrain from because it rubbishes the many towers of
beliefs that man has erected unto Himself. This is the way that the
love of God manifest through the appearing of His Son has
consecrated for us today, a pathway to rest and delights which is
hid from the wise of this age and revealed to babes.
Speaking out of the Christ consciousness, Jesus once said, “Come
unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden and I will give you
rest”.
With this statement, Jesus who speaks in the capacity of the
Offspring of the living God has declared the only means by which a
man can escape the horrors and tribulation associated with life in
this present world. Escaping the tribulation in this world is not
about dying physically or acquiring the goods of this world, but
rather ascension into truth. The voice of the eternal Spirit is
beckoning unto men who inhabit this present Dark Age to awake from
the dead and come up hither, back into Christ consciousness where
they can once more reign in the true abundant life of God.
Christ is the beginning of the creation of God, through whom all
things where created and consists; in Him is the true eternal life
of God which in reality is the true life of all men from the
beginning. So He says. “Come unto me all of you who inhabit the
realm of hell and death, repent from the falsehood of your
illusionary terrestrial life and ascend back into that true
spiritual self who is one with the only true God for that is where
you originated from.
Revelations 2:5 Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and
repent, and do the first works;
No matter how many million ways you might hear it, the center piece
of all of it, is that all men with open faces should contemplate the
mystery of the offspring of God, believe in it, and enter back into
life by Him. The labor of every saint who has this sacred revelation
is that He be found in Him, perfect without spot or guile for in Him
dwells the fullness of God without measure.
1John 3:3 And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth
himself, even as he is pure.
Purifying oneself is not about becoming a better mortal, neither has
it got anything to do with being more religious, but rather it is
more like loosening oneself from the falsehood of His individual
earthly identity which subtly stands as a barrier between man and
His portion in the Omniscient, Omnipresent and Omnipotent God. We
purify and sanctify ourselves by recognizing the word of truth that
is from the beginning, knowing it as our life and uniting with it,
for therein lays the unlimited grace of God.
Psalms 85:10 Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and
peace have kissed each other.
Realizing ourselves in and as the one and only offspring of God
represents the rest of God and the end of the faith that the
everlasting gospel from heaven freely gives to all men who hunger
for truth. In this rest the many struggles of man seizes as he
becomes once more aware that He is the ONE who lives forever and
besides Him there is no other one. The running to and fro in search
for solutions to the innumerable problems in the world seizes, and
man becomes aware that He is the true Holy one who reigns on the
throne of God and inherits all things forever.
Remember the prodigal son [Luke 15:11-24]? While in His dead
insane state, living far away from His country of origin, he
suffered the torments of a sense of lack and abandonment until He
came back to his senses. The tribulation He suffered is a clear
pointer to the realm of Hell and death where men live in the
ignorance of the flesh, far away from the reality of their oneness
with the eternal spirit of the living God. Paul says that they walk
in the vanity of their fleshy carnal minds and are therefore
alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in
their heart. Let no man be fooled by the appearances and glories of
men in this present world because surely the famines will come, then
man begins to suffer a sense of lack (insatiability), insecurity and
tribulation in his soul.
How dare you forsake the fountains of living waters for the vain
glories of mortal man. This is the folly of the men who inhabit this
age; they stray away from their place in the Spirit in God for the
vain glories of this world below only to discover at the end that
they played the fool.
Jeremiah 17:11 As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them
not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them
in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool. 12 A
glorious high throne from the beginning is the place of our
sanctuary. 13 O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee
shall be ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be written in
the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of
living waters.
When the prodigal son came back to His true self, which is one
inseparable entity from His Father. He once more became aware that
all the Father has is His for He is one indivisible entity from the
Father; in this realization His struggles and tormenting fears
seize. When man awakes from the illusion of His individual
terrestrial identity He seizes trying to immortalize the mortal and
to perfect the imperfect because He becomes aware of the fact that
He is already immortal and perfect as the morning Star throughout
all eternity. The struggle for the vain glories of this world as
seen in the realm of the swine seizes, for man now rules and rests
in the only glory that there is, the glory of the Father.
The prodigal son has to however ascend; He has to ascend into Christ
consciousness, fulfilling the voice of the Spirit which says: “Come
unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden and I will give you
rest”.
