My Encounter With The Prophet Jeremiah 3

Friends, what can I say? We are at a time when our heavenly father wishes for us to not only experience the deep realities of his presence but to understand them, so much so that we ourselves become "the deep."

It is undeniable that there have been many who have had and documented all manners of encounters with God, divine beings, and realities of the realms unseen. It is undeniable that amongst the many who have had their spiritual sight opened, only a few have truly understood what it is they have seen.

If we were to speak frankly, we would say that spiritual sight without spiritual understanding is not spiritual sight at all. Tell me, friends, how can there be true sight where understanding is lacking?

So, I would ask that you indulge us once more as we not only narrate an experience but also narrate it with understanding.

It is no secret that every major prophet spoken of in the Bible was not just a person but represented an attainable dimension in God, and every book they wrote was a gateway into that dimension.

Yes, do not consider it strange if it is said that it is quite possible, and ought to be normal, for one to converse directly with the spirit of Ezekiel whilst reading the book of Ezekiel. There is much more to "meditating" on the "written word" than the plain repetition and memorization of a few verses.

The entirety of the scriptures is like a picture of the son of God, and the different books are like pixels in that picture, each unveiling a unique and crucial aspect of the whole image.

In the realms of the spirit, every book in the Bible is a living person. Every book encapsulates a "unique expression of the spirit of Christ".

I know this primarily because of a time when I was granted access to a particular library in heaven, and upon opening each book in that library, a person appeared and began speaking with me (an experience I will narrate in full detail in the coming weeks). I know this secondarily because it is written explicitly in 2 Cor 3:1-3 & Rev 20:12.

For example, Isaiah is a book but it is a book that contains the spirit of Isaiah himself. If you read the book with an unveiled face, you will not just be reading letters but will encounter the very spirit behind the letter; you will encounter the spirit of Isaiah.

One might then say, "The spirit of Isaiah? Why not the spirit of Christ? " The very name Isaiah is pronounced "Yeshaya" in Hebrew, which means "God is salvation". If one can see very clearly, the entirety of the book of Isaiah speaks of "Yehoshua", Christ, the salvation of God.

This spirit of Isaiah is a unique expression of Christ, just as the spirit of Paul is also a unique expression of Christ. That is why it was written in the book of Acts:

"And the evil spirit answered and said, “Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are you?” -Acts 19:15

To encounter Isaiah, Moses, Paul etc. is to encounter the Christ himself, expressed uniquely through those men. They are men who have acquired their eternal house (identity), in their Father's house (identity).

“In my father's house (identity), are many mansions (identities)”

- John 14:2

In the same way a president has one identity, yet within that identity exist the identities of the vice president, senate, governors, house of reps, etc., so too are there many identities in God.

Every man that comes into the world has two identities (houses). These two identities (houses) are not separate from one another. The first is our unique and temporal role and function here on earth. The second is our unique and eternal role and function in God. That is why Paul said:

"For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands."

- 2 Cor 5:1

Let's say God creates a person upon the earth to dance. Dancing, we can say, is their temporal role upon the earth. Dance, however, is a medium through which something intangible is made tangible. The question is, what are you making tangible through your dance? Now, this is where the heavenly identity comes in.

When we discover our identity in God, our house, our "name", it becomes the driving force behind what we do upon the earth. Then, through our physical identity, our heavenly identity expresses God in a completely unique way.

Even if one's physical body passes away, because they have acquired and put on an identity that does not begin or end in time, such people continue to live on. This is one of the mysteries of what "eternal life" is.

This is why Jesus was hard to understand. Sometimes he spoke as though he was thirty years old, other times as though he was 10,000 years old.

Yes, physically, he might have been a carpenter, a son of Mary and Joseph, a brother to James and an Israelite. These, however, were temporary identities that he detached himself from and used them as channels of expression for his eternal identity.

Friends, I am revealing a mystery to you know, meditate on these words:

If the soul yokes itself to something that is temporary, it dies. If the soul yokes itself to something that is eternal, it lives. Death and life occur as a result of what the soul attaches itself to; it happens as a result of who the soul MARRIES.

