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called meditation. You mut the word meditation in the Greek called haga. You mut. You speak aloud. And when you speak aloud, you don't just speak. Your mind must think on the word. So you are speaking and thinking at the same time.
[music] >> [music] >> So then your mind gets renewed and transformed. Your mind is changed and the word of God which is sharper than two-edged sword will begin to chisel chisel your mind renew your mind and re take away the old and replace it with the light of God so that's why it is very important not just read by your heart but open your mouth and read aloud.
All Jewish people know this because that's what the scripture their traditions tells us, "So, and I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, behold the tabernacle of God." So, when I came there, I just stopped and I looked, tabernacle of God. So, I underline the word tabernacle of God.
But if you look at verse two, in verse two, the apostle John said, "And I saw John and I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven." But in verse three, he says, "Behold the tabernacle of God." So I thought, "Hey, this is something different." In verse two, it is New Jerusalem. But in verse three he says tabernacle of God. So I thought this is something different. So I underlined the word tabernacle of God.
And then I continue reading is with men and he will dwell with them. It's new Jerusalem is coming down and then the tabernacle of God is with man and he will dwell with them. So I underline the word he will dwell with them and they shall be his people. So they shall be his people. I underline the word they shall be his people and God himself shall be with them. And God shall be with them. Be with them. So I underline be with them. and be their God.
So I read this over and over and over again. Tabernacle of God. What is this tabernacle of God? Then suddenly an illumination came to me. This is the exact thing that God told the prophet Moses in Exodus 25:8. Make me a sanctuary. And the Hebrew word for sanctuary is tabernacle. So make me a tabernacle. For what purpose? That I may dwell among you. So now I connected two. Revelation 213 to Exodus 258. I connected the two. When I connected the two, I began to now I have now two scriptures and I began to juggle them and meditate them. What is the relationship between what is written in Exodus versus what is the future? One is the past, another is the future.
So here in Revelation it says the tabernacle tabernacle of God comes down comes in your midst and God is in your midst. And in Exodus God told the prophet Moses make me a tabernacle that I may dwell among you. So the real purpose of God for asking the prophet Moses to construct the tabernacle was not so much to create a temple or a church in the wilderness so that people can all come and pray in the temple or offer sacrifices. The real purpose was that I may dwell among you. Dwelling among you is the same as dwelling with you. Be with you.
So now I want you to open your heart and understand the larger picture of the heart and the desire of God. The whole concept of God asking Moses to build the tabernacle or for the new Jerusalem to come down as a tabernacle is not so much to have a place of worship. No, not a place of worship. The real purpose was for God to dwell among his people. That's the real purpose. But that could not take place. Why it cannot take place? Now we need to go back to the book of Genesis. Now we go to original creation. So this is how I meditated.
So as I meditated one and one one then my mind began to expand this is the this is the way how the spirit of wisdom and revelation works. It will unins layer layer by layer it unfolds and you'll begin to see deeper and deeper and deeper. So now I went back to the garden of Eden. So in the garden of Eden was there any tabernacle? No, there was no. But there were two things. There was God and there was men. So let's not go into argument. What about women? We don't argue. They are one. Okay. So for our discussion sake, we'll not divide them into two. After all, woman was taken from men, right? So they are one. So we'll just for discussion sake we'll just talk about men. But remember woman is still there. So God and men and where was God? He dwelt among men. He dwelt not among men alone. Dwelt with men. He dwelt with men. So the original purpose of God creating man was not for the purpose of just create man. Not for that purpose is an extension. An extension.
Now to go back to the beginnings. Why is the devil so mad at you? Not just you, not mean you individual as a whole. Why? You know in uh many companies today if let's say both of you have the same seniority and then your boss wants to give a promotion to one person to be lifted up and instead of you or instead of your friend your colleague you get the promotion how will your colleague feel hallelujah praise the lord I'm so happy for you will your colleague say like that? >> No, most often at times they will boil with jealousy. Am I right? >> Yes. >> They'll boil with jealousy and then they'll come up with a plan how to pull pull you down so that they can get that promotion. Am I right? >> Yes. >> You see this is what happened when Satan fell Lucifer.
