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THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE THREE

DAYS DRY FASTING
MATTHEW 12:40
For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the
whales belly; so shall the Son of man be three
days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
The Holy Bible is referred to as the covenant book of
God, because all what God did, what He is doing and
what He shall are written therein. When you say that
this or that thing had been taken away; where do you
think such a thing is taken to? God is the Father of
truth and all His words are true. Once He makes a
pronouncement, He stands by it.
BY LEADER OLUMBA OLUMBA OBU

THREE PENTECOSTAL PERIODS

In Brotherhood of the Cross and Star, there are also
(3) three Pentecostal periods. These are to signify
the special number three - Father, Son and the Holy
Spirit, the Most United Trinity three in one God.
The December Pentecostal assembly represents the
birth of Our Lord Jesus Christ. The April or Easter
Pentecostal is used to remember His period of
persecution, tribulation, death and resurrection. The
August Pentecostal represents the time which Christ
baptized, received the Holy Spirit, and was revealed
to the world. Now are these three occasion not but
one thing?
These three things however, cannot happen one day.
It was not the day He was born that He died, and the
day He died was not the very day He was baptized
and revealed to the world.
If you had known that just as Jonah was three days
and nights in the belly of the whale, so also was Our
Lord Jesus Christ in the heart of the earth for 3 days
and 3 nights, what stops you from doing this three
days and nights dry fasting? This seventy-two hours
dry fasting signifies the seventy-two hours death of
Our Lord Jesus the Christ.
ALL THOSE WHO DO NOT RESPECT OR RECOGNIZE
THESE THREE PERIODS ARE REBELS. SUCH PEOPLE

WILL BE JUDGED AND CONDEMNED. BUT ALL

THOSE WHO OBSERVE AND RECOGNIZE THESE
PERIODS, IN TRUTH, SHALL HAVE ETERNAL LIFE.
We have no other job to do for Christ than to worship
Him and honor His words. If the whole world truly
believe in the instructions of Christ and practice
same, all burdens would be made light and all
problems solved.
Joke no more with the words of God, and do not
oppose, doubt or ask Him questions any more. It was
out of a doubtful minded that Peter argued and
rebuked Our Lord Jesus Christ for saying that he
would be tortured and killed in Jerusalem. Peter said
such must not take place but Jesus the Christ said:
Get thee behind me, Satan thou art an offense unto
me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God,
but those that be of men. (Matthew 16:23)
BY LEADER OLUMBA OLUMBA OBU
IF ANY PERSON BUILDS A HOUSE OR CATHEDRAL
AND CALLS IT THE HOUSE OF GOD, HE IS TELLING
LIES, FOR, GOD DWELLS IN MAN. THIS IS WHY IT IS
SAID THAT:
The kingdoms of this world are become the
kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ: and he shall
reign forever and ever. (Revelation 11:15)
At John 4:21, Our Lord Jesus Christ first told the

Samaritan woman that, a time will come when the

Father will neither be worshiped in the mountain nor
at Jerusalem but that the true worshipers shall
worship the Father in spirit and in truth. At John
14:26, He also promised us that, at the appointed
time, the Comforter will come to teach everyone to
know God in spirit and in truth. By the time that
Comforter, even the Spirit of truth did not come,
everyone worshiped God in the flesh. However, now
that He has arrived, we have to worship Him in our
bodies, not in a house, mountain, Riverside or forest.
Now, the dwelling place of God is now with us and
He shall dwell with us forever.
BY LEADER OLUMBA OLUMBA OBU
Just as Jonah stayed in the whales belly three days
and nights, so did Our Lord Jesus Christ remain in
the heart of the earth for three days and nights.
Likewise, Brotherhood of the Cross and Star fast for
three days and three nights without eating, drinking,
bathing or brushing the teeth. Therefore, all those
who participate in the dry fasting are followers of
Christ and have crucified the flesh with all its lusts
and passion on the cross. They have forsaken all
types of carnalities and welcome the Holy Spirit.
Galatians 5:24 states: They that are Christs have
crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.

One can only crucify the flesh through fasting.

