Acts 6:2-3 So the Twelve gathered all the disciples together and said, "It would not be right for us to neglect the ministry of the word of God in order to wait on tables. .
In this articles we are going to have a look at the condition of the body of Christ as the kingdom stands today. To begin with shall we just affirm that if Christ is a Spiritual being, and he is, then his body is too. And if the body of Christ is a spiritual body then logic tells us that it must be fed with food that is compatible with its nature and that is true spiritual food. Attempts to feed a spiritual entity with natural food, either through ignorance or by intention, just can’t work. In fact, it will induce death and rottenness in the body. Let’s carefully consider the following scriptural passage to start with:
John 21:15-18 When they had finished eating, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon son of John, do you truly love me more than these?" "Yes, Lord," he said, "you know that I love you."Jesus said, "Feed my lambs." 16 Again Jesus said, "Simon son of John, do you truly love me?" He answered, "Yes, Lord, you know that I love you." Jesus said, "Take care of my sheep." 17 The third time he said to him, "Simon son of John, do you love me?" Peter was hurt because Jesus asked him the third time, "Do you love me?" He said, "Lord, you know all things; you know that I love you."Jesus said, "Feed my sheep.
In the light of the passage above we see the Lord Jesus underlining a point at issue of apparent great concern and preoccupation to him, and that is the feeding of his flock. As we have pointed out, if Jesus is Spiritual and the flock over which he was expressing his concern is spiritual, then Peter himself, no matter his perception of himself, was spiritual and, in the eyes of the Lord and, for that matter, he, Peter, had potential spiritual capabilities to administer spiritual food to the spiritual flock of the Lord’s. Of course, Jesus’ confrontation or affirmation of Peter’s having to take care of His flock had to be thrice as it turned out to be in order to prophetically denote the importance of the nature of the food with which to feed the nations, and that is life food. This life food is the “Revelation knowledge of the resurrected life of Christ!
So we see that the Lord’s intervention had to be three times as three is the numerical representation of the resurrection. Let me just say that it is of vital importance to get this straight right from the onset that resurrection primarily implies the awakening in our spiritual understanding that the Holy Spirit is bringing into our perception of the mystery of godliness in us, that is of our oneness with the I AM God!
Brother Paul made a serious and revealing statement in the book of 1 Corinthians that must cause everyone in the kingdom to sit up when they read it. Let’s fish it out together:
1 Cor. 4:1-2 So then, men ought to regard us as servants of Christ and as those entrusted with the secret things of God. 2 Now it is required that those who have been given a trust must prove faithful.
Here again in this passage we understand the immensity of the responsibility that God has entrusted into the hands of the church, his body, and that is the ability of men to comprehend the mysteries of the kingdom and faithfully pass it on to the Saints undiluted and uncompromised. But why must faithfulness, continuity or consistency be involved in the handling and administering of the mysteries of the kingdom? Because, on the one hand, “the serpent is more subtle than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made, meaning the tendency of compromising and yielding to the world or walking by the wisdom of this age, which is the carnal perception and interpretation of men of the mind and heart beat of God, is great. On the other hand it is only if we hold out long enough with the purity and quality of the truth as it is revealed to us by the Spirit that we are transformed by the power nested in it and made qualified to sit on his throne, even as He Christ overcame and was given to sit on the throne of the father to rule and reign with Christ in all wisdom and Spiritual understanding.
So what is the spiritual condition of the church like? Is the church being properly fed, or has the serpent managed to sneak into it and climbed up to the high places to lure her with the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil? Has the deceiver entered in possession of the pulpit? If he has, how do we make him out? What does he look like and what voice does he have? What colour does he have, if any? These and many other questions must everyone who stands in the kingdom seeking for perfection and maturity in Him and looking forward to experiencing the manifestation of Christ ask themselves and be sure they have them answered by the Seven Spirits of God. Let’s go looking for clues about that beast that perishes and cause men to have adultery with the evil that causes to perish.
A trip down the old testament will take us to the “ruins” of a spiritual “archeological site” where an event of enormous spiritual importance took place. Among the items that our searchlight is going to focus on is the photograph that will help us see and understand the age-long spiritual condition of the “multitudes walking down the wide road that leads to destruction as against the few who have found the narrow way that leads to life eternal” that brother Jesus talked about in the gospels.
