The Spiritual atmosphere at this end time is pungent, only to sensitive Christians. Christians who are not sensitive are carried about by different waves of doctrines—hyper grace, false prophecies, miracles and wonders by magicians turned pastors. All the ancient devils that some great men of God have overcome have resurfaced on the scene. These are times when we must wake up to clear the atmosphere.

One of the important questions we need to ask ours is, “Are you still kingdom compliant? Or you are carrying unnecessary dirt?

Hebrews 12: 14-17 says, “Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord: Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled; Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.”

The above scripture clearly shows that bitterness defiles. There are many people who are bitter against each other for different reasons. Husbands and wives are bitter against each other; parents against children, colleague against colleague. The Bible says that we should not sin if we are angry (Ephesians 4:26). Often bitterness begins with anger, and then progresses to resentment. When resentment takes root, it turns to bitterness. When a person is bitter, he or she is satisfied at something; and derives a negative satisfying pleasure from being bitter. The moment we are filled with bitterness, we defile not only ourselves, but people around us—we begin to hurt others with our words and actions like Esau, thereby leading to profanity.

But the question we should ask is what relationship is there between Esau and profanity? We all have a tendency to want to sell our birthright because of temporary discomfort like Esau did. And once that happens, you no longer have an inheritance in the kingdom because you are no longer kingdom-compliant.

Who was Esau?

Malachi 1: 2-4 says, “I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob’s brother? saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob, And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness. Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places; thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them, The border of wickedness, and, The people against whom the LORD hath indignation for ever.”

In the above scripture, Esau displayed an attitude of self righteousness, so God determined to bring him down with it. When God said He hated Esau, he means that as an idiom of preference and not of personal malice. God made a choice of the younger over the elder due to Esau’s disposition over the birthright. He was the firstborn, but he had a disposition of disdain towards it. Esau was a fornicator and a destitute of hunger for God in his life, while Jacob loved the Lord and hungered to do His will.

Anytime you begin to sense that the hunger for God and the pleasure of His will is ebbing away from your life, know that “Esau wants to live in you”. How can you say that Jacob loved the Lord and hungered to do His will when Jacob was a cunning man? But you’ll find that anytime Jacob had opportunity to amend his ways, he always took advantage of it.

If you don’t have a compelling motivation to correct yourself whenever you are wrong, the spirit of Esau has taken over you. If you can be perfect without sin, then you do not need Jesus. But every time you notice imperfection in your life, admit it and change it, then you are on the pathway for being compliant.

In Genesis 25:23-34, Verse 32 reveals the root sin of Esau as: devaluation of God’s offer and free gift, hence his question: “what profit shall this birthright do to me?” This question showed his disposition and character, his faithlessness in spiritual things; it also sounds similar to the question Jesus asked in Matthew 98:36 which says, “What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?” What gives eternal identity to your soul is your birthright in Christ. If you have no value for it, you’ve lost your soul.

No matter any activity we have gotten involved in, it is necessary for us as children of God, to check our kingdom compliant status from time to time. Do you know that Christians argue over an issue to the point that they’d want to fight, even over political issues? Imagine what would happen it the trumpets sounds at that point in time?

What do you gain by being the right person while the other person is wrong? Why don’t you agree with your brother in Christ, just as the Bible admonishes us to? If because of the just concluded elections you are at loggerheads with your brother or sister, please go and reconcile with them, it is not worth the cost of your soul.

These are perilous times, and we can see so many evil spirits at work. The murderous spirit of Cain is rampant, the betrayal spirit of Judas is at work in town, deliver yourself, do not betray y our brethren.  Don’t let any bitterness get to the point where you open your to such spirits. You would have embraced Esau before you would realise that you have murdered someone.

Esau questioned the value of his birthright, may you not question your eternal value.

Twenty-two Blessings of Birthright

1. Family inheritance (Gen. 25:5)
2. Family supremacy – the ruling head of the whole tribe (Gen. 24:65; 25:5; 27:29,37)
3. The father’s blessing (Gen. 27:4, 27-38)
4. Spiritual leader and priest of the family or tribe (Gen. 26:25; 35:3-7)
5. Choice of all family lands (Gen. 25:5-6; 27:28,37; 28:4; 35:12)
6. Fruitfulness in offspring (Gen. 13:16; 15:5; 17:2,5; 22:17; 26:4,24; 28:3,14; 32:12; 35:11)
7. Special providence (Gen. 12:2-3; 26:3-4,24; 27:28; 28:15)
8. Personal blessings (Gen. 12:2; 22:17; 26:3)
9. A great name (Gen. 12:2; 27:28-29,37)
10. Personal blessing to all nations (Gen. 12:2-3; 18:18; 22:18; 26:4; 28:14)
11. Eternal inheritance (Gen. 13:15; 17:7-8; 28:13; 35:12)
12. A special party to the Abrahamic covenant (Gen. 17:7,19; 26:3-4; 28:4, 13-15)
13. “Father” of the Messiah (Gen. 12:3; 21:12; 22:17; 26:5; 28:14; Rom. 9:7; Gal. 3:16)
14. Father of many nations (Gen. 17:5; 18:18; 35:11)
15. Father of kings (Gen. 17:6; 35:11)
16. Eternal natural seed (Gen. 17:7-8,19; 2 Sam. 7; Isa. 9:6-7; 59:21; Lk. 1:31-32)
17. Have Jehovah as a special God (Gen. 17:7-8; 28:15; 32:9,12)
18. Have power over enemies (Gen. 22:17; 27:29)
19. Have headship of nations (Gen. 27:29)
20. Material prosperity (Gen. 12:7; 13:15; 15:18; 26:3-4; 27:28-29,37; 28:13; 35:12)
21. Spiritual blessing of Abraham–justification by faith (Gen. 28:4; Rom. 4; Gal. 3:14)
22. Curse upon enemies (Gen. 12:3; 27:29)

All the above blessings associated to the birthright were what Esau traded away in a twinkle of an eye, just to satisfy his belly.  Many of the blessings he threw away were eternal.

