The True vs. The False.
BEHOLDING UNVEILED
I was
inspired by the Seven Spirits of God to produce this article, following
questions that had come up during a Sunday school session which I had lead. The
questions had revolved around what the dividing line between true and false
prophets lies. The night of the beginning of the writing of this revelation
truth, the Ancient of Days visited me and picked me up in a sofa (couch), which
symbolizes His throne, and rode me up to the peak of a mountain.
By this revelation I perceived that the father was
endorsing the truth contained in this article, because divine truth can only be
heard on top of the mountain, in other words
referred to by Jesus as the housetop. Mountain top or housetop means the
highly elevated Spiritual mind of God. Therefore, if you open your heart to the
truth revealed in this writing, you will most certainly be visited by the
Ancient of Days and your life will be affected with spiritual healing in your seeing
and understanding. Amen.
To begin with let’s have a look at the following
scripture, as it will serve as the axis around which our considerations
revolve.
Isa 7:15 Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse
the evil, and choose the good.
Falsehood or evil, as coined by the prophecy of
Isaiah, is not the result of an action a person carries out but, rather, a
state of consciousness. If it’s a state of consciousness or recognition or then
it’s a state of being. We can affirm this on the basis of the bible’s statement
that says, “ as a man thinks in his heart, so is he. Evil, for that matter, in
the righteous recognition or understanding of God the father, is not the same thing
as humans understand it to mean. Evil is the mistaken perception of who we
really are.
Death is the result of manipulations: In
the gospels brother Jesus made a profound statement, whose spiritual
implication must be understood from a spiritual point of view. Unfortunately,
the interpretation of truth coming from the Spirit is largely handled incompetently
by the body of Christ, so we miss out on an enormous proportion of the father’s
communication to us. There is no wonder nothing is happening in the churches.
The church is a quasi dead entity. Until we are able to receive truth from the
Spirit of life, we can’t be alive ourselves! All there will be is the fruit of
our survival manipulations, which is death, because what a man sows is what he
reaps. If we operate on the principles of manipulation, we will reap the fruit
of manipulation. If we sow to the wind, we will reap the whirlwind. If we sow
to the flesh, we will reap the cursed thing. Joseph, the son of Heli, of the
house of David, fathered Jesus after the flesh, then Joseph of Arimathaea,
picked him up and put in the grave. In the beginning, a Joseph symbolically
birthed the fleshly Jesus and, in the end, a Joseph reaped the fleshly Jesus
that was meant to return to the dust. The fleshly Jesus was a cursed thing,
because he hanged on a tree.
Not only did Jesus himself know this, but he knew also
that the cursed thing, which he had become in his humanity, could not be
preserved. When Peter thought he was helping Jesus to preserve the
non-conservable, by talking him out the idea of going to the cross, Peter
received a rebuke and was labeled Satan, who didn’t know the things that
pertain to God, but things that pertain to men. Men manipulate to survive, but
in God, we don’t survive, we live!
When Jacob
manipulated Esau and ripped him off his birthright, because that was what he
thought he lacked and desperately needed, he in turn was manipulated by Laban,
the father-in law. Judas thought his real need was money so he applied the
survival law of manipulation to obtain financial advantage. But then he reaped
death as a result of his manipulative tendencies.
Most of what is happening in the body today is
manipulation of innocent men with the Jesus of the flesh, which goes into the
tomb. If Jesus that hanged on the tree is their choice, then they can’t have
the Christ that lives eternally. Until the people of the kingdom understand
that God is calling us to inherit life and living, they will continue to try to
preserve the unpreservable – the human life. Our humanity is decaying and
corruptible.