The passage we are about to read is one of everyday reference in the body of Christ and a seeming characteristic of an event of historic cast. But a close look at it with the eye of the spirit will reveal truths of invaluable importance to us today. Actually, it was a projection of a present and continues as well as worrying spiritual state of the church. And by the term church I am referring to the systematized religious and “theological” machine set up all over the place claiming to promote the cause of the kingdom of God but, in reality, they are merely promoting the god of the flesh; the life below; the earthly conversation. In other words they are pushing about the life of the serpent or the Red Dragon.
In the book of first kings we read some eye-opening stuff there. Let’s have a quick look at it:
1 Kings 18:18-21 "I have not made trouble for Israel," Elijah replied. "But you and your father's family have. You have abandoned the Lord's commands and have followed the Baals. 19 Now summon the people from all over Israel to meet me on Mount Carmel. And bring the four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal and the four hundred prophets of Asherah, who eat at Jezebel's table." So Ahab sent word throughout all Israel and assembled the prophets on Mount Carmel. 21 Elijah went before the people and said, "How long will you waver between two opinions? If the Lord is God, follow him; but if Baal is God, follow him."
In the passage above we see how Elijah came out of hiding, after God had ordered him to run away from Jezebel-influenced Ahab, and summoned all the people from all over Israel to mount Carmel. He stated emphatically that this invitation be extended to the four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal and four hundred prophets of Ashera, all of whom ate at the table of Jezebel. Here we see a very plain picture of the church being summoned to the ancient mountains of the Lord. It is composed of the sheep and the shepherds, the Peters; the men unto who the mysteries of God had been entrusted, and the flock of the Lord’s.
Yes, the time of judgment had come; the time for the water from heaven to pour forth was due; the time to quit limping between two opinions was over, it was about time to quit being double-minded, as double-mindedness produces nothing. It was about time to stop being a reed swayed by the wind and stop being men dressed in fine and expensive clothes who indulge in luxury in palaces. The time had come to test those who called themselves prophets to see if their ministry had the approval of God.
Well, we know the unfolding and the end of the story. But we can’t make any meaningful headway towards our prophetic discovery if we don’t discover the true identity of the woman called Jezebel, the woman mentioned in the text above.
Who was Jezebel, the wife of king Ahab, the personality who engineered and spearheaded the promotion and the worship of Baal in Israel, and what was so abominable with the prophets eating at her table in fellowship?
Well, Jezebel was the wife of King Ahab. Yes she was domineering and not only was she the one in control of the nation instead of her husband, but also Ahab’s ungodly ways were, in a large extent, attributable to the presence of Jezebel in the royal palace, seat of Government, power and influence. The reason was that she had widely and extensively promoted the worship of Baal in Israel instead of the God Elijah. But if we disregard this obvious attributes and natural character traits of Jezebel, we will be faced with the most determining spiritual factors about her. In the book of first kings we read the following:
1 Kings 16:30-31 Ahab son of Omri did more evil in the eyes of the Lord than any of those before him. 31 He not only considered it trivial to commit the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, but he also married Jezebel daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and began to serve Baal and worship him.
To begin with, Jezebel was a native of Sidon, one of the twin Roman Phoenician towns, of the tribe of tribe of Aser, near the border with Lebanon. The other town was Tyre. Having said this though, we don’t seem to have revealed much about her until we point out that it was the same area that God had sent Elijah to in connection with the draught, famine and the last-food episode with the widow of Zerephath. This town, called Serapta in the days of Jesus, and now called Surafend, about a mile from the coats and almost midway on the road between Tyre and Sidon was famous for the refining and melting of metals. Zarephath, therefore, has been a reality of great economic importance. Still not much seems to emerge with this information until we link up with more details elsewhere.
But in the aftermath of God’s divine rescue of Peter Herod, out of disappointment, Herod left Judea for Caesarea for a season. Meanwhile, there had been a diplomatic issue going in the Herodian administration over the towns of Tyre and Sidon. There we are with Tyre and Sidon once again. Let’s read it together:
Acts 12:19-20 Then Herod went from Judea to Caesarea and stayed there a while. 20 He had been quarreling with the people of Tyre and Sidon; they now joined together and sought an audience with him. Having secured the support of Blastus, a trusted personal servant of the king, they asked for peace, because they depended on the king's country for their food supply.