Whether the world likes it or not, the flesh must be
crucified to allow the spirit to take dominion.
Even as Jonah and Jesus the Christ spent
seventy-two hours each at that state of temporary
death, all humanity have to die with Christ for
seventy-two hours and also resurrect with Him.
If we die with, Him we shall resurrect and be saved.
BY LEADER OLUMBA OLUMBA OBU

During these fasting, all the choristers in the

universe in all planes, spiritually and physically are
here to gather and sing melodious songs to the Holy
Spirit. They should stay throughout the period to
rejoice with God. Very soon, people will be coming
from all parts of the world to stay with the Father
and participate in this seventy-two hours dry fasting,
and those who were with various illnesses will be
made whole.
BY LEADER OLUMBA OLUMBA OBU

GOD CONTROLS DESTINY:

God has never deceived and will never deceive. What
He did to the Israelites would be done to the
Gentiles. He is the same yesterday, today end
forever. Why then do you doubt him and why do you

murmur against Him? You have no choice than to do

whatever He directs you to do. If God asks you to
jump into burning flames, you have to comply
without delay. If he directs you to dive into the
grave, you have to do same. This is because in all
events and situations, God had given answers
already.
What has placed a lot of you in suffering and adverse
conditions is lack of faith. Many people, when they
are sent on an errand by God, they faithlessly doubt
their safety during such missions. Why do you doubt
God? Have you ever seen a person whom God sent
on an errand without escorting him to get the job
accomplished?
BY LEADER OLUMBA OLUMBA OBU
The change of name means nothing but the power
that goes with the name is important. Let it be
known that, when one baptizes, the water he falls
into is Christ. HE IS ALSO BAPTIZED IN THE NAME
OF THE FATHER, SON AND THE HOLY SPIRIT.
Therefore, one has made a mistake by saying that,
God came on the persons of Adam, Enoch, Elijah,
Noah, Melchizedec, Moses, Jesus the Christ, Olumba
Olumba Obu. You are thus, declaring that, He has
come eight times, which is wrong. Which God came
eight times? Is it the false God or the living and

Omnipresent God?
GOD CAME FIRST AS THE FATHER WHEN HE USED
THE WORD TO CREATE ALL THINGS. HE ALSO USED
THE WORD FOR ALL WORKS. FINALLY, HE HAS COME
AS THE HOLY SPIRIT TO STAY FOREVER.
IN THOSE DAYS, ALL THE PROPHETS, AND THEIR
PROPHECIES WERE ABOUT OUR LORD JESUS THE
CHRIST. AND CHRIST BORE WITNESS TO THE HOLY
SPIRIT. HE DID NOT BEAR WITNESS OF ANY OTHER
BEING, NOT EVEN THE PROPHETS BUT TESTIFIED
OF THE FATHER.
IT IS SAID: FOR THERE ARE THREE THAT BEAR
RECORD IN HEAVEN, THE FATHER, THE WORD AND
THE HOLY GHOST: AND THESE THREE ARE ONE.
AND THERE ARE THREE THAT BEAR WITNESS IN
EARTH, THE SPIRIT, AND THE WATER AND THE
BLOOD: AND THESE THREE AGREE IN ONE. (1 John
5:7-8)
That is why, in Brotherhood of the Cross and Star, we
always regard three things, faith, hope, and love as
being important. See the first lesson below:
BY LEADER OLUMBA OLUMBA OBU
THE WILL OF THE MOST HIGH GOD IS SUPREME.
The will of the Most High God is Supreme. He had
willed various purposes for all his creation. No one
can change Gods will not matter how he fasts,
prays, preaches or weeps. He cannot change the will

which He had destined for someone, This explains

why it is said:
Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the
morrow shall take thought for the things of itself.
Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. (Matthew
6:34)
It is only God who can call one to Himself for, no one
is capable of pleasing God. If He does not elect you,
you cannot be His friend. Even the faith which
Abraham had, was not his but it was freely given by
God.
God is the one controlling ones destiny. Some
children for instance, even at their tender ages
proclaim that they want to work for God. Do you
think they are the ones making the statement? This
was written for them before they were born into the
physical earth plane. Unfortunately, when the time
for this assignment to manifest comes, they then
resist. This however, cannot help the situation
because, what has been destined cannot be erased.
Whatsoever happens to one comes from the Father
and had been written against that person before he
was born.
There is nothing that can change or stop it from
taking place. It may be recalled that, on the night of
the death of Our Lord Jesus Christ, He said that:
If it be possible, let this cup pass from me:

Nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt. (Matthew

26:39)
Did God grant His request on that very case? Though
He prayed and rolled on the ground until His sweat
became blood, the cup was not taken away. (Luke
22:44) Finally, the will of the Father - His torture,
death resurrection manifested. The death of Christ
for three (3) days and nights reveals the person
embodied in one God as recorded in 1 John 5:7.
FOR THERE ARE THREE THAT BEAR RECORD IN
HEAVEN, THE FATHER, THE WORD, THE HOLY
GHOST: AND THESE THREE ARE ONE.
Prophet Jonah was sent to Ninevah to preach to the
people against their evil ways. He ran away because
of fear for his life. For that reason, the Father
disguised Himself in the form of a storm and met him
in a ship on the high sea. When the storm became
unbearable, Jonah told the captain of the ship and
others that he should be thrown into the sea for, he
was the cause or the impending wreck. Jonah was
thus thrown into the sea and immediately, a whale
swallowed him, where he remained for three days
and three nights before he was delivered safely on
the shores of Ninevah. (Jonah 1:3-17), (Jonah 2:10)
For our Lord Jesus to stay three days and nights in
the heart of the earth was not a new thing. This is
because Jonah had earlier stayed for three days and

nights in the belly of a whale. Did he not come out

still as Jonah? Why then do people doubt the death
and resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ? Daily, God
is revealing a lot of things in various forms, yet, He is
still the same God.
BY LEADER OLUMBA OLUMBA OBU

THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE THREE

DAYS DRY FASTING
FIRST LESSON: MATHEW 16:21

From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his

disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, end
suffer many things of the elders and chief priests
and scribes, and be killed and be raised again the
third day.
SECOND LESSON: JOHN 2:17-19
And his disciples remembered that it was written,
The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up.
Then answered the Jews and said unto him: What
sign shewest thou unto us, seeing that thou doest
these things?
Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this
temple, and in three days I will raise it up.
GOLDEN TEXT: MATTHEW 12:40
For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the
whales belly; so shall the Son of man be three days
and three nights in the heart of the earth.

BE BORN AGAIN:
The three texts above deal on the issue of the three
days dry fasting observed in Brotherhood of the
Cross and Star. Now, how many people in the world
have participated in the three days dry fasting
periods done in Brotherhood of the Cross and Star?
Very many people are asking why the whole of
seventy-two hours should be spent on fasting. A lot
of people pray that the dry fasting should not be
observed often.
Others even wish it should be stopped forthwith.
Some would fast for the first twenty-four hours and
complain that they are human beings and for that
reason, they stop. Some would fast for two days and
nights while a few endure to the end.
AS recorded in Matthew 12:40 (see Supra), Our Lord
Jesus Christ promised to remain in the heart of the
earth for three days and three nights.
This is why members of Brotherhood of the Cross
and Star observe the three days dry fasting. For
these three days and nights, no water is drunk, no
food is tasted, bathing and brushing of teeth are not
also allowed. Is this not three days and nights death?
Whoever undergoes this fasting has died and

resurrected with Christ. This is what is called, born

again, for he has become a new being after the
fasting. This is what is keeping us alive and strong.
You would recall that, God directed Abraham to take
his son Isaac and sacrifice for Him. Abraham and
Isaac were to make a journey of seventy-two (72)
hours, three days and nights, which is this same
thing that we are doing here in Brotherhood of the
Cross and Star. Isaac was an earthly example which
was presented as an illustration of an impending
heavenly event. The directive given to Abraham by
God was a practical demonstration of the death of
Christ and His subsequent stay in the grave for 3
days and three nights.
This episode is linked with Abraham because of the
promise which God made with him that, a root shall
spring from him. In this promise, God did not say,
Abrahams children but ONE SON. That very son who
shall come from Abraham as promised by God was
Christ. Now, the problem of the entire world is
patience. God is the Father of patience. He is patient
and wants us to exercise patience. He can make a
promise today which would take thousands of years
to consummate. And for this reason, whoever is
devoid of this virtue would become hopeless after
the first one thousand years. However, whether you