The moment the soul breaks free from attachment to temporary identities (brother, father, mother, sister, lawyer, cook, victim, thief, liar, etc.) and yokes itself to its eternal identity in God, it can never die.

If you can READ, you will now understand that there is more to being "unequally yoked" than who you physically marry or make friends with.

Reflect my friends, reflect.

So, every man who truly walks with God becomes a unique signature and expression of his immortal spirit. Even if such person physically dies, the new spiritual identity that was created as a result of their union with God lives on. This is what Paul was teaching when he said:

"But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with him ." - 1 Cor 6:17

If you become one spirit with God how can you die? If you become one flesh with the world, how can you live? Do not marvel when we say that many of the saints and prophets who lived thousands of years ago are still alive till this day and are still teaching, instructing, prophesying and ministering.

I am not speaking of what I have read in books but of what I have seen with my own eyes. How did Peter, James, & John behold Moses & Elijah upon the olive mountain if such men died when their bodies died? Those men are very much alive and exist in their eternal identity in Christ.

In the eternal identity of Christ, there are many eternal identities. Are these identities "distinct" from Christ? Yes. Are these identities "separated" from Christ? No. There are 50+ trillion cells (mansions) in our body (house). Yet, they are but unique expressions of one thing.

Even though there may be a distinction between Isaiah and the spirit of Christ, they is no separation between them. In the kingdom of God, distinction and separation are not the same thing. The Father and the Son are two "distinct" beings, but who can put asunder what the Lord has joined together?

That is why the spirit of Christ said:

"You search the Scriptures because you think they give you eternal life. But the Scriptures point to me!" - John 5:39

If the scriptures were something separate from him, why would he say it points to him?

As there is "one" humanity with over 7+ billion expressions, we must understand that there is one "divinity" with an untold number of expressions. The book of Isaiah is one that expressed God in a way that is distinct from Jeremiah, Paul, or Peter, but not separated from it.

As a man puts on a unique and distinct identity in Christ, so also does Christ take on a unique and distinct identity in man. It is for this reason Paul said:

"For as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ." - 1 Cor 12:12

To encounter the spirit of a just man is to encounter the spirit of Christ, "united" with that just man. If we were speak simpler, we would say that to encounter Paul is to encounter "Paul-Christ", to encounter Isaiah is to encounter "Isaiah-Christ", to encounter Moses is to encounter "Moses-Christ".

Even though they might be "distinct" from the man of Galilee, they are of the same spirit with him and will speak and do just as he did, even though it may express differently. They will never say or do anything contrary to the already established nature and character of the spirit of Christ. That is why Jesus could boldly say:

"Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them." - Matthew 5:17

He could say this boldly because he knew what spirit they were of, and in Christ, there are no contradictions. Why would he abolish what is in alignment with him? When one reads the old and new testament, there might "seem to be" contradictions on the surface but at the root, it is one spirit expressed in different ways.

Even if there are "seeming" contradictions in how Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John narrate Jesus' life, there is no difference in the heart and spirit of the message they all convey. That is why Paul said:

"But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed." Galatians 1:8

If an angel, a prophet, a throne, a dominion or any divine being appears to us, they do not appear as authorities in and of themselves but as extensions of God. Even Jesus himself did not come as an authority in and of himself, for he said:

"I can of Myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge; and My judgment is righteous, because I do not seek My own will but the will of the Father who sent Me." - John 5:30-31

Yes, every messenger of God comes as an extension of God himself, exposing a unique side of God's face necessary for that person, people, or time. "What is the purpose of this long premise?" you might ask.

Well, I have said all this to say that in encountering Jeremiah, I encountered the spirit of Christ himself. Except, this was Christ expressed in a unique way that was crucial for my growth and development at that point in time.

I remember that experience well, seeing Jeremiah lying on my bed after giving me a list of all the things he wanted to eat. I remember being marvelled by his gargantuan size and how my bed was too small to completely accommodate his body.

I thought to myself, "How can a being such as this make himself so comfortable in my home and even proceed to sleep?" "He even wants me to cook for him?" Strange, strange, and very strange!!

I still was very excited to receive the list of what he wanted to eat from him. Remember now, this was not a "dream" as we would commonly understand it. No no, my body may have been asleep but I was fully conscious of the fact that my body was asleep and I was not in the physical world.

