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Dominican Republic session 1 - Thamo Naidoo

It's a joy to greet you in the Name that has brought us together the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. my passion and my heart lies in schools like these, i find my greatest joy when leaders could come together to sit at the feet of gods word and receive from Him the Bread of Heaven, the water that gives eternal life lets give God praise for His word for His wisdom that is in the word and bless His holy name. Lets pray, “Father, we are here to reverence You, honor You, to bless Your holy name. There is none like You, You are incomparable, You are the only God, You’re amazing, Your ways are far beyond our ways. And Lord thank you for choosing to reveal to us who You are through Your word. I pray today that Your word would become a reality in our lives, it would be the means by which our lives would be defined and that Your word would transform our lives, taking us into new realms in You. So we dedicate this school to Your glory, we desire nothing else Father but that You be magnified through Your word in our midst. you have told us that Your word is exalted above heaven and above the Earth, You have exalted Your word above Your name so we do realize that our understanding of heaven, of the earth, of the essence of everything You are, Your person can only be understood through Your word. We dedicate this school to Your glory, we sanctify it, we put a hedge around this school like Moses put a rope around the mountain and we declare today that no evil spirit, no wild beast, no unclean spirit will come into the environment of this school. This school will bring heaven to the earth, Your glory amongst Your people and there will be great manifestations of Your glory Father. Father we want man to decrease and we want You to increase. Give Your people a listening ear and a heart that receives Your word O’ God and be glorified in our midst. We invite the Holy Spirit now to come and teach us, come Teacher, show us the things that are on the heart of the Father, search the deep things in God and reveal it to us the sons of God. We are curious to know the things of God, come Holy Spirit, teach us. And to that end Father we dedicate ourselves and we bless Your holy name, we ask these mercies in Jesus name, in Jesus name. And everybody said, Amen.”

Well, it's a joy to be with Yasur and to come and share the word of the Lord with you towards the end of the year. It’s such an honorable thing to see all of you here at a time when there are so many disruptions in the world where you could set time apart to listen to God's word. You have chosen a noble part of what life is all about and so I pray that you would just enjoy the sessions that we have together. I'm going to go straight into the word of God and introduce some of the things that are on my heart and I'm going to do that for about 45 minutes and then we'll have a 2 minute interval before Dr. Sam Soleyn comes and he will introduce his subject for another 45 minutes. So our timekeeper is going to make sure that we stick to time and you're going to get two sessions loaded with God's word. Are you hungry? Are you thirsty? Are you ready for God's word? Amen. Say to your neighbor, “This is a school,” complete the sentence by saying, “so you'll behave like you are a student.”

Now Ariel informed you that our schools started in 2000, we've had approximately twenty six schools in South Africa and outside of South Africa we have schools in different parts of Africa and outside of Africa as a continent this is the only other place that we have an apostolic school and I think this is the largest school we have anywhere in terms of numbers. At these schools for many, many people who come to South Africa especially leaders, they come because it is a watering hole, they come to receive water from heaven for others they come like the brothers of Joseph to Egypt with empty sacks so that they can gather grain to feed their families when they go back to their countries but for me personally, everyone of these schools we hosted is unique in that every school brings a fresh emphasis of what God is saying to the church at that point in

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time. and i believe that this school, even though it is not for the full period for what we normally host schools, this is a three day school. but I sense in my spirit something extra ordinary will happen in this school, it's going to be definitive in capturing you and adjusting your spirits so that it can be brought in alignment with the throne of God so that whatever we do on the earth is exactly what is on the agenda of heaven, that our lives will not be governed by activity but it will be governed by the Spirit of God who proceeds from the throne of God. We will receive the fullness of the Spirit and what God is saying to the church presently. So I humbly ask you to listen to what the Spirit of God would say to all the churches that are represented.

Now this is an apostolic school and it's very important to understand what we mean by the word apostolic. An apostolic school does not mean that if anyone who attends the school when the courses are finished will automatically qualify to be called an apostle. In fact, far from that reality what we want to make sure in a school like this that anyone who attends will discover the heart of God through His word what the church must do on the earth. It is not a school to produce apostles, it is a school where we capture the heart of God and know how we can represent our God on the earth. It's a school that brings us into the exact and perfect world of the Living God.

Now today and for the first session tomorrow I want you to understand what God is saying to the church presently and there’s a portion of Scripture that I want to read for you and I would like for all of the Scriptures to be projected on the board. The Scripture I want is in Matthew 23, it's one of my favorite chapters concerning this present season. Matthew 23 from verse 37, I beg your pardon, from verse 34, “Therefore indeed I send you,” say “I send you,” say it again, one more time, the phrase “I send you” is a present continuous tense, it means God will continually send but it is in the context of the word “therefore”. And the word “therefore” in the Greek means, “In the backdrop of everything I've told you,” thats from verse 1 to verse 33. Whenever the conditions of verse 1 to 23 confronts the church it characterizes the behavior of the church. Jesus responds by saying against the backdrop of a dysfunctional church, “I will present continuously send you.” And that word “I send you” in the original Greek literally means “I will apostolically send you”. The word “send” is a verb, “apostolos” which means “I will order and dismiss (or send) to you that which will fix any inaccuracies in My house, therefore I will send you prophets, wise men and scribes, some of them you will kill and crucify and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from city to city. That on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zachariah son of Barakiah whom you murdered between the temple and the altar. Assuredly I say to you all these things will come upon this generation. O’ Jerusalem, Jerusalem the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to us.” The word again is “apostolos”. “How often I wanted to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings but you were not willing. See (look, analayze, evaluate) your house is left to you desolate,” -ravaged, raped, invaded, it's become a playground of devils, foxes reek havoc, foreign spirits come into your house. “your house is left to you desolate for I say to you (for I Jesus say to you, for I the Christ says to you) you shall see Me no more (no revival, no physical return of Me) till you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.”

Chapter 24, “Then Jesus went out and departed from the temple,” thats a continuation of chapter 23, “you will see Me no more,” then He leaves the temple, meaning He's not coming back to that house. Then Jesus went out and departed from the temple and then His disciples came up to show Him the buildings of the temple. Jesus said to them, “Do you not see all these things I just showed you, assuredly I say to you not one stone shall be left upon another stone that shall not be thrown down.” And I will stop there.


Now as my introduction to this school I want to speak to you prophetically, I want you to get a clear picture of what I want to say to you because I believe we are living in the last moments of the last days. There’s about to be an unveiling of God upon the church like we've not experienced before and one of the signs of the revealing will be the outpouring of rain but it's not going to be rain as in the days of Noah. Water, it is going to be a manifestation of God in the form of doctrine, water, like we've never experienced before. We’re going to see the revelation of Christ like the church has not seen before, but we need get a picture and my assignment is to leave a picture in your minds concerning what the rain is in the last days. Whatever I tell you I will convincingly back it with Scriptures so that you will have no doubt about what I'm gonna say and I'm hoping to do that in at least two sessions including tonight. Thereafter I want to speak to you about a specific mantle of anointing that has been released upon the global church, not everyone that says they are Christians but those who are the true sons of God. I want to speak about a mantle of anointing thats going to come from the true sons of God and they are located all over the earth, these individuals.

This mantle of anointing is called the spirit of Elijah. Before the great and terrible day of the Lord he will send His messenger to prepare a way for His people and for the Lord in the wilderness. Wilderness is not a dry place, it's the whole world system that has been destroyed by the works of darkness and how a way will be created to establish His purposes. That’s my assignment for this school, obviously Dr. Sam has his assignment.

Now in Matthew 23 Jesus does an audit on the church that He attended while He lived in a human body and the assessment that Jesus came to when He studied the leadership structure of the church, its lethargy, its ceremonial laws, it's diverse operational systems, He concluded that the church was living a duplicate life, a hypocritical life by double standards. He concluded that this church cannot exist the way it was functioning. Jesus, in a nutshell, according to Matthew 24 refused to be a part of that church, the word is He “departed”, the glory of God left that church and by His own description He said “This house” He didn't call it a temple He called it a house, the same words He used in John chapter 1 when He referred to the temple as His Father's house which was made a den of thieves. He said, “My Father's house (My Father's family) has been a place where thieves are living.” In Matthew 23 He refers to His Father's house has been desolated, He uses the word “desolate” from the references to Daniel when Daniel spoke of the time of desolation. The word desolation in the Hebrew and the Greek means “when God's family (God's holy people) have been invaded and plundered by alien forces of darkness”. Where the church has been so repeatedly abused so much so that the womb of the church cannot contain the pure seed of the word anymore and Jesus said, He said, “See (look) this house is desolate, you will not see Me again until you accept how I will first come before I literally come. I will first come by sending you a delegation of prophets,” all in the plural, “prophets, wise men and scribes. These are companies of people that will come to fix the house, if you don't receive them coming in My name you will not receive Me. When they do come they will heal the house so that I can return to My people.”

Theres two types of apostolic seasons in the earth presently, there's two expressions of the apostolic in the earth, one is a true expression of the apostolic and the other is a false representation of the season. You must discern which is the true apostolic and which is the false apostolic movement because there are many false representatives who claim to represent Christ but they are not from Christ. Are you hearing me? So I'm going to talk about the true. This season started in my estimate approximately twenty years ago and in this season three


definitive expressions of how God will fix the church was sent to the church. Now against the backdrop of what the state of the church is let me tell you from my perspective, the church presently, the 20th and 21st century church is far from what God intended for it to be. The church is not built on biblical model, it's built on secular and intellectual ideas of man. The present model of church that we have does not impress God. The disciples of Jesus said to Jesus, “Look at this building, it's beautiful, look at its design its aesthetics, its architecture.” Jesus looked at it and said, “The whole system, I'm going to shut it down.” I will not even allow one stone to be left upon another stone. I'm dismantling and deconstructing this entire edifice because this does not carry My Father's glory. It's desolate, it's a den of thieves.”

If Jesus came to the church today He would see some of the greatest music, He’ll see men dressed in the finest linen, He will see entertainment, He’ll see magnificent buildings but He will not be impressed by it, He will look at the design. And God is going to shut down programs, God is going to shut His church down so that He can build the true church in the earth, a church that captures the glory of God. Now that church, God sends three types of individuals; the prophets to reset mindsets and sight and a view of the eternal. God will not permit me to talk about that. The second type of individuals are wise master builders, these individuals come to build systems, structures, platforms they come to create the environment. It's like God when He had prophetic sight and He saw that He wants to bring forth a son who will carry His image and likeness in the earth and that was the original thought in God's mind. God then engaged the principle of master builder, wise master builder, and for six days God built substructure, infrastructure, He built ecosystems, He created atmospheres, environments. He built in the spirit and in the natural, the spirit is called the heavenlies, the natural is called the earth and the cosmos that becomes a part of planet earth.

That's what we call building systems. Why did He build the systems, the environment, the atmospheres? So that when He puts His son in the garden God would have created everything for His son to function as His representation in all of creation. That is what we call wise master building. And everything God built He built it with wisdom. The systems He built deputized and acted on behalf of the Creator Himself but the ultimate purpose in God having prophetic sight and starting to build as a wise master builder is contained in the last description of the delegation of those He sends. It's called the Scribal Anointing, the spirit of the scribe and the primary purpose of God sending prophets, wise men and scribes and whatever comes last in the list is what God wants to make first.

You can go and study this in the rebuilding of the city of Jerusalem and the temple in the city during the days of the rebuilding program when the people came from Babylonian captivity, they were seventy years in exile and God sent the prophets to address the minds, the attitudes and the spirit of a disillusioned people. Prophets like Zachariah and Habakook and all of these prophets came to address the mentality of the people, then He sent the wise men like Nehemiah to rebuild. When all of that was over the spirit of Ezariah rose, the spirit of the prophet so that he could stand on the temple site, open the book and from six in the morning to twelve mid day and the scribe as he would read the Bible people would tear their clothes, weep, fall on their faces, worship the Living God. And through reading of the prophetic Scriptures God and His sons had conversations and His glory will come back into the temple.

That’s the purpose, God's not inter building a temple or an altar for the sake of people saying, “What a nice building, what a great altar” so that fire would come to lick up the offerings. The temple is an infrastructure, the altar is an infrastructure to create the environment so that God


and His sons, the corporate church, can start to talk to each other. You see, the six days of creation was not about God creating heaven, the earth and everything in them. When God finished creating He put His son in the midst of what He created so that His son would be the center between heaven and earth, he will be the man that would stand in the gap and then God will come from the east, the dimension that He occupies and He will walk in the garden so that He and His son could have conversations. We’re now moving into the season of the scribal anointing, the anointing of the scribe. The love for God's word is going to be greater than any other love you have. Are you hearing me? When you love God's word you are going to see the glory of God come back.

Have you ever heard the prayer of Moses in Exodus 33? He has a conversation with God and he says, “God, do not take us anywhere where You do not go with us,” and then he comes to the place when he says, “God, I don't want Your presence anymore, I want to see You, I want to have the goosebumps, I don't want the manifestations. I don't want to fall down and be overcome by Your glory, Your splendor; I want to see Your face, I want to see You, I want to know You face to face.” And God protested, he said, “No one, no thing has ever seen Me.” You know what God was saying? “No human, no angel, no creature has ever seen Me. I'm invisible, you can’t see Me; if you really see Me you will become extinct. I'm God.”

“God I want to see You.” Do you know what that phrase meant? Moses was not saying, “I want to see Your invisibility.” Moses was not asking to see flashing lights and manifestations of God, Moses wanted to see God but the rabbis, those who were true scribes of God they knew what Moses was asking Him. When Moses said, “I want to see Your glory,” Moses was actually saying to God, and this is how the rabbis interpreted it, “I want to see Your speakings, I want to see You through Your speech to know You as the word.” That's why later the Bible tells us, “In the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God and the word became flesh and dwelt amongst us as the only begotten of the Father.” And it goes on to say, “And we beheld His glory,” So how do you behold the glory of God? By getting to know God through the word. To know God through the word is to receive life.

So in my session I want to present to you a picture of God, the picture I want to present to you is how God comes to us in the form of rain. I will do that in the morning, I will present to you how God comes to us in the form of rain but as I start to close, I've got about ten minutes, I want to make a few statements. And I'm speaking to you as leaders and I know that some of you are very deep students of God's word. I want you to firstly understand that this Bible contained in this iPad is the word of God and you cannot read it literally, you cannot read it intellectually, you cannot read it as a human being. In a technical sense, you cannot read it, you could be very educated, this Bible cannot be engaged unless you know the kind of relationship that you must have with God. For this Bible to become a reality you have to hear it. Faith comes by hearing and without faith it's impossible…and the just shall live by…If the just shall live by faith that means the just will continuously learn how to hear. “And he that has an ear let him hear what the spirit is saying to the churches.”

Now I love reading and I'm not asking any one of you to stop reading but I discovered that unless I relate to God as a son relates to a father I will never know the voice of my Father. Recently I'm beginning to realize that I need to learn how to engage God as a son would a father, that's how this word becomes alive. Now this Bible brings us pictures of God, pictures of the unseen, invisible God, so when you read the Bible you have to see it in the forms in which it comes to us. This Bible is not easy even if you have ten PhDs this Bible can still be an enigma


to you, it can only be spiritually understood. Some people who have no PhDs but are spiritually crafted can pick up this book better than those who have been trained formerly.

So how should we read the Bible? You have to ask God for an ear to hear what the Spirit of God is saying. Amen?

Now when this word comes to us God plays with words, God is a craftsman of words and the Bible is full of stories, proverbs, songs, incidences, mysteries, there are mysteries in God's word, things hidden. The Bible captures heaven in earthly ways. This Bible if you know how to decode it will unveil heavenly truths in every setting. Please discern what I am saying.

So you can't just read the Bible, you have to see the deep things. Now how many of you know that everything God created was by His word and through His word and without His word nothing was created? Do you agree on that? By the word, through the word and for the word God created everything. You all agree on that? Now this image for the word in Scripture and God hides a lot of truth in imageries, the imagery for the word is water. Say to your neighbor, “The imagery for God's word is water.” Now if God created everything by His word then where does everything come out of? Does it come out of the word? Come on, talk to me. If God created everything by the word does everything proceed out of the word.

Now lets look at that in Genesis chapter 1, I've got five minutes. Can you put Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. We are going to read this quickly and then we'll go into this tomorrow. Say to your neighbor, “Everything not created from nothing, that's a myth,” everything was not created out of nothing. Now that's the charismatic definition: God created everything from nothing. I'm going to give you a fresh definition: God created everything out of His word, His word is not nothing. Amen? “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth,” next verse, “and the earth was without form and void and darkness was on the face of the deep.” This here is a picture of God, everything was in darkness, darkness is not evil, in this verse “darkness” is “ignorance”. Everything was veiled in mystery, everything was an enigma, everything was secretive, that's what darkness is. Tell your neighbor, “Darkness is hidden things, God hides Himself in darkness.” In other words God is a mystery. So ignorance, darkness on the face of the deep. Have you heard the Scripture that says, “Deep speaks to deep,”? And “spirit speaks to spirit”? Say to your neighbor, “God is deep”. Amen?

Now the Spirit of God moved upon the face of what? So the deep is waters. What is water? The word. Ephesians 5 tells us that, the washing of water by the word. So the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. This is a riddle so now get the picture. The Spirit of God is moving upon the face of the word to bring God out of the deep. Amen? Next verse, “And God said, ‘Let there be light’ and there was light.” And God saw the light it was good. God divided the light from the darkness. Now what does that mean? God is going to bring a revelation from the place of ignorance, God's going to bring Himself out of ignorance, that's why we say God is light. “And God called the light day and the darkness He called night and the evening and the morning was the first day. And God said, ‘Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters and let it divide the waters from the waters and God made the waters and divided the waters that were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament and it was so. And God called the firmament.

So where did heaven come out of? Out of water. Did heaven come out of the water? Did God create water? No, God never said let there be water, water was there. In the beginning was the


word. God was with God and the word was God, nothing was made without Him and everything was made by Him, through Him, for Him. That's the mystery. And God called the firmament heaven and the evening and the morning was the second day. God said, “Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together in one place, let the dry land appear and it was so. And God called the dry land and gathered together the waters and called the seas and God saw that it was good. And God said, ‘Let the earth bring forth grass,” etc.

So where did the earth come out of? Talk to me, where in the school. Did heaven come out of the water? Did the earth come out of the water? If both came out of the water and the water is the word then everything came out of the word and everything was not created out of nothing. Are you understanding me? So when God speaks about rain, latter rain and former rain, what is rain? It's water. Where does the rain come from? From above and from below as in the days of Noah so shall it be in the days of the coming of the Son of Man. What happened in the days of Noah while people were getting married and having parties? The waters from the firmament above and from below all that came forth and covered the earth and only Noah and his family survived. We call it the flood. Am I correct? There's another flood coming, it's the flood of God's word. All the vaults of heaven is going to give forth God's word. Now the Bible says “and the knowledge of the Lord and the glory of God shall cover the earth as the waters cover the sea. So there's a knowledge coming, there's a glory coming, it's compared with water.

So how does God's glory come? It's going to come through the word. I'm going to show you tomorrow morning how the scribal anointing, the anointing of the scribe brings the glory of God in the form of water. The Jews said when a scribe comes, water comes; when a scribe comes, rain comes. We'll go through all the Scriptures and we will study how rain comes to the earth. Let me ask you a question today. Heaven and earth came out of water. You agree? Do you know presently two thirds of the entire earth, two thirds that cover the earth is water, one third is earth. Over sixty percent of earths mass is made up of water, the entire planet is carried by water; the earth is covered with two thirds of water. Do you know your human bodies, a minimum of sixty percent of your human body, almost two thirds, is made up of water? Only one third of you is made up of dust. So if your body wants to survive what does it need?

If we are going to bring an end to the famine in the church, what do you need to bring an end to the famine? Rain from heaven. Amen?

Now I'm going to take a break, this is just an introduction tonight but tomorrow we will talk about how rain is coming back to the earth and you will see manifestations of it in the natural. Now stand for two minutes while Dr. Sam gets ready to share the word of the Lord with us.


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Jesus said, “In that hour Jesus rejoiced in the Spirit and said, ‘I thank you O’ Father, Lord of heaven and earth that what thou has hid from the wise and the prudent and has revealed them unto babes even so Father for so it seemed good in thy sight.”

So there are hidden things to be brought out of the word and Jesus now is speaking as the revealer of the mind of God. Verse 22, “All things are delivered to Me by My Father and no man knows who the Son is but the Father and who the Father is but the Son and he to whom the Son will reveal Him. And He turned to His disciples and said to them privately, “Blessed are the eyes that see the things that you see for I tell you that many prophets and kings have desired to see those things that you see and have not seen them, to hear those things which you hear and have not heard them.”

So that is the context, Jesus is praising the Father for using Him to reveal the Scriptures and He is telling His disciples that they were also called to see and to reveal those things. Now in the midst of that conversation was somebody who was listening and then he began to speak. Verse 25, “And behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tempted Him saying, “Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” I am going to read this through and then I'll come back and comment. “He said to him, ‘What is written in the law, how do you read it?’ And he answering said, ‘Thought shall love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, with all thy soul, with all thy strength and with all thy mind and thy neighbor as thyself.’ And Jesus answering said, ‘You have answered right, this do and you will live.’ But he, being willing to justify himself said to Jesus, ‘Who is my neighbor?’ And Jesus answering said, ‘A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell among thieves who stripped him of his raiment, wounded him and departed leaving him half dead. And by chance there came down a certain priest that way and when he saw him he passed by on the other side. And likewise a Levite when he was at the place came and looked on him and passed by on the other side. But a certain Samaritan as he journeyed came where he was and when he saw him he had compassion on him and went to him and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine and set him on his own beast and brought him to an inn and took care of him. And on the morrow when he departed, he took out two silver coins and gave them to the host and said to him, ‘Take care of him and whatsoever you spend more when I come again I will repay you’. Which of these three do you think was neighbor to the thieves?’ And the lawyer said, ‘The one who showed him mercy,’ Jesus said to him, ‘Go and do likewise.’”

Now normally we use this Scripture to motivate people to do good works, we say, “As you journey through life you will come upon those who are less fortunate than yourself and when you do, be like Christ and help him out.” That is a fashion of domesticating the Scriptures, anybody could figure that out. The highest point of our understanding of the word today is reason, reason is the thing that the soul employs to understand the Scriptures and when we do, we domesticate the Scriptures, we make the Scriptures void of the power to change the earth. So let me show you a different meaning of the same Scripture. Lets walk through it. The context was Jesus was praising the Father for revealing the hidden things through Him and was congratulating His disciples because they were given the same spirit to understand the hidden things.

Now a lawyer in this context was an expert in the law of Moses, he was a person to whom you would go to understand the nuances of the law of Moses. This is not like a lawyer today who goes to the court to argue a case because the laws governing Israel was the law of Moses. So

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he was an expert in the Scriptures. You see? He was an expert in the Scriptures but he did not understand the very things that he was charged to understand. Jesus would say to this same class of people, “You search the Scriptures because in them you think you have life, yet they are the very things that testify of who I am but you will not come to Me.

So the lawyer, wanting to protect his position and to speak to Jesus in a fashion designed to entrap him to show that He was a fraud, to show that He didn't know what He was talking about. He said to Him - let's read it specifically, verse 25, “A behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tempted Him,” he was not interested in the truth, his eyes saw but did not see, his ears heard but did not hear, he was familiar with the text but totally ignorant of God. To him, the world was dark, God had not disclosed Himself out of the darkness so he was not a son of the day, he was a son of the darkness. Only to the sons of the day will the times of revelation come, not as a their in the night. I want to show you very carefully that it is imperative that we have an elevated view of what God is saying today, the old forms will not do; you're a people brought together to receive the revelation of a season, of a time in God that is very specific. And if you refuse this season you have no choice but to continue to walk in the wisdom of men which wisdom is darkness.

So this lawyer is a type of religious figure who understands the Scriptures through reason, he did not want to be changed, he stood up to tempt Jesus. Now if you're going to try to make a name for yourself you should not start by trying to entrap Jesus, that is not an advisable course of action. He stood up to tempt Jesus. Now his intent in doing so was not only to entrap Jesus but to maintain his place, to justify himself. He said to Him, “Master,” he did not for a moment believe Jesus was the master, “Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” Jesus was not playing the game, He said to him, “You’re the lawyer, you tell Me.” And he was only to happy to oblige Jesus, so he answered for himself, “You should love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, with all your strength and your neighbor as yourself.” Another reading of this same passage adds this phrase, “Jesus answered and said to him, ‘What is written in the law? How do you read it?’” That also tells us that his answer was under the law. So the best standard of the law was what you can do, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your mind, with all your strength and you love your neighbor as yourself.” What then is the standard of the law? You. The best that you can be under the law is the standard but there's a new commandment, Jesus gave us a new commandment and that commandment was, “Love one another as I have loved you.” What is the standard of the new commandment? God. “As I,” the Living God was speaking and He said, “The same command applies both to you and Me.” Why? Because you're under a different law, you're under the rule of sons and God means to put himself on display through His sons. If God's standard is love and the sons of God are meant to put God on display what is the standard of love that's appropriate to the sons of God? The same standard as God Himself, the law was only a shadow of the things to come, the substance would appear in Christ. So Jesus never went outside of the scope of this mans vision. Jesus would teach these things to His disciples but a man who wants to tempt Him and a man who wants to justify himself He will never reveal the new standards. Amen?

If we have the mindset of justifying our present positions the cost to us will be that God will not speak to us and that is the mercy of God because if He tells us something, that word coming into our sphere is the standard and the standard will judge everything. So it's better that you don't know than to be given a standard that in turn can condemn you. So Jesus didn't go beyond the mans expertise, the things he knew determined the realm in which Jesus would


engage him and so Jesus said, “You have answered correctly, this do and you shall live,” which means Jesus said to him, “You know the standard of the law but you're not applying it,” so He traps the lawyer but lawyers can be very slippery so he falls to another position and it's one of definitions. The favorite haunt of lawyers is definitions, so he said, “You cannot possibly say that I am not doing it because we have not defined who the neighbor is, You cannot conclude that I am not obeying because we have not determined who a neighbor is.” So then Jesus speaks to him in a parable, Jesus always speaks to people in parables when their condition is that they see and don't see, hear and don't hear.

Now you know I'm after you tonight, you know I'm going after something, you will see. What is the condition of someone who sees and doesn't see? What is the condition of someone who hears but does not hear? He doesn't say, “He’s blind, he doesn't see,” no, He says, “He sees but doesn't see and he hears but doesn't hear.” Whenever Jesus encounters people whose predispositions are to see and not see, to hear and not hear, He will always keep the Scriptures hidden from you, always. Now this is a parable we have read many times and we've come up with a domesticated version of it so let's look now at what Jesus meant. Jesus said to him, “A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell among thieves.”

Now in the Greek the structure of the sentence is “a certain man”, the word “tis anthropos” from anthropology it connects to the word adam in the Hebrew which means man. But when He says “tis anthropos” it's a particular framing because all men, mankind, is described as adam but “tis anthropos” is a particular man. In other words, the man whose name was Adam. Adam was on a journey from Jerusalem to Jericho; Jerusalem is above, Jericho is down. This Adam on his journey from heaven to earth fell among thieves, he encountered the devil who comes to rob, to steal, to kill and to destroy. Jesus would say, “But I have come that you might have life and have it more abundantly.” Adam on his journey from heaven to earth, from a son of God to a son of man fell into the hands of an enemy who stripped him of his clothing and wounded him. Clothing is a metaphor for authority, so Adam lived in creation after his encounter with his enemy who stripped him of his authority. He lived in creation now without authority. He lost the authority God gave him with which to rule creation, he materially changed his standing in the earth; he was now no longer the ruler, he was a survivor. He could not employ the economy of heaven, he could only employ technology. He stopped seeing himself as a son of God and began to see himself as an object in creation and what he did to get there was to reason. When he lost his connection to his Father he lost a way of describing himself, he was no longer a spirit connected to his Father, his only frame of reference now was as he was defined by the rest of creation. When you live in that condition the only power you have left is the power of manipulation. I hope we see ourselves in some of all of this and my intention is, together with pastor Thamo, to bring back an accurate alignment with heaven.

So he was half dead. The condition of man separated from God has been described in Scripture as being dead while he's still alive, religious men, dead while they're still alive because they lack divine economy to support their activities in the earth. Jesus is defining for him the neighbor. In his condition of being half dead he's first visited by a priest, the priest signifies the law itself. In mans condition of being separated from God the law was given because of transgression until the Seed should come but the law itself could not heal the breach between God and man. In the Latin world religion and legalism are the preeminent faces of how we see and do things in the Latin world. When the man was in this condition of being stripped of his authority, legalism and religious forms visited him and when they saw his condition they were amazed at their inability to affect his condition; they were obligated to go around. God cannot be understand


legalistically, the Scriptures are not meant to be understand legalistically. The conditions of the nations you serve will not be affected by a legalistic, religious approach to God or to the Scriptures. The man is still wounded, still stripped of his authority and as long as what we bring to visit him is religious and legalistic - the priest and the Levite - his condition will remain unaffected because we are in Adam. When Adam was stripped of his authority so was all of his progeny.

Now, a certain Samaritan as he journeyed came to him. Who is a Samaritan? A Samaritan was a Jew and a Gentile as a person, the perfect picture of God and man in a person; son of God, son of man. The neighbor was the Samaritan, the one speaking to the man was the Samaritan; God and man in the person of the storyteller. When God and man in the person of Jesus meets the wounded Adam He has compassion on him, for surely He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows but He's not powerless to effect the condition of Adam estranged from his Father. No, He carries the authority of oil and wine, for wine of course is the very life blood and oil is the Spirit and it's a perfect cure for a wounded Adam.

So He applies the Spirit and restores life together with authority to this Adam. And He puts him on His own beast, He carries him for we are in Him, we are carried before the Father in Him, “I'm going to My Father and to your Father so now you may say ‘Our Father’. He brings him to an inn, He assembles the wounded of the earth into His corporate self. Now He’s on a journey, He is going and He will come again but He remains and retains His care for us in His body. At His departure He took out two silver coins, a silver coin is a days wage so He paid for the care of all of us in Himself for two thousand years. And He says, “And when I come again whatever you have done to the least of these My brethren you've done it to Me.” He tells the man the whole story, the Samaritan is Jesus and the wounded neighbor is the lawyer who is asking the question.

Now I told you the story to tell you this, let me show you this Scripture and I'll come to a conclusion. From the book of Zachariah chapter 9, verse 13. How did we get here? How did we come to the place where we are no longer able to understand the Scriptures? Do you know how I got this interpretation? Of course because “I am a very religious man who is very legalistic in his approach to the Scriptures and I study every line and I study the spaces between the lines and I see these things.” (Laughter) I can't tell you where I was sitting, it's a very familiar place to all of you and I wasn't thinking about the Scriptures when God began to give me keys of understand.

We’re a people who have been refitted with the seven spirit of God; the spirit of rule, the spirit of wisdom, the spirit or revelation, the spirit of understand, the spirit of counsel, the spirit of power and the fear of the Lord. This is the children's bread, we should be able to understand the Scriptures like this every time we open the book but our souls have been compromised by the same compromise that wounded Adam, that left him half dead. He believed the lie of his enemy that his wisdom could be determined by his observations on creation. When Adam lost his connection to his Father how did he live in creation? He was normally given an understanding every day, his understanding came from heaven but when Adam sinned he cut himself off from divine wisdom and in that day the heavens were shut up and would not open again until a specific time, a specific day, a specific moment heaven opened again. And I want to talk to you in these sessions about what happened when heaven opened again.


Under this opened heaven it's normal for the sons of God to read the Scriptures from a place on the throne of God. In that day the wisdom of heaven will come to the earth and meet in a man who is from heaven and lives on the earth, that man is called a son of God. Jesus was baptized because baptism is a metaphor for burial, what died that day was the son of man, what was raised that day was a son of God and heaven opened and God said, “This is My Son, now listen to Him!” For in Him dwells the wisdom of heaven, in Him dwells the understanding of heaven, in Him dwells the counsel of the Most High God and you have been assembled into Him. This is your birthright to be able to understand the Scriptures from the viewpoint of heaven.

So for my part I hope to help restore your understanding as a son of God. The last thing I want to say is to finish the verse I was reading. So when Adam sinned he learned how to live in creation by a particular system, he learned how to observe, to analyze, to synthesize and to theorize that came to be what replaced revelation. Before, when Adam lived in the world everything he knew he knew by revelation because he met with God every day, he was connected to the wisdom of the heavens and he lived as a spiritual man in the venue of time. When he was cut off from his Father he learned to identify things by observation of creation, analysis, synthesis and theory. That is the description of the scientific method and Greece is the civilization that introduced this concept to mankind. So the sons of God were overtaken by the wisdom of man but here is this prophetic Scripture, it comes within this context. “In the last days,” says God, “I will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children and I'll turn the hearts of their children back to their fathers because that's a natural manifestation of My own turning of My heart to My house and My house will turn back to Me.” Just as pastor Thamo said, “And in that day,” says God, “I will arouse your sons O’ Zion against your sons O’ Greece,” that's what it says, verse 13, “For I will bend Judah as My bow, I will fill the bow with Ephraim and raise up your sons O’ Zion against your sons O’ Greece.”