Along with remembrance and contemplation of the hidden mystery of
the offspring of God is a need for the son to ascend by faith back
into the everlasting arms of the eternal Father. The prodigal son
doesn’t just remember; He leaves all that He thought He had in the
strange and foreign land and journeys a long way back to His own
country, typifying the ascension. Herein lies the labor and the
patience of the son, He must be prepared to leave all, even up to
the His very flesh stained garments that He may obtain that which is
true and celestial, never looking back again into the realm of the
dead. He must not be discouraged along the way, by some outer
condition in this present life, or by voices from the mortal mind
that seek to dissuade Him; His face must be set as a flint towards
the everlasting dwellings of God, for it is the Father’s good
pleasure to give the son the kingdom, the glory and the power
forever.
Luke 12:32 Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good
pleasure to give you the kingdom.
This ascension into boundless glory and rest revealed through the
parable of the prodigal Son represents the center piece of the
gospel we hear today. The parables right from the book of Genesis
chapter one unto the book of Revelations chapter twenty-two all
speak of this great ascension and rest. Even beyond the books,
nature and the things seen all speak of this great ascension and
rest of God, therefore it must be our meditation and hope day and
night.
GOD RESTED ON THE SEVENTH DAY?
From the creation accounts recorded in the ancient sacred texts, God
labored for six days and entered into His rest on the seventh day.
Genesis 2:1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all
the host of them. 2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which
he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work
which he had made.
Many years later on, Paul admonishes the Hebrew brethren who share
the same faith that they should labor to enter this same rest of
God, following after the example of God who labored for six days and
entered His rest on the seventh day. (Hebrews 4:9-11)
Meditating deeply on all of this, the creation account in Genesis
chapter one depicts a scenario where God’s world was in an
absolutely desolate state. Imagine a scenario of absolute desolation
after a nuclear attack or something like that. Genesis chapter one
also reveals how God labors to rebuild it out of its desolate state,
after which He rests on the seven day. Meditating further, one
begins to wonder; something looks clumsy here. Why did God need to
labor to enter into His rest? Is He not already rested eternally? It
is understandable that a man encompassed with the many pains and
sorrows of hell beneath will seek for rest for His soul, but what
about God. Why did God have to labor to enter His rest? Did God ever
suffer the torments that men suffer? Did he ever suffer tribulation
and pain like men suffer? The one that needs to labor to enter His
rest is the one that does not have rest. So if we are to read the
creation account of Genesis literally it would seem to mean that God
was perfecting something in Himself that wasn’t perfect etc.
God is God, He represents the realm of rest, beauty and eternal
life; He is the same yesterday today and forever and in Him there is
no shadow of turning for he is pure light. So let us never think
that the creation account that describes God laboring to enter the
rest is something literal. Think of it, if the creation account is
literal, it would mean God created the world and everything in it in
six days comprising twenty-four hours each; after each day’s work he
had to rest, then the next day he went back to work, it’s
ridiculous. All these things are rather an allegorical reference to
the eternal working of the eternal Spirit within fallen man to
restore Him back to the impeccable glory of God.
Many are unaware that they are instances of the living God, meaning
every man is a manifest expression of the invisible God. He is the
ONE that manifests in different shades, colors, shapes, form etc. If
we are unaware of this great mystery we in spiritual darkness,
desolation and poverty and we die like mortal men.
Psalms 82:5 They know not, neither will they understand; they
walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of
course. 6 I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are
children of the most High. 7 But ye shall die like men, and fall
like one of the princes.
Christ has come as the light of the world to give understanding, so
that we no longer walk in darkness (Spiritual ignorance) like this
world does, unaware of our selves the way we are known from
eternity. That understanding simply restores us back into the sacred
realization that we are that offspring of God who only inhabits
eternity, the Almighty One.
Revelation 1:8 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the
ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to
come, the Almighty.
This sacred knowledge and awareness brings comfort, assurance and
rest; it is our rest forever.
Look at the stars in the heavens; they all appear at different
locations, they have different sizes and diverse burning intensities
yet they are all instances of the light. Look at the rays of the
sun that reach nations spread all over the world at the same time;
in some place they might be more intense yet they are simply a
manifestation of the same one Sun.
That Spirit within man is what we call Christ within; it is an
instance of the living God; this represents the true life of all
men. Mortal man who in reality is in a deep state of sleep
spiritually classified as death, is absent from reality of the life
of God embedded within Himself. This is the eternal life we are
called to lay a hold on. The whole idea is to bring man back into
alignment with the inner man, which we call the Spirit; this is the
only way to eternal rest and glory.