believe or not, at the expected time, the promise

must come to fulfillment.
God does His things the way He likes. It is on this
ground that our Lord Jesus the Christ said:
Think not that I am come to destroy the law or the
prophets; I am not come to destroy but to fulfill. For
verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one
jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till
all be fulfilled. (Matthew 5:17-18)
THE HOLY BIBLE IS REFERRED TO AS THE
COVENANT BOOK OF GOD, BECAUSE ALL WHAT GOD
DID, WHAT HE IS DOING AND WHAT HE SHALL ARE
WRITTEN THEREIN. WHEN YOU SAY THAT THIS OR
THAT THING HAD BEEN TAKEN AWAY; WHERE DO
YOU THINK SUCH A THING IS TAKEN TO? GOD IS
THE FATHER OF TRUTH AND ALL HIS WORDS ARE
TRUE. ONCE HE MAKES A PRONOUNCEMENT, HE
STANDS BY IT.
A great many of you become doubtful when things go
the way you did not expect. Consider the case of
Isaac. He was the only son of Abraham but God
directed that he should be used as a sacrificial lamb.
Abraham accepted, and though he had to trek for
three days and three nights, seventy-two hours, he

did not change his mind. When he got to the

destination, he still set a fire on the altar to burn
Isaac. This was when Isaac asked his father
Abraham saying father, the fire is burning, where is
the sacrificial lamb? Abraham said, my son, God
will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering.
God is the one who sends one on an errand and goes
with the one to fulfill the purpose thereof. Since He
is the sender and doer of the job, all glories and
thanks belong to Him. This is why it is said cut
down the bush and I would set fire into it with my
power.
GOD CONTROLS DESTINY:
GOD HAS NEVER DECEIVED AND WILL NEVER
DECEIVE. WHAT HE DID TO THE ISRAELITES WOULD
BE DONE TO THE GENTILES. HE IS THE SAME
YESTERDAY, TODAY END FOREVER. WHY THEN DO
YOU DOUBT HIM AND WHY DO YOU MURMUR
AGAINST HIM? YOU HAVE NO CHOICE THAN TO DO
WHATEVER HE DIRECTS YOU TO DO. IF GOD ASKS
YOU TO JUMP INTO BURNING FLAMES, YOU HAVE
TO COMPLY WITHOUT DELAY. IF HE DIRECTS YOU
TO DIVE INTO THE GRAVE, YOU HAVE TO DO SAME.
THIS IS BECAUSE IN ALL EVENTS AND SITUATIONS,
GOD HAD GIVEN ANSWERS ALREADY.

WHAT HAS PLACED A LOT OF YOU IN SUFFERING

AND ADVERSE CONDITIONS IS LACK OF FAITH.
MANY PEOPLE, WHEN THEY ARE SENT ON AN
ERRAND BY GOD, THEY FAITHLESSLY DOUBT THEIR
SAFETY DURING SUCH MISSIONS. WHY DO YOU
DOUBT GOD? HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A PERSON
WHOM GOD SENT ON AN ERRAND WITHOUT
ESCORTING HIM TO GET THE JOB ACCOMPLISHED?
The will of the Most High God is Supreme. He had
willed various purposes for all his creation. No one
can change Gods will not matter how he fasts,
prays, preaches or weeps. He cannot change the will
which He had destined for someone, This explains
why it is said:
Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the
morrow shall take thought for the things of itself.
Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. (Matthew
6:34)
It is only God who can call one to Himself for, no one
is capable of pleasing God. If He does not elect you,
you cannot be His friend. Even the faith which
Abraham had, was not his but it was freely given by
God.
I want you to know that God is a hydra-head Being.

He is right, left, front, back and He is everything. He

is a child, adult, woman as well as men. If Moses had
this knowledge, he would not have whipped God the
way he did as recorded at Numbers 20:11-12. You
may recall that, when Moses was abused by the
Israelites for taking them away from Egypt to suffer
in the wilderness only because they were thirsty,
God became a big rock. Moses was directed to point
his staff at the rock and speak for, water would
come out enough for all the people and their beasts.
Since Moses was always easily exasperated, he took
offence on the abuses and curses heaped on him by
the Israelites and smote the rock twice. For that
reason, God was not pleased with him because, he
did not glorify God in the presence of the people. He
was therefore, not allowed to enter into the
promised land. (Numbers 20:1-20).
Moses did not know that both the rock and the water
that gushed out of it was God in disguise. So, you
can see how incomprehensible the Almighty God is.
No one knows Him.
Unlike the case of Moses, when Abraham had set
Isaac ready for the sacrifice, God ordered him not to
take the boys life. He was shown a ram by the side
which was used for the sacrifice (Genesis 22:10-13).
After the sacrifice, Abraham and Isaac went home in

