The perfect image of Christ is seen Revelations Chapter one, when
He appeared to the apostle John is actually Christ in His glory
which is the glory of the Father. Like we established in a message
on the
keys to death and Hell,
that image John saw was actually the cooperate multi-membered body
of the Lord walking in the fullness of glory and the unity of the
Faith. God used that appearance to describe the attributes of the
Lord's Body as He is revealed. The seven trumpets actually cause
those who are of the truth to transcend their lowly, earthly human
state into that glorious heavenly state of the risen Christ. Once
our obedience is completed in Christ we find ourselves perfected in
Him, as He is so are we and so shall we be.
It is at the
sounding of the last trumpet, when the deep thoughts of God begins
to call to our inner being that we begin an ascent back into the
glory of the only begotten of God. The man of the dust is now
transformed from that impoverished state into the heavenly, kingly
state of the only begotten of the Father. The Lord is one, so that
in our ascent we unite with all the brethren into one. The
higher we go in Him the more the voice becomes one voice which is
the Voice of the I AM, THE OMNIPOTENT ONE, THE HOLY ONE. Like the
prism or the pyramid converges into a point at it's peak so also do
we all unite in the unity of the faith in love irreproachable.
Read what Paul says
1 Corinthians 15:49-54
49 And as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also
bear the image of the heavenly Man. 50 Now this I say, brethren,
that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does
corruption inherit incorruption. 51 Behold, I tell you a mystery: We
shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed-- 52 in a moment,
in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet
will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall
be changed. 53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and
this mortal must put on immortality. 54 So when this corruptible has
put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then
shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: "Death is
swallowed up in victory."
Like Paul
says, as our spiritual ears and eyes of understanding open to perceive the
sounding of the seventh trumpet, then we are raised from the realm
of the dead. We put on the incorruptible nature of God and the
victory over death becomes ours. That incorruptible nature with the
power over death is the nature of Christ. This reminds us of the one
who appeared to John in Revelation Chapter one. He had the keys to
hell and death and actual overcame death [Revelation1:18]. This means that the one in
Revelation chapter one actuality had to go through the same
principle of ascension from the lower humanistic nature of death
into that glorious heavenly state of the I AM. That is the image we
put on in Him.
As the trumpet sounds we
suddenly begin to realize our true nature as sons of the living God.
We become aware of the fact that we fell into the lower parts of the
earth because we put on an image that is not the image of the living
God. We put on an image after the corruptible carnal flesh we wear
in this world.
Remember when Adam was created in the beginning He was created in
the image of God. Christ is that perfect image of God as we all know
[Colossians 1:15]. So that means Adam was created in the
image of Christ which is the image of God. He was created fruitful
in all the works of His hand. He had dominion over God’s creation
and exercised it to the fullest. He lived in the glorious presence
of the Lord called Eden the Paradise of God. Eden as we know means
pleasure, so Adam was living the full joy, health and life of God.
Remember in His presence is the fullness of joy and gladness. The
Garden was filled with gold of Ophir which talk about divine riches
in glory, it also had a substance called bdellium which is angel’s
bread (like manna) [Numbers 11:7]. Rivers of gladness and
life flowed from the midst of the garden. Adam lived in abundance
without lack of any good thing until He was deceived into Joining
Himself with the beast called the serpent. That beast is actually
our carnal self. Adam and Eve trying to be
wise in this world became fools by accepting the lie of the Devil.
Romans
1:22-24 22 Professing to be wise, they became fools, 23 and changed
the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like
corruptible man--and birds and four-footed animals and creeping
things.
Like we see in Romans 1, Man is in a fallen state because
they have exchanged the immortal glory of God in which they were
generated for the mortal glory
of the man by partaking of that which is the lie of the Devil. They
chose to partake of the glory of self and man other than that which
is of God. This is the root of the problems of men today. Man has
lost a consciousness of His true image which is the glory and image
of God.
From the moment Adam sinned He felt this nakedness in the presence
of God, meaning that He now identified Himself with the flesh.
