The Feasts of The Kingdom
1st Session: The Eternal Programme of Salvation - The Kingdom Discourse
The realities as presented in today’s order are to test the strength of men. Fainting in times such as these implies that one's strength is little. Matthew 24 speaks of the beginning of sorrows, which, as opposed to the general notion, is not the kind of sorrow that men can directly relate with, as it has a weighty spiritual connotation.
Matthew 24:3-5, And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world? And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
Every time Jesus engages with men, the focus of His discussion is all about the kingdom of God and His righteousness. Zechariah spoke of the Mount of Olives which is the mount of God; discussions around this mount (Mount Olives) borders about the intention or counsel of the Father. Therefore, whatsoever thing which cannot be found within the confines of the divine counsel or thought of God is a deception. We must know that it is impossible to appropriate divine thoughts through the zeal of man.
Two programmes are on-going these last times; the programme of salvation and the programme of perdition. The end of these programmes on the earth is to reveal two kinds of men - either as the 'man of sin' or the 'man Christ Jesus'. These are also the days when the quality of men’s walk in the faith will be tested. We should know that the greatest issue of man is not any type of virus other than sin.
Being Made Ready for the Lord’s Coming
That which will make men stand these days is a pack of power that men must have access to. The system of Babylon is a cunning craftiness of Satan which he has set up to cause every king of the earth to become drunk. In the programme of the last time, God will remember the iniquity of the system of Babylon. Men will be hastening towards destruction in these last times but we must hasten unto salvation.
God is responsible for supervising the programme of the earth. God wants to ensure everything on the earth is after the order of the man in His thought. The happenings in this recent time are signs that will precede the coming of the Lord because the program of the last days is essentially about the Lord’s coming and about His church. The Lord is coming for the church that has appeared before him without spot or wrinkle.
(Rounding off 1st Session)
Whatever is happening on the face of the earth cannot change the purpose of God but rather further it. In the last time will be a battle for the truth. Our concern should be how we are being built up by truth. When the earth is raised with truth, one might be shaken physically but he will stand immovable. The enemy has a mouth to speak, but God will give us both a mouth and His wisdom - which is Christ.
2nd Session: Requisite for Spiritual Nourishment: The Meat of the Faithfuls
At every season, God’s interest is to nourish the Church; that is His joy. God is both a Father and a husband, with the intention to always send meals in due season, such that the body of Christ will not be malnourished at any time. For instance, Revelation 12:6 speaks of a sort of feeding that birthed the man-child. God is not tired of receiving fruit from His garden (the Church), therefore He will always nourish it (her). There is the nourishment that Christ brings to His house that will bring a great increase. We must strive to be nourished at this time because there is an abundance of food.
Ephesians 5:29 KJV - For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church.
Matthew 24:45-46 KJV - Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season? Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.
Any servant of God that cannot give meat (not milk) in this season is not wise and will not be accounted faithful. As God's servants, we must hasten unto righteousness. A faithful and wise servant is the one that can appropriate meat in due season because meat hastens the coming of the Lord. When meat is being administered, we are calling for the coming of the Lord.
1 Timothy 4:6 KJV - If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained.
Any minister that cannot give faith, sound doctrine or truth in this season is not blessed. An ungodly man is one who does not have the coming of his master (the Lord) in view. We are to look for the coming of the master. The way to look for his coming is to feed on meat (Truth). The godly is always alert and on watch, and we must remain awake unto righteousness - such posture will be produced by partaking of the meat (Truth). Churches must begin to go out to look for meat and seek to grow in this season so as to be accounted as faithful.
Luke 12:48 KJV - But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.
Servants are agents that should know the meal of the season. If the Church is the ground and the pillar of truth, then it means that the Church is expected to produce something - which is God. Our hearts and souls must be raised as a pillar of truth. This, God wants to do at a time as this.
Bearing the Godly Weight of Truth
The Lord wants us to be true and to produce in us the flavor of truth. God wants to nourish us with truth so that we will be able to bear the weight that He is bringing on us. God wants the truth to sit in our inward parts. Christ knew that truth was not in men and so would not trust himself to men. If the stature of truth is not raised in us, we will walk away from God. Truth is the only thing that will stand in the days we are in and in the days we are going into. The verse below shows what those who do not have truth will become:
Jude 1:16 KJV - These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage.)
