THE CHRISTIAN WALK

Moshood FayemiwoMonday, May 13, 2013
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THE MANSIONS IN HEAVEN; HOW DO THEY LOOK AND WHO INHABIT THEM?

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hen Our Lord Jesus Christ promised He was returning back to heaven after the work of Redemption on earth to prepare a place for us, it is either the promise is solid and cast-iron or phony. It can't be both. Those of us who have invested our eternal stake in the secured Hands of the Savior must either believe or disbelieve the promise. This promise has no allegorical interpretation; it is exactly what it is: mansions that are awaiting those of us who are going to heaven after our earthly sojourn here. In John 14: 2; the Lord Jesus Christ declared matter-of-factly: "In my Father's house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you." But that wasn't the end of the promissory contract, because the Lord Jesus Christ said somewhere else that He is the Way, the Truth and the Life (John 14:6) and no one-not some people or a few people but NO ONE-no human being can make it to heaven without Him. That excludes the rest options that some human beings are deluded with today as alternative routes to heaven. It is astonishing why the perishing world just doesn't get it! Because it is fool hardy for anyone to arm him or herself with a man-made GPS to heaven. If Jesus Christ said He is the ONLY WAY to heaven, it simply means all other options are foreclosed. In our world of political correctness today, that doesn't feel palatable to many ears. Some Christians are befuddled by the fact that we are commanded to repeat this Biblical clause; but if there are other ways, then Jesus Christ is a fraud. If Jesus Christ is a fraud, then our hope as Christians after physical death is misplaced. Yet, no human being, dead or living has ever made that statement: I Am the Way, The Truth and the Life, and No Human Being Born of Blood Can Enter Heaven through Any Other Way except the Only Way-Jesus Christ.

Our Lord Jesus Christ also made another audacious promise only He and no one else in human history had made, has and will ever make: "And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am," (John 14: 3). I have been around here for over half-a-century and when a person tells a visitor I will come and get you to come over to my place; he/she is a good host/hostess. Here in America, you can't just barge on people without calling ahead otherwise they have the prerogative to allow or disallow you from entering into their residence. You become a trespasser when you insist on having your way, and can be shot dead. If human beings so guard jealously their privacy this way, how much more God Almighty who has already provided a Way and the only Way to come to Him. The rejecters of Jesus Christ and haters of Christianity have a lot to explain on the Day of Judgment. I am directionally challenged as a person and I get into a lot of trouble with my wife because when I drive, I am still consumed by the male ego of finding my way to places instead of allowing my wife to direct us. My stubbornness has wasted time and energy most times and so I have learned to suck up my pride and follow my wife's direction. Each time I allow her to direct me while driving, my driving is always faster, smoother, more enjoyable and peace reigns. Many in the world today are looking for alternative routes to heaven in the name of religion, self-help, meditation, New Age etc. when the True Lord God Almighty has already provided the ONLY WAY-Jesus Christ. Those who reject His saving grace have no excuse on the Day of Judgment.

In the 1990s, Pastor Enoch Adeboye told the congregation that he once asked the Lord to show him his mansion in the heavens as our Lord Jesus Christ had promised before His physical departure from the earth. He said a glimpse of his eternal abode which was still being constructed was larger than the whole of Lagos. Well, I asked the Lord the same; after all, He is not the Lord of partiality or favoritism and does not lie (Ephesians 6: 9; Titus 1: 2), if you could show Pastor Adeboye his eternal abode in heavens, why not show me mine? God did through the Holy Spirit, the Third in Trinity and the Greater One in us than the one that is in the world.

