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Warrior Church Home Fellowship Study
Dr. Kevin L. Zadai
Building Materials
"What is expensive down here is used for building material up there, but what is more precious than gold is your faith"
~ Dr. Kevin L. Zadai
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The twelve gates were made of pearls—each gate from a single pearl!
And the main street was pure gold, as clear as glass.
—Revelation 21:21 NLT
DISCUSSION:
The wealth that is in Heaven is very different than the wealth here on earth. A lot of what we value here, such as rings, gold, silver, diamonds, and precious stones, are considered building material in Heaven. The angels are probably eyeing the ring on your finger right now, saying, we can use that for the next street we pave in Heaven. If you were to visit Hawaii, you might come across various places where they dive for oysters for you. You can pick your oyster, and they’ll open it up for you. It’s kind of exciting to see if you’ll get an oyster with a precious pearl in it. While in Heaven, God makes a whole gate out of one pearl, which is very large. One gate is probably equivalent to the size of the building we are in. It’s very big than one pearl. Can you imagine the size of the oyster? It’s like the size of a prehistoric animal. God uses a pearl that is bigger than anything that we could have down here that we think is precious. He uses that just as a gate, an entrance into the city. There are 12 gates in the New Jerusalem and 12 very, very large Pearls. They are priceless. There's no way that you could put a price tag on them.
The street of the city in Heaven was pure gold, and it was transparent as glass, which means that it had a degree of purity that's not even available here on earth. We have the color gold, and there are different colors of gold here. We have rose gold, yellow gold, and white gold. We have black gold, but that’s oil, and it doesn’t count. There are different colors, and that’s because of the light spectrum. When you look at an object, it has the color it does because what comes back to your eye is at a certain frequency. You have the spectrum of light, but we only see one-sixth of light, which is the whole rainbow on a color pie chart. All the light that's available to us in our eyes is just one-sixth of all light. There are other realms of light that we don't see with our eyes because we're in a fallen state. We used to see all the different colors in the infrared spectrum and other spectrums that are invisible to us now.
When you look at gold, you see a certain spectrum, but the true spectrum of pure gold would be clear like glass. It's so pure that when you look at it, you see it as glass. You don't see a color. The gold down here isn't even close to the value of Heaven's gold.
Revelation 21:18 NLT: The wall was made of jasper, and the city was pure gold, as clear as glass. You can get a hunk of Jasper on earth, but you don't get the amount you can build from. I've never seen even one piece of Jasper that's big enough to make a block. I'm sure there is, but I've never seen it. Can you imagine building the walls of the city? There are fifteen hundred square miles of the city’s dimensions, and the walls are fifteen hundred miles square. They’re that high, that wide, and that long. That’s a lot of Jasper. The city is also built in pure gold, so it isn’t just the streets; it’s the city as well. The buildings are pure gold and clear as glass. Everything that we call expensive down here is just building material there. What is even more expensive up there is the people that are there. Everyone that I met and saw up there was very expensive. Their value had gone up because of what God put into them to have them. He bought them, but their price was very high because He had to send His Son. The blood of Jesus is very expensive because of what it cost God to buy us back.
o Discuss how your perspective has changed towards what we value here and the value of gold, and precious gems in Heaven? How people are worth more above anything else in Heaven? How does that make you
feel?
Warrior Church Home Fellowship Study
Dr. Kevin L. Zadai
RIVER OF LIFE
Our value has gone up. Your desire to obtain wealth, and your desire to have what we call nice things here, just know that in Heaven, gold isn't even the color of gold here on earth. It’s clean, and it looks like a diamond. What we have as a clear diamond down here is like gold there. I saw the river of life in Heaven, and it was as though they had melted diamonds. The whole river of life is liquid diamonds. When I was there, I thought to myself, “this looks like melted diamonds.” It was liquid. The water was so pure that it was life itself. It looks like water until you get up close. It's a substance that is the life of God. It's coming from the throne, and it comes through paradise around the city, and then it goes out. I believe that it falls off the edge and goes into the earth and then up through people. In Heaven, you have understanding, but no one says anything to you. I knew that the water flowed off, and then it came up as rivers of living water into people just like Jesus said. (see John 4).
The most expensive things in Heaven are not explainable as being congruent with down here. They appear to be something similar to the earth, but they are very high quality. Your value, like the river that's inside of you, is even more expensive than the building material. The building material in Heaven is way beyond anything that we have. What you value on this earth is just building material for Heaven. The real prosperity is what's inside of you, and that is the river of life. No matter what happens in your life, you've always had that river of life. I was so mindful of this when I was there.
The water was liquid diamonds passing by. There were families on the shore of the river there. Even though there's no male or female like on earth, you could tell that they were families and that they were glorified. They didn't have a gender as we do down here. I saw children that were playing with Jesus because they were waiting for their parents to come. I noticed that the children had died early. They are just up there playing, and they don't have to wait long because it didn't seem like any time had passed.
I want to leave this with you; that no matter what you go through, remember that the same water that passed by me that came from the throne of God was going to come up through someone on the earth. That same water. There is a transference from the Heavenly realm into a human being on the earth. That's why it is so important to yield to the spirit and know your Heavenly value. Our goal down here is to know God and manifest Him, and then get other people to know God and manifest Him so that we replicate ourselves. We have to have experiential knowledge. Then we go out and get people to come in, and our real value is the river of life that comes through us. You have to tell people that they need to be born again so that the river of life can come up through them.
o Discuss Revelation 21 and talk about how your material wealth down here is insignificant compared to our eternal wealth and eternal value.
o Discuss how your wealth and value are based on what God has done through Jesus Christ and the river of life.
PRAYER:
Father, in the name of Jesus. I thank you so much for your power. I thank you, Father, that there is nothing impossible with you. I thank you, Lord, for not only providing for our needs but also even giving us our wants, just like Jesus said, Ask what you will. Ask what you desire that it may be fulfilled. My father will give it to you, that your joy may be full; ask, and you shall receive. We know that, Father. We will have our wants and our needs. But also, Lord, may we know our value, and may we not focus on the material things of this life, but that we would know our value. And that is; there is a river of life that's welling up into eternal life. We thank you for that, Lord. We ask that you give us as many people as possible to bring in that we could witness to, that you would have the angels bring as many people that are ready to be told about the good news of the Gospel and bring as many as you can this week. We thank you for it in Jesus' name, Amen.