Before this feeling of nakedness, Adam who live as a spiritual being
with a consciousness buried in God. It is the sowing to the flesh or
the sudden identification with the flesh that brought about His
fall. Out of the flesh can come no good thing, no matter how we try,
as long as we retain the knowledge of a self apart from God, we
sense this nakedness. He was also cast out into a wilderness state
by a defiled conscience that had now become annihilated from the
love God where he was to
toil and suffer in search for survival. Man now toils because the
boldness to receive from God is no more available. God did not create Adam
naked nor did He create Him in a state of poverty consciousness. it
is the voluntary transgression or the descent of man from the
immortal glory of God that has brought man so low.
The garden that is mentioned in the book of Genesis has nothing to
do with a physical garden somewhere in the Middle East. So
archaeologist and Historians should not waste their time trying to
look for a garden in some Geographical part of the physical world.
Also neither was there any scenario where a snake wrapped round a
tree gave an apple to a naked man and a naked woman like we see in
pictures all over the world. All things written in the early part of
Genesis are spiritual truths that can be understood only by the
spirit of God. God has supplied us with His spirit to be able to
comprehend the deep things and thoughts of God not just for speaking
in audible tongues. All along before the supply of the spirit, we have
comprehended things by the carnal spirit of man, and as long as we
retain that kind of thinking we can not see life. It is our carnal
thoughts that have greatly limited us in our quest for glory. As
long as we rely on the arm on the flesh and walk in relation to this
carnal realm we can’t please God.
God uses the things we see in this physical carnal realm to express
His thoughts. The things of God come like parables to those who are
not united with His spirit to discern them. That is why He always
added the phrase “to Him who has ears let him hear”. All
might have physical ears to understand carnal things of this world
but not all ever come to the place were they can hear spiritual
things from the heavens. The danger Here is that to Him who
perceives the things of God spiritually, to Him more grace unto life
will be added but to those who do not perceive or receive the things
of the spirit that little understanding will be taken away from Him
because they slip further away in darkness.
The message that is going out today is a message calling all TRUE
seekers of God to open up the doors of their heart so that the
Christ will come in and fellowship with them. This is the spiritual
communion that will ushering the healing and salvation that many
have been seeking for ages. Bear in mind that the message of the
Lord is to the Church, let us not deceive ourselves into thinking it
is for the world. It is those of us who have experienced Jesus as
Lord and saviour in their lives. Let us not say within ourselves,
that we have come to the final destination and therefore do not need
spiritual counselling from the Lord. Let us not say within ourselves
that we have many bible school degrees and Pastoral titles added to
our name. With meekness we are all admonished to admit our state of
lack and poverty and open up to the Lord in this hour for intimate
fellowship that will heal us.
COVERING THE NAKEDNESS OF
MANKIND
“You
are naked, blind, wretched, poor in your Humanity” says the Lord
[Revelation 3:17
] “but I have come to cloth you, I have
come to open your spiritual eyes of understanding and to give you
the very Riches that my Father in Heaven has given me. I have come
to restore your garments of light so that you can walk before God
irreproachable forever”.
The Omnipotent
one who appeared to John in the book of revelation Chapter one had a
garment that reached His feet, signifying His nakedness was
completely covered. Like
I stated earlier on the glorious image of Christ revealed to John in
revelation Chapter one is our true image as we overcome and find
ourselves in Him. Remember as He appears in glory we appear with Him.
The nakedness that men have is actually the sense of guilt and
separation from God. We all inherited this nakedness from Adam. The
moment Adam transgressed against God He felt this sense of Nakedness
before God. It is the nakedness that made Him sew Fig leaves to
cover His nakedness. The Fig leave is symbolic of religious and acts
of self righteousness that men put up to justify themselves before
men and God. In the eyes our understanding we remain naked as long
as we are not reconciled with Him in True oneness not by works but
by grace.
The sense of naked denies man boldness before God because of the
defiled conscience associated with it. No wonder Jesus says oh you
of little faith, little faith because man now lacks boldness to
Approach God like a son approaches His Father. Men now seek to do
things using the arm of flesh and He offends the more, causing Him
to feel the more naked. Fear of tomorrow of what you will eat and
wear are all signs of those who live with the sense of nakedness
towards God.