However, let’s see what Jesus said:
John 5:22 For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all
judgment unto the Son: KJV
Judgment
in God’s eyes is not the passing of verdict: What
does this statement mean? Well, for us to have an understanding of this
Spiritual truth that brother Jesus is communicating to us here, we must allow
the Spirit of God to dissolve our carnal; our traditional; our conventional
understanding of the concept judgment. In our Pentecostal understanding of
judgment we liken it to meaning God
passing verdict on our behavior. We think of it as all men appearing before
Jesus in the same way that people appear before a judge in a law court in the
natural. Then Jesus classifying all our human conducts under two categories of
good conduct and evil conduct. Then he telling us to go to one destination if
our bad conduct outweighs the good one, and the other way round. This is the
carnal understanding of men of the concept judgment. But you know what? This is
false and, as such, this carnal interpretation of the concept must give way to
true illumination not only for us to understand the spiritual implication of
such a spiritual piece of communication as this, but also to be able to receive
all truths from the Spirit. Having said this though, the question then is what
does the statement above mean then?
It plainly implies that God doesn’t view man in his
state as a human, but rather as the seed of Christ, which man has actually always
truly been before the foundation of the world. In effect, we are affirming that
God sees all men through His Christ. He doesn’t see men in their humanity. He
is not interested in humanity, because that is not His world. That is not His
nature. His righteous eyes penetrate the carnal formation of man to see only
His Christ in all men. Hence, Jesus’ affirmation that His father doesn’t see
men in their sinful, miserable decayed state. (“my father judges no man.”
Judgment here means perception.) He just sees the perfect seed of the son in
man. “My father has committed all judgment to the son.” This is the meaning of
the passage above. If you perceive the heartbeat of the father this way, it
will guarantee you peace, because this is the wisdom of God. If the word or the
understanding of the word doesn’t give you peace, don’t take it in! It’s not
from the father of love, no matter who interprets it!
The
universe of God; the realm or dimension of God, where He dwells and from where
he acts and has His being, and from which He derives His good pleasure, is not the world and its
activities; it’s not the fruit and product of the mindset and the wisdom of
this age, but rather that which existed
before the world began. Jesus once said, “ the devil comes but he has no part
in me.” Why could he make such a sweeping statement? Because that which came
after the truth, which is the image and mindset of Christ is “the lie.” Therefore Jesus was saying
that if he was not influenced by the carnal perception of men- the world- then the activities of that reality hold no
stake on him. Sickness had no hold on him. Lack laid no claims on him. Anxiety,
tribulation and fear did not rule over him, because these are fruit of the
world – the human mental formation.
The
Image of Christ existed first in the person of Adam, then the carnal mind or
the serpent mind, also referred to as death or most appropriately the world, came
in when Adam opened up to it in fellowship.
So we see that the world came after Christ - the Truth. Therefore the “world,”
which we now understand to mean a state of death and corruptibility of man’s
spiritual mind, is “the lie” – the
Adamic nature or the old man of sin.
Let’s
repeat this louder and clearer: the world began when Adam, who was in the image
of the father and the son, placed in the bosom or the mind of God moved out of
his Christ consciousness to fellowship with the debased earthly, corruptible
and temporal order. This is what God calls the serpent; the wisdom of this age;
death; sin; the evil; the transgression or, simply put, the world.
So
not only do we understand that the world doesn’t mean a cosmic or geographical
reality, but a spiritual state of mind, but we also see that the world has a
beginning. It
has a history, but that which existed before the world began has no history.
The seed of Christ in you, be you a Muslim be you a Buddhists, be you a Jew, be
you a pagan or a Christian you have this seed in you. Now upon the basis of
this truth, brother Paul Boldly declares:
Col
1:26-27 26 Even the mystery which hath been hid from
ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints: 27 To whom
God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the
Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: KJV
Brother
Paul could not have been any clearer about the fact that the mystery of our
being Christ, kept hidden from our veiled understanding, has now been
demystified through the power of the gospel.
If
only you can hear the voice of the Spirit from this truth, then the world has
come to an END on YOU! Your idea of
a cosmic catastrophe is an illusion and false prophesy. It stems from the
darkened mind of the world – the Spiritually veiled mind:
Fallen Adam doesn’t know God: The problem is we don’t perceive that fallen Adamic is not our origin.
