ONE
LOAF OF BREAD
1Corinthians
10:16-17 The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the
communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it
not the communion of the body of Christ? For we being many are one
bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread.
Just
before Gideon accomplished the extraordinary feat of using just
three hundred volunteers from Israel to defeat the innumerable
armies of the nations of the east whose foot soldiers were like
grasshoppers and camels as the sand on the sea shore, he received
the needed assurance in a dream he overheard some members of the
eastern troops discussing. Acting as a spy, Gideon had sneaked into
the enemy camp and overheard the conversation of a man who had a
dream narrating how he saw a Barley loaf of bread descend, and
tumble into their camp (the camp of the armies of the east)
completely leveling a tent in the midst of it. In interpreting the
dream, the other fellow explained that it was a bad omen for them
(the armies of the east), because it meant that victory in the
upcoming battle between the armies of the east and the Israelites
belonged to Gideon the leader of the host of Israelites.
Armed
with this dream and interpretation as source of renewed faith,
Gideon gathered his three hundred soldiers and at midnight struck
their enemies from the eastern nations. He did this in an extremely
unconventional way by simply arming every member of his team with a
pitcher of clay containing a lamp, and a trumpet in the other hand.
He went on to divide the three hundred men at his disposal into
three groups and at midnight gave them a signal by sounding the
trumpet and breaking the clay pitchers with them. Immediately after
the other three hundred soldiers each sounded their trumpets and
broke their clay pitchers, causing the light within to shine forth.
This was enough to cause confusion in the camp of the eastern armies
whose numbers were innumerable. In their confusion they slew one
another and made the Job easy for the rest of the Israelites who
arose from their slumber to chase completely destroy the easterners
as they fled in retreat.
Judges
7:19-22 So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came
unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch;
and they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets,
and brake the pitchers that were in their hands. And the three
companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the
lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to
blow withal: and they cried, The sword of the LORD, and of Gideon.
And they stood every man in his place round about the camp: and all
the host ran, and cried, and fled. And the three hundred blew the
trumpets, and the LORD set every man's sword against his fellow,
even throughout all the host: and the host fled to Bethshittah in
Zererath, and to the border of Abelmeholah, unto Tabbath.
Gideon
had used a little ragtag-like army to accomplish a feat which
according to human reasoning is logically impossible; by using just
three hundred men he defeated an army described as innumerable.
However by the Spirit, we know that WITH GOD, all things are
possible, not so with man. The spiritual riddle contained in
the victory of Gideon’s army is applicable only to those who would
exercise themselves in the mystery of the Christ.
What
do these seemingly invincible enemies of Israel, God’s firstborn
from the east represent? What greater enemy exists than the armies
of sin and death, the one thing that has baffled men through the
ages? These armed enemies upon camels, horses and even foot carrying
banners with inscriptions of the myriads of problems that have been
man’s portion in his dark hour. The diseases, fears, instability on
all fronts, perplexities, emotional pains, sorrow etc, all represent
the armed agents of the kingdom of the darkness – death that
encompass humanity today. They reign on and on in this world,
proving to be invincible from man’s logical point of view.
Researchers, both scientific and philosophical have tried over the
ages to find the antidote for death, all to no avail. Through their
futile attempts, books have been written, religious sects birthed
and name it, all in the attempt to defeat this enemy called death.
The research never ends, and the emergence of schools of thoughts
goes on and on. Out of one school of thought which could manifest
itself probably as a religion or name it, myriads of schools of
thoughts break out saying. “We have the way to that blessed hope”,
but from the look of things death continues to reign unabated in
man’s world. It’s all an endless circle of searching which never
yields the desired result.
An
outward glance at the unbelievable numbers of their enemies was
enough to make the Israelites faint with fear in their hearts
leading to the withdrawal of twenty-two thousand of the initial
number that initially volunteered to go to war with their eastern
foes. Think of the uncountable voices of prophesies and false
believes that obscure man’s view of the beauty that He is generated
to be. Voices of oppression from close family members and friends
who said you were no good, voices of accusations and regret over
past mistakes and failures etc. Not to forget the many reports from
doctors that come in as prophecies into your life and cling to you
leading to fear and even greater problems. On sighting the seemingly
innumerable problems of humanity, many have fainted into never
ending misery and depression thinking there is no hope, while saying
within themselves, “let us eat and drink for tomorrow we die”. In
all of this, man fails to see that there a thick blanket covering of
death hovering over his comprehension hides the reality of the
perfection and beauty that is within him.