It is required of us that we come to the reality of the truth. If the prince of this world could come to check if there was any iota of lie in Jesus, to corrupt him if such was found, we are not exempted. We must come to the point where lies can no longer be found in us.
1 Corinthians 5:6 KJV - Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?)
(Rounding off 2nd Session)
There is an instrument called a buoy used to keep a ship stable on the sea. Jesus Christ (the truth) is our lifebuoy. An example for us is Daniel and his friends, who would not allow Babylon to corrupt their inner configuration even though their dressing was changed.
3rd Session: Christ: The Drink Meet for Soul Nourishment
Every stage of change is difficult to transit even though higher stages are always beautiful. It is so much humility on God's part to wait for men to move to the place where they will believe and submit to His Lordship.
Song of Solomon 2:3-5 KJV - As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste. He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love. Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love.
The Church is the bodily representation of Christ (just as Christ was the express image of God while He was here on earth) though He did attain a spiritual estate and that is why the Church must be fed with truth. Christ must become the Apple tree that nourishes our souls. Every believer must taste Christ and be drunk with His wine. The soul cannot be stabilized unless the soul is drunk with plenty of wine, because we are in the third day.
Genesis 1:9-10 KJV - And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
In the scripture above, the third day represents when God will bring forth herbs and trees to feed the Church with. The third day is not ordinary because this is when the Lord will raise us up.
Hosea 6:2 KJV - After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.
The day of man is full of sorrow because he is never satisfied. If Christ is not present, there will be no satisfaction for the soul. God will begin to reveal His Son so much that every other entity will lose their hold and form. We are in the day of many sorrows. Giving diligence to hearing in this season is for every seed of God (potential sons). The Lord is set to raise His witnesses. Witnesses are raised by the truth. A witness is one who has seen and can give his life for what he has seen, one who is doubly sure of what has seen.
Regenerated by Truth in the Inward Part
We must give diligence to the truth because it is only the truth that regenerates the soul. Truth has what it takes to deal with the lust of the eyes, lust of the flesh and pride of life. We must not only hear truth but must also see truth. We cannot witness Christ if we cannot see him. Faith gives the ability to see Christ. This is a season to pay diligence to hearing, teachings and preaching.
We can walk in truth when we drink of the truth and it solidifies in us. The way to walk is to hear and do truth, and as you continue in doing the truth, it becomes a life for us. We must continually give ourselves to the word and to prayer in this season.
(Rounding off 3rd Session)
More than the Lord abiding with us, we must abide in the Lord. We need to drink into the Lord. We must eat and also drink because the journey is long.
4th Session: The Spirit of Christ and His Attestation to Salvation
1 Peter 1:9 KJV - Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.
We must not be tired of hearing God for He always wants to speak to us again and again. There is a spirit (which is of God) in the prophets that enables them to prophesy. What makes a man a prophet is the presence of the Spirit of Christ. One thing the Spirit of Christ attests to is salvation.
In Revelation 19:10, the Spirit of Christ is the Testimony of Jesus. No one will attain salvation without encountering the Spirit of Christ - the Testimony of Jesus. It is possible for a man to have the Holy Ghost and not have the Spirit of Christ. If the heart is not seeking the Lord accurately, it will not encounter the Spirit of Christ.
The prophets inquired to know the person and the time of Christ and they encountered the Spirit of Christ. Everyone who will come to salvation must diligently and lawfully search for Christ. Searching is to diligently look into that which is being given. We must diligently ponder on the matters of salvation because it is about our survival.
Counting the Cost: Partaking of the Lord’s Suffering and of His Resurrection
Philippians 3:7, 10-11 KJV - But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.
That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death; If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.
If we do not seek the issues of salvation with all our hearts, we will not have it. The way to search is how we count things and weigh them. We have all known resurrection in a measure through the new birth but we must also partake of the fellowship of the suffering of the Lord and in His resurrection. There is a portion of resurrection that we access when we partake of the suffering of the Lord. Jesus is raising a brotherhood whose hallmark is truth.