I looked at the list and I saw things like "10 packets of Indomie", "5 tubers of yam", "4 whole chickens" and many other large amounts of foodstuffs that I thought it impossible for one man to consume. I then looked at him, sleeping on my bed. As I was observing his sheer height and build, I said to myself, "Look at how large this man is. Surely he can eat everything."

So I proceeded to make all the meals he asked for and presented them to him to eat. Ahh, the joy on his face was palpable as he ate the meal. He will put a piece in his mouth, look at me, smile, and then continue eating. I felt loved. I felt pitied, but in a good way. I felt safe.

Yes, it is so easy to have an experience such as this and be quick to brag to one's friends, saying: "Will you believe it? Jeremiah came to my house and ate my food! " In doing so, one may acquire some form of prestige amongst peers, but one would miss the significance of the experience altogether.

In missing the significance, in missing the message, it would have been better if such an experience had never happened. It is no small thing to be visited by the spirit of a just man. I must confess that I do not say this to my own glory, but to the glory of the greatness of such a being.

I will say this as simply as I can: angels, messengers, and emissaries of God might sometimes appear in a playful and childlike manner. They, however, do not play! At least not in the way we understand the word "play." Footballers play football, but when you observe their training regiment, diet and lifestyle, you clearly see that in their "playing" there is profound seriousness.

The messengers of God are of tremendous seriousness, and they do not believe in wasting their time or their words. If Jeremiah appears to ask for food, it must be assumed that something much deeper is being communicated, something I will explain to you now.

In the same way a man enjoys a meal that is tasteful and curated to his liking, so too does God enjoy a meal. It then begs one to ask, "I know men eat food and are nourished by it, but God?" "What could God possibly eat?" Paul teaches very succinctly:

"Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship." - Romans 12:1

The word for "sacrifice" in Hebrew is "korban". Interestingly, the word "Korban" has a "parent word" called "Kerev". The word "kerev" means "to draw near". Surely, as knowing the parent of a child gives us a better understanding of who that child is, so does knowing a "parent word" give a better understanding of a word.

If the word "korban", which means "sacrifice", has a parent called "kerev", which means "draw near", this tells us that at the heart of sacrifice is a desire to draw nearer to God. On the other hand, it tells us that it is impossible to draw closer to God without the willingness to sacrifice.

Of course it is impossible! The very essence and nature of God is sacrifice! For God so loved the world the he "gave!" Is it possible to be close to anyone if you and that person don't share anything in common? Isn't it shared interests that bind people together?

Certainly, if drawing nearer to God means being more like him, then drawing nearer to God means becoming more sacrificial in nature.

The very idea that we can draw closer to God, gaining everything from him whilst offering nothing, is not only unbiblical, but actually demonic. It is an idea that teaches us that it is okay to have one hand wide open to receive and the other clenched tightly to give. Jesus said:

"And whoever does not carry his cross and follow Me cannot be My disciple.

Which of you, wishing to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost to see if he has the resources to complete it?" - Luke 14:27-28

Jesus would not have emphasized on the cost of following him, if it was all about taking from him and offering nothing in return. Even in the world, can a medical doctor demand a six figure salary without offering the same value in return?

Is it possible to sit before Jeff Bezos, demanding $50 million from him without a proposal that is just as valuable? Is it possible, or even right, to demand the best from anyone without offering our best in return?

Our generation is plagued with a distorted ideology that it is our right to demand the highest value whilst offering the least. We complain at the exorbitant prices of prestigious educational institutions yet we are not half as committed to learning as they are to teaching.

Why do schools offer scholarships? It is because they have found students who are just as serious to learn as they are to teach. As much as every educational institution requires money to run its various departments, their greatest joy is a student who has counted the cost of learning and is willing to pay it.

To them, that is the highest form of payment they can receive. That is why they take on all financial obligations for such a student.

Even if one has paid the entirety of their school fees, even if one's parents have donated thousands of dollars to this or that department, the student that wins the heart of the true teacher is the student that is as hungry to learn as the teacher is desperate to teach.

