GENERATIONAL REVELATIONS (Part 1 of 4)

Preface:

Testimony: God Still Raises the Dead

Bear with my short story told in long notes.  A few days ago, an inner partner in the work of The Preacher, who operates in the prophetic and had headed administration in the office, called to recount how often the work of The Preacher had been attacked in the past, and the indications for prayer to guard our facilities against a present appearance of those occasions.  We have had computer files lost or corrupted, my laptop strangely lost on an international flight and the office manager’s backup laptop stolen at night through his window, both within the same week but thousands of miles apart, a strange fire that burnt down my house with its library of hundreds of prized books, thousands of other volumes, and many cherished notes from decades of devotion and studies.  Those were apart from the perennial distractions known to those who are familiar with us, as well as the individual battles of personnel at various connections with the ministry of The Preacher.  They have all been part of the thankful signs that our voice reaches far, healing and helping many, and the enemy has been very unhappy (Ezekiel 19:9). Over the years, we have had the privilege of serving many altars, big and small, in far lands and near, who in turn serve their multitudes across the world with the bread from us.  Sometimes they tell us, sometimes we find out. That sister’s call was a signal that something was afoot, but I did not immediately discern it so. 

Three days ago, at the end of a unique fast for many days, I felt prompted to my desk to preview the message that you are about to read, before I should retire to refreshment.  It was time to send it out.  When I opened the laptop to the file that had the message, an error message told me that it had “unreadable content” and could not be opened.  I tried many things without success until the next day. 

I felt particularly sad at the thought of losing especially this message, due to be sent out to our global audience, ahead of another since ready.  I thought of the many hours and days that it had taken to ‘download’ the message, to say nothing of the other messages in that file.  Alarmed that a whole year of prime meditation notes were at risk in that file, I sent urgent messages for help to a software technician in the United States, who used to work in our office, to another in a corporate office who also served in the same capacity at The Preacher office, and to the present consultant who fixes our systems.  I got cues that didn’t help.  The following day, I was at the ‘Silicon Valley’ of my city, the computer hub for all matters.  Someone that we have known over the years tried many things until it was closing time for the shops there. I quickly called and made appointments with the specialist technician who often fixed our systems.

The next morning, he was at my house and worked until the evening.  The file remained adamant. I had to up my prayers, confessing my sins for what I should have done differently, and beseeching the Father to intervene.  I said, “Lord, You have raised dead bodies, You can also raise dead files.”  I reminded Him about the stories of strange restorative angelic encounters.  The technician left my house that evening, assuring me that he had special “tools” at home for cracking such cases.  He copied the file into his flash drive and left.  That was encouraging.  That night at my prayer time, I dragged my wearied self out to pray, reminding God to instruct His angels in charge of The Preacher to do their technical duty quickly.  I was very unhappy, as if someone had died, but I was careful to not let the devil get the wrong words from my lips.  My fast naturally prolonged.  This is Sunday morning, three days since the efforts to raise a dead file.

This morning, at my private devotion, I prayed the same prayers to the God who raises the dead.  During the devotion, I had a strange trance: pouring honey into a container of groundnuts.  I got a cup, poured some groundnuts into it, and poured honey into the cup.  I did not understand what it might mean. Maybe God was restoring sweetness to me.  I did it all the same and ate.  It was breakfast. (Please, I am not recommending a ‘holy recipe’; just telling my story.)  That done, I went back to my table, laid hands on the laptop, and prayed, commanding dead files to come alive again. Then I opened the laptop to search for the file once more, or something like it.  Strangely, I found the same stubborn old file as well as another file which none of us had seen since we have been searching the system many times a day as well as trying to open the locked file. It was a “recovered … AppData/Roaming/Microsoft …” file.  With careful trepidation, I clicked to open it.  It opened. The old file remained adamant. God had created a new file.  I checked to verify the content.  It was the file.  Nothing lost.  I knelt in thankful adoration to the God that still raises the dead.  I further lay prostrate at the door to my bathroom, thankful to Jehovah. Quickly, I called back the technician. I had reached him very early this morning (like the concerned women at the tomb of Jesus). He had got home late last night, and had been at that file since 5am – about four hours already today.  I told him what had happened.  He was profoundly relieved and amazed, his faith strengthened in God.  It could only have been a miracle, he said.  God still raises the dead.

In this Easter season, on this Palm Sunday, this is a significant miracle, to me.  The feeling is better experienced than told.  Pardon me if I bored you, but if some battles are a testimony to the greatness that the battles seek to undue, then sit back for an encounter with “Generational Revelations,” and what should follow thereafter.

The Preacher
Sunday, April 13, 2025.

1. Sealed Documents and Limited Access

Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints (Colossians 1:26).

