Question and Answer from the Malachi’s Message
QUESTION:
Good day sir! i want to appreciate you sir and your submission to God to be a vessel to impart our lives. may God continually bless you, your family and your work sir and grant you more wisdom and understanding.
Sir, i will like you to shed more light on the statement you made while preaching on the topic “The Malachi message” about God failing. this is not to question your authority sir but only desire more understanding as a growing christian. Thanks in anticipation of your reply sir. Regards to the family
ANSWER:
Thank you for your mail and its contents. I am encouraged by the comments and your forthrightness to ask questions on what you are unclear about.
I SINCERELY appreciate your words of appreciation of what I do in the house of God.
Meanwhile the scriptures do admonish simply in the epistle to the Galatians, that:“Let him THAT IS TAUGHT in the word communicate unto him that TEACHETH in all good things”“Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap”In another place, the Holy Spirit, through the writer of the book of Hebrews instructed thus:“But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased”
“Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that THAT THEY MAY DO (THE MINISTRATIONS) WITH JOY AND NOT WITH GRIEF (FEAR OF DISLIKES, SIDE COMMENTS, SLANDERS, RUMORS AND INTIMIDATIONS); for that is unprofitable for you”“Pray for us:for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things (WE ARE) WILLING to live honestly”.
Please take time to read through this ‘epistle’ of mine.
I did give a comprehensive explanation on this issue to the Men during the last Saturday’s 2013 Men’s Fellowship Day.
Really GOD DOES NOT FAIL AND WILL NOT FAIL!
However His creation, which is a product of Him can fail and had failed in the past, making it seem, in a way, a failure on God’s part.
THE EXPLANATION:
In Genesis Chapter One verse One, the bible reports that:
“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth”
However, strangely, in fact, very strangely, immediately in verse Two, it is written:
“And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters”
How come the HEAVEN AND THE EARTH that God created in verse One had become WITHOUT FORM and VOID (empty, shapeless and purposeless) in verse Two?
Is it in the nature and character of God to start something without a purpose? Without a plan? Without a beautiful architecture? Without a perfect intention?
Definitely No! Consider these scriptures, please:
(1) “The mighty God, even the Lord, hath spoken, and called the earth
from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.
Out of Zion, THE PERFECTION OF BEAUTY,
God hath shined!” Psalm 50.
When God speak anything to existence or creates, it must be PERFECTION OF BEAUTY! That is His character!
(2) “For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens;
God himself that FORMED the earth and MADE it; he hath ESTABLISHED it,
he CREATED IT NOT IN VAIN, he FORMED IT TO BE INHABITED:
I am the Lord; and there is none else.
I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth:
I said not ….., Seek ye me in vain:
I the Lord speak righteousness” Isaiah 45
God had never created anything, (including heaven and earth) and made them VOID, EMPTY, SHAPELESS, PURPOSELESS, DARK and WITHOUT INHABITANTS! Never!
(3) “Thus saith God the Lord,
he that CREATED the heavens, and stretched them out;
he that SPREAD FORTH the earth, and that which cometh out of it;
he that GIVETH BREATH unto the PEOPLE UPON it, and spirit to them that walk therein”
Isaiah 42
From here, we can see that the original heaven and earth that God created in Gen 1:1 is not the same one in Gen 1: 2 and 3 when it had become empty, shapeless and dark, requiring RECONSTRUCTION!
Evidently some kind of disastrous upheaval and cataclysm series of events had occurred between VERSE ONE and VERSE TWO. God’s wrath and judgement had come upon the original inhabitants of the Earth and part of heaven!
What occurred really?
Read along with me as Prophet Jeremiah under the influence of the Holy Spirit goes backward in time and gives a baffling insight, expose on what actually occurred.
Jeremiah Chapter 4 verses 23 – 27
“I beheld THE EARTH, and, lo, it was WITHOUT FORM and VOID;
and the heavens, and they had NO LIGHT.
I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled,
and all the hills moved lightly”
[is this not in line with the same account of Genesis 1: 2?]
Jer 4 contd
“I beheld, and, lo, there was no man,
and all the birds of the heavens were fled.
I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness,
and all the cities thereof were broken down”
[there was NO MAN? NO BIRDS in the skies? HEAVEN FLED (disappeared)? Fruitful places become wilderness? Cities broken?
These description of the states of the heaven and the earth are CONTRARY to Isaiah 42 and 45 including Psalm 50! This is not in line with God’s way of doing things at all!
What must have happened???]
Jer 4 contd
“at the presence of the Lord, and by his fierce anger”
[what happened? God’s anger and judgement upon that ‘world’!!! Satan (Lucifer) and his wicked angels had setup corruption in the world of these ‘beings’ and wickedness spread all over!
Read Psalm 68 “Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered:
let them also that hate him flee before him.
As smoke is driven away, so drive them away:
as wax melteth before the fire,
so let the wicked perish at the presence of God”]
Jer 4 contd
“For thus hath the Lord said,
The whole land shall be desolate”
[but God had DETERMINED NOT TO ALLOW THE FAILURE TO DETER HIM.
This is a setback, a failure]
Jer 4 contd
“yet WILL I NOT MAKE A FULL END”
[God immediately started a plan to TURN FAILURE TO SUCCESS!
How? By RECONSTRUCTING and creating THE ADAMIC MAN in His Image and Likeness!
Amen!]
Jer 4 contd
“For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black (darkness);
because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not repent, neither will I turn back from it”
So we go back to Genesis Chapter One, verse Three:
“And God said, LET THERE BE LIGHT: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good:and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day”
God COMMANDED LIGHT TO EMERGE OUT OF TOTAL DARKNESS!!!
2 Corinthians Chapter 4 verse 6:
“For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ”
Now my brethren, you see how God’s original created world of ‘certain beings’ ended up in a chaos. How God’s original intention failed because of Lucifer’s Manipulations.
Refer to Ezekiel 28: “Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so:thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee. By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned:therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God:and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness:I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee. Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee. All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee:thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more”
FACT:
We, the human race – The Adamic, created in His Image and His Likeness are not God’s first created habitants of this planet. The Earth is over 10 billion years old but the human race is just a little over 6000years old here!
The truth is that the FIRST PLAN FAILED!
Then God re-strategised and evolved a new plan, the creation of MAN!
Let there be light! (Ask for my past message titled “Turn Your Past Into Glory”)
So my brethren, God used this example to encourage us NEVER to give up because of temporary failures but to bestir ourselves in the face discouragements.
Say I am not a failure! I always win in Christ!
God is restoring love and unity. It may be slow, it may be resisted by some because of self, but God shall restore.Finally, pray for us, your pastors.We are human. We have our pains, our struggles and challenges.We get hit by hurts sometimes. We, sometimes need time to recuperate physically, emotionally, financially and spiritually. When we pull back for such moments, brethren ought to pray and encourage us the more.God is our goal. His Kingdom is our destination!We shall reconstruct the spiritual architecture of our lives together and finish strong, in Jesus name, amen.
Your friend and pastor,
Bro Toks Oshokoya
The Liteman T
Johannesburg, South Africa.
“And moreover, because the preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge; yea, he gave good heed, and sought out, and set in order many proverbs. The preacher sought to find out acceptable words:and that which was written was upright, even words of truth. The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd”