THE PERPLEXITIES OF LIFE AND THE MYSTERY OF DEATH VOLUME 2 OF 3

THE PERPLEXITIES OF LIFE AND THE MYSTERY OF DEATH VOLUME 2 OF 3 Preached ON Sunday, 31^st October, 2021. AT THE VOICE OF GOD STUDIO The Bridal Lodge, Nsugbe Anambra State, Nigeria. BY APOSTLE PETER ODOEMENA THE SON OF MAN

Transcribed By Bishop David Mbah

But when He, the Spirit of Truth (the Truth-giving Spirit) comes, He will guide you into all the Truth (the whole, full Truth). For He will not speak His own message [on His own authority]; but He will tell whatever He hears [from the Father; He will give the message that has been given to Him], and He will announce and declare to you the things that are to come [that will happen in the future].

JOHN 16:13 Amplified Version

What is more? Whatever that happens here, God permitted it. That is why we are children of God. God will use us to test His power. Satan will also use us to test his power. We are testing instruments in the hand of God and in the hand of Satan. There is nothing that happens here that God does not know. If God fails to allow that Satan to come here, how will you know anything called temptation or trial?

– THE SON OF MAN –

SPIRITUAL REALM [Part 1]: preached on Sunday 16^th July 1995; Pg. 50 vs. 8

THE PERPLEXITIES OF LIFE AND THE MYSTERY OF DEATH [1]

The Testament of Abraham; Version 1. …Now, Lord, what shall I do? How shall I escape him, sitting at one table with him?

The Lord said: Go down to him, and take no thought for this, for when you sit down with him, I will send upon you a devouring spirit, and it will consume out of your hands and through your mouth all that is on the table.
Rejoice together with him in everything, only you shall interpret well the things of the vision, that Abraham may know the sickle of death and the uncertain end of life,…
AND THAT Abraham may know what? …the sickle of death and the uncertain end of life,… Sickle. S-I-C-K-L-E. Sickle cell Anaemia. When death comes, it dries the individual like a sickler. It dries the blood so that Abraham will understand what?
…the sickle of death and the uncertain end of life,… You know everything, but you do not know the way you will end your life here on earth.
My father in-law said it before Me and many people that his late father, Ifedioramma used to tell them [himself and his brother Fred] that what perplexes him is not death, but what he will pass through before he will die.
What he will suffer; the type of death and what will befall him before he will join his ancestors. And that is what he was afraid of. I underlined it.
The uncertainty of the time of death and the sickle of death; the drying effect of death can reduce a giant to rubbles, drain the water, drain the blood and drain everything.
The sickle of death; that Abraham may know. He said, first of all show him the picture of death that has come to arrest him. That Abraham may know and get acquainted personally and practically with the sickle of death and the uncertainty of life.
It was upon this backdrop that I spoke to the elders a little the other day about the perplexities of life and the mystery of death. The perplexities of life and the mystery of death.
Our Pastor said, “If I may plead, we would like to have this Message in full and in tape.”
The perplexities of life here on earth and the mystery of death. Nothing perplexes a human being more than life. Once you are praying for long life and prosperity, you are praying for unforeseen perplexities and troubles of all sorts, sicknesses. Diseases and disappointments.
Shocking shocking shocking things. Shocking developments around you, for there is no way you can live long life and enjoy prosperity without passing through the perplexities of life.
You will be in strong forebodings about tomorrow; strong fears. You will be embarrassed. You will be humiliated. You will be assaulted. You will be insulted. Oh No! What will I say?
The more you journey through life, the more the experiences of life you will get. Then, to crown it all, the secret behind death. The mystery of death.
The mystery of death is about to be revealed to man, to end his sorrows; to end his sadness; to end his troubles. That is why God takes delight in bringing his own vessels home.
If He sees ahead that the troubles that are ahead of them will be greater than them, He parcels them home, lest they will offend at the dying minute. Amen.
But He must reason with us. If you are a child of God, He will reason with you. He cannot come and snatch you away. No!
He will, first of all, give you notice and then, you reason with Him. If you agree to go, you go. If you say, “I am not going now. Let me continue to pass through all these things. Give me more time”, God will grant you more time.
To Hezekiah, God granted him time. Do you believe that? God granted Abraham time. He granted Moses time. He granted Isaac time. He granted Jacob time. He granted Ishmael even greater time.
When the LORD Jesus Christ was running up and down, facing the perplexities of life when He knew not the mystery of death, what happened? No matter how death attempted to take him, death could not succeed. Why? His time was not yet come.
That is why, no man dies except by the decree of Allah. Sure!!! If Allah has not decreed, it will not happen.
This reference can be found in Surah 3:145 “And it is not [possible] for one to die except by permission of Allah at a decree determined. And whoever desires the reward of this world – We will give him thereof; and whoever desires the reward of the Hereafter – We will give him thereof. And we will reward the grateful.” Sahih International Translation
…that Abraham may know the sickle of death and the uncertain end of life, and may make disposal of all his possessions,…. And may do what? and maY make disposal of all his possessions,…
Brethren, why not put your hands together? Make disposal. Gather everything you have acquired from this world and give them all back to the world. Distribute it to the people of the world. And then come home.
You came into this world empty-handed. You came into this world naked. And so will you be when you shall depart from this world.
Note the rich fool in the New Testament who said, “I have amassed wealth. My soul can now rest and rejoice. What have I to lack.” That night God said, “I require your soul.”
Who then enjoyed the riches? Who enjoyed the wealth? You see why he told the rich man, “If you want to serve Me and have eternal life, go and dispose of your possessions to the poor and the needy. Then, come and follow me.” He got angry; got offended and walked away.
But look at the man God is preparing for his departure. He first started with disentangling him from his possessions so that he will know the mystery of death; that in death, you go alone.