(Rounding off 4th Session)
The heart must be in a perpetual state of mourning even as we journey through the earth, continuing on Zion. The essence of our mourning is for salvation, thus, sufferings will be arranged for us to bring us to the state of mourning. For flesh to see the salvation of the Lord, it must be made to go through suffering, for by this process is the flesh turned to spirit.
5th Session: Truth: the Component and the Eternal Nature of God
God is unchangeable inspite of the challenges man could be confronted with. God has opened the pathway of mercy for man to inquire and to seek understanding. God does not need to prove that He is God. Truth is all about God. Moreover, everything God has revealed to His people is from one level of truth to another. The knowledge of God is increasing like never before. This is the time to seek God when He can be found.
Except we desire truth, we cannot see the Truth. Truth is a personality. We need to know the spirit of truth and Christ who is truth and the Father of truth. It is a privilege that God says we should come and know Him. Salvation is to be experienced and expressed. God wants every man to know him. We must come to the understanding of what is (Truth), so that what is not (lie) can be done away with. God is the one who is and who keeps coming. All that we must seek to desire now is to know God, His truth and nothing less.
1 Timothy 3:15 KJV - But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
In the scripture above, the Church of Christ is the pillar and ground of truth. We must grow from being ground to being pillar because it is pillars that bear the weight. Except we are raised as a pillar of truth, we cannot carry God. It is the makeup of the pillar that will determine whether it can carry God or not. The drink and the meat is the truth which we must feed on so that the building that God is raising can rest.
God wants us to come into the understanding of truth because it is only the truth that can save man. What God speaks is truth and what He has to say is all that we need to hear. Truth is the component of God that makes Him eternal. Truth is meant to change our component to that of God.
Witnesses of Truth and their Conducts
There is a way we are to walk or behave in the house of God. The Church of the living God is not a natural or physical building but that which He is constructing in us, with the materials of truth. Both the ground and the pillar are “truth” based. When we come into the House of God, we come in as the ground, but we must grow into the pillars.
The only thing that will stand in this season is that which God is building, so that men will see that God is the only true hope. The building of God in us must be well built else, God will not come and rest in it. When we know God, fear will come upon our souls and we will tremble at His presence. Everything of God is in Christ and we must be like Him. Who Christ became, is what we must become.
The sufferings of Christ is meant to deal with our will. It is the love of God that brings the suffering that is due us per time. Truth comes to change us and deal with our will. If the will of man is not taken, the will of God cannot be given.
Matthew 24:5 KJV - For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
In this season, deception is all over. If truth is not revealed, we will believe lies. Many have already been deceived and are looking for those they will deceive as well. But God wants to raise us as witnesses of the truth.
Final Session: The Church as a Continuum of God’s Kingdom on Earth
From the beginning of the gospel to the end is truth. The Church started with truth and must continue in the truth if She will make progress. If the foundation is wrong, the Lord will require us to go back to the foundation and build well from there. Many people who have gone far may not be able to go back to the foundation because the Lord will sometimes require that what has been built already be totally brought down for the true building to be raised.
The present system of the earth will change into what the Lord originally created it for. We cannot speak about the Kingdom without speaking of the coming of the Lord. The Church and the Kingdom cannot be separated because the Church is the base that is to culminate into the rest of the building. The church is a continuum of the Kingdom. There are men in the Church who are already in the Kingdom because the Kingdom is a spiritual dominion or spiritual economy. The true Kingdom is a spiritual entity. If one tries to teach the Kingdom without understanding Christ, there will be an error.
The New Birth is meant to give the ability to sight the Kingdom. It is the heart of man that can receive the Kingdom. The kingdom is God. But, we need Christ to see God. A man who is not able to appropriate the message of Christ to the end will not be able to see God. It is easier to see Christ than to see God, because Christ is the visible expression of God, though, Christ is spiritual. No man can see God. The eyes must be opened for man to see Christ even though he might have been in Church for a long time.