Now, in our three references to Tyre and Sidon, each time, we see one identifiable element in connection and that is food. Firstly, we see Jezebel, a native of Sidon, corrupt and control a host of influential prophets with food. Secondly, we see the widow of Zarephath, a town near Tyre and Sidon preparing her last meal for herself and the son and then expecting to wait afterwards for death. Thirdly, we see the people of Tyre and Sidon desperately wanting a peaceful settlement with Herod because they depended on his food supplies.
So what about food? Well, the fact that this territory was associated with food must cause us to raise our spiritual antennas. Jezebel’s father, Ethbaal, apparently was custodian and worshipper of Baal as his name denotes. Being the king of Sidon we perceive him and the entire area to be prophetically representational of the flesh, as food has always been the allegorical representation of the old man of the flesh, the man of sin, the human identity, the earthly and corruption, the life below, the water below, the god of this world, the deadness of our human identity, which must be renounced and put to death on the cross. In fact, this putting away of our earthly identity is what Christ came on earth to show us how to put to death by picking up our cross everyday and following after him.
It’s worth noting, however, that natural food per se is not the problem, but it only represents a spiritual concept and must be perceived as such. Baal and the entire territory of Tyre and Sidon stood for a spiritual condition, and so was Jezebel and the widow of Zarephath. They represented the earthly thought and mindset, which is death and corruption as against the heavenly thought and mindset, the mind of Christ, which is life eternal. Paul had a perfect understanding of this truth when he addressed the Philippians church over this issue: let’s read it together:
Phil 3:17-21 Join with others in following my example, brothers, and take note of those who live according to the pattern we gave you. 18 For, as I have often told you before and now say again even with tears, many live as enemies of the cross of Christ. 19 Their destiny is destruction, their god is their stomach, and their glory is in their shame. Their mind is on earthly things. 20 But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, 21 who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body.
The sharp contrast between the two spiritual realities has been made vividly evident by Paul in his admonition above. There is heavenly conversation identified in this version as the “heavenly citizenship” which, in substance, is known as the mysteries of God or the mind of Christ. This is what brother Paul says has been entrusted to the knowledge and handling of us and which, as servants of God, we must faithfully administer. So why does it call for vigilance and faithfulness in its management? Because there are the enemies of the Cross of Christ, who are up and about like wild Jackals, Paul calls them “your enemy the devil who prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour,” so be self-controlled and alert, waiting to tear apart anything with the appearance of truth. Anyone who preaches pure spiritual truth, much of what you don’t find in our churches anyway, will be labeled heretic.
So who are these enemies of the cross and where do they operate? They operate right from the pulpits of your churches! Are they false and imaginary prophets out there somewhere operating in “false” churches way away from our safe ones? No, sir! They are right there, a short distance away from you. Are they visible to our eyes and audible to our ears? They sure are! You listen to them in church every Sunday and you jump and shout to their eloquent, high sounding and popularly accepted messages! You listen to them on the radio and watch them on the TV. They have big names and speak from high pulpits. They are in America; you find them in Europe; they are widespread in Africa and they are everywhere. They operate in Domes as well as in little Christian gatherings. They crisscrosses the surface of the globe in the name of global evangelism, outreach and missionary works. Then they command huge and little sums of money. They are as close to you as the very clothes you wear. But the thing is that you can only know them by the words of their mouth and, to do that you’ve got to be in the right spiritual realm. You’ve got to be on the side of the God of Elijah to recognize the god of Baal. Let’s read the following passage:
Matt 7:15-20 "Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves. 16 By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? 17 Likewise every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them.
By this revelation from brother Jesus we have an idea about how to look out for the prophets of Baal – he says by their fruit, in other words by what they say, what values they promote, by the content of their message. Be rest assured that fruit has nothing to do with a mode of dressing or preaching. It neither has it to do with the promotion and exhibition of moral, social and humanitarian values. Of course, these are traces of the fruit of the life below.
If we have identified the worship of Baal to mean the upholding and the promotion of the dead and rotten human identity; the promotion of the old man of sin who stands in this holy temple of the Lord which we are; the promotion of the natural and carnal desires of the flesh instead of the spiritual of the spirit, then we can quite easily identify Baal in our churches.