The
good news however is that death will be defeated; this is the reason
the mystery of the son of God is revealed in us today. He has come
to destroy the works of the devil whose crowning achievement is
death
1Corinthinians 15:26 The last enemy that shall be destroyed is
death
Death
is the last enemy to be defeated in man and this is realized as the
Christ within depicted by the burning lamps within the lowly earthen
vessels of Gideon’s army becomes evident in man. Death is no more
when man awakens to the spiritual communication of the last trumpet
of God; when deep calls to deep unveiling the secret things of God.
Man then begins to hear and confess the Christ within as depicted by
the trumpets blown at midnight. He awakes from his deep mortal sleep
at midnight unto the perfect spiritual day of the Lord as the true
creature of God who is the Lord of glory appears. At midnight the
mortal man well acquainted with obscurity and death diminishes into
nothingness, and the One who inhabits the high places of the earth
appears. This is the coming, the appearing of the Lord of glory and
as He appears death is no more, because in Him there is no darkness
at all.
In the
stirring up and the awakening of the precious gift in man – the
Christ within, the agents of death once thought to be in their
myriads simply disappear, you will look for them and discover they
were but formations of imagination proceeding from a veiled finite
canal mind. Then man will understand the words of Jesus when he
asked to the woman once condemned to death by the many voices of
men, “Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man
condemned thee?”. And the response of the woman: “No man,
Lord”; and Jesus: Neither do I condemn you, go and sin
no more.
Awakening to the true and only life quenches the flames of hell
ignited by the fiery condemnation arises from the beliefs of men
formulated in the dust below. Every ordinance from man’s world which
speaks contrary to life and life abundantly is blotted out forever
as man awakens to the true being that He is, because in him there is
no condemnation at all. The former things no more come to mind, no
more fear, sorrow, pain, no more death, but rather I inherit all
things forever. I inherit a kingdom of true substance that can never
be taken away from me; I reign and I rest.
So
what then is death? There is no one straight definition to death,
but in simple terms we can call it anything outside of God. Man’s
inability to identify with the only eternal Spiritual presence, by
living and having the totality of being in it, is death. Failure to
truly know that the earth and the fullness thereof, and the
inhabitants therein is all the Lord’s is death manifesting itself
through the carnal mind, a mindset that is ignorant of the invisible
things of God. Inability to see only His glory fill all in all as
the waters that cover the sea, is death because besides him there is
no one. This will mean absence from knowledge of the pure
consciousness of love of the Father, hence the tribulation, fear and
anxiety that the men of this world suffer. Fear because that which
they perceive in their ignorance as life and substance seems to be
inevitable ever fading away. In mans fear and anxiety, in vain he
races around the clock seeking to immortalize and perfect that which
is mortal. Seeking solace, he tries in vain to reach out to a god
that he has formulated for himself in his ignorance, but he never
ever seems to find it.
The
world, hell and death which are terms married to themselves, will
definitely be abolished as the one that sleeps in the dust which is
equivalent to carnal living awakes to his true pure spirituality. He
can do this only as he hears the sound of the trumpet of God
awakening him back into his true essence. Jesus called the world,
that which is void of the understanding of the son and the Father,
God. This is one who out of spiritual ignorance is not dwelling in
the reality of the son from eternity, the one who is in God the
Father.
The
Father loves the son and has given him all things - His own self;
absence from this reality is torment and hell. We can call the son a
manifestation of the Father God in this material plane. We can also
call the son pure spiritual consciousness of the Father appearing in
this physical plane – the Lamb of God. Any man who is absent from
this reality represents life outside of the only true God - the
delightful fountains of living water.
