REPORT: “When the 7th Angel begins to sound” – Part 2

Pastor Olakunle observed that “God expects perfection from us” and therefore no one was permitted to remain in the middle or beginning of the journey or phase with God. “For Christ Jesus” he said, was our Lord, mirror, and bench mark. “And He that descended is that same also that ascended up far above heavens, that He might fill all things”.

Ephesians 4:12 says “And He gave some apostles, and some prophets, and some evangelists and some pastors and some teachers.

For the perfecting of the saints for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, adding, “till we all come in the unity of the faith and “of the knowledge of the son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ”(V13)

The seminar, according to Pastor Olakunle was intended to lose the chain and fetters on Christians and tear the veil of ignorance so that thez people could migrate from Pentecost to the feast of Tabernacles. He said it was time to leave the irrelevant and lay hold of the relevant ; to move from the “natural man” to the nature of Christ (divine nature); and to be able to track and measure oneself spiritually.

Some curious benefits of this seminar were the creative and purposeful linking of the old to the new testament of the bible; in-depth exposition of the symbols and metaphors. The trumpeters equally brought to the fore the significance of the feasts of Israel both as divine timeline and spiritual compass instituted by God for measuring time,  seasons, and spiritual progression. Again, that each of the feasts represented a dimension of Christ Jesus to us so that we could progress from one point to another in Him till the fullness of Him was accomplished in us.

Pastor Ademola Akinyemi agreed no less hinting that the wilderness as high points in the spirit was not meant to be the final destination. That Pentecost and pentecostalism were as dangerous as the wilderness adding, that once the presence of God “departs a point in time, the forces of darkness invade that same place. He emphasized that as the enemies (like the Amalekites, Amorites etcetera) tailed the Israelites through the wilderness in those days so also it happened to all believers even now.

That Amalekites, Hivites, Amorites etcetera, were evil spirits working in human agents to oppose the journey to the land of promise. He contended that the pillars of fire and cloud which indicated the presence of God, were introduced to make the people know it was a journey being dictated by God and at His own pace.

Therefore he noted that to remain at a spot after God’s presence had moved was tantamount to giving oneself to his enemies. But why really should the people of God move out of Egypt in the first place? Queried Pastor Adeyemi in a manner suggestive of one fully resolved to ensure his audience was not lost as the exposition paced from the deep to the deeper and from the outer court to the holy of holies.

At this point, reference was made to the foundation laid by Pastor Olakunle that God’s message to Pharaoh through Moses revealed the importance God places on the feasts saying “let my people go…that they may offer a feast unto me.” (Exodus 5:1)

Olakunle explained that feast unto God was the way to offer Him the service God (Himself) requested of any man. That the feasts were the denominators of man’s interaction with God, adding, that without the feast(s), the people could not go into God’s purpose nor grow in Him.

Furthermore, he explicated that the entire salvation package of God to man was contained in the seven feasts instituted by God for Israel, His first born.

To be continued