You do not go with your wife. You do not go with your husband. You do not go with your child. You do not go with your certificate. You do not go with anything. All that you got from the earth, you must surrender here.
The whole riches; The whole wealth; Your fame, honour; Your crown and Your stool. You will put all of them down here.
The sickle of death and also the uncertainty of the end of the life of everybody.
If you are certain about the end of your life, you will make preparations. You will know the date. You will know the hour. You will know the place. You will know how it will come.
But it is hidden. It is a mystery. That is why I said that I will speak to My people concerning the perplexities of life and the mystery of death.
Ecclesiastes 12:1 – 3, in Living Bible. ^[1]Don’t let the excitement of being young cause you to forget about your Creator. Sure!!! This is because you will never be young forever. Old age will set in one day.
…Honour him in your youth before the evil years come—… Before what? before the evil years come—… Before what? before the evil years come—when you’ll no longer enjoy living.
^[2]It will be too late then to try to remember him when the sun and light and moon and stars are dim to your old eyes, and there is no silver lining left among your clouds.
^[3]For there will come a time when your limbs will tremble with age, your strong legs will become weak, and your teeth will be too few to do their work,…
At that time, meat will be rather pushed into the mouth. The person’s pronunciation of basic words will then become childish. Fish will be pounded in the mortar to make for easy chewing. That is the picture the Bible painted about us and about life, for whatever has a beginning must have an end.
When we begin to grow in our youth, the youthful exuberance will not allow us to remember that we are not growing any younger. We are not growing any younger. Every passing year adds to your age. Every passing year adds to your age, adds to your experiences and brings you closest to your grave. Yes!
How you ought to reverence God and serve Him in your youth. That which you could not do in your youth can you learn it in your old age. Never! Do you learn a new habit in your old age?
If you are not a righteous person at infancy and grow thereby having the fear of God in you, when are you expecting to have it?
Is it when you are overwhelmed by evil and your heart overwhelmed by the cares of this present world; at a time when you get angry and ready to fight because you were rebuked for your evil deeds; and because you think you are too young to die.
NOBODY IS TOO YOUNG TO DIE. NOBODY IS TOO YOUNG TO LIVE. DEATH HAS NO AGE. IT IS ONE OF THE MYSTERIES OF DEATH, BUT THERE ARE PERPLEXITIES OF LIFE. NUMBER ONE IS THE LACK OF FEAR OF GOD.
^[3]For there will come a time when your limbs will tremble with age, your strong legs will become weak, and your teeth will be too few to do their work, and there will be blindness too.
^[4]Then let your lips be tightly closed while eating when your teeth are gone! And you will waken at dawn with the first note of the birds; but you yourself will be deaf and tuneless, with quavering voice.
^[5]You will be afraid of heights and of falling—a white-haired, withered old man, dragging himself along: without sexual desire, standing at death’s door, and nearing his everlasting home as the mourners go along the streets.
^[6]Yes, remember your Creator now while you are young—before the silver cord of life snaps…
We have the silver cord of life. That is what does the recording. Every human being has a cord that links him to the Deity; that monitors everything. Any day it snaps, the individual closes his eyes in death.
These are some of the mysteries you do not know; that nobody reports you and your activities to God, for there is a cord.
That is why I told you, “Every star represents a human being. There is a cord connecting you and the Almighty God; that records all your activities, thoughts and imaginations of your heart; your utterances, actions and everything.”
And God is holding the thing up there. Any day it snaps, the individual drops dead here, but all his activities are already there, for the tape has recoiled.
If you are playing a magnetic tape and the tape breaks or it rolls to an end, it has coiled itself fully somewhere else. And it stops. Finish! Then the tape can be replayed.
And what God does is not audio. He does VCD. That is why He does playback. If you doubt, He will play it back and you will see yourself. You will see how the whole thing took place, how it started and how it ended.
When the silver cord of life connecting you as an individual to God is still active, use it to create a good and enviable record for yourself like righteous Abraham, who developed the fear of God in his infancy and held it on till the age of 995. The fear of God never departed from him for one day.
But today, what is our faith? We are being forced to live right. We are being forced to believe in God. We are being forced to honour God as if honouring God means favouring God.
Is there anything we can do to God that can change Him? Can a man magnify God? Can a man make God to be eternal? What are we going to do to God so that God will be what He is not? It does not exist.
Look at God telling Abraham, “Look at the uncertainty of your life. Now you are about to go, I am giving you a notice so that you become much more liberally minded than ever before. Begin now to dispose by way of generosity your abundant wealth, for you are coming home without a pin or a grain of sand.”
^[6]Yes, remember your Creator now while you are young—before the silver cord of life snaps and the gold bowl is broken; before the pitcher is broken at the fountain and the wheel is broken at the cistern;
^[7]then the dust returns to the earth as it was, [Yes!] and the spirit returns to God who gave it. [Sure!!!] ^[8]All is futile, says the Preacher; utterly futile.
^[9]But then, because the Preacher was wise, he went on teaching the people all he knew; and he collected proverbs and classified them.
Remember, we are studying the Patriarchs. We are studying the Chief of the Patriarchs, Abraham whose descendants we are, so that we can now begin to assess ourselves to know really whether we belong to the righteous Abraham or we are claiming what we are not;
Or we are righteous descendants of Abraham, but we are coveting the riches of the world like the children of Cain.
Or we are being lured and attracted by the antics and the seducing works of the children of Cain wherewith we were warned seriously to look away from them and never to interact with them to the point that we were banned from having intercourse with any of them, man and woman, lest we produce a wicked generation.