This is the destiny of the sons of God, it is the reason we have gathered here in this school to take up again the identity of the sons of Zion and we'll engage the sons of Greece who have invaded the House of God as thieves and vagabonds who have come to plunder the inheritance of God. God is raising a people who are a mighty people and they will not permit the House of God to remain in ruins. I call you up to this summit of prophetic vision because the end of the matter is, when all things have been restored the earth will say, “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord to the house of the God of Jacob because they have the answers and we do not. Come and let us make this journey to Mount Zion,” for it is out of Zion the perfection of the beauty of the sons of God that God means to shine forth and the glory of God will cover the earth as the waters cover the sea.

I commend you to God and to the word of His grace that is able to build you up and to establish you among the sanctified. Grace and mercy and peace be with you, have a wonderful night. Amen.



Just remind your neighbor that you're in a school, it's a classroom, we are here to listen and learn. Amen?

Now I will share with you some thoughts that God has laid upon my heart but I need to make a few statements first before I introduce these thoughts to you. What I'm going to say this morning cannot be understood intellectually, it has to be spiritually perceived, you have to discern what I'm gonna say. The picture that God gave me and I believe it is from God is a picture of what is going to happen in the end times, we are living in a very significant moment in the history of the church so I'm releasing this, I was hoping to do so at click earlier this year but the Lord did not permit me to do so then. So I'm going to share my impressions upon you. What I'm going to say you need to pray about, you must meditate upon it and search the Scriptures for yourselves to understand whether what is being said is an accurate representation of what God will do in this hour.

Now last night I spoke with you and I showed you that God is bringing us back to the word, the absolute center of God's eternal purpose is directly related to His word. Everything God does is through the administration of His word, the Holy Spirit cannot work outside the word of God. In fact, the Holy Spirit quickens the word to us. When Jesus referred to Him as the paraklétos, the Comforter, the One who will come alongside and aid us. The Bible tells us that the Holy Spirit will come to teach us, that's how He aids us, He will teach us the things that we could not receive from Jesus at the point that He was living in a human body, John 14 tells us that. The Holy Spirit will come and He will teach us things that He could not say when He walked the face of the earth. We know from ICorinthians chapter 2 that the Holy Spirit will reveal to us things that the eye has not seen, nor the ear heard, nor has been perceived by the human heart. The Holy Spirit will search the heart of the Father and reveal the secrets that is in the heart of the Father so that we the sons of God could have insight into the eternal purpose of the Living God.

We are living now in an administration but God's bringing back His word to the absolute center of our lives and the agency through which that word is brought to us is called the scribe. The agent that God uses to communicate His word is through an agency called the scribe. The other word for the scribe, to describe the scribe is the word teacher and ICorinthians chapter 12 the Bible says first apostles, second prophets, third teachers. The word teacher in the Greek has many meanings and many words that describes it but one of the words for teacher is the name rabbi. A rabbi was one who decoded the mystery of God and brought it in the form of teaching to the family of God. When the rabbi brought a teaching he was a medium by which the revelation of God was presented in an understandable way to the people of God. Jesus was repeatedly called a rabbi which meant He was one who came to interpret and communicate the mystery of God to the people. Are you with me?

There are many other definitions to rabbi or to the spirit of the scribe we have misunderstood what the ministry of the scribe is and have reduced it to the boring activity of some secretarial work, some administrative work according to secular definition but now we need to understand the spirit of the scribe. So the anointing that God is now releasing upon the earth and it's going to become the predominant apostolic grace and I told you last night that there are three types of sent ones. There are the prophets who are sent, the wise master builders that are sent. Paul described himself as a wise master builder and at other times he was known as a great teacher but now we are moving into a time where God's word has to become the center of what we do.


When we gather together like this God presents a feast for us, a meal that we eat; the feast that God presents is His word. You must learn how to eat His word to be able to step into new dimensions in God.

So I want to talk to you now about the spirit of the scribe, the spirit that you need to bring into your houses. In Luke chapter 22 there is this beautiful story, we’re gonna read it, we’re gonna read from verse 7. We’re gonna go through a lot of Scripture today. Now as you're turning to Luke just say to your neighbor, “You have to discern what is gonna be said today,” discern. The Bible says, “Then came the day of unleavened bread when the passover must be killed and He sent Peter and John, ‘Go and prepare the passover for us that we may eat,’” These are very significant individuals in Jesus’ apostolic team of twelve and go prepare the passover for us that we may eat. The passover was celebrated in the fourth month on the fourteenth day and it meant that God was now going to pass over His people because they enjoyed spiritual immunity and He was going to judge the nation of Israel. We're about to enter into a dimension of passover where we have to learn how to live under the shed blood so that we can enjoy security and preservation because the Spirit of Death is about to visit the earth like we've not seen and God will skip over those who know how to bring spiritual security to themselves by living under the blood of Christ. Now that does not mean that you can sprinkle the blood on yourself, it literally means you have to submit to the full plan that God has designed for you as set out by the Scriptures.

Jesus is going to partake of the passover so they said to Him, “Where do You want us to prepare?” What is the venue, what house would You want the passover to be celebrated in? Which spiritual family will You choose in which the passover must be celebrated? Now there are thousands of houses in Jerusalem but Jesus is going to choose a unique house. Verse 10, “And He said to them, ‘Behold when you've entered the city, when you go into the city do not go to any house,” choose a house, select it carefully. This is how you select the house. He said, “When you have entered the city a man will meet you carrying a pitcher of water,” a bucket of water, in those days they carried it on their heads. So you're first sign is to meet a man whose carrying water on his head, follow him, follow the man who is carrying the water into the house which he enters. “So if you want to know the house I want to go to and celebrate the passover look for a man who is carrying water. Then you shall say to the master of the house,” this man will take you to a house, when you get to the house ask for the master of the house, the head of the house, the father of the house “and you will say to the master of the house, ‘The teacher’” - not the Lord, not Jesus, not Christ, the teacher - “the teacher says to you, ‘Where is the guest room where I shall eat the passover with My disciples?’” Where is the guest room where I may eat the passover with My disciples, “and he will show you a large, furnished, upper room. There make ready.” “So they went and found it just as He said to them and they prepared the passover.”

I want to give you the interpretation to the story. Now please hear me very carefully because I sense there is a lot of opposition to what I want to say in the atmosphere. Here’s the first point: God is about to visit the earth again, He’s coming into houses but He’s not coming to any house, He’s coming to a specific house. This is the specific house, He sends two of His three pillars, He had three pillars; Peter, James and John and He sent two of them. Peter the first amongst the twelve and John who lays his head on the bosom of Jesus, two significant. He sends the prophet and the wise man, the builder Peter; He sends the two of them. He says, “you don't go to every house, you select the house, the house you go to must know how to receive the man who carries water. Water is a picture of the word, “the house that I want to have My passover is


a house who loves God's word, who knows how to receive God's word. If that house loves anything else don't go to that house.” Are you hearing me?

God's word is not the first, if that house doesn't know how to receive one who brings water to it don't bother about that house. In other words, in charismatic language, if that house likes anything else from music, to entertainment, to the administration of the gifts. All these things are important, singing is important, praying for people is important, receive the offerings are important but if that's more important than My word don't go to that house. Secondly, go to the head of the house, the master of every house is the father, so look for governmental order, look for order. And the order is, a father heads a house, follow protocol, speak to the head of the house, tell the head, “Where is the guest room for Me to have the passover?” But describe who is coming to that house, don't tell him the Lord is coming, don't tell him Christ is coming, don't use any of the other names, tell him the teacher wants to come. When you say teacher, the man will have a room for you.

Now you know in the church today people don't want the teacher, they want the performer, they want the tricks, they want the shouting and the screaming; they want the soul, they don't want the spirit. Tell him the teacher and ask him for the guest room, the room that you accommodate the guest but Jesus says He wont give you the guest room, he’ll give you the upper room. What does that mean? It simply means this man will not give you the convenient place, he will give you the permanent place, he’ll give you the room right on top of his house. The upper room, which means the teacher would be given a place that is above where the man sleeps; the upper room, not the guest room. He’ll give him the first place in his house, not a convenient place. There you will receive a place where the teacher will come and present the word.

This is the prophetic picture, God's going to come to your houses, what room are you going to give Him? If you don't love God's word - I've been to churches where I've been invited to speak, they will spend an hour and a half singing, they'll spend forty five minutes taking the offering, they'll spend thirty minutes giving the announcements and they'll tell the preacher to preach for thirty minutes but they'll tell him to pray for people for two hours. God will never come to that house. Order has come back to the house of God.The guest room, as Dr. Sam will say, is the soul; the upper room is the spirit. Do you want teachings for your soul or do you want teachings that will first feed your spirit?

Now that's the picture I want to leave with you, you must make a decision on how you're going to cut away all the things that are unnecessary on the stage that we used to communicate God's word. Is God's word the highest priority in your lives? Mary chose to sit at the feet of Jesus, Martha chose to feed Jesus. Jesus said that Mary chose the better of two administrations. You need to choose today whether you love God's word to be able to sit and receive it.

Now I want to go to the depth of what I want to say. We have shown you last night that water is the word, a metaphoric picture of God's word. Are you all happy with that? I don't have the time to go through every Scripture but if you read all of the Scriptures the imagery of water is consistent with the word of God. Whether you go to the first miracle in the gospel of John of how six water pots became wine, how the word, the logos became the raima. How water, the word, when you drink it becomes revelation, how you can be drunk with God's word. That's the first miracle that Jesus performed. When Jesus spoke out the blind man in John chapter 9 and He said go and wash in the pool of Salome and He put clay on the mans eyes, we know clearly that that man was not washing in water but he was washing in the pool of the one who sends and as


he washed his eyes he saw the purposes of God and it became clearer and clearer until he saw Jesus for who He was: the Christ, the Son of the Living God. When you wash in God's word you will get cleaner, and purer and purer. He has no answer for the problems that we have in our churches today until we get back to the word of God. Are you with me?

Now I'm gonna go to a part of my teaching that is very difficult to communicate. I told you last night that everything comes out of water, everything God created; the earth came out of water, the heavens came out of water. So everything comes out of the water and if you read John 1-3. John chapter 1 verses 1-3, “In the beginning was the word, the word was with God and the word was God, He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him the word and without Him the word nothing was made that was made. In Him was life and this life was the light of men,” even the light comes out of the word. What is the picture for that? According to Genesis chapter 1 God separated the waters from the waters and on day number two heaven was created, day number 3 the earth was created and everything in it. Have you got that? Heaven and earth come out of the water, it's a picture of heaven and earth coming out of God's word. Hebrews chapter 1 also highlights that point, you can go to other portions of Scripture and it backs this. So if this word is so important then we must understand it.

Now everything God created was for you and me in Christ, nothing was created without God knowing about you and me. God predestined, God foreknew according to Romans chapter 8 that we will come forth. Before there was a heaven, before there was a earth God thought about creating man to carry His image and likeness. So if God knew about us before He created the heavens and the earth then it means that everything God created was for you and me and if it was for you and me it means that heaven and earth are equally important. You cannot prejudice against either or. The heavens and the earth have the same origin: water, the word. Both are spiritually important to God. So if God created heaven and the earth, those two dimensions are in you and me. Let me explain it. How did God create you? From the earth. Did God put His Spirit in you? So what do you have? Heaven and earth in you. And you are carrying heaven and earth and if heaven and earth came out of the water where did you come from? Out of the water. If you came out of the water, which is the word, you cannot live without the word because when you have the word you have the life of God. Is that not what John tells us? In Him was life, the word and if you have life it is light to all men, you become the light of God. So we must get back to the source, back to our eternal origin which is the word of God.

So how does God bring this word to us in our fallen state, which is now being restored to the fullness of the image of Christ? God brings it in the form of doctrine and the picture for doctrine is rain. Now doctrine does not literally mean a set of teachings. In its original meaning doctrine literally implies that God sends His word through His speaking to us. Say to your neighbor, “Doctrine is the speech of God,” when God speaks to us we receive Spirit and life. Yesterday when we were chatting in the meeting prior to the school Dr. Sam said, referring to Johns gospel, he said that the words that we speak are spirit and life and people chose to leave Jesus when He said, “Eat My flesh and drink My blood,” in other words He said, “Eat the body that is embodied in My flesh,” eat the bread that comes from heaven, drink the life that is in that body, not His human flesh, the body that He brought from heaven. And many people left Him because they thought this was canabilistic, they thought He was giving them the wrong indications. Peter came and then He said to Peter and the other disciples, “And aren't you going to follow them, go with them?” And Peter said, “Where can we go for you have the words of eternal life.” Earlier on Jesus said, “The words that I speak they are spirit and life.”


So what is doctrine? Doctrine is the speaking of God and when God speaks it's like rain falling and when you receive the rain you're receiving life so that your body could be furnished with the grace of God. Are you with me? Look at a few Scriptures and I want you to put it up on the board for me please. Say to your neighbor, “Doctrine is rain, rain is going to fall on you, rain comes to you in the form of speaking.” Come on, say that to your neighbor, God uses speech to bring the rain to, that's why they said of the rabbis, they said when a rabbi comes it is rain coming to you; when a rabbi comes, rain comes to you. They called the rabbi ‘water’. When a rabbi brings the word to you he's bringing water to you. That's why if you went to the woman at the well and Jesus comes into this town and He comes into a town that's known for drunkenness, drunkenness. Very interesting, in John chapter 4 He comes into this town called Sychar, this word Sychar means ‘the place of drunkenness’.

Now you only get drunk when you are thirsty, when you are greedy, when you have an insatiable desire, unquenchable for alcohol hoping it will be able to give you the feelings you want. And this place Sychar was in Samaria and in this place of drunkenness was a patriarchal well, a water hole and it was called Jacobs well. And there at that well Jesus sat down and a woman came, a picture of the church; this is not just a woman with five husbands and living with the sixth man outside the covenant of marriage, it's a woman looking to satisfy her thirst. And she goes from marital, covenantal relationship to another covenantal relationship but she could not find true covering. She comes to Jacobs well and instead of drinking pure water she's getting drunk because she's not looking at the right focus in terms of what she wants and Jesus says, “Can you give Me something that will satisfy My thirst?” And then she goes into religious and Jesus says to her, “If you know who is asking you for water you surely would be asking Him for water because the water I give you, you will drink it and out of you will come forth fountains of living water because when you drink this water you will flow.”

That's the water I'm talking about. Presently the church is getting drunk and they're not operating in the fullness of what God wants to give them. Are you ready for the real water? Deuteronomy 32:1, look at what it says, “Give ear O’ heavens and I will speak,” is heaven in you? Do you carry the breath of heaven? Do you carry the life of God? Now God is not talking to heaven here, He’s talking to the heaven in you. Are you also made up of earth? Is two thirds of you water? Is one third of you earth? Should there be more heaven in you than earth in you? Should there be more water in you than flesh in you? Say to your neighbor, “There is heaven in you and there is earth in you.” Once more God's going to shake you until only that which is heavenly is going to stay in you, nothing earthly. You're going to be the manifestation of God, “Give ear O’ heaven and I will speak and ear O’ earth,” is that you? “My doctrine,” My teachings shall drop as rain, My speech shall distill as the dew as the small rain upon the tender herb and as the showers upon the grass because I will publish the name of the Lord; ascribe greatness unto God!” You can read the whole chapter. Say to your neighbor, “When God speaks to the heaven in you and the earth in you it will fall as rain.”

Now I want to read a whole chapter to you. Job, how many of you would like to read the CV of Job, the profile of Job? Before he fell into the traumas and tragedies, how many of you would really like to know who this man was? Come on, talk to me. Did call him one of the greatest men in the earth? Wasn't he one of the greatest men? Did God say, “There's none like him.”? Let's look at this, Job 29, “Job further continued his discourse and said, ‘Oh that I were as in months past when God watched over me, when his lamp shone on my head and when by His light I walked through darkness.’” Isn't he an amazing man? “Just as I was in the days of my prime when the friendly counsel of God was over my tent (over my family) when the Almighty was yet


with me and when my children were all around me.” Remember, all of them died in the tragedy, “when my steps were baited with cream and the rock poured out rivers of oil for me. So even hard places produced anointing, favor was in my life, “and when I went out to the gate of the city and took the seat of governance,” the center of influence, “when I took my seat in the open square the young men saw me and hid and the aged arose and stood;” that's the respect that this man had, “the princes (the nobility, the monarchy) refrained from talking, they kept quiet, they put their hand on their mouth; the voice of nobles was hushed and their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth.” Listen to this, “When the ear heard me then it blessed me,” in other words “when I spoke the people blessed me”. “And when the eye saw then it approved me,” Isn't that amazing? “Because I delivered the poor who cried out and the fatherless and the one who had no wealth, the blessing of a perishing man came upon me.” In other words, this man was so filled with wisdom that the fatherless, the widow, the orphan found comfort and refuge in the presence of Job.

And then it says, “and I caused the widows heart to sing for joy, I put on righteousness and it clothed me, my justice was like a robe and a turban. I was eyes to the blind and feet to the lame,” I gave mobility to people who were immobile and he says, “I was the father to the poor, I broke the fangs of wickedness and plucked the victim from his teeth and then Job said, “then I said, ‘I will die in my nest and multiple my days as the sand,” Now heres the secret, verse 19, “My root is spread out to the waters,” why could he do everything? Because he was connected to the water, you know the story, blessed is a man who standeth not in the counsel of the ungodly but his delight is in the law of the Lord and in His law does he meditate day and night. He shall be as a tree planted in the rivers and his leaves shall not wither and whatever he does will prosper.”

Whats the secret? Putting your roots into the water because that's your source from where you came. Then he says, “My root is spread out into the water and the dew lies all night on my branch.” In other words, “because I'm connected to the water I am fresh all night, even in darkness I have the dew of heaven on my life. But glory is fresh living in me, I'm not here living in a stale glory; the glory is fresh in me.” You know how many people were living in the anointing twenty years ago, very few are operating in the present glory. How do you keep the glory fresh? Keep your roots in the water. Say to your neighbor, “Keeping your roots fresh in the water is to have a present truth, glory, not a stale glory.” Do you know that while God is immutable the anointing can get stale, the grace can go bad in your life? Grace is bread from heaven, yesterdays bread, yesterdays grace eaten today will become a can of worms. That's what God told Moses in the wilderness.

Too many people are operating on an old grace, God wants you to live off the bread that comes today. Freshness - now listen to this, verse 20, “my glory is fresh within me, my bow is renewed in my hand. Men listened to me and waited, and kept silence for my counsel. After my words, they did not speak again.” As my speech settled on them as dew. All you preachers raise your hands here. I'm going to give you a picture now. When you preach, don't think you're preaching clever sermons; when you preach, water comes out of your spirit through your mouth and falls on the people as dew. You preachers are God's way of irrigating the people, you are God's irrigation system, you are God's waterworks. When you speak rain should fall on your people, your speech should be doctrine from heaven. Say to your neighbor, “You are God's irrigation system.”


Now look at verse 23, “they waited for me as the rain.” So when you receive a preacher what are you receiving? Rain. You see how God is going to send the later and former rain. Say to your neighbor, “Rain is not revival, rain is doctrine,” doctrine brings revival and when you get doctrine you will live and not die, that's revival. Are you getting the picture? They waited for me as for the rain and they opened their mouth wide as for the spring rain. So all of you that are members of a congregation when your pastor, your father wants to share the word wait you should be waiting for is not for some clever preaching, you should wait for the rain man, you should receive the rain. The man that brings the water into your house because that's the house Jesus wants to have the passover and you should give him the upper room where he can eat and drink and provide blessings for you.

So you have a new name for the preacher, call him the rain man, “and they opened their mouth wide as for the spring rain.” Can you see the picture of Job? They opened their mouths wide as for the spring rain, the spring rain brings the final blessing on the harvest. Amen? And make sure that we have a good qualitative house. Great prosperity is coming to the church but is only coming to people who know how to receive the rain. You can go on and read the rest of Job; doctrine is rain, the one who brings rain speaks to the heaven and the earth in each one of us.

Now I'm going to say something very difficult, before I do that let me read one more portion of Scripture. Yesterday when we spoke to the sons of Yased, we said that God is organizing us into families, the families are headed by fathers, that's God's blue print on how the church should be constructed as spiritual family units. Now I want you to go to Psalm 68. When we organize ourselves as spiritual families headed by an elder who functions as a father you're going to find that those houses do not live in famine but they live under the rain of heaven. The rain is coming to households, the rain is coming to the House of God, the House of God is a family not a temple in the middle east. Say to your neighbor, “You are the temple of God, you are the family of God.” Now read this is Psalm 68:6, “The father of the fatherless, a defender of widows.” Did Job do that? Yes, God in His holy habitation. That's what God does through those He sends; they father the fatherless, they cover the widow. That's how God makes His holy habitation amongst us. God takes the lonely, the solitary and He puts them into families, He brings out those who are bound into prosperity but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.

Say to your neighbor, “If you reject fathering, if you reject being part of a family you will live in a dry land; you will live in drought, you will live in famine. You need a family, that's how God covers; a widows house is a house without a father. A fatherless house is an orphanage, we have too many widows houses and orphanages that we call congregations. God is bringing back fathers and when these fathers come back, rain comes from heaven, the land will no more be dry, so you cannot be rebellious. Now look at what this says, “O’ God, when You went out before your people, when You marched through the wilderness.” Now God didn't go out, God was sitting on His throne. Who went out? Moses. In Moses God was marching, God's representative, God's regency was Moses. When you march through the wilderness selah, pause, think, reflect, evaluate, access. That's what selah means. Then the Bible says in verse 8, “The earth shook,” ok, now listen to this, “the heavens also dropped rain at the presence of God.”

So what happened? There's the cloud full of water following them in the wilderness and as the people are walking in family unison, operating in family units, heaven was shaking, rain was falling. And how does it fall? Through the words that Moses was giving the people. Can you see the picture? The heavens also dropped rain at the presence of God. God sent a plentiful rain


when you confirmed your inheritance when it was dreary, your congregation dwelt in it. You O’ God provided from your goodness for the poor.” Now mark these words in the context of rain. “The Lord gave the word.” What was that word? Rain. And great was the company of those in the rain. Rain is coming. Amen?

Now go to Genesis chapter 2, now we're going to go to a riddle, everyone say riddle. Do you know that God's word is filled with riddles, conundrums, difficult calculations. We can look at the superficial, the physical face of the word but there are some deep things in this book. Now the scribe knows how to open the word, take out of the word, hold anew treasures. You need to know how to unlock this book to get some pictures. Now how many of you know that the earth was created on the third day? On the first day God said let there be light, on the second day God created the heavens, on the third day He created the earth and on the fourth day the sun, moon and stars. The age of the earth is older than the age of the solar system. I'm reading the Bible, not what the scientists tell us. On the fifth day the kingdoms of life in the water and the birds of the air, on the fifth day the beasts and man and on the seventh day God rested.

Now on the third day according to Genesis chapter 1, before there was sun God planted trees. So the trees, the vegetation, the plants could live without sunlight because God was the light to heaven and earth. There was no photosynthesis then, the light of revelation governed heaven and earth even though on the fourth day the solar system was married to the planet earth. That's all within the Bible, I'm not trying to give you a mythology here, I'm telling you the truth. In chapter 2 there's a contradiction because you too know that for example in chapter 1 verse 29 God says to Adam, “See, I've given you every herb that bears seed on the face of all the earth whose fruit is in its seed, to you it shall be for food.” So the first man was a vegetarian according to Genesis chapter 1, thank God for the new covenant, now we can have steaks. “And to every beast of the earth, every bird of the air, to everything that creeps on the earth in which there is life, I've given every green herb for food. And it was so. And God saw everything that He had made and indeed it was good. The evening and the morning were the sixth day.”

So let's qualify this. Birds were created on the fifth day. Do birds need to eat? Do birds eat a lot? I never see birds stop eating, I mean they eat, eat, eat and birds don't get fat. If we eat, eat, eat you know what happens to us, we can't fly. And birds were eating food that was created on the third day; the fifth day birds was eating food that was created on the third day. The sea life - fish, etc - was eating of the life, the plantations in the oceans but when we get to Genesis chapter 2 we get a mystery, that's the heavens and the earth and all the host within them. And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done. And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made. Verse 4, “This is the history of the heavens and the earth when the were created in the day that the Lord God had made the earth and the heavens.” Verse 5, a riddle, an apparent contradiction. “Before any plant of the field was in the earth and before any herb of the field had grown for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the earth and there was no man to till the ground but a midst went up from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground. And the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living being.”

This Scripture does not make sense, it does not belong here, it's confusing, it should not be added to the Scriptures at this place. Don't you agree if you spoke and looked at it as a human being? Because God planted trees and every other vegetation on day number three when man was created on day number six. God already told man, “You can eat of the herbs, you can eat of


the plants,” now in chapter 2 God says there's no herb, no plant life because there's no man to till the ground. This is a riddle. Now we’re going to stop right here, we're going to take a break, this is like the movies, like a nice soap, just when it's climaxing we have an advert break. We come back and we continue with this.



So let's go back to Genesis chapter 2. Now before we look at it let me say a few things. God's word is the most beautiful gift that we've been given and it can only be understood when the Holy Spirit teaches us but God in His wisdom hides deep secrets in the word. Sometimes you can read a whole chapter and then suddenly one sentence that cannot be comprehended in the midst of what has been said but that does not mean that God is confused or that God contradicts Himself because God is speaking to different dimensions at the same time. Say to your neighbor, “God's book, God's word, is not easy to understand; only the spiritual can understand the deep things of God.”

Now God created heaven, heaven is not space, it's not in the cosmos, it's not in this three dimensional world in which we live. Heaven is the world of spirit, it is a created world; the heavens was created on the second day, it captures all the spiritual and invisible that God will roll out to the earth as His people in the earth mature. Say to your neighbor, “Heaven is a spiritual world.” The earth and the cosmos in which it exists is the natural world, those are two realities that define reality; reality cannot be defined by just studying the physical because the other aspect of reality is the spiritual. In English we call this meta physics, the study of reality; reality has two sides to it, a spiritual side and a natural side.

Now this Bible has both heaven and earth in it, not only are natural things displayed for us but there is also spiritual things displayed in this book. Do you get that point? In the Bible there is heaven and earth. Let me go one step further now. In each one of you - in me, in you, in all of us - there's heaven and earth living in you. When the voice of God speaks to you He speaks to the heaven and the earth in you. Did God create heaven? Did God create the earth? So both are holy before God; your flesh is not evil, God created it. It became evil by the decision Adam made. Are you with me? We must not insult what God created.

Now whatever is in this Bible is not only referring to the physical reality of everything created; the heavens and everything in it, the earth and everything in it. This Bible captures those two realms but also this Bible speaks to the heaven and the earth that is in you. These two dimensions are important in the way God discloses Himself. So on the earth, the physical planet earth, is there a garden, did God create a garden? We know it's a garden. Did God put trees in that garden? Yes. Did God furnish the whole earth? Did God have rivers flowing out of that garden? Did we not already agree that two thirds of the earth is covered with water? The earth is surrounded by water and carried by water, Peter tells us this. Are you with me? But let me ask you another question: your earth, your dust, is it God's garden, are you the garden of the Lord? Does a river flow out of your earth? Are you the trees of righteousness? Does God call you trees? If you are rooted in the word you are like a tree. Am I correct? So say to your neighbor, “You are God's earth, you are God's ground, you are God's garden.” Am I correct?

So are there gardens on the planet, is there a garden in you? The Bible says in Isaiah 58:11, you will be a well watered garden. Let's look at Isaiah 55, some of you are looking at me like I'm a heathen, you think I'm talking a strange language. You have to discern which garden God is speaking to. Before we go to Isaiah 55 - God in Genesis chapter 1 created everything, He planted a garden, He put man in the garden then He comes to meet man in that garden and God comes and meets with man and heaven and earth meet at that point. God, man; Father, son, they talk. And man gets clothed in the glory of God, he has beautiful trees, all types of food to eat, man is living well. We don't know how long he lived before he was entrapped by the offer


of Satan, the serpent, he could have lived billions of years, we don't know. We know how long he lived after he fell, when he committed sin he lived nine hundred and thirty five years afterwards. Are you all with me on that?

Now let's get to the riddle. If we read Genesis chapter 2 again it says, “Before any plant of the field was in the earth and before any herb of the field had grown for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the earth and there was no man…” the word for man is adam. Say to your neighbor, “The word ‘man’ in the Hebrew is adam.” There is no ‘adam’ to till, to care, for the ground. The word for ground is adama. So what is God saying, “There is no adam to take care of the adama of man and because there was no adam to take care of the adamma God did not send rain.” Now what is God speaking about here, He is not talking about the physical planet He is actually talking about the adamma, the flesh is cared for by a man, an adam that God sends. When there's an adam taking care of the adamma then God sends rain for that ground. Are you with me?

Now let me give you some stories. In ICorinthians chapter 3 Paul says, “You are God's field,” does the Bible say that? Let me read it for you. The Bible says in verse 5, “Who is Paul and who is Apollos?” Now both Paul and Apollos will be treated as God's adam; God's man, the man of God. Are you all following me? Who are they? They are but ministers through whom you believed as God gave to each one. Now look at the language of Paul, “I Paul,” the adam of God, “planted,” OK? Farming language, “Apollos watered,” So what are we? Ground. One plants, another waters but God gives the increase. So neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters but God who gives the increase. Now he who plants and he who waters are one, same administration. Now go further, “And each one will receive his own reward according to God's own labor for we are God's fellow workers,” we are in partnership with God, we work on behalf of God, we work in relationship with God. Now he says this, “You are God’s field,” you are God's ground. Say to your neighbor, “You are God's field.” Somebody must plant in you, somebody must bring rain to you so that you can grow up to be the garden of God. “According to the grace of God which was given to me as a wise master builder”…and we can go on and read.

Now I want to get to the point. So when God said, “I cannot send rain,” and remember there was already a mist watering the earth, God didn't need to send rain to the earth, to the planet. Why? There was mist, a hydro system, a network of water, that took care of the earth, rivers, lakes, under water systems. The earth was well replenished, so God is not talking about that, He's talking about another ground. Which ground is that? The ground of the earth that makes up the human race, the dust, your dust, needs an adam and when that adam comes as a fellow worker from God you receive the seed from heaven, the water from heaven. When you receive it rain comes to you and brings the blessings of God. The rain is the doctrine of God as we've already heard, that's how God replenishes your body. Have you got that? Am I getting across to you?

What is the first parable of all the parables? Come on, talk to me, you're in this school. The sower and the seed and if you do not understand that parable you cannot understand any other parable because this parable is the key to the secrets of the kingdom. If you do not understand this parable you do not have the password, the pin number, to decode all the secrets of the kingdom. And this parable is not about the kingdom, it's about how to get into the kingdom. And what is the parable? The sower is the preacher, the seed is the word of God. The ground, the field are people and the good ground are those who hear and by the measure you hear it will be measured to you; if you do not hear, you cannot get the seed, you cannot get the water, you cannot be God's garden.


So in Genesis God is saying is before there was a man there was no herbs and plants, there was no productivity but when man came and the first man that represented God was His firstborn son Adam and as he received the word from God he would share it with all the other adams that were under him. And when he would share it the word would fall upon their ground like rain from heaven and they will be productive. But when Adam disconnected from God rain stopped falling he left the garden, which is the picture of how God had no garden anymore and we all have been stricken. Say to your neighbor, “You need an adam to bring rain to your adamma.” Now can you see how a rabbi is like rain to people, a rabbi is water to those that are in famine and when the sent ones of God come rain will come back. You’re going to see rain like you've never seen rain before.

So what is rain? Doctrine. When you speak doctrine you're speaking rain. If you do not love God's word and know how to receive the ones who are sent to you, you reject the water of life and only when you know how to receive the word can you become God's irrigation system so that out of your belly will flow rivers of living water. Now go to Isaiah 55, we'll read the chapter. Look at all these Scriptures and how they come alive. Now what I'm teaching you in two sessions I've done it in multiple sessions for hours and hours so I can't go over all of the Scriptures but I know that you will be noble enough to go and search all the Scriptures concerning how the rain falls. And one of the pictures of rain is the picture of blessings, when you really connect to the word of God through sent ones who bring the word. And remember what Jesus did with the true sent ones, who took a bowl of water on the night He was going to be betrayed and He took the water and He washed their feet. He washed their feet in the same word, that's why in Isaiah 52 it says how beautiful are the feet upon the mountains of those who bring good news because when they come to you their feet have been washed with the word and they bring life, peace, prosperity to the church. You are God's garden that needs a man to till your ground so that rain can fall and bring you life and blessings. That's how prosperity comes. Amen?