We are of Christ, the Truth, who existed
and exists in eternity. This is our true identity. The mind crowded over with
an earthly, carnal and human self perception is a mind that is still nurtured
by the world, but the world is enmity with God who is our original and true
identity. This is the mind of Adam in the fall, and fallen Adam doesn’t know
God. The human and natural identity we were born into and have been made to
understand to be our identity is actually a mistaken identity. It is the fallen
and debased Adamic identity. This nature is false. This identity is ruled and
governed by the law of sin and death. No matter how much he tries; no matter how godly he tries to be; no matter
how much he goes to church, fasts and have all-night prays, this nature can’t
be made to conform to the nature of Christ, because this identity of Christ is
governed by another life law which is the law of the Spirit of life.
This
Adamic identity is what Isaiah called the lie, the false or the evil about which
he was prophesying. Let’s read it again:
Isa 7:15 Butter and honey shall he
eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
There
are no human Christians: Shall we be aware that when
God made prophetic declarations through his prophets, though they may seem to
be speaking about events relating to the time they lived in, their ultimate
implications are purely spiritual and must, therefore, be discerned as such. So if we disregard the varying opinions of bible
commentators and so-called theologians of the implication of this prophecy to
King Ahaz, we will be faced with a prophetic communication about the Messiah.
Jesus was revealed to instruct us about who we really
are in the eternal father. All he did and said was the reflection of our life. For
instance His descent from the heights of heaven reveals our descent from the
bosom of the father where we the morning stars were and where we sang together and
all the angels shouted for joy. Secondly, Christ’s conformation to flesh and
blood or his being born of flesh and blood speaks of our assumption or marking
and spotting ourselves with flesh and blood, the placing of a false identity on
us. Not that if we think that we were born or generated out of sperm and egg,
then we can,t even think of ourselves as good, because humanity is not good. We
can’t think of ourselves as Christians, because there aren’t human Christians. Jesus’
baptism in the Jordan depicts our renunciation and shedding off of the human and mistaken identity that entrapped
us in our conformation. His death on the cross teaches us how the Adamic
nature; the abomination that causes desolation spoken about by Daniel; the
dragon Leviathan spoken of by Job must finally be renounced and eventually
annihilated by the appearing of His
cross. His resurrection reveals to us the merging of the new man of the Spirit;
the Lazarus from the tomb; the Noah from the Ark, the Peter from Herod’s Jail;
the Second Adam rising from the east etc.
The only one who has maintained his garment pure or
His true godliness or Godlikeness of God
consciousness is Christ the son, no one else. Christ is the only one who never
forgot about his never-changing state of righteousness, so making him the only
one qualified to remind us of and lead us to the lost paradise.
There is an insight into this truth in the testimony
of the messenger from heaven about the son in the book of Daniel, in a
conversation that the Man from Heaven - the father God - had with Daniel. Let’s
read it together:
Dan 10:21 21 But I will shew thee that which is noted in the scripture
of truth: and there is none that holdeth with me in these things, but
Michael your prince.KJV
Christ
never forgot to drink his milk: This is the good that
Emmanuel chose. He says, “no one supported me in the maintenance of the
consciousness of their righteous and immaculate image, except Michael. Michael
here refers to the one from above, the Christ. Someone might say, “isn’t
Michael an angel?” Yes, he is! But who
is an angel, if not that self same Christ expressed in several forms and
attributes? Let us understand that when an angel appears, Christ has appeared
and when Christ appears angles have appeared.
Christ and God and we, the saints, are not separate individuals, we are
the same eternal father expressed in several manifestations.
This is what Isaiah said Jesus in his human formation
or entrapment would learn to choose to maintain. This is the truth it was said
he would maintain – his true, divine and immaculate consciousness. This is the
first state he chose to stick to. This is the garment he determined to keep
spotless. This is the milk he never forgot to drink or the butter he always
ate. This is the light body he refused to subject to the dark covering of the ignorance
of the world. This is the truth about us
that he came to bear witness to or wake us up to. This is what made Him the true prophet. He professed what he is and what he knows and
teaches us the same. “Listen to him,” the father said. He promoted the voice of
God; the breath of the one who lives forever; the eternity which has always
been deposited in the heart of all men, the Christ within.