A little while, God will withdraw Himself from His own child. God will leave His child. He will come out completely so that you will see how carnal you are, more especially when you think it is now okay for you, and that you are now perfect. God will allow you to see how perfect you are.

– THE SON OF MAN –

SPIRITUAL REALM [Part 1]: preached on Sunday 16^th July 1995; Pg. 50 vs. 9

THE PERPLEXITIES OF LIFE AND THE MYSTERY OF DEATH [2]

Ecclesiastes 12:1 – 8, Amplified version. ¹REMEMBER [earnestly] also your Creator [that you are not your own, but His property now] in the days of your youth, before the evil days come or the years draw near when you will say [of physical pleasures], I have no enjoyment in them–

²Before the sun and the light and the moon and the stars are darkened [sight is impaired], and the clouds [of depression] return after the rain [of tears];
³In the day when the keepers of the house [the hands and the arms] tremble, and the strong men [the feet and the knees] bow themselves, and the grinders [the molar teeth] cease because they are few, and those who look out of the windows [the eyes] are darkened;
⁴When the doors [the lips] are shut in the streets and the sound of the grinding [of the teeth] is low,…
The doors mean the lips. It can no longer open to speak anyhow. All the teeth in the person’s mouth are all gone and the jaws locked.
…and one rises up at the voice of a bird and the crowing of a cock, and all the daughters of music [the voice and the ear] are brought low;
⁵Also when [the old] are afraid of danger from that which is high, and fears are in the way, and the almond tree [their white hair] blooms, and the grasshopper [a little thing] is a burden, and desire and appetite fail, because man goes to his everlasting home and the mourners go about the streets or marketplaces.
Brethren, is it not happening? Written since the ages.
⁶[Remember your Creator earnestly now] before the silver cord [of life] is snapped apart, or the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern [and the whole circulatory system of the blood ceases to function];..
That is the sickle of death. No more blood circulation. The person becomes a sickler.
⁷Then shall the dust [out of which God made man’s body] return to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall return to God Who gave it.
⁸Vapour of vapours and futility of futilities, says the Preacher. All is futility (emptiness, falsity, vainglory, and transitoriness)!
That is the Bible. Are we benefitting? This is so that when you are pursuing the wind, you know. When you are pursuing the Reality, you know.
Remember the mystery of death. Death does not recognize old age. Death does not recognize infancy. Death has no age. One of the mysteries of death. The uncertainties of the end of a man’s life should put a man into sober reflection from time to time.
Sometime, you pause and ask yourself, “Why worrying myself? Why these troubles I am bringing upon myself? At the end of the day, where are they leading me to? Where are they leading me to?” They will only encourage me into disobeying God; promising me heaven where there is hell. That is the secret the devil is using.
And that is why the Holy Prophet Muhammad [pbuh] said, “Resist him. no matter how alluring he may paint that road. Do not follow him. Remain steadfast, loyal and faithful to Allah, and He will prosper your ways and bring you to the land He promised you, that is flowing with milk and honey, with rivers and beautiful flowers and trees. And that is the Garden. The Garden of Eden [Adn].” No mistake about it.
When you finish today Go and read that Scripture again because nothing is as intoxicating as the youth; a youthful life, full of exuberances. An age when their characters are being informed by too many characters.
There is no age more destructive than the age of youth. Check all who followed God and developed the fear of God from their childhood and remained following, they avoid youthful disappointments, youthful sorrows and pains. They avoid premature death, they avoid imprisonment. They avoid all kinds of evils.
But those that want to capture the wind, look at where they are. See what accompanies them. Eat [Enjoy] and die. Eat and die. Build house and you will never live in it. Buy vehicle, you will not enjoy it. Marry a wife, you will not enjoy your wife. Have children and you will not see your children grow in your age.
In your time, you have money, but you will not enjoy that money. Of what use is it? At the end of the day, you join your ancestors in the grave. Your place is forgotten and the spirit goes back to God.
On the resurrection morning, you will come out and answer questions about how you lived. You begin to tell God why you decided to ignore His Word and play hypocrisy from childhood.
That is why in resurrection, young and old will come and everybody will come up. No matter where you died, you are coming up from there; the river, the fire or the stream. Everywhere! You are coming to judgment.
And nobody will report you to God because there is a cord connecting you and God from the day you came into existence till today. Every activity is being recorded by God.
I will not answer for My wife and she will not answer for Me. I will not answer for My children and they will not answer for Me. No man has two Gods. Every man is assigned to one God.
That is why He says that He knows the number of hairs on our head; and knows the number of the grains of sand here on earth.
The references can be found in [1] Matthew 10:30 – 31, Good News Bible ³⁰As for you, even the hairs of your head have all been counted. ³¹So do not be afraid; you are worth much more than many sparrows!
[2] Luke 12:7 Good News Bible. Even the hairs of your head have all been counted. So do not be afraid; you are worth much more than many sparrows!
[3] Hebrews 4:13, Living Bible. He knows about everybody, everywhere. Everything about us is bare and wide open to the all-seeing eyes of our living God; nothing can be hidden from Him to Whom we must explain all that we have done.
[4] Hebrews 4:13, Amplified version. And not a creature exists that is concealed from His sight, but all things are open and exposed, naked and defenseless to the eyes of Him with Whom we have to do.
[5] Holy Qur’an; Surah 6:61 – 62, Hilali-Khan Translation. ⁶¹He is the irresistible, (watching) from above over His worshippers, and He sets guardians over you. At length, when death approaches one of you, Our angels take his soul, and they never fail in their duty. ⁶²Then are men returned unto Allah, their protector, the (only) reality: Is not His the command, and He is the swiftest in taking account.