After Jesus preached to the 5,000 and made the "outrageous" claim that "unless you eat my flesh and drink my blood, you shall by no means enter the kingdom of God." He was deserted by the thousands, yet of his disciples it was written:

"You do not want to leave too, do you?” Jesus asked the Twelve.

Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. We have come to believe and to know that you are the Holy One of God.” - John 8:67-69

It is very clear why Jesus chose the twelve. Yes, he came to offer himself to the world. Yes, he came to give, but there was something his disciples offered in return that no one else did. This is what set them apart. He didn't just feed them, there was something they FED HIM.

Their faith fed him, their devotion fed him, their willingness to pursue truth unto death fed him. Yes, they might have runaway at the time of the cross but Jesus looked inside of these men and saw people who will go all the way with him.

Who wouldn't invest the best of themselves in such people?

As loving and generous as Jesus is, there are parts of himself he only reserves "for the few". As much as he wanted to share his knowledge and gift of His father with the world, he never gave his pearls to swine.

Although there were many who came around Jesus to be helped by him and though many saw him as a means to an end, only few cared about helping him; only few cared about making themselves a means to his own end.

I want you to meditate on the twelve disciples who followed him daily and continued his work after his departure, I want you to meditate on the woman who poured oil upon his head, I want you to meditate upon Simon of Cyrene who carried his cross and Joseph of Arimathea who purchased his tomb.

I want you to meditate on Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Susanna, and all the other women who not only funded Jesus' ministry from their pockets, but remained with him up until the foot of the cross, AFTER EVERYONE HAD FLED.

These are people who came to FEED, not just eat. They came to nourish the nourisher. They came to help the helper. We think so much about how we need help and how we ought to be helped, but seldom do we think of how we can help.

My friends, listen to me, if Jesus' greatest desire is to see you liberated, the greatest help you can offer him is to TAKE YOURSELF HALF AS SERIOUSLY AS HE TAKES YOU.

Yes, an investor might inject little funds in attempt to save a dying company. The bulk of his investment money, however, will only go into a company that will yield returns. God has never been in the business of waste. Remember the parable of the fig tree and the parable of the talent.

Jesus will always give us something, always. There are however, parts of himself that we will never know nor benefit from unless we have something to offer him. Elisha's devotion to all Elijah had to teach him was in itself an offering. Elijah gave Elisha something he gave no one because Elisha gave him something no one had given him.

Listen to what Paul said:

"Brothers and sisters, I could not address you as people who live by the Spirit but as people who are still worldly—mere infants in Christ. I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for it. Indeed, you are still not ready." -1 Cor 3:1-3

Why did he give them milk and not solid food? Why did he preserve a certain portion of himself from them? It was because they were unwilling to carry the burdens of the knowledge that he had. They were still having petty fights and divisions amongst themselves.

How could he entrust his pearls to such people? Love is something given freely to all by God. Trust on the other hand, is earned. God does not reveal unless he can trust.

There are many who assume that spiritual knowledge and exposure is for entertainment. There are many who think God reveals things simply for the sake of knowing them. How can this be? It is written:

"I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you." - John 15:15

When God reveals his business to us, it is because he wishes for us to join him in carrying out that business. Before a child is of age, God reveals the destiny of that child to the parent or someone around who will begin "working with God" to bring that vision to pass.

When that child becomes of age, God reveals the child's destiny to the child himself in order for the child to begin working with God to bring that vision to pass. That willingness to do whatever it takes to bring the will of God into fruition, is food. That is why Jesus said:

“My food,” said Jesus, “is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work" - John 4:34

If Jesus is fed by doing the will of God and finishing it, doesn't that tell us that we feed him by seeking to do the same?

So, when Jeremiah communicated his hunger to me, when he said "feed me", he was inviting me to share the burdens of his assignment over my life. The large amount of food was a symbol of "the cost" required to work with him. Without paying that cost, he will seal himself up and keep his pearls.

Anyone who speaks of working with angels or powers of darkness, ask them and they will tell you. Before pearls are released, food must be eaten.

If we are to speak more practically now, we will say that this is why many people are yet to partner effectively with certain angels that have been sent to them; this is why many people have been denied access to certain realms in God. To put it quite frankly, they have nothing to offer.

