Evang. Chukwuebuka Samuel Ezeokoli

The Gates of Hell Shall not Prevail! Jesus said: “I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.” ( Mt 16:18 ) The phrase pulai hadou (gates of hell) is a Jewish expression meaning “realm of the dead.” The same two words appear in the Septuagint version of Job 38:17: “Have the gates of death been revealed to you, or have you seen the gates of deep darkness [ puloroi de hadou ]?” They appear again in Isaiah 38:10: “I said in the middle of my days I must depart; I am consigned to the gates of Sheol [ pulais hadou ] for the rest of my years.” In both passages, pulai hadou is a euphemism for death. There is no doubt that we are involved in an intense spiritual warfare. God is impressing upon us that we are in a battle against an enemy who is taking the offensive against us. Satan’s kingdom is not divided and disorganized as some would believe, but is a highly organized array of spiritual powers and principalities. However, God is also impressing upon us that

God has promised to pour out His Double Portion Anointing, the former and latter anointings together after two days. "After two days will He revive us: in the third day He will raise us up, and we shall live in His sight. Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord: His going forth is prepared as the morning; and He shall come to us as the rain, the latter and former rain unto the earth." Hosea 6: 2-3 These two days are the Church Age. As Jesus promised, He will be perfected in His saints on the  Third Day  when they are prepared to enter into His presence, Luke 13:32. The prophet Joel declared the Double Portion anointing: "Be glad then, ye children of Zion ,  and rejoice in the Lord your God: for He hath given you the former rain moderately, and He will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month." Joel 2:23 The former rain (Pentecost) was only poured out moderately. This is the firstfruit anointing, the ea

THE REIGN OF ETERNAL LIFE ROMANS 5:17: "For if, through the transgression of the one individual, Death made use of the one individual to seize the sovereignty, all the more shall those who receive God's overflowing grace and gift of righteousness reign as kings in the realm of life through the one individual, Jesus Christ." Here is the story of Satan's seizure of man's dominion in the Garden when he changed man's spirit nature, made his body mortal, and made that body the master of his spirit. Man became the servant of the senses; his spirit no longer ruled him. Man's spirit became subject to Satan's nature, Spiritual Death. In this we witness the tragedy of Love. God's love creation became the slave of hate. Gen. 1:26: "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth and over every creeping thing

DIVINE HEALING(E W Kenyon) THE SUBJECT OF HEALING is one over which there has been much controversy. Today there exist at least three different attitudes toward healing among the Christians. One group teaches that healing is not for us today. They base this upon the theory that healing is a miracle and that miracles do not belong to the present day; that they belonged only to the Apostolic Age. Another group teaches that God heals today in answer to special prayer or a special act of faith, and that according to His own will in the matter. The third group teaches that healing for the body is the legal right of every child of God, and that he receives healing for his physical body upon the same grounds that he receives remission of sin for his spirit. Let us now examine these three teachings in the light of the Word. The first attitude can be easily shown to be erroneous by a definition of a miracle. A miracle, according to Webster, is an act or happening in the material or physical sph