[6] Holy Qur’an; Surah 6:61 – 62, Abdullah Yusuf Ali Translation. ⁶¹He is the Irresistible, Supreme over His slaves, and He sends guardians (angels guarding and writing all of one’s good and bad deeds) over you , until when death approaches one of you, Our Messengers (angel of death and his assistants) take his soul, and they never neglect their duty. ⁶²Then they are returned to Allah, their Maulâ [True Master (Allah), the Just Lord (to reward them)]. Surely, His is the judgement and He is the Swiftest in taking account.
There is no activity of man that escapes the monitoring eyes of God. How can it escape when you are still alive and your tape is rolling every minute? As I am talking to you now, My own is rolling. As you are sitting down and hearing Me, your own is rolling.
What is the mystery? You do not know how long your own will roll and stop. All tapes; all recording magnetic tapes do not have the same length. Do you believe it?
Your compact discs, do they have the same recording length of time? Some can be for 50 minutes; some 45; some 90; some 1 hour 30 minutes, while some can record for 5 hours.
So, all of us here cannot live equal lives or equal number of years. No! But who know the number of years allotted to him? Nobody!
That is why David said, “I am being perplexed every moment because I do not know how long I am going to live here on earth and die. All I know is that I have come into this world. I am living in the world, but how long I am going to live and die, I do not know, for God kept it a mystery to me.”
And David died at 70. And the Bible said, “David died at old age.” And that old age became 70 years when his fathers clocked 995 [Abraham], 985 [Enos], 969 [Methuselah].
This reference can be found in 1 Chronicles 29:28, Amplified version. He died in a good old age [his seventy-first year], full and satisfied with days, riches and honour. Solomon his son reigned in his stead.
Because iniquity increased very much in the days of David, lifespan decreased. Unbelief and rebellion against God increased in the days of David. And it is increasing till today.
Watch the obituary posters. Everybody who clocks 50 years now is assumed to have lived long. It becomes a glorious transition. 50 years?
Widespread iniquity; widespread wickedness reduces people’s lifespan.
⁴…that Abraham may know the sickle of death and the uncertain end of life, and may make disposal of all his possessions, for I have blessed him above the sand of the sea and as the stars of heaven.
⁵Then the chief captain went down to the house of Abraham, and sat down with him at the table, and Isaac served them.
And when the supper was ended, Abraham prayed after his custom,… Abraham did what? …prayed after his custom,…
After taking his meal, as it has been his manner of maintaining his regular prayers, thanking God for making provision for him to have food and to have people he can nurture and bless; people that could depend on him, Abraham was happy, for there were people that wanted to have people living around them, but they did not have.
There were people that were hungry but they have no food. There were people that had food, but they had not the life to eat.
But to Abraham, God surrounded him with too many human beings, including his own offsprings. He was taking good care of all. He had food. He had the appetite to eat. Why should he not bless the Name of the LORD. He thanked God, and after eating he thanked God, as has been his manner.
But if you do not develop this habit and make it your own culture, that for every gift God gives you, you must be appreciative.
You wake up from your bed, you kneel down and thank God before going out. You want to go to your bed, you thank God. He gives you water to drink, you bless the water and thank God. He gives you food, you thank God. After eating, you thank God for helping you to eat and remain alive, for there were people that ate and died while eating.
Some ate and while vomiting, they died. Some ate and swallowed hook, and the hook hooked them to death. Some ate, but the food became poison, and they suffered diarrhoea and vomiting until they died. Some, who are healthy, have no food to eat.
Why not thank God. How we ought to be appreciative of God even after things we think are negligible.
Do you know that there are many people that do not value life that comes from God? In the morning, they wake up, drink, take their bath and go away. In the night, they go to bed. They do not remember God.
They will use the time they should use to pray to be counting money, calculating their business trips and will never have time to give God the praise for sustaining their lives.
Even when God bestows them with children, they will go about bragging that they got the children by their strength, “I have done it. My wife has delivered a baby boy. It is a baby girl. I actually fired this time around. We will surely celebrate it with drinks. Bring drinks so that we can praise God.” God is now praised with drinks.
Listen to Me. I pity anybody who is not practically and personally acquainted with God. The greatest of all sicknesses is that sickness of not being acquainted with God; not having the fear of God; not having reverence for God and being ungrateful to God. Ingratitude!
It starts from the family. Real children born in the family can never eat and go to bed. After eating they go to their parents and say, “Daddy! Mummy! We thank you. We appreciate you.”
This is because there are too many people who may have the money and have children but they do not care.
They exist! They simply go out, eat in the hotels and eateries and eating centres [restaurants], satisfy themselves, come back and go to bed, without enquiring whether the children have eaten or not. They do not even enquire about the welfare of their wives. Do we not have such people? They are many.
So, if you are blessed with godly parents who care for you and who mean well to you and who pray for your success, you do not know the gift God has bestowed upon you.
Do you know that there are parents that do not kneel down and pray for their children from year to year? They can never bless their children. They can never bless their children from year to year.
They do not even remember nor pray for themselves. How then can they pray for their children. So, when you have godly parents, you have a treasure.

Let Me tell you something you do not know. The traditional religion believes in Amadioha and also believes in the Almighty God. The Christian faith believes that there is Jesus and also believes that there is Almighty God. The Muslims believes that there is Muhammed and also believes that there is Almighty God. To you that is in this Faith, do you believe that there is Son of Man and there is Almighty God? You have to answer the question yourself.

– THE SON OF MAN –

BEWARE OF ESOTERIC LANGUAGES; preached on Sunday 24^th April 2004; Pg. 73 vs. 1 – 2

THIS IS THE FAITH THAT OVERCOMETH THE WORLD

TESTAMENT OF ABRAHAM, Version 1 paragraph 5: ⁵…And when the supper was ended, Abraham prayed after his custom, and the chief-captain prayed together with him, and each lay down to sleep upon his couch.