Now Isaiah 55, let's read this chapter through new spectacles. Now think about me like an optometrist, just imagine that I just gave you some new spectacles because that's the nature of my grace, the grace in me. I'm not here to tell you stories, I'm here to give you keys to access the knowledge of God. The one key you have, the word comes to us like water, the one who brings it is the rain man. When you receive him you're not receiving sermons, you're receiving rain from heaven; when you drink the rain you will be prosperous, your field will never be dry and you will become a well watered garden.

Now let's read chapter 55, “Tell everyone that thirst,” Ariel opened the school here yesterday with a question: are you thirsty? Ask your neighbor if they are thirsty. Are you thirsty, do you want water? “Tell everyone that thirst come,” to what? Come to the waters. And the good news: you don't need money, “and he that hath no money come you and buy and eat,” water can be eaten, “come and eat” Now look at what water becomes, “come and buy wine and milk without money and without price,” today they put a price tag on the gospel, only when you give the thousand dollars then your miracle will happen. Those are not preachers of the gospel, those are hirelings, the Bible calls them peddlers because the true rain man who comes from heaven will never put a price tag on the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Go back, the water now becomes wine and milk. Remember water in the wedding of Cana of Galilee? Water became wine, so say to your neighbor, “The water is wine.” And if you can't take


the wine, if you're still a baby, the water is milk. Come buy wine and milk without money and without price. If anyone puts a price on the gospel do not invite him to your church, even if he is famous you will not grow your church, you will grow a crowd. Not the church of Jesus Christ, “Wherefore do you spend money for that which is not bread,” now water is not wine and water is not milk but water is bread. So the rain that you get is wine, milk and bread. In other words, it's all the food you need and you labor for that which satisfies not. Harken diligently unto me and eat what is good and let your soul delight in fatness, so your soul can get fat. This is the only time God permits you to get fat.

Incline, bend your ear, bring your ear to listen, incline your ear. So how do you thirst? By listening diligently, inclining your ear. Do you know today what most people do in church? They don't listen, they're on the computer, on Facebook, on social media, they're googling, they're reading other bibles while the preacher is preaching. They're writing emails and they want God to bless them. I submit to you, you're bringing a curse upon yourself. Thats the wild beast, social media, the internet and all the other transactions, that's the wild beast that touches the holy mountain of God. Are you with me? God says we must stone those animals, we need to come back and listen. Say to your neighbor, “Listen, listen diligently.” Your ability to be productive is how you receive the word, by the measure you hear, by the same measure it will be given to you. Some thirty fold, some sixty fold, some a hundred fold.

Then it says, “And I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David,” God's going to ratify what He told David and believe me we are about to see something unleashed in the earth, we're just about to see it. You’ve not seen it yet, it's about to be unveiled. Next verse, “Behold I've given him to be a witness to the people who leads and commands,” I don't want to go into all of that, let's keep going, it's a powerful portion but I don't have time for that now, “Behold I shall call a nation that thou knowest not and nations that not know thee shall run unto thee because of the Lord your God, for the holy one of Israel, glorify thee.” When you love God's word and you know how to thirst for it, nations are going to come to you.

You know I travel all over the world, Dr. Sam does, and we don't advertise ourselves, we have no marketing strategy but because we love God's word more than anything, we don't travel for money, we don't put a price tag on the gospel, we buy our own air tickets, we take care of own accommodations in any part of the world. Many places we go to we don't even get a cent, it doesn't matter to us, we love God's word because we love God's word God brings nations to us, nations come to us. All over the world. And blessings, we are not poor, we lack nothing because our Father who gave us His word which we love with everything we have brings the nations to us so that we can feed them with the gospel. That's the God I'm talking about. The other day, I got a phone call, I was in New Zealand it was three O’ clock in the morning and the phone rang and I answered it, there was a man on the other side and he introduced himself to me and he said to me (he is from South Africa), “Presently I'm in England meeting with investors to recruit investments for our countries in South Africa,” and he said, “I just got a message from somebody in our country and they said, ‘You need to study this mans teachings on finance and economics and you need to get connected to this man and you need to be covered by this man.’” And I ask him, “Who are you?” and he said, “I'm the national minister of finance in the government of South Africa and I was told to connect to you because that grace you have I need it so that we can heal the economy of our nation.” And I said to myself, “Is this a joke?” I said to him, “You must be joking,” it's three O’ clock in the morning in New Zealand, he said, “No, I'm not joking. This is my private number, I want you to connect with me because I need all the help we can get to transform the economy of our nation.”


Nations will come to you, kings will come to you, economists will come to you, politicians will come to you, not because you positioned yourselves but because you're connected to the word. The word is a forcefield, it magnetically pulls people to the grace of God. Stop playing games, stop playing politics, just be the man of God and the kings will come to you. Elijah was as Tishbite from the land of Gilead which is in the wilderness side of the Jordan, he was unknown but when Ahad met with him, he said, “You are the one who troubles Israel, you determine whether we get rain, you determine the economy, you determine the environment and you have caused me the biggest troubles.” Elijah could bring rain and he could stop the rain because he was God's man who lived by the word of the Lord. When we start to live like that the politicians won't come to you because you got the largest church in the country, they'll come to you because you're a man of God.

Next verse, “Seek ye the Lord while He may be found, call upon Him while He is near,” now I want you to take note of these verses. Next verse let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous his course and let him return to the Lord.” In other words, stop thinking the way you think. “And He will have mercy upon him and to our God for He will abundantly pardon him. For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways says the Lord.” Now remember how the chapter started, “Come to the waters,” remember what the waters is; wine, milk, bread. You do not buy this, you get it by listening; your transactory methodology is called listening, hearing. Now when you get that way it supplants and imposes the will of God, the thoughts of God on our thoughts; no more do I operate by my intellect, I operate by a heavenly intellect. Next verse, “For as the heavens are higher than the earth so are My ways higher than your ways, My thoughts than your thoughts.” Got that? Now look at the next verse, “As the rain comes down and snow from heaven and returns not to them but waters the earth and makes it bring forth that it may give seed to the sower and bread to the eater.” When the doctrine comes to you, you receive the grace of God, what happens to you? You also become a farmer, you have seed to give and bread to eat. You getting the picture?

You wanna be productive, receive what God is doing and it will come to you as rain. The next verse, “So shall My word,” see how the rain comes? So what will God word do to you, “My word that goeth forth out, it shall not return unto Me void but I will accomplish that which I please and it will prosper whereunto the thing I sent it.” So what is God saying? Just like our rain comes to the earth, produces things, seed and bread, God's word will come upon you in the form of rain, whatever it comes to do in you will always accomplish; it will never return without fulfilling what He wants it to. Can you see why God's word is so important, can you see it?

Now I'm going to give you one more Scripture. I want to read a few prophecies from the Scriptures. Now rain is coming to those who love God's word but famine is coming to those houses who do not love God's word. Rain is not coming to everyone in this auditorium, if you cannot respect God's word, if you cannot sit and receive God's word, if you're always doing other things but pretending to listen to God's word, famine is coming to your houses. Amos 8:11, I'm going to read this to you, there's a few Scriptures I would have left with you but I don't have time, “Behold the days are coming that I will send a famine on the land,” everyone say, “Famine on the land.” Famine on the land is an economic term that is a result of an absence of rain, when there is an absence of rain we have a drought and a drought creates social, economic and political problems and when you have a famine you have great hardship. Recessions, financial ruin, a breakdown of marital relationships and migrations of people to all parts of the world which breaks down families and then people just look for a way to live. That's what


happens, famine is coming and famine is already in many churches because at some places I can't preach the word, the heavens are like brass, I would travel for hours just to get into that country and it's dry. Beautiful buildings, great music, charismatic leadership and absence of the Presence. And God will say famine is in that land.

Famine is coming to many houses today and the Lord says He will send it and if God sends famine you can't pray for rain because God is the architect of that famine. Now listen to what God says, “Not a famine of bread,” in other words these houses are very prosperous, they got lots of money, not a famine of water, the land is flowing with water but a famine of hearing the words of the Lord. A famine of hearing the words of God. In some places where God's word is preached people are in a deep sleep, some pastors can't sit for one hour but they're very good at standing and preaching but to sit and listen, they can't listen. If you are suffering with this conditions then my diagnosis is that you have a famine of hearing. My advice to you is that we need to take some handcuffs and tie you to the chair and force you to sit because you need to sit and listen to God's word. If you cannot hear God's word you have no right to preach it. Listen to what it says in verse 12, “They shall wander from sea to sea, then run from nation to nation, from north to east, they run to and fro seeking the word of the Lord but shall not find it.” Last verse, so many I have to give you but we do not have the time. Hosea chapter 6, everyone read with me, you're going to read in Spanish, I'm going to read in English, Sam and I will read in English you read in Spanish, “Come, let us return to the Lord,” say to your neighbor, “Come, let us return to the Lord, He has torn and He will heal us; He has stricken but He will bind us up. After two days He will revive us, on the third day He will raise us up that we may live in His sight.”

Let us pursue, come on say that to your neighbor, “Let us pursue the knowledge of the Lord,” say it like you believe, “Let us pursue the knowledge of the Lord,” is going forth, is established as the morning, He will come to us like the…” how will He come to us? Now do you see why I believe in the physical return of Jesus, I believe He's coming back but how is He coming, how is He also coming? Riding on the clouds, bringing the word to us, bringing the rain to us. He's going to come to us like rain, He will come to us like the latter and the former rain to the earth. The law, the prophets, the Psalms, the whole Bible, all those anointings going to come to us in the form of rain.

So I conclude by reminding you that you need an adam to bring rain to your adamma so that herbs, grass and all sorts of beautiful things can start to grow again. Amen? May His grace and peace be with you as you see the rain of God fall in this season. Amen, God bless you.



It's marvelous to watch Thamo as he hits his stride, it's an amazing grace to decode the mysteries of heaven. I enjoy very much the water that he brings, in fact I would like to just ask you with me to just give a round of applause.

This is rain in the season of God. Amen. I would simply like to continue to plow in the field to plant seed in the field that he has prepared for us. Keys to understand the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven. I want you to see something about us if you haven't already noticed, although we have different administrations there is not a hint of competition between us. You must notice that. Amen? Because there is not only a word that comes but with it also comes an attitude. When Peter stood up, the other eleven stood up with him, it's the manner in which we will see the word of God for we are supposed to be epistles known and read of all men and our conduct will be as much a testimony of the truth as the word we speak. In that way as part of the corporate Christ it can be said, “If you see me you have seen my Father.”

Now I want to labor in the word primarily in two chapters in this school and those two chapters are the first two chapters of the gospel of john and they tie in perfectly with the first three chapters of Genesis. Now following in Thamo’s lead, water is word which falls as rain, it produces bread that man may eat and live. The double references are throughout the Scriptures. At the beginning of creation God created the heavens and the earth, now I was puzzled by a statement I read in the book of Revelation chapter 4, it says, “And they sang in heaven a new song.” Now a new song is song that has never been sung before. Now we're familiar with new songs in time but to say there was a new song in heaven would seem like a contradiction because we think of heaven as timeless, we tend to think of heaven as eternal but heaven is not eternal; heaven was created, it had a beginning and it will have an end. And we'll look for new heavens and a new earth; heaven is not eternal, God is eternal. Heaven and earth came out of God for God is a Spirit. Because heaven is not eternal and because it has a beginning, it was created, say after me, “In the beginning God created the heavens,” so it was created.

There was a time when the heavens were not, there was a time when the heavens only existed in God and there's a time when the heavens will be rolled back as a scroll and we'll look for a new heavens. Heaven is invisible because it's the realm of spirits but heaven is not eternal that is why there could be a new song in heaven. And it also tells us that heaven and earth are not in opposition to each other because the new song in heaven celebrated events that had recently taken place on the earth and prophesied a new epoch to come upon the earth. Worthy is the Lamb who was slain to receive honor and glory and praise because You died and with Your blood You purchased men for God from every tribe and tongue and language and You formed them into a royal priesthood and a holy nation.

So the song in heaven celebrated the events that had taken place when the Lamb was slain. John was writing about the year 85 A.D. so about fifty years or so before he was writing the Lamb was slain and as a result of that heaven positioned itself to support in the earth the rising of a people drawn from every tribe, every tongue, every language to be formed in the earth into a royal priesthood and a holy nation. The prophecies regarding the end of the age have already been declared in heaven and it is impossible for the earth not to yield the fruit of the word of God that has first existed in heaven, it awaits only the time. Everything in heaven is meant to migrate into the earth in the timing of the Lord.


In the fullness of time, on the day of Pentecost suddenly there came a sound, a word, and the Scriptures refer to it as an echo. The word from heaven reflected by a people in the earth who are waiting for the sound. Now I want you to understand something about God, I'd like to talk to you about God. God is a Spirit and He created the heavens and the earth, the same mind that formed the visible earth formed the invisible heavens. In one dimension it pleases God to be seen in a tactile fashion but in the other dimension it pleases God to reveal Himself in an invisible fashion. But in both realms - in heaven, the invisible and earth, the visible, the architect of both realms is the same God. Therefore the order of the heavens is identical to the order of the earth because it's the same Creator. You cannot have two different and competing orders in heaven and on earth.

So the visible is a reflection of the invisible, the visible was designed to reflect the invisible so that those who are in the natural can understand the invisible. When God separated the waters in Genesis there was waters above the firmament and there were waters below the firmament. Ce or no? Now the waters above the firmament are invisible because they are part of the invisible realm, simple. But waters below the firmament are visible, so in the matter of water they perform the same thing to both the natural and the spiritual but the need is different in both realms. So when water comes to the earth, the water on the earth is used for washing, the water in the earth is used to produce bread. What is the necessity of water in heaven? Clearly to produce washing and bread. Do you know that there is bread in heaven and that it can come down from heaven into the earth, “I am the Bread of Life come down from heaven.”

The bread on earth is necessary to feed the human corpse but the bread from heaven is necessary to feed the human spirit but it's the same bread, it performs the same function because man has a duality of being; he's spiritual and he's natural. And God constructed the heavens and the earth to accommodate the totality of the being of man because in one man God places heaven and earth. Now that's what Thamo was telling you. Amen. So in the earth we need bread from heaven and in the earth we are restored to God by cleaning, Titus 3:5 says this, “Not by works of righteousness which we have done but according to His mercy He saved us by the washing of regeneration and the renewing of the Holy Ghost.”

What is this washing of regeneration, how are we regenerated by this washing? Our minds are changed, our minds are washed. In what manner? By washing of water through the word. The word of God reformats our thinking and renews us in a right understanding, in an accurate alignment with heaven. Now why is there a need for us to be accurately realigned to heaven by the renewing of our minds, that being accomplished by the washing of water through the word? Why is that necessary? Before I get to that, let me show you that God did send us word to wash us and to renew our minds. In John 1:1, “In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God; He was with God in the beginning. Through Him all things were made and without Him nothing was made that has been made.” Let me skip just for a minute and I want to come back to verse 4. Verse 11, “He came unto His own and His own received Him not but as many as receive Him, to those who believe in His name He gives the right to become sons of God. Children born not of natural descent nor of human decisions or a husbands will but born of God.”

“The Word became flesh and dwelt among us and we saw His glory, the glory of the one and only Son who came from the Father full of grace and truth.” Now much is in this passage. The Word had to come in flesh in order to restore, to wash, the understandings of men because


when God made the first man God made a son but that son disconnected himself from his Father and become fatherless in his own mind. In that condition he could not be restored by himself in his right thinking. So it was necessary for the Word from heaven, the bread from heaven to come back in the form of a son to produce again in the earth among those who would receive Him, the spirit and the reality of sonship; it was what was lost. So it was necessary for this to be restored and the manner in which God restores is to bring out of heaven that which is supplied in the earth, to produce in the earth that which is compatible with heaven. Amen?

Now here I'm laying up certain principles and I will build out the principles. I said I wanted to talk to you about God, God is a Spirit. I am convinced that we're now in the season where from the great treasure houses of God He's bringing forth things that are familiar but new insights on the same familiar things, that's why it's old and new. It's already familiar to us in that we know it's in the Bible but it's new to us because it's a treasure that has been hidden to be given into the earth now, in the timing of the Lord and it will be an unlocking of mysteries that has puzzled us for so long that we assumed there were no answers. One of the questions that people ask us all the time is this: where was God before the creation? Has anyone ever asked you that? Have you ever asked that? Where was God before the creation?

Now I'm not just here to impress you with mental games, I'm here to show you, to demonstrate to you that the heavens are full of the wisdom of God. We are poor because we have not known how to access the treasures of heaven. The nations do not come to us until we have wisdom for them but when we have wisdom for them all the nations of the earth will come and say, “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob,” because that's not a widows house, that is not a house of poverty, there is bread in the House of God, more than enough to feed the nations of the earth. We must understand that there are unlocked treasures and this is the time for the spirit of wisdom and revelation to enrich and to ennoble the House of God, our Father's house is a glorious house but we have made it into a den of thieves because we imported the mentality of orphans into the House of God. This is a time to make a whip of cords and to drive the money changers out of the temple that the House of God might be cleansed and enriched so that the Queen of Sheba came to see the wisdom of Solomon, the kings of the earth might come and behold the glory of Christ who has been revealed in the earth.

So where was God before the creation of the world? Now that's a silly question because God is a Spirit. Now God is a Spirit who is corporate, God is corporate being. Let me give you a quick example. These are treasures for you to own now. God as a Spirit is a corporate being, I'll show it to you in the Scriptures. And it means there are things in God, I'm leading you this way so that you might understand that there are things in God; the heavens and the earth were in Him. There are other things in Him but let me answer the question. Recently, Tim Cook the president of Apple Corporation revealed the new iPhone 6, when he did he had a press conference and he said, “We at Apple have created these new products.” When the magazines reported the press announcement they said, “Apple has announced this new product.” Now wait a minute, when the spokesman is speaking for Apple he says “We” plural. When they write about Apple they say, “Apple has announced,” that's singular.

A corporate being is the only thing that may be referred to simultaneously as singular and plural. What is Apple? Is Apple the building in California? No, that's the offices. Is Apple the factories? No, that's manufacturing. Is Apple the thousands of it's employees? No, those are the workers. Is Apple Tim Cook? No, he's the spokesman. What is Apple? Apple is an invisible, legal fiction. It


exists as a person for the purpose of the law but it's entirely invisible but yet are we uncomfortable with the concept of a corporate entity? No, it's normal. God said, “Let Us,” plural, “make man in Our,” plural, “image, after Our own likeness,” plural. But then the next line says, “And so God formed man in His,” singular, “His own image. In the image of God created he Him” singular, “male and female created He,” singular, “them.” Adam and Eve. Do we have a contradiction? No, no, no God is a corporate being because what defines a corporate being is whats in the being. A corporate being possesses and controls things within the being. For example, a rock is not a corporate being, it's a singular being but when God made Adam, God made in the image and likeness of God a man. Therefore the man is a corporate being because he's the reflection of God. Stay with me.

Who was in the man God made? Woman, yes or no? And what did Adam say, “This is flesh of my flesh, this is bone of my bone she shall be called woman because she was taken out of the man.” Where was she before she was made visible? She was in him, the man was corporate. That's what Thamo is saying. Who else was in Adam? Everybody. Because Adam was a seed. What is in the seed of a mango tree? All the mango trees in the world, it's just a matter of time. Yes or no? The natural order is a reflection of divine reality, the same mind created the earth and the heavens therefore the order of the heavens is the same as the order in the earth.

So when you understand that God is a corporate Spirit then other questions are, what else is in God? How was man himself formed? Man was formed as a gift of spirit that came out of God. We'll come back to that. What else is in God? In Him is life, ce or no? See we read words like “in” and it doesn't register, what does “in” mean? It means it's present within the being but if we only think of God as a singular being as opposed to a corporate being then “in” does not mean “in”. But in Him is life. What else is in Him? In Him is light, “I am,” Jesus said, “the light of the world. I came from the Father, I am God enclosed in flesh and when I'm in the world I am the light of the world,” because in Him is light and that light is manifested in the lives of men. In Him is illumination, in Him is revelation. What else is in Him? This is not going to be a complete category of whats in Him, just a few things to give you a framework. In Him is beginning and end, He's called that, Alpha, Omega; beginning and end. How do you define time? Beginning and end. Time was in Him, therefore it is ridiculous to ask the question: where was He before the creation of the world. He is the source of time. It's OK to applaud (laughter).

I'll explain that further. Are there coming ages? Scriptures say in Hebrews 2:5, “It is not to the angels that God has committed the rule of the age to come,” I'm explaining something to you about time and about the Son, “it is not to angels that He has subjected the world to come,” about which we are speaking. Is there a world to come? Says right here. Who will rule the world to come? It's not angels, “but somewhere it is written, ‘What is man that You are mindful of him or the son of man that You care for him. You made him a little lower than the angels and You crowned him with glory and honor and put everything under his feet.” Who will rule the age to come? Man, the son of God, the corporate man, the Body of Christ will rule the coming ages.

So we're not done when we die, we want the heavens to be rolled up as a scroll, we want to look for new heavens and a new earth because we were created to rule the coming ages. Let me read just a little bit more because I want to draw on many of these things later. Verse 8, “In putting everything under him God left nothing that is not subject to them,” did you see that, it says, “God left nothing that is not subject to them,” in case you're inclined to say, “He’s only talking about Jesus,” this says, “them”. The corporate Christ, the sons of God formed as the Body of Christ. “Yet in the moment we do not see everything subject to them but we do see


Jesus who was made a little lower than the angels for a little while, He is now crowned with glory and honor.” So Jesus is template, what has happened to Him will happen to the rest of us. Amen?

So we look forward to coming ages, my question is: where are those coming ages now? In Him, now. When will they be revealed? When the present order has served its purpose. If someone were to live in those ages and they were to ask the question: where was God before those ages began? What would be your answer? Those ages came out of God, it was what He planned because they would likely have no knowledge of the previous ages, they would only have known their current ages. Time is in God, He is beginning and He is end. This corporate being contains everything and He distributes what He contains in two dimensions; heaven and earth. When Thamo said, “God put a creation in the earth that contained both dimensions,” he's absolutely correct. How was man constituted? How did he come to have being? God formed a body, a container out of the dust of the ground. Is that what man is? No, that's his container and when God is done with that container where will it be put? Back into the dust. What made man a living being? God imparted from Himself a spirit and it came to be in the being of man. In this regard, man is compatible with God because the nature of man came out of God. But your question: is man therefore God? That would be a reasonable question, this is a school so we are pushing you, we are pulling you to the limits, we must have answers for the nations, we are not timid.

Is man God? Let me explain it to you this way, the answer is no he is not. O, you're relieved. Let us say that you go over to Puntacana and you take a bucket and you dip it into the water and you have a bucket full of water and you bring it to the University to analyze the content of the water. What can you tell me about the composition of the Caribbean sea from the bucket of water? You have an exact image of the chemical components of the Caribbean sea but is it the entire ocean? No, of course not, you can sail on the Caribbean, you could dive into the water, you could hunt fish, you could move traffic on the ocean but you cannot in your bucket of water. What is the purpose of the bucket then? It is to understand exactly the nature of the chemical composition of the water. Man was given a spirit and positioned in the earth so that you could see the nature of God in the earth exactly as He is in heaven.

So if you see me you may see my Father because the son, Hebrews 1:2, the sons purpose is to radiate the Father's glory, the sons purpose is to present the exact nature of his Father's being. God did not give us all of the qualities of God, He gave us the qualities of God that suite His purpose for the creation of man and that was to bring the invisible God into the realm of man so that the invisible might become visible in a son. Amen?

These are important foundations. God did not give us omnipotence, why? Because of the law of preemption, it means the purpose of omnipotence, being all powerful, was already demonstrated in the creation; there's no need to create other worlds. So one of the functions of the son is not to create other worlds, the function of the son is to live within the creation to show the glory of the Father. Amen? That is why we are not God but it is why we have been created in His image and His likeness. Now there is another reason why we are not automatically able to function in representing God and it has to do with the concept of a gift. When God created man He gave a gift of spirit out of His own Person and when that gift was delivered and received it is no longer God. Let me explain about a gift. There are three conditions necessary for a gift to be made. The first condition is, the intention of the donor, it means that the donor, the person who owns the thing, must intend to give it. Then number two, he must actually convey the gift and


the third thing that must happen is that the recipient must receive the gift. When those three conditions are met the gift leaves the estate of the one who possessed it and it's vested in the estate of the one who received it. The one who receives it now is the true owner. In order for the donor to get that gift back the process has to be reversed, so God gave you a spirit, He intended to give, He conveyed it and you received it and you have being. If God is going to get your spirit back you have to intend to give it back, you have to actually convey it to Him and He has to receive it. This process is called being born again. When you give it back, intending to do it, when He receives it back and when it's assembled into Christ, you are reconnected to God and to the heavens. This is what it means to become a son of God.

I'll close here now but this is where I want to pick it up. I want to show you how man lost connection to his Father, how he's restored to his Father and once he's restored he can resume the purpose for which he was made which is to put his invisible Father on display in the earth so that if you see the son you will see the Father.



Good evening, it's difficult enough to follow Thamo Naidoo up here, it's almost impossible to follow the beautiful children assigned tonight. It was a wonderful scene and I congratulate all those who have been working with the children on such a splendid performance. I also wish to acknowledge our brother from Columbia who set the record straight, that man did not fall, man died because sin has a consequence, the wages of sin is death and that is why Jesus said, “I have come that you might have life and that more abundantly.” Thank you. I recognize the spirit of excellence and accuracy in you. The people of God are an amazing people, we are watching the arising in the earth of unprecedented excellence, the earth has been waiting, groaning in anticipation for the revelation of the corporate man, the sons of God.

I wish to continue from this mornings discourse. This morning I ended at the point of speaking about man beginning to be reconciled to God. I want to go back just a bit to reconnect to something Thamo emphasized. When Thamo spoke earlier he said that when God created man in this house of mortal clay both heaven and earth existed in this being. Now I want to expand on that principle. We spoke about man being a spirit, we spoke about the fact that the creation of man was an operation in which God specifically endowed man with a gift of spirit out of Himself that came to be vested in man. That said, man is inherently relating to God. The heavenly component of man is spirit. When people say, “I cannot hear God,” or “what must I do to be able to hear God better,” the solution does not lie in a better man because man himself was created with the innate capacity to relate exactly to God. He has a spirit, the origin of that spirit is by endowment out of the person of God. This makes him inherently capable of hearing God. So when he's at the point where he cannot hear God the obvious conclusion is his spirit has been disconnected from God, something is in the way of his spirit because if that blockage is removed man will return to the state of original creation, he will be inherently able to hear God and that's the point.

When man sinned, what died in him was his connection to his life source; he was no longer connected to divine intelligence. The problem is that he continued to live after he sinned but we must understand that death is not expiration of life from the body, a person may be dead while he's still alive. Death is disconnection of the human spirit from the source of his divine origin. Amen? Because as our brother said, quoting the Scriptures, “In Him is life and that life is the light of men.” Now you must see the matter as it is. In the creation of man God endowed him with the innate ability to connect to God, to the mind of God, to the wisdom of the heavens and he was meant to live in the earth by the support and the economy of heaven because when you send your son on a journey to a different country you take pains to make sure that he is supplied in that location, not from what he might discover in that location but from your resources.

Man was never designed to function in creation separate from the economy of heaven. Part of the consequence of his sin is that he developed a different economy, that economy is described as the sweat of his brow because that economy supports him in the earth and that economy arises from his abilities in the earth. So when man is restored to God his divine economy is part of the restoration. Amen? Hallelujah. Now you must see how the enemy operated. When God created man, He created him to function in conjunction with the heavens, so He gave him a spirit out of the Person of God. But because He put him to function in the earth He gave him the intelligence to both to be able to understand the earth and to translate the wisdom and the reality of the heavens into functional activities in the earth. So the divine order is for man to live


primarily in connection with the heavens with the intention of translating the heavens into visible manifestations in the earth. His connection to the heavens is called spirit because spirit begets spirit; his connection to the earth is an interpretive function, it interprets the heavens and this interpretive function is called the soul. Both abilities are invisible but they're housed within this containment of mortal clay, let me show that to you in the Scriptures.

This is from the book of IThessalonians 5:23, “Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely, may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and He who calls you is faithful and He will do it.” There it is. You have a spirit by which you are connected to God, you have a soul by which you function in the earth and the body keeps it in place and is the machinery by which you function in the earth. Sweat is the result of misalignment, sweat is the reality of toil and it means that things are out of order, there is stress upon the human body when the internal components of the soul are out of alignment. How did God make man to function? What are the priorities? It is obvious, a higher order of being is spirit over soul. When that happens man is in a right alignment with God. When man separated from God his death was this: he abandoned his identity, he abandoned his source of being and he accepted a different economy and that produced death, the evidence of which was toil.

Now it is common to say that the gospel is this: God created man, man sinned, Christ came and died to save man and if man accepts the salvation of Christ then when he dies he will go to heaven. That's the common evangelical gospel. Now they add to it like we need to do good works while we're waiting to go to heaven. Now all the things that are said are true but it's not the whole story, if that is the whole story then the inescapable conclusion is this: that God created man so that He could save him. That's silly because there's an infinitely more satisfying result if you do not wish that any should perish: don't create him because none will perish. You see, we think that our traditions superimposed upon the Scriptures forms the truth and so we're afraid to laugh at silliness masquerading as the gospel. No, God did not create man just so that He could save him because before God made man He planned to save him. Now any business man will tell you this is the principle of risk management, the management of risk. It means this: the purpose for which you are creating him is so great that it is worth the risk to save him so that he might fulfill the purpose for which you created him. But I must say, the profit potential in saying that God created you so that He could save you is a powerful factor in perpetuating this silly notion of the gospel.

Now it is true that God made man, it is true that man sinned, it is true that Christ died to save him, and it is true that when he dies if he accepts the salvation of Christ that he will go to heaven when dies. Those are all true but they're not the whole story because God made man for a purpose worthy enough to God to commit Himself to saving him before He made him. So why did God make man? And why did He make him in the fashion that connected him to the heavens? And why did He make him with the capacity to interpret the heavens in the earth? So it must be understood who actually was it when God created man. In other words, what did God make when He made a man? Listen to this, this is from the book of Luke 3:23, “This is the genealogy of Jesus Christ,” it is the complete genealogy traced through sixty two generations, from Jesus all the way to Adam. This is a complete genetic history of Jesus. Jesus himself was about the age of thirty when this narrative picks up, He was about the age of thirty being as was supposed the son of Joseph, the son of Eli, the son of Mathad, the son of…, the son of…, the son of Enoch who was the son of Seth, who was the son of Adam who was the son of God.


The first man that God made was God's son, the first man that God made was His son. If your son gets into trouble then is it appropriate to imagine that because you love him you will come and give yourself to save him? Certainly. But why would you create a son and put him in the earth in the first place. Look at the book of Hebrews 1:2, “But in these last days God has spoken to us by His Son whom He appointed the heir of all things, through whom also He created the world. He,” the Son, “is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact representation of His Father's being.” So who is a son? A son is one who when you see him you understand the nature of his father because the son is the location in time out of which the glory of the Father is radiated. The son is the picture of the image of the Father, so if you see the son you will see the Father. Now is that worth saving? To put him back into the purpose of showing who you are, the glory of your nature and the righteousness of your character. How else does the invisible God become visible except through the son? Amen? So at the time of the separation between God and man the disfunction became that the soul of man rejected the rule of his spirit and so man began the long process of declining from his estate.

So what I want to talk to you in the time remaining is the exact nature of the spirit and compare it to the exact nature of the soul. What we're doing is restoring the man to his condition of being the one in whom heaven and earth meet and function. We are performing an autopsy, we’re intending to examine the issue that caused death because resurrection is available but when we come up we're actually meant to be restored to the life that was originally given to us. The Scriptures say that in the end of the age it will be characterized as a time of the restoration of all things. When water comes from heaven it washes the intelligence of man and makes him available again for the refiling of this identity and the restoration of his purpose. Now within this body there's an ability to connect to the heavens and within this body is a connection to the earth but in most humans the connection to the heavens has been severed and in most believers, even though the connection to the heavens has been restored it is not functioning at a great capacity. So we want to forensically examine how the spirit works and how the soul works and put back into your hands a choice as to how you live each day.

So the spirit and the soul because they were meant to function together are mirror images of each other. So the same things that are found in the soul are found in the spirit, they simply function differently when the soul rules the spirit but when they are perfectly compatible and the spirit is overlaid upon the soul the functions are perfectly congruent. So that is why the same elements are in each. First, there is an element within the spirit that is designed to determine what reality is. Your eyes, your natural eyes, take in all forms of stimuli, what interprets the stimuli determines what you think reality is. In short, we receive information and based upon the information that we receive we form a conviction as to what reality is. That function, present in both the soul and the spirit is called the mind, it's called the mind; there's one in the spirit and another in the soul and they're capable of being at odds with each other just like they're capable of being perfectly unified. When you're of two minds you cannot determine effectively what you actually believe.