The mansions in heaven are far; far elegant, beautiful, imposing, alluring-describe it with all the adjectives available in the world-above the dirty houses and villas we have here on earth that we call mansions. The real mansions are above which the human mind cannot describe because the dirty buildings we have around here are so ugly compared with the heavenly mansions. I asked the Lord, why did you call heavens your house containing mansions? I thought houses should be inside mansions as we use the word here on earth. The Holy Spirit referred me to what the Lord God said of Moses in Numbers 12:6- 7-"�, "Listen to my words: "When a prophet of the LORD is among you, I reveal myself to him in visions, I speak to him in dreams. But this is not true of my servant Moses; he is faithful in all my house." In other words, both the heavens and the earth are God's house; but I thought that should be "houses?" The Holy Spirit said, no, they are one house as far as the Lord is concerned and in both the heavens and the earth are mansions but the Lord God owns everything and He sees them as His house and not houses. There is only one house that doesn't belong to the Lord God Almighty in all of Creation: that is hell. That is the abode of the damned, the Christ rejecters and the fallen spirits. It is a prison with the keys in the Hands of the Lord Jesus Christ. "But Lord I thought Hell belongs to Satan? I asked. No, the devil has nothing, absolutely nothing because Satan, believe it will not even be in hell, his portion is the bottomless pit where he will be alone by himself. "I am telling Satan that he'll not be god even in hell, I will remove him from the demons and those human beings that are following him now so he'll know what it means to raise his heels against his maker." That's scary but comforting to those of us serving the Lord of lords and the King of kings, Hallelujah! Satan creates nothing and he will not be god over anything. He's a loser and will live all eternity as a bitter and sore loser forever, isolated, rejected and cast away forever.

I saw a glimpse of my mansion in heaven. I saw other mansions being constructed and asked why some mansions are smaller; others are bigger, imposing while some are still under construction? There are some mansions that works have stopped on them like abandoned projects. God is a rewarder of those who served and worshiped Him but you can't get more than what you have put in. The Holy Spirit replied "Behold, I am coming soon! My reward is with me, and I will give to everyone according to what he has done" (Revelation 22:12). The builders of the heavenly mansions are the angels and some work at great speed, some work at glacier speed and some had stopped building some mansions as if they were abandoned. The different construction angel workers are the angels of various degrees of Christians; it is easy to figure out where you are when you get to heaven. But why wait till then? Pray now and find out the state of your heavenly mansion. All over heavens, there are many landmarks known as "memorials" in accordance with the words of our Lord Jesus Christ here on earth: "And if anyone gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones because he is my disciple, I tell you the truth, he will certainly not lose his reward."(Mathew 10: 42). Some names may not be in the Book of Life and some of these memorials may even end up in hell but what they did for Christians stand all over heaven as memorials to them. Every desire of a person's heart while on earth will be satisfied in heavens. Not all residents will be in the Third heavens. Some human beings will be in the First and Second heavens and after the renewal of things, human beings will still live on the earth but the present sky which divides the heavens and the physical earth would have been removed (Revelation 21). This is why Our Lord Jesus Christ taught us to pray that "�Let thy Kingdom come and may Your will be done on earth as it is done in heaven." (Mathew 6: 9). When Satan and his rebellious hordes are flushed out of the earth and sent to where they eternally belong, the Throne of God Almighty will now be established on earth forever. This is what is meant by eternal life. Wherever you stay in the renewal of things, the Glory of the Lord God Almighty reaches everywhere and everyone. Read the last three chapters of the Bok of Revelations and do not allegorize it but take the accounts of the heavens there literally and you get the picture of our heavenly abode.

Next Week: We will conclude our Holy Spirit-directed expose of heavens and move to the other side the week after. The heavens are for the people of God while Hell is for the people of Satan. How does hell look like? Where is hell?

WORLD PROPHECY: This is huge! Something of global importance, an earth-shattering event and a cosmic occurrence is in the offing in the world. I don't know what it is but the Holy Bible has predicted it and we shall all see it with our very eyes soon. This event is part of end-time prophecy and it's about to take place very, very soon in the next 12 to 24 months. I don't know what it is; I repeat again, I wasn't shown what it is but again, it's HUGE. The whole world will be shocked; from the rising of the sun to the setting of the sun; from the East to the West; from the South to the North, the planet earth is about to witness a catastrophic event. The Divine Hand of God Almighty, the Creator of the heavens and the universe, Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ is about to intervene in the affairs of humanity. The world media, the commentariat, the scientists, the astrologers, the men and women of earthly wisdom and their ilk will be talking their heads out but will not be able to explain but those who know the True God will be unshaken and unperturbed. What is it? I wasn't shown but was only told (Luke 21:11 & 25).