The
company of three hundred soldiers of Gideon who shattered their clay
vessels to lay bare hidden lambs represent the children of the
resurrection; those who have rediscovered the secret of their true
spiritual essence. To resurrect is to awaken from the deep sleep of
death, a departure from spiritual ignorance of being bound to the
elements of this material age to rediscover the beauty of the true
spiritual self, something that never changed but was simply waiting
to be discovered. Within the lowly earthly tabernacle of every man
is this light which represents the very eternal life of God. No
matter what the outer may portray, it’s there buried underneath the
deadness of his human sense of life which he will excavate in due
season on perceiving the strong scent of God his life. Like the
fearless and vigilant company of three hundred, a people will
experience this life while in the flesh. Even though in the world,
they will experience the beauty of the endless life of the living
God, free from mental bondage to corruption, confirming the words of
job, “And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my
flesh shall I see God (Job 19:26 )”. Yes a people will taste,
experience and manifest God, notwithstanding the lowly corruptible
vessel in which they sojourn for a moment.
Truly
great is the mystery of godliness, the invisible, immortal and
incorruptible God appearing in this material plane and contemplated
by men and angels, preached in this world and elevated back into
glory. Unveiling this inner light God personality hidden in man is
the mystery of godliness that Jesus manifested during the days of
his ministry when He told the onlookers: he that hath seen me
hath seen the Father (John 14:9). Many to this day have limited
this great mystery of godliness to Jesus after the flesh and have
formed an idol after a flesh Jesus that does not exist. At the foot
of the mountain, man’s vain religion has formulated a golden calf
out of the flesh of Jesus the man and adored it instead of ascending
up the high mountain to contemplate the majesty of the Lord of glory
within. In error they look at the clay vessel and not unto the
invisible light being manifesting itself through the vessel. They
still stand looking to the sky for him to come again and do
something for them. They fail to realize they are making the same
mistake as the disciples who gapped continuously into the sky
looking forward to contact a flesh Jesus again. Angels appeared and
told them not to waste their precious time because He is not there.
Jesus
says that the works I do you will do also.
John
14:12 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the
works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall
he do; because I go unto my Father.
What
are these works that we will do also? Is it holding crusades and
gathers thousands under the same roof and preaching to them? Is it
raising up the physically dead or going into every hospital to lay
hands on the sick and heal them? Is it all about outward
demonstration before men? In its entirety, this is not the thing the
Father expects of us; we are not called to be actors but rather to
the truth. You can raise the dead and they remain spiritually dead,
you can heal the sick and they remain spiritually sick. The works
and miracles of Jesus should be discerned spiritually, this is the
intent for which they were done. They all speak of man’s redemption
from the corruptible and perishable back into that which is true,
incorruptible and imperishable – The Lord your God.
Many
to this day do not know that even Lazarus’s resurrection was a
parable revealing the eternal spiritual working of the Father as he
raises his sons back to life from their deadened material conscious.
No man in the flesh is truly healed or made alive, only those who
awaken to life in the Spirit who incidentally is the Lord your true
life. Healing or miracles will in no way immortalize the mortal or
render incorruptible the corruptible. This is not to say that there
is no healing or there are no works but rather that we do not get
swayed away from the simplicity of the gospel. Jesus in the capacity
says my yoke is easy and my burden light; never let the burdens of
religionist rituals of men torment and wear you out for nothing. You
only need to stand in the light and the essence of God bubbling in
your cup will overflow to the nations and bring healing to them.
Observe the Sun which generates all the light and forms of energy in
this natural dimension, all it does is just being what it is. So it
is for those who discover themselves as the light of the world they
simply stand in the light as the One radiant creature of God.
The
works that Jesus wrought in the days of his flesh was the unveiling
the light personality that was within his earthen tabernacle.
Walking in the consciousness of the inner man who is the Lord of
glory was enough to heal those who contacted it. In fact Jesus said
it is the one within that does the works. This is the same work the
disciples of the Lord are called to do. Like Jesus, Gideon had led
the way, and the other three hundred followed by blowing the trumpet
(confessing the Christ within), destroying their earth pitchers
(Picking up their cross), and shining forth the lamps that were
within (No longer I but Christ). The forerunner of the faith, Jesus,
has exercised himself in the mystery of godliness and we are called
to do the same works today. I repeat, it has got nothing to do with
doing external works like the scribes and Pharisees who comb land
and sea in search of proselytes, because on my own as a man I can do
absolutely nothing, the One who does the works is the Father God in
me. So I will seek the reality of the One in me and every other
thing will follow. The more we realize this, the more the
consciousness of the Christ within increases and the outer man who
is but a mere formulation of the lying whispers from the dust below
diminishes into oblivion.