Now each mind was designed to be able to receive stimuli, to receive information from different realms. The mind in the spirit was designed to receive information and therefore to determine reality from heaven. The mind within your spirit is able to connect perfectly to the mind of God. Now if that becomes the source of your information then your view of reality is the same as God's view of reality because that's the source of your information. But if you're cut off from the reality of that sourcing then your source of information becomes the natural world. Your source of information from heaven - pay close attention to this - comes through the process or


revelation; your source of information that comes from the earth, comes from reason. Revelation is higher than reason. If you want to be superman then your revelation needs to come from heaven, that is the super man, that is the son of God. Your culture, if it arises from the earth makes you less than you actually are because the wisdom of the earth comes through the following process: it comes through observation, analysis, synthesis and theory. In other words, you observe things, you reason about them, you compare things to find both like kind and variables. So you synthesize to determine consistency so that you may act and your theory then becomes what you believe reality is and that produces sweat. But the wisdom that is from above is pure and it's delightful and it comes without toil because it is a gift from your Father.

If we knew these things why would we ever choose the wisdom of the earth? The answer is this: when man separated from his Father he embraced a different way of being and he lost the security that is in inherent in his Father, a different heart was activated because the human being has in his spirit a mind to determine reality, a will that determines the formation of your economy and a heart that provides the motivation. The Bible never refers to the term emotions but it refers to the term heart because there are only two emotions present in the human being. God gave him one of these emotions and he invented the other. In the creation of man, God never put a spirit of fear; in the creation of man, God never installed in his heart - neither in his spirit nor in his soul - because had He installed the spirit of fear in his soul He would have created a contradiction within the man. Man invented that emotion as a consequence of believing that now his economy depended upon his own abilities. When he sinned he said, “I heard the sound of your voice in the garden and I was afraid.”

Now heres the good news, when God brings you back into alignment with Him, spirit over soul, He also by giving you a new investment of the Holy Spirit and that Spirit does not make you a slave again to fear because this is the Spirit of sonship. God did not give you a Spirit of fear but the Spirit of sonship by whom you cry, “Padra meo,”. And you're restored to the prior existing condition.

My time is gone, I'll pick this up. We're talking about the restoration of a super culture, this is the gospel, the gospel is not the gospel of going to heaven; the gospel is the gospel of reconciliation that God is in Christ reconciling to the world to Himself. Glory, hallelujah.



God is bringing us to a place where we now see more clearly, when you're a child you see as a child and as you see you speak but when you become a fully matured man you put away childish things and then deep speaks to deep and spirit speaks to spirit. And that's how we grow into the knowledge of the glory God and that's how we are clothed from glory to glory until eventually we are restored to the fullness of the image of the One who created us. That's how we are fitted into the eternal plan and design of the Living God.

Now my sermon for tonight is an introduction to what I will be saying for the rest of the school and it is a complete break from all the things that Dr. Sam is saying and I know that he will continue to unravel the mystery and the knowledge of the son of God, Ephesians 4:11 says, “Until we come to the fullness of the stature of Christ until we attain to the knowledge of the son of God,” not the Son called Jesus, the corporate son called the Body of Christ. We have been predestined to be conformed to the image of the only begotton, the Son of God. Say to your neighbor, “Your a son of God,” say it like you believe, whether you are female say you're a son of God because there's only one new man in Christ and that man is neither male nor female, he is the son of God.

But I want to introduce to you today a word that God gave me and this word has literally installed the fear of God into me and it has brought judgement upon my life, my family of churches and it has caused such fear and trembling in me that there are nights where I would go to bed and I would find the atomic structure of being shaken violently by the Spirit of God. This message has sifted me like the grains of sand or like wheat, it has found me wanting, it's caused me with much repentance and with tears bringing my life before God and asking Him to help me work out my salvation in ways that I never thought I would ask Him to correct me. And the sins I am talking about are not moral as Pentecostals and Charismatics would define them but they are aspects of my life that had to be fine tuned and brought to alignment with the perfect will of God. I have never felt such adjustments in my life like I have from October to presently and so I have asked Him on many occasions for permission not to share this word and He has not given me the opportunity to opt out of it and I feel compelled to at least introduce the subject to you tonight and I will conclude by sharing some of my thoughts before the school finishes on Saturday. The message will not be completed but the impartation will be released over this region of the world.

The Lord said to me very clearly He is coming back again and that before He comes the spirit of Elijah must be released as a corporate anointing, as a mantle upon the earth that the spirit of Elijah always comes before there is a literal return of the Lord. He said to me, “This spirit will manifest through His church as they prepare the way for the Lord to come.” And so I want to talk to you about the ministry and the spirit of Elijah. The man Elijah by definition in the Hebrew could be a question, “Whose God is Jehovah?” Now it could mean, “My God is Jehovah,” or it could be a question asked, “Who is your God or does Jehovah really belong to you?” Is your God really Jehovah or who does Jehovah belong to? What kind of a person can say, “My God is Jehovah.”? The spirit of Elijah comes to marry us to God.

Now you may think that's an easy question to answer. I ask you today, “Who is your God?” You may say, “The Creator of the heavens and the earth.” You may say, “The one and only God,” the indescribable or ineffable God, you may say that but believe me you and I have many gods in this temple. We have many images in this temple and God will not share Himself with any other


god, any other image. There is more idolatry in the church today than you and I will accept. So I ask you the question and this is the question that comes through the spirit of Elijah, “Who is your god and is Jehovah the only god of your life or are you married to many gods?” The spirit of Elijah comes to bring us back to the one God and he brings us back to the word of God; two things, brings you back to God and to bring you back to the only God he has to bring you back to the word. When I use the word “word” I'm not just simply talking about quoting verses and reading the Bible, I'm literally talking about laws, statues, precepts, regulations, commandments, protocols, principles, ordinances. I'm talking about a whole world that structures your life according to the word of God so that your life is live singularly for the Lord and nothing else.

Do you know why we have to sometimes do what we do in a service like this, take time to teach you about the offering so that you could align your giving to the word of God? It's because it's not installed in us, do not know how to be regulated in our giving and we have to be continuously reminded externally because our spirits are not configured to know the rules of divine engagement. And that's just one example. Do you know why sometimes we have to be stirred up and manipulated so that we can sing and worship God? Because we don't understand how to live by the rules of engagement centered on the word of God. So I'm going to introduce to you tonight the spirit of Elijah but before I do it I have to help you understand how spiritual activity is administrated within this environment we call the earthly.

Let me say to you before I make some of my statements. What you heard today about the spirit, the soul and the body there's not books written on that yet, what you heard is very simply a departure from a charismatic perspective of the composition of our being. We were taught man is a spirit that possesses a soul and lives in a body but today we were told that we are spirit, soul and body. That's a very big difference, that means that three parts of you are co equal but functionally different that your spirit is a native to the spiritual world, your soul is a native to the natural world and both live in perfect harmony in a body that God created and when He looked at it He said, “Very good.” God was praising Himself and when God looked at the body He said, “Heaven, earth and everything of the God head can live in that body in its express image, in its magnificent brilliance, in its amazing beauty, all of God can live in that body.” God was so happy because spirit could live in a body and function in the earth through the mechanism of the soul. I mean this is amazing.

But now I want to talk about environment, atmospheres in which we administrate the anointings. Do you know that anointing is not goose bumps or a hot wind or a cold shiver or falling down, that's not anointing. Anointing is like a mantle that comes upon a church endowing them, equipping them, resourcing them, tooling them. Anointing, in computer language, is the operational system, is the hard drive that God puts into us so that we can do a piece of work. Are you with me? When a mantle of anointing comes from heaven it means that all the necessary tools you need to fulfill an assignment that has been determined by the throne which is in heaven will be expedited on the earth. You see we have so individualized and domesticated the anointing that we think about anointing as how can I stretch my hand and a thousand people get slain. Anointing is not magic and we are not magicians, we are the sons of God administrating environments and determining climates so that the conditions will be right for our Lord to come back. We create environments for the physical appearing of our Lord.

Now in the book of IKings chapter 18, Obadiah the commander and chief of the army of Ahab, king of Israel, he was surprised by Elijah, who was a fugitive of the king, who was an enemy of the king called Ahab; he was surprised when Elijah appeared. And Obadiah, when he saw Elijah


he was a sympathizer of Elijah, he immediately said, “Is that you my lord?” Now the word “lord” in the Hebrew is “adon” out of the word “adon” we get “adonai”, adonai is one of the names that describes God and whenever God is described as adonai it means He is the master, the supreme ruler, absolute authority, the one who determines the state of something. That's what the word adonai means but the word “adon” is used by Obadiah to describe Elijah and so when he used the word “adon” he was using it in a descriptive way. The word “adon” means one who is a fabricator of environments, one who determines the climatic conditions in which a people live. When the word “adon” is used it's used in a descriptive way of one who administrates the conditions so that kings and politicians do not determine the environment in which the purposes of God will be established but the environment is determined by the spirit in a man whom we refer to as Elijah.

Now I believe there's a mantle of anointing coming upon the church to shape environments, to determine the conditions and to prepare what we will call the way so that the Lord can come back. That's the spirit of Elijah. That spirit will always come back to the earth and when it does come we will not fully understand it. Do you know that spirit came upon John the baptist? And scribes and pharisees and saducees, some of the most learned men, they came to John the baptist and they said, “Who are you? Are you Elijah?” He said, “No, impossible, I can't be Elijah, I'm just a voice crying out in the wilderness.” In other words, if the anointing comes upon you, you will not even know its on you. The Bible says in James chapter 5, “Elijah was an ordinary man,” he is what I would call in our language a mere human, an ordinary man but when he prayed rain came from heaven, when he spoke the sky became like brass. And by his word things happened or did not happen he determined the occurrences. Jesus said in Matthew 11:13 about John the baptist, “If you will accept it, he his Elijah to come,” you know what the word “to come” in the Greek means? Elijah will come, and he will go, and he will come, and he will go. It's an imperfect tense with a middle voice in the Greek which means this spirit of Elijah will not just come at one time in the history of human time but it will keep coming and it will keep going until the Lord fully appears. John the baptist operated in this anointing and he didn't know it.

Now my assignment in this school is not to feed your ego or your minds with just large chunks of information; my assignment is to teach you how to connect to the anointing. To connect to any anointing there is a very important principle and Dr. Sam intimated of this principle. If your spirit can see it, if the eyes of your spirit can be enlighten to what I'm saying, what you see you will automatically own, you will inherit. If you see it, you got it; if you don't see it, you don't have it. So my prayer is today that you will see what the Spirit of God is saying. God told me, “I am releasing the spirit of Elijah and it will be a mantle, it will be a coat, it will clothe my corporate church.” Clothe them.

Let me tell you something about mantles, I don't know if we can say this in the Spanish but I'll say it in English. When God puts a mantle upon you, a corporate anointing, it's called a divine investiture. Think about an investment in financial terms, let's say you have a sum of money and you invest it into a bank account or invest it in a purchase of a property, it's an investment. When God puts a mantle upon His church and there is only one church in the earth, there's only one church in the earth, there's only one Body, so you could be located on this island and I could be in South Africa and Dr. Sam could be in America, others here could be in Argentina, Columbia, wherever; but there's only one anointing that clothes the Body. It doesn't come upon every one that goes to church, it only comes upon those whose spirits are aligned with the Spirit of God, with the throne of God, that brings the will of God upon the earth. And when that


investiture comes upon you it puts a title, it puts a rank, it gives you authority and all the symbols of the insignias of whatever you need to be able to fulfill your purpose on the earth.

Now this is not something that happens in the natural. Nowadays in the church people think that the vestiges are clothing, so you will now get them being clothed, like the Catholic priest. I'm not talking about natural clothing here, I'm talking about a spiritual investiture, a coat that clothes the church so that you don't operate in your natural but you operate in a rank and in a title and in an authority in spirit that gives you a position that even the heavens recognize because you are positioned right. Say to your neighbor, “Mantle of anointing. God clothes us to fulfill an assignment, that mantle ordains us, sets us apart and establishes us to do His will.” It's a corporate anointing, are you hearing me? That anointing has to come upon the church. Now when that anointing comes it becomes the thing that endows you and enables you to function. Do not see this individualistically, see this as the corporate anointing. So Elijah said to the Lord, “I am alone in this thing, I am the only one of my kind.” God said, “No Elijah, you're not alone, there are another seven thousand, actually you are seven thousand and one.” It's corporate but we may not be able to know every one in it but there is a people being set up to bring the earth and all its inhabitants to a single way of viewing and the word of God which is His constitution.

Now the first time God clothed a man was after he fell short of the glory of God, that's what the Bible says. That man, when he came and stepped out of the glory and we heard the difference between the fall and death today, when that man came short of the glory he was actually unclothed. So God had to use a mantle, a tunic, and the first tunic that God used was animal skins, it covered mans nakedness so that he would not be ashamed of himself and he could operate in the administration of fulfilling certain assignments in his state that was less than what God wanted for him. We call that the atonement, when God covers us He hides us (our weaknesses) so that we can still function in that mantle. Now what am I saying? You have deficits and I have deficits, I am not in anyway suggesting that you can continue sinning because our Father is holy and He wants us to live holy lives but your inabilities, your incapableness robs us of saying, “Can I do it?”

The anointing that's coming is an all encompassing anointing and I will describe it tomorrow, it touches every facet of life, it deals with multi religious faiths, it confronts a poly theistic system of religion, it deals with socialism, it deals with politics, it deals with economics, it deals with culture, it confronts every false system. I will present to you how this anointing cannot operate behind a pulpit, it operates in every facet of human life. It deals with politicians, it deals with religious leaders, it deals with every false system of society and this anointings primary objective is to shut down every illegal system until only the holy order of divine rule is established over all things. This anointing brings you to the place where you have to choose between will you serve the Baals or will you serve Jehovah God, you cannot be in a place of indecision.

So if it's going to touch every facet of life you have to be endowed where all the graces, all the wisdom, all the counsel to be able to do it. So mantles of anointing are an integral part of the season we live in; God never gives you anything to do without giving you the necessary endowments to get the work done, you heard that. God will never send His son into the earth if He doesn't give him the resources and the provisions for the improbable things that may happen. That's how God operates. I don't come here in my own ability, Sam does not come here because he has a PhD in law, jurisprudence; we come here operating with a different mantle, it's the mantle that allows us to administrate the Spirit in a way that some people don't like. They’d


rather have us lay hands upon every body, have altar calls and see some people fall down but we are not here to do that, we are here to recreate the environment, adjust mindsets, reposition people to the throne of God, help them to see into the timeless dimensions of God so that ultimately His purpose can be established.

I am not in any way demeaning the importance of praying for people but I'm showing you the macro picture of the mantles of anointing. Anyone that wants to serve God has to be mantled; if you're a priest you can't go into the presence of God or the presence of the people unless you are appropriately dressed. When the high priest walked amongst the people, he carried, he wore his mantle; when he went before God, he took off the mantle that was appropriate amongst the people. And he would put on linen and stand before God correctly dressed.

There is an anointing coming upon the church that's going to give us the right to speak. Elijah, arguably, was one of the most poorly dressed men of his time; he was a social misfit, he needed to learn etiquette when it came to dressing. He lived in the wilderness, he was so badly dressed, I mean he had just enough to cover his bare essentials but he carried a mantle. And when he went to Elisha, hit him with the mantle and the man touched something and realized, “I can't stay with my mother and father,” kissed them goodbye, slaughtered two of his oxen, resigned from work, had a party, followed the anointing. Fifteen years later Elijah was about to exit the earth and in his exit Elisha discovered his father, his mentor was about to exit so he started to not leave, he started to tug on the mantle of anointing. And Elijah said, “Join the rest of the sons, I'm leaving,” and Elisha said, “I will not let you go.”

So the question was, “What do you want?” And the answer, “I want a double portion of your spirit.” How can you give a person two portions of your spirit if you only have one portion? He was saying, “I want to be the firstborn son,” that's what a double portion means, “a firstborn son that will administrate your anointing when you leave the earth. I want to take your estate, the mantle of your anointing, and distribute it (or administrate it) when you leave.” That's the privilege of a firstborn son. Elijah said, “If you see me going you can have it.” And he saw him and said, “My father, my father!” But let me tell you about what happened. As Elijah was leaving - you can get this in IIKings chapter 2 - the mantle fell, the coat fell, on Elisha. Principle: mantles never leave the earth. That spirit of Elijah, it's waiting patiently for somebody to catch it, not so that you can pray for a few people and they can fall down, so that you can confront illegal systems, false religions, false cultural behaviors to bring people back to the way of the Lord. I've got one minute left so let me conclude. This is an introduction.

Jesus was hanging on the cross naked but His mantle was on the ground, soldiers looked at that mantle, it was the coat of many colors, it was a seamless garment similar to what Joseph had; it was the mantle of the firstborn Son, the Son, the beloved Son of the Father. That mantle was lying there, soldiers did not split it into pieces but they fought for who would get the whole mantle. God is about to clothe us, somethings about to happen but I do know that the spirit that is about to come upon the church as we push to the finish, is the spirit of Elijah. I will describe that for you tomorrow, we going to do what Dr. Sam said, we're going to do a forensic audit or an autopsy on this anointing, we're going to look at it microscopically and we're going to analyze it. If you can see it, you can see what this anointing is, it will come upon you. And if it does in this season you're going to see some things happen, literally you're going to see this as we prepare the way for the return of our Lord.


So let me close by saying the primary objective of this anointing is to bring people back to God and to bring them back to His word. I'm going to show you tomorrow how the church has gone away from God. Do you know when Ahab was king the problem was not with Ahab and Jezebel; the problem started, it only reached its harvest, it confluenced at the point called Ahab and Jezebel. But the nation went away from God in the latter rain, the rule, of Solomon. The judgment on Solomon came upon king Ahab, the nation departed from God there, He judged them there. I'm going to show you that the church, a large percentage of the church - Pentecostal, Charismatic, Evangelical, Roman Catholic, orthodox tradition - has gone away from the Bible and from the Lord. The church has been secularized, the church is back slidden and the sins of our fathers have visited us. There has to be a generation that will bring down those altars and rebuild the altar of the Lord and if we are going to do it we have to discontinue with the practices of the past if we are going to continue with the purposes of the heavens.

So everyone say, “Mantle of anointing,” that's the mantle of Elijah is coming to the church. We'll talk about it tomorrow. Stand with me, lift your hands to God, thank Him for the day we're living in, this is an awesome day. Lift those hands, what a day to be alive, what a day for you as the sons of God to come back to your Father and know that the authority of heaven is being given to you. What you bind on the earth, will be bound in the heavens; what you loose in the earth, will be loosed in the heavens. That authority has been given to the sons of God. Lift your hands, thank Him for who you are in Christ, thank Him for the revelation that you're receiving, thank Him for the favor that will come upon you.

Father open our eyes that we may behold the wonders of Your word, open our eyes so that we may see Your thoughts towards each one of us. Open our eyes so that we may interpret the times that we are living in and how you want to clothe us so that we can fulfill Your purpose in this hour. Father, we do not want to be bound by the spirit of religion, we want to be governed by the Holy Ghost, we want to be led by Your Spirit, we want to change the earth and bring it back to its original default setting. We pray today for a new heaven, for a new earth, for the recreative work of Your Spirit in the earth. Father I pray today that You will prepare the hearts of Your sons to receive what the Spirit is saying to the churches presently. We give You glory God, we give You honor, we bless Your name, we exalt You, You are worthy of all praise. Give Him glory, give Him honor.


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I am eager to hear the unpacking of the spirit of Elijah. Last night as Thamo was speaking I felt as though…like the great city coming out of the heavens that step, by step, by step the glory of God is descending into the atmosphere of this physical world. And so I have great anticipation for the great giving forth of this anointing, this mantle because our legitimate authority to function to bring the heavens into the earth will come fully in perfect concert with this descending anointing, it is already in our atmosphere. The Lord whom we seek is appearing in His temple but who can endure the day of His coming? For He shall be as a refiner of silver and gold before the great and noble day of the Lord, He will send His messengers to prepare the way and when they come they will be as refiners of silver and gold. When they refine the silver, the refinement process is finished when all the dross has been brought to the surface by the heat of trial and the refiner removes the dross and continues to do so until when he looks into the surface of the silver he sees his perfect reflection. So we are those who have come to animate in the people of God a process of refinement so that when the Lord whom you seek comes, you can endure the day of His visitation. Amen?

So to reconnect to the message I was bringing I actually see a perfect laboring together between us; Thamo is taking a prophetic lead to declare the counsel of God in the earth as rain coming, the word of the Lord is coming. And a component of that rain is to wash our understanding and a component of that rain as word is to refocus our understanding, thank you. And you shall not lose your reward. Amen. By the way, we so appreciate all of you who serve us so well. Amen.

It is not lost on us that men and women who are used to being served as lawyers, business men and so on are the ones who move tables and arrange chairs and pick us up at the airport and fight traffic to get us here and bring us our tea and sandwiches. We are deeply grateful and we receive it as unto the Lord and may God recompense you and your children for the faithfulness with which you've served us in this day, thank you.

I am coming behind Thamo and encouraging the people to lay a hold of grace and I'm making an attempt to remove the obstacles in your understanding so that you may enter into this grace. So the function of the spirit of Elijah is the one who prepares the way for the Lord Himself to come and that function alternates between the function of the apostolic and the prophetic. And it's not as though for us it's important whether we're functioning apostolically or prophetically because as wise master builders we build the house of God and that house is built by wisdom. So we alternate between what is necessary in the roles that we play. Now in pursuing this role of removing the obstacles so that you may receive this prophetic anointing and be placed within the mantle of this overarching coming of the Lord into the present space.

I want to go back to where we were last night when we spoke about the distinctions between the spirit and the soul and how they function. Naturally, because man was a compendium of heaven and earth, spirit and soul, spirit that connects to the mind of God, soul that translates that function into the earth. Now there was a particular point when that function was interrupted and I want to take us back to where that function was interrupted. The perfect functioning of man in the earth is where the spirit rules the soul, where the mind of the spirit receives its instructions from the mind of God and the mind of the soul interprets the circumstances in light of revelation instead of interpreting his circumstances in light of need. Now where did that break come? How was it that this perfect order was interrupted?

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Let's go back and look again as one going back to a treasure house to bring out the new out of the old. We are familiar with the words of Scripture but now the breath of God wishes to give revelation to the families because we have often interpreted the familiar Scriptures through the soul. Now as proof that we are going forward in the restoration of the spirit in its preeminence over the soul it is important that we revisit the familiar Scriptures with an anticipation of revelation. Amen?

Let's go back to the book of Genesis chapter 3 verse 1 and I'm going to read the narrative and select a few things on which to comment. “Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field that the Lord God had made and he said to the woman, ‘Has God indeed said you shall not eat of every tree of the garden?’” Now you notice the distortion? God had said, “You may eat of every tree of the garden, except one.” But Satan comes in and he said, “Did God say you shall not eat of every tree of the garden?” He restricts the freedom of man, he asked the question, “From which tree in this garden may you eat?” God had said, “You may eat of all the trees of the garden, except one.” But Satan comes and he says, “Of which of the trees of the garden may you eat?” Do you see anything familiar with that? That's legalism, “Tell me what my rights are, tell me what I may do according to the law?” “What is the law governing the selection of trees from which you may eat?” God said, “Eat of all the trees of the garden except one.”

The serpent says, “Of which of the trees of the garden may you eat?” In Christ as sons the whole house is ours but in religion we want to know what is our liberty within the house. A different mind is operating here, you must understand this was the approach that won over the souls of men, this is the approach that separates between a son and a father because it has the sound to it of “what may I do to be right?” This is not the thinking of a son, this is the thinking of a servant; a son knows he owns the entire house, a servant wants to know what his job description is.

So we were examining out of the old with fresh insight exactly where this order that God had established, changed. And it began with a stimulus, something was animated internally in the human and the first words that launched this internal upset was a limitation upon the freedom of the son. The first attack upon the man was a word that introduced him to the possibility that he was not free. Now keep in mind until this time the man had not sinned therefore freedom was not an issue of whether or not he could sin, you see. When God gave him a position in the earth there was no issue at that time of sin therefore when the enemy comes and approaches him with the spirit of limitation it was the door way to sin. What then is sin? Sin is an archery term, it means to miss the mark, it means to be inexact, it means to be inaccurate. Now there are specific ways in which people are inexact, there are moral ways, there a mental ways, there are physical ways in which people are inexact, inaccurate and we're not free to do those things, that is not within the ambit of what is described as freedom.

The distinction here is between two types of being; one is a son and the other is a servant. The servant is not a son because the servant was not created in the image and likeness of the one he serves, he was created to perform a task, he was not created to carry the glory of a father. So he was competent to perform tasks but he was not competent to disclose the nature of the father. Let me give you an example. When the island of Hispaniola was discovered by Europeans, by Christoval Colon when first merchants came, when planters came, when hidalgos came so people from Spain were here after Christoval Colon had arrived and taken possession of the island in the name of Isabel Aragon and Ferdanan Castille. But after


Spaniards came and the territory was taken under the crown of Spain it was necessary for the rule of the throne of Spain to come here so that this territory would have the same culture as Spain. To accomplish that a vice roy was sent from Spain to bring the culture of the throne of Spain into this new world. This viceroy is very specific, the term viray is two words, “with” and “king”. So if you're going to see the king in Spain you would see him through his viceroy. Now the viceroy was not merely a governor, he was a member of the royal family because it was not a matter of laws and regulations, it was an entire culture and the one who was familiar with the culture was a son of the king. He didn't have to learn the culture, he simply grew up in it so when he came he knew exactly the culture of the royal family.

Adam was sent to bring the government of God, the rule of the heavens into the territory of the earth. So when you see the viceroy you would see his father, that's how he was in the earth because God had said to him, “Have dominion, rule, bring My presence into the domain of the earth, you are heaven and earth configured as one man.” The servant however was unfamiliar with the protocol of a son, a servant must always have the definition of his office but a son is the heir of all things. So the thing that began to separate between the spirit and the soul was the insertion of the mind of a servant to replace the mind of a son. Now a son serves, God is the greatest servant because rule is the ultimate voluntary service. However, a servant derives his value and his reward from his service so he has to know what are the boundaries that define his service. What was introduced to the man in the earth was a concept of a servant in the place of a son. A servant understands that his reward is based upon the accuracy of his service.

This is the heart of legalism. Inherent in legalism is self righteousness because you are offering something in exchange for what you need and the presumption is that the one you serve needs you. So if you give him what he needs you obligate him to give you what you need and in that level of exchange you are equal, you shall be as gods when you understand what is required of you and when you give it. You ascend to the same platform as God because you have found what God needs that you may supply in exchange for what you need that God must supply. Do you see? Tell me, how do we define religion today, what do we say? “You must give God what God wants and God will give you what you want.” It elevates man in that exchange to the same level as God, that is why he said, “Let me tell you about this tree, in this tree is the information you need to determine what God needs and how you may give it to God. You shall be as gods.”

That fundamentally changed the balance because the knowledge of the Father departed and it was replaced by a functioning in creation that was limited to the venue of the natural world. That is why it was said by God, “In the day that you eat of it you will surely die.” You will be cut off as your position as a son and you may only live in the culture of a servant. Now look at what happened. Once the woman entertained the idea and her husband subsequently collaborated with her, what process was engaged? First it is said that the woman “saw,” that word “to see” is not restricted to just the intake through her eyes; the woman reasoned that since the fruit on the tree was good for food.

Now what is engaged here? Here natural appetite arose and dominated the condition of her mind of a son because God had said don't eat of it, God had given abundance of everything else but her desire was for the knowledge of how she should operate in the earth apart from God. So she reasoned three things: one was that the tree was good for food, the tree was pleasing to the eye and the tree was desirable to make her wise. These are three specific examples of what appeals to the soul. The lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the pride of life. Amen? It was good for food, a type, an example of the lust of the flesh; it was pleasing to


the eyes, a type of the lust of the eyes; and it was desirable to make her wise, an example of the pride of life. This is the anatomy of the mind of a servant, a servant is preoccupied with his provision and his protection and the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes function in regards to his provision and the pride of life functions in regards to his protection. That is why when he ate of the tree the eyes of his soul were opened and dominated the wisdom of the heavens in the mind of spirit. All of a sudden his information was being sourced from the world around him.

If you continue in this trend, this is where you will end up. This is from the book of Romans 1:18, when you start sourcing your information from the world, from the created world rather than from God, the ultimate place in which you will end up is you will worship the creation in the place of the Creator. And that condition is described as a depraved mind, this is what it says in Romans verse 19, “For what can be known about God is plain to them because God has shown it to them, for His invisible attributes,” you notice His ‘invisible’ attributes, “namely His eternal power and divine nature have been clearly perceived ever since the creation of the world in the things that have been made so men are without excuse. For although they knew God they did not honor Him as God or give thanks to Him but they become futile in their thinking and their foolish hearts were darkened.” Where God would have given light and revelation, darkness returned, “claiming to be wise,” why did she eat of the tree? Because it was desirable to her to make her wise, “claiming to be wise they became fools and exchange the glory of the immortal God.” Is not the son the glory of his father? You cannot carry the glory of God if you're not a son because it's the son who is the radiance of his fathers glory, it's the son who is the exact representation of his father. The glory that Jesus left for us in the earth can only be carried by a son. In the beginning the sons exchanged the glory of the immortal God for what? For images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things, therefore God gave them up in the lust of their hearts. What lust? The eyes saw that it was pleasing, the flesh desired it because it was for food and the mind desired it because it would make him wise.

You see? Man began to observe the behavior of animals and he began to infer that he was like the animals of the field, it exchanged the glory of the son for the behavior of birds and animals. What do you think adultery comes from? When a man thinks that he's no more than an animal in the field, a bull on the savannah, where is the restraint upon his lust? He has to see himself as one with the woman who was taken out of his side as a representation of Christ and the church. That's the restraint on the son but if you exchange that glory for that which is supplied by the world you'll behave like the animals of the field. Do you see? The only hope is to return to the position of a son, verse 24, “therefore because they became fools by exchanging the glory of the immortal God for the creations glory,” God gave them up in the lust of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator who is blessed forever. Amen? Verse 28 (I'm skipping that because I don't want to get into that discussion), “since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased or reprobate mind to do what ought not be done.” That's what that activity resulted in.

When the mind of the soul was seduced by the words of a servant, the mind of the spirit became dormant and the mind of the soul became preeminent and in that day the door of heaven was closed. The loss on that day was that heaven closed because nothing in the man could now access heaven and the only way from that time on that God could speak to him about the heavens was through types and shadows of things in heaven being brought into the earth. And from that point on all he could have was a relationship to God through a veil but there was a promise that heaven would open again and God deposited that promise to a man named


Abram whose name Abram was “exalted father” because when this vision was lost, the status of a son was lost. Now the only identity that man could have in the earth was that of a servant and he was obligated to find out what God required of him in exchange for what he needed. The law was inherently self righteous because it was an exchange of value and it would function until the Seed of the Father would come back into the earth. So God, in promising that heaven would open again found a man whose name was “exalted father”, Abram, and He gave him a promise and the promise was, “In your seed I will restore My sons to Me,” and He changed his name to reflect the promise, from “exalted father”, Abram, He called him, “Abraham”, and the “ha”, the breathe of God, “raouk”. He gave the promise, like when He breathed again, “raouk” into man and called him son. He breathed into Abraham, “ha”, “raouk” and gave him a promise of son because He intended to open heaven again because the natural order of the sons of God is to function in the spirit.

So the eyes of the spirit would have to be opened again if man were going to function again as the son of God but until that would happen, the only way man could interpret the heavens was through the natural world. Three generations after Abraham, the carrier of that promise, Jacob was running from his fathers house to his uncles house and he came one night to a field. He was between his fathers house and his destination, he was in no mans land, he was frightened and afraid and in this field that night God gave him a vision. And the vision was that heaven opened and he saw the angolos who ascended and descended upon a ladder. Now notice he saw angolos ascending and descending, they started in the earth and ascended into the heavens and returned out of the heavens into the earth, so it's the reverse of the separation. From the earth would come the angels of the Lord and they would plunder the heavens and return the good news to the earth.

The morning he woke up he knew he had been visited in that place so his soul interpreted the event as a physical location because that's all he could see, so he poured oil on the rock and called the place Bethel but that's all he could see. But the word “beth” is from the word “ben” which means “son of”, and “el” is God so it was the man who was Bethel, not the place! He carried the promise of the son in his being, he was bethel, he was the house of God because a house was a son not a location, a house is the family! But when you see the matter through your soul you will substitute a place for a man but he was carrying the seed of Abraham and the seed of Abraham was born in the fullness of time and one day when the spirit of Elijah came into the world it was announced that the season of an open heaven had come and unto us a child would be born to become the Son who would replace the fallen estate of the former son and heaven would open again.