Today, the kingdom has become consultancy centres for career and self enhancement. No sooner has a “man of God” mounted the pulpit than they are beginning to tell the people how God is going to promote their business; how God is going to grant them a life partner or children; how God is going to breakthrough on the finance; how God is going to give them divine strategies for growth and increase; how God is going to cause the riches of the heathen to be poured into their coffers etc. Each time they make utterances it is almost always in relation to God intervening in people’s life in order to improve and enhance the cause of man’s mortal existence. The church perceives Jesus as the son of Joseph in the same way the people of Nazareth did. They have not got the revelation of Jesus the son of God as Peter did. Paul said at one time that not only did we know and perceive men after the flesh, but so did we Jesus too, but now that our mind of understanding has been illumed, our sight of Jesus as well as all men is no longer naturally based.
Each time we quote the widow who gave her two mites we do so to push home the principle of giving and receiving back naturally. Here too, we are always dwelling on how to multiply and increase in earthly goods and riches, so that the natural man is exalted. Their reference to the widow of Zarephat is always in connection with God wanting our last meal so he can multiply it for us forever. They don’t understand the spiritual message of truth in the episode. They can’t perceive with their spiritual understanding that the Father was preaching the gospel them; the gospel of letting go of our earthly life to the God of righteousness and having His eternal life in exchange.
There are people who have built colossal ministries around this theme of giving and receiving which they call the “wisdom of God.” Yes, it does work, because the working of the natural is meant to teach us about the spiritual. Every natural reality has a message of truth in it that God is passing on to men. But people can’t hear. Jesus once said that people have ears but can’t hear, and they have eyes but can’t see, so that they would be healed by Him. The natural is not the end in itself, but rather, a means to the end which is the spirit-life! So if we can’t see the spiritual as the ultimate that the natural is leading us to discover, we will cause havoc to our lives and to that of innocent others. We will be guilty of the same spiritual condition of the people who went to John the Baptists hoping to enter the kingdom and be baptized with the Holy Ghost and fire with the same old mentality based on the mere virtue of their being children of Abraham after the flesh.
2 Corinthians 3:6 He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant- — not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
Brethren, the life we are being called to partake of goes far beyond the satisfaction of the Belly. It far transcends the glories of our businesses and the pride of our boardrooms. Our glamorous clothes and splendid church facilities can’t reveal this life to us . It exceeds names and titles and recognition of this world. These are the glories of the God of Baal we see when Satan takes us up to the peak of the mountain of our human existence! Never ever think that these were addressed to the world outside the church, they are warnings to the church.
Each time you perceive the grace of God as something to pick up and use to command things to fall in place for you to further your cause as a man here on earth, you have not known the God of righteous Elijah. This perception is fueled by the god of Baal. Listen to what is being promoted in the kingdom today and you will be shocked. There is no life substance in it. God is not in the churches. The things we cry to and shout to and praise to and give money to is not God, it’s the god of Baal.
In fact nothing is happening in our churches because the god of Baal doesn’t exist. This is the reason the prophet of Baal desperately cried all day to him but he never showed up, because it was an illusion. Yet, we continue to do all it takes to get people stay stuck to it. Doesn’t the prophetic gesture of the Samaritan woman tell us anything? Why did she leave the pot which was the symbol of the life she’d always known before meeting Jesus? Today when people come to our Churches and they ask to know the God of Elijah, we point them to the table of god of Jezebel. When they come asking for a piece of the living-bread, we wave the bread our fathers ate in the desert and died in their face.
If Jesus came to our gatherings today most of us would run away, we can’t look at him, because we are different from him; we have not been introduced to the true one whose truth is able to transform us into his very image and make us compatible with his nature. We have only been introduced to Jesus the son of Joseph, not the Jesus Peter had a revelation of. When Daniel fasted twenty-one days and saw the Ancient of Days, the two men who were with him heard only the voice of God and that was sufficient to send them running for their life. We love and sing and embrace Jesus the son of man in the sky. If Jesus showed up in our gathering today he would whip us more than he did those merchants and money changers who had defiled the temple.