So far
we have talked about the clay vessels and the touches within them,
but what about that rarely talked about loaf of bread that tumbled
out of nowhere into the camp of the Medianites and their allies,
completely overthrowing a tent in the midst of it. Just imagine how
God always uses things lightly esteemed by men to overthrow
strongholds of spiritual wickedness; Bread a light substance that is
able to level a tent well dug into the ground. The Father is
teaching his sons how to overcome the world with wisdom that defies
the lofty wisdom of man. Today we are seeing this dream afresh but
this time along with true understanding that will establish the
hearer in his eternal imperishable Kingdom.
Have
you wondered where this loaf of bread came from? The man expounding
on the vision simply says it came tumbling down. This vision reminds
us of the vision of the king of Babylon in the days of Daniel the
prophet. In the vision, the king saw a stone cut without hands which
struck the clay and iron feet of a great splendorous image, causing
the image of gold, silver and brass to be leveled and completely
destroyed. The image was so completely destroyed that it appeared as
chaff which was dispersed by the wind. This shows a complete
annihilation of the image.
Daniel
2:31-35 Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image. This great
image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and the
form thereof was terrible. This image's head was of fine gold, his
breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass,
His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay. Thou
sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the
image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to
pieces. Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the
gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the
summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no
place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became
a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.
The
spirit is revealing an activity manifesting itself out of the
invisible infinite heights of God to level the systems of men whose
foundation is in the material dimension of time and space as
demonstrated in the perishable clay and iron foundation of the feet
of the image. Man is mistaken when he thinks that the invisible
activity of God appears to preserve and strengthen man’s systems, it
does just the opposite; He takes away the old and establishes the new. That which is man’s – the terrestrial man is
taken away and dissolved as this invisible activity of God manifests
itself out of the infinite to annul that which is finite, in time
and space. In so doing, that which remains is the everlasting realm
of the only one true God otherwise known as God's kingdom.
This
activity is already at work in man and His systems, but it is hardly
perceived by the outer world. It is very much the same way the
Christ manifests itself again and again out of the infinite heights
of God but is rarely recognized by the majority. Multitudes are
awakening right now to that true eternal life of God, but you cannot
perceive this with the natural senses, it’s all spiritually
discerned. From all this it is evident that the divine purpose of
God will definitely prevail, it is the Lord working in man to
accomplish this goal, not the will of flesh.
In the
same manner the stone appears out of heaven to level mortal man’s
systems, the loaf which the dreamer saw tumbling down out of nowhere
represents that invisible activity of God appearing from heaven to
put an end man’s system of death. It is the true eternal bread of
life which descends from heaven to give life to a world languishing
in sin and death. Jesus declares in clear undiluted words that I AM
this bread that descends out of the infinite dimension of God to
level the stronghold of death in man so that he can see life.
I am
the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this
bread, he shall live forever: and the bread that I will give is my
flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
We can
call this spiritual bread an eternal spiritual body or consciousness
from eternity which the Father is bringing to man’s awareness once
more. Once more, because it was lost in the dust – material
consciousness of mortal man who has descended into a dimension of
time and space. Any man who can recognize this bread and enters into
communion with it, by feeding on it will awaken and live forever in
the never fading consciousness of God the Father. Communion with
this bread levels the dark tent of death which is empowered by the
flesh and blood – the carnal mind; this is a must for man to see
life. We can say flesh and blood represents the vain material
conscious of the man of this age which is not profitable in anyway.
