The Lighthouse Apostolic Centre
School of the Spirit
10th January 2025
The True Light is Now Shining - Part 4
Pastor Tosin Gabriel
Interpretation of Tongues 1
“Sound, sound, trumpet, sound, trumpet, sound, trumpet, for the Spirit of the Lord Jesus is here, to open the Lord Jesus, to open onto you the Lord Jesus, to open here the Lord Jesus. See Jesus, that you might be made to see Jesus, see Jesus, trumpet Jesus, teach Jesus, sound the Lord Jesus.”
“We brought you feast, feast to feast you, to feast you with the revelation of the Lord Jesus, to feast you, to feed you, to dine you, to cause you to dine in the revelation of Jesus. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus wants to be taught, Jesus wants to be spoken, Jesus wants to be heard, Jesus wants to be trumpeted, Jesus wants to be sounded. Sound Jesus, speak Jesus, trumpet Jesus, say Jesus, speak Jesus, spell Jesus, by the Spirit of Jesus, by the Spirit of the Lord Jesus. The Angel of the Lord Jesus, the Spirit of the Lord Jesus is here.”
Message Begins
Revelation 1:1-8
The revelation of Jesus Christ is the unveiling of Jesus Christ which God gave unto Him. God gave Jesus Christ the revelation of Jesus Christ, which is the revelation of Himself and this revelation are things which must shortly come to pass and these things are to be shown to the servant of God. God gave Jesus it and that ‘it’ contains things, these things are the revelation.
Revelation 1:9
“I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.”
John was taken to the Isle of Patmos for the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ.
Revelation 1:2
“Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw.”
The container of the testimony of Jesus Christ is the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ.
Revelation 1:1-2
“The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John: Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw.”
Chapter one of the Book of Revelation introduces the essence of the Book of Revelation to the Churches.
Revelation 22:16
“I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.”
Chapter 4 of the Book of Revelation begins the message to the Churches, but Apostle John could not convey the message without first measuring them. This is because the record of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ is for the Churches.
John was driven to the Isle of Patmos because of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ. There were several attempts to kill Apostle John before this experience: he was thrown into hot oil but was not burnt, he was also thrown from the top of the cliff but was not hurt because of the manner of the message he was to keep alive to convey.
Revelation 22:1
“And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.”
John was to bear record of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ, these two things must be fulfilled in the Church.
Revelation 12:17
“And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.”
The commandments of God are kept through the word of God; you cannot keep the commandments of God without the word of God. What John received which He is to bear a record of are weapons of warfare.
1 Corinthians 4:4-5
“For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord. Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.”
We cannot win high things that exalt themselves above the knowledge of God without the word of God. The content of what was given to John is the content of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ.
Revelation 1:1
“The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John…”
The witness of the tongue that came earlier said, ‘My angel is here’. If it is the same angel that gave these things to John, then the angel knows exactly these things and he can bear witness to it. The Church: the Body of them that will overcome is fighting the last level of warfare. These things have to be opened so that men can use them.
Revelation 12:17
“And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.”
They keeping the commandment of God is not just keeping it as a treasure only, it also means they are using those commandments.
John 14:21 NIV
“Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them.”
The Bible uses the word keeping as doing, keeping the commandments is obeying them. It means they are not just housing it alone but they are also doing and using it. A people must use these things shortly; meaning a people will obey shortly for the dragon to fall. The target is that if the dragon can fall, Earth will experience a new season they have never entered into, for a long time.
There is a season mankind has not known since Adam, the only person who had a free atmosphere was Adam. After the era of the Garden of Eden, the Heavens were closed up. We were all born with closed Heavens.
Romans 3:23
“For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God…”
This means we don’t have glorious Heaven, and Heaven is closed because of the person staying there who is casting a veil upon us. The closed Heaven is in our minds.
2 Corinthians 4:3 (NIV 1984)
“And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing.”
Everybody carries one veil or the other. We are all veiled, if we are not veiled we are supposed to be seeing God the way He sees us.
1 Corinthians 13:12 NIV
“For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.”
There is a way God sees us, God sees us as we are. We should know God the way He knows us. God knows all men, there is nothing that can be hidden from Him.
Hebrews 4:13
“Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.”
God wants to also give us such an eye that nothing will be hidden in God from us. We will know God the way He knows us.
1 John 3:2
“Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.”
What makes us not see God fully is because of closed heaven, we all have a closed heaven somewhere. The closed heaven is the veil in the minds. This veil is what we are all warring against. The veil has given us another judgment, attitude, and behavioral pattern. We are warring against what Satan has built inside of us. Overcoming Satan means we have overcome every constitution of him within and around us.
Revelation 12:11
“And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.”
Satan will not be fully defeated until he has been cast into the bottomless pit. Even when he is thrown into the bottomless pit, he will still deceive people who have the installation of his things in them. The word of God and the testimony of Jesus is brought to us to let us know we are housing a life that is not ours.
Revelation 1:2
“Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw.”
What you call ‘myself’ is Satan's thing; everybody is Satan’s keeper. Our feelings, our reactions, and our thoughts are all satanic, even the Bible sometimes can be read with a satanic lens.