flying colors. That is the significance of the death of

Christ.
When He told the Jews to destroy the temple and He
would rebuild it in three days, the people doubted
the possibility of his action and thus, became
annoyed. However, Christ knew the implication of His
statement. And so when His disciples advised Him
not to go to Jerusalem, He insisted and went. If
Jesus the Christ had ran away, what would have
become of this world? And if Christ had truly ran
away, could he have escaped the death which was
written for Him?
People refuse to do what God directs because of
fear. They prefer to stay in the world yet, they
neither die nor live a successful life. They cannot
even have peace as a result of their failure to endure
the ways of God. And now, one can understand from,
the statements made by Our Lord Jesus Christ as
recorded in the texts for this sermon that, death
does not actually exist but what happened was a
demonstration of the power of God. This was done
so that His glory would be revealed.
God is the one controlling ones destiny. Some
children for instance, even at their tender ages
proclaim that they want to work for God. Do you

think they are the ones making the statement? This

was written for them before they were born into the
physical earth plane. Unfortunately, when the time
for this assignment to manifest comes, they then
resist. This however, cannot help the situation
because, what has been destined cannot be erased.
Whatsoever happens to one comes from the Father
and had been written against that person before he
was born.
There is nothing that can change or stop it from
taking place. It may be recalled that, on the night of
the death of Our Lord Jesus Christ, He said that:
If it be possible, let this cup pass from me:
Nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt. (Matthew
26:39)
Did God grant His request on that very case? Though
He prayed and rolled on the ground until His sweat
became blood, the cup was not taken away. (Luke
22:44) Finally, the will of the Father - His torture,
death resurrection manifested. The death of Christ
for three (3) days and nights reveals the person
embodied in one God as recorded in 1 John 5:7.
For there are three that bear record in heaven, the
Father, the Word, the Holy Ghost: and these three are

one.
Prophet Jonah was sent to Ninevah to preach to the
people against their evil ways. He ran away because
of fear for life. For that reason, the Father disguised
Himself in the form of a storm and met him in a ship
on the high sea. When the storm became unbearable,
Jonah told the captain of the ship and others that he
should be thrown into the sea for, he was the cause
or the impending wreck. Jonah was thus thrown into
the sea and immediately, a whale swallowed him,
where he remained for three days and three nights
before he was delivered safely on the shores of
Ninevah. (Jonah 1:3-17), (Jonah 2:10)
For our Lord Jesus to stay three days and nights in
the heart of the earth was not a new thing. This is
because Jonah had earlier stayed for three days and
nights in the belly of a whale. Did he not come out
still as Jonah? Why then do people doubt the death
and resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ? Daily, God
is revealing a lot of things in various forms, yet, He is
still the same God.
A local adage says three is good but four is evil. This
is another way of expressing the Trinity of God.
THREE DAYS, THREE HOUSES, THREE YEARS,
EVERYTHING THREE FATHER, SON, AND THE HOLY

GHOST. THE SPIRITUAL MATHEMATICS OF GOD

WORKS WELL WITH THE NUMBER THREE. THE
THREE PERSONS IN ONE GOD ARE NOT THREE
GODS BUT ONE. HE WAS ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND
JACOB. GOD ONLY ANSWERS DIFFERENT NAMES
FOR DIFFERENT OCCASIONS AND MISSIONS. ALSO,
OUR LORD JESUS THE CHRIST HAD TWELVE
APOSTLES BUT THREE; PETER, JAMES, AND JOHN
WERE COMPLETELY DISTINCT FROM THE REST.
THESE THREE WERE CLOSER TO HIM THAN THE
REST.
We also have body (flesh), spirit and soul which are
also one in one person. Whenever God wants to
manifest Himself as a human being, He takes up
water, blood and spirit and these are one (1 John 5:8)
The change of name means nothing but the power
that goes with the name is important. LET IT BE
KNOWN THAT, WHEN ONE BAPTIZES, THE WATER HE
FALLS INTO IS CHRIST. HE IS ALSO BAPTIZED IN
THE NAME OF THE FATHER, SON AND THE HOLY
SPIRIT. Therefore, one has made a mistake by saying
that, God came on the persons of Adam, Enoch,
Elijah, Noah, Melchizedec, Moses, Jesus the Christ,
Olumba Olumba Obu. You are thus, declaring that, He
has come eight times, which is wrong. Which God
came eight times? IS IT THE FALSE GOD OR THE

LIVING AND OMNIPRESENT GOD?