When Paul says we should labor to enter the rest of God the way God
labored to enter His, it is obvious that He realized that the
account of the creation in the book of Genesis chapter one, which
depicts God laboring to enter His rest is an allegory of you and I.
When man awakens from the illusion of His limited and inglorious
terrestrial life, His labor is to lift Himself out of that human
material state in which he lived back into His glory in light from
the beginning. This is the message being preached in symbols from
Genesis chapter one.
The old sacred texts as seen in the book of Genesis were written
before hand so that they can serve as spiritual guidance for the
sons of God as they ascend back into their glorious eternal realm in
God, where they can find true rest for their souls. It is like a map
or puzzle leading us back into the dimension of all possibilities.
The unsealing of the mysteries sealed within these sacred texts
brings light to the darkened hearts of men as they seek to relocate
their lost glory.
Proverbs 25:2 It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but
the honour of kings is to search out a matter.
Today like the Spirit has revealed to us, the immeasurable glory of
God is concealed within every man, but he must seek it out with all
His heart and soul; in so doing surely he will find it. He will find
it as He listens to the eternal Spirit speaking through these
allegorical presentations be it in the sacred texts or in things
seen and experienced.
WHY ALLEGORIES
A pastor friend once invited me to give a sermon in His church,
after which He scolded me openly in front of his congregation,
wondering aloud on why these things are always expressed as
allegories. His question to me was, “why doesn’t God just say it the
way it is”. My answer is how can you express things of God’s
spiritual invisible realm to men who have been groomed in a purely
material realm. Jesus once told a highly religious man by the name
Nicodemus: “If you being a religious leader groomed in a purely
human institution can’t comprehend earthly things, how can you
comprehend heavenly things”.
Nicodemus represents the crčam de la crčam of the intellect of this
world. These are the same ones Paul calls the principalities and the
powers which govern the religious realm of men. PhD’s, Doctorate
degrees in theology, pastoral trainings etc, can never give insight
and understanding into the deep things of God and His eternal
Spirit. It is only inspiration from the Spirit that can unveil the
invisible things of God to Man so that He can partake of the same.
We hear in parables here and there, and like a jigsaw puzzle,
pieces are put together, and eventually we get a clear picture of
the whole. If most men would hear things directly from the Spirit
undiluted, at times it can be very unbearable, and seemingly
unlawful and awkward in the ears of the men who inhabit the lower
places of the earth called the world. Paul once said He was caught
up into the Paradise of God also known as the third heavens, where
He clearly heard things that are extremely unlawful for mortal men
to utter. In reality He heard things that pertains to God’s
invisible eternal realm which contradict the orderly arrangement and
exalted concepts of men of these present age. However no matter
how unlawful and out of place these spiritual truths might sound in
the ears of men of this present age, these same things that Paul
heard must eventually be received by all. They might initially come
as baffling mysteries, but eventually they will become eternal life
to those who receive them.
THE WHOLE PICTURE
Bear in mind as we read on that there is only One, and this One
fills all in all. There is nothing like Christ somewhere and God
elsewhere, for they are one inseparable entity. Somebody may ask:
Then why did Jesus always refer to a Father in heaven while he
prayed? The answer is simple; He too had to ascend and transcend the
terrestrial life he inherited by virtue of his birth into this
material world. He had the revelation that he was one with the
Father, but he too had to labor to overcome His human life which
says the contrary. The human mind which is actually the control
center of the devil seeks to convince us that we are independent
entities from God’s Spirit; herein lays the root of annihilation
from the bountiful life of God.
In the same breath we must be aware of the fact that there isn’t
anything as we Here and Christ elsewhere. We have always been Christ
the offspring of God. Never let the outer inglorious form and
appearance of man deceive you into thinking that He is anything less
than what Christ is. Ignorance of this mystery represents abysmal
darkness and death. Herein lies the reason why men suffer the things
that they suffer, they are unaware of who they truly are. The god of
this material age working through the carnal mind has blinded the
eyes of mortal man so that He becomes absent from the reality of His
true boundless celestial self who is eternally one with God. If I
awaken to the reality of Christ in me, then I consciously realize I
am one with God. In this sacred consciousness who and what can be
against me? Absolutely nothing, for I rule over all and I live
forever.
For this reason, the prayer of Christ is that we awaken to this
great mystery, knowing that we are in Him who is one with God the
Father; this is the salvation that the gospel has unveiled for us.