There is no way to accurately know a man outside his spirit. The devil killed the spirit of man (so that man will lose his identity) and then gave to man another definition. Man is supposed to be known by his spirit, but because the devil killed the spirit of man, he (man) can no longer know himself. We must recognize that the gospel we are handling is spiritual and not abstract; it is real and you will have to be with Christ for it to be real to your heart.
Matthew 24:28 KJV - For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.
One of the things that will trigger the coming of the Lord is the gathering of the eagles. The eagles will be more visible than the carcass. The church is leaving that base terrain where it feeds on just anything into the place where there must be meat. A carcass is a laid down body and that is what the eagles will feed on. These carcasses are servants who are given the meat and have become the meat themselves.
Matthew 24:45 KJV - Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?
There is meat for this season. There must be meat if the eagles will gather. The church is moving into the place of meat and then will further move into strong meat. The people who can receive meat are those who have done well with the milk. They must have come to the sincerity of the milk and must have grown by it. Jesus grew through because He grew well, as seen the Scripture below.
Luke 2:40 KJV - And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, filled with wisdom: and the grace of God was upon him.
Servants are wise because they know the administration of the season and give meat in due season or due time. The assignment of giving meat is tied to the coming of the Lord; it is the sign of the Lord’s coming. The emergence of servants are the signs.
Matthew 24:30 KJV - And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
The Lord will come with clouds (witnesses). In the realm of witnesses, there is no difference between the living and the dead; they are all living. The clouds received Christ up at His ascension and they will also receive Him at His coming.
The earth with its lightness and vanity will be spent. Believers have the commandment to ascend the earth. Ascension is not going to heaven but the changing/translation of state/nature. There is a way the Son became an entity of eternity. Man must become what the Son became to escape passing away with the earth.
Isaiah 24:20-21 KJV - The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again. And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.
Ancient is not being old, but eternal. Truth is eternal counsels; that is what makes God ancient and that is what is faithful. When truth is after the order of eternal counsel, it is faithful. When Jesus wore truth, He became the true and the faithful one. When mercy appears, it appears as truth, and it is to make us eternal entities.
Lamentations 3:22-23 KJV - It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness
Isaiah 25:1 KJV - O LORD, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.
According to (Isaiah 25:2-5), in the process of ascension, we will be confronted by the noise of strangers, which is also the noise of lies. The devil cannot stay while the building of truth is being raised. God has to lay truth as blocks in men because of the level of assault that men will go through. Jesus went through assaults from the womb; the prince of this world came to Him and supervised His growth from childhood.
Unveiling the Covering Cast: The Blessedness of Sighting God
The time of feasting shows that the carcass has been laid, but there is something covering men from seeing the Lord. The enemy is able to keep the cast over men because they are not being fed. What the enemy has done to prevent man from getting to God must be destroyed. The covering cast is to ensure that no one from any nation of the earth is able to break through to see God. It is a blessedness to be able to see God. What (blindness) we inherited from our parents is easier to remove than what we inherited from our nations.
Genesis 12:1 KJV - Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee
Jesus swallowed up death in victory and opened the way for us. Death is the strong veil that shields man from God. Man must be fed for him to see God. The manchild is a grown man and is Jesus Christ.
Revelation 12:1-2 KJV - And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars: and she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.
One of the characteristics of the eagles is that they are waiting for their God; their hearts want to see their God. Without feeding, the eagles would not stay; for anyone to wait for God, such must have been feeding. (Psalm 37:1-11) It is one thing to feed, and another thing to feed with delight. There is a feeding that prepared the people for the land of promise. The people will have to be fed again in the land so that they can come into the promise of the land. The land has a promise. Christ is the land; the promise is God. It is possible to be in the land and not get the promise.
It is the good tidings that brought the people into the land of promise. It is possible to preach Christ and not preach the end of Christ. The way to guarantee salvation is to make our calling and election sure, through diligent seeking. There is a need to preach the end, else men will not race into the end. When we lay hold on the hope, it guarantees that the promise can be inherited. Man by himself cannot pray for the promise.
Isaiah 52:7, How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!
The abundance of peace means a soul has come into delighting in the hope and the promise the Lord provides. The land of inheritance is a person and we are in the land. But there is a need for us to abide in the land.
