REPORT: “When the 7th Angel begins to sound” – Part 3

Pastor Ademola Akinyemi reasoned that failure to transit with God “automatically results in the loss of spiritual strength, sight and savvy”. That under such a condition, the believer “begins to experience luke-warmness, regression, and spiritual death. He averred that the time had come for Christians to leave behind the elementary things of faith and reach out for that which is ahead. “You must die to certain things when you move from one dimension of Christ to another’’. He added that for those who were truly migrating, such things as the onions, cucumber and delicacies of Egypt automatically became unattractive. This again raises the question on “how do you know who is migrating?”


In the exposition by Pastor Olakunle, it was noted that of the seven feasts, three were pivotal. These are –Passover feast, Pentecost feast and the Tabernacle feast. He observed that each feast (and or phase in God) has its own distinctive message, order, power flow, structure, administration and essence.
 

 

In other words, it is clear and possible to identify where “you are” as an individual or group. Your message, choices and drive would reveal you and where you are in the calendar of God.

Whenever trumpets sounded among Israelites, Adeyemi maintained that everyone quickly left what he or she was doing to line-up, adding, that it represented a declaration of heaven urging them to move or embark on a cause of action which may include but not limited to warfare, spiritual retreats, excursion or renewal. That in a nutshell, the sound of the trumpets’  represented an order of the Holy Spirit, and mobilization of heavenly hosts to support the will of God on earth. It was the sound of trumpet for instance, that God deployed to bring down the walls of Jericho adding, the trumpet occupied a pride of place in God’s interaction with His people. To underscore  its significance, God even specified what the trumpet should be made of, and from. Besides, the priests in Israel were mandated to blow the trumpets at certain times so that the people would be sensitized to God’s voice, timing and processes.

 For those desirous to follow God to the end, Pastor Ademola Akinyemi noted, that clear instructions from God were usually revealed concerning the journey ahead. He said others who chose to get stuck to any place of comfort always ended in the dark.

 
 A heart qualified to experience progressive migration with and in God must, according to the Pastor become “un-offendable”. In other words, he revealed that God desired His people to be perfect in obedience and give no room to pride, malice or offence no matter how justifiable the ground for offence might be.

In what appeared to be a reinforcement of the position highlighted by Pastor Akinyemi, another trumpeter Pastor Sam Oyelese declared at the forum that failure to work with God in practical terms amounted to profound foolishness. To him, Pentecostalism or any stand point between Passover and Tabernacle feasts was not just a phase but an essence. He explicated that a teacher of the word of God might be fervent in preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God and yet remained in the cloak of Pentecostalism. By this therefore, he cautioned that the lifestyle of a Christian was the critical factor  in  locating where he or she is “at a moment”. Living by the voice of God, he observed, catapults a man from the pedestal of foolishness to the wrung of wisdom.

(Proverb 24:3-4). “Through wisdom is a house built, by understanding, it is established and by knowledge shall the chambers be filled with all precious and pleasant things”. On the strength of this scripture, Sam Oyelese remarked that doing the will of God by transmitting from Passover or Pentecost to the feast of Tabernacles brought to bear an experience of refreshing wisdom and profound knowledge of God. “To have knowledge is one thing and wisdom is another” noting emphatically that wisdom could not be acquired or exhibited without applying knowledge or information practically.

A wise man according to him, was the man who heard something and made use of it while the foolish man refused to make use of what he heard or was taught.
 

 

More stimulating perhaps was Oyelese’s exposition on the feast of Tabernacles. “It is not just a feast but a nature” he declared adding that Pentecost was instituted by God but never intended to make a partaker attain perfection in God. Pentecost  is a feast with leaven in its bread, causing it to be bloated thereby assuming an artificial dimension or size. By all standards the leaven holds a lot of implications for those in it. Christ Jesus our Lord, warned His disciples to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees. Again, it is scripturally evident that Pentecost would attract a large crowd unto Christianity but at the same time, aid and conceal corruption within. In the book of Acts, the second chapter, after the disciples of Christ experienced the Pentecost (speaking in diverse tongues), Peter preached and three thousand souls were added to the church. And shortly after, Ananias and Saphira attempted to deceive Peter (and of course the Spirit of God) but were killed instantly. Pastor Oyelese referred to this characteristic of Pentecost as Duality (or Dual Nature) while Pastor Wole Olakunle daubed it the tree of  the knowledge of good and evil, noting that Saul, son of Kish was a classical example of Pentecostalism while David epitomizes feast of Tabernacles. Specifically, he enthused that Saul was anointed king over Israel during the feast of Pentecost, given two loaves of bread out of three; he prophesied as a sign that the Spirit of God was upon him.
Due to selective obedience, God rejected Saul and His Spirit departed from him   while another ( evil) spirit took over him (I Sam 10:1-16 and I Sam 15).
 

 

 To be continued