Excerpts

The Lighthouse Apostolic Centre

Sunday, 27th October 2024

(Day 7 – Grand Finale)

 The Warfare and the Rewards of

the Last Day Army

Rev. Kayode Oyegoke

1. Heb. 1:1-2 – Jesus has been appointed heir of all things. Prior to then, what God gave to Jesus was in ‘His hand’; and He was given those things to use (John 3:35-36, 1 John 1:1). In biblical wisdom when God puts things into one’s hands, it means He is giving him the very access to own them – to use them for work; and by working them out, he owns and inherits them. That is the first hand-held method of the attitude in the spirit, which God has ordained for His subjects. Hence, when God gives things into our hands, He expects us to use them as our own.

2. In the days of Jesus’ flesh, He held things. After that season, He still had to be empowered again and appointed to hold greater things differently. Presently, He holds them as an heir of them (Heb. 1:2). When the Father first granted things to Jesus, He was entrusted to keep them and own them, even to have them in His hands until He proved to all and sundry that man is worthy of them. What Satan is trying to prove to God is that He cannot give things so precious to man, even things He never gave to angels. But God has a pattern to commit His things into the hands of man: we will first be trained by them until we are made to hold them anew as our own.

3. Heb. 1:3 – Jesus has already used and owned the ‘all things’ that He is upholding; He has now been appointed to give them to other men. Those things currently belong to Him, but God wants ‘the things of God’ to be ours (2 Cor. 5:17-18). It should not be that all things (within us) are of us; all things (within us) are supposed to be of God. God has His things, but we are supposed to have access to them and then inherit them, but we cannot inherit them until we hold them and overcome by them. It is he that overcomes that inherits all things (Rev. 21:7).

4. God gives us all things through hearing, then seeing, and looking upon until they enter our hands (where we hold them) – that is when we can use them. However, for God’s things to become our own, there are certain trials we will face, and the goal is to make us leave the things we are holding. Resultantly, some people will have the privilege to hear God’s things in their lifetime on Earth, but they will not be able to endure the process of owning them.

5. Heb. 2:5 – God wants to give man the world to come; that is the gift of God to man, not the present world. In God’s script for mankind, Churches are supposed to be a house for things to come. When souls get born again, they should be ushered into knowing the things to come. Churches are not meant to give miracles to people – that is secondary; Churches are learning centers: Churches should be called the house of judgment.

6.  John 8:31 – One ingredient by which we know a disciple is that he ‘knows’. A disciple does not just believe, a disciple knows: a disciple is he who is disciplined by light. We cannot practice in the spirit without being schooled. When anybody goes into the realm of the spirit without being an elite, he will do little; an elite is one who is enlightened. Therefore, we need wisdom to navigate the invisible. Knowledge is the first baptism of the soul into the realm of the spirit to practice in spiritual affairs (Hos. 4:6). Thus, what wisdom and revelation do is to flood the mind and the eyes of our understanding with light. We need this so much in the Church.

7. Development is not in that a nation has money; it takes light to knock off primitivism. We are not to acquire too much and not know what to do with it. True light brings a discipline of selflessness; it defeats fear (Ps. 27:1). What many of us know as fear is physical opposition and threats, but it is more than that. A man can fear his future. Fear is a source of wisdom (both with respect to the fear of the Lord and the fear of the devil).

8. The casting out of the dragon in Rev. 12:9 has not yet occurred; the adversary is still in the air (Eph. 2:2). It is from the air that he governs nations. Satan will use all manner of means to maintain his place in the Heavens (air). The Heaven in the book of Rev. 12:4 is not God’s own Heaven, it is the Heaven beneath the three Heavens where the angels are – it is called ‘the air’. The devil has been a prince and he has been ruling (Dan. 10:13, Eph. 2:2). If we want to remove him, much must be done, seeing that he will strategize against his removal.

9. When Jesus destroyed Satan and triumphed over him, he did not relinquish his position as a prince. Jesus went up to Heaven, but the devil did not leave the air. This means that what Jesus did could not bring him down. Jesus had finished the work, but He had not completely finished it. Something else ought to be done which Jesus had not done which goes beyond dying on the cross. Satan is staying here because people want Him to stay; the people are not willing (Ps. 110:1-3).

10. Ps. 110:1-2 – To make His enemies His footstool is to cast them to the Earth; but this will not be a job done by the Son – God the Father will do it. He will prepare another after His (the Lord’s) strength, who will be as strong as He is, having been fed with His strength. A rod is not a stick, it is strength (a person); the rod refers to a company of people who have become one, to whom God will give authority. Thus, out of Jesus’ strength, God will raise a scepter of men who will rule in the space where spirits are. This explains why Satan was troubled about Paul; he was reminded of the time of his fall.

11. Ps. 110:3 – The people will not be willing, not until the day of His power. They will not be willing as long as spirits are in the air. When people do not agree with the fullness of the gospel that pertaineth to the Son who is at the right-hand side of the Majesty on High, it is because there are beings and princes in charge. Hence, what we should do is to gun for the day of His power. The answer to Ps. 110:3 is Rev. 12:5: the rod.

12. Rev. 12:1-3 – Zion is not just a mountain, Zion is a Church. Isa. 66:7-8 is Zion travailing. It is not just one person that was born; this does not refer to Jesus’ birth, it is the birth of children: children are what make up this company of one child. The promise of Zion travailing is a New Testament occurrence; it is the end of the world, wherein some men will be born out of the Church. These will be the first Christians who will display the picture of ascending to God’s Throne after Jesus. They will be caught up to God and His Throne (Rev. 12:4-5).

13. Rev. 3:21 – There is no sitting on the Throne for any believer without overcoming. A believer may assert that he is seated with Him in heavenly places; but as true as that may seem, it is not the actual reality (Eph. 2:6). What God did was to make us seated ‘in Jesus’; we ourselves are not seated on the Throne. Many Christians are seated ‘in’ Him (because of new birth), but they do not have what it takes to sit on the Throne by themselves. However, a time will come when Jesus takes us out of Himself and causes us to sit ‘with’ Him. As long as we are children, we cannot sit; the sitting capacity comes with age. Hence, Jesus will not entrust us to sit on the Throne until He has finished with us and thoroughly made us fit for it.

14. Ps. 110:2 – Ruling in the midst of our enemies is how they will be made our footstool. Jesus Himself will not go to rule in the midst of His enemies; He has already destroyed them. He has left the ruling for us. That explains why despite all that the Lord has done to gain redemption for man, the enemies are still in the air. The high places in Eph. 6:12 are in the air. Satan is not the only one there; he is their master, but there are spirits of wickedness in high ‘places’. Wickedness is in ranking; there are many wickednesses that we will interface before we face ‘the wicked’. Rev. 12:5 – The purpose of ruling all nations is to destroy the twisted (wicked) spirits, and the way to rule all nations is with the rod of iron.

15. Rev. 12:11 – This manchild is not one man – ‘they’ overcame him. However, even though they overcame the dragon, he did not come down; they had to further rule nations with the rod of iron. Jesus wants to cut Satan down, and He will cut him down! It is possible for one to overcome the dragon but not cut him down; Jesus overcame him but did not cut him down. To cut him down is another page of work, but God did not want Jesus to do the job – He reserved it for His children. Because of this, God raised men who ascended, became one, and overcame the devil; then, this child that overcame began to rule all nations with the rod of iron (Rev. 12:5).

16. The rod of iron will be used before Jesus comes, before the millennial, and before the rapture (Rev. 2:26). Satan has made overcoming the dragon a futuristic event that has now been procrastinated, but it is supposed to happen before the rapture. Overcoming does not require that we die; in fact, overcoming will happen before physical death. Physical death has nothing to do with grading Christians and rewarding them: a man can die as a Christian and has not yet overcome. Physical death is only a departure to a higher planet called Heaven.

17. Two things that come with the rod of iron are the giving of the morning star and empowerment to break the nations (Rev. 2:27-28). To rule the nations is to break the nations. The next phase of Christianity is to colonize nations, this will go beyond getting nations born again, it is about breaking them. That design in men called ‘disobedience’ must be broken (2 Cor. 10:5-6).

18. God is raising men, even a company of people whose purpose is to war with the air. These ones are not ground forces, they are an army of the air. They have the wisdom and might to war with the adversaries (1 Tim. 1:18). Satan’s strength of staying in the air is in the hands of humanity (Eph. 2:2). He works in the children of disobedience to have a reason to remain in the air. He wants to work disobedience to a degree where man will never agree with God in His ultimate will. It is not easy for a man to do all the will of God (Acts 13:22, John 4:34). Satan hates the will of God; he is a warrior against His will. This is why it is hard to find a man who will do what God wants because what He wants is not often what we want.

19. Satan stands on the ground of people’s disobedience to remain in the air. The reason men are not willing to obey God is because of this spirit that strengthens disobedience. This is why God has to send men who will break the nations and make them willing (Ps. 110:3). Thereafter, strength must have been restored to humanity (Rev. 12:9-10). Isaiah 14:12 – Nations are weak and therefore serve the devil, but too strong against God (to serve God); they are too weak to return to Him and be willing for Him.

20. Rev. 12:10 – In legal terms, an accuser is a complainant, while the accused is the guilty. Satan is arguing his case in the temple of justice in Heaven. He has been in Presence before, and so he knows that God will not displace him just like that; he raises accusations in confidence, knowing that laws will hinder God. That is why we have an Advocate, who is interceding for the sons (Heb. 7:25). This company would not have overcome without Jesus’ measure of prayers, intercession, and supplications.

21. Rev. 12:11 – The Bible uses the word ‘overcame’ to show that the dragon was not cast down by force, he was overcome. Satan has boasted that no man can overcome him, asserting that all man is flesh and dust (Isa. 40:6, Gen. 3:19). Even when God is turning flowers to stone and raising dust, he claims that dust will return to the dust and so man can never change – claiming that all he needs to do is to test the work, but Jesus’ intercession prevails.

