Revelation 4:7

The first living creature was like a lion, the second was like an ox, the third had a face Ike a man, the fourth was like a flying eagle 

The flying eagle is heavenly. A flying eagle easily merges with the azzure blue sky. The Lord Jesus Christ is heavenly and the believers have been raised and made to sit together with Him. The believers died in Christ and resurrected with Him. And hath raised us together and made us sit together with him in heavenly places in Christ Jesus (Ephesians 2:6). The believer must come to this consciousness in the Lord. It’s called identification with Him in His heavenly place. … according to the working of his power, (W)hich he wrought in Christ when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his right hand in the heavenly places, (F)ar above all principality, and powers, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in the world to come (Ephesians 1:19-20). Where is the believer now ? In Christ. He’s far above, beyond all principality, power, might, dominion and names. A prince’s area of influence is his principality. The prince of Persia in the book of Daniel comes to mind here; there comes also Michael your prince. The Lord Jesus Christ with His saved ones in tow have been raised together beyond these forces in the heavenlies. They’re are still there however because the believers are not taking their places in the heavenlies. The heavenlies are highly fortressed by the usurpers; they’re illegal occupants and must be displaced. The Lord Jesus Christ will not do anything for now against them if the believers in Him fail to assey forth in eagle flight to take the stronghold. The Lord has, for the present, done everything He needed to do and has handed the business of occupying the heavenlies to the believers, fighting from the knowledge of the strength of their victory in Christ Jesus. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood but against rulers, against authorities, against the powers of the dark world, and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms (Ephesians 6: 12). Rulers are princes; authorities are delegated powers. Imagine a puny traffic warden raising up his hand to stop a truck; it speaks of government delegated powers. Another group in this chain of evil world is the power of the dark world. When this had tightly webbed the Lord Jesus Christ into its trap through human instrumentality, the Lord owned up to the power of darkness at work. …but this is your hour, and the power of darkness (Luke 22:53). The Lord knew that there are powers of darkness at work. The spiritual forces in the heavenly realms are purely spirits and, now and then, spirit-men. There are some men, for spiritual legal operations of these forces on earth, who are occupied by some spirits of stature and strength. It will require special divine interventions to spring out a believer from their wickedness. A man highly used of God needed to be eliminated from the earth. Their grouse of the wicked spirits in the heavenly realms was that the man was getting men out of the kingdom of darkness into the marvellous light of God. The idea wasn’t to prevent him from God’s assured kingdom, but to get him out of the earthly plane. They had no legal spiritual warrant against him. An avatar, a human spiritual adept was used, who first sealed his soul in the Himalayas with a living lion. Was he successful? I only know of God’s exception-to-the-rule intervention. Christ, the rock came to their meeting of joy of victory and had them scattered. They fled, leaving their prized captive behind.

Where these elements which the believers struggle or wrestle against are in full operation, there not wanting among the people abundance of unrighteousness, corruption, anti-holines, anti-God ideas and policies, low intelligence, casting off of restraints and judgement (reprobate minds). They do everything possible to prevent the gospel gaining ground. Have you ever wondered at the why of this passage in the Book of Acts? Now when they had gone through Phrygia and the region of Galatia, and were forbidden of the Holy Ghost to preach the word in Asia, (A)fter they were come to Mysia, they assayed to go to Bithynia but the Spirit suffered them not (Acts 16:6-7). It’s simple. The heavenlies of the areas were heavy with these combined spiritual forces which easily sway the minds of the hearers of the gospel of Christ. It’s like the Holy Spirit was saying to the apostle and his team members, Not now, though you’ll still come back later.

These forces have been around the earth for aeon and have tapped into its secrets. They’ve been around man for so long and are adepts at causing him to derail from the Lord. They may accept they have lost the grounds to Christ, but they will return to make the believers very weak through adulteration of sound doctrines. No wonder we today have ancestral spirit, ancestral curse doctrines. The believers are made super conscious of the powers of some spirits – and their influences, to the degree of worshipping them.

Then also, this new civilisation of almost magical technologies are not far from being interventions from the heavenlies to keep the believers down and rivet their attention to themselves as life pursuits. But the flying eagle believers which are heavenly cannot be weakened nor can they be defeated.

Where the spiritual elements are less prevalent due to centuries of the gospel of Christ’s dominion, there’s open heaven and the people enjoy the ascending-and-descending-of-angels-on-ladder scenes. In such spheres, the heavenly easily comes and stays on earth and the people enjoy easy, unimpeded access to the throne of God. This explains why the U.S seem to be truly God’s own country. More than anywhere on earth that I know, I’m yet to know another place where believers enjoy high frequency of heavenly vision. This doesn’t mean that the believers in this clime are more committed or more favoured of God, but the heavenly over them is only lightly doped and tainted with little spiritual heaviness of prevailing spirits of stature. The atmosphere over there has been mightily defenestrated of principalities, powers, rulers of darkness of this world and spiritual wickedness or forces in the heavenly realms. Daniel’s prayer for twenty-one days before a high ranking angel brought a message to him is instructive. It’s not by chance that in an age, there appeared William Branham, Gordon Lindsay, Lester Sumral, Katherine Khulman, Billy Graham…

One final thing I love to add. These forces are able to seize up the level of fullness of Christ in a believer and his region. They know who is who in the kingdom and the frequencies and strength of flights each has logged in.This determines what the outcome of struggles and encounters will be. As a boy of three years old, I was eating my piece of yam when a goat accosted me, trying to eat the yam off my hand. I followed my mother’s (who was sitting near) instruction to hit the animal to make it turn and run. But the goat couldn’t be moved by my feeble blows until my mother stood to her full height. The goat now turned round and fled. I believe this is no less replicated in the spirit realms.

We are flying eagles, having been raised and made to sit together with Christ at the right hand of Majesty on High. We yield ourselves to the training and coaching of the Holy Spirit to do a good job of flying and defenestrating the heavens over us.

Thank You Lord for this

 

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