And so this one who embodied the spirit of Elijah who did not know, as Thamo showed us last night, even denied when he was pointedly asked, “Are you Elijah? Who are you?” He said, “I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, prepare ye the way of the Lord,” and he asked them, “Who did you come out to see?” And his answer that he gave them was, “A reed shaken by the wind,” the announcer was a rod, a measuring stick, a reed vibrating to the sound of the Holy Spirit to announce that the Child who was born has become of age to become the Son who was given and He possesses all authority in heaven and on earth and because He is that, heaven and earth would converge again in one Man and it was the responsibility of the spirit of Elijah to recognize, to make the way for, the return of the Man from heaven.

So John the baptist was standing in the River Jordan and a crowd came to see him and he was baptizing people. He baptized one person and they went up out of the water and he looked up


and here was a Man in front of him, he did not know the Man when He came to him at first, it was after what happened that he could testify as to who this man was but he saw Him and just like he leapt in the womb of his mother before he first saw Him, now again that same spirit that stirred him because this is the spirit of Elijah, it is stirred in the presence of the Sovereign One, it always is! It is a reed shaken by the wind! Without knowing Him he said to Him, “I have need to be baptized of You,” because the spirit of Elijah in him recognized the Sovereign One standing in his presence. And he said, “I have need to be baptized of You and You come to me to be baptized?”

Now who is John the baptist? His father is Zachariah, Zachariah is a qualified Levitical priest to offer the sacrifices, John is a super priest because he's a Nazarite, he's super clean. God makes no mistakes because the testimony of Elijah is clean and whole, it is above the required thresholds because it brings testimony that cannot be impeached. In this hour, with the spirit of Elijah, God is cleaning up His church because no filthy witness of the Holy One is permitted for this is the ground upon which heaven and earth converge again. So John is a superbly clean Levitical priest and the Spirit of God leaps in him again and he measures out, as a priest should, that this is the Son of God. So he said, “You should baptize me, You are a higher order than I am, You're a priest who is a King, You are a royal priest; I am the priest of the class of servants, You are the priest, the high priest of the class of the sons. I must decrease in your presence, all that I am, all that I represent, embodied in the law, bow to You.”

Now the priest had three functions under the law: he was to examine the sacrifice to see that it was without spot, wrinkle or blemish. He was to wash the sacrifice and he was to offer it, that's why he had to be the measuring stick, he had to know righteousness, he was the cannon for the reed. So when he applied the standard his conclusion was, “You are even more worthy than I, I am not in fact worthy to untie the latches of Your shoes. I do not have the right to serve You as the lowest of Your servants.” Because you see, in a great house the lowest servant would untie the shoes of the master and wash his feet, that's the role of the lowest servant was to do that. And so John was saying to Jesus, “In Your house I am not worthy to take the lowest place of a servant in the order of Your house.” And that's why Jesus said of John, “Of men born under the law there's no greater than John, but the least in the kingdom of heaven is in a higher order of the house.” He is the end of the time of self righteousness, he is the end of the administration of the law because now has come the restoration of the sons. That's why Jesus said to him, “You are the priest, I am under the law, you have judged that I am worthy by saying that you’re not worthy to baptize Me. Now because you're the priest, I am the sacrifice, it is necessary that you and Me fulfill our respective responsibilities. You wash Me so that I may be sacrificed.” And John washed Him, John buried Him and in that moment the Son of Man who carried the Spirit of the Son of God was buried. And when He arose out of the grave, He came up as the Son of God and heaven opened to the Son again. And in that day God said, “This is My Son,” and to confirm that He was the Son of God, He was anointed from heaven not with oil like His father David was by a prophet, but by the Holy Spirit Himself.

Oil is a type of the Spirit because it represents a different economy. In nature oil reduces or removes friction so we do not operate under the anointing by push and pull, by manipulation or control. We operate not by might nor by power, we operate by the economy of the Spirit because we're connected again to the wisdom of the heavens and to the divine economy that was created to support the sons in the earth. And in that day the Holy Spirit came down upon Him and remained on Him and beginning then Jesus began to restore man first to a vision of the Father and then He went up into the wilderness for forty days, He came out of the wilderness


and spent a few days in which time He gathered His disciples. As He was gathering His disciples one of them came to Him, one of them was invited to come to Him, his name was Nathaniel and he was a very forthright man, his friend Phillip brought him to Jesus. When he was introduced to Jesus he said, “Come, you will see the Messiah, the One who has been promised.” He came to Jesus and he said, “Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?” In other words, “You’ve got to be joking. There's no way He could come out of Nazareth.” And Jesus said to him, “Nathaniel, I saw you when you were under the fig tree before Phillip met you.” Nathaniel knew that no one was around so by demonstration of power He demonstrated the spirit of revelation; it was revealed to him and Nathaniel said, “You indeed are the Promised One,” and Jesus said to him, “Nathaniel, you believe because I told that I saw you under the fig tree, now behold for you the days are coming when you will see heaven open and angels ascending and descending not on an escalator but on Me for I am the reconfiguration in the earth in one Man of heaven and earth.” The Son of Man was raised the Son of God and we'll talk about our assembling together in the corporate man to carry the glory of God and Thamo was telling us and I was so excited last night, I was actually weeping because what he's telling us is the final installment of heaven designed to clothe the son of man in the identity, the corporate identity of the son of God. We'll pause here and I'll have some more going forward. Amen.



And raised under an open heaven. Now this event as you might well suppose had been prophesied with great significance and I want to redirect your attention now to the focus of this particular session and it will be a reading from the book of Isaiah chapter 11 and we'll read several verses. Now what happened when a Son was restored, God restored the model of heaven on the earth and in that Son is an entire economy designed to retrofit all the sons so that they now in Him might see heaven in their normal lives. We are not simply born again, birth is a beginning, it's an entrance into but it is not the completion; one is born as a child but must grow up and there are precise stages of growth as you move from infancy to maturity.

The spirit of Elijah will come upon a mature church, not upon children because with power and authority come incredible responsibility, a child thinks of the benefits of authority but an adult thinks of the responsibilities not just the privilege. A servant thinks of the privilege and he works to get the privilege but a son thinks about representation and there is a weight of responsibility that is graduated to the levels of your positions. Any true leader is not impressed with his or her position, others are impressed with the position but the leader stays awake at night thinking about his or her responsibility. Children think of privilege, having money, having cars, having those trappings but responsible people see those things as only tools that facilitate their responsibilities. I have a large house, when I was a child I thought of having a large house, now that I'm an adult, now that I'm a man I think about the necessity of having a house in which I can receive guests properly. I have a large house because I need one and what goes with it is the responsibility to keep it up. The other day my wife told me that she needed to keep the house up and so we started with some very basic things and many thousands of dollars later she told me she had updated our house to be suitable to receive those whom it's our responsibility to receive.

You change when you grow up. So we are born again in order to grow up, a child is born to become the son who is given. So when the Scriptures say, “As many as receive Him, to them He gives power to become sons of God,” it does not mean that when you receive Him when you're born again that you're not a son, the term that applies to a son who is just born is “nepios”, an infant. But the term that refers to the son who is given is “huios” from which you get the word, son; it means a mature son. So one who, when you see that son, you will see the Father. Now in between these stages are precise stages of growth, one other of these stages is a stage of an apprentice, a ‘technon’, an apprentice. So when Jesus was twelve it would normally be the time for Him to start His apprenticeship. So if normally his father was a shoe maker that's the time when he would go down to the shop and his father would have him take the heavy loads of hides off the wagon and bring them into the shop; he would start his apprenticeship. But when he was thirty, eighteen years later his father would take him and introduce him to his banker, to his clients, to his suppliers and he would say, “I'm about to withdraw from the business and I want to present you my son.”

So at the age of twelve Jesus is in the temple because the best source of information as to who His Father is and therefore who He is, is locked up in the temple, in the minds of the rabbis. So He is discovering Himself in His questions to the rabbis. When His mother finds Him what does He say to His mother, “I'm twelve years old, it's time for me to begin my apprenticeship; I must be about my Fathers business. I respect Joseph but I am God’s Son and the information that is here is not about carpentry it's about why I came into the world.” And for eighteen years He learns obedience, He learns to carry weight, He learns to manage responsibility and it was very


hard, it was tough and many times He cried. It was not easy, He learned obedience by the things He suffered and then He grew in favor with God and man and when it was time for God to stop speaking to man through types and shadows in that day the Son of Man died and the Son of God was raised and God said to the world, “I'm about to withdraw, I'm about to reenter My rest, I'm presenting you My Son.”

Now that was prophesied in Isaiah and in that prophecy are the keys to how we ourselves are meant to grow from one stage to another in our maturity as sons of God. Read with me now, Isaiah 11:1, “And there shall come forth a rod out of the stump of Jesse and a branch will grow out of its roots and the Spirit of the Lord will rest upon Him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and of might, the spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord.” Now listen to this, “and shall make Him of quick understanding in the fear of the Lord and He shall not judge after the sight of His eyes neither reprove after the hearing of His ears but in righteousness shall He judge the poor and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth and He shall smite the earth with the rod of His mouth.” That would be the water from heaven, that would be the word of God, “and with the breathe of His lips shall He slay the wicked and righteousness shall be the girdle of His loins and faithfulness the girdle of His reins. Now in His rule the wolf shall dwell with the lamb and the leopard shall lie down with the child and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together and a child will lead them.” Verse 10, “and in that day there shall be a root of Jesse and he will stand as a tent for his people, to it shall the Gentiles seek and his rest shall be glorious.”

Now here it speaks of the seven characteristics of the Spirit of God, the same Spirit who came down and rested on Him and remained. But I want to discuss these seven spirits of God because it is in the Spirit of God, these seven spirits, is the economy that retrofits us to function as spiritual men, as sons of God. But first let us note: a rod will come up from the stump of Jesse. This rod is a measuring stick and a branch is a shade or a covering. It was said of Jesus in John chapter 1, “The law came by Moses but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ,” grace and truth, before that it was said, “and we beheld His glory as the only begotten of the Father full of grace and truth.” Grace and truth go together like a rod and a staff. In the 23rd Psalm it says, “Thy rod and Thy staff, they comfort me,” because the rod is the measuring stick, the rod is the standard, truth is a standard. When the Son returned to the earth what had been long absent from the earth was the visible standard of God in a man, so now the rod was returned.

The spirit of Elijah announces the One with the double portion, this concept in the Scriptures is called the primogeniture, the first born. Now in time the first born is the first from the womb but in the eternal the first born is not reckoned according to time because time is not a factor in the eternal. But the concept of the primogeniture is present both in time and in the eternal; in time the primogeniture is the first of the generations from the womb, first born in time. But in the eternal the first born is the one who is exactly like the Father. So He's not the first born in time, He's the first born in rank. You bring the first born in rank into time after the first born in time because the role of the first born in the eternal is to redeem the sins of the first born in time because he is the one who can restore the standard of the Fathers house.

So the role of the first born in the eternal is to redeem the first born in time, that is why the first in time is the last in rank and the last in time is the first born in rank. That is why the first is the last and the last is the first because when everything fails to resuscitate the Fathers house you bring back the first born in rank because in him is life and that life is the light of men. That's why


Jesus could say, “I am the resurrection and the life, if you believe in Me although you were dead yet shall you live and if you live in Me and you believe in Me then you have transitioned from natural life to eternal life,” because you draw your life the throne of God. Hallelujah.

So a rod will come from the stump of Jesse, that standard will come from the house of Jesse, the human house. Interestingly, when you bring the first born from the eternal into time you're bringing back the standard of the Father, you see? Now when the Scriptures say, “If you spare the rod you will spoil the child.” We think that means to get a rod and beat the kids; that's a domesticated version of the Scriptures. What it actually means is: if you do not bring back the standard of the Father into your house the children will remain orphans because the rod is the standard of the Father. To correct the house you must bring back the standard of the Father and align the house to the standard of the Father and then you will no longer be orphans. This is why God puts the solitary into families because it's in the family that the model of the Father is operational. If the church is run by an orphan he will beat the children and the children will be afraid of him and he will call himself the man of God hiding behind a fig leaf in the pretense that he is something he is in fact not. Why do you think Jesus received the children and said, “Do not forbid them to come to Me.”? He was showing the picture of who He himself is, here were the children estranged from the Father and here He is, the standard of the Father, “Do not keep the children away from Me, bring them to Me because I have come to restore the Father to them so that the land will not be cursed by the fatherless.”

That is why the spirit of Elijah turns the hearts of the fathers to their children and the children to their fathers, that is why He is the rod out of the stump of Jesse. He is the standard of the Father restored in the earth. So if you remove the standard of the Father from the houses then you have the houses of orphans. The rod and the staff, grace and truth. When the standard comes back it reintroduces the economy into which we may come, now I won't unpack that portion just yet but I want to show you in the time remaining something of the retrofit in the seven spirits of God. You remember of course, three times in the book of Revelation it speaks of the fact that there are seven spirits before the throne of God, before His throne seven lamps are blazing, these are the seven spirits of God. It doesn't mean there are seven individual spirits, God is a corporate Spirit, aspects attributes, things are in Him and in Him are seven characteristics and they're listed here for us. These are the exact things that man lost when he was separated from his Father. God put him in the earth to rule but we saw in the parable of the Samaritan that Adam was on a journey from heaven to earth and he fell among the thieves who stripped him of his clothing and wounded him and left him to function in creation without his authority; in that condition he was half dead, in that condition neither religion nor the law can help him, only a Samaritan who has the capacity to administrate the covenant of oil and wine could rescue him.

So we're back to that. Man lost the seven characteristics of the Spirit of God, the first thing he lost was the right to rule. In Christ we are restored to a position of rule but now you must understand our kingdom is not of this world therefore our rule is not over the kingdoms of this world but our rule is to restore the standard of heaven among men, among the nations of mankind. Now there are two concepts of rule, one concept is that of a king who sits on a throne, position of high authority and gives commands and that's how we think of rule. But in the kingdom of heaven there's a different form of rule. When I was a boy we carried a measuring stick in my book bag, in English it was a twelve inch stick, we called it a ruler; a twelve inch stick is a ruler. Why would you call a twelve inch stick a ruler? Because it is a standard, the standard


governs. We are rulers in the sense that we bring back the standard, we are the visible standard of the invisible God, that's who a son is.

Now when Jesus returned, the right to rule returned. One of the ways we see Him ruling is over nature. He and His disciples were in a boat and they were in a storm, He was asleep in the stern of the boat and His disciples were throwing water over the side and they were in panic. In the same boat, in the same environment there were two different responses; one was the response of the sons of Adam and the other was the response was the Son of God, in the same situation. The sons of Adam had lost connection to the right to rule but the Son of God never conceded the right to rule, so He was not threatened by His circumstances. Your soul views things very differently from the way your spirit sees things. When you go through many trials, storms, when you go through many trials, what does your soul see? What information comes to you from your circumstances and how does your soul interpret those circumstances? Well what is the imperative of the soul? To survive. Provision, clothing yourself; protection, hide. But your spirit sees the same information from the viewpoint of heaven.

So one of the elements in our environment is fiery trials, the soul sees fiery trials as a threat to your life, to your security and therefore our response is to try to get out of the problems as quickly as we can and we engage all forms of methodologies that produce sweat. How does our spirits see the fiery trials? Our spirits see fiery trials as refinement, access into a higher order of maturity and sonship. So the orphan always asks God, “Why have these trials come upon me? And please, give me a way out of the trials as rapidly as possible.” How does the man who is led by the spirit respond to the trials? He says to his Father, “What are You showing me?” Because fire is for cleansing in both heaven and earth, like water is for washing in both heaven and earth. So one who is led by the Spirit is completely distinguishable from one who is led by the soul.

Now the way we respond in the torment will locate us on the trajectory of our growth. His disciples said, “Get up and help us empty this boat of the water!” But Jesus never saw the storm as a threat to His life. You know why? Because He knew His destiny, it was not His destiny to drown in the Sea of Galilee. He knew that He had come into the world to be sacrificed and He was not going to die in an accident. Can you rest in the knowledge of who God has made you to be? So He got up and He stood in the boat and as the Ruler of the universe He addressed the storm and He addressed the storm out of His place of peace, Prince of Peace and He said to the storm, “Shalom.” Do you know what Shalom means? Of course it means peace… there are four characters to the Hebrew word “shalom”. They are “shin”, “lamed”, “waeh” and “mem”; “shin” means to destroy, lamed means the authority, “waeh” means to establish, “mem” means disorder. So peace comes not as compromise but peace comes when you have destroyed the authority that establishes disorder. In the military that process is called pacification; to destroy the authority that establishes disorder. For this reason the Son of God was revealed, to destroy the works of the devil, that is how we have peace, He restores the right to rule. And He greeted the storm by saying, “Shalom,” it means, “I have the authority to destroy this authority that has established disorder in my house of twelve men.” It is also the way you would greet a friend, shalom. And Jesus said, “Shalom, be still,” and the storm said, “Of course I will obey.”

He demonstrated to His disciples that He had the right to rule. I want to ask you a question, this is more of a personal thing. How many times have you been going somewhere or needing to go somewhere or you have some activity that is important for you, for your family, for your domain - the area over which God has given you to rule - and the weather becomes a problem and you


say, ‘I wish it would not rain’ and it did not rain? But you don't remember, so the next time it threatens to rain you get in a sweat.

God will teach you again how to rule. One time, this is a little bit of a personal story but I think it's worth it because we speak what we do know. Thamo and I and others like us when we get up to speak to you these aren't theories, these are things that are life to us and I want to tell you these things so that you might recognize that God has established you over a sphere of rule. You don't have to be a pastor or someone who stands on a pulpit, God has given His sons, all of us, spheres of rule and when we appeal to Him concerning the sphere of our rule He will give us supernatural help and we are the administrators of that economy. On one occasion I was in a southern Mexican city called Macuspana and we were meeting outdoors and I had just started to speak, maybe ten or fifteen minutes and I looked up and over the mountains in the area where we were there was this rain coming. Now here in the tropics you can smell the rain and you can hear it as it comes and I was born in the tropics, by the way some of you have wondered where I'm from, I live in the United States and I am an American citizen but do you know I was born in the Caribbean in an island called Saint Vincent? So I'm familiar with rain in the tropics. So where I live in New Mexico - New Mexico is different from the country Mexico - New Mexico is one of the states of the United States. Over there, the only rain we have is mud from heaven.

So the rain was coming down the mountain, this was back in 1991, and I was standing there and I was thinking to myself, “I've traveled a long way to get here and I'm by no means finished with the message,” and I was sort of talking to myself and talking to the Lord and I said, “Lord I don't understand why You would permit the rain to wash out our time,” then the Lord said to me, “Speak to the rain,” so I didn't look up I just said, “Rain, wait,” my translator asked me, “Do you want me to translate?” And I said, “Por favor, no” [Laughter] because I didn't want to fail in front of the people, I also thought the rain can hear me in English. [Laughter] It’s like when you drive out demons, you don't have to have it translated. Anyway, I watched, I looked up, it had started to rain where we were and I looked up, I opened my eyes and it stopped raining so I had a little more courage and I looked up at the mountain. And I saw a most amazing sight, the front that was coming straight to us had split and a hundred yards away it was pouring rain and the other side went all the way over back to the city of Villahermosa, it rained so hard in Villahermosa that it knocked out the power; where we were standing was dry.

My time is gone but I want to take two minutes to make this connection because the reason I told you the story is not to illustrate what I did but the impact it had on an ordinary woman. So I went home and my wife had a meeting of women and she did not have a speaker because she said that we didn't have a lot of money to bring a speaker, so she said to me, “You are cheap, you are our speaker,” so I said, “Ce seniora,” so I got up and I told this story as part of my message. Well two women had come down from Colorado, a mother and a daughter, and later that day they were returning to Colorado. Now up in the mountains of Colorado near Denver, it snows and there is a good deal of fog. They were returning home and as they started up the mountain the roads had snow on them and the fog came down. The woman was telling me the story later and her daughter was part of it, so she said to me, “I remembered your words about rain wait and I said, ‘Fog lift.’” Her daughter filled in the story, she was about seventeen or so and she said, “Ya, ya, I was sleeping and I heard my mom say, ‘Fog lift,’ and I opened my eyes and the fog lifted and I said, ‘Cool.’” So I took it that I had the eye witness testimony of two.


God is restoring us with the understanding of rule. I'll begin there when I continue the next session. Thank you.



Now you have to train yourselves to listen with your spirits, when you listen with your mind, the mind of your soul, you'll feel tired but if you learn how to absorb the information received in your spirit you will feel rest. We try too hard to remember, you have to learn how to recline at the table of the Lord. So say to your neighbor, “Relax.” Now if you feel so tired, take your pens, put them away because we concentrate too much here. I'm giving you some secrets. You will notice that Dr. Sam hardly looks at his notes, I'm different, I have lots of notes, it comes with this iPad but that does not mean he's not prepared, he's written thick books, thick, thick books but he doesn't rely on that, he relies on the Holy Spirit bringing out of his box, his memory box what the Spirit will say to you at that point in time. So if the preachers are not under pressure how much more should you learn how to rest, ok? So speak to the storm next to you, say, “Shalom”. Let me say this, what your memory cannot contain your spirit has already received, you may not be able to bring it to remembrance now but if your spirit has received it, it will come to you when you need it. So we need to learn how to rely on the spirit in us that is connected to the Holy Spirit and He will highlight the things we need when it is necessary.

Now what you've heard from the sessions with Dr. Sam is it can take a lifetime to be unpacked and that is simply because the way we've been programmed by religion cannot help us to process revelation. Religion is an enemy of the revelation of Christ, religious people crucified the Christ, we need to learn how to become spiritual, to discern, to interpret, to translate what we have received so that our brains, our entire beings, can understand what the Spirit is saying to the church. So say to your neighbor, “He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches.” So you may have observed by now that there has to be a major reconfiguration of how we view God as our Father, ourselves as His sons, and this word which was given by a father to a son so that he can function. As his fathers image and likeness in creation. This Bible cannot be understood unless you become a son, it can be read as a believer, it can be read as a follower of Christ, it can be read as a disciple of Jesus. But if it has to be understood, it can only be understood by those who have developed to a place of knowing that I am a son of God. Amen? That's when it reaches its highest potential and its greatest expression.

We've been talking and by now you've observed that Dr. Sam is not just a very powerful preacher but a very intelligent man, he doesn't think so but I'm just saying that. I don't know how you observe me, I'll leave that to you, you're the jury. But we were talking at breakfast this morning and we said, we were talking like two little kids that found a new toy, a new gadget, it was like we were finding things in the Bible that we never saw before. Now remember, he gave up practicing as a lawyer, PhD in jurisprudence, I gave up nothing, I just went into the ministry. I'm thirty years in full time ministry but we feel like we've just been born again, again; born again, again. (Laughter) That's how we feel, we feel like babies. All the pearls we collected we are now prepared to sell them, release them, to buy the field that we found this pearl in. This present paradigm, this present elevation of our interpretation of the Scriptures makes us realize, makes me realize, for thirty years I've been searching to know the Scriptures like now how I find it. I sometimes feel like a fool, “God, how could I have preached that ten years ago? How did I misuse the Scriptures fifteen years ago?” I want to beat myself because now I realize that when I was a child I spoke as a child and now were growing up into Christ, I want to speak like a son of God.


“What doctrine is this? Never a man spake like this before, where does he come from? Wasn't he the one that was born outside of wedlock by that guy Joseph and that young lady? Jesus, he's got no formal training but how can He speak like this? We've never seen such doctrine.” That's the season we live in.

Now I need to get into my subject. My administration for this present school is to give you a kind of a preview, you know it's like when you want to watch a movie you first see the trailer, I'm giving you the trailer as to what is going to appear. And so the grace, the mantle upon me for this school is more of a prophetic, I'm trying to set minds and shift horizons and help you to see what God is about to invest into the corporate Body of Christ that will prepare you for the visitation of God. And if you don't see it, if you don't recognize it, you will not be able to receive it. There has to be recognition before there's reception and if there is reception then there is reward. You can only receive someone that you recognize and when you bring the person that you recognize, you receive the gifts of grace. I told you last night that the spirit that is about to invest itself upon the church that is aligned to the throne which we call the apostolic church, by now you would have discovered the perspective of the apostolic that we are presenting in this school should be pretty foreign to the popular apostolic gospel that is doing its rounds in this part of the world. And you will discover that this present season is not about titles and status and the insignia and the symbols; that this present season is about how can we bring God's word back to its original place and how can we bring you into the most intimate relationship with God so that you could relate to God and God could relate to you on the basis of a Father/son relationship. The word of God and true apostles don't come around with titles. I've told you this repeatedly from this stage, I do not call myself an apostle and it's not that I don't want to be called an apostle, it's not about a title, it's about showing the fruit of your office. Let people then describe you according to how they see you.

Now the spirit of this season is the spirit of Elijah and it's a critical season and that spirit comes to clothe a people so that they can prepare the way for the physical, literal, corporally, bodily return of the Lord to His temple. I want to now go a little further in helping unpack what this anointing is because the spirit of Elijah always comes before the appearing of the Lord, that's the first thing. Secondly, it comes when whole church is in a place of being separated from God and it's allowed itself to be invaded by foreign forces of darkness, evil spirits. Now I don't want to over generalize but in the church of Jesus Christ that are two types of people; there is what we would in biblical language call goats and sheep, tares and wheat, the sons of God and the sons of the Devil, that's in every church, they are only separated when the Lord comes. Not everybody that claims to be part of the church is an authenticate member of the Body of Christ, not everyone who says, “Lord, Lord,” is known by the Lord. You cannot use false indicators to measure who is genuine, there are many people that can prophesy, that can cast out devils, that can perform miracles but they are not recognized by the Lord; they are lawless and there is a judgment coming to them. In my personal opinion it's only a remnant who really represent the Lord in the global church, I will explain that tonight, I will show you that God is about to bring judgment to the church. The spirit of Elijah comes to judge the church.

Firstly, we are not dealing with the reincarnation of Elijah because we do not believe in reincarnation but we believe in the Spirit of Christ that expresses itself through certain individuals, ok? Look at what Peter said, IPeter 1:10, I'm going to throw out a few Scriptures and remember my purpose as I told you last night is not to complete the teachings, my primary purpose in this school is to release an impartation, when you get the impartation you can search the Scriptures and get the information. Say to your neighbor, “Imparting.” I'm releasing it not just


to you but into the corporate environment, understand what I'm doing. Now this is Peter and this Peter is the first amongst the twelve and this is what he says, “Of which salvation the prophets have inquired and searched diligently who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you.” Searching what, or what manner of time the spirit of Christ which was in them the prophets did signify when it testifying before hand the sufferings of Christ and the glory that should follow. So can we reach one small conclusion? That all the prophets recorded for us all throughout the Old Testament were directly and indirectly witnessing to the fact that Christ is going to come, that the fullness of anointings, the manifestation of the fullness of the godhead will come to the earth? But what was in each one of these prophets? A measure of Christ, a measure of the spirit of Christ. Have you got that? So the whole of the Old Testament was conveying, by the spirit of Christ, that there is a future day coming where the grace of God will be unveiled and that grace is called Christ. And you know this in John chapter 1, “In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God, by Him everything was made and without Him nothing was not made.” And it goes on down to verse 12, “and in Him and of His fullness we have received grace for grace,” and prior to that it says, “and He was full of grace and truth and of His fullness have become share holders, partakers of the grace and the truth that was in Him.”

So all of the prophets carried a spirit which is called the spirit of Christ. Have you got that? Please follow me very carefully, we are doing what I told you last night; we are doing an audit on an anointing, we are doing an audit, an autopsy on a spirit that was resident in a man called Elijah the Tishbite who live in a region called Gilead. Hopefully we'll be able to discuss that later on, this evening or tomorrow. So we're studying a spirit [break in audio]

When Jesus came into the coast of Cesarea Philipi, He asked His disciples, “Who do men say that I the Son of Man am?” Let me paraphrase that, “What is the grassroot opinion of Me, a human being. You guys study my humanity, what are people saying about My humanity?” So let's look at the assessment, this is an autopsy of Jesus’ humanity and they said this is what was being said at grassroots levels, this is what the people are saying, “Some are saying the spirit of John the baptist is in you,” follow me now, “some are saying when they watch You operating they believe You are no different to John the baptist.” And Jesus would have said, “Correct,” because the spirit of Christ was in John the baptist and John the baptist was the last prophet and he didn't even know he was a prophet and he described himself as a voice crying out in the wilderness. Then the second statement, “Some say You are Elijah,” so the opinion is some say when they study You they see the same spirit that was on Elijah operating in You. Jesus said, “Correct,” because the spirit of Christ was in Elijah. He’s not giving them any clues, He must be answering to Himself. In fact the word is, “You could be Jeremiah because You know how to uproot, pull down, throw out; You can turn tables upside down.” And He would have said, “Correct,” the spirit of Christ was in Jeremiah. And then they went so far as to say, “in fact the word on the street is You could be any one of all of the prophets.” Remember now Hebrews 1:1, “God who in ensundry times,” in every period of human history, “and in diverse manners,” He used different methodologies, different dress codes based on the time in which He was coming, “spoke to the fathers in the prophets.”

So God through the spirit of Christ, in every period of time, was talking to the fathers who were heading the movements of God and He used the agency called prophet. So Jesus said, “Wow, the people are pretty good in assessing, in evaluating the measures and the metros of anointing.” Then He paused and He said, He must have stared at them, smiled at the them like the way Dr. Sam smiles, waited for them to take a breath and by now Jesus was pretty


impressed with all of them, He said, “So that's what the people say, who do you say I am?” And Peter, the big mouth, the one that speaks before he thinks, and Peter said, “Thou art the Christ, the Son of Living God.” Do you know what Peter said? He said, “In You is John the baptist, in You is Elijah, in You is Jeremiah, in You is all the prophets; You are the fullness, the sum total, the absolute, every anointing, every essence, every property, every bit of ability that is in God is now contained in You. You are the visible image of the invisible God, all of God in His fullness is dwelling in You. You are the confluence, the consumption, the summarization, every anointing, You are the absolute.” That's what he said. Jesus said these words, “He said, ‘Blessed are you Simon by Jonah for flesh and blood has not revealed it unto you but My Father which is in heaven. My Father told you this, there is no way you could have got this information; My Father had to give you the secret.” Then Jesus said, “Upon this confession,” which is indestructible, which is as solid as a rock, “upon this confession I will build My template, My model, this will be the design of My church.”

Whats the design? Christ in you manifesting as a son of God will be what the church is. Are you in Christ? Is Christ in you? Are you the Body of Christ? Are you one new man in Christ? That's your hard drive, that's the spirit in you and it's Christ which comes to you as a seed, Galatians chapter 3, that's the sperm God puts into you and that's how you get born again. God put His sperm in you, it's a God sperm. The word “sperma” means “seed”, God puts His seed like how He put it in Mary and that seed gestates, that seed forms, that seed becomes a child, that child grows to become the son of God. That's the church of Jesus Christ.

Now why am I saying that? Because when I speak about the spirit of Elijah I am not talking about your status as a son, I'm talking about the mantle that God gives you to prepare you for the return of the resurrected and ascended Christ who heaven must retain until the reconstitution of all things. Now we are preparing the way for the spirit of Christ and for the person of Christ to return. Are you with me? Now the day that this happens, that God sends the spirit of Elijah, there are many references to it, let me give you a few as quickly as I can. I want you to first go to Malachi chapter 4 and we're also going to read chapter 3 but not immediately, I just want to allow you to read something. Malachi chapter 4, the last chapter of the Old Testament. The word Malachi comes from the word malac… there's two words, very close pronunciation; there's one called “malech”, that means “a king” but “malach" means a deputy, one who is sent to deputize on behalf of another, a messenger. The whole book of Malachi describes the spirit of a messenger. You know other words for messenger? An apostle. An apostle is not a person who sits on a high seat and has armor bearers carrying his bag and catching his coat; an apostle is a messenger from heaven to bring the message of God to the people of God. That's the book of Malachi. When you read the book you must read it as if you represent that people that is gonna come to prepare the way for the Lord to come. Are you with me?

“For behold the day cometh that shall burn like an oven,” let me say firstly that the day of the spirit of Elijah is a day that will come like a hot oven. This is where when I told you last night that God has put fear in me, I don't mean phobia, I don't mean physiological fear or fear that comes out of the soul, God has not given us the spirit of fear but of power, of love and of a sound mind. But there is a fear, it's the place where Jacob met with God in Genesis 28, how fearful is this place, how awesome is this place, surely the presence of the Lord is in this place and I didn't know it. Now God has put that fear in me, God said to me, “You cannot be a messenger if your constitution in your spirit, in your soul, in your body is not aligned to heaven. If you are not positioned correctly you cannot speak for Me. How can you deputize for Me when parts of your


being are not positioned correctly. From October to now I am literally fearful in my spirit, I've never felt respect for the Lord, and I've always loved God, I've always tried to be sincere, yes I've made many mistakes along the way but I love My God but I've not felt fear like I have felt in recent times. Now I fear not man only God, I'm no more interested in pleasing man, only interested in pleasing the Living God. The Lord said to me, “The day is coming that is so hot, it's a day that shall burn as an oven and if you want to be in the fire - like Shadrack, Meshack and Abendego, like Daniel in the lions den - there must be no alloy in you, there must be no chafe in you, there must be no weakness in you; you need to be completely submitted to My word.”