The Bible is an open book, but not everybody can see everything in it.  Every revelation is not for every generation, even though each generation will have teachers very persuaded that they understand the Scripture, and that it means their careful or careless interpretation of it.  While everyone will always find something in the scriptures, some revelations are reserved for some generations, and no matter how deeply others search, they cannot pass the limits allowed for their age (Colossians 1:26).

Daniel had heavenly encounters, but of some of them, he was repeatedly told to “close up and SEAL THE WORDS of the scroll UNTIL the time of the end...” (Daniel 12:4, NIV).  Mark “seal the words … until THE TIME ….”  THE time, not all times.

By that instruction from God, Daniel was not being told to hide his ‘diary’ or ‘journals’ until a thousand years later.  After all, he was not going to live so long.  He was merely being instructed to put a mystical ‘encryption’ on the specific document, because the message was not meant for everyone even though many hands and minds might handle it in the process of its passage through the ages, until “the time of the end” when it was supposed to be ‘opened’ – to those of that time.

Whereas the document was sealed, whoever accessed it before “the time” appointed for it was certainly going to find something in it, but it would be ‘limited access’; a ‘limit’ supervised by a spiritual lock the password for which was not given to their age.  In the process of time between sealing and opening of seal, some mighty heads would interact with the document, but merely with the ‘letters’ rather than with the soul of the scroll.  Some would caress the surface without reaching the sealed depths where are hidden “the DEEP things of God” (1 Corinthians 2:10).  That there are “deep things” means that there are levels in the “things of God”; some deep, some at the surface, and other levels between deep and shallow.

Paul also makes that distinction between the flesh and the soul, or the “letter” and the “spirit” of spiritual documents (2 Corinthians 3:6).  Of Prophet Daniel’s revelations in question, there was a supernatural “seal” or ‘lock’ imposed, from realms beyond flesh, by the ‘owners’ of the file.  Encryption did not start with the computer, and sealing is not entirely a matter of earthly documents.  Not all lookers see, and not all ears hear everything they hear (Revelations 2:2:7, 11, 17, 29; Matthew 13:14).

In Daniel 9:24, the prophet was again told to “shut thou up the vision and prophecy” because “it shall be for many days” – it was a revelation of future events the fuller understanding of which would also be at a future time.  The words were certainly going to be read, but they would carry a seal, meaning that there would be some deepness to the message that could not be accessed, no matter the theologian that tried it – until the unsealing time came for that revelation.

Like Paul and John in similar situations, Prophet Daniel had been allowed to ‘time travel’ into the future, into hallowed chambers in uncommon realms, but was not allowed to report all that he had been privileged to witness (2 Corinthians 12:4; Revelation 4:1-2; 10:4).  After one of such astral encounters, he was apparently dismissed from that realm and told to “Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed [for how long?]  till the time of the end” (Daniel 12:9).  It is not everything a prophet sees that he must say.

2. Open Mails

Whereas some messages were sealed, some were open mails that did not have to be sealed, because they were meant for the age when they were received.  John the apostle had one such encounter and was told to “Seal NOT the sayings of the prophecy of THIS book.”  Why was one prophet told to seal his message but the other told to “not” seal his; or why was one message sealed and the other not?  It was because, for the latter, “the time is at hand” (Revelation 22:10).  In other words, such seals are time-bound.  Time dictates some insights or revelatory access to their deeper messages.

Another lesson from the instruction that Apostle John should not ‘encrypt’ his message is that every message is not for the recipient, and the fact that one has received a great message or a vision does not always mean that one has the full understanding or interpretation of it.  We do not always have the master-key even to our revelations; and every revelation received is not always for that season.

When ‘the time’ comes for a prophecy, it usually brings a certain ‘blessedness’ to all that read or hear it; it opens up with a freshness as never before (Luke 4:20-22), and obediently stirs the hearts of the hearers then to “keep those things” that they have heard or read, “for the time is at hand” (Revelation 1:3).  Unfortunately, a message whose time has come is also capable of stirring bloody Pharaohs and Herods intent on delaying, corrupting, or entirely frustrating that message (Revelation 12:1-4).  In other words, the opposition that a message gets might sometimes be the sign that there is something divine about it that even the devil knows.

3. True but Pending

Daniel had one of those encounters of which it was said, “the thing was true, but the time appointed was long” (Daniel 10:1).   In other words, the fact that a vision is true does not mean that it must be fulfilled at once, which is where we usually have conflicts.  We often presume that a prophecy must be fulfilled before our eyes because it was our lips that uttered it or our eyes that saw it.  Thus, we are warned, that even “some of them of understanding shall fall … because it is yet for a time appointed” (Daniel 11:35).   In other words, understanding without patience births Ishmaels, because it usually takes the combination of “faith and patience” to “inherit the promises” (Romans 4:20; Hebrews 6:12).  Also, the fact that God makes someone to “know WHAT shall be” does not mean that they know ALL that shall or should be, or that it is “the time appointed” for what they have been allowed to know (Daniel 8:19).

From The Preacher’s diary,
March 26, 2025.