And Isaac said to his father, Father, I too would fain sleep with you in this chamber, that I also may hear your discourse, for I love to hear the excellence of the conversation of this virtuous man.
Abraham said, Nay, my son, but go to your own chamber and sleep on your own couch, lest we be troublesome to this man.
Then Isaac, having received the prayer from them, and having blessed them, went to his own chamber and lay down upon his couch.
But the Lord cast the thought of death into the heart of Isaac as in a dream, and about the third hour of the night Isaac awoke and rose up from his couch, and came running to the chamber where his father was sleeping together with the archangel.
Isaac, therefore, on reaching the door cried out, saying, My father Abraham, arise and open to me quickly, that I may enter and hang upon your neck, and embrace you before they take you away from me.
And Abraham did know not this matter. It was hidden from Abraham. It was an encounter between the chief captain, Angel Michael and the Almighty God to trick Abraham, “Let us reveal this departure to his second son [Isaac] who is closest to him.”
Abraham therefore arose and opened to him, and Isaac entered and hung upon his neck, and began to weep with a loud voice.
Remember, in those days, Hebrews 1:1 was what they were using. God was speaking to them at sundry times using dreams, visions and prophecies. Is it not true?
Hebrews 1:1. Lest you begin to take it as an ordinary development. Let us see how God used to speak to people in the days of old.
Living Bible ^[1]Long ago God spoke in many different ways to our fathers through the prophets, in visions, dreams, and even face to face, telling them little by little about his plans. ^[2]But now in these days he has spoken to us through his Son to whom he has given everything and through whom he made the world and everything there is. Amen!
Amplified version. ¹IN MANY separate revelations [each of which set forth a portion of the Truth] and in different ways God spoke of old to [our] forefathers in and by the prophets, ²[But] in the last of these days He has spoken to us in [the person of a] Son, Whom He appointed Heir and lawful Owner of all things, also by and through Whom He created the worlds and the reaches of space and the ages of time [He made, produced, built, operated, and arranged them in order].
Good News Bible. ¹In the past God spoke to our ancestors many times and in many ways through the prophets, ²but in these last days he has spoken to us through his Son. He is the one through whom God created the universe, the one whom God has chosen to possess all things at the end.
TESTAMENT OF ABRAHAM, Version 1 paragraph 5: ⁵…Abraham therefore being moved at heart, also wept with a loud voice, and the chief-captain, seeing them weeping, wept also.
Sarah being in her room, heard their weeping, and came running to them, and found them embracing and weeping.
Note Sarah. Note Isaac. Note that archangel. Sarah heard what was happening; Isaac weeping, the archangel weeping and Abraham weeping, for God has brought a perplexing Message.
God has brought a perplexing Message to convey the mystery of the uncertainty of the end of life for every human being; the uncertainty and the unreasonableness of amassing unending wealth that will hinder people from serving God. The utter futility and the vainglory associated with such silly behaviours.
And Sarah said with weeping, My Lord Abraham, what is this that you weep? Tell me, my Lord, has this brother that has been entertained by us this day brought you tidings of Lot,…
What did she call the angel? Brother. Sarah thought that the personality they hosted and entertained was a mere man, not knowing that they were entertaining Angel Michael real, and not Apparition. The angel who came to parcel the husband’s soul home.
Check how it will look like for a woman to gladly prepare food and everything to entertain a visitor that has come to take the life of her husband [ignorantly].
The angel was weeping based on the innocency of Abraham’s heart; his level of uprightness with God; the liberality of his heart and his generosity [Oh!] shocked him very much; his affection with humanity without discrimination; how he assessed and assumed people’s responsibility readily; how he is touched by the infirmities of people; how he prefers making people around him feel happy before he will be happy with himself.
He [the archangel] testified before the Almighty that he had never seen such a human being on earth. Any lesson to learn?
And Sarah said with weeping, My Lord Abraham, what is this that you weep? Tell me, my Lord, has this brother that has been entertained by us this day brought you tidings of Lot, your brother’s son, that he is dead?
Angels are human beings. And when we open our doors to hospitality, we entertain angels unawares. Is it not Scripture?
This reference can be found in Hebrews 13:1, Amplified version. Do not forget or neglect or refuse to extend hospitality to strangers [in the brotherhood–being friendly, cordial, and gracious, sharing the comforts of your home and doing your part generously], for through it some have entertained angels without knowing it.
If you are stingy and narrow-minded, you cannot receive angelic visitation.
Is it for this that you grieve thus? The chief-captain answered and said to her, Nay, my sister Sarah, it is not as you say, but your son Isaac, methinks, beheld a dream, and came to us weeping, and we seeing him were moved in our hearts and wept.
⁶Then Sarah, hearing the excellence of the conversation of the chief-captain, straightway knew that it was an angel of the Lord that spoke.
Did you hear what happened? Angels now converse with human beings. Angel Michael the archangel, the chief captain is now holding conversation with Sarah, and called Sarah “My Sister!” Sarah called him, “My Brother!”
Both He that sanctifies and they that are sanctified are altogether of one, for which cause He is not ashamed calling them, “My Brethren!”
You see why when we get to Paradise, you will teach the angels the songs we use to worship God.
Angels do not partake of the blood of Jesus Christ. They do not know what it is. The blood of Jesus Christ is not for Angels. Angels are not purchased with blood, but we are purchased by the precious blood of the Lamb of God – the LORD Jesus Christ – which speaketh greater things than the blood of Abel the righteous, of whom people were even taking oath in the blood of the righteous Abel; “I adjure thee my son in the blood of the righteous Abel if I will do otherwise…”
In other words, using the blood of Abel to take oath and to bind their covenant between man and man; man and woman; woman and woman, even man and God. And that is to show you how righteous that blood was. The blood of the Lamb that was slain before the foundation of the world.
Revelation 13:8. And all the inhabitants of the earth will fall down in adoration and pay him homage, everyone whose name has not been recorded in the Book of Life of the Lamb that was slain [in sacrifice] from the foundation of the world. Amplified version.
Hide yourself under the cover of the blood. When you hide yourself under the blood of the Lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the world, though your sins may be as red as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow.
SONG: [Whiter than the snow. Whiter than the snow. Wash me in the blood of the LORD, and I shall be whiter than snow.]
I am here. The Resurrected Body. I am talking to you. If you go to hell, blame yourself. It is the stubbornness of your heart; your obstinacy; your despondency; your inability to take the Word of God that is able to get your heart converted and give you a place among them that are sanctified by the Faith that is in Me which I have already espoused all of you to, being the Son of Man.
For when I came here, I found no Faith. I had to give you My Word. And My Word created the needed Faith in you.
If the son of man shall come, whenever He shall come, shall He find Faith? But when He came here, He met apostasy. He met idolatry, all in the name of Jesus.
He then began to introduce His Faith. And this is the Faith that overcometh the world, even the Faith of Christ, which he said you should not hold with respect of persons.
1 John 5:4, For whosoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our Faith. KJV
Romans 2:1 For there is no respect of persons with God. KJV
Faith cometh by hearing My Word. Faith cometh by hearing, hearing the Word of God. Period!
Romans 10:17 So faith comes by hearing [what is told], and what is heard comes by the preaching [of the message that came from the lips] of Christ (the Messiah Himself). AMP
…Sarah therefore signified to Abraham to come out towards the door, and said to him, My Lord Abraham, do you know who this man is?
Many people are My witnesses among the heathens and among the Brethren. Cases abound where I appeared among human beings, holding conversations with them over some issues, ranging from politics to religion, and to normal life situation, especially in marital issues.
After the conversation, a few among my hearers will exclaim loudly before all My audience that, of a truth, they perceive that this Man is different from other men of God they know in Nigeria. They will conclude, “In short, this man is not a human being.”
Many have embarrassed Me in many places by this embarrassing question, “Sir, do not be offended. Are you really a human being, for we perceive you are not a human being?”
One even had the boldness to declare it to Brother Chibuzo Ukasanya in their office recently. I would not go further, seeing that he is a Brother in the Faith. If you know him and you have his contact, call him.
He will tell you about his colleague he brought to our shop, who was having diverse sicknesses and diseases, how I diagnosed it, what she said the second time she came and vowed she will not go there again, unless Bro Chibuzo will accompany her.
She confessed that she finds it difficult even to speak, to open her mouth or to sit on the seat where I was sitting at the end. And that she perceived that I am not a human being. And that if they do not know Me from that angle, that they should begin to see Me from there. And that she is not trying to exaggerate, for she knew what happened to her on two occasions when she entered that shop and saw Me.
She said that the first day My wife was there that she remained trembling with fear both within and without. She said that there was something coming out from My body that was reaching her.
She went further to say that she felt that she was a sinner, not meant to even enter that shop talk less of sitting down where I ordered her to sit.
A man; an Ozo titled man from Enugwu-Ukwu who resides abroad but shuttles between America and Nigeria was privileged to hear Me talk, and at the end of the day, he made a statement,
I extended My hand to give him a warm handshake, but he shrinked his hand, removed his red cap and said, “My LORD, I belong to Ndi Ichie [traditional title holders] in my community. They do not know you but I know you. I am unworthy to have a handshake with you. You are a holy man.”
All eyes were on Me. Sorry for disturbing this Message for I am not qualified to share My own testimony. They are mine quite alright, but they never happened in secret. They never happened privately. Not even one happened without many witnesses.
In My workplace, till I left the service, all and sundry regarded Me as a mystic. The pastor in Deeper Life called me a mystic openly. All his likes joined hands.
But to you who are milling around Me; you are practically and personally acquainted with Me, what am I to you. It is on the basis of what I am to you that you will begin to take My Word as the Word of Life or word of deceit or death.
Bye for now.