It is
the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words
that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
Like I
say, many still mistaken the Christ as one who has come to promote
life as perceived through their material consciousness, that is why
the multitudes were disappointed at the sayings of Jesus and turned
back from following him on several occasions. People think he is
here to give them money, long life, families, fame etc in this
material plane, but they are mistaken because he came to put an end
to all that and return man to that original imperishable realm known
as God’s kingdom. Is it recorded that Jesus ever taught morality,
family values, economics, investment strategies, how to do or get
this or that? He simply came to unveil a realm of all power and all
glory nested in God which is open for all men to enter back into
freely. In this realm is your family, riches and prosperity in all
spheres of life. For this cause He says you must leave all that
pertains to your carnally mind formulated world to lay hold on true
eternal substance which I have come to give you, because I am not of
this world.
As
long as man journeys the way of the fallen Adam, which represents
descent into material consciousness – dust, he is absent from the
Lord who is the Spirit. This destructive trend is called
conformation to this world; a thing that man is admonished to
abstain from as he hears the mighty voice of the Spirit. It is the
Spirit – the true bread that gives life; if any man eats of this
bread from heaven he will be quickened and raised up out of the dust
of human living in the last day (last time).
John
6:54 Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal
life; and I will raise him up at the last day.
This
last day is an eternal day that belongs to the Lord and the Lord
alone; it is the day of the Spirit, remember the Lord is the Spirit.
The last day Jesus is referring to is the seventh (Sabbath day)
mentioned in the allegorical creation account in the first chapters
of Genesis, when God rested from his works. In this seventh eternal
day the son awakens back into his original spiritual consciousness
and consequently enters into his rest in an eternal spiritual
dimension called Eden. On being revived by the breath (the Spirit,
bread from on high), the son is quickened from the graveyard of
material living – dust and ascends into the pure immovable
consciousness of the Father God. This is the path or dimension of
pure spiritual consciousness where the lair - flesh and blood cannot
enter. This material consciousness typified by the ravenous beast
never finds the pathway of holiness unto the living God; it is
reserved for the purely spiritually minded. (Isaiah 35:8-10)
To
enter into the day of the Lord, the serpent mind (flesh and blood)
must be slain by the flaming sword of truth that guards the way into
the exalted realm of Eden. This is why those seen returning to life
and reigning in life a thousand years were all seen to have lost
their heads for the testimony (spiritual consciousness) of the
Christ. Remember that a thousand years is a symbol of the infinite
last day of the Lord, a dimension of pure spirit; it is the realm
where those who feast on the bread of life ascend into.
This
upward trend is what Jesus sought to communicate when He declared I
go to my Father and your Father, my God and your God. He too had
descended from the infinite timeless dimension of God into
materiality (time and space), thus tasting of spiritual death and
poverty like every other man and had to ascend back into that
consciousness of God. In so doing Jesus, has demonstrated a path
into life that was hitherto hidden from the comprehension of man.
Let the reader not be deceived into thinking that the man modeled
out of the dust is a historical account of man’s creation because
man’s origin is in the eternal Spirit - God. Do you hear the words,
“my Father and your Father, my God and your God”? Never for
one moment doubt in your mind that your origin is in the Father. The
creation account is like a parable of the very work of redemption
that God is performing in his sons today. To be awakened and revived
from the waterless pit (dust), the son must eat of that bread (the
spirit) from heaven, causing an increase into the one that fills all
in all. The man that eats this bread seizes to be an independent
creature from the living God, but rather lives solely by the name of
the Lord.
John
6:55-57 For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.
He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and
I in him. As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the
Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.
The
three hundred valiant men of Gideon who brought forth the light
hidden in their earthen vessels while sounding the trumpets,
represent that seemingly insignificant loaf of Barley bread which
tumbled out of nowhere into the camp of the enemies from the east
and overthrew that tent in the midst of it. At the sound of the
eternal Spirit calling them back unto itself, these ones divorce
themselves from corruptibility and mortality as demonstrated in the
breaking of the clay vessels and put on immortality and
incorruptibility by awaken to the revelation of the eternal one who
is without beginning or end. This is the true life, the light of the
world and the bread of life.