GOD CAME FIRST AS THE FATHER WHEN HE USED
THE WORD TO CREATE ALL THINGS. HE ALSO USED
THE WORD FOR ALL WORKS. FINALLY, HE HAS COME
AS THE HOLY SPIRIT TO STAY FOREVER.
IN THOSE DAYS, ALL THE PROPHETS, AND THEIR
PROPHECIES WERE ABOUT OUR LORD JESUS THE
CHRIST. AND CHRIST BORE WITNESS TO THE HOLY
SPIRIT. HE DID NOT BEAR WITNESS OF ANY OTHER
BEING, NOT EVEN THE PROPHETS BUT TESTIFIED
OF THE FATHER.
IT IS SAID: FOR THERE ARE THREE THAT BEAR
RECORD IN HEAVEN, THE FATHER, THE WORD AND
THE HOLY GHOST: AND THESE THREE ARE ONE.
AND THERE ARE THREE THAT BEAR WITNESS IN
EARTH, THE SPIRIT, AND THE WATER AND THE
BLOOD: AND THESE THREE AGREE IN ONE. (1 John
5:7-8)
That is why, in Brotherhood of the Cross and Star, we
always regard three things, faith, hope, and love as
being important. See the first lesson below:
FIRST LESSON: MATHEW 16:21

From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his

disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and
suffer many things of the elders and chief priests
and scribes, and be killed and be raised again the
third day.
CHRIST DIED FOR THREE DAYS AND NOT TWO:
From the above text, one should understand that Our
Lord Jesus Christ predicted a seventy-two hour
death, no more, no less. Now, the worldly people
believe that He was killed on Friday (Good Friday).
Count from Friday morning to Sunday morning, is it
up to seventy-two hours? Where are all their
mathematicians; has Satan not deceived them? If
one adds up the days, he would see that, from 6:00
AM of Thursday to 6:00 AM of Sunday which He
resurrected the number of days are complete.
Now count, from 6:00 AM Thursday to 6:00 PM
Thursday is the first day. From 6:00 AM Friday to 6:00
PM Friday is the second day. From 6:00 AM Saturday
to 6:00 PM Saturday is the third day. Also, from 6:00
PM Thursday to 6:00 AM Friday is the first night.
From 6:00 PM Friday to 6:00 AM Saturday is the
second night. From 6:00 PM Saturday to 6:00 AM
Sunday, when Mary Magdalene visited the tomb to
discover the resurrection, is the third night. These

are therefore three days and three nights or

seventy-two hours. So, if you have been joking with
the number, three, do not joke any more.
In Brotherhood of the Cross and Star, there are also
(3) three Pentecostal periods. These are to signify
the special number three- Father, Son and the Holy
Spirit, the Most United Trinity three in one God.
The December Pentecostal assembly represents the
birth of Our Lord Jesus Christ. The April or Easter
Pentecostal is used to remember His period of
persecution, tribulation, death and resurrection. The
August Pentecostal represents the time which Christ
baptized, received the Holy Spirit, and was revealed
to the world. Now are these three occasion not but
one thing?
These three things however, cannot happen one day.
It was not the day He was born that He died, and the
day He died was not the very day He was baptized
and revealed to the world.
If you had known that just as Jonah was three days
and nights in the belly of the whale, so also was Our
Lord Jesus Christ in the heart of the earth for 3 days
and 3 nights, what stops you from doing this three
days and nights dry fasting? This seventy-two hours