Psalm 22:25-30, My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him. The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the Lord that seek him: your heart shall live for ever. All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the Lord: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.
For the kingdom is the Lord's: and he is the governor among the nations. All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul. A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.
According to Revelation 22:3, the curse is the inability to serve God because of the inability to see God. The servants were serving God with a defective vision and so could not serve Him well. Those who are serving God are the ones who have the hope of seeing God. There is food that empowers a man to break the cast that prevents man from seeing God.
The Feast of Gladness: Climaxing Into God’s Eternal Rest
To wait upon the Lord is to stay and will require one to go through nourishment in patience. There is a food one would have to eat for the enablement to wait. We need a lot of hearing to come to the faith of Christ and we need to look for Christ and be feasted by him. There is a place of feeding where the Church should be found, that can handle the operations of God in the last days.
The body of Christ was a veil and it needed to be broken/stripped off, for Him to come to the end. If Christ did not reach the end, the way would not have been paved, because that is the standard required of the lamb that must be sacrificed. (John 4:34, Hebrews 10:20)
Our growth is to move us from the first light (which is understanding) to the next light (which is quick understanding). When we have grown, what we become is an understanding because the Son also became an understanding.
Zechariah 8:17-19, And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, saith the Lord. And the word of the Lord of hosts came unto me, saying, Thus saith the Lord of hosts; The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, shall be to the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts; therefore love the truth and peace.
There is a truth that is in the feast that brings gladness. The realm of joy is the fullness of Christ. What makes a man appear before God is that he has attained to joy (Psalm 16:11) and from joy, we can begin to desire gladness. The last feast in Israel is the feast of tabernacles. There are feasts in God that we must partake of, which will culminate in bringing us into gladness. Gladness is higher than joy or rejoicing.
Every movement into God comes by feasting. The carcass for the eagles (Matthew 24:28) is an embodiment of feasts which cannot be eaten once. Peace is required to stay in the land to receive the feast. We are coming close to the zone of feastings with fat, with wine, with fat full of marrow, with wine well refined.
When Jesus was going to the cross, He was celebrating because He was going through His last feast. It is victory to be able to move from feast to feast. It is possible to be stuck in a feast and not make progress. Feasting must become our delight. We must be prepared to move into feasts and complete God’s requirements because it is possible to be trapped in a feast and not continue to the next.
The prodigal son was a son of mercy (Luke 15:11-32). He received the goods and went into the world to celebrate the feast rather than waiting to be authorized as a son. When he returned to his father, he still came into feasting. Faith dealing is supposed to train us until we come to peace. It is the tidings of faith that publishes peace. It is the same meal of faith that brings peace.
One can be in the school of suffering and not gather the goods of righteousness that are supposed to move one into the next phase. The prodigal son was given three things at his return- the signet of the father, the shoes, and a robe - which signified that he had been called and authorized to be a publisher. Sincerity is not enough in the journey of faith; our eyes must be enlightened.
Qualifying for the Lord’s Feastings
Isaiah 26:1-2, In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks. Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in
What makes one qualified to be in the feast is truth. In a feast, we eat and must be nourished. It is possible to feast and not be nourished. The manner of the feasting is that we must be stable/abide at the place of the feast in order to derive nourishment from the meal. Meat is for those who are of age; strong meat is for those who are of full age. Partaking in the divine nature is the essence of the feast of meat.
Hebrews 5:14 KJV - But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.
Songs of Solomon 2:5 KJV - Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love.
It takes a time of waiting to be granted entrance into the kingdom. The journey through the outer court and the holy place to the Holiest of all requires a lot of skill and mercy. (Daniel 1:4-5; Colossians 1:9) When we begin to desire meat, the devil will come to bait us with other meat. What is in the carcass is the wine of the king. We have partaken of the wine of the Holy Ghost, but there are other wines that the Lord is apportioning in this season.
Psalm 23:5-6, Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.
Goodness is has a personality. Goodness and Mercy are entities that accompany men who have gone through the feeding of the Lord. Love also is a stronger wine. and when we move to the feast of love, we move into a stronger wine which intoxicates. (Isaiah 45:3) This meat is to open us to hidden treasures of the secret.
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