ISSUES OF THE WEEK: Asari-Dokubo and His Abuja Pay Masters: Only in a nation where mediocrity is fashionable and institutionalized will a college dropout like Asari-Dokubo command media attention. Each time the thuggish curmudgeon is paraded by the Nigerian media, the only credential he brings to the table that warrants being interviewed are as a lose canon and a leader of a terrorist organization that blackmails a nation that lacks leadership direction. Now that Jonathan, his kinsman has approved another round of security contracts to Asari-Dokubo and his phalanx of outlaws, the Jonathan Administration should now be left intact against Dokubo's tirades against the administration few months ago. Nigeria is indeed the alternate universe. A clownish character like Asari-Dokubo feeds on the crumbs of stolen money from his paymasters in Abuja and once you can spread ill-gotten money around, you can buy yourself ample media space and shout on behalf of your paymasters. Now that Jonathan has doled out money to his own home grown terrorists from the creeks, they can go ballistic and insist heavens will fall if their paymaster loses the next presidential election. My advice for the millions of Nigerian youth roaming the streets in this lousy country is to organize themselves into five groups in order to survive. These are: Basic Terrorists, Ethnic Militias, Tribal Freedom Fighters, Urban Guerrillas, and National Kidnappers. I will proceed to list the requirements for any Nigerian youth to choose from any of the five afore-mentioned occupations, otherwise, you can't survive in Nigeria as a citizen.

If you're a college or university graduate, join an extant national kidnapping ring, or set up your own. Go after the pen robbers-to borrow late Fela's word and make some money through your organization. Once you're able to make some money out of kidnapping, set up a good business and re-integrate yourself back into the Nigerian society. The Beruitization of Nigeria now is the new normal and when the state refuses to make life secure for its citizens but shirks that sacred responsibility, members of that state have the sacred duty to make life unbearable for the few that has hijacked state power for self-enrichment. Nigerian striplings should not be under any illusion that things will get better for them unless they do something. The kidnappers should go after those who are in power, kidnap their children, wives, girlfriends and concubines. If kidnapping is not your take but you're intelligent, perfect a new way to start a local 419. Do not involve foreigners but go after the pen robbers stealing within Nigeria. Target the indigenous bourgeoisie stealing Nigeria blind through either a member of Urban Guerillas or Basic Terrorists. Do not kill poor people like you but write down the names of those in your neighborhoods and towns that are living on government largesse. Go to Abuja and conduct surveillance on those pen robbers in all tiers of government and assassinate them. These are the ways through which Nigeria can be rescued. There are instances such as this in the Holy Bible where God instructed Jehu to go and assassinate Jezebel and other bad leaders in Israel and govern justly (I Kings 19: 15). When there is injustice in any nation, wrong is considered as right and corruption, evil and all manners of lawlessness abound, it is Godly and indeed scriptural to use violence to remove such government. (I Kings 20, 21 & 22). The PDP is a lawless party and the way things are going in Nigeria, the party is not likely to relinquish power voluntarily, because they have stolen much that it's afraid of conceding power to the opposition. I am not optimistic that free and fair election will be enough to throw out these blood-sucking politicians so Nigerians must be prepared to take their destinies in their own hands. There must be Option B in case the 2015 presidential election is rigged by the PDP, including the use of violence if necessary. Jonathan has squandered all opportunities to put Nigeria back together. He is a failure and should be removed and rejected by the Nigerian electorate in 2015. Nigerians should not be hoodwinked, bamboozled and cajoled by the dour fellow whose ambition is merely stoked by ethnic representation. He has the patina of brinkmanship associated with his predecessors who he's mastered with wiles but short on ideas of good governance. Jonathan doesn't have the capacity to govern a nation as diverse, complex and complicated as Nigeria. That is why insecurity abounds and Nigeria is teetering on the brink. The days of good luck are over, these times call for good, firm, strong, and purposeful leadership.

The Tragic Consequences of the Atomization of American Society: Three Women Feared Dead Ten Years Ago Found Alive with their Kidnappers in Ohio

The news could have come from Ralph Ellison's "The Invisible Man" but this is real. Mr. Ariel Castrol, a supposed average neighbor in Cleveland, Ohio who loves throwing barbecue rib joints and rotisserie chickens for neighbors lives a double life for ten years. While this psychopathic shit-face put smile in the faces of his neighbors, unbeknown to block mates, three young girls feared dead 10 years ago were being held captive against their will by Castrol and his two equally fully shit-faced brothers. One of the kidnapped girls, who was 14 lost her mom during the 10 years of her kidnap and disappearance. A popular psychic was consulted, who told the girls' mom that she would never be seen again. Shakespeare once told us there is no art to find the mind's construction in the face, and so it's part of the fallen nature of man that evil stalks us on daily basis. Imagine Castrol was even given a job as a bus driver and yet no one really knew this psychopath all along. While we thank God for exposing this really, really bad man, it also reminds us of the evil that lurks in our midst. Isn't it incredible how little we know of people we thought we really knew? As Mr. Ramsey the man who exposed Castrol said, he thought he knew the Castrol's family very well but he was mistaken. There are indeed dark secrets lying beyond those mansion walls in many of our neighborhoods. We shout each time a neighbor is caught or apprehended as a child molester, a serial killer, an armed robber, a Satanist, and exclaim: He's such a gentle and an easy going person! We didn't know he could commit such crime!