So God has taken away ambition, any impure motives, insecurities, He has taken away any desire to be attached to anything and He's brought me to a place where He said, “You cannot stand in the oven, you will not tolerate the day.” Does not the Bible say, “I will be with you in the fire, I will be with you in the flood,” and you know what we thought it was? Personal trials. And I'm not saying that that Scripture cannot apply to that. I said, “God, I cannot expire, I want to be part of this day.”

So let's run through this, “For behold the day shall come that shall burn like an oven and all the proud,” and believe me pride is in the church like you don't know, it hides behind titles and positions, it hides behind money and status, it hides behind gifts and so called anointings, it hides behind education and degrees. God said in this day those things can't stand, that's the day of Elijah and all that do wickedly. God started to expose those in my own family of churches, I have not seen snakes come out of the grass and out of the rocks and out of holes like I have in the last two months in my family of churches. Motives, attitudes, hidden sins, secret sins; God said He will not allow you to be a voice confronting the systems of the world. Judgement will full start in your house, “If it first starts with you then I will deal with the world.”

This is not the day to play games, this is a day of great fear and trembling, “And they shall be like stubble and the day that cometh shall burn them up,” saith the Lord of hosts, “that is shall leave them neither root nor branch.” These individuals won't have sons and they will have no fathers, root is fathers; branches are offspring, houses will just shut down. I prophesy to you today, many ministries are going to shut down in this season. Those that thought they had sons will realize they don't have a lineage, nor a posterity; that's the day we're living in. “But unto you that fear My name, the first thing you have to do in this season, you must know the name of God, not Jesus, the name of God. And Jesus tells us what the name is, the name is Father, John chapter 17, “Father I have kept Your name and I've shown them Your name that they may keep Your name as I kept Your name.”

There's no more knowing God as Creator, as Mighty God, as healer, as Deliverer, and those are great names for our Father, He has a whole list of names to describe his abilities but He doesn't want to be known by those names, He wants people to come to know Him as a son would a father. Are you with me? When the spirit of Elijah comes only those who know their Daddy will survive, that's why you cannot put your trust in horses and in chariots, you cannot trust in your own abilities; you will need to learn how to trust in the name of the Lord our God. That's the season we're living in.

I only came to know the name Father in the last four years or so, until then I knew God by many names, I knew Him as Deliverer, casting out demons for me was not a problem; as a healer, I knew Him; as a miracle worker, I can write a text book on miracles. I knew Him by names but as my Daddy, my Father, the lover of my soul, my safety; I didn't know Him on the level. That's the


fear of the Name. When Elijah comes, two things; he brings you back to the name of God and he brings you back to the word of God. Look at this, “But unto you that fear My name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings and you shall go forth and grow up as calves of the storm.” That's an imagery, baby cows; as little children you will suddenly grow up to be part of the family of God, that's what’s going to happen in this season. And this portion of Scripture is the second parable, in Matthew chapter 13, the parable of the wheat and the tares and this portion is quoted there when Jesus said, “The wheat are the sons of the kingdom, the tares the sons of the devil,” and that's the only parable that speaks about the kingdom of the Father and it speaks about the sun, the solar light; the sun of righteousness will arise. In other words light will arise in you because you're now connected to the Father, you will no more live by the solar alone, lunar system, you will now live by the light of revelation. Now look at this portion of Scriptures, “And you shall tread down the wicked,” say to your neighbor, “You shall,” “and they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this,” saith the Lord.

Now I'm going to talk about political systems, social economic systems, religious systems and our world governmental systems, ideologies that have been cast into structures. I'm going to talk about military systems because all of these people came to John the baptist at the river, from economists, to politicians and you can study that. From ordinary people to leaders of governments, to religious leaders; they all came to him. And he said, “We're gonna put the axe to the root of the tree,” in other words, we're going to kill every illegal system, we are no more trimming the branches of the tree, if a tree does produce the fruit of righteousness it's going to be eliminated. So when I talk about the wicked I'm not just talking about on the micro level. You will see multiple systems shut down, you will see a manifestation of Jezebel, not some crazy lady in your local church or some mad man trying to manipulate a situation; I'm talking about the most intelligent systems that carry the spirit of manipulation and witch craft. They will be deconstructed in this season. You with me?

That's what I'm talking about, you shall tread down the wicked, they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, says the Lord. Mark the words here. The day shall be so hot and because you can endure the day you will be like fire burning up everything, wherever you go the fire of God will go and evil, the systems of the world, will not be able to stand. I know what you're saying, “Come on Thamo, get a reality check. We are ordinary people.” You think it's going to happen in our lifetime? Well Elijah by description was a Tishbite, that means an alien, not an alien as in UFO; an alien as in a stranger, a Tishbite. That means he lived in a strange land and that land was called Gilead, a rocky different place and he was not truly a part of the twelve tribes. And James tells us that he was an ordinary man of like passions, like how you have passion and I have passion, that's how Elijah was, God used him.

John the baptist wasn't so bad, John the baptists mother was Elizabeth, she was a daughter of Aaron, she belonged to the high priesthood. His father, Zachariah, was part of that priesthood and his grandfather can be traced back to the days of David, that's almost five hundred years before Jesus. And his grandfather was Abijah and he was part of the priesthood that was divided into twenty four groups, twenty four sections and Abijah was the leader of the eighth group of the twenty four. So John the baptist had a high pedigree, high priesthood. Mary the mother of Jesus, she was a relative of Elizabeth, the word relative means the same bloodline. So Mary was from the high priestly family of Aaron but Joseph who adopted Jesus was from the tribe of Judah. So the high priest family and the kingly family was brought together so that the priest, the Son of God who will come forth will be a high priest and also the King of kings.


But that's besides the point, the point is that Elijah and John the baptist could have said, “Hey, come on, this is too hard to do,” but God said it can be done. But this is the spirit, and I'll close with this one, time goes too quickly here, “Remember you the law of Moses,” everyone say, “Fear the Name,” fear of the name of the Lord. I want you to get this, that's the first thing. The second thing is, you must remember the law. This evening in my session I will talk to you about the law and the prophets, how these two things are going to come to their fulfillments in an Elijah generation, the spirit of Elijah. I will show you this evening Moses gave us the law of the Father, Elijah brought the Father of the law to us. Let me say it again, Moses brought the law of the Father to us but Elijah brought the Father of that law to us. In Elijah the law and the Father are brought together so that if you're a son of God you get to know God as your Father and you get to know the way of your Father which is His law. And when you have those two things you are re-instituted into the family of God and you function in a way that you never encountered before and I will show you tonight the law was not cancelled on the cross at calvary, the law was not abolished on the cross of Calvary. The law was fulfilled, Jesus became the manifestation of the law not the cancellation of the law, He cancelled our sins and changed the covenant, the testament and sealed it in His blood but He brought us into a new economy, the economy of living in the fullness of what the Father intended for us.

I'll close with this, “Remember you the law of Moses My servant which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel with the statues and the judgments.” Then it says, “Behold I will send you the Elijah the prophet,” some Bibles say, “I will send you the spirit of Elijah,” how many of you want that spirit? I want it, I want that spirit, I'm laying claim to my inheritance, I want to be clothed in this, “I will send you the spirit of Elijah before the coming of the great,” everyone say, “Before,” the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord. And then it says, as you heard, “And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children and the heart of the children to the fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.”

Now that statement, fathers/sons or children, it's a deep, deep statement; it's more than becoming spiritual son to a father of a household. I'm going to talk about the spirit of Shemosh, the god of Moab; I'm going to speak to you about the spirit of Molech, the god of the Amonites; I'm going to show you how the spirit of Shemosh is a murderer of fathers and how the spirit of Molech is a spirit that teaches children how to offer their children as sacrfiices. I'm going to show you where Elijah lived, Elijah lived in Gilead; Gilead was a place in the wilderness and in the wilderness the spirit of Moab, the people of Moab, the spirit of Amon who worshipped Molech. Those two spirits, those two people lived in the same environment that Elijah lived; the one spirit kills fathers, the other spirit sacrifices children. Elijah comes to destroy those two spirits so that fathers and sons are restored and you will discover how this spirit is coming to our churches through the pedophile, through child slavery, through the militarization of our children, through childrens church that takes away the responsibility of raising up children from families and gives them a forty five minute program so that they can watch some videos and sing some songs while the adults sit in church and worship God. Then twenty years later our children don't want to come to church because they don't know what church is all about. I will show you abortion is the spirit that sacrifices children.

All these spirits on the earth today, if you went right now to the Middle East, children are fighting wars; eight years, ten years, in Syria. A man was on CNN the other day, a father, part of the rebels fighting against the Syrian government he lost his son that's ten in the war; his only son was the eight year old left, the boys got a gun in his hand and the father says, “I'm prepared to


sacrifice my eight year old son so that we can get our land back.” So they're prepared to kill their children for the sake of land, that's the sacrifice of children today. You check it out with abortion, seventy million children have been sacrificed in the United States of America through abortion. Let's not talk about how many children have been aborted in the whole world. Do you not think that God is going to send back the spirit of Elijah? And he has to fix the problems, that's the day we're living in, if we don't bring the spirit back then the earth is cursed. When the Bible uses the word “curse” it does not mean a bad spell, it means, “I'll obliterate the earth because there's not purpose for it anymore. I create it for My sons, not for them to be killed.” Are you with me?

So when we discuss this later we are going to describe the day of the Lord, it's a sad day but it is a fearful day and a terrible day but for us the righteous it's a glorious day. The grace of the Lord be with you, bless you.



Are you fascinated with God's word? Isn’t this Bible amazing? And thank God for schools, thank God that we could come and sit and listen to His word. So just remind your neighbor, “This is a school, it's not a conference and in schools you come to be taught and we all learn together. The good thing about a school, you can finish your lecture in the middle of a thought and then come to the next session to continue it. I like that, I call that the selah moment. You know in the book of Psalms at the end of a sentence there's this Hebrew word “selah” which means stop, have an interval, pause, reflect, meditate and then continue reading. It's like what you could do with a movie today, press the pause button, take a break then come back and press the restart. That's what’s been happening in this school, in between the breaks you've had the opportunity to meditate, to muse upon God's word and to come back and continue with the thought.

Now there's no sermon that we preach, there's no message that we communicate from the pulpit can reach its conclusion because God's word is active and it's alive, it's continually growing. When I go to my room at the hotel, the thoughts I shared are continuously expanding and sometimes my vocabulary is not yet fully developed to communicate the feelings and to express the thought that is in my spirit. God's word is dynamic, it's got life in it, it's timeless and we are trying through language to communicate the deep things of God. And I'm hoping that through these schools you can come to learn to appreciate the depth of God's word and love God's word for how unique it is, it's incomparable with anything that anybody has put pen to paper. And this word is over two thousand years old for us and we're still scratching the surface, we are only seeing the tip of the iceberg and there's still so much more to search out.

In Proverbs 25:2 the Bible says, “It is the glory of God,” or the reputation of God, “to conceal a matter:” the word matter is the word “dabar” and dabar means word. It is in the nature and the character of God to hide His word but Proverbs says, “but it is the glory of kings to search out the matter. The heavens for height and the earth for depth,” that's what we're doing, we're searching out the things that are hidden in God's word and the things hidden in God's word brings heaven and earth to one common place. And some of you may have been feeling like ‘We’ve never heard such matters before, how is it possible that these things have been hid for decades and centuries?” The apostle Paul said in Ephesians chapter 3, he said, “God kept hidden from the fathers of the past,” and he was referring to Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and the great prophets and some of the wisest men like Daniel, Solomon, Ezekiel and other great prophets; God kept certain things hidden. But Paul said, “This time God has chosen to reveal it to us,” that was in his time but Paul also said, “While I see the things and reveal them to you, things that have been hidden since our fore fathers,” Paul said in Corinthians, he says, “But I see through a glass not so clearly but then when we reach maturity we will see more clearly.”

We are living in times where those like Paul that sits in that cloud of witnesses must be able to say, “Wow, that generation on the earth, they are seeing things that we spoke about and it's in the book but how they explain it we never saw it like that.” That's the season we're living in. We are reaching the harvest of the seeds planted by the prophets and the apostles that are recorded for us in the Bible, they planted the seeds and over the generations others have watered but now God is giving us the increase. Say to your neighbor, “We are living in the season of increase.” And it's not financial increase, it's revelational increase and revelation is priceless, you can't put a price tag to it and when you have revelation it will bring prosperity to your soul, your spirit and your entire well being. We are rich because of the revelations of God. Amen?


Now today I want to continue with the teaching on the spirit of Elijah that is clothing the church as we prepare for the finish. I know that many of you have not been here in the course of the day and unfortunately I cannot revisit the things I said but thank God for CDs and recordings. You will go and get them and listen to them. But the spirit of Elijah is a spirit that comes from Christ to equip the church so that the church has the ability to fulfill its assignment in this present season. Now I want to explain the spirit of Elijah to you. Now there is a reference in the Scriptures and it is found a few times in the New Testament, it's a phrase that we all read and the phrase is, “The law and the prophets,” have you read that? “The law and the prophets. Jesus,” He said that the law and the prophets is the framework of what God communicated in the Old Testament, He went so far as to say that all of the ten commandments - the ten commandments could be divided into two categories.

If you went to Exodus chapter 20 you will get the ten commandments that was communicated to Moses. Those ten commandments have two specific categories in them, the first four commandments is related to God, it's got to do with loving God, not worshipping images, idols, not treating His name in vain and keeping the Sabbath. That's the first four commandments. The other six commandments is directly related to our function in relationship to people, we call the that the commandments to our neighbors. When Jesus summarized the commandments, like in Matthew 22:40, He summarized it by saying, “You must love God and you must love your neighbor and upon this principle of loving God and loving your neighbor, on this principle hangs the law and the prophets.” So love for God and for your neighbor is upon what? God hangs the law and the prophets. And you know who your neighbor is? Your father and mother, your brother, your fellow human, that's why God will say things like you must honor your father your mother, you must not murder; and murder is not just killing somebody, if you just think evil of your brother it is considered murder. You must not commit adultery, you must not bear false witness, you must not steal and you must not covet. In other words, cannot be jealous over your neighbor, his house - in biblical language, another congregation - your neighbor's wife, your neighbor’s things. All of that has got to do with love your neighbor.

But Jesus uses the phrase ‘the law and the prophets’. It is also said that the law and the prophets defines our actions, for example, He said, “Do unto others as you would have them do to you,” so think about all the kind things that you would have people do for you? Do you like good gifts, do you like nice words, do you like people to be polite with you? Do you want people to forgive you? Then just simply do what you would have them do to you for this is the law and the prophets. And I can go on but I want to create a distinction today on what the law and the prophets is because I want to show you how we are living as a fulfilled generation and how upon our shoulders is now coming the fulness of all prophetic utterances. We are reaching a time when all of the prophetic words of God are going to be fulfilled in our generation, that's the season we are living in.

So what is the law and what is the prophets? The law and the prophets are summarized for us in the representation of two specific individuals; the law is summarized in the person called Moses, Moses is the personification of the law. To know the law, you have to know the one who is the face of the law and his name is Moses. He brings to us the foundation upon which God will establish His purposes, he brings to us the way of God, the mind of God, the culture of God, the regulations of God, the governmental order of God, the statues of God, the commandments of God. So if you had to do an autopsy of Moses you will find that his entire being is configured in such a way that he has the very DNA of the law. Moses is the law, in other words - and I want


all preachers to hear very carefully or shall I go a little further? Every single person who calls himself or herself a son of God should hear what I'm going to say. You cannot preach a message unless you first become the message, if you are not the message you cannot be the messenger. You cannot prophesy of the purposes of God unless you become the prophecy, that's a critical, fundamental principle. Do you know how long God took in the life of Moses before He gave him the law? I'm not talking about the ten commandments, the sum total of everything He gave him, God took eighty years in the life of Moses to form the man, to develop the man, to shape the man, to rebuke the man, to prepare him before God would teach him how to get a copy, a snapshot, a photograph of heavenly things so that Moses could bring it down, build it, according to what he saw in the eternal. Moses was prepared for what God would use him to communicate.

Some of the messages we are sharing with you have not been formed behind a desk with mountains of books on the desk, what we are bringing to you does not come from intellectual research, it comes from the Lord whether you accept it or reject it God has first pierced us, shaped us so that we can present this message. That's why you will notice that we can step away from our notes and share this message because the message and the messenger must be one, that's how the shadow of somebody like Peter could infect the lives of those that comes within the boundary of the shadow. Only when you become the message can those who come into your shadow, into your environment, be touched. This is called spiritual impartation not manipulation, impartation, that's where we moving to now.

Either tonight or tomorrow I will show you that the decisions of leaders have a consequential effect on the people they lead. If a leader does not live by God's word the people suffer judgement, have you heard me? If leaders do not become as you heard this morning, the standard, God will judge the house. If you don't want to believe me, talk to Cora, have a conversation with her, or speak to Akon and they will tell you the decisions they made brought judgement upon their households. The days of duplicity, of double standards especially those who stand behind the pulpit and preach, the judgement on all teachers is two times worse than those who listen to the word. It's a fearful day to stand behind the pulpit and preach because by what you preach you will be judged. Amen? Are you with me?

Let's get back to the word was formed before God gave him the law and the law was only five books, only five books; Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy. Have you got it? Only five books. The law in the Hebrew is called the Torah and the word Torah means “that which will guide you.” In contemporary language it literally means “a gps”; law does not mean “to dictate”, it does not carry within it a doctoral connotation. It's not a law as in “you will do this”, it's meant to guide you, shepherd your feet into the eternal pathway of the Lord. Moses represents it. The prophets, when we speak about the prophets we are not talking about every prophetic ministry, we are talking about the other thirty four books in the Old Testament; the Old Testament has thirty nine books, the New Testament has twenty seven books. We are literally talking about the other thirty four books of the Bible, like Joshua and Judges and so forth. So when we talk about the law we're talking about the face of the first five books is Moses; when we're talking about the prophets, the face of the prophets is Elijah. Now follow me very carefully. The prophets, the other thirty four books represented in this spirit called Elijah, this thirty four books comes out of the five books. In a technical sense the prophets represents the whole thirty nine books but the heart, the hard drive, the operational center of those thirty four books is the law of Moses. If you do not have the law you will not be able to understand the prophetic agency.


So in a technical sense Elijah is a representation, a spiritual representation, of the law. So when we study Elijah, the spirit of Elijah represents the whole of the Old Testament, everything in it. So when you're analyzing the spirit of Elijah, in that spirit is Jeremiah, is Ezekiel, is Isaiah, is the twelve prophets that we call the minor prophets, is Solomon, David, Daniel. All of these great anointings is resident in this anointing called Elijah. Now in the days of Moses there was no need for the prophets because in the law and the spirit of Moses there was the ability to prophesy. So you will not see a legitimate office of the prophet because in the law giver was already the spirit of prophecy. You know the story about Moses, how he came to a place being extremely exhausted in managing the people and judging over their problems when they had come into the wilderness and he got advice from his father, well he got advice from God, to take seventy men, bring them to the tabernacle of meeting and where God will take the spirit from Moses and put it on these seventy men and they all started prophesying. But two men out of the seventy were not at the tabernacle, Eldad and Medad, these two men for some reason were in their houses, in their tents but because they were part of the seventy that same spirit that was connected to heaven, located in Moses, God took the same spirit and put it on those two men and the other sixty eight that were at the tabernacle of meeting and they all started to prophesy, operating on the same frequency as Moses.

When this law is in you, you don't have to operate in the office of a prophet, you just become the mouthpiece, the oracle of the Living God. It's like this afternoon - and I'm not a prophet, I don't operate in the office of a prophet, I can't claim that I go around giving prophecies but when I'm full of the law and the spirit of the law - I'm not talking about ceremonial law, I'm not talking about blood sacrifice, I'm not talking about all the rituals of the law, I'm talking about the Spirit of God in the royal law where you can take the principle and separate it from the practice of the old covenant and know that that principle is true to the very nature and constitution. When you operate in that anointing it's not hard to prophesy. God gives you eyes of fire, you can look at a person, you can see through him and when God says, “Tell him what you see,” we can then start to speak. And we don't have to change the sound of our voice, “Thus saith the Lord,” you can sip coffee and say to a person in the midst of eating your rice and biting on a bone, “Well this is what the Lord showed me.” Well that's how Sam did it today, Dr. Sam did it like that… and we prophesy and what we said was correct.

When the law originally operated under the leadership of Moses there was no need for prophets, I know there was an Anna and a Miriam that sang songs but there was no prophetic agency. The law guided people, directed them, and when people stayed in the spirit of law there would always be a cloud over them, it became a pillar of fire at night and an umbrella of shade during the day. The people enjoyed immunity because they did not live in the presence of the wilderness but they live in the presence of God in a location called the wilderness. That's what the law does. Are you hearing me?

So what are the prophets that is represented in the person of Elijah? The prophets operates in a sense it comes to explain, to interpret first and to communicate whats in the law, it comes to prosecute. The prophets represented in Elijah comes to bring the law to the people, it comes to confront the people when they fall away from the Lord, it comes to bring judgment upon a people when they drift away from God's purpose and it comes to remind people when they are going through a difficult time, of the promises of God that's located in the law.


So the person Elijah represents the other thirty four books and that spirit of Elijah in a technical sense does not conclude with the book of Malachi but it concludes with the ministry of John the baptist. The law and the prophets prophesied until John the baptist, it will reach its conclusion in the ministry of John the baptist and after that we will not live by the law and the prophets but we will function as the sons of God. We will function knowing that the law, the prophets, is now embodied in a corporate man called the sons of God and we will be the sum total of God's word. “In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word became flesh and the Word dwelt among us.” That's the prototype, that's the model, that's the template, that's the blueprint and if you are a son of God and we all are sons of God, “For as many as receive Him to them gave He the power to be called the sons of God.” And what happens? The word comes and dwells amongst us and it forms in us and that word takes on flesh, it's called incarnation and when you start to work in the spirit of that word which is full of grace and truth you now become the visible manifestation of the law and the prophets. Are you with me?

Now Elijah is the person that represents the rest of the Scriptures. Now I need to say something and you must hear me very carefully. When John the baptist lived there was only thirty nine books in the Bible; when Jesus lived there was only thirty nine books in the Bible; when Peter, James and John lived there was only thirty nine books of the Bible. And the Bible says, “Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God,” or as Paul would say to Timothy, “All Scripture is inspired by God and good for doctrine,” etc. There was no twenty seven books of the New Testament, it was only in the fourth century after all these apostles were dead that their writings were brought together and a cannon, a measuring stick, was used to say these twenty seven books can be added to the thirty nine books and this is the Bible of sixty six books. Are you all understanding? The only Bible was the thirty nine books and that Bible was divided into the law and the prophets; the law Moses, the prophets Elijah. Those two individuals represented.

Now Jesus in Matthew chapter 17, He went up the mountain, let's read it, 17:1. Remember what I told you today, in the course of this morning, I said that my purpose in this school is not to finish the teachings but to release the impartation of Elijah upon you because that is the investiture that clothes us for this season. Are you with me? Now I'm not in a hurry to finish my message, I am surgically in the spirit laboring for you to receive the grace of what God wants to release. It says, “Now after six days Jesus took Peter, James and John his brother, led them up on a high mountain by themselves and He was transfigured before them.” He literally, the atomic structure of His being, the nuclear structure of every atom in His body transfigured. His face shone like the sun, His clothes became as white as the light and behold, Moses and Elijah appeared to them talking with Him.

So what was happening here? The law and the prophets, the whole Bible came to meet with the Word because if you went to IPeter 1:11 which we read this morning, all of the prophets, and Moses was called a prophet at times even though he was the law giver and Elijah was also called a prophet and on all of them the Spirit of Christ was prophesying of the day when Christ will come in a human form. So the Christ in the law, the Christ in the prophets, was meeting Christ in the flesh. So it was quite a conference, I'm telling you, it was better than an apostolic school. And they were talking, Moses was saying, “According to the law, Shiloh will come and to him will be the gathering of the people.” According to the prophecy in Genesis 49, “You are the Judah one, You will be the law giver, the scepter will never depart from You,” and Elijah was saying, “This is what Ezekiel said about You, this is what Jeremiah said about You, this is what


the twelve minor prophets said of You.” And Jesus was just making sure, in His humanity, everything was being brought back into alignment with the eternal will of the Father.”

That's what happened on the mountain top and this was an awesome time where the thirty nine books was meeting with Christ himself. We won't go to what Peter said, it was just highlighted his humanity because Peter was trying to capture the moment when he said, “Can't we just build three shrines,” three booths and keep you here, thank God the cloud came and said no, no, no, no they are not living here, you have to now listen to the Son, whatever the Son says. But this here that we just read is the picture of the law and the prophets meeting with Jesus before He went to the cross, before He died, before He rose from the dead, before He ascended to the throne.

Now there's another story and this is found in Luke chapter 24, Jesus died and He rose from the dead. His disciples were not yet convinced that He was raised from the dead and so He joins two of them on the road to Emmaus and as they are traveling He starts to talk to them and He's like a stranger to them and He says to them, “What is the problem, you look so sad?” They said to Him, “Are you the only stranger that does not know what happened?” They explained to Him about this man called Jesus whom they call a prophet and they say how He was a good man that did great works and how they killed this innocent man. And Jesus could have done what most Pentecostals would do, He could have just manifested Himself; He could have shown them His nail piece and His beaten back, He could have just removed the veil that covered Him and said, “I am Jesus,” because that's how we Pentecostals want to prove that Jesus is real. But Jesus didn't do that, Jesus opened the Bible and He went to the law and the prophets and starting with Moses, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy. He went through the entire book, then He went to Joshua and Judges and Ruth and all the other books and He led Himself out of the Scriptures, He brought Christ out of the Scriptures and He showed them from the Scriptures the law and the prophets how Christ would die, rise from the dead, ascend to the Father, send the Holy Spirit and all the blessings that will come. He used the Scriptures.

So when we talk about the spirit of Elijah we are talking about the magnification of Christ out of the Scriptures. Now you will discover something as I would teach on the subject. Elijah, the historical Elijah, recorded for us in IKings chapter 17 and chapter 18 and if you went to Luke chapter 3 and studied the same spirit that was in this man called Elijah and in this man called John the baptist, they all operated by the word. For example, the word will come to Elijah and by the word that comes to him he will act; the word of God will come to John the baptist and they would act. In other words, the spirit of Elijah operates on the basis of God's word, it does not operate in any other way, it is a word centered focus. When this spirit comes back to the church we will focus again on how to decode or break the Scriptures and Christ must first appear from out of the Scriptures before He comes riding on the cloud to receive His church. There is going to be a resurrection of the Christ that's hidden in the Scriptures before there is a physical return of Jesus the Christ riding on the clouds of glory. Unless we can rob the Scriptures of Christ, until all of Christ comes out of the Scriptures, squeeze the word until the word is so dry that Christ is no more in the Scriptures, He's now on the pages of our hearts, He's now become flesh and dwells amongst us.

Now let's get back, now let's look at how - and this is critical for me - how the law comes to us, how it witnesses to the righteousness of God and how the spirit of Elijah is going to come back. Now I think I've heard you sing the song in the church, “These are the days of Ezekiel” and I believe you also had “These are the days of Elijah”. You know, you can sing songs but you have


to know how the Lord will come, otherwise if He comes in a way you don't see Him you will crucify Him. That's what they do when they can't recognize Him. So God wants us now to see how the spirit will come to us. This spirit when it comes, there are characteristics that defines the day in which it comes and I read some of it to you from Malachi chapter 4 this afternoon but I want to read Malachi chapter 3 for you. Let's look at it, are you all still with me?

“Behold I send My messenger,” say “Messenger”, my “malach”, my deputy, the one who will come as a vice region, as a representation of Me, as My ambassador, My angel, “Behold I send My messenger and he will prepare the way before Me,” so when the spirit of Elijah comes, he comes as God's emissary and he is delegated to deputize in a physical way and represent the word of God to the people. That's why you know when the Lord showed me this He said to me, “You’re going to see the fulfillment of prophecies, while they all have been fulfilled in Jesus the Christ,” the Lord said to me, “have not yet been fulfilled in The Christ,” they've been fulfilled in the pattern son, the extra ordinary son, the unique and one of a kind son, the one that cannot be compared with any other son, that's God that came in the flesh. But God said to me, “The prophecies are not only for Him, it is for the entire Body, He is only the first fruit of the harvest but the harvest is with the Body, the corporate Body, the sons of God, the many membered Christ, God said to me, now in this season, in His Body, every spirit that operated in part is now going to happen, operate in one period in human history. You know what that means? Take any of your favorite Bible characters, in the Old Testament one of my favorite characters is Ezekiel. I like Ezekiel because he is the prophet that has the eye of an eagle, when he sees a man walking in the river, he doesn't just look at a man walking, his eye is so trained he watches the man and counts his steps.

So my favorite is Ezekiel because I know it will take a thousand steps before the depth of the river changes. If he's looking at how God measures the city, which is a picture of the church, he's not looking to see when the glory comes, he's looking at the measurement and he wants to know how many cubits is that wall. And when that wall reaches the size according to the measurement that is equal to another wall or equal in height then he knows that when the wall is built right the glory will come. Now that anointing of Ezekiel will come in this age, Jeremiah will be together; all of the prophets will operate in one period of time, they will be amongst us. Imagine having a school like this and Peter, James, John, Aaron, Miriam, Moses and Sam Soleyn, (laughter) and Ezekiel and Jeremiah and Solomon and David and Hezekiah and Malachi and Zachariah and all of these guys are in one building, in the earth at the same time, each one is doing his little bit and you bring them all together and all the fullness of the anointing of Christ in a seamless way is operating in the earth. One sowing and another one is overtaking the sower to harvest what was just sowed and while one is harvesting another overtaking him to sow again. This is what we call the Jubilee, the harvest time. That's the spirit of Elijah, that's the messenger that's coming, it's a corporate man; it's not a one man as in a single individual, that anointing is coming into the earth and it's preparing the way for the Lord to come. Let me tell you something, Jesus is not coming for a sick, weak church, He's coming for a triumphant church, a victorious church, a glorious church. Don't believe what they are telling you, He's coming for a church that is fully developed, spotless like a bride, strong like a man of war. No demon in hell is going to be able to stand before that man, it's a glorious church.

So this messenger, and remember when we study Ezekiel, it's a company of seven thousand; seven thousand does not mean literally seven thousand, it means a perfect company who has not bowed its knee to the spirit of Baal, the god of this world. And this company of people all over the earth is going to prepare the way of the Lord. Are you gonna be a part of that


company? Now I'm talking about the Elijah anointing, he represents every prophetic agency. The Bible says, “He will prepare the way before Me and the Lord whom you seek will suddenly appear in His temple.” Are you the temple of the Lord, are you the temple of the Holy Ghost? The Lord is going to appear in you. “Even the messenger of the covenant in whom you delight, behold his coming, says the Lord of hosts. Who can endure the day of his coming and who can stand when he appears for he is a refiners fire,” and this is not referring to the Lord, it referring to the messenger that comes on behalf of the Lord.

Before the Lord appears in His temple and this is what happens. When the spirit of Elijah comes he is like a refiners fire and this is where the fear of the Lord hit me. There were days when I could not sleep, God said to me, “I want you pure, I want you clean, I want you holy, I want you upright for when the fire falls you must be like pure gold, you must be like pure silver; you cannot be consumed by the fire.” And the Bible says here when the spirit comes it's gonna be like fire in the earth, a refiners fire and like the launderers soap…and let me highlight this. The very structure of your being is gonna be tested by fire but every anointing that you carry is your mantle; God wants to even wash your gifts because some of our gifts have been contaminated, it's been corrupted by our perspiration. You know that if you wear a shirt too long it will carry your body odor. Do you know how many gifts that have come from God have been contaminated by the perspiration of people?

When Elijah comes he will bring the soap to wash your gifts, your mantles of anointing. I'll tell you why. Because impure motives have captured our gifts, that's why people could stand on stages like these, people like me and we can use our gifts to fabricate false and illegal positions and use it for personal gain and not for the glory of God. What we have on the pulpits today is no more inspiration, what we have is perspiration. God is going to wash and the soap is coming back, He's going to wash our gifts. If you went to the book of Genesis 49, the Bible speaks of the spirit of Judah and how he will wash his garments in the blood of grapes. In other words when you use the word blood, the Hebrew word is “dahm” and that word dahm means that if your gifts are not surrendered to God by self less giving, by sacrifice, if it's not surrendered to God and if it does not come under the revelation of Christ, your gifts will only be used to enhance your personal ministry and not the ministry of God.