The essence of the true light is to remove veils so that we can see well. Nobody knows Satan; a man can be walking with God and have Satan's things intact in him. Many things we are holding onto belong to Satan, Satan corrupted us from the beginning. We were born into perversion: parental upbringing and discipline are perverted because the people training us are also training us with Satan's things.
Revelation 12:11
“And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.”
Their life in this Scripture is not their life, it is Satan's life. It is the investment of Satan in our lives. We behave the way we do because one fallen spirit has tampered with our original persons.
1 John 1:8
“If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.”
Deceiving yourself is to say you want to be you - ‘being you’ is being Satan's offspring. Our soul is counterfeited, our soul is not new. Our warfare is to delete Satan's footprint and signature in our souls.
The things that will come to pass shortly is to give us the original; the originality of things from God is the word of God (Rev. 1:2).
Proverbs 19:7
“All the brethren of the poor do hate him: how much more do his friends go far from him? he pursueth them with words, yet they are wanting to him.”
Proverbs 19:5
“A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall not escape.”
The testimony of the Lord is true (steadfast, unchanging, sure). The testimony of Jesus was not initially His testimony; Jesus used it and it became His testimony. When He said He had finished the work that the Father gave Him, He was talking about the testimony.
John 8:18
“I am one that bear witness of myself, and the Father that sent me beareth witness of me.”
John 3:32
“And what he hath seen and heard, that he testifieth; and no man receiveth his testimony.”
Satan is beautiful, and that is why the whole world is still following after him.
Revelation 12:3
“And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.”
Revelation 13:3-4
“And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast. And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?”
It is the true light that reveals the real nature of Satan as the dragon. True light is the light of essence, it reveals the original property of any being. John used the true light to reveal Satan as the dragon.
Even after Satan fell, Isaiah still saw his brightness and called him a son of the morning because he was using a lower light and not the true light to see Satan.
Isaiah 14:12
“How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!”
A man who is not using the true light to see Satan will admire and worship him because only the true light can reveal the true essence of Satan.
John 14:30 (NIV1984)
“I will not speak with you much longer, for the prince of this world is coming. He has no hold on me…”
Satan cometh means that he will appear and manifest. Satan has a hold on men which he uses to pull them. We have to always prepare our hearts that Satan can use anybody and anything if they are available.
Matthew 16:22-23
“Then Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far from thee, Lord: this shall not be unto thee. But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.”
Satan can use anybody, even after the Father spoke through Peter (Matt. 16:16-17), Satan spoke through him afterward.
Peter was a lover of Jesus (John 21:15), he was fond of Him. But when Peter was telling Jesus not to do the will of God, Peter never knew he was speaking against the will of God. Satan was using him through his things in him. With true light, we begin to know when Satan wants to use us; this is when we begin to have discernment, judgment, and understanding.
John 14:30
“Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me.”
Satan had nothing of his things in Jesus. Satan does not have anything in our spirit because our spirit is a new man. Satan sometimes might not have his properties upon our bodies except the law which has been on the bodies from the beginning (the law of depreciation and corruption) when God cursed man in the Garden.
Genesis 3:19
“In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.”
It will take the true light to reverse this law in our bodies. We need to also pray for mercy on bodies.
1 John 1:8
“If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.”
Sin is Satan's property. If we do not acknowledge that we have sin we will not have freedom; we must not deceive ourselves. Self-deception is very dangerous. We might not be practicing physical manifestations of sin like stealing or lying but have internal works of sin like malice; there is none who does not have malice because malice is ill feeling. Ill feeling is a currency we can use every day, this nature is Satan's footprints. We have to be given weapons of warfare against the dragon.
The things that will be given to us that will come to pass shortly must be used by some people shortly so that the Heavens can be free (Rev. 1:1). So that for the first time, men will know that there is a better Heaven - the veil will be removed under true light for us to begin to think rightly.
The veil must first be removed from us before we can remove it from others, and the veil will be removed by the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ.
True light has its own properties; it is the light of the beginning. True light has the content of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus that is sure. A man used the true light and overcame with it.
Revelation 1:1
“The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John…”
What was to be shown to His servants are the secrets of overcoming, only the true light can fight the dragon and overcome him. Any man who faces the dragon without the true light will be defeated and won over by Satan.
Principalities, powers, rulers of the present world (Eph. 6:12) use men to carry out their works. Principalities are spirits that pioneer principles and policies upon the Earth. They orchestrate principles to make sure man does not have time for God.
Principalities use the educational sector and men in government to drive principles that will make men move farther away from God. Powers enforce these principles to be enacted and rulers of the darkness of this world darken the minds of men with the drive for ambition so that men will not consider God in their works. All spirits are users.
Satan does not use anyone who has not walked with God, his target is he who has journeyed from the Holy to the Most Holy place.
Ephesians 6:12
“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.”
There are weapons that can be used to fight these spirits.