We see for that matter that a true prophet is the one
who has understanding of his divine origin in the Eternal father and not only
walks in this knowledge but also teaches others to walk in this revelation of
their true self, until they see the Son fully manifested in them. These are
true prophets! These are the ones who wait patiently and in continuity until
“the crop is produced” in them! When Jesus fed the five thousand, he look up in
heaven, broke the bread and gave it to the disciples and they in turn passed it
on to the people. There is a divine prophetic order and communication in that
gesture.
The
sleepy doesn’t know their identity: Jonah
dramatized this truth in his ordeal as a fugitive from the presence of the
Living father. Actually, Jonah’s experience was nothing but the gospel being
preached to us in that dramatization. Let’s read a portion it together:
Jonah
1:8-9 So they asked him, "Tell us, who is
responsible for making all this trouble for us? What do you do? Where do you come
from? What is your country? From what people are you?"
In this prophetic picture the father is projecting
your life and mine in that episode about what happens to us when we are asleep
and dead to the consciousness of our true identity in Him. In our sleep and
deadness of our humanity we are not aware of who we really are and, as a
result, we are plunged in at the deep end of the abyss of death and rottenness.
We are caught up in the storms and tempest of life. This tempests manifest in
the form of beliefs, cultures, traditions, doctrines and philosophies of men.
All we see is mirage, illusion and dreamlike images. We are in a state of
hypnotism. It is an appearance but it doesn’t exist as a reality. Even what
educational institutions establish and promote that seem to be well settled
with men and from which men derive their
prestige, self-worth and self-esteem, is
far from what it truly takes for the Spirit to reveal this Mystery of godliness
to us. We live in a state of survival where we struggle. Anyone who struggles
knows no rest. In our humanity we are not acquainted with the rest of the
father.
As brother Paul rightly puts it, lack of
knowledge of this truth about our origin in God reduces us to infants, tossed
back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of
teaching, beliefs and religion and by the cunning and craftiness of men in
their deceitful scheming.
While Jonah was lying in the depth of the belly of the
ship he was not conscious of his identity as a Hebrew. Was he?. He gained
consciousness of this truth of himself only when he was awake. Then and only
then was he able to affirm and reaffirm his Israelite identity; his being of
the Hebrew stock; his being the worshipper of the Lord, the God of heaven, who
made the sea and the land.
But you see, the dawning of this awareness is only the
beginning of an upward journey. Successively, you need to walk out of it. When
the father brings illumination into you understanding, you will have to
gradually walk away from the religious systems of men; away from the world of
illusion and shadows. You’ll have to back out of the age-old lies and falsehood
being promoted by the systematized so-called theological machine spread through
the surface of the globe. It is a bunch of ignorance and lies. They will plunge
you in the abyss of never-ending confusion and guilt. They will rip you off your
peace and rest of the Lord. It is a system that knows only the things of men,
not of God. This system doesn’t know the father. If it knew Him, they would
know themselves.
For as long as you stay stuck to the world fuelled by
the carnality of men, where sensuality, psychology, human philosophy and
psychic operate, you will always be acquainted with tribulation. The tempest
will not cease unless we let go of the old and embrace the new. So Jonah said, “throw
me out of here!” And no sooner had they thrown him overboard than the tempest
ceased.
Give
to Caesar what is due him,…: Remember that Jonah had
willingly sold out his liberty of the father in exchange for the world. In
fact, we read that he paid the fare of the voyage and then joined them on the
ship. How do you read this prophetically? Was it not the same act that Adam had
done? Adam had sold out his life and identity of light and life; his life and
immortality in exchange for death and corruptibility. As Adam professed the evil,
the false and renounced the good, so did Jonah in the dramatization of the
gospel message. If the image on your coin is Caesar’s, then give to him what
belongs to him. But the image of the father is on our forehead, let’s give that
to him.