dry fasting signifies the seventy-two hours death of

Our Lord Jesus the Christ.
ALL THOSE WHO DO NOT RESPECT OR RECOGNIZE
THESE THREE PERIODS ARE REBELS. SUCH PEOPLE
WILL BE JUDGED AND CONDEMNED. BUT ALL
THOSE WHO OBSERVE AND RECOGNIZE THESE
PERIODS, IN TRUTH, SHALL HAVE ETERNAL LIFE.
WE HAVE NO OTHER JOB TO DO FOR CHRIST THAN
TO WORSHIP HIM AND HONOR HIS WORDS. IF THE
WHOLE WORLD TRULY BELIEVE IN THE
INSTRUCTIONS OF CHRIST AND PRACTICE SAME,
ALL BURDENS WOULD BE MADE LIGHT AND ALL
PROBLEMS SOLVED.
Joke no more with the words of God, and do not
oppose, doubt or ask Him questions any more. It was
out of a doubtful minded that Peter argued and
rebuked Our Lord Jesus Christ for saying that he
would be tortured and killed in Jerusalem. Peter said
such must not take place but Jesus the Christ said:
Get thee behind me, Satan thou art an offense unto
me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God,
but those that be of men. (Matthew 16:23)
The fact that Peter rebuked Christ did not stop the
will of God from manifesting in Him as predestined.

Why Peter rebuked Him was because, it was written

that the Christ would not die forever and so, if He is
overcome by death, then, He was not the one.
Therefore, for Our Lord Jesus Christ to talk of death,
Peter felt be had made a wrong choice by following
Him. Read the second lesson again:
SECOND LESSON: JOHN 2:17-19
And his disciples remembered that it was written,
The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up.
Then answered the Jews and said unto him. What
sign shewest thou unto us, seeing that thou doest
these things?
Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this
temple, and in three days I will raise it up.
MAN IS THE TEMPLE OF GOD:
Brethren, it is said that the testimony from two
persons has established a truth of any case. By the
statement, destroy this temple, and in 3 days I will
raise it up, Christ was referring to Himself. He was
asking the Jews to kill Him and after three days, He
would resurrect.

The above statement by Christ is a proof to the fact

that whenever the Almighty God passes an
instruction, nothing changes it. That is why when His
disciples started admiring the magnificent buildings
of the temple, He made it clear to them that, they all
shall be destroyed beyond repair. (Matthew 24:12/Matthew 7:26-27). A spiritual song says, I will
destroy the old and rebuild a new Jerusalem for
you. (Galatians 4:26).
IF ALL THE SYNAGOGUES AND TEMPLES WERE
USEFUL TO GOD, WHY DID IT BECOME NECESSARY
THAT JESUS THE CHRIST SHOULD COME? THESE
PLACES DID NOT PRACTICE THE INJUNCTIONS OF
GOD WHICH NECESSITATED THE COMING OF OUR
LORD JESUS CHRIST. AS SUCH, CHRIST CAME TO
DESTROY ALL OF THEM AND MADE THE WORSHIP
AND DWELLING PLACE OF GOD IN THE BODY OF
HUMAN BEINGS.(Ist Corinthians 3:16-17/Ist Corinth
6:19-20/Ist Corinth 6:15-17).
IF ANY PERSON BUILDS A HOUSE OR CATHEDRAL
AND CALLS IT THE HOUSE OF GOD, HE IS TELLING
LIES, FOR, GOD DWELLS IN MAN. THIS IS WHY IT IS
SAID THAT:
The kingdoms of this world are become the
kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ: and he shall

reign forever and ever. (Revelation 11:15)

Now, the dwelling place of God is now with us and
He shall dwell with us forever.
AT JOHN 4:21, OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST FIRST
TOLD THE SAMARITAN WOMAN THAT, A TIME WILL
COME WHEN THE FATHER WILL NEITHER BE
WORSHIPED IN THE MOUNTAIN NOR AT JERUSALEM
BUT THAT THE TRUE WORSHIPERS SHALL WORSHIP
THE FATHER IN SPIRIT AND IN TRUTH. AT JOHN
14:26, HE ALSO PROMISED US THAT, AT THE
APPOINTED TIME, THE COMFORTER WILL COME TO
TEACH EVERYONE TO KNOW GOD IN SPIRIT AND IN
TRUTH. BY THE TIME THAT COMFORTER, EVEN THE
SPIRIT OF TRUTH DID NOT COME, EVERYONE
WORSHIPED GOD IN THE FLESH. HOWEVER, NOW
THAT HE HAS ARRIVED, WE HAVE TO WORSHIP HIM
IN OUR BODIES, NOT IN A HOUSE, MOUNTAIN,
RIVERSIDE OR FOREST.
NOW, THE NEW JERUSALEM IS BEING BUILT.
BROTHERS ETOP, ESSAH, AKWANG, ETUK AND
OTHERS ARE PUTTING IN THEIR EFFORTS TO SEE
ITS COMPLETION. IN IT, WE SHALL STAY TO ENJOY
FEAST AND SING PRAISES TO GOD BUT HIS REAL
HOUSE IS YOUR BODY. AND WHENEVER YOU
UNDERGO A THREE DAYS DRY FASTING IT IS