Life,
the very life of the invisible and incorruptible God is realized as
man awakens to the inner spiritual man within himself, as he does
this he realizes his oneness with that eternal spiritual body of the
Lord from heaven. For this cause Jesus says commune with this bread
(my spiritual body or consciousness) and drink this wine (my blood
or life). Do this in remembrance of the one eternal spiritual body
of the Lord; keep yourself ever in this spiritual body by continuous
fellowship. Being ever mindful of your part in that one eternal
spiritual body gives you escape from the wasting and corruption in
this world. It also maintains you in true rich pleasurable life
infinitely far above the tormentors (principalities) of this world
below.
Joseph
the one who was separated from his brethren to go ahead of them and
preserve them in due season, is an allegorical example of those who
feed on this bread and experience exaltation into life. In his
prison cell, in a divinely ordered encounter, he met with the Baker,
a symbol of the bread, and the butler a symbol of the wine. By
purely divine inspiration we see the Spirit indicating that Joseph
had to have that communion with the bread and wine from heaven which
we have established is the body – consciousness of the Father
manifesting itself through the son. Through this communion, Joseph
who is a type of the resurrected son was exalted out of the prison
house - a type of material consciousness (flesh and blood) unto the
highest throne in all the land – a type of the Spirit. Joseph became
that same bread of life – a life giver to a famine ravished world.
To live nations had to receive from Joseph; he became a symbol of
the manifestation of the bread of life upon the earth. This is
typical of a people who have eaten of this bread from heaven and
henceforth live on account of that bread, so that they become the
bread of life manifesting the infallible consciousness of the Father
upon the earth, quickening all that come in contact with it.
Eating
this bead, the manna from heaven even though free for all is hidden
from the wise and the prudent who cling on to the believes of this
age. To eat this bread man must become like little children, letting
go of all wisdom of man and religion likewise. Like the two
disciples on the way to Emmaus who in the secrecy of the house ate
that bread and had their eyes opened to see the living one, every
man must sup on this bread then he will see himself as the One – the
Christ. This is the will of the Father that we all see with the
inner eye of understanding the mystery of the invisible beloved Son
and awaken into Him; this is the salvation of the Lord.
John
6:40 And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one
which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting
life: and I will raise him up at the last day.
Lot is
an example of those who receive this bread from heaven with
gratitude and find escape through commune with it. While he ate
unleavened bread with two angels from heaven behind locked doors,
the Spirit is indicating a supping on that pure spiritual
consciousness of the Father. Unleavened bread is bread without
yeast, and yeast is a symbol of the lies of the men of this age.
Lies are basically that which emanates from the consciousness that
denies the Spirit – the Christ within. Denying the Christ means
walking in carnality, this is basically the transgression of man.
Notice
the messengers (angels) who carried along with them the infallible
gift from heaven were not recognized by the inhabitants of the earth
– Sodom and Gomorrah; in fact the inhabitants of the city sought to
dishonor them. You at times wonder why do men reject the message
from the messenger. The world does not receive the messenger because
they are blinded by the illusionary lusts of this material world. It
was a discerning Lot who represents those who have ears to hear, and
eyes to see who recognized this divine knock on the door of his
heart saying:
Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice,
and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and
he with me. To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my
throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in
his throne. (Revelation 3:20-21).
At the
dawning of the new day, Lot was led out of the city by the angels
with an instruction: Escape for thy life; look not behind thee,
neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest
thou be consumed.
Symbolically, the Spirit is indicating how communion with this loaf
of bread from heaven ushers God’s elect into the glorious liberty of
the son(s) of God upon the everlasting hills of Zion, where the all
power and glory of the living God resides. It reveals the dawning of
the morning star in the consciousness of the sons of God as they
awaken from the dead back into their true immaterial Self. This is
the grace of the Lord Jesus or the power of the resurrection working
in us as we sup on that infinite consciousness of the Father
manifesting itself as the bread of life.
Perceiving the creation with the natural mind, there always seems to
be myriads of negativity around the man; many are sick, many are
dying, many are fainting for fear, all because they fail to
recognize that they are that one loaf of bread – the true spiritual
body of the living God. In his letter to the body, Paul says many
today suffer the things they suffer today because the fail to
recognize the Lord’s body [1 Corinthians 11:23-30]. Many are
unaware of their true incorruptible selves and as a result suffer
the curse of corruption, where the canker worm and the caterpillar
reign. Many fail to realize that we though being many upon the earth
are that one bread of life from heaven.