But watch out! Evidently, this prophesy was fulfilled
in Jesus Christ, Emmanuel- God with us. But who is Jesus and why was he
revealed? Most certainly, and without any controversy, He was revealed in order
to reflect our life as it is seen by and known to God. The life of Christ is
our life we were born into but we forgot. It was covered over by the fruit of
the knowledge of good and evil. We lost consciousness of this life. We sold out
our ability to making a righteous judgment and rather acquired evil judgment
competency. That facets of light called revelation which emanates from the
light body we have, also called the
righteousness of the saints, doesn’t reach our consciousness anymore. It has
been darkened by shadowy perception of human reasoning. In that darkened perception and understanding
of ours we could only have a vague and distorted perception of God; all we see
is illusion and dream-like forms, not the true substance of truth which is the
I AM GOD. But we still have that light body hidden in us all the same, because
eternity or God’s kind of life is, in any case, in the heart of all men. In
that state we can only feel and hear Him in a distance and distorted form, but
we can see him, because we are blind. Because the false has come between us the
I Am. Jesus said to the devil, “get behind me, Satan.”
If
you think God is one thing and you another, that is sin: On the whole we are driving home the fact that if this prophesy referred
to Christ, then we are the object of it too. As He is, so we are! You might
say, Hey, brother Jonas, that is blasphemous; you are trying to be God!”
Well, if there
is anything blasphemous and abominable with men, it is the thought that men
have a life independent of God. It is the notion that God is one thing and we
are another. The thought that we are separate beings from the father is in
itself sinful. In fact, in the eyes of the father that is the only sin that
ever existed with men. Jesus would not have been revealed if we were not an
integral and inseparable part of him.
Well, if we have got this out of the way, who then can
choose the good and renounce the evil. How do you know to choose the first and
reject the last? How do you profess the truth and refute the lie? Let’s read
our scriptural passage of Isaiah’s prophesy once again:
The character of the law of survival is
repetitiveness: Isaiah says, “butter and honey shall
He eat!” We have already established that this prophesy of Isaiah’s had its
ultimate fulfillment in Christ. What then is the spiritual meaning of butter
and honey that He Christ will feed on? To answer this question we need to go
back to the beginning, when God asked the Israelites to leave Egypt and go to
the promised land. We remember that in the descriptive characteristics of the promised
land, they were made to understand that the land flowed with milk and honey. Well, butter is Isaiah’s interpretation of
milk. So, in effect, he was saying that Jesus would drink milk and honey.
Well, the true concept of the promised land will not
be fully understood until we understand that the Exodus, as in many other
episodes, was another dramatization of the gospel. Egypt represented the world,
the carnal mentality of humans¸ the corruptibility and death.
The promised land instead represented the highly elevated dimension of
the father. It represented the illumed and purely spiritual understanding that the Holy Spirit
grants to the ones who are awake in Him in their consciousness. It symbolized
the new world and new spiritual order we wake up to when the Spirit of God
resurrects us from the deadness and darkness and causes old things or old and
false understanding of things to pass away, making all things new. Behold He
makes all things new.
We also note that the promised land itself was
dominated by enemies. In fact, while the Israelites remained in Egypt the
promised land always had its characteristics as a land flowing with milk and
honey, and yet it was inhabited by the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites,
Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites.
Can you
perceive that God was speaking a spiritual language in his reference to the
enemies dwelling on the land? There are six of them and six is the numerical
representation of humanity, carnality, ignorance, spiritual blindness, what
have you? So we see milk and honey was covered
over by a six-nation enemy – humanity.
Furthermore, we see at the wedding in Cana that there
were six water pots holding water for purification. This prophetically
symbolized the only human, earthly and imperfect life ever known to these
people. it was a world of struggles for survival. This explains the reason for
the continuous cleansing practice, because the character of the law of survival
is repetitiveness. But when Jesus appeared on the scene, undoubtedly
orchestrated by His father, he had to communicate to them, through the water
turned into wine, that it was only the life He gave that could restore the
perfection buried under the debris of their humanity. In fact the master of the
wedding ceremony and the people marveled at the excellent taste of the wine
Jesus had produced.