In the last two months - and I've just planted a new congregation which will be three years old in February of next year and this congregation exploded. God has sent us some of the best people from all categories, people of influence, the best musicians, professors of universities, doctors, lawyers. I mean we have all types of people, engineers, people of caliber; all types of people, great and ordinary people. And God said to me, “I want you to give it back to me,” it comes with many benefits, when you attract people like that you attract influence, you attract finances, you attract followers. God said to me, “I put you there but I will not allow your clothes to get stained by pride or by ambition,” I had to re-give it to the Lord. I said, “God I want nothing, if you take me out tomorrow out of this church it must be said that I lost nothing,” because it never belonged to me in the first place.

That's what God is looking for in this season, the refiners soap. This spirit of Elijah that will come now will have to wash you. Do you know that some people get offended when you don't put them on the stage, you don't recognize them? Some people love the microphone, they think the anointing is when the microphone is in their hands; some people if you don't call them to pray, if you don't recognize them for the big offerings that they give they will leave you. I came to the


conclusion those people should not be in the family of God. Say, “Refiners fire, launderers soap.”

My time is up, can you believe it. God is about to judge systems and I don't just mean systems, He's gonna judge every ideology in the earth. One of the greatest judgments is coming against the spirit of democracy, democracy is as wicked, it's as evil as autocracy. Democracy is as evil as communism, God's gonna destroy that to bring back heavenly order which is called patriarchy, a patriarchal order. When the spirit of Elijah comes he deals with that, he deals with multiple ideologies, the spirit of capitalism, he deals with. And we can go through all the Scriptures analyzing where when you have two garments you should share one with your brother who does not have any. That's called equalization of economic wealth and that's not communism, that's not socialism; that is having everything in common. And we have not seen how God wants now to address the issues of poverty and hopefully tomorrow I will address some of those things.

And I just want to say tonight, God is coming to judge the church and the anointing He is using is Elijah and he's gonna confront the spirit of Jezebel. And as I said this morning, don't just see it as some lady that can't submit to her husband, I want to talk about that spirit on a global level. We have domesticated too many things and not dealt with root causality but when this spirit comes it becomes the standard that measures governments, that measures economies; this spirit is against multi religious positions, it comes to confront the spirit of religious pluralism. I can tell you today, when this spirit is back into the earth that way it should be the prophets of Baal, the prophets of Ashterot they will be beheaded, the altar of the Lord is gonna be raised up like we've not seen. Governments will fall, economies will fall, religious systems will fall, ideologies will fall; God's gonna raise up His mountain and His mountain is gonna fill the whole earth and there will be no other mountain that will stand before God. God doesn't have seven mountains, God only has one mountain, it's called Zion, it is the place where beauty is made perfect, it's a place where heaven and earth meet and the glory of the Lord will come.

Tell me if you're ready for the spirit of the prophet to come back, the spirit of Elijah, are you ready to see something happen? And when Elijah comes back, every one of you whether you are in a classroom or in a kitchen or in an office or in a governmental position or in business, wherever you are when this spirit ——[AUDIO ENDS]



This has been an incredible time. I want to take a moment to express my appreciation for the marvelous way in which Thamo and I have been cared for. It's not only the great things like arriving at midnight and finding a warm reception and everything being taken care of. It's to the doors being open to us on every occasion, considerations being given to every conceivable need we might have. Apostle Reevus I commend you and your house, you are perfectly capable of being on the world stage. I'm well aware that some of the most important people in this country and in this city have served us in the most menial of fashion, we do not assume that these courtesies are to be naturally extended to us. And quite often we have been in situations where we have not been treated very well, so we receive what you have done for us as unto the Lord. And I would say on behalf of the Lord and on behalf of Thamo and certainly myself, the Lord is pleased with the honor you have bestowed upon Him and may each of you who have served us in such fashion, may there come to you blessings over every facet of your lives and may these blessings be also an inheritance for your children and for your children’s children. In this manner we bless you and we thank God for you and when I remember you I will continue to give thanks for you. I appear and indeed I am - my wife tells me I am so I must be so - I'm a very formal man, I don't know that I am, others tell me that. Some people thing I sleep in a suit and I actually do but there are times that are precious to me. At the end of the year when I've finished my travels, I like to sit in my home with a fire and in a relaxed state and I stare into the fire and my thoughts travel the world and I think of all the faces and people who have blessed me and there is a profound sense of richness that comes to me. Your faces and the memories are the real treasures of my life. So keep that in mind as I do great violence to your traditions.[Laughter]

I want to take this session to summarize and to certify our direction going forward. Thamo and I worked both sides of the street, so to speak, like the banks of a river to direct the flow of life to purposeful and intentional ends. Thamo spoke of the corporate man and the corporate anointing, the summation of everything in Christ. I've known Thamo for quite some time, you notice I refer to him as Thamo and he refers to me as Sam, we respect each other greatly and I refer to him in the familiar terms as one of my dearest friends. I have no expectation of him to refer to me publicly or privately as Dr. Sam because if you can call the Lord Jesus Christ, Jesus, then it's perfectly ok for my friends to call me Sam. I am a doctor but that's just something I did, so we refer to each other publicly in these very friendly and loving terms because we love each other, it's simple.

So he is perfectly able to summarize for himself but I wanted to show you how we work together as the two banks of a river. In unlocking the spirit of Elijah, he exposed us to the keys by which we might understand the symbols of the heavens; water that comes as rain, that is the word, that washes, that resets the mind sets. The summation of all things in Christ, the law and the prophets; Moses and Elijah, converging in the corporate man and into a message that raises up a church in the end of the age and prepares it for the return of the Lord, how the church comes to its final glory, the glory that belonged to the only begotten of the Father, which glory He has left us, which glory is to clothe us and make us perfectly suitable to be reunited with the Head as He comes out of the heavens and is joined with His glory in the earth. And once again, the glory of God, the glory of the heavens, meets with the glory of the earth in one final corporate man, the man Christ Jesus; not Jesus Christ, but Christ Jesus.

Now it's impossible for him to unpack all of what is in the majesty of that vision, even in many weeks of speaking. I've worked the other side of the river to restore and reestablish a vision of a


fallen church, a vision of being the sons of God, a vision of the intention of God for the creation of man hoping to retrieve a people from the clutches of religion to wash them in the word that they might be ready to be assembled in the order of a father and a son to be spiritual families to be households of faith, to be clans and tribes and ultimately to be formed into one corporate man that is a nation, a holy nation.

We have no theology in the present order that accommodates the vision of the church at the end of the age. There are many metaphors used to describe the church but the description of a father and a son is a reality, it's not a metaphor. When you take a father and a son and add many centuries, inevitably you end up with a holy nation; this is the corporate Man as expressed among the nations. And in this corporate Man is all the fullness of the administration of the kingdom of heaven, there are functions within this holy nation that cannot be duplicated in a congregation or in a single family but the scope of a holy nation contains all of the intentions of God and is fitted to the economy of heaven, it's the location in time and a people among whom the government of God functions in its totality. Now we didn't get a chance to unpack all of that but I've written a book about it, it's called “My Father, My Father” and it takes it from the seed of a father and a son all the way to a holy nation and it's this holy nation that is the model for the confrontation of all the systems of mankind that war against God.

I concentrated on attempting to lift your gaze up to see the Scriptures from the point of view of the author of the Scriptures, from heaven. Both Thamo and I talked about the fact that heaven and earth were both created in the beginning of the current age. The same Architect designed heaven and earth, they are different realms so the furnishings are different but the order is the same. Each realm has the same economy but the symbols of that economy function according to the necessity of those realms. So when God created the heavens and the earth, one of the things He did was to separate water from water with a firmament. The water that is above the firmament was separated from the water below the firmament; so there was the water in heaven and the water in the earth. Water in the earth we're familiar with, it comes to the earth as rain, it produces crops, it washes, it purifies, it renews, in natural ways. The water from heaven also renews, also washes, also recreates but in ways that are spiritual as well. When the water comes out of heaven into the earth it comes out of heaven not in the form that it is in the earth but as the form that it is in heaven. Now the reason it comes to the earth in the first place is part of who man is, native to the heavens, because man is spirit as well as earth; both realms dwell in one man. When the part of man that is spirit needs to be washed, needs to be renewed, needs to be restored, water accomplishes that. When it comes out of heaven it doesn't come as water in a river, when it comes out of heaven it comes as word, as the word of God. And wherever inaccurate alignments exist it washes the mindset, it cleans the lenses, it restores, it rejuvenates and it renews and the dormant spirit of man awakens. And just as the heavens are created above the earth so the spirit of man arises over the earth because the divine order, the way things are, the way they were created is restored.

When that happens the spirit returns over the soul and begins to connect again to the wisdoms of the heavens. When man was separated from his Father the earth in him dominated, when he's washed, his vision changes and the spirit in him is revived and he reconnects to the native origins of his spirit and he begins to see again as he was designed to see. And with those lenses he may look at the Scriptures and suddenly what was understood by reason, using the methodology of logic, is surpassed by the spirit of revelation and man begins to rediscover through revelation what is written in the word. And he starts over in life like Jesus at the age of twelve goes to the temple to question those who had the wisdom of heaven as to who He was


and reengaged the process of learning about His Father and moving toward becoming a mature son. That process is aided by suffering and eighteen years later a twelve year boy who begins his spiritual journey at twelve reaches maturity and God presents Him as the Son who is the perfect picture of His Father. And systematically God begins to disclose to the earth who the Son is, one of the key moments of this one presented is when He meets with Moses and Elijah, the law and the prophets as Thamo pointed out to us last night, and both converge in the One so that Moses disappears into Christ, Moses disappears into the transfigured Christ and Elijah disappears into the glory of the revealed Christ and suddenly Jesus is the fulfillment of all the law and the prophets and God says, “Listen to Him, this is My beloved Son.”

And we've been assembled to this anointing and as we grow from twelve to thirty aided by our suffering, transformed and changed by the fires of adversity we also become like Moses and Elijah, fully absorbed into Christ so that He is revealed in our persons and we are revealed with Him. Amen? Hallelujah. I talk to you about suffering in the analogy of fire, there is in the earth fire is light and fire is consuming and God is light. When God comes as light to the human being He brings two things: He burns up all of His enemies, the enemies of God cannot follow Him into the fire. Our God, when He appears consumes in us every inaccurate position, that is the day of our visitation and in that day everything in us that is not accurately aligned to the heavens is considered by God himself to be wood, hay and stubble. When He visits our houses it is inevitable that He will burn up everything in us and about us that is inaccurate.

So when you are in the fire do not seek to escape the fire by an inaccurate vision of the fire, don't say to God, “Why is this happening to me? I've worked so hard to build this up for You, why do You have such disdain for it?” No, ask the Lord to show you what else He would consume and offer it to God because one of the pleasures of God is consuming sacrifices. After He has purged and cleansed and Thamo so beautifully explained to us last night the spirit of Elijah comes like a refiners fire and like fullers soap and the intent of this message in this season, the spirit of Elijah, the intent of God… when God comes everything is in the word, the fire of God is in the word that is why the Word came out of heaven. Everything in heaven came into the earth in the person of the Word because God's word is the methodology both of His appearing and of His functioning. So the fire is in the word and when God releases a word at a moment in time it will have in it the element of purification.

So when He comes to us He comes as He is: a consuming fire, a refiners fire; often we do not know the impurities within us. It is the light of revelation that releases impurities in us so that they can be seen and it's the fire of God's relentless purifying that causes this things to come up to the surface. Everyone of us who pursues God goes through times of incredible self examination. As a matter of fact I make it a point every year, at the end of the year, to spend most of four weeks in my self examination. From approximately the fifteenth of December to about the fifteenth of January I largely closet myself with God and I give an account to God for how I have conducted His business for the prior year. Now I do that all along but this is a sacred time for me because I intentionally present myself before the Lord for His examination and for His correction. About five years ago I was in this time and the moment I went to give an account to the Lord I experienced the severe displeasure of the Lord and it took me three times to endure the correction of the Lord. I had to go in three nights in a row before I could endure the extent of His correction.

Now it had nothing to do with moral anything, what it had to do with, I had a history of reacting or responding to the bad administrations of other leaders by being more permissive in my own


sphere. What I mean is this, I would say to people, “This is what the Lord has shown me and you're free to do with it as you would, this is my personal conviction.” And I would not push it forward and require others to search the matter out and come to a conviction themselves about it. So I was being rather democratic, actually is more than five years ago, it just seems so close to me but the Lord said to me, “I am very displeased with you because I cannot bring judgement upon My house until you speak as the oracle that I've made you to be.” The Lord said to me, “Do you not understand the purposes of my judgments,” He said, “My judgements are not designed to destroy My people, My judgements are designed to correct My people, to save My people, to save them from themselves, to save them from inaccurate positions.” And He brought to my mind very specific instances in which I had failed the Lord, that was what was so hard for me because those situations resulted in chaos and loss in the lives of those for whom I had a responsibility and it was my fault, it was a false sense of love. One of the things He said to me was, “Do you believe that you love the people more than I do? Do you believe that you know what’s better for the people than I do? And by the way, whose people are they anyway, are they yours or are they Mine? Are you the Lord or am I?”

He dealt with me not as a child, not as a young man but as a father to whom He had committed the care of His house. I experienced the fire, personally, of the Lord and I changed and I said, “God, I will go where You send me, I will say what You tell me to say but You’re going to have to help me, You’re going to have to help me.” And I find myself sometimes saying things that if I actually thought about the impact of what I was saying my courage would fail but I don't think about it, at least I've learned not to think about it. There are things that are my burdens and my responsibilities and there are things that are His and I'm learning how not to confuse my position as a member of His Body with His position as the Head.

I've learned what it means to be a man in Christ. Oddly enough, I was thinking about this when Thamo was saying it last night, throughout my life the person with whom I've had the greatest sense of identification is actually Moses. Now I'm Sam, in spite of what Thamo said last night, I am Sam. There is a spirit, he is exactly right, there is a spirit of the righteous that speaks to our spirit and the person with whom I most identify is Moses. I love the concept of order and governance, I am most ill at ease when I'm unable to explain a concept, I have to know it sufficiently to be able to move around in it. One of the reasons I do not need really to use notes, on my iPad I turn it on when I need to look up the Scripture. Now I'm by no means against anyway using notes, that's just me; the reason I can speak for hours without reference to notes and yet keep a very cogent flow is because I understand the information.

So God comes as a purifying fire and I gave you the wide tract of how He pursues us to refine us. So when He refines you ask Him that while He is doing that is there anything else He would like to do while He's doing it because anything in us that is wood, hay and stubble is fuel to be consumed. Now when God is complete in consuming, what you will discover that He has removed is the souls ability to interrupt the flow between your spirit and the Spirit of God and then all of a sudden the next administration of light is illumination. One of the administrations of light when it comes out of heaven and centers in your being is a consuming fire but when that is done the light remains in you but it remains as illumination, as revelation. And that's when you’re able to see the Scriptures because the word becomes alive in your life and you become the light of the world. Did not the Lord say, “You are the light of the world,”. How is it that the world doesn't see us as light? Because we have rejected the operation of God referred to in Scriptures as the baptism of fire. What do we think the baptism of fire is? It is designed to consume every inaccuracy in us because that's what interrupts the flow of the light of revelation.


You see, there's a wisdom between the heavens and the earth. Man is not just a container of heaven and earth, man is meant to function in the earth to display heaven. When in the sons of God all the wood, hay and stubble has been consumed, when your thoughts about God and the word of God have been purified, by the consuming, by the burning up of the residue of tradition, human culture, human expectations and all these things, what is left? What is left is a son who is able to reflect the light of his Fathers glory. It is a son that is able to be the exact representation of his Fathers being. For who is the son according to Hebrews chapter 1 verse 2 and 3, who is the son? He is the radiance of his Father, he is the exact representation of his Father. So when he opens the Scriptures the Scriptures will not be understood by the sound of reason, the Scriptures will be opened to the frequencies of revelation.

So when Jesus became the mature Son, He immediately began to reveal the Father. Now I want to take the time remaining and show you something from the gospel of John. Now let me summarize some of the things that we said before and then we'll move into the reading and I believe the conclusion and we've said these things before so I'm going to go quickly through, I may add just a little bit of content here and there. So Jesus comes to John, John is baptizing and he looks up and there in front of him is the One in whom all things have come to rest and the spirit within John even as it did when he was a fetus in the womb of his mother leaps again at the One who is before him. And we talked about that, he says, “I need to be baptized of You,” and John was the qualified Levitical priest and so on, washing the sacrifice etc, just to tie it back into the lectures before. And so John baptizes Him. Baptism is a metaphor for burial, so John buries the Son of Man and God raises His Son and heaven opens and God says, “Now this is My Son,”. The son of Mary and Joseph now is the Son of God, who declared that? God himself and confirms this by pouring the oil of joy upon His head in the form of the Holy Spirit himself and in it He inaugurates the King, God anoints Jesus of Nazareth as His Son by an anointing with the oil of joy because the kingdom of heaven has a King and this kingdom produces righteousness, peace and joy in… That's why I say the God of heaven anoints the Son as King over heaven and earth with the oil of joy because He came to the earth to bring back the joy of heaven, for unto us a Child is born to become the Son who is given and the government shall be upon His shoulders and His name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

Sar shalom, Prince of Peace. And in that day He was crowned with crowns, one of His crowns was King of righteousness and the other of His crowns was Prince of peace. King of righteousness, Melchizedek; “Melchi” means king, “zedek” means righteousness. In that moment as He stood in the water and the Holy Spirit comes down, He's not just confirming that He's the Son, He is inaugurating His reign upon the earth; son of David now is Son of God. And He rules not just natural Jerusalem but He rules the kingdom whose authority is in heaven at the throne of God and governs the domain of earth. Because He is so anointed - and by the way, all the anointings come into Him in that day - and that anointing that's on the head waits to run down upon His vestments and infuse itself into His clothing. We are His clothing, we are the form, the human form in which Christ is clothed today. The Spirit of Christ in the earth today is clothed in human form just like the spirit that was in Adam was clothed in a house of clay; the one son, the other Son, the restored man.

Now once He is established as the King what is His first assignment? To go and confront the Devil because why is the Son of God revealed? To destroy the works of the Devil that is why the moment He's baptized and comes up and the Holy Spirit comes down on Him and He's


anointed as the King, He's anointed to accomplish the purposes of God and Matthew 1:4 says, “And immediately He was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,” to confront the Devil because He was revealed for that purpose. Until then He was the Son of Man but it is not that the Son of Man is revealed to destroy the works of the Devil, no, no, no. It's for this reason the Son of God is revealed to destroy the works of the Devil so He is immediately led into the wilderness to confront the Devil because where is man when he's outside of the presence of God? Where was fallen man? He was in the wilderness. So He goes into the wilderness because the gates of hell cannot prevail against Him.

Now listen, the gates of hell are not attacking the church, ok? That's silly. The gates of hell are not attacking the church, we have so many wrong positions that have to be burned up by fire and replaced with the light of revelation. Gates are stationary, gates are not instruments of attack; gates are instruments for preserving the domain that is behind them. The only gates in Scripture that ever moved were the gates of Gaza and they were moved on the back of a drunken Sampson. Gates are to defend what is behind the gates but in ancient citadels the gates were the vulnerability of a city. So on an occasion I was visiting Solomon’s chariot city, it was in Megiddo and they're the ruins of, he kept his chariots in the city of Megiddo, up on the plains of Megiddo, which we get the term Armageddon. So I was observing how ancient cities were defended. The walls of the city were maybe twenty or thirty feet high and they were four feet thick, so there was no weapon to breach those walls.

So the vulnerability of the city were its gates, to defend the gates they established a maze outside of the gate so to enter the gate of Megiddo for example [you had to go through a network of mazes] you had to come into this gate, turn, turn again, turn and turn again and then there were the gates of the city. It was a labyrinth to protect the gate. The archers were on the walls and in attempting to breach the gate of the city, at some point everyones back was to the archers on the wall. Gates of ancient cities were setup as a killing ground for an attacking army, what Jesus was saying is, “When you go in My name to raid the domain of hell, its gates are not a danger to you because you come by My authority.” You’re not in danger of being killed in an attack upon a city that is designed to kill you. So when He says the gates of hell shall not prevail against you, He's speaking about you attacking the domain of hell. So no, there are no gates of hell coming against the church, that's silly ignorance.

So Jesus goes up into the wilderness to destroy the works of the Devil by meeting the Devil himself in the wilderness that is his domain because mankind has been led from the presence of God into the wilderness. So Jesus goes up into the wilderness as the Prince of Peace, you remember the word peace; “shin”, “lamed”, “wah” and “mem”, to destroy the authority that establishes disorder. He goes up into the wilderness having been anointed by God as the Prince of peace He's now going to demonstrate His sovereignty over the wilderness which is the domain of Satan. Amen? We know the outcome.

So all of that to get us now back to John 1, He comes out of the wilderness having defeated the Devil from His position of the Son of God anointed as the King of righteousness and the Prince of peace. He goes in to the wilderness and He overcomes the Devil and now He comes back to establish His kingdom, He begins by calling twelve men whom God had given Him because every nation is formed first out of twelve sons, I'm not going to unpack that. Jacobs twelve sons is the model, the human model of the holy nation; Jesus has His twelve sons and they begin the process of carrying His seed into the world which now in the end of the days has produced a holy nation but we are scattered and disorganized so a voice is coming in the wilderness to the


sons of God because the King is coming back to His holy people and the voice of the prophet Elijah is calling to the sons of God and saying, “Prepare ye the way of the Lord! Make His paths straight! Pull down the high places, build up the low places! Form a highway of righteousness, the Kings highway!” For behold the King comes riding on the clouds of revelation and insight. Glory to God. I'm actually a very peaceful man but this is the sound of war.

Now look with me to the gospel of John now chapter 2. I don't have time now to unpack the first statement “on the third day”, now this is not the third day after Jesus was baptized, right? Because He's been in the wilderness for forty days. It's the third day after John has recognized Him on two other occasions before this day. John is the witness of Jesus after He's baptized, John said, “I would not have known Him except that the One who sent me to baptize told me that ‘On the one who you see the Holy Spirit descend and remain, He is the one who has come.’” When did John see the Holy Spirit come down? Of course when he baptized Him and He came up out of the water. So when Jesus came to John in the water it was that the spirit in John leapt, that's not when he said, “Behold the Lamb of God,” he just baptized Him. But after he baptized Him he got the witness of who He was because after he baptized Him was when the Holy Spirit came down and that's when he knew because the one who sent him to baptize told him you'll recognize the one by the descention of the Spirit on him.

So he didn't know that before he baptized Him so when He came back from the wilderness - Jesus immediately disappeared into the wilderness and John didn't see Him again until after He returned from the wilderness - so it was after He returned from the wilderness and was collecting His disciples that John saw Him again and said, “Look, there is the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world!” And he says, “I would not have known Him except that the one who sent me to baptize told me so I am now telling you: this is the Lamb.” The next day after he did that, again Jesus is going by and he says, “Look, there is the Lamb! I am not worthy to untie His shoes.” And two of his disciples decided, “If you are not worthy to untie His shoes what am I doing with you, I better get after Him.” Two of his disciples left him. Those two were not baptists; they quit following John the baptist. Those two left the baptist church and moved, migrated into the new season, but I won't unpack that.

So it's the third day - my wife says I'm not actually funny, she says what is funny is to watch me laughing when I think I'm funny - so it's the third after John recognizes Him again, the third day of course is the day when you appear in your new form, the day of resurrection. This is the first event that show Jesus to man. He goes and He retrieves man from the Devil and now He comes to face man, it's the third day. He comes to a wedding at Cana of Galilee. I'm going to just read the story and then I'll come back through and comment on it very quickly and my intention is to show you what happens to familiar Scripture when the wood, hay and stubble in you has been burned up; the tradition of wood, hay and stubble is burned up by the visitation of God and the light of revelation comes and behold all things become new and I want to show you. So I'll simply read the passage and then I'll go back and I'll make some selected comments.

“On the third day there was a wedding at Cana of Galilee and the mother of Jesus was there, Jesus was also invited with His disciples to the wedding. When all the wine was gone the mother of Jesus said to Him, “They have no more wine,” Jesus said to her, “Dear woman what is it to you and Me?” By the way, I'm reading from the amplified, “My hour has not yet come.” His mother said to the servants, “Whatever He says to you, do it.” “Now there were six water pots of stone standing there as the Jewish custom of purification demanded, holding twenty to thirty


gallons each. Jesus said to them, ‘Fill the water pots with water,’ so they filled them up to the brim and He said to them, ‘Draw some out now and take it to the master of the feast.’ So they took some to him. When the master tasted the water just now turned to wine, not knowing where it came from though the servants who had drawn the water knew, he called the bridegroom and said to him, ‘Everyone else serves the best wine first and when people have drunk freely then he serves that which is not good but you have kept back the good wine to the last.’”

Now it's the third day, Jesus has appeared in His status as the Son of God, He's left the role of the Son of Man behind Him and He's at a wedding feast. This is the first miracle so it contains all the elements of what He's showing in all the miracles; He unpacks it in all the miracles. So for example He would say, “For the kingdom of heaven is like ten virgins who took their lamps and went forth to meet the bridegroom; five of them were wise, five were foolish,” because the reconciliation between God and man takes place in the form of a marriage, Christ and the church. So He's at a wedding feast in Cana of Galilee and He's there in the corporate Man, all twelve disciples are there. So this is not a story about an event in Cana of Galilee and by the way Canaan is the region of Galilee, Galilee is the place where the Romans had five cities called the Decapolis; the capital of those five cities was called Tiberius, still is today. Up there also is Capernaum so it was usually referred to as Galilee of the Gentiles because here at the wedding supper it’s taking place at a location where they're both Jews and Gentiles because they are invited to the wedding supper of the Lamb. But He comes in the corporate Man because He's looking forward to the end of the age to our time when Jews and Gentiles will come in and sit at the wedding feast of the Son of God.

Now He's there in the corporate Man and His mother is there. His mother you remember as Thamo pointed out to us last night, His mother was a kinswoman of John’s mother Elizabeth; she was from the order of the high priest of Levi, she's the perfect picture of the law. Galatians chapter 4 beginning at the middle of the chapter tells us, “Those of you who love the law, I will remind you that Abraham had two sons, one by a slave woman and the other by a free woman. These two women stand for two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai which brings death, this is like Hagar who brought forth a natural child.” So in the Scriptures the analogy compares women to covenants and the one from Sinai is considered that which produces slaves as opposed to sons. Mary was His connection to humanity governed by the restrictions of the law, not, as Thamo pointed out to us last night, there is the letter written and engraved on stone and because you cannot keep it, it kills you. But there is the Spirit of the law which is to disclose the nature of God that was codified in law but the letter alone without the Spirit brings the administration of death. But when you understand the Spirit of the law you actually go beyond the law so you do not just say, “It's ok for me to look at a woman and lust after her so long as I do not get in bed with her.” Or, “I can hate my brother just so long as I don't kill him.” The Spirit is greater than the law, the law is a limited codification of the ethics of God and it cannot be properly prosecuted just as a function of interpretation. It has to be given breath through the Spirit.

So His mother is the law. Standing before the Spirit Man the law says, “We’ve run out of wine, we have no joy, there is no life anymore.” And Jesus said - it's not a clear interpretation in most of the standard texts, you have to get back into the Greek to understand. Let me just read this to you from the amplified because it gives a sense of it. Jesus said to her, “Dear woman, what is this to you and Me?” (What do we have in common?) or (Leave it to Me). He's not saying to His mother, He's not disrespecting His mother, He's actually saying to her, “Woman, do you


understand that this situation in which they have no wine refers to you and Me; you and Me are in this story, you represent the law, I am now of the Spirit. You don't know it but under your administration they've run out of wine, it is why I am here at the wedding feast.” And as limited as her understanding was the law bows to the Spirit and she says, “Whatever He tells you to do, do it.” And in that sense she speaks as Moses who had said to the people in Deuteronomy 15, it's quoted again in Acts 3:22, Moses said, “A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up from among the brethren like unto me, Him shall you hear in all things whatsoever He shall command you to do. And it shall come to pass that the soul who will not listen to this Prophet shall be destroyed from among the people.” So she said to the people, speaking as Moses would, “Whatever He tells you to do, do it.”

Now they were standing by six stone jars that were used for religious rituals, Jesus said, “Put the rain of God, put the word of God, put the water into these human jars.” Six is the number of man, he was created on the sixth day. In the Old Testament the table of show bread had twelve loaves arranged by orders of six, two columns of six showing that the bread of His presence would come into the earth in the form of man. Amen? So He says, “Fill the water jars with water, fill humanity with the times of refreshing, renew their minds with the rain from heaven,” because when rain comes it will wash the understanding, it will renew the mind, it will renew the Holy Spirit in you. “It is not by works of righteousness which we have done,” Titus 3:5, “but according to His mercy He saved us by the washing of regeneration and the renewing of the Holy Spirit.” So, “fill mankind, fill them to the brim, leave no place for a mixture of the old and the new! Fill it to the brim, be filled up with the word, do not go part way, don't pick and choose, don't decide what works and what doesn't work, fill it to the brim!

They drew the water and it had become wine. When mankind who has been ceremonially used, when religious men because these water jars were for religious washing but it cannot produce a good conscience toward God. When the word of God comes into human vessels, into empty human vessels who are ceremonially used for religious purposes it renews the mind and when you speak out of that renewed place it restores joy to the wedding feast.

[Referring to translator] She has preached five times. She's our hero.

When they drew out the water it had become wine and it was joy renewed. When you speak out of the place of revelation and insight your words minister life, they bring joy, they bring hope, they connect the heavens to the earth.

And finally, the master of the feast because God himself is the master of the feast and He declares this is the best wine. If you will tie this into what I have talked about, about the primogenitor, you bring the primogenitor last because he's the most like the Father; you bring him in to renew the feast, you bring him last. You have been brought, you are the best wine, this is the time for the best wine; this is not the time of the law, this is the time of Christ, understanding distinction between Spirit and letter. You have not come to a mountain in Sinai that is smoking and bellowing, you have not come to religion; you have come to the general assembly of the church of the Firstborn and He's revealed last. This is the best wine, this is the time of the best wine for the earth is waiting for the joy of heaven to come among men to renew their hope, to bring understanding, to bring wisdom, to bring the presence of God in one corporate Man for the celebration of the wedding feast where the Jews and the Gentiles, every tribe, tongue, language and nation is invited to come into the corporate Man. Hallelujah.


I commend you to God and to the word of His grace that is able to build you up and to establish among the sanctified. May grace, mercy and peace be with you always. Amen.



Well concluding a school is always a sad moment and to be honest with you I don't know how to close something. I sometimes feel like a pilot who knows how to take off but I don't know how to land the plane and sometimes we as preachers we can introduce a subject but to land the matter on it is very difficult. That's why I am so thankful that at the end of the book of Acts there is no “amen”, it's continuing. And what we have done is we have literally sowed seed, that's what sent ones do; they don't come to give you sermons, they come to sow seed so that you could allow the seed to grow on your field, your ground so that each of your gardens will become the garden of the Lord. My prayer is that you that have heard, you've heard what the Spirit is saying to you, not what Sam and Thamo have shared with you. When Jesus spoke to the angels of the seven churches, Jesus never spoke to the seven churches, He spoke to the ‘angelos’, to the angel at the church at Ephesus and so forth. But when the message was communicated through the angel and it was received, the words are coded in each one of the seven churches, “He that has an ear to hear, let him hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches.”

So God speaks through a messenger but you the recipients get to hear what the Spirit of God is saying through the messenger. Amen? There's a voice in a voice, the voice in the voice is the voice of God, do not listen to the accents of those who speak, always train your ear to hear what the Spirit is saying through that voice. If you do that, you will not fight with God's word and not try to workout all the calculations and some of us - not here but in general - we come to church like lawyers, we're not listening to the sermons, the word from God; we are looking to find faults so we can rest our case in what we think is the controversy of the message. And we rob ourselves of visitations of the Living God. Are you hearing what I'm saying? You've heard a lot of things in this school and much of it can be very controversial, not because we intend to be controversial but it's controversial because it is not popular and it's controversial because sometimes it contradicts and famous messages we have preached and it upsets us because what is being said decapitates what we commonly preach. So to preserve our positions we have to create some discrepancy and we must then discredit the preacher. That's how Jesus was crucified in the first place, through lawyers, theologians like scribes and Pharisees and most of them learned scholars, rabbis and eventually they collaborated with the political order of the day and they killed Him. Don't kill another move of God. Your spirits will know if something is from God, your spirits can't lie, your brains may not fully understand it yet but don't bother about that, focus on the spirit, the brain will get adjusted later. You understanding what I'm saying? Say to your neighbor, “The day of the Lord is a day of provocation,” say to your neighbor, “If the Lord comes in a way that you do not recognize Him, He will use provocation to irritate your theology.”