Now reading from the scriptures, we do not know much about him unless and until the spirit of revelation teaches us what a highly exalted place he was in heaven. He was second to God. And in terms of beauty and in terms of the amount of glory and light that came out of him, he was second to the Lord Jesus. He was so gloriously made so abundant light. The very definition of the name Lucifer means a bringer forth of light. Not just someone that shines light but he brought forth light from him.
You know I must tell you one truth. We do not understand much about the world of angels. The many books that I have read about angels most of them are written strictly based on what the scripture says about angels but not beyond that. Only the Holy Spirit can reveal to us something beyond. Not against the scripture. Listen carefully. Not against scripture but beyond means going deeper. So Lucifer is not just someone who shines forth with light but bring forth light. That means light from him can come out and he can direct it to go in whichever direction and purpose he wants. The angels were created with such power and authority not like what we have presently uh the limited understanding we have today about the world of angels. They are not just robots simply come simply go just pass message they go. This is wrong teaching. They have emotions. They have a will. They can decide things on their own. They can will on their own. They have the same ability to choose to love, to choose to worship, to choose to obey like us. They have all that capability, ability. That's number one.
Number two, they have their own individual lifestyle. And not two angels are the same. Just like us, not two person are the same, right? We all look different. Although many of us look similar. So in the same manner, the angels differ one of them. They all are look different, not the same. Number three, there are different categories of angels. different. The few that we know is this saraphim, Kerobim. Then we know about warrior angels. We heard about messenger angels. These are the four things you all know about. Am I right? But the it is not limited to the four. There are many more which are written in the scriptures. But we have not classified them because we have not looked into that world. The little that we know we classify into four categories.
But if you read the book of Revelation, in Revelation chapter 10, a mighty angel comes and stands before the apostle John. He's so huge that his head touched the clouds. And if you look at the dress that he's wearing or the rope that he's wearing is full of cloud, cloud becomes his rope. And then there is a hello like a rainbow over his head. And we always think or we have been taught I'm sure you have pictures you have seen pictures those who are in heaven they have a hello on their head. Have you seen that? >> Now where do we get that from? I never read anywhere in the Bible where there's a hello. I only read people hops. Have you read that? But where did this hello come from? Wherever. Okay. Wherever. But I tell you one truth. No hello. Sorry to disappoint you. But this angel in Revelation chapter 10 has a hello over his head and it's rainbow colors. Why? What does that signify? And then he brings a very powerful message to to the apostle John. So this angel belongs to which category? Messenger, warrior, kerobim, seraphim, which category? Category number five.
Then you read in Revelation chapter 8, an angel that is involved in prayer. That's all. He was involved in prayer and he collects all the prayers of the saints on the earth. All the prayers that you pray, he collects them and he brings to heaven. And then it says much more incense was given to him. So where did that much more incense come from? So the incense refers to prayers. So where did he get the prayers from? So this angel has collected prayers in the heavenly realm and brought and mix it with your prayer. So there is a category of angels that are involved in prayer. Praying angels they have their job to do. You cannot ask them to pray. They have their job to do.
And then you read in Revelation chapter 15, a group of seven angels who abide in the temple in heaven. They are always there. And then they come out from the temple. And the rope that they wear are so different. You don't find them carrying a sword. And they are very glorious to look at. Now which category to fit them in? Number >> six. >> Six. >> No. >> Seven. Seven. >> Seven. Ah. Seven. And these angels are in charge of pouring the wrath of God. And then in Revelation chapter 7, you read about four angels standing in the four corners of the earth and they are holding the wind in their hands. Now who are they? They are only in charge of doing that. Who are they? What category? >> Eight.