1Corinthians 10:17 For we being many are one bread, and one body:
for we are all partakers of that one bread.
On
might wonder, how can so many and diverse looking peoples be one?
Open up your imagination and look at bread isn’t it innumerable
flour particles kneaded up with oil that forms that one loaf. Aren’t
we all even though many baptized into that one celestial body by one
Spirit. We are called to eat this bread (fellowship) and be one with
this bread (the Spiritual body). Those that eat this bread will live
by the Lord, meaning they become that bread from heaven.
The
ministry of reconciliation of the Father quickens man and raises him
out of material consciousness back into the one Spiritual body of
the Lord from heaven, which we have defined as that one loaf of
bread (one embodiment of life). The lord is sending forth His word
through His messengers and through direct inward impartation in this
hour to gather his sons back into that one bread, which is why we
hear messages like this today. Jesus demonstrated this when he fed
the multitudes with bread after which he sent his disciples
(messengers - angels) to gather up all the fragments of bread that
were left over into twelve / seven baskets (Mark 8:19-20). First of
all there is a feasting on the bread, then the gathering in twelve
and seven baskets, a symbol of sonship and perfection. This feeding
of the multitudes and gathering of the crumbs in one was divinely
ordered to demonstrate the ministry of reconciliation awakening man
and gathering him into that that one spiritual body in which dwells
the fullness of God.
This
is the day of remembrance and a gathering in of the sons of God from
among all the nations of the earth beneath in one, according to the
good and perfect will of God. No matter how hopeless and far away a
man may sense himself to be from the body, the grace and power of
God will gather him back into that body. His grace and his love
reach out to the very depths of hell to fetch his sons who have
hitherto made their beds in hell.
Deuteronomy 30:1-4 And it shall come to pass, when all these things
are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set
before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations,
whither the LORD thy God hath driven thee, And shalt return unto the
LORD thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I
command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart,
and with all thy soul; That then the LORD thy God will turn thy
captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather
thee from all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath scattered
thee. If any of thine be driven out unto the outmost parts of
heaven, from thence will the LORD thy God gather thee, and from
thence will he fetch thee:
No
matter how dispersed and far away upon the earth the bread crumbs
(souls of men) might be, hear the word of the Master: Gather up
the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost [John 6:12]. His
good immutable will is to quicken you and gather you unto Himself
irrespective of your poor opinion of yourself, revealing the
vicarious nature of the ministry of reconciliation of God in the
midst of the earth today. Listen!! God is not interested in what you
perceive as your short comings, He is not interested in how many
times you think you have fallen, He is only interesting in you
coming to the knowledge of the truth that you are in all reality the
expressed image of His invisible image, and the brightness of His
glory.
Wait
on the Lord; first of all seize from activities and go into the
secrecy of your inner upper chamber, eat and fill yourself with this
bread from heaven which we have defined as the consciousness or mind
of the Father God administered through the Spirit. He says do this
in remembrance of the one life of the Father. In so doing, you will
consciously gathered unto that one loaf of bread, because the veil
of ignorance is destroyed forever, and the majestic beauty of the
eternal living One - your true self upon the everlasting mountains
comes blazing forth as the Sun at noonday [Isaiah 25:6].
Learn
from the butterfly that seizes from all eternal activity and enters
into the inner secret chamber in what is termed the pupal or resting
stage. In the pupal state the butterfly feeds and nourishes itself
on substance unseen from without; doesn’t this remind you of the
hidden manna – the Father’s bread. This hidden substance serves in
aiding the butterfly in its miraculous conversion from the lowly
wormlike caterpillar – the terrestrial, into the beautiful airborne
butterfly. Again this is a pointer to man’s ascension from the
inglorious terrestrial creature into the glorious celestial creature
who is the Lord Himself.
There
is no other salvation to be ever heard than for a man to rediscover
himself in that one bread of life from heaven. Eat this bread,
awakened to your true spirituality and be that bread, the quickening
Spirit giving life to the world.
In His
Majestic Name
Trevor
Eghagha