What I am trying to say is that God is trying to show us the picture of the battle we are in. That battle started with God, and then it is extended to God’s own children. When somebody that is chasing a man catches the child of that man, he has gotten the man. When a man recovers from sickness and the child dies, has he recovered? Satan missed God, but the children are still here. Do you think that Satan will fold his arms? …. God is expecting us to dress the same way. If we are soldiers, watch the Captain of the gang. He is always dressed with his rifle, with his kit and everything. And every soldier must dress the same way.

– THE SON OF MAN –

SPIRITUAL REALM [Part 1]; preached on Sunday 16^th July 1995; Pg. 60 vs. 18 – 19, Pg. 67 vs. 35

LOOK UNTO SARAH THAT BARE THEE

TESTAMENT OF ABRAHAM, Version 1 paragraph 6: ⁶Then Sarah, hearing the excellence of the conversation of the chief-captain, straightaway knew that it was an angel of the Lord that spoke. Sarah therefore signified to Abraham to come out towards the door, and said to him, My Lord Abraham, do you know who this man is?

What? Look at the respect. Look at the honour. The Moon respected the Sun and honoured the Sun on getting the revelation that the Man she called “My Brother”, who also called her “My Sister”, who was sojourning with them was not an ordinary human being, but an Angel of the LORD, being sure and certain through conversation and experiences, gently went out to the door and signaled with the wave of the hand, may be wave of the finger, signaled her husband [the Sun] Abraham to come nearer.
Hear the question: “My LORD, My God and My everything, Abraham, do you really know and understand by revelation that this strange person that has been staying with us all this while is not a human being? He is the Angel of the LORD. The Almighty God sent him to you.”
Abraham said, “I knew!” Abraham did not say, “I do not know.” In other words, flesh and blood never disclosed to Sarah that the personality was an Angel from the LORD.
Rather, the Almighty God gave Sarah the revelation of the Divine personality; the incorporeal human being. If Sarah was not in good relationship with God, with the husband and the family, do you think she would have gotten it?
Look at the respect Sarah accorded to Abraham. Sarah was not violent. Sarah was not disrespectful. Sarah never embarrassed the husband.
In our own day today, these daughters of Cain who are being married by some of us will lose their shamefacedness. These daughters of Cain; daughters of perdition, parading themselves as our wives in the midst of the Bride will sell off their shame and walk into the discussion furiously, interrupt the whole thing and even give Abraham a command;
“Come this man! Are you still listening? Just look at the way this man is deceiving you. Quick! Leave there! Man! Are you still paying attention to that man? One day you will bring in a thief into this house. One day, you are going to bring in a criminal. My friend, will come out from there! Order this man to go. Enough is enough! What is this thing you are discussing with him that made you to leave our bedroom; and went and slept with somebody you knew not? And you brought my son into this house. Let me tell you. this house will not accommodate all of us again. Permit this man to go his way and let us have peace.”
I am telling you the reactions of daughters of Cain who claim to be religious, but they do not have the revelation of what God is doing in their day. They are blind. They do not honour their husbands even in the midst of visitors. They will try to showcase themselves.
What brought Sarah in? The weeping of the husband, the son and the foreigner. And then, that brought her in, but until then, she was away quietly staying in her own couch unsuspectingly.
Brethren, I want you to consider the circumstance. She never read any meaning into that type of association with somebody the husband knew not. But you will know something with time.
With time, you will know and you will see that Sarah recognized that man as being one of the people she entertained when they came to survey the city of Sodom and Gomorrah.
Sarah went back to the husband and said, “Do you realize that this man was among the three that came to our house and we entertained? Although it happened a long time ago, I still remember. This is the face. This is the man.”
But Abraham and Sarah, including Isaac now have equal revelation. How a family ought to knit themselves together while worshipping God. Knit yourselves together.
No misinterpretation. No suspicion. Nobody will misconstrue each other’s statement. It must be one Voice, one focus. And the LORD will perform wonders in that family where there is such a blend of family unity after a godly sort. Not ungodly unity.
Godly in the sense that they take counsel together to do the will of God as a family. Ungodly in the sense that a family can take counsel together to go contrary to the will of God. Do you not know that? Just like the family of Ahab.
To God be the Glory. Are you benefitting from this Teaching? What is the title? THE TESTAMENT OF ABRAHAM [Our Patriarch]
… Sarah therefore signified to Abraham to come out towards the door, and said to him, My Lord Abraham, do you know who this man is? Abraham said, I know not.
Did she say, “Mr. Abraham?” Did she say, “My friend?” Did she say, “My man?” Or, did she say, “My husband, Abraham?”
Look at what she addressed her husband as: “My LORD, Abraham”, even before the stranger. Abraham was addressed as “My LORD Abraham” by Sarah.
There is no record that Sarah gave Abraham a command for one day. There is no record that she quarreled or disagreed or allowed her opinion to have overriding influence over the husband’s opinion on any matter.
Sarah made suggestions and stopped there. She never usurped authority for one day. She never indicted or rebuked Abraham for one day, for she knew who Abraham was and Abraham’s relationship with the Almighty God, which could make immortal and incorporeal beings [Heavenly beings] to sojourn with him.
How our wives ought to learn their lessons. If they are daughters of Sarah, they must behave like Sarah. But if they are daughters of Cain married to sons of Seth, the reverse must be the case. And that is what we are suffering from.
Sarah said, You know, my Lord, the three men from heaven that were entertained by us in our tent beside the oak of Mamre, when you killed the kid without blemish, and set a table before them. After the flesh had been eaten, the kid rose again, and sucked its mother with great joy.
Note what happened. There was a miracle that happened the day the three visited. An animal was killed and roasted. Pancake was made.
After eating of the animal and everything, surprisingly to them, they saw the same animal that was killed alive again, sucking the breast of the mother.
It was a little animal without blemish, signifying the death and resurrection of Christ, for the salvation of souls that belong to God, but who must have sinned.
The Lamb was slain for an everlasting and eternal atonement and propitiation for sin when sin had not come into existence, for God knew that man, being mortal, must err.
For that reason, He had already made adequate preparation for reconciliation and restoration to mercy. To God be the Glory.
Do you not know, my Lord Abraham, that by promise they gave to us Isaac as the fruit of the womb?
The woman never forgot the encounter. Today, forgetful hearing has become the problem of our wives. Even if you try to put them in remembrance, they will be gazing at the sky. Why?Their hearts are covetous and filled with worldly and devilish pleasures.
Nobody keeps to heart the treasures of heaven, but they retain in abundance worldly treasures, which stifles out the knowledge of the truth in the heart of men.
There is no man who infatuates his heart with worldly desires that will have any accommodation in his heart for God’s truth in his heart again.
References can be found in [1] Matthew 13:7, 22. ^[7]Other seeds fell among thorns, and the thorns choked out the tender blades. …. ^[22]The ground covered with thistles represents a man who hears the message, but the cares of this life and his longing for money choke out God’s Word, and he does less and less for God. Living Bible
[2] Mark 4:7, 18 – 19. ^[7]Other seeds fell among thorns that shot up and crowded the young plants so that they produced no grain. ……. ^[18]“The thorny ground represents the hearts of people who listen to the Good News and receive it, ^[19]but all too quickly the attractions of this world and the delights of wealth, and the search for success and lure of nice things come in and crowd out God’s message from their hearts, so that no crop is produced. Living Bible
[3] Luke 8:7, 14.^[7]Other seed landed in thistle patches, and the young grain stalks were soon choked out. ……. ^[14]The seed among the thorns represents those who listen and believe God’s words but whose faith afterwards is choked out by worry and riches and the responsibilities and pleasures of life. And so they are never able to help anyone else to believe the Good News. Living Bible.
The truth will only remain sublime in the brain, but will never settle in the heart. And any truth that does not settle in the heart cannot transform the life of a human being. It cannot bear the required good fruit. Do you believe it to be true?
Let the Word of God settle in your heart. From there it will produce righteous and acceptable habits before God.
Of these three holy men this is one. Abraham said, O Sarah, in this you speak the truth. Glory and praise from our God and the Father. For late in the evening when I washed his feet in the basin I said in my heart, These are the feet of one of the three men that I washed then; and his tears that fell into the basin then became precious stones.
And shaking them out from his lap he gave them to Sarah, saying, If you believe me not, look now at these. And Sarah receiving them bowed down and saluted and said, Glory be to God that shows us wonderful things. And now know, my Lord Abraham, that there is among us the revelation of something, whether it be evil or good!