The naked mad man of the Gadarenes who was healed and found
clothed at the feet of Jesus is a shadow of humanity leaving in
nakedness and madness, but eventually man gets His healing by
submitting themselves to the living God [Mark 5:1-15]. The
sense of nakedness is a result of a defiled conscious, I say this
because God does not see you as naked. In fact If you remember, He
asked Adam who told you, that you are naked [Genesis 3:10-11].
This implies that God never saw Adam as naked, it is Adam’s
conscience that had been taken captive of the Devil.
We thank God that as we open our hearts to receive spiritual
enlightenment in this last days we will be clothed once more with
the light of Gods presence. The blood of the lamb washes our once
defiled conscience, so that we can walk before God in white garments
without any sense of nakedness and guilt. In that day the faith and
boldness of man is restored towards God so that man can once more
receive any thing that He asks for. Remember the end of the faith
is faith working out of a pure conscience [1 Timothy 1:5].
HEALING OUR BLINDNESS AND POVERTY
Also like
the holy one who was revealed to John on
the Island of Patmos,
who
had eyes shining like flames of fire so also will our eyes of
understanding be completely illuminated by the wisdom of God as we
hearken to the trumpet. When we find ourselves in Him, the eyes of
our understanding will be so enlighten that we walk in a realm not
known to man. It is a realm of holiness, perfection and pure love
where nothing offends.
In our fallen states, our eyes of understanding had been darkened so that we walked
like fools walking in the dark not knowing where we come from and
where we are going. We all know that when we walk without the eye
sight we can only grope and stumble. The stumbling that we stumble
into, is a stumbling into the grave, it is a stumbling unto death.
We may have natural eyes but remain blind spiritually. The
blindness that we all have been born into by virtue of our link with
a false identity is the blindness of the heart and mind so that we do not see
nor perceive the glory of God. It is the blindness in our spiritual
eyes that causes us to live in a state of poverty not really knowing
the riches in glory at our disposal as sons of God. Man in His
blindness does not even see Himself as He really is, created in the
image of the living God.
It is the blindness of the spiritual eyes that cause brethren to
manifest hate and intolerance towards others. We have to study and
observe ourselves and admit our blindness before the Lord and then
open the doors of our hearts for fellowship, because as we eat His
true bread and fellowship spiritually with the Lord He opens our
eyes to the marvellous and infinite love of God and our true
identities as Sons in harmony with Him. Let us not act like the
religious scribes and Pharisees of old who claimed they were not
blind. Jesus simply told them, since they claim to see and therefore
refuse to receive Him in for spiritual enlightenment, they remain in blindness[John 9:39-41].
The Lord is revealing mysteries hidden from the foundation of the
world, only those who humble themselves to receive the word in this
hour will be enlightened by the light of life. In the prayer of Paul
in relation to the churches He asked that our spiritual eyes may be
enlighten with the wisdom of God so that they could comprehend the
marvellous hope of their calling, the unsearchable riches and the
power at the disposal of them that believe [Ephesians 1:15-23].
It is blindness of our spiritual eyes of our understanding working
with ignorance of our true nature and our relation to the omnipotent
God that causes us to get anxious and live in fear. It is this fear
that has produced the beastly survival instinct in men so that He
does any thing, even killing His own brother for survival and gain.
The survival instinct also breeds an insatiable appetite because you
never come to the place of true security being blinded and walking
in the vanities of our mind like the world does. In blindness we
become like the rich man who seeking security and rest, keeps
gathering and gathering, only to lose His soul and die off in the
Pit of forgetfulness.
In true spiritual meditation and fellowship with the Lord, our eyes
and ears are opened to the true love with the Father and our oneness
with Him. We become suddenly consciously aware of the fact that all
that is His is ours
[John
16:13-15, John 3:35-36, 1 Timothy 6:17].
We begin to realize that true riches is not in the gathering of
worldly goods but in the revelation of that which we already have in
God, an inheritance imperishable in the heavens.
