Solomon Aggrey - Following His Glory

In the end time, the activities of the antichrist system and the corresponding judgement of God will make things impossible in the natural world. The Bible says, ‘He who endures to the end shall be saved.’ It also says, ‘Whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.’ We need to follow the glory of God more in the times we live in. Coming very soon are times when we cannot afford to walk in error and ignorance. We shall need the hand of the Omnipotent, the mind of the Omnipresence and the word of the Omniscience to survive, otherwise we shall lose our promise and even be destroyed.

Yet today, believers know more about gifts of the Holy Spirit and the anointing but know very little about the glory of God. The world has seen the Pentecostal Revival, Evangelical Revival, and the Charismatic Revival. In all of them, there was a measure of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. We have read books about the glory of God and heard preachers preach about it, but we have come to the point where we need to experience it for ourselves.

I started as an Anglican priest. While praying the heavens opened and I saw a mighty building, like a church. It stayed in my view for about one minute and slowly dissipated. I was not prepared for that. As a normal Anglican priest, I was not quite conversant with such visions then. What is the meaning of this? I began a search for understanding. Perhaps the search for God had begun earlier than I thought, I don’t know. But the search for God still continues in my heart. How does one look for and search for an invisible God who is infinitely bigger and greater? How does one begin to search for the Creator who is omniscience, omnipresent and omnipotent? Where does one begin? The search, I realised, must begin within our own hearts. Therefore, our ideas and concepts about God must be true and not only depend on what we have been told or what we have read from books. We should allow the Holy Spirit, who is Spirit of truth, to guide and lead us to our destination, for we don’t know the way.

Some Christians speak as though it were easy to enter into God’s manifest presence and parley with Him. No! To put the rhetoric aside, the search for God is arduous and requires too much diligence to encourage any casual seeker. It is not for those with the wrong motives; it is for those who are truly serious and prepared to pay any price for an encounter with God. ‘And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart,’ says God through the prophet Jeremiah. The pattern of the journey of the children of Israel gives us clues.

God has guided my hands in many ways. He has led me back to the Old Testament shadows, copies, and patterns and shown me how they relate to the time in which we live. God is holy, not only in the Old Testament but also in the New Testament. He is the same God. Holiness is His nature, His essential self. He cannot do anything without His holiness. In the same way, God is love and He cannot do anything that is not love. So even God’s judgements are part of His loving nature and holiness.

God has chosen to guide man to fulfil His original intent. Man, through the first, Adam, decided to declare independence from God, walk away from Him and hide in fear. The Spirit of God therefore left the earth, but God promised to re-send His Spirit through Jesus Christ to guide us back to Him and to our inheritance. Without the Spirit of God, no man can find Him. Religion blossoms because of man’s attempt to find God without His help. We must come out of our religious beliefs in order to find God.

The Bible is much deeper than any theologian, any denomination, and any commentator. No one in the flesh has the full understanding and complete answers to all it has to offer mankind. Until we are transformed into Christ’s image we shall continue to see only in part and have different views and interpretations of the same thing. Whatever theological bias you hold, and whatever denomination or persuasion you belong to, does not matter to God if you are truly searching for Him. If you are truly seeking and searching for God, then we might be on the same side or in the same boat despite our theological differences.

You are perhaps going to read about something that you won’t like; something that would even seem to offend you and your doctrinal viewpoint. You may not like the style and language in which this book has been written. I would not be surprised. Sometimes I go back to what I had written earlier and wonder, ‘Did I really write that?’ Yes, the spirit is the pen. I am not writing to satisfy any doctrinal viewpoint; not even my own. If you are looking for something to disagree with or criticise you will find plenty in this book. I don’t hold any superior knowledge than what is written in the Holy Scriptures and perhaps what other inspired men of God have written and said. God is still speaking. He has never stopped speaking to those who can hear. Just because it is different from yours does not make it false.

If this book helps you to get a little glimpse of the Lord or helps you to get a little closer to His presence, then its purpose is served. All the glory goes to the Lord, for He only is worthy.

If, on the other hand, I have misinterpreted or misrepresented what the Holy Spirit is saying to me and to the church, I ask you to forgive me. I pray the Holy Spirit to impart to you Himself a true picture of what He wants to say to His church in the unique time in which we find ourselves.

The time in which we live is crucial. There has never been a time like this and there will never be. It is possible we might be the last generation to witness the second coming of the Lord, Jesus Christ. If this is the case, then we have a special and unique assignment to fulfil and we need to prepare ourselves. May God guide your steps to discover and follow His glory in the time in which we live.

Solomon S. Aggrey

Foreword

It is of paramount importance, right from the beginning of this book, to believe and understand that the whole Bible is the word of God. The word of God is not only the New Testament but also the Old Testament. The God of the Old Testament and the God of the New Testament are one and the same. It is a complete lack of understanding of the plan and purpose of God to try to show that the God of the New Testament is better or different from the God of the Old Testament, ‘For I am the LORD. I do not change.’ (Malachi 3.6).

The Old Testament conceals the will and plans of God, and the New Testament reveals the will and the plans of the same God.

‘Remember the former things of old, for I am God and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like Me, declaring the end from the beginning, and from the ancient times things that are not yet done, saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, and I will do all My pleasure.’’

Isaiah 46.9-10

It is like God’s signature tune, to declare the end from the beginning. There is no other god like Him. If by God’s grace the blindness which came over the eyes of nation of Israel in the wilderness is removed from the eyes of many Christians, we will realise that the first few books of the Bible encode the whole message, the gospel of Jesus Christ, the plan and the will of God. It was delivered to the Old Testament saints in shadows, types, and copies. To decode these prophetic messages one need to have an idea about the true meaning of these shadows, types and copies.

Everything God made and did in the world had to conform to the already existing realities and precedents in eternity. An example is the building of the Ark of the Covenant. ‘And see to it that you make them according to the pattern which was shown you on the mountain.’ The true Ark of the Covenant was revealed when the Word become flesh and dwelt amongst us. In the New Testament one will find a lot of references to the Old Testament because the Old Testament forms the basis for the proper understanding of the New Testament. If one throws away the Old Testament, one has thrown away the foundation and disfigured the complete understanding of the message of God.