And again Jesus made a prophetic revelation about the
Samaritan woman at Jacob’s well at Sychar. Let’s read it together:
John
4:17-18 Jesus said to her, "You are right when
you say you have no husband. 18 The fact is, you have had five husbands, and
the man you now have is not your husband. What you have just said is quite
true." NIV
Note that you don’t have to cease living naturally to
experience this perfect life. It is right here right now! This is the kingdom or
life whose gate Jesus says has been opened and those who can see it are entering
in. Those who can’t perceive this are still waiting for something to happen one
day. The truth is that nothing is going to happen in the future. All that needs
to happen is happening now. Millions have crossed over and are heading towards
the tabernacle, waiting for God to ever-increasingly manifest in them.
Many more are still waiting wallowing in religion,
trying to make Adam conform according to godliness. Adam can’t be Christ. Adam
must die for Christ to fully appear. But religion and the church system is
still courting Adam in the holy place.
Without
honey there can’t be milk: Milk and honey therefore refer
to the pleasures from heaven; the true bread from heaven; the word of life. It
refers to fellowshipping with the voice of life; staying in his presence
beholding His face without the veil of our carnal understanding. This was
referred to by Jesus as the abomination that causes desolation. We need to
acquire new and flesh understanding of the word of truth. The word will also
unveil our true selves to us as we truly are in Him. But we need to eat this butter
and honey. We need to drink this milk and the honey.
For the prophetic representation of milk and honey it
will do us a lot of good to know that there can’t be one without the other.
They are basically the two sides of the same coin.
But what are the characteristic features of these two
food stuff that make them the prefect
conceptual representation of a spiritual thought? Other food items too could have
been suitable to convey the same message and, in fact, they are: vegetables, for instance, was used
in the case of Daniel to denote the wisdom-inducing word of God, when he
prophetically refrained from the king’s food which stood for the wisdom of the
world and lived on only vegetables. This way, he proved to be far wiser than
his contemporaries in the end of the observation period, indicative of the
truth that the word of truth gives us spiritual intelligence we need to go up
the throne where to rule and reign as kings. In the manifold wisdom of God He uses seemly
foolish and base things to put his deep thoughts across. So what about milk and
honey?
Righteousness
feeds our consciousness: There are many reasons why
milk and honey are the choice of the spirit of God to stand for the spiritual
concept that God wants us to grasp. To begin with milk, or butter, which is
derived from milk, can’t be thought to have been considered solely from the point of view of the source
from which it is obtained, thus cow’s, goat’s or sheep’s milk, etc. The source
would rather be a less reliable attribute to consider, given that goat’s milk
was also highly recommended and commonly used, but, actually goats symbolically
represent rebellion. As such we should look at the choice of milk from the
perspective of its property. Milk, and for that matter butter, is a pure and natural
product, which is said to be good for the heart. Now, keep the word “heart” in
mind as we are going to pick it up later.
But if there is any other attribute of milk which
makes the choice of it more probable, it is the rather the banal attribute of its
colour - white! Why? For the same reason why snow is a substance of no eternal
value and yet it is used to denote the covering of the saint – righteousness –
simply for its colour. So in the prophesy of Isaiah, he said the choice food of
Emmanuel would be milk or butter. This means his consciousness would be fed and
energized by the light body which is in the very centre of his being. This
light body is referred to in two different places in the book of revelation
first as “clouds”- white, obviously. this we find in the reference to the
appearing angel that was wearing the cloud in Rev. 10. Then again as the sun,
referring to the pregnant woman clothed with the sun before whom the red dragon
appears, Rev. 12.
But in Daniel chapter
7, in connection with the four-beats out of the sea episode, this is
referred to as the heart of man. That picture is another dramatization of the
spiritual workings of God in us. As Daniel rightly calls it, it is indeed the
heart from which comes the issues of life. If it’s pure, it will produce pure
thoughts. Malachi labels it the “sun of righteousness.” This is the wedding garment of fine linen,
bright and clear, with which we make ourselves ready for the wedding of the
lamb.