Jesus Christ the first of many Brethren to pierce through the
heavens didn’t need to gather material wealth in this world, He
walked in the consciousness of His true inheritance as the Son of
God. He walked in the knowledge of the fact that all the Father has
is His, and indeed the Father owns all. With this revelation coming
to dawn on us we enter into our rest. Just like the Prodigal son in
the Parables of Jesus, we actually originated from a very rich
background in the bosom of God. We like the Prodigal son descended
in Adam, trying to do things our own way only to come to a place of
abject spiritual poverty and want. In Christ we beginning to ascend
again once more from the realm of the dead into the consciousness of
our dear Father in the heavens. Then we find rest in the abundance
of His unlimited blessings in the heavenly places. Like the
prodigal son we must leave the realm of the carnal pigs who feed on
carnal earthly food likened to dirt and come to the place where we
receive spiritual edification from God.
Like the blind man in the gospel of John who was blind from birth
but received healing by the anointing of eyesalve in the form of
Mud, we all can receive our sight again [John 9:1-7]. This is
done in communing with the Lord and we know the Lord is the spirit.
Eat the bread and your eyes will be opened to know your true self
hidden in God. [Luke
24:30 -31]
Luke
24:28-31
28 Then they drew near to the village where they were going, and He
indicated that He would have gone farther. 29 But they constrained
Him, saying, "Abide with us, for it is toward evening, and the day
is far spent." And He went in to stay with them. 30 Now it came to
pass, as He sat at the table with them, that He took bread, blessed
and broke it, and gave it to them. 31 Then their eyes were opened
and they knew Him; and He vanished from their sight
Like we see in Luke
24:28-31, the Lord is in our midst today anyone who will open the
door of His heart willingly and fellowship with Him by the symbolic
eating of Bead which is fellowship will see Him. We will come to the
place were we even understand we are as he is with the same Father
and the same life.
SITTING ON THE THRONE OF GOD.
The omnipotent one, the
almighty, the alpha and the omega who appeared to John in Revelation
Chapter one appeared in full glory showing and manifesting His Ruler
ship over the whole world. As we hearken to the trumpet message of
God in this hour and are transformed into His image we find
ourselves reigning and ruling in Him with all power in heaven and
earth. This words are true, we say what we have seen and tasted of.
The ultimate promise Jesus gave to the Church is that they would
inherit the same Throne He inherited as an overcomer. He had His
battles to fight as a son found in the form of man, but He remained
faith until the end. By now I am sure we do not think that there is
a big Chair somewhere in the sky where God sits on. The act of
sitting on a throne is simply a sign of kingship, dominion and
authority. God is simply promising that we who believe will be
granted all power to dominate and rule over His creation. This
reality is not something for the future but for now. Never listen to
fables that say you must die and go to heaven in the sky to sit on
golden thrones, that is carnality.
In several of His writings, Paul who was a true believer mentioned
the fact that we rule and reign with Christ in heavenly places [Ephesians
2:4-8]. We sit in heavenly places in Christ Jesus, this is
simply the highest spiritual realm that we who believe are
predestined to walk in, so that we are above all the principalities
and power of this world. We also war in heavenly places against
other forces of darkness. We must be spiritually minded if we really
want to understand God when He speaks to us.
Adam had that same dominion and power over the whole creation before
the fall [Genesis 1:26-28]. When He was created, all
creatures were subject to Him. Sickness, depression, lack, emotional
anguish and all the evils that befall men were far away from Adam.
He was covered in the glory of God so that He felt no nakedness or
guilt towards His creator. Christ is restoring the Church back to
that place of authority once more. All died and fell in Adam but
through Christ Jesus the second and faithful Adam we are all
restored back to the place where we can reign once more in glory [1
Corinthians 15:21-23]. Note that I used the word all, meaning
the power and the glory is equally available to all men who take
hold on the truth of God by forsaking the fellowship we all once had
with darkness for the fellowship in light in Christ Jesus.
So the Seventh trumpet is a call to the hearing ear to come in for
spiritual feasting unto God. It is in receiving the silent voice
of the spirit that we can be healed in our body, soul and spirit so
that we can get the victory once more. Let us lay aside the works in
the flesh and activities of religion that steal quality time and
come to the feet of Jesus in this hour to receive from Him. To Him
who has ears Let Him hear what the spirit is saying to the Churches.
Amen.
Trevor Eghagha
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