God is the One that fills is all in all and in Him there is no hell
or death. The son however must loosen Himself from the intriguing
web of humanity and rediscover Himself in this One who spans
eternity. This is His rest forever, for God’s rest is found only in
the exalted unchanging realm of the living One.
The prayer of Jesus for those who are being gathered unto Him and
the world at large is, because when the world sees it, it becomes
converted unto the truth:
John 17:21 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in
me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world
may believe that thou hast sent me.
He is not praying for castles in the skies, neither is He praying
for a physical lifting up into the sky, but rather that we are
gathered spiritually from the many nations, tribes, and tongues
(beliefs) of this carnal age back into the One that fills all in
all. It is an awaking from the illusion of our individual
independent lives in the flesh back into the One, in whom dwells the
fullness of the living God. To be fitted into the Whole, the son
must rediscover Himself, and then he will see true rest and
delights. Like I said, it is like gradually putting the pieces of a
puzzle together to finally get the whole picture.
EDEN, AN ALLEGORICAL PRESENTATION GOD’S REST
As we dig into scriptures from Genesis, let us bear in mind that
these are extracts from the many sided wisdom of God, meaning that
they do not necessarily go to forth to contradict what other
brethren have written or preached. Just like light which reveals
many colors at the same time when viewed from different angles and
wavelengths, the word of God is never bound to one literal
translation, though they all eventually reveal the light. These
early chapters in the book of Genesis reveal’s the whole mystery of
God in one breath, things like our oneness in God and eternal
spiritual marriage, the mystery of iniquity and death, the new
Jerusalem etc, but in this message we are focusing solely on hidden
secrets of God’s rest.
Adam in the Garden of Eden represents the finished work of God; it
is an allegorical view of the rest of God, or you can call it God in
His rest. This rest is a realm or state of being that is purely
incorporeal (Spiritual), for that which is God is pure Spirit. The
Man we see ruling and reigning in the garden is not a mortal man
with some natural birth after the flesh, but rather it represents a
purely celestial personality without genetic attachment to the
natural dimension. This is a presentation of the living one whom we
fondly call Christ who is the true God and eternal life. In Eden
there is no such thing as Adam and God, there is only God. All that
exists in that realm is a fellowship light hid in the invisible God
which no mortal man of this age can partake of, because in that
realm there is no such thing as a mortal man; it is God’s realm, the
real world.
The false idea of a separate God without came alive when Adam
slipped into the realm of death. Adam descended into material
consciousness, the realm of mortal man where the dead inhabit. It is
the realm of the dead, because in reality there is no such thing as
a mortal man; it is all an illusion which will be eventually
disintegrated and dissolved with the fire of God’s truth. To be dead
is to be absent from all reality of truth and this is what happens
when man carries on with the illusion that He has some form of life
of His own after the flesh in a material world. Human life after the
flesh represents ignorance and death, and this is very thing that
has plunged men into many sorrows and pain. The state of man who is
consciously unaware of His being in God is likened to desolation and
death. To enter into true life and rest, the labor of God is to
bring forth a celestial creature from the desolate ruins of our
terrestrial life.
The early part of Genesis chapter two summarizes the creation of the
heavens and the earth as seen in Genesis chapter one.
Genesis 2:4 And that is how the universe was created. When
the LORD God made the universe, 5 there were no plants on the earth
and no seeds had sprouted, because he had not sent any rain, and
there was no one to cultivate the land; but water would come up
from beneath the surface and water the ground. 7 Then the LORD God
took some soil from the ground and formed a man out of it; he
breathed life-giving breath into his nostrils and the man began to
live. 8 Then the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the East,
and there he put the man he had formed. (GOOD NEWS BIBLE)
If you read Genesis 2:4-8 closely, you will understand that the
labor of God was to bring forth out of desolation and nothingness,
the celestial man who eventually inhabits God’s Paradise. The Man
created and exalted into the realm of Eden represents the
resurrection and the life; this is the finished work of all that God
set out to achieve in Genesis chapter one.
LABORING TO ENTER REST
The creation account in the early chapters of Genesis is purely
prophetic utterance by the Spirit indicating our labor, travails and
groaning to bring forth the perfect creature of God (Christ). Using
the language of light (seven), the Spirit is indicating a process
whereby the eternal Spirit of God in man awakens to restore man back
unto the pinnacle dimension of the most High. The number seven, six
days of labor and the seventh rest, speaks of illumination, for we
all originate from that light and are of the light. Light is
eternal, incorruptible, immeasurable and without limitations; that
is us, our identity and realm.