The birthright of men in the direct lineage of Christ included all the above, but that of an ordinary firstborn of any other family was different in many respects. The birthright belonged to the firstborn even where hatred was involved. He was entitled to a double portion of the inheritance
(Deut. 21:15-17). It could be sold (Gen. 25:29-34; 27:36; Heb. 12:16; Rom. 9:12-13), forfeited because of sin (1 Chr. 5:1-2), or set aside by God (Gen. 25:23; 48:15-20; 1 Kg. 2:15; 1 Chr. 26:10).

Revelation 10:7 says, “But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.” This particular verse has been interpreted in many ways, but I want to tell you how God interpreted it to me.

There are different people that have different ideas about the US President Donald Trump. Many go as far as calling him names; while some do not believe that he is a Christian. But all I can say about him is that President Trump is a mystery of God that should be finished.  

All you need to prove this is to see the video of the day he announced the movement of the US Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. With all that was happening around him, he was not bothered. He waited to be called to the podium, and he made the announcement. That single act is something that most Christians would not be able to do. He sacrificed all his distractions and fears, and did what he felt God asked him to do. That is part of God’s mystery that should be finished.

God wants us to follow His Spirit, not common sense. By the time some will make a detour and begin to follow their common sense, they will not know when they will take the mark of the beast on themselves.

Paul said to the Galatians Christians: “O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?” That bewitchment is not occultic bewitchment, it is charismatic witchcraft and it is manifest through domination, intimidation and manipulation. If you are a victim of these, you will likely take the mark of the beast.

Things to learn from Esau’s case:

• God will work out His purpose without human deception (Gen. 25:23; Mal. 1:2-3)
• God can predict human acts on the basis of human traits (Gen. 25:23; Mal. 1:2-3)
• God is sovereign in His choice (Rom. 9)
• Do not permit natural feelings to divide the family (Gen. 27)
• Traits of parents are passed on to their children (Gen. 29, 30)
• God can see further than man (Gen. 25:23)
• God’s choice is based entirely upon human traits, dispositions, and acts (Rom. 9:14-24)
• Do not put personal preferences before the will of God (Gen. 25:23; 27:1-4)
• We have no right to question the will of God (Rom. 9:8-24)
• Do not permit natural dispositions to hinder spiritual blessings (Gen. 25:34)
• God has made it possible for natural traits and dispositions to be completely changed so as to obey Him (Gen. 32:24-29; 2 Cor. 5:17)
• One must choose to submit to God to have such changes made (John 3:16)
• A mere moment of fleshly gratification can damn the soul (Gen. 25:34; Heb. 12:16)
• God’s principle of dealing with us today is on the basis of man’s choice or rejection of Him (Jn. 3:16; 1 Tim. 2:4; 2 Pet. 3:9; Rev. 22:17)
• Man can be cut off after such choice is made if he rebels (Rom. 11:7-20)
• Rebels can be brought back to original righteousness again by repentance (Rom. 11:20-32; 1 Jn. 1:9)
• What a man sows he will reap (Gen. 27,33; Gal. 6:7-8)
• God deals with men even before they are changed to conform to Him (Gen. 28:12-22; 31:1-13; 32)
• God has certain callings for qualified men (Gen. 25:23; Mal. 1:1-3; Rom. 9)
• God works out even human schemes to His own glory (Gen. 27; Rom. 9)
• Revelation comes when we are sincere and persevere (Gen. 28:12-22; 32)

Revelation 10:7 says, “But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.”

The “Mystery of God” includes all that is in the plans and purposes of God for the age of men.

Men do not know everything. God knows all things. He conceals and reveals whatever He wills at Kairos moments by providence to chosen men and by men who seek and press into Him.

Proverbs 25:2 says, “It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.” Deuteronomy 29:29 also says, “The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.”

God has secrets, so if don’t know all of His secrets, the ones He reveals to you now will clash with the ones HE has revealed before. What you need to do is to check yourself to be sure that you are compliant.

The Israelites who heard and saw Jesus when He was on Earth, could not distinguish between His first and the second coming. They muddled the whole thing together. They naturally chose what they liked, just like Esau did. They did not want Jesus to die for them; they wanted a king that would destroy all their enemies. So they refused the manger born king. They despised God’s ransom for hum

What you need to is to ask yourself if you are compliant to the Spirit of the Lord. Remember, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

I want to encourage you to check your Kingdom status all the time. Against such there is no law—once you are fulfilled in the fruits of the Holy Spirit in your life, there will be no condemnation for you.