The world comes into the kingdom hoping to know that the God of Elijah, who is able to take off their spirit of heaviness and put the garment of praise on them, the garment of righteousness waiting for us to discover, as that is what we need to be able split the river Jordan of death and separation and get to the other side where the Chariot of fire is waiting for us, but we point them to the table of Baal where to sit and fellowship with the fifty prophets dressed in expensive clothes sitting in the palaces of compromise and conformity to the word.
When Elijah was sent to the widow of Zarephat it was not to show her and the rest of the kingdom how to have money or food multiplied for her, but rather God was preaching the gospel way back then concerning how the Just would live by faith; how they were going to have to seek the kingdom and its righteousness in order to live the never- ending eternal life of the Jesus.
Unless we are ready to let go of what we call our life – the life of appearance and of time and space; our attachment to this earthly existence thinking that is our life, we shall all likewise perish like beasts. Is that not what Paul said in our quotation above?
Phil. 3,18-19 For, as I have often told you before and now say again even with tears, many live as enemies of the cross of Christ. 19 Their destiny is destruction, their god is their stomach, and their glory is in their shame. Their mind is on earthly things.
Brethren. this is the time to make your choice between God of Elijah and the god of Baal. This is the time to ask yourself; “what am I involved in? What have I been made to understand all this while? Have I only been a poor slave in Babylon? Isn’t it true that I have been told the same stuff over and over without ever having my spiritual eyes open and my comprehension enhanced? Is it not true that I have always pretended to follow on and to like every bit of being part of what I was made to understand constitutes the kingdom, and that I can’t claim to be a manifest son of God? These are questions each one must ask himselvesand ask the father make us understand who we truly are and what he wants you to know.
This is very vital, because it’s your life on the one hand and, on the other, a time is coming and now is that time when every high mountain of men is going to come crashing down by the power of the truth of the word. Nothing of man is going to be left standing.
If fact, the prophets of Baal and those of Ashera numbered nine hundred and fifty. This is a prophetic number for anything which is not eternal. One thousand is the numerical representation of eternity or things that last forever, a time without space or time. The fact that they were less than a thousand meant they would not hang around in that state of ungodliness forever. They were slaughtered by the sword, which stands for the word, and it is by the same word that everything fleshly, human, carnal and temporal is being judged and destroyed. Read about the end of the prophets below:
1 Kings 18:40 Then Elijah commanded them, "Seize the prophets of Baal. Don't let anyone get away!" They seized them, and Elijah had them brought down to the Kishon Valley and slaughtered there.
How did Herod Agrippa end? He was stricken by an Angel and his flesh fed on by worms. Why? Because he spoke the language of the dragon. He spoke the language of Baal. He spoke the language of Jezebel. We read the following in the bible:
Acts 12:21-23 On the appointed day Herod, wearing his royal robes, sat on his throne and delivered a public address to the people. 22 They shouted, "This is the voice of a god, not of a man." 23 Immediately, because Herod did not give praise to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died.
Herod, who was an actor of cause, because these things were natural projections of spiritual truths, which the father was shooting like a movie from inside out for men to see and understand what things are like in the spirit, was representing a situation of the creation being exchanged for the creator; the corruptible being taken for the incorruptible.
Herod’s family had always been the goat fighting the Ram. For instance, Herod the great, the grandfather of Herod Agrippa, had been the one who had ordered the killing of children at the time of the birth of Jesus. He had built the city of Caesarea, where Agrippa died and he too had been eaten up by maggots. His nephew was responsible for the beheading of John the Baptist. The flesh has always warred against the spirit, and the goat will seem to have prevailed over the Ram for a season, but then things will turn around and the Lamb will overcome.
Ahab and Jezebel chased Elijah around for a long time, but in the end they were all put to shame. Let’s see this prophetic projection in the word:
Dan 8:1-4 In the third year of King Belshazzar's reign, I, Daniel, had a vision, after the one that had already appeared to me. 2 In my vision I saw myself in the citadel of Susa in the province of Elam; in the vision I was beside the Ulai Canal. 3 I looked up, and there before me was a ram with two horns, standing beside the canal, and the horns were long. One of the horns was longer than the other but grew up later. 4 I watched the ram as he charged toward the west and the north and the south. No animal could stand against him, and none could rescue from his power. He did as he pleased and became great.