Our atomized society too is also responsible for the tragedy in Cleveland, Ohio. For three out of the six years while I was living in Florida, I hardly knew the guy who lived next door to my family. The nature of the American society does not allow much interaction among neighbors and we keep to ourselves as much as possible. Mr. Castrol was arrested with two other mates and family members living with him; the media hasn't told us what happens to the other two family members living with Castrol all along. I can't believe those two men weren't in the know on Mr. Castrol's hostages and kidnapped victims. Those two men are culpable too of the crime of aiding and abetting and should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law with their buddy, Mr. Castrol.

SPECIAL LETTER FROM MY MAIL-BAG THIS WEEK:

I received this email few days ago and I have decided to reproduce its contents in full without disclosing the identity of the writer.

Witches and Wicca's Are after My Family, Can You Help?

Dear Pastor Moshood Fayemiwo

I have been called to spiritual warfare, not to my liking, but I was force into it, because I had to defend myself from all the attacks of Satan and his angels and demons and people he uses to fight Gods people, there are so many witches and Satanist in the church, the church is so blind to it. I was attacked by many different witches' covens and Satanist. I am able to keep them at bay, but they have attack me and my family, specifically my mother, where they had her so mentally confused that she had to go to the mental hospital and they diagnosed her with dementia, but God told me it wasn't dementia but it was demons at work, I got her mind free thru spiritual warfare and casting out demons, but I can't keep her free because there are two family members in my family who decided to become witches(new age, Wicca types) they attack me and my family thru the relationships they have built in my family, so I tell everyone that they are witches, but no one believes me because, they use there (sic)witchcraft to control and manipulate people's minds, so I've been fighting this all by myself, I can easily show my family how to protect themselves from attacks, but they are so manipulated, they choose to say they don't believe in witchcraft, that is one of the devils biggest weapons, keeping saints ignorant, and I can't leave the house without them meeting me where I'm going.

I'll leave the house and when i get to where I'm going there are already several witches there ready to try and curse or release spirits and demons against me. It's hard because these relatives have been in our homes, cars, everywhere and they are using my family trust against them to destroy them. They have somehow got control of my mother where they project thoughts to her and make her do certain things and she thinks she is doing it, but I've watched it so long I know the pattern. They don't come to the house anymore because I'm here and they know they can't just come and curse objects in the house where demons have a right to be there, so they have found a way to manipulate my mother, where they will call and release spirits and demons thru the phone(may sound unbelievable, but it's true) and somehow program my mother and have her going around the house touching things and cursing them, so when she does that those spirits have every right to be there, it took me a while to figure this out, but my gift of discerning of spirits has gotten really strong, can you help in these areas, because this puts me and my family in much danger! ---Thank you, Kirby Skinner, USA (Town, State and Email obscured for security reason)

Dear Sister Kirby, I have replied this letter and I posted it here without divulging what transpired between us. I stand shoulder-to-shoulder with you in this spiritual warfare because we are of the same family. The Bible tells us that iron sharpens iron and so be re-assured that I am with you to wage war against our common enemy-the Devil. Our Lord Jesus Christ had already won the war for us so do not be afraid. There is a Greater One in us-the Holy Spirit-than the one that is in the world-Satan. Do not be afraid of them. All those witches, wizards, Satanists and Wicca are already defeated by the Blood Atoning sacrifice of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

NOTE: My forthcoming book: "The Kingdom of Satan Exposed: Activities of Principalities and Demon Worship In Our World Today and Inside The World of Witchcraft, Voodoo, Warlocks and Spiritual Warfare" will be out in the summer. If you want a copy at a discount of 15 percent before official release, please send an email to [email protected] now for more information. Thanks.

Dr Fayemiwo is author, publisher & CEO, Alternative Lifestyle Communication, DBA and an adjunct lecturer in African History & Media Studies at the City Colleges of Chicago in Illinois, USA.

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