Is it possible to apply for a promotion and get it without offering some form of expertise?

Every angel, every dimension of God, has its unique cost for access. The same is also true in the kingdom of darkness. You must be willing to part with something in order to function in each realm. "Why?" Some of you may ask, "Why do I have to let go of something?"

Well, the answer is simple. Fullness can only enter a place where there is a vacuum. If you have 1% of God, it is because that is as much space you have given him. If he says, "release this," it is because that thing is filling a place in your heart that he wishes to enter.

Some of us have been locked out of dimensions in God because we have refused to give him the food he wants. What is that particular food he wants to eat from you? "TOLULOPE STOP LYIING!!" That's it. The requirement is that you stop lying but you have refused to give him the food he wants, you have refused to help him. How will he release his pearls?

He has warned some of us to stop gossiping, but we have refused. He has warned some of us about that friend and that gathering. He has rebuked some of us concerning that TV show. He has been asking some of us to fast for almost a year now. Still, we refuse him all these things. How will he release his pearls?

I am speaking in a very simple way now, in the hopes that everyone who reads this understands the heart of what I am saying. The things I am saying are much deeper than just ceasing gossip or ending a relationship. However, I want to make sure that the heart of this message is not lost amidst too much complex speech.

When God was speaking to the churches in the book of revelation, he gave them a list of foods he wished to eat before releasing a pearl. It is written:

'“He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the midst of the Paradise of God.” ’' - Revelation 2:7

Before Abraham was blessed by Melchizedek, he gave an offering. Before Abraham was blessed by God in the form of three beings, he gave an offering. Even the salvation of God is given to those who "offer him their faith."

It is unfortunate that many "pastors" have used things like this as a tool to extort people of their money. They say things like "This blessing I have today, is only for people who can sow a seed of $10,000". Such things are foolishness and nothing short of witchcraft.

In my opinion, the person offering God for $10,000 and the person thinking God can be bought with $10,000 deserve each other. Deep down, they are both fraudsters who are trying to gain the most by offering the least.

That is why you have criminals in the church, who believe they are absolved of their crimes simply because they sowed the "biggest seeds". May such people perish with their money. As they have sown the wind, they will reap a tempest.

While it will always be good to materially bless those who bless us spiritually and bring material blessings to the temple that blesses us, material blessings are the least of the offerings we can give to God and to people who are truly sent by God.

The widow brought a "mite" and the "rich men" brought bags of money. Yet, Jesus considered the offering of the widow greater than that of the rich men. Is it because there wasn't use for the thousands of dollars those men brought? Certainly not.

Of what use, however, are thousands of dollars when the people managing the money do not have a heart like the widow? Yes, in that parable, what the widow offered more than those men was her heart.

Understand this, money is required for the advancement of the kingdom and we shouldn't wait until we are told before we support a good cause with our material possessions. Nevertheless, a yielded heart is a rarer commodity to come across than money.

Trillions of dollars cannot purchase what Jesus was able to purchase with twelve yielded men. A yielded heart will forever be a greater offering. Samuel understood this, that is why he said:

"But Samuel replied: “Does the Lord delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obeying the Lord? To obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed is better than the fat of rams." - 1 Sam 15:22

In those days, wealth was measured majorly by gold, land, and livestock. To offer a ram to be burnt is equivalent to donating a large sum of money. Yet, to God, obedience is a higher currency than those things and that was the food God required from Saul.

My friends, are you understanding me? Are you understanding the significance of what Jeremiah asked of me? Are you able to READ?

Indeed, Solomon was right when he said "money answers all things". Very few, however, have paused to ask "exactly what kind of money is he speaking of?" It is said that Jesus was given as a ransom for us. That means Jesus himself is currency with purchasing power.

Exactly what kind of currency is he?

Hmmmm, the spirit of God is now ministering to me that there are some of you that he has given dreams where money was demanded of you. You woke up thinking to yourself "Ohh, I need to put money here or there." Whilst there might be some truth in that, something much more is being required of you.

The access you have been seeking, the entrance you have been hoping for, is tied to that food you have refused to cook.

CAN YOU READ?

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