Let me give you one example of provocation. Sam presented to you a new model on spiritual warfare. Now we have a prayer/warrior model: we get up in the morning, spend two hours binding devils. And then he says, quoting from the epistle of John, “For this reason the Son of God was manifested that He might destroy the works of the Devil.” So whats the new model, the biblical model? When we produce the sons of God devils will run a thousand ways, you don't have to say, “I bind you,” wherever you are devils will fear and if you just point the finger they gonna beg not to go to hell and they'll ask to go to the pigs. Remember the pigs? We are living in a new administration. Now believe me, we fight demons, we've wrestled with a few in this school but the administration is different and there's enough Scriptures that argues for that, “Greater is He that is in me then he that is in the world,” who is in me? The Son of God, the seed of God, the bloodline of my Father. Are you understanding?


We have to learn to walk with this level of authority. Say to your neighbor, “Prayer is a conversation with your Father,” it is not talking to the Devil; don't make your prayer time devil time. I wrestled with a principality for two months, it only lifted off me in the sons meeting on Wednesday, it lifted off me as we were chatting. October and November a principality, an international principality of darkness, a global spirit, not once did I go in my closet and say, “I bind you devil.” I knew he was trying to get my attention, I just spent the time with my Father, I ignored him. If my Father told me, “Rebuke him,” then I would have no problem doing it. It's left me.

The enemy is real but some of us, we are more preoccupied with him than with who were are. The Bible says, “Submit yourself to God, resist the devil and he will flee from you,” but that's not my message, I'm just trying to find the frequency just to get into my message. But what we are saying is that when you move to a new level, you have to learn to function at that level. Dr. Sam spoke about the different levels to the heavenlies when he was referring to the dream of Jacob, the ladder extended from the earth to the heavens. Every level of that staircase is a dimension of the heavens and the higher you go the less you focus on other things, you stay connected to Him. You go and count the times in the New Testament Jesus rebuked the Devil, go and count it, it is so few and He's my model. In the Lords prayer not once He taught His disciples to say, “I bind you devil,” the entire prayer was on His Father, He said, “This is how you pray. Our Father who are in heaven hallowed be Thy name, Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us today our daily bed and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive others.” And then in the prayer He says, “Lead us not into evil but deliver us from evil,” doesn't He say that? “Deliver us from evil.” “For Thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory.”

Is the name Devil mentioned? John chapter 17, His final prayer and it could have been part of the other prayer, the spirit of Death is upon Him on the mountain of Gethsemane and He's being pressed like an olive until all the oil comes out of Him. His soul is exceedingly sorrowful even unto death, and the enemy of death is the devil, the last enemy is called Death. It's a principality, it's wicked, it's a wicked spirit. And He says, “Father if it is possible take this cup away from Me,” He cries, groans, weeping, He couldn't even use words and then He says after a few times, “Not My will, Yours be done.” He learned obedience by the things He suffered and was made perfect, as in mature, as in complete. Are you hearing me? I don't know why I'm going this way and in most schools I've addressed this issue, most schools I've addressed this matter on spiritual warfare. Demons were all over the garden, the Devil himself with all the legions were in that garden, in that garden He was covered with all the sins. That garden was no different to the garden in Eden where the serpent wrapped itself around Adam and Eve and suffocated their minds. Jesus was in a similar situation and He doesn't refer to the Devil, the Dragon, the Serpent, His arch enemy.” And He spent the whole hour praying and when you are strengthened He said I can go and take My cross. John chapter 17, no reference to spiritual warfare, He said, “The hour has come.”

So where did we get it from, the way that we do it? Is it here?[Bible] I know you are getting very silent on me. Tell your neighbor that Thamo is saying, “The devil is real but what He is saying is that you should not be preoccupied with him.” Jesus destroyed him on the cross of Calvary, Jesus overcame him by shedding His blood and now we have victory through the blood of Jesus, we are more than conquerers. So don't play that game. Anyone that is preoccupied with the Devil needs to check their love life, by that I mean you may love the devil more than the Lord. Amen?


So does that mean you should spend time in prayer? Absolutely but what should you do with your prayer time? Talk to God. If you're talking to God you're beyond the veil and no demon can come and stand beyond the veil, it's a holy of holies, it is the most secret place. Only God and his son can stand in that place. Amen? I can see now some of you breaking a sweat, you're perspiring. If you didn't know what I just did, I just did a deliverance service. It is for freedom He came, that I may be free. And there will be times when God will say to you, “Tell the Devil, ‘Get thee behind me Satan.’” When that happens then rebuke him and you won't rebuke him for too long, remember what I told you in the past; if you bind the devil three times, you loose him two times. Your yes must be yes, your no must be no and you will see how that devil will get so angry with you because you're not giving him air time. Then he will go look for the person in the other church who loves to give him one hour of spiritual warfare because in the church that we are building all our time is with our Father.

OK, let's get to the message. I want to do a couple of things, first thing, I want us to go back to Matthew chapter 11, then Matthew chapter 17 and then Acts chapter 3. Let's start with Matthew chapter 11, I wanna read a few Scriptures to you. Matthew 11:7, now this is John who sends a message to Jesus, “Are You the Christ, are You the coming one, should we look for another?” So you can see how ordinary human John is, he's even having doubts, he's doubting whether he really saw the dove descending from heaven, he's doubting all the things Sam spoke about. His mother and Mary were cousins, they heard all the prophecies, John when he was in the womb (and you know he was only six months older than Jesus). When Elizabeth was six months Mary was conceived by the Holy Spirit, so the baby in Mary was conceived by the Holy Spirit, Jesus and now he's having some doubts and Jesus sent him some proofs. But in verse 7 as they departed Jesus began to say to them, “What did you go out in the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind? What did you go out to see? A man clothed in soft garments, indeed those who wear soft clothing are in kings houses.” So he was definitely not operating in that life style. “What did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes I say to you,” in other words, yes a prophet and more than a prophet.

And what is God saying there? He's saying that not only did this man operate in the office of a prophet but there was an operation in him that goes beyond the ambit of the prophetic office; this man was touching every aspect of ministry, “For this is he of whom it is written, “Behold I send My messenger before your face who will prepare your way before you,” Now Jesus is using Isaiah 40 and I would like you to read Isaiah 40 when you go home, from verse 1 as I would like you to read Malachi, the whole book but more specifically chapter three and chapter four and you will find that even in that chapter God measures one spirituality by the righteousness of the offerings which includes tithes. And the word offering embraces the concept of first fruit and free will offerings defined by the law, that's why there's a new financial administration coming back into the church and I want to go into that. Suffice to say that you will not be able to engage this anointing if you cannot be trusted with money, if you cannot do simply things like present a tithe of all your income to the Lord you probably will be disqualified from being a representative of God. Because when the messenger spirit comes into the church it judges and measures every aspect of ones life and the financial offering is as critical as other offerings. I don't have time to go into that, it's easier to quote portions of Scripture like will man rob God, how have we robbed you. Through tithes and offerings, but you have to see it under the mantle of the spirit that comes to judge the people. It is the spirit of the messenger called Elijah.


So go and read all those chapters, verse 11, “Assuredly I say to you amongst those born of women there has not risen one greater than John the baptist.” What is He saying here? All of the thirty four books and all of the ministries related to that plus the law of Moses is now coming to its fullest expression and administration under the leadership of John the baptist. Because everything has been passed on over the centuries and all these principles have moved from one container to another, from one hard drive to another, all of this now comes through John the baptist. And in that light of men born out of a women, this man is the greatest because all of the Scriptures on him but He brings a conclusion because the law and the prophets prophesied until but now it's gonna conclude and a new epoch will start and He says “but he who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he,” and the kingdom of heaven came with Jesus which literally means that when anyone who belongs to the kingdom of heaven, who lives under the rule of God all of those individuals in the new covenant will be greater than John. That means everyone of you. Do you belong to the kingdom of heaven? Have you received Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior? You are now living under a different kingdom, not the kingdom of the Dominicans, not the kingdom of man; you're now living in this new kingdom.

That means that you and me is greater than John; John was born of a woman, we are born of God; John was born in the flesh, we were born of the Spirit; John was born from below, we are born from above. All of you are greater than John, that's why John said when he spoke about Jesus, he said, “I must decrease and He must increase,” the He includes you because you are the Body of Christ. There's only one Body, each one of us, the mantles of anointing upon us, is assembled into that Body and in Christ we represent a new order of how all humans function. Say to your neighbor, “You belong to a new human race, this race is made up of the sons of God,” say to your neighbor, “You don't belong to the order of angels, you belong to the order of the sons of God,” to which of the angels did He ever say, “Thou art My son,”? Not one angel but to us He said, “Thou art My son,” that's where the Bible says, “What is man that you are mindful of him.” What is this human race that Your mind is full of him? You may have made him a little lower than the angels but you've given him a place in the spirit that is above angels; angels serve us, we don't serve angels.

When the church comes back to what Dr. Sam has been saying on sonship, one of the signs of the presence of a corporate Son in the earth, not a child, a corporate mature Son. One of the signs, there will be an increased presence of angelic activity in the earth, angels will visit us, they will attend to us, they will serve us, like in the book of Acts. How many of you are ready for that? They are here as I'm talking, they're here. I know that there are many of them here, some of them are high ranking, as I talk I sense them but let's go on.

“For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John,” verse 13, “and if you are willing to receive it he is Elijah who was coming,” verse 14 and whenever you hear the phrase, “He who has ears to hear let him hear,” it means you have to discern what the Spirit of the Lord is saying. Now let's go to chapter 17. Now whenever the Lord wants to come back, the spirit of Elijah needs to prepare the way. Now I want to introduce to you a word, it is the word “restore”, write it down, “Restore all things,” the spirit of Elijah comes to restore all things, everyone say, “All things,” to prepare the way is to restore all things. What are the all things? See the big picture, see what you heard about referred to in chapter 4 when Jesus went into the wilderness, the wilderness if you study Scripture is not a dry place, it's a place that was desolated by the rule of darkness, it's a place that is uninhabitable because a beastly system rules it. In Isaiah God says the wilderness is the place made up of cities and nations that have been devastated by the wicked rule of darkness. And Jesus went into the wilderness and the Devil came to talk to Him,


one of the offerings that the Devil presented to Jesus was the kingdoms of the world and there are multiple kingdoms; political, economical, ideological, cultural, social, entertainment is a huge kingdom made of music and art and sport. All of these things have been invaded by forces of darkness.

When the spirit of Elijah comes it comes into the environment of addressing those issues so that restoration can come back to the world. Believe me when I tell you God is serious about addressing the malfunctions in human society, from economies to political systems, God wants to not just window dress them; God wants to radically change them and that anointing is coming back to the church. You're going to see some of the greatest expressions of God through you the sons of God so you cannot think in the church way of thinking; we've been taught this world is not ours, soon and very soon we'll be taken out of it. You cannot think like that, the world systems are not ours but the earth is our Father’s, the structures that govern the earth does not belong to God but the actual planet was not created by the devil, it was created by our Father. And when He created it and put man in it He said, “Very good.” Psalm 24 says, “The earth is the Lords and the fullness thereof,” the world is not His. When the Bible says, “What should it profit a man if he gained the whole world and lost his soul.” It's not talking about the earth, it's talking about the world system. You can possess the presidency of America, you can rule the banks in Switzerland, you can be part of the governing force in the earth but if your soul is not connected to God you will end up in eternal damnation.

God did not give His son Adam ownership of the earth, God gave His son Adam stewardship, management over the planet. The earth was Adam’s Father’s but the management over the earth, the dominion over the earth, the rule over the earth was given to Adam. Adam did not give the Devil the title deeds to the planet, Adam gave the devil his seat of rulership. There's a big difference. Now the Last Adam, the Second Man, Jesus, God in the flesh, He came to bind the strong man and then spoil his goods so that the house can come back to God. We must understand this. To say that the earth is not yours is to insult your Father because He created it, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” On the second day He created heaven, that was one beginning, on the third day he created the earth, that was another beginning and when God created the heavens and the earth He created them to work together like a hand in a glove. The heaven and the earth are married together, you cannot separate them. Religion demonized the earth.

Let me ask you a question: how many of you would like to die and just go away now? Let's be honest. If you got sick why do you want to get healed? This earth is a wicked place, the earth wasn't created by God, it's owned by the devil. So whats the best thing? Don't go to the doctor, suffer and pray that you die quickly; don't have healing meetings and then at least some pastors will get unemployed. Why heal the sick to live on the earth if this is not your home? Let's be honest. All of you who say I wanna die and fly away and then the doctor says, “You got thirty days to live,” and you come to pastor, “Pastor please pray for me.” You see, God didn't build you to die that's why Paul said of his departure, “I want to be with the Lord but I don't want to be, I'm caught between two decisions; to be absent from this body, to be present with the Lord but to be present is gain.”

God put eternity in all our hearts, God put the desire for immortality in us, God put within us this passion to be incorruptible, God built us to live between the realms; the realm called the heavens, the realm called the earth. The interface between these two dimensions is called the gap, God called us to live in the gap so that heaven and earth, ascending and descending will


take place in the Son of Man. We want heaven, we want the earth, how that will work out I don't know but we are a heavenly man and we're also an earthly man; we’re from above, but we are on the earth; we are seated in heavenly places, but we govern in the earth; what we bind on the earth, is bound in the heavens; what we loose on the earth, is loosed on the heavens. We were built for two worlds, for two dimensions and in our glorified bodies we'll enjoy those two worlds. I want you to love heaven equally to your love for the earth. Amen? Are you understanding me?

We Pentecostals have created such problems that's why the heathen are ruling our lands, we are suffering, we are poor because we don't know how to take but what our Father gave us. It's gonna change, let's read this. Verse 10, I read all the others to you last night about how Moses, Elijah and Jesus met and after that, verse 9, “Now as they came down from the mountain Jesus commanded them saying, ‘Tell the vision to no one until the Son of Man is risen from the dead.” Tell no one what happened. And then in the middle of this whole discourse His disciples ask Him a question, “Why then do the scribes say that Elijah must come first,” the word “first” is a very powerful word, it's the word “proton”, it means first in a succession of things. It's a word that's got to do with a protocol in the spirit, it means first in time, first in space, first in a certain rank or order. So they are asking Him, “So why is it being taught that whenever God wants to do something the spirit of Elijah must come,” first in time and space in a certain order. Jesus said to them, “Indeed Elijah is coming first,” the word “coming” is in a middle voice and an imperfect tense according to the Greek grammar which literally means whenever there is going to be a new manifestation of Christ there has to be a protocol in the spirit and the protocol in the spirit is: the spirit of Elijah must come first to set in order certain things before the Lord will ride into that environment. So Jesus said, “Indeed Elijah is coming,” and this word “coming” means he will come and keep coming; come, go; come, go.

So this is the reason why I'm saying this spirit is coming back to the world, it's in Christ but it's the rod by which God rules, it's the tools that God uses to establish His purpose, it's the dress code that comes upon the church to fulfill its purposes. And look at what he will do when he comes, he will restore all things. Everyone say, “Restore.” This word literally means “reconstitute”. Everything that was destroyed, everything that is not according to the design of God, this spirit of restoration comes to bring something back to its former state, to its original order. You see this iPad of mine has many, many applications. When I first bought the iPad these applications were not on it, I downloaded these applications so I have hundreds of Bibles and reference books in this very small apparatus. All the necessary things I need to travel with a very small bag is in this. I mean this little apparatus gives me the opportunity to talk to my family, to email my office, to run my business and some of the applications while they can function on this iPad have not been endorsed by Apple in the sense of saying it's legitimate or authenticate. It works but if I want to take this iPad and give it to somebody, the applications I put in it may not be needed by somebody else. So what must I do? I must go to the master reset and reset the iPad, that will bring it back to original defaults, it will remove everything I added on that is not necessary for somebody else.

Now God is coming to the church through the spirit of Elijah and He's resetting the default button, He's reorganizing the church and bring it back to its original state of being. And there's a lot of things on this iPad of mine that slows it down, do you know how many things in your churches, in the program of your churches, events, activities, programs that is not part of the original setting. Do you know how it slows down your churches? Do you know that the administration of the whole planet God had His own governmental order, His own rule? What have we done through the fall? We invented our own ideas. Where are we today? In a literal


mess, man is getting cleverer and cleverer but the earth is mutating and devolving into a state of absolute chaos, the earth is without form and void and now God is saying, “Master reset, press the button,” spirit of Elijah comes to reset how nations should be ruled, how religion the churches function, how economies should be administrated, how our social lives should be organized and every other altar operational system must be shut down. Only His eternal way must be established. Now that's what is happening, that's what the word restore means.

I want to go to one more Scriptures, Acts chapter 3 because some of you are already saying, “Well this is referring to John the baptist and it's not referring to us,” I gonna read this for you, I'm gonna read from verse 17, this is about Peter preaching, “Yet now brethren I know that you did it in ignorance as did also your rulers but those things which God foretold by the mouth of all His prophets,” You know what that mean automatically, the spirit of Elijah, am I correct? All the prophets because he is the face of that, that Christ will suffer he has thus fulfilled. Then it says in verse 19, “Repent,” restart your operational system, remove an old program so that we can establish a new way of doing things, repent therefore and be converted. Let me use a nice word here, reset back the original state. OK, let's change your hard drive so that you will function the right way, amen? Say to your neighbor, “You need a hardware change before God can put some new software in you,” that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing will come from the presence of the Lord. This is called alignment so that you can be reconnected, amen? So that you can connect to the heavens.

Then it says this, “and that He may send Jesus Christ who was preached to you before so that Jesus Christ may come back,” verse 21 is key, “whom heaven must receive,” the word receive means take hold of, it literally means to keep somebody whom heaven must keep until, everyone say, “Until,” until is a causative principle, it's cause and action. Jesus is not coming back, heaven is telling Jesus, “You sit, You stay, You cannot come back until…” whats the until? The times of the restoration of all things. Now this chapter is being read from Acts, Jesus already died, He rose on the third, He ascended on the fortieth day to the heavens, He's seated at the right hand and He's sitting, and He's waiting, and He's waiting, and He's waiting, according the Hebrews chapter 10, until, until, until all His enemies are made His footstool. What does this portion of Scripture say? Until the reconstitution or the restoration or the reconfiguration of all things. So who is going to do that? Those that are on the earth, that's us. Now we know Elijah must come first, before the Lord comes Elijah must come and prepare the way for the Lord to come riding on the clouds to establish His governmental order over all things. That's the spirit of Elijah.

I've got twenty minutes so let me take these twenty minutes to now shift, give you a little preview of the spirit we are dealing with in this age. And for me to do that I have to do a case study and to do a case study I have to go to our school master, our school master is the law and the prophets in a technical sense. We have to go to the Old Testament and see whether there are some shadows and types, some historical occurrences that helps us to interpret how the spirit of the messenger, the spirit of Elijah, comes into the earth. So I want you to go to IKings chapter 16, now two things I want you to remember as we go to IKings; the ministry of Elijah brings us back to the place where we know the fear of the Lord and to fear the Lord is to preserve His name, is to keep His name and it's not a name as in a noun but it's name as in the nature of our Father. To know God is to know the Father and the Son; to know God is to abide in the name of the Father and the Son; to know God you have to be baptized in the Name of the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit; to know God you have to know Him as Father. I don't have time to go into


all the Scriptures to back that but for those of you who understand English, go and study my teachings on Christology of the relationship of a father and a son.

Elijah comes back to bring us to the Father and you have to mediate on the name of your Father, the name of the Lord. God is my Daddy, God is my Papa, God is my everything; I trust in Him, I love Him, He cannot fail me. I come from Him and my safety is in Him, that's my rest. I can say this over and over again but if you don't get revelation of it, it will just be empty talk from the pulpit. The second thing about the ministry of Elijah, he brings you back to a love for God's word, His judgements, His ordinances, His commandments, His precepts, His statues, the way He does things. And I am so fascinated at the way my God does things.

Now in IKings chapter 16, reading from verse 29, I'm gonna read this because this is the background that introduces us to Elijah, “In the thirty eighth year of Aso king of Judah, Ahab the son of Omri became king over Israel and Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel twenty two years. Now Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the Lord, more than all who were before him. And it came to pass as though it had been a trivial thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, he took as wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal,” who was a priest, “king of the Sidonians, and he went and served Baal and worshiped him. Then he set up an altar for Baal in the temple of Baal, which he had built in Samaria. And Ahab made a wooden image. And Ahab did more to provoke the Lord, the God of Israel, to anger than all of the kings of Israel who were before him.”

Now Ahab was number seven on a list of kings that ruled over Israel. Now you must follow me very carefully so that you don't miss me; he's number seven, number one on this list is a man called Jeroboam, Ahab is number seven. He becomes the harvest of sins that can be traced back to the first generation of [inaudible]. That's why I'm saying to all preachers here, all leaders in different sectors of society, your sins can have a fatal end in your lineage, your posterity. The sins of the fathers will produce judgment upon the [inaudible], that's why the decisions you make will determine the destiny of your families. And when God was judging my house in the last two months, I vowed two things to God: the first is, I will never please men again, I will not fear man, I will only fear my Father. The second thing I vowed before Him, and Dr. Sam intimated at that, I vowed that I will never tell anyone what they want to hear. In other words, I will brutally honest because I am not going to lead anyone in a popular way. And we need to sometimes go to some people with the love of the Father and say to them, “You are an adulterer, sort your marriage out,” because if you wink at the sins of those that are in your house, the glory of God will leave your house. Talk to Eli, he died falling off his chair because he refused to confront his sons concerning their sins. I've taken a decision, and I have some great sons, I'm talking about my global family, not my local church, some of them are heads of huge networks; a thousand churches, seven hundred churches. And out of respect you don't want to tell them anything that will hurt them, God told me, “You are not a politician, you're servant of the Most High God, you are My son, you will only speak what I tell you to speak and you will do it from a heart of love but love is not only soft it's also tough and if you love your children you will chastise them. If you don't chastise them I will judge you.”

I would rather lose finance from the income of the church than lose favor from my Father. This is a serious time, I repented before the Lord and it all happened with friends who heads a network of churches, fell into a mortal sin and while I never saw the sin, I saw the signs and I should have addressed it three years before. The liberal culture, the freedom, but I never addressed it the way I should have and when he sinned and I was surprised and never expected it from him,


God said to me, “You need to repent,” “God I didn't see it,” but God said, “Your spirit was sensitive that this man is heading in the wrong direction and you did nothing to stop it.” I had to go and repent before God, I went before my fallen son, who is my son who is being restored now. I said to him, tears in my eyes, I said to him, “Forgive me,” he said, “I don't have to forgive you, I'm the one that destroyed your name, I'm the one that fell,” I said, “Forgive me, I've been a bad father, I should have rebuked you a long time ago, I should have corrected you a long time ago.”

Then I discovered, I made a vow before God that day, I will never tell people what they want to hear; I'll tell them what the Spirit of God is telling me. If they don't want to accept it then let the judgement come upon them but not upon what God has called us to do.” I'm gonna show you something. So Jeroboam’s sins reaches its harvest in this relationship of Ahab, Ahab was the king of Israel, he ruled over ten tribes, he was a king but he marries a woman who is the daughter of the king of the Sidonians who was also a priest of Baal. And this woman who is the grand daughter of Italea that kills the spirit of kings, that kills the spirit of the future princes, he marries her and look at what happens, verse 33, “And Ahab made a wooden image and did more to provoke the Lord, the God of Israel, to anger than all of the kings of Israel that were before him.” Now listen to this, “In his days Hiel of Bethel,” the house of God, the family of God, the sons of God, goes to Jericho and God says to Joshua, “The walls of Jericho are destroyed and cursed is any man who rebuilds the walls of Jericho.”

Now this man under the leadership of Ahab, he goes to rebuild what God cursed, you can read this in Joshua chapter 6:26, God said to Joshua, “Cursed is anyone that rebuilds Jericho,” and look at how he builds it, “He laid its foundation at the cost of Abiram his firstborn,” do you know what Abiram means? It means exalted one is my father. Hiell has a son called Abiram, Abiram means I have exalted my father; the boy, firstborn, is exalting his father, his father takes him and sacrifices him and puts his blood in the foundations so that he can build Jericho. Here is a son exalting his father, the father kills the same boy to build a foundation. In other words, city building was more important than your son. Do you know how many sons we have in churches today who exalt their spiritual fathers and their fathers in return sacrifice their sons to build their ministries?

You will find this problem, one step further, “And he took his younger son,” first born and last born, Segubb, he setup its gates and with his youngest son Segubb and setup his gates, according to the word of the Lord, which he had spoke through Joshua the son of Nun. Do you know what he did with his last son? He killed his last son to build gates that’ll protect the city of Jericho, the enemy of God. How many of us have sacrificed our first sons and our last sons to build our ministries and to protect our own securities and inheritances and riches and when this happens God says, “Enough is enough.” Then chapter 17 says, 17:1, “And Elijah,” this is the first time Elijah is introduced, until this moment he is unknown. What a way to introduce this ministry. Elijah, no background, no birth right, just these statements, “And Elijah the Tishbite who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, ‘As the Lord, the God of Israel, liveth, before Whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.” That's when the spirit of Elijah comes.

What happened in the previous chapter? A father killed his sons, the spirit of Ahab is in the land, now God says, “Let Me introduce the spirit of Elijah that will start to fix things,” and Elijah, his name means “and whose God is Jehovah”, “I only serve one God, God is my ya, my Father, my only God.” The Bible says he is a Tishbite, that word means an alien, a stranger, an enigma, in


other words he's not defined by the culture of his day, he's an alien and a stranger, he's like a pilgrim. He appears and he is from a place called Gilead, let me tell you about Gilead and I'll close, my time is finished.

Gilead is in the wilderness side of the Jordan, the wilderness side is called the trans-Jordan, the land of Gilead, the father of Gilead was Machir. Machir was a grand son of Manessah, this tribe chose the wilderness side of the Jordan, they didn't cross over to posses the land. Manessah was a name given by Joseph to his first son. Joseph was in Egypt and had a terrible time in Egypt but when he got married to an Egyptian and they had the first son, he called him Manessah which means “from today I am healed of the pain of my past and I will never remember my fathers house again,” my future is in Egypt. The name Manessah means to forget your fathers house. Elijah is living in an environment that does not honor fathers; Joseph forgot his father, remember, he was prime minister, the most powerful economist in the world. He built a financial system that Pharaoh the most powerful, futile lord in the earth. Joseph could have easily got on a chariot with an entourage and went to the land of Canaan to visit his father, he forgot about his father. Manassah means to forget your father.

Do you know in the land of Gilead two tribes lived, two clans; one was called Mohab, the other was called Amon. These two are sons of Lot, Mohab and Amon were born out of incest when the daughters of Lot after fleeing out of Sodom and Gomorah and leaving their husbands behind, realized that they have to preserve the seed of their father so that they can keep the name of their father. So these two girls said, “We'll make our father drunk, we'll go into him, we'll capture his seed and we'll have his children.” It's like surrogate fathering, it's like how you get inseminated without worrying about the passion of an intimate relationship. And so the first girl had a son, she called him Mohab and Mohab means it's a question on a name, it's a play with word, “who needs a father, what father?” Whats this thing about spiritual fathers? I'm covered by God. What father? So Mohab becomes a killer of fathers, a killer, this spirit kills fathering and I wish we had time to go into that.

When the first sins that divided the nation of Israel, remember the nation is made up of twelve tribes, it was headed by David and then Solomon took over. And when Solomon took over, the first part of his leadership was committed to the Lord, then he started marrying wives. One of the first wives he married was a woman from Mohab and he built a temple for that woman in Israel. The second wife he married was an Amonnite woman, a woman from Amon; Amon means my brother. “If I don't need a father, I will keep myself as being defined by my clan, my family, my fraternity, not by my father.” So Lot’s two daughters called the sons Mohab and Amon, so what happens? One spirit kills fathers and the other spirit defines itself in an environment of coequality and the god of Amon is a god that sacrifices children. So when Solomon married this woman of Amon and built an altar, that spirit demanded offerings of children.

And heres Elijah living in Gilead that doesn't remember fathers, amongst Mohab that kills fathers, amongst the Ammonites that sacrifices children and God says, “In that environment I want you to heap up a testimony in the place of an orphanage in the place that does not know how to honor fathers I want you to grow up so that you will confront the manifestation of that spirit in Ahab and Jezebel and you will bring back patriarchal order to the earth.” That fathers rule over nations, that fathers rule over businesses, that fathers rule over families, that the rule of heaven is fathers of the earth; not presidents, not dictators, not autocrats. The spirit of a father who does not sacrifice children but who wants to leave an inheritance with his children,


who operates with the rod of righteousness. When Elijah comes from that environment, like an alien, he's gonna stop heaven, he is going to bring Ahab to a place of bended knee and he's going to reconstitute everything.

I'll close with this statement. The nation of Israel, when Solomon sinned, God said to Solomon, “I'm going to give you a chance to repent.” God visited him there times after he brought idolatry into his kingdom and he refused to repent, then God said to Solomon, “Because of your father David I will still leave you to rule over a united kingdom but your son Rehoboam, when he comes into leadership I will tear the kingdom apart and I will give your son one tribe to rule over, the tribe of Benjamin.” And remember, Solomon was from the tribe of Judah, “the rest of the ten tribes and put it under a servant.” So He took the ten tribes, gave it to Jeroboam, a servant that was building one of the houses of Solomon. This servant, God said to him, “If you obey My words, if you live by My commandments I will make you mighty.” But this man, he built false altars so that the people would not go to Jerusalem to worship God, he established himself in places like Sachem and Samaria, places where he redesigned how worship should take place. He was the king over ten.

When God sends Elijah, He doesn't send him to the house of Judah that was once the house of Solomon and David; He sends him to the ten tribes which is headed now by Ahab. And when the Bible says, “I will send to you the spirit of Elijah and he will turn the hearts of the fathers to the sons and the sons to the fathers, lest I smite the land with a curse.” This is what God was doing. The ten tribes was the children of Israel, the one tribe Benjamin, which means the son of my right hand, and Judah who is the king that rules is the head, it's a fathering grace. When Elijah comes he's gonna bring the children back to the fathers and the father, Judah, back to the ten tribes and make it one nation.

And whatever is true through the macro must be true to the micro, what does that mean? Well we are teaching you how to connect to your households in the true relationship of spiritual fathering and spiritual sonship so that you like the atom of your body, will not be in conflict with the structure and design of the entire body. But when the spirit of Elijah comes back there's going to be a reconstituting of the Body of Christ, most of the Body is cutoff from the headship. Now you're going to see the whole earth, the church in the earth, being reconstituted and brought back to governmental order; not institutional order, not religious order, divine order. And when that happens the spirit of fathering is going to spread into the earth and all these corrupt leaders over governments and over business houses, that spirit of the father is going to assassinate all these false anointings, I mean spiritually now. It's gonna cut off the heads of illegal governments, it will become like a mountain that will fill the earth and it's gonna happen in this season. Are you ready for it?

So start getting your houses in order, start defining your relationships and run for your lives if you are in a house where the father of that house is sacrificing only to build his city and his personal interests, God is going to judge that spirit [inaudible]. But there are true fathers, these are there to save your lives and bring you back to a place where you will no more be cursed but you will be blessed. The blessings that make rich and add no sorrow will start to come upon you. Do you understand the spirit of Elijah? I've just shown you one little part of it but there's some awesome things that's gonna happen in this season.

I want you to stand with me, I want to get Dr. Sam and Yassur. We want to bless you today, we want to bless you. How many of you believe in spiritual blessings, impartations? Now you know


that we don't have to lay our hands upon you but God will put His hand on your life as we speak the word. Now you've heard a lot in this week and God's only permitted you to hear this because you've been selected for a time such as this where much is given, much will be required of you. Are you ready to commit your way to the Lord? Are you ready to change? They say old habits die hard. It's better for you to fall on the rock than let the rock fall on you and believe me the people can often hinder the purposes of God if they don't want to change. Men like these that have huge congregations, it's very difficult for them to redirect the big ship on the river of God but it's very easy if all of you can throw off your goods. Throw it off, all of your traditions and baggage and say, “Lead us, take us in a new direction so that we can be aligned to the heavens and fulfill the purpose.”

And you know that we have not come here to draw you to ourselves, we've not promoted our networks, we've not asked you for a single cent. We want you to be connected to heaven. We want this island to come back to its glory, the former glory. From here North America was discovered, the americas were discovered, from his island, am I correct? I am not attacking America but I can tell you that world is far from God, the church is sick in that world, you need to release something from here that will bring that land back to its glory. And if you want to do that you can't copy the models from that land, you have to go back to the drawing board, back to the throne and get the model from heaven, it's in the book. So lift these hands to lead the church back to the way of God, not the American way, the Bible way. Amen?

And that's my impartation to you, it's challenging you to come back. You know whats happening in that world? Seventy million children have been sacrificed, it's called abortion. The nation is fatherless, headless, it's made up now of a nation of immigrants just looking for economic wellbeing but can't find love and acceptance. Only if we bring back the spirit of the father the curse will be broken and God can use this island. I have not seen so much of favor and I know you have many challenges but I have not witnessed in my spirit an open heaven like I sense when I come to this island to release the word of God.

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