And then in revelation chapter 16, you read about an angel of God. He was so powerful, so glorious that when he came to earth, the whole earth lighted up like how the noonday sun lights up. It's not the sun, not even God coming, just an angel. So which category to put him? Number >> number nine. See I can go on and on. So the the category expense and then what do we know about the kerobim and the saraphim? And by the way kerobim and saraphim have been wrongly included among the category of angels. That is wrong. Kerobim and saraphim should be rightly classified under the category of living creatures because they are not angly group. You look at how they are with four heads and then with diff six wings, four wings, four hands, two hands, leg like a calf, leg like a lion, half leg, half human, half angel. Sounds like Nana, right? And you thought Na was fairy tale. Na is not fairy tale. The author of Na CS Louise was a bornagain spiritful man who was blessed by God to see visions of the end times and heaven. He saw many many things in heaven. But his call was to minister to children. So he wrote books describing heavenly things in such a way that children understand. But whatever he wrote they all are real real things. You read about horses with wings. Which category to fit them in? Many many mysteries are there.
And I in the last 2 years I have been graced by God to see different categories of angels that are not even mentioned in the Bible. They are reserved for these last days. If you read Ephesians chapter 1, the apostle reveals the apostle Paul reveals many mysteries. He says all these have been hidden before the ages of time. They were hidden. That knowledge is hidden. The devil does not know everything. He doesn't know everything. He knows some things but not everything. Hidden. The apostle Paul says, you know, if the devil knew that the Lord Jesus will rise up from the dead, he would not have killed him. >> Right? You remember reading that? See, that knowledge was hidden. He didn't know. He didn't know.
That same thing goes to say many many choice servants of God or woman of God or even little children that they die before their time. Either the devil takes them out or they kind of succumb to some spiritual attacks. They were not able to fight back to some through various reasons. their death. The devil may think that he has warned, he has taken them out, but that's wrong. He has created a bigger problem just like the Lord Jesus. He created a bigger problem when the Lord arose from the dead. But so now it's not just he was not just dealing with one Lord Jesus. now with all of you because the Lord now abides in every one of you, right? Not just as the son of man, now as the son of God in resurrection power. So in the past he dealt with one Jesus. Now he has to deal with several hundreds of Jesuses. Jesus's am I right everybody? That's what the Bible say, right?
In the same manner, in the same manner, when a man of God dies, you know the scripture says precious in the sight of God is the death of his saints. The scriptures does not say precious in the sight of God anyone who dies. It doesn't say that, right? It says saints. So anyone who has reached that level when they die prematurely before their time that death is very precious because it's not just a death it is a transformation from one dimension to another dimension from one realm to another realm. So it's so precious to God and it spells doom to the devil.
So in the beginning so now come back to Lucifer. So Lucifer was a bringer forth of light. So as such they can command they have the ability to command and decree judgments blessings. Let me give you two examples. in Genesis chapter 28 when the when Jacob fought with an angel. Now many people even many theologians and many Bible scholars they wrongly interpret that that angel is the Lord Jesus Christ. That is wrong. It's not the Lord Jesus Christ. It is an angel. Do you think if this was the Lord Jesus Christ, a mortal man could fight with him? logic, right? He could not even have touched the Lord Jesus. He fought literally with an angel. It was an angel that he wrestled. This angel is none other than the angel that was assigned to protect over him all his life, watch over Israel. So he battled with the angel and then before the angel left, he said, "Bless me." And the angel did bless him. They have the power to bless. They have the authority to bless. But not all angels, those very high ranking ones, they have the authority. They have the power. But again, they cannot do things on their own unless and until they are permitted by God. They have that authority, but they cannot use them as and when they like.
Second example in Luke chapter 1, the angel Gabriel appeared before Zachcharias. And when Zecharias refused to believe what the angel Gabriel said, what did Gabriel do? You be dumb. Right? Did he say because you did not believe me, God shall cause you to be dumb? Did he say like that? He did not say like that. He said you be dumb. So it was the angel who pronounced a judgment. See he he has that delicated authority. They can bless.