Both in the visions of Daniel of the Messenger of God
in Daniel chapter 10 and that of John in Revelation chapter 1, we see the
appearance of Christ in white linen apparel. Ezekiel too saw the same
appearance in his vision. However, that garment is what Isaiah referred to as
milk. Apostle Paul, in his exhortation in Ephesians 6 to the church to dress up
in her spiritual warfare, you notice that he mentions the breastplate of
righteousness. This breastplate of righteousness is the child of God’s
equivalence of Christ’s light body of righteousness represented in the visions
we referred to above.
But why is it
important for us to have this garment of on?
Because this is our source of life. The true substance of the heart is
spiritual, and this is it and here is where it comes from! It is written that the heart must be guarded
with all diligence for out of it flow the issues of life.
This heart; this sun; this cloud; this white linen;
this garment of the saints; this milk, as we have known it by these several
identifications, feeds our God’s consciousness, so that we become spiritually
intelligent, knowing all things that the father knows. But Christ can’t eat
this butter without the honey. This righteousness is activated by something
else. what is the activator?
Truth
is sweet in our mouth: if we have understood the
analysis made of milk, we shouldn’t have much difficulty understanding the
choice of honey. Honey too, as milk, was considered as suitable element
primarily for its sweet taste. Undoubtedly, this stands for the word of truth!
How do we know that word of truth is sweet? We know it because in the book of Revelation
chapter 10 verse 10, we see that the
same angel we saw earlier on wearing the cloud was holding was also holding an
open scroll. The scroll represents the word of truth or the mind of Christ.
There is this voice that cracked from heaven and asked John to go get the
scroll from the angel standing on the sea and on the land and eat it. John did
and, on eating the scroll, the angel said, it would taste sweet like honey in
John’s mouth. In fact, it was so.
But if we disregard the property of taste of honey, we
will be left with the colour, as it is with milk. So what about the colour?
Generally speaking the colour of honey is golden and gold is the earthly
element used to denote eternity or things that last forever pertaining to God.
Now, going back to the visions of the Messenger of God
that was shown to Daniel and that of the Alpha and the Omega shown to John, we
see that Christ was wearing a golden belt around his chest in the version of
Daniel and a golden sash around his waist in that of John. In Paul’s
transformation teaching in Ephesians 6 he makes reference to this belt, which
he calls the belt of truth. On the basis of this understanding, we submit that
honey is a prophetic term to denote truth. Truth is golden which denotes the
truth of God that abides forever.
So it should now be clear when we said that milk and
honey are the two sides of the same coin. There can’t be milk without honey
implies that there can’t be righteousness without truth. Truth generates and
maintains our righteousness. This is why we
notice that the golden belt or sash is over the white robe. The truth of the
eternal word of God that we hear and understand and digest is what produces
righteousness in the child of God. This righteousness, which is the covering of
the saints, is what makes us prepared, qualified and ready for the marriage of
the lamb. This righteousness link to our consciousness, producing the
illumination or the facets of light of God.
This we
understand from the angle wearing a rainbow over his head in Revelation 10, 1.
You will notice that the pregnant woman in Revelation chapter 12 verse 1 is
wearing a twelve-star golden crown on the head. It’s the same thing. They are
two interchangeable elements that denote the same thing – a consciousness
saturated with the light of the knowledge of God.
In conclusion, brethren, we want to say that this is
our calling. To choos ehte good and reject the evil. The gospel is here to build us up spiritually
into the same image, nature and stature of the son of God. But Isaiah said
Emmanuel will eat Butter and Honey
so that he may
know to refuse the evil, and choose the good. Paul says we should
put on the same identity of the heavenly through having our consciousness
energized by the gift of righteousness (the milk or butter) which is generated
by the eternal word of truth( the honey). This is the only way we can know to
reject the false human identity we have put on ourselves (the evil or the
false), and lay hold on our true heavenly image we had in Christ before the
foundation of the world (the good).
God bless you.
Jonas Opoku-Forson.
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