Jesus was born under the law in order to show the people of His time, who were zealous for the law, what the law is really about. One of His missions, was to expose the full might of the law so that the people could realise that it is too complex to keep, and to reveal his heart so that they could believe in Him. Jesus took the standard of the law much higher than what the Pharisees thought it was. It was part of God’s plan that Jesus be born under the law, so that He can fulfil it for us who could have never been able to fulfil it.
The bible reveals that, in the last days, God will transfer wealth from the hands of the unjust into the hands of the righteous (Proverbs 13:22). This will happen supernaturally because of the Abrahamic Covenant. Four times in the bible God showed us how it is going to happen. We have seen God supernaturally transfer the wealth of Egypt to Abraham (Genesis 13), from the Philistines to Isaac (Genesis 26), from Laban to Jacob (Genesis 31) and from the Egyptians to the children of Israel (Exodus 12:35-36). All these four transactions are connected to the covenant which God made with Abraham. All these transactions are shadows of the transaction which you and I are about to experience. It’s going to be the biggest wealth transfer that the world has ever seen. It will cause the Church to be very powerful and greatly feared. It will elevate the Church to be the kind of Church that is described in Ephesians 5:27 as “a glorious Church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing”.
The end-time Church will not have any spot or wrinkle, not because it does what is good, but because it is washed with the precious blood of Jesus. I believe that we live in the last days and that Jesus is about to return. The time is very short, yet there is still so much to be done. There are still so many people who are not saved today. The end-time wealth has the mission to win the lost. This book will position you as a “Money Missionary”, as Dr Leroy Thompson puts it.
I have no doubt in my mind that the mystery unveiled in this book is the missing piece of the puzzle. As we walk in the truth, contained in the New Testament, we will begin to see and understand what God is doing at the moment. In no time, we will begin to attract wealth from every direction. We are about to experience Deuteronomy 28:10 which says, “Then all peoples of the earth shall see that you are called by the name of the Lord, and they shall be afraid of you.” The days of Acts 5:11 are coming back again.
The mystery concerning the life of Joseph is being unveiled before our very eyes at this very moment. Joseph in the bible is a picture of Jesus. Joseph was rejected and betrayed by his own brothers and sold for twenty shekels of silver, and Jesus was also rejected and betrayed by His own Jewish people and sold for thirty pieces of silver. The failing of the global financial system and the decline of the global economy is setting a stage for the wealth of the world to be transferred to the Church, the same way that the wealth of the nations in Joseph’s days was transferred to Egypt. As Egypt was blessed because of Joseph, we, who were once called Gentiles, are experiencing the blessing because of Jesus.
Genesis 41:57
So all countries came to Joseph in Egypt to buy grain, because the famine was severe in all lands.
The nations of the world will soon run out of ideas on economics, the stock exchange is about to collapse, the shortage of food is increasing in many nations, the world’s economy is about to fail. And when all these things happen, verse 57 shall be fulfilled, “So all countries came to Joseph….” We are the representative of the heavenly Joseph on earth. Isiah 60 is about to be fulfilled. As darkness cover the earth and deep darkness the people, the Lord will arise over us and His glory will be seen upon us. The Gentiles shall come to our light and kings to the brightness of our rising. The Church shall soon be the only nation with answers and solutions for the problems of the world. The wealth of the Gentiles shall come to us.
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Understanding Covenant And Inheritance
“For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no longer of promise…”
Galatians 3:18
The bible is a book about covenant and succession. If we can see and understand the connection between the two, our lives will never be the same again. We will never again try to inherit by works what God has bequeathed upon us as a result of covenant. The grace of God is about covenant and inheritance. Salvation is about covenant and inheritance. It is about the Father’s unconditional love for His children. The Apostle Paul told King Agrippa in Acts 26:15-18 that he was sent to the Jewish people and to the Gentiles, “to open their eyes, in order to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in Me.”
It is very strange that very little is said in books and sermons about the inheritance that we have in Christ and its connection to covenant. To talk about the inheritance without connecting it to covenant will always fall short of the true grace of God. One of the reasons why it is so difficult for the body of Christ to appropriate the grace of God is the fact that when the subject of inheritance is addressed, it is always based on God’s unconditional love only but very seldom connected to covenant. It is this missing link that is making it so difficult for the heirs of the Kingdom of God to take possession of their inheritance.
Notice from what the Apostle Paul said to King Agrippa that his mission was for us to receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance. Many people know about the forgiveness of sins, but very few know about the inheritance. The focus is placed on the forgiveness of sins with no emphasis on the inheritance. The forgiveness of sins is the first step. It is the starting point and not the destination. Once a Believer is born-again, the focus must shift to taking possession of the inheritance.
Biblical And Earthly Covenant
Have you ever wondered why Jesus Christ and Abraham are mentioned together in Galatians 3:29? This verse says that if you belong to Christ then you are heirs of Abraham (covenant) and beneficiaries according to the promise (inheritance). The word “heir” means “a person who is legally entitled to inherit the property or estate of a deceased person”. An “heir” is a “beneficiary” and both words are used dominantly in the Law of Estate and Succession.
Galatians 3:29 is a covenant and an inheritance scripture. Inheritance is based on a promise and the promise originates from a covenant. It is through covenant that the promise to inherit is made in the bible. The word “heir” is a grace and a succession term because an heir always receives the estate as a free gift.
This may sound like a complicated subject but it is a very simple one. It sounds complicated because when the word “covenant” is mentioned, we always visualise an agreement between two parties, and when the word “inheritance” is mentioned, we always think about movies like “The Fighting Temptations”. In this movie, advertising executive Darrin Hill (Cuba Gooding Jr.) returns home after a number of failures. When he got back to his small hometown, Georgia, he learns that his Aunt had left an inheritance for him after her death. However, she included a condition in her Will that for him to receive the inheritance, he had to first lead the church choir to victory in a gospel competition. If he failed to lead the choir, or having led the choir but fail to win, he would be disqualified from receiving the inheritance. This is not biblical inheritance because it is based on a condition and is not a free gift. It is not free because the heir had to work for it. Because it was based on a competition, if he does not win, he loses the inheritance.
The problem with this kind of inheritance is that it shifts the focus away from the Testator, to the heir. When the heir wins, he gets the glory for the victory. The Testator may not even receive any recognition because when she included the condition in her Will, she made the inheritance to depend on the heir and not on her. The condition takes out the Testator from the picture. So after winning the competition, the heir will be justified to give himself