I know the end of My Mission on earth and I know what I am billed to do. I have done it and I am happy that I have ended this Ministry with joy for the devil fought Me relentlessly, night and day, intending to stifle life out of Me, but the mighty hand of the Father prevailed.

– THE SON OF MAN –

IT IS FINISHED; Preached on Sunday 16^th September 2012; Pg. 176 vs. 26

DEATH IS AN AGREEMENT

TESTAMENT OF ABRAHAM, Version 1 paragraph 7: ⁷And Abraham left Sarah, and went into the chamber, and said to Isaac, Come hither, my beloved son, tell me the truth, what it was you saw and what befell you that you came so hastily to us.

And Isaac answering began to say, I saw, my Lord, in this night the sun and the moon above my head, surrounding me with its rays and giving me light.
As I gazed at this and rejoiced, I saw the heaven opened, and a Man bearing light descend from it,… And what? …a Man… And what? …a Man bearing light descend from it, shining more than Seven Suns.
And this Man like the sun came and took away the sun from my head, and went up into the heavens from whence He came, but I was greatly grieved that he took away the sun from me.
After a little, as I was still sorrowing and sore troubled, I saw this Man come forth from heaven A Second Time, and he took away from me the moon also from off my head,…
The Moon. The Sun. These two signifying his father and his mother.
…and I wept greatly and called upon that Man of light, and said, Do not, my Lord, take away my glory from me; pity me and hear me, and if you take away the sun from me, then leave the moon to me.
He said, Suffer them to be taken up to the king above, for he wishes them there. And he took them away from me, but he left the rays upon me.
INTERPRETATION: The chief-captain said, Hear, O righteous Abraham; the sun which your son saw is you his father, and the moon likewise is Sarah his mother.
The Man bearing light who descended from heaven, this is the one sent from God who is to take your righteous soul from you.
And now know, O most honoured Abraham, that at this time you shall leave this worldly life, and remove to God.
Abraham said to the chief captain O strangest of marvels! And now are you he that shall take my soul from me? The chief-captain said to him, I am the chief-captain Michael, that stands before the Lord, and I was sent to you to remind you of your death, and then I shall depart to him as I was commanded.
Abraham said, Now I know that you are an angel of the Lord, and was sent to take my soul, but I will not go with you; but do whatever you are commanded.
⁸The chief-captain hearing these words immediately vanished, and ascending into heaven stood before God, and told all that he had seen in the house of Abraham; and the chief-captain said this also to his Lord, Thus says your friend Abraham, I will not go with you,…
I disagree! I will go, but not now. Go and tell God.
…but do whatever you are commanded; and now, O Lord Almighty, does your glory and immortal kingdom order anything?
God said to the chief-captain Michael, Go to my friend Abraham yet once again, and speak to him thus, Thus says the Lord your God, he that brought you into the land of promise, that blessed you above the sand of the sea and above the stars of heaven, that opened the womb of barrenness of Sarah, and granted you Isaac as the fruit of the womb in old age, Verily I say unto you that blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your seed, and I will give you all that you shall ask from me, for I am the Lord your God, and besides me there is no other.
Tell me why you have rebelled against me, and why there is grief in you, and why you rebelled against my archangel Michael?
Do you not know that all who have come from Adam and Eve have died, and that none of the prophets has escaped death? None of those that rule as kings is immortal; none of your forefathers has escaped the mystery of death. They have all died, they have all departed into Hades, they are all gathered by the sickle of death.
But upon you I have not sent death, I have not suffered any deadly disease to come upon you, I have not permitted the sickle of death to meet you, I have not allowed the nets of Hades to enfold you, I have never wished you to meet with any evil.
But for good comfort I have sent my chief-captain Michael to you, that you may know your departure from the world, and set your house in order, and all that belongs to you, and bless Isaac your beloved son.
And now know that I have done this not wishing to grieve you. Wherefore then have you said to my chief-captain, I will not go with you? Wherefore have you spoken thus?
Do you not know that if I give leave to death and he comes upon you, then I should see whether you would come or not?
⁹And the chief-captain receiving the exhortations of the Lord went down to Abraham, and seeing him the righteous one fell upon his face to the ground as one dead, and the chief-captain told him all that he had heard from the Most High.
Then the holy and just Abraham rising with many tears fell at the feet of the Incorporeal, and besought him, saying, I beseech you, chief-captain of the hosts above, since you have wholly deigned to come yourself to me a sinner and in all things your unworthy servant, I beseech you even now, O chief-captain, to carry my word yet again to the Most High, and you shall say to him, Thus says Abraham your servant, Lord, Lord, in every work and word which I have asked of you you have heard me, and hast fulfilled all my counsel.
Now, Lord, I resist not your power,…
Have I not been telling you that death is agreement? If you are in right standing with God, you must reason with God concerning your departure.
Even if a Prophet will say, “I tell you, Thus saith the LORD, you will die this year”, tell him, “I have heard you. Go and tell the LORD, I will not die. He will tell me the reason why I will die. I am not accepting it. Tell the LORD I said that I reject it.” Period!
But when you begin to announce your death, you have agreed. You will die. You can even publish your obituary before the day you will die. God forbid that heathens will tell Me the day I will die. God forbid that heathens will publish My obituary while I am alive.
If God wants Me to die and he will have to reveal to Me that I will die, He knows where to go. He cannot go to the heathens to come and tell Me, “They are posting My posters here and there.” Will I accept it? Is it ever done?
There were too many heathens around. The LORD said, “Now, go to his son, Isaac. Reveal it to him that his father is coming home. His mother is coming home.”
He did not say, “Go to their in-laws. Go to this and go to that, and reveal.” So do not listen to such gimmicks. Let not the heathens announce your departure or tell you to prepare that you are going away.
What agreement has he that believed in God with a heathen? An infidel? Even if they tell you they saw a vision or their pastor said, that is their own pastor. That is their prophet. It is not your own.
Look at Abraham. He enquired, “O, the chiefest of all the angels, Michael. Who sent you to me? Whose instruction are you executing.”
How can you come to THE SON OF MAN and tell Me, “Your pastor in Odoziobodo…. Your pastor in Christ true mission… Your pastor in Grace of God… Your pastor in one prayer house….”
You are telling THE SON OF MAN. Will the LORD do a thing in the city and hide from Abraham? What are we talking about? To God be the Glory.
The references can be found in [1] Genesis 18:17 – 18. ¹⁷And the LORD said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do; ¹⁸Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him? KJV
[2] Amos 3:7 Surely the LORD God will do nothing without revealing His secret to His servants the Prophets. AMP
There is nothing Abraham will request and God will not honour it. There was no request Moses made that God never honoured until the uncertainties of the end of their lives. That was the only place where problem ensued.
It was not a problem. God wanted them to come home and rest from their labour. But they were saying that they were not tired of labouring.
God asked Abraham, “Why are you rebelling with My instruction?” Abraham insisted and said, “Go and tell Him that I resist. I am not coming home yet.” The same way he was resisting his own, he was resisting that of Sarah.
…for I too know that I am not immortal but mortal. Since therefore to your command all things yield, and fear and tremble at the face of your power, I also fear, but I ask one request of you, and now, Lord and Master, hear my prayer, for while still in this body I desire to see all the inhabited earth, and all the creations which you established by one word,… All He established by what? by one word, and when I see these, then if I shall depart from life I shall be without sorrow.
So the chief-captain went back again, and stood before God, and told him all, saying, Thus says your friend Abraham, I desired to behold all the earth in my lifetime before I died.
Can you imagine? If I were in his shoes, I will pray that I should not see death, and become number one that will be translated into glory before Enoch and Elijah.
But he has now accepted that he will die like mortals, but only on one condition. And that condition is that he will see the end from the beginning. What am I going to use it for?
And the Most High hearing this, again commanded the chief-captain Michael, and said to him, Take a cloud of light, and the angels that have power over the chariots, and go down, take the righteous Abraham upon a chariot of the cherubim, and exalt him into the air of heaven that he may behold all the earth.
Is that not what he wanted? Sight-seeing!
¹⁰And the archangel Michael went down and took Abraham upon a chariot of the cherubim, and exalted him into the air of heaven, and led him upon the cloud together with sixty angels, and Abraham ascended upon the chariot over all the earth.
And Abraham saw the world as it was in that day, some ploughing, others driving wagons, in one place men herding flocks, and in another watching them by night, and dancing and playing and harping, in another place men striving and contending at law, elsewhere men weeping and having the dead in remembrance.
He saw also the newly-wedded received with honor, and in a word he saw all things that are done in the world, both good and bad. Abraham therefore passing over them saw men bearing swords,…
And this was the condition for which God caused Noah to build the Ark, for the world was filled with wickedness and violence; all forms of immoralities and lawlessness. See the first world.
Now, this was the sodomite condition. The condition of Sodom and Gomorrah and the condition of the days of Noah. Are we not back to that condition again?
Pay attention. Compare that horrible condition before the LORD destroyed the wicked with our own day today. The days of THE SON OF MAN. And then check Scriptures and prophecies.
Where are we Brethren? Where are we? I came according to Prophecy. I came according to time. I came according events, for events are made clear by prophecy.

……The adorning of the Bride is the responsibility of the Bridegroom. I have to dictate the choice of the material you put on. The way I want you to appear is the way you are going to appear. After all you are going to stay with Me, not with any other person. Any other person is a spectator. At the end of the day, you will go home with Me. I have adorned you in a manner that is pleasing to Me. In other words, all these years, God has been aiming at forcing the Bride to agree and submit herself to the point of being completely dependent on the Bridegroom.

– THE SON OF MAN –

ASSURANCE OF SALVATION; Preached on 7^th March 1999; Pg. 36 vs. 42 – 43

I AM THE JUDGE OF ALL

testament of Abraham; Version 1; Paragraph 10. ¹⁰And the archangel Michael went down and took Abraham upon a chariot of the cherubim, and exalted him into the air of heaven, and led him upon the cloud together with sixty angels, and Abraham ascended upon the chariot over all the earth.