As I was thinking about this, suddenly a goat with a prominent horn between his eyes came from the west, crossing the whole earth without touching the ground. 6 He came toward the two-horned ram I had seen standing beside the canal and charged at him in great rage. 7 I saw him attack the ram furiously, striking the ram and shattering his two horns. The ram was powerless to stand against him; the goat knocked him to the ground and trampled on him, and none could rescue the ram from his power. 8 The goat became very great, but at the height of his power his large horn was broken off, and in its place four prominent horns grew up toward the four winds of heaven.
In this vision of Daniel’s he was shown a version of the activities of condition of the church, as it had been portrayed in the dramatization of the episode involving Elijah and the prophets of Jezebel. We note that Daniel was standing beside the Ulai river, which is the equivalence of the red sea or the river Jordan, where he saw this great scene of a goat charging up against a ram that had been running in all directions. It was running from east to west and from north to south, displaying great strength and power. First and foremost, let’s note that the river Ulai was the emblem of the spiritual separation of death and isolation that had drawn a dividing line between us and the life of God who is our true life. Daniel, like everyone else in the deadness of their humanity, found himself standing at the other side of the river, apparently the eastern side where humanity is, because Daniel says the ram was before him. East stands for the place of death and alienation from the life of God where Jesus came to join us in his humanity. All humanity, in the deadness of their human and carnal formation, are at this end of the river, isolated from the source of eternal life.
The goat is the symbol of the rebellious human nature in man governed by the law of sin and death, which will not submit to the law of the spirit of life of Christ. Not only can’t it, but it can’t be tamed to conform to the nature of Christ either, no matter how much the church tries to make Adam conform to Christ through the preaching of moralistic and humanitarian gospel. Paul said that the Spirit wars against the flesh and the flesh against the spirit. That is the picture vividly seen in this vision of Daniel’s. Adam can’t reform into Christ.
This nature, otherwise called the Adamic nature in all men, must be put to death on the cross of Christ as we listen to truth from above and align our self to it we are, by the power in it, transformed into the very image of Christ.
This goat rises against the ram, the obedient Christ who must rule and reign in the place of the goat which has stood in this temple of God which we are all this while. Although the goat appears to have conquered the ram by the breaking of its horns and trampling him underfoot, if you read on you will discover that the ram will rise again to power and prominence.
This is the church today. There is no faith in the church. There is no Ram in the kingdom of men. Better still, the ram is being chased around and assaulted by the very people brought up out of the great sea by his blood. This is the reason we notice in the text that the goat took a jump off the ground without touching the ground. There is no revelation of Christ on which he builds his own church. Men are trying to build the spiritual church of God with the doctrine of corruptibility. This way, they have defiled it all. There is the law of Moses brought back into the church through the window after God had thrown it out of the door.
This brings us to our opening scripture, and of course the title of this article. In the light of the passage we understand that no sooner had the church been given birth to than the age-old serpent; the age-old red dragon; the enemy of the cross of Christ; the god of Baal; the territorial spirit of Tyre and Sidon, in the form of food, the symbol of fellowship with the earthly and natural life, sneaked in. But thank God that the apostles, men of the spirit unto whom the mysteries of God had been entrusted, spotted the agent of destruction right away and placed him where he belonged.
We sight a profound spiritual insight and prophetic intervention in the problem on the part of the men of God. First they asked to have seven men who had the wings of the great eagle, which means men filled with and lead by spirit, to handle the issue of the administration of food in the church. It had to be seven people, as seven stood for illuminated and men and women of spiritual insight which is the perfection of God.
Then they said; “"It would not be right for us to neglect the ministry of the word of God in order to wait on tables”.
The time is coming and now is that time when men must hear the voice of the Spirit. When the Saints must acquaint themselves with the God of Elijah. The time has come when to work out our salvation with trembling and fear. The high-rising structures and doctrines of men are being exposed to the sword of Elijah. The time has come for the people of the kingdom to start embarking on a true fast as prescribed in Isaiah fifty eight. Isaiah fifty eight is a prophetic concept, it’s not necessarily inviting people to stay away from natural food, though it’s a good practice everyone should undergo. But the true spiritual meaning of this famous fast passage is a call to self denial. To deny ourselves of the mistaken identity we have stuck to and walked in all this while to begin to walk in our true identity in Him. Shall we desert the word of life and serve tables of death and destruction?
God bless you.
Jonas Opoku-Forson