Ephesians 6:14-17
“Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God…”
These are not weapons against the dragon, they are weapons against principalities, powers, rulers of this world, and against spiritual wickedness in high places. Higher weapons are required to war against the dragon which is the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ. These two things cannot be given to anyone who has not used the whole armor of God. Any man who uses the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ is a servant of God. Nobody can war against the dragon if he has not warred against principalities, powers, rulers of the darkness of this world, and against spiritual wickedness. We must have warred against lesser spirits before we can face the dragon who is the last spirit.
The true light is needed because a time will come when the Church who have been warring against lesser spirits will come face to face with the dragon and they need to be armed to war against the dragon. Servants of God are warriors, they must have warred against spirit before facing the dragon. These spirits fight by what they have in us; every spirit in their hierarchy has his things in us. We must be warriors.
Just as Jesus has bodies, the dragon also has bodies: which are principalities, powers, rulers of the darkness of this world, and spiritual wickedness in high places. He is the head of all of them and they all have their contributions in man.
Our natural ethnic tribe has its own belief system which is governed by principalities. These principalities are passed down as cultural ways and manner of life.
We must overcome all the hierarchy of spirits; we must not overcome one spirit and stop there, hence the next spirit still has power over us. All these are journeys upward.
Ephesians 6:14-16
“Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.”
The shield of faith comes from the word of God.
John 17:17
“Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.”
All these weapons are preparations for the ultimate weapon: to encounter the word of God Itself.
The true light is the light of the beginning: in the beginning, was the Word (John 1:1). The word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ are the properties of the beginning housed in the light called the true light.
John 3:31-32
“He that cometh from above is above all: he that is of the earth is earthly, and speaketh of the earth: he that cometh from heaven is above all. And what he hath seen and heard, that he testifieth; and no man receiveth his testimony.”
He got the testimony by what He heard and saw of the Father. To make Jesus sure, He needed properties that are sure: the word of God is sure, and the testimony of God is sure. Law is from the word.
Psalms 19:7
“The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.”
The law of the Lord that is perfect is what converts the soul from human to divine. First, the mechanism of converting the carnal soul to a spiritual soul is the law of the spirit of life. Jesus testified of the word of God by obeying and using the word. We testify by usage.
John 3:33
“He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true.”
The true light is the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ. Jesus finished the testimony and when He did, it became His own testimony. The owner of the testimony now is Jesus.
Revelation 1:1
“The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John…”
God authorized Jesus to give the weapon of overcoming the dragon to His servants. A people must obey fast.
The word of God has two parts: there is the word of God that is true, and there is the part of the word of God that is living. The testimony is the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ. The living word is what is broken down to the armors of God, it can also be broken down to the border of Christ.
Romans 1:17
“For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.”
We do righteousness in Christ but we fulfill righteousness in living. This is because the righteousness of God is everlasting righteousness.
Psalms 119:144
“The righteousness of thy testimonies is everlasting: give me understanding, and I shall live.”
Psalms 119:142
“Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth.”
The righteousness of God is an everlasting righteousness, we do a part of that righteousness in Christ unto charity, however, it is not yet complete because it is an everlasting righteousness.
The word of God also starts from Christ where we overcome rulers of the darkness of this world as a christ, but we will overcome spiritual wickedness as a living (soul/being) because they are fallen seraphim.
1 Peter 1:23
“Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.”
The word of God is living and abiding - abiding means true: these are the two layers of the word of God.
The first level is that the word of God is living while the higher level of the word of God is that it is true, which is abiding. All those Churches John wrote to in the Book of Revelation are living Churches.
It was only John who called Satan dragon and that old serpent. John made us see that it was Satan - that old serpent that deceived Eve (Rev.12:9).
1 John 3:8
“He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.”
Satan's thing in man is sin. The truth is the installation of the true light in us. The true light exposes sin in us; this exposition is to let us know that we need to do away with the nature of sin in us. The true light hates Satan with perfect hatred; it cannot stay with sin. When truth reveals sin in us, we must not deceive ourselves. Satan will want us to hide sin but we must allow the true light to shine on our sins and we must confess (acknowledge) our sins. We must acknowledge that we have sin, and then our sins will be forgiven which is remission - to purge our souls.
1 John 1:9
“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”
God deals with us in accordance with our level of responsiveness. One can be having true light and still be offended. True light comes to correct - it is a correcting light. If we are doing things freely without correction then it is proof that we are not yet under the governance of the true light.
At our different levels of growth, we must begin to acknowledge that we have sin so that our sins can be purged. We must not house darkness or offense. Satan will give us reasons why some sins should be kept but we must not listen to him.
Our tool of freedom is in the word of God and in the testimony of Jesus Christ. It is the blood that speaketh that brings the word (Heb. 12:24).
The word of God is a speaking that the true light will bring. Our sins are in our blood, so we need the blood of Jesus Christ to purge our sins. Blood has to keep speaking. We must acknowledge our sins which is contrary to the nature of God because it is blood that will deal with blood. Blood cannot touch anything we hold because blood will believe that we love it. The flesh is not only Satan's property, blood is also his property: he corrupted us from the blood.
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