And Abraham saw the world as it was in that day, some ploughing, others driving wagons, in one place men herding flocks, and in another watching them by night, and dancing and playing and harping,… [Merriment! Enjoyment!]
…in another place men striving and contending at law, elsewhere men weeping and having the dead in remembrance.
He saw also the newly-wedded received with honor, and in a word he saw all things that are done in the world, both good and bad.
Abraham therefore passing over them saw men bearing swords, wielding in their hands sharpened swords, and Abraham asked the chief-captain, Who are these?
The chief-captain said, These are thieves, who intend to commit murder, and to steal and burn and destroy. Descendants of Cain.
Abraham said, Lord, Lord, hear my voice, and command that wild beasts may come out of the wood and devour them. And even as he spoke there came wild beasts out of the wood and devoured them.
And he saw in another place a man with a woman committing fornication with each other, and said, Lord, Lord, command that the earth may open and swallow them, and straightway the earth was cleft and swallowed them.
And he saw in another place men digging through a house, and carrying away other men’s possessions, and he said, Lord, Lord, command that fire may come down from heaven and consume them. And even as he spoke, fire came down from heaven and consumed them.
And straightway there came a voice from heaven to the chief-captain, saying thus, O chief-captain Michael, command the chariot to stop, and turn Abraham away that he may not see all the earth, for if he behold all that live in wickedness, he will destroy all creation.
For behold, Abraham has not sinned, and has no pity on sinners, but I have made the world, and desire not to destroy any one of them, but wait for the death of the sinner, till he be converted and live.
But take Abraham up to the first gate of heaven, that he may see there the judgments and recompenses, and repent of the souls of the sinners that he has destroyed.
¹¹So Michael turned the chariot and brought Abraham to the east, to the first gate of heaven; and Abraham saw two ways, the one narrow and contracted, the other broad and spacious, and there he saw two gates, the one broad on the broad way, and the other narrow on the narrow way.
And outside the two gates there he saw a man sitting upon a gilded throne, and the appearance of that man was terrible, as of the Lord.
And they saw many souls driven by angels and led in through the broad gate, and other souls, few in number, that were taken by the angels through the narrow gate.
And when the wonderful one who sat upon the golden throne saw few entering through the narrow gate, and many entering through the broad one, straightway that wonderful one tore the hairs of his head and the sides of his beard, and threw himself on the ground from his throne, weeping and lamenting.
But when he saw many souls entering through the narrow gate, then he arose from the ground and sat upon his throne in great joy, rejoicing and exulting.
And Abraham asked the chief-captain, My Lord chief-captain, who is this most marvelous man, adorned with such glory, and sometimes he weeps and laments, and sometimes he rejoices and exults?
The incorporeal one said: This is the first-created Adam who is in such glory, and he looks upon the world because all are born from him, and when he sees many souls going through the narrow gate, then he arises and sits upon his throne rejoicing and exulting in joy, because this narrow gate is that of the just, that leads to life, and they that enter through it go into Paradise.
For this, then, the first-created Adam rejoices, because he sees the souls being saved.
But when he sees many souls entering through the broad gate, then he pulls out the hairs of his head, and casts himself on the ground weeping and lamenting bitterly, for the broad gate is that of sinners, which leads to destruction and eternal punishment.
And for this the first-formed Adam falls from his throne weeping and lamenting for the destruction of sinners, for they are many that are lost, and they are few that are saved, for in seven thousand there is scarcely found one soul saved, being righteous and undefiled.
¹²While he was yet saying these things to me, behold two angels, fiery in aspect, and pitiless in mind, and severe in look, and they drove on thousands of souls, pitilessly lashing them with fiery thongs. The angel laid hold of one soul, and they drove all the souls in at the broad gate to destruction.
So we also went along with the angels, and came within that broad gate, and between the two gates stood a throne terrible of aspect, of terrible crystal, gleaming as fire, and upon it sat a wondrous man bright as the sun, like to the Son of God.
Before him stood a table like crystal, all of gold and fine linen, and upon the table there was lying a book, the thickness of it six cubits, and the breadth of it ten cubits, and on the right and left of it stood two angels holding paper and ink and pen.
Before the table sat an angel of light, holding in his hand a balance, and on his left sat an angel all fiery, pitiless, and severe, holding in his hand a trumpet, having within it all-consuming fire with which to try the sinners.
The wondrous man who sat upon the throne himself judged and sentenced the souls, and the two angels on the right and on the left wrote down, the one on the right the righteousness and the one on the left the wickedness.
The one before the table, who held the balance, weighed the souls, and the fiery angel, who held the fire, tried the souls.
And Abraham asked the chief-captain Michael, What is this that we behold? And the chief-captain said, These things that you see, holy Abraham, are the judgment and recompense.
And behold the angel holding the soul in his hand, and he brought it before the judge, and the judge said to one of the angels that served him, Open me this book, and find me the sins of this soul.
And opening the book he found its sins and its righteousness equally balanced, and he neither gave it to the tormentors, nor to those that were saved, but set it in the midst.
¹³And Abraham said, My Lord chief-captain, who is this most wondrous judge? And who are the angels that write down? And who is the angel like the sun, holding the balance? And who is the fiery angel holding the fire?
The chief-captain said, Do you see, most holy Abraham, the terrible man sitting upon the throne? This is the son of the first created Adam, who is called Abel, whom the wicked Cain killed, and he sits thus to judge all creation, and examines righteous men and sinners. For God has said, I shall not judge you, but every man born of man shall be judged.
Therefore he has given to him judgment, to judge the world until his great and glorious coming, and then, O righteous Abraham, is the perfect judgment and recompense, eternal and unchangeable, which no one can alter.
God judgeth no man, but has committed judgment into the hands of our fellow man, for He is the son of man.
For every man has come from the first-created, and therefore they are first judged here by his son,… First Adam. Second Adam. They are judged by who? …by his son, [Sure!!!] and at the second coming they shall be judged by the twelve tribes of Israel, [Sure!!!] every breath and every creature.
But the third time they shall be judged by the Lord God of all,… Those who died in the law shall be judged by the law. Those who died in the grace shall be judged by the grace. Then at the end, there is the Judge of all.
¹If you died without the law, you will be judged without the law. ²If you died under the law, you will be judged by the law. ³Then, those who will die under grace, they will be judged by grace. Three judgments.
[1] Those that died without the law, shall be judged without the law, for the law is in their hearts and in their consciences. [2] Those that died under the law, the Torah will judge them all. [3] Those that died under grace, grace will judge them all. Three judgments.
And that grace is grace and truth. I am the Way. I am the Truth. I am the Way. No man cometh to the Father, but by Me, for the Father judgeth no man, but has committed judgment into the hand of his dear Son, for He is THE SON OF MAN.
The first son created by God was Adam. From that day, judgment was committed into the hands of the firstborn among many Brethren. Did you get the Message? Did you get the Message?
John 5:22, 27 ²²For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son: ²⁷And hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man. KJV
Romans 8:29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. KJV
That is why He is here and will rest at nothing until the whole human race; the entire earth is judged. And He will usher in an everlasting rule of righteousness.
And the kingdom of this wicked world will become the Kingdom of God and His people.
…and then, indeed, the end of that judgment is near, and the sentence terrible, and there is none to deliver.
And now by three tribunals the judgment of the world and the recompense is made, and for this reason a matter is not finally confirmed by one or two witnesses, but by three witnesses shall everything be established.
The two angels on the right hand and on the left, these are they that write down the sins and the righteousness, the one on the right hand writes down the righteousness, and the one on the left the sins.
The angel like the sun, holding the balance in his hand, is the archangel, Dokiel the just weigher, and he weighs the righteousnesses and sins with the righteousness of God.
The fiery and pitiless angel, holding the fire in his hand, is the archangel Puruel, who has power over fire, and tries the works of men through fire, and if the fire consume the work of any man, the angel of judgment immediately seizes him, and carries him away to the place of sinners, a most bitter place of punishment.
But if the fire approves the work of anyone, and does not seize upon it, that man is justified, and the angel of righteousness takes him and carries him up to be saved in the lot of the just.
And thus, most righteous Abraham, all things in all men are tried by fire and the balance.
¹⁴And Abraham said to the chief-captain, My Lord the chief-captain, the soul which the angel held in his hand, why was it adjudged to be set in the midst?
The chief-captain said, Listen, righteous Abraham. Because the judge found its sins and its righteousnesses equal, he neither committed it to judgment nor to be saved, until the judge of all shall come.
Abraham said to the chief-captain, And what yet is wanting for the soul to be saved? The chief-captain said, If it obtains one righteousness above its sins, it enters into salvation.
That is if you can have faith as little as a mustard seed. That is all that is needed. The vilest offender has hope, if he or she can have faith in Christ and develop that faith just like the size of a mustard; a grain of sand. It does not require something like a building or a giant tree as faith.
Simple Faith. Simple obedience. But it is very difficult. WITH OUR MOUTHS, WE PROFESS FAITH, BUT WITH OUR ACTIONS, WE NULLIFY FAITH. With our hearts, we slaughter faith.
Do you think it is easy to have faith like a mustard seed? The LORD Jesus upbraided the Apostles calling them “Ye men of little faith. Why can you not have faith like a mustard seed?”
THIS IS BECAUSE WHEN THE HEART IS NOT CONVERTED, FAITH IS STILL FAR AWAY.