Having found ourselves in the impoverished state of mortal man by
virtue of our natural birth and consequent induction into this
material age, our groaning and work as God is to ascend back into
the light, which is purely immaterial. Only in the light can man
reign in life and see true rest and abundance for His soul. Living
outside the light represents mortality, spiritual poverty,
blindness, nakedness and death; this is the state of man who walks
in the ignorance of this age. Out of the ruins and desolation of
mortal man’s lowly, finite and materialistic life, the labor with
which He labors, is to bring forth the pearl of great price within.
The pearl of great price within is the glory of God in man which
knows no limits, for with God all things are possible.
The Spirit within man has to arise to put an end to darkness and
folly, and search out that immeasurable glory within Him. He must
rediscover deity bestowed on Him by virtue of His identity as the
offspring of God. This is man’s labor unto the rest of God, for he
rests when he discovers God within who is omnipotent, omnipresent
and omniscient. Like the miner, man must beam the search light of
the eternal Spirit to rediscover within Himself that place of
sapphires, dust of Gold and manna without limit. This is a blessed
path of life hidden from the wise men of this age; they are totally
unaware of the realm and bliss reserved for those who know the name
of the Lord [Job 28:1-6].
When man puts and end to darkness (spiritual ignorance), the perfect
day of the Lord appears as seen in Genesis 1:4-5. Those who
walk according to the spirit of this material age are of the night,
while those who walk according to pure spiritual light radiating
from the Father of lights are of the day. Those who are of the day
are a purely Spiritual people, from whom nothing is hidden from. We
can liken this to man’s awakening from the finite material realm
back into the infinite immaterial light realm.
1Thessalonians 5:5 Ye are all the children of light, and the
children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
This is the same spiritual communication from day two up unto day
six in the creation account of Genesis chapter one. Using the
language of light, the Spirit is through the creation account,
speaking about man’s labor in truth to ascend from the His lowly
natural state back into the Spirit.
On day two God energizes the waters and causes some water to ascend
above the firmament (Genesis 1:6-8). These represent a spiritual
body of people in the heavens, for we know that in the awakening we
are caught up into the glory cloud which incidentally is a
representation of the Lords body (1 Thessalonians 4.17).
Psalms 148:4 Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters that
be above the heavens.
On day three He causes the trees which yield fruit and seed to come
forth (Genesis 1:11-12). These represent the plantings of the Lord
and the trees of life which bear fruits in all season. We should
bear in mind that only Spirit is able to bring forth good fruits
acceptable to God, for flesh is known to yield thorns unto death.
On day four He brings forth the luminary celestial bodies in the
heavens, the stars (Genesis 1:14-18). The stars represent light
bodies or the resurrection body that those who enter into the new
dispensation in Christ do put on. All who awaken into this
dispensation put on the pure light attributes of the bright and
morning star. (Revelations 2:28 And I will give him the morning
star.)
Psalms 148:3 Praise ye him, sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars
of light.
On the fifth day God creates the winged creatures which mount up and
soar in heavens (Genesis 1:20-22). This represents an elevation from
carnality back into spiritual consciousness.
On the six day God creates man in His Spiritual, invisible image and
likeness and gives Him all dominion and power (Genesis 1:26). This
man created on the Six day is the man that rules in the paradise of
God.
On the seventh day God (an allegorical presentation of you and I)
enters His rest after He as finished the work of conforming Himself
back into His true celestial state from the beginning (Genesis
2:1-3).
In all of this we can see how God separated the light from the
darkness, the clouds from the waters beneath the firmament, the
fruitful trees from the barren trees, the winged creatures from the
monsters of the deep, the man from the beast. This shows us that the
work of God is all about conforming from that which is below,
earthly and natural into that which is above, heavenly and
Spiritual, for we are all purely spiritual light beings.
The will of God for all men is that with open faces they behold the
mystery of Christ their true image and be converted back into it. If
we truly see Him, we will know that he is not of this world or
material age, but rather He is from a spiritual Kingdom of pure
light without beginning or end.
2Corinthians 3:17 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.
To see true rest and to be free from sin, fear and the innumerous
horrors that besiege humanity, the Lord is in this very hour
reminding us of things we have heard over and over in times past. We
are being reminded that to see true rest and delights for our soul
we must let go of all in this world of illusion and ascend back into
Christ the Spirit.
Amen
Trevor Eghagha