22. God, the Throne, and the rod of iron are the rewards of an overcomer. The manchild overcame Satan by the power of everlasting life, and they broke the nations by the power of Eternal Life. God knew that men needed to break through into the eternal realm because the eternal realm is higher than the everlasting. Satan is not eternal, he was everlasting but he died. However, the rod of iron is an eternal reward to men who have obeyed God and have come over the dragon.

23. The rod will not be used on Satan but on nations (Ps. 110:2). The life of fallen spirits is no longer in themselves: they have poured themselves in people. Hence, touching them with the rod of iron will make no difference; they will simply revive because their life has already been poured into people. But what the rod of iron really does is to break the house of these spirits in men. Men are the ones holding Satan for continuity. Allegiance is not an ordinary currency in the spirit, if a person likes an evil spirit, even if the spirit is cast out, it will not leave (Mark 5:6-13). God is bringing men to a place where they begin to make up their will for God.

24. The Earth will not be thoroughly harvested until the rod of iron has been used: that is, when eternal strength has been invested in life. Eternity should visit our Earth (Rev. 12:5). The manchild was caught up to the Eternal God and to the Throne of God, which is eternal; he was also caught up to the rod of iron, which is also eternal. We need an entirely new tool to harvest the Earth and make men turn from the devil, giving their allegiance to God. God broke Nebuchadnezzar – the rod of His strength was at work upon him (Dan. 4:14-16, 32-36). Nebuchadnezzar ate grass for seven years; no man lives by feeding on grass alone. This means God conditioned his body like that of a herbivore; that is rod.

25. There will be massive repentance. The rod of iron is not in telling people, ‘repent for Jesus loves you’; things from the future will be engaged and as nations know where they are coming from, they will begin to cry. What these company of men will do will scare kings; and by the time they have finished, they would have done all by preparing the air for rapture (1 Thess. 4:17). No spirit should be hanging in the air when we will be meeting with the Lord.

26. Rev. 2:26-28 – We cannot separate the morning star from the rod of iron – they work hand-in-hand: one break and the other leads. The morning star is a shepherd-ic staff. One is a rod, while the other is a staff (Ps. 23:4). When we speak of staff, we are not necessarily referring to a stick; anything that has the ability to lead is a star. Hence, what Jesus was saying in the verse above is, ‘I will give you the ball of leadership’. Inside that ball called a star is the constitution of how to lead a soul and get it saved to the uttermost.

Interpretation of Tongues 1

“Visit, it is a visit. Bring you visitations. Eternity, eternity, eternity.” For saith the Lord, “for as the new Heaven and the new Earth has no seas separating them, so also I am causing the veil, yea even the veil, even the curtain, the veil between things everlasting.”

“Ogo (glory), ogo (glory), ogo iye (glory of life), ogo (glory). I bring glory, I bring glory to see; I bring glory to discern. I bring glory to look, even glory to look, even into the world eternal. Even to begin to see the things eternal. It is eternity. To see into the eternal world, see into the eternal age, see into things eternal. Come into the beginning of eternal access. It is eternity. It is eternal things. I remove the veil. I bring grace to see things even into eternal things. Come even into eternal counts, even eternal wisdom. For things eternal. Stand on the heights, even on the shore of things everlasting. See eternal, eternal access, eternal door; eternal permission, eternal world. It is the reign of eternity; even the glory for eternal things is calling. Come and see.”

Prophecy:

“Come to Me, I am here to form, I am here to bring you up to Me. I have come to bless you. I am in here for to bless you. I am here for to come to you, for blessing you. I have come to bless you all, I will bless you; I will bless you and I will bless you. You will be blessed, Amen.”

Interpretation of Tongues 2

“It will happen! Your generation. It is the reason I chose your generation. It is the reason for your generation. It is the reason why I am waiting for your generation, why I am feeding you, why I am committed even to your generation. Because it will happen. For the will for to cause even the manchild, even the manchild generation for to be born is already in motion. You are eating even the things that would make that nature, even that manchild to be formed in you.”

“For the adversary had vowed that no Church, no one in the Church, none in the Churches will come this far. But He that sits upon the Throne in the Heavens shall laugh. Ha ha ha. Why do the heathens rage and why do they imagine a vain thing? For it will happen, it has already begun to happen. For this purpose, I raised My servant and for this purpose, I am raising a generation. A generation out of whom a company of the manchild will arise.”

Witness:

This message was a warfare – we warred with spirits. Certain spirits over our Heavens have been warred against. Understanding has come to visit us, and there has been a deposit of new strength in us. We will be found moving forward. Certain stones have been rolled away from our path because visitation has occurred to our understanding. Spirits live in ignorance; they are intentional when we miss it and are out of the way. I see the Lord saying that He is repairing some of us from the inside. We need tuning; by reason of today’s meeting, certain things have occurred. You are being fine-tuned so that you can walk well and please the Lord. This is called purpose. Nothing on Earth can fulfill the purpose of a man.

Prophecy

“Aka ara ni o (He is cake). Aka ara Jesu ni (Jesus is cake).”