PROPERLY SWEPT AND KEPT CLEAN FOR GOD TO

INHABIT. THIS IS WHY MEMBERS TRY BY ALL
MEANS TO PARTICIPATE IN THE EXERCISE.
WHOEVER FAILS TO OBSERVE THE DRY FASTING
HAS HIMSELF TO BLAME.
See the Golden Text Below:
GOLDEN TEXT: MATTHEW 12:40
For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the
whales belly; so shall the Son of man be three days
and three nights in the heart of the earth.
FASTING PURIFIES THE FLESH:
When the disciples of John the Baptist asked Our
Lord Jesus Christ why His disciples do not fast
whereas they and the Pharisees do, He told them
that the children of the bridegroom cannot mourn
when the bridegroom is still with them. He also
assured them that, once the bridegroom is taken
away from them, then the children will start fasting.
(Read Matthew 9:15-16 for clarification). Accordingly,
whoever is in the flesh cannot fast. As such, the Holy
Spirit, even the Father, has come to dwell in His
house; then will Satan, the evil spirit come in and
exist there in? Once the evil spirit indwells you, you
cannot worship God in Spirit and in truth. However,

now that the Holy Spirit, even the Father, has come
to indwell in His house, you have to fast so that the
house may be the essence of the seventy-two hours
dry fasting.
Our Lord Jesus the Christ said through Brother Paul
that: For our conversation is in heaven from whence
also we look for the savior, the Lord Jesus Christ:
Who shall change our vile body, that it may be
fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to
the working whereby he is able even to subdue all
things unto himself. (Philippians 3:20-21).
Everybody has been changed but no one knows that
he is changed and to what extent. Being changed
therefore, you are not wearing the old weak body
anymore. You are now clothed with the power and
life. Our Lord Jesus Christ Himself bore witness of
this fact when HE said:
Verily, Verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me,
the works that I do shall he do also; and greater
works than these shall he do: because I go unto my
Father. (John 14:2).
Have you not seen the work which is greater than all
the works done by Christ. The entire world is a
witness to the great works done by Christ. The
Father has come as a thief in the midnight so that

the worldly kings and so-called wise men are

dumbfounded and mesmerized. For the fact that the
Holy Spirit is here with us, we have no importance
attached to house, cars, wealth, food or money but
what is important to us is the New Kingdom of God.
The good news of the kingdom should be spread to
all parts of the universe. We have to reveal the
kingdom to all creation. The New Kingdom has now
been revealed to the entire world.
Just as Jonah stayed in the whales belly three days
and nights, so did Our Lord Jesus Christ remain in
the heart of the earth for three days and nights.
Likewise, Brotherhood of the Cross and Star fast for
three days and three nights without eating, drinking,
bathing or brushing the teeth. Therefore, all those
who participate in the dry fasting are followers of
Christ and have crucified the flesh with all its lusts
and passion on the cross. They have forsaken all
types of carnalities and welcome the Holy Spirit.
Galatians 5:24 states: They that Christs have
crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
One can only crucify the flesh through fasting.
Whether the world likes it or not, the flesh must be
crucified to allow the spirit to take dominion.
Even as Jonah and Jesus the Christ spent

seventy-two hours each at that state of temporary

death, all humanity have to die with Christ for
seventy-two hours and also resurrect with Him.
If we die with, Him we shall resurrect and be saved.
During these fasting, all the choristers in the
universe in all planes, spiritually and physically are
here to gather and sing melodious songs to the Holy
Spirit. They should stay throughout the period to
rejoice with God. Very soon, people will be coming
from all parts of the world to stay with the Father
and participate in this seventy-two hours dry fasting,
and those who were with various illnesses will be
made whole.
May God bless His Holy Words. Amen.

MY SHEEP HEAR MY VOICE

Joh 10:27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them,
and they follow me:
Joh 10:28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they
shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck
them out of my hand.
Joh 10:29 My Father, which gave them me, is greater
than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of
my Father's hand.
Joh 10:30 I and my Father are one.

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