by Pastor Afolabi Oladele

A couple of weeks ago while praying for an outreach team, asking God for open heavens, God told me that the Breaker had gone forth. The Breaker! Who is the Breaker and what does the Breaker do?

In this season God is going to give you understanding concerning ALL the graces written in the word that may have been hidden from you. The revelation of the Breaker is one of them. As you get an understanding, apply them in your race as we get closer to the coming of the Lord. Now more than ever, we must use every weapon that has been made available to us.

The Breaker has several dimensions – the Breaker working on our behalf and the Breaker in judgment. Faithfulness to Him is the key to Him working on our behalf.

Each servant in the Parable of the Talents had a choice to make. He could decide to use or not use the talent. He could eat up the profit he made or could give it to the King who owned the talent. The Lord gave the first two servants three things – a commendation (good and faithful servant), more responsibilities and a reward (enter into the joy of the Lord). This was based on their faithfulness. Jesus addressed the issue of faithfulness in Luke 16, when He confronted the religious leaders of His day. He said to them, “he that is faithful I that which is least is faithful also in much ….if you have not been faithful in that which is another man’s, who shall give you that which is your own?” (Luke 16:10-12).

In the Parable of the Talents (Luke 19) servants became rulers. In a major transition God turned them into subordinate kings under Him because they gave back the talents and the profit that belonged to Him. They were faithful in little things and because of this, great things were committed to them.

He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much. If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches? And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man’s, who shall give you that which is your own? No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him. Luke 16:10-14

In Luke 16:10-14 the contest was over money – the same stumbling block that has trapped many ministers today. Ministers who take what does not belong to them will never get the transition of servants becoming rulers that God spoke of in Luke 19:17, 19. Church leaders with lavish lifestyles should put their lives against the template of the life of Jesus. While He was on earth, Jesus lived a life of sacrifice.

When we ask that God should visit our nation, we need to be clear about what we mean. If God has chosen that the church would be the vehicle by which His mysteries would be made known then the church had better be the church.

The servants in Luke 19 labored as required and profited God. John 15:16 says, I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain. God has His eyes on profitability. In Luke 16 Jesus addressed the issue of the management of mammon. You would either serve God or mammon. Are you a servant of the Living God or a servant of yourself? Do you as a man of God use offerings for your own ego and fancy? The One who is the owner of all things is the One to whom we are to labour in the things that He has put in our hands. Church leaders who use offerings for their opulent lifestyles are cut in the same mold of the Pharisees and Sadducees who Jesus rebuked and condemned in His day. Hence this teaching on the Spirit of the Breaker.

The first explicit use of the word breaker is in Micah 2:13. There are other places in the Scriptures where the word breaker was not expressly used (see Romans 11:22; 1 Peter 4:17).

I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of thee; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, as the flock in the midst of their fold: they shall make great noise by reason of the multitude of men. The Breaker is come up before them: they have broken up, and have passed through the gate, and are gone out by it: and their king shall pass before them, and the LORD on the head of them (Micah 2:12-13).

In the book of Micah, Israel was totally surrounded and encompassed by the enemy and then the Breaker broke through the enemy lines on behalf of the people of God. It’s important that we see the other side of the dimension of the working of the Breaker. In Leviticus 10, the Breaker broke forth from His presence to destroy the two sons of Aaron – the priests He asked Moses and Aaron to anoint.

Aaron’s sons Nadab and Abihu put coals of fire in their incense burners and sprinkled incense over them. In this way, they disobeyed the Lord by burning before him the wrong kind of fire, different than he had commanded. So fire blazed forth from the Lord’s presence and burned them up, and they died there before the Lord. Then Moses said to Aaron, “This is what the Lord meant when he said, ‘I will display my holiness through those who come near me.I will display my glory before all the people.’”And Aaron was silent (Leviticus 10:1-NLT)

The inauguration of the tabernacle was a great event that all of Israel was waiting for. It was a time when the glory of God was going to dwell in the midst of men. A lot of preparation had been put in. God gave specific instructions concerning the consecration of the priesthood. He gave step by step instructions all in anticipation of the glory of the Eternal God coming from heaven to dwell among them.

Moses showed Aaron and his sons the example of what to do in the sanctification process (Lev 8) and by Leviticus chapter 9 he transferred this responsibility to Aaron. In Leviticus 9 Aaron and his four sons, Nadab, Abihu, Ithamar and Eliezer, were commanded to be in God’s presence for seven continuous days after the sacrifice had been done (Lev. 8:3-36). This was the level of consecration that had been done, that God had demanded of them. After Aaron and his sons successfully passed through the 7-day sanctification it was now time for them to do the same thing for Israel. At the end of these 7 days of consecration, Nathan and Abihu got drunk and did what God did not command in the presence of the Lord, and the Scriptures say that the Breaker came and consumed them.

God used the judgment of the Breaker upon the priesthood to show His glory to the people, to show that He is God. You don’t mess God up in the presence of the people. I will display my holiness through those who come near me. I will display my glory before all the people (Lev. 10:3 NLT).

Nadab and Abihu toyed with the blessedness and privilege that God gave when He called them to be near Him. Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and causest to approach unto thee (Psa. 65:4). The purpose of being called is to make manifest the excellence, glory, might, loving kindness, beauty of the Eternal God. In disobedience they brought into the Tempe fire that God did not call for. God did something here that is important for our time.

The prophetic parallel of this event is that we are now waiting for Jesus to set up His kingdom on earth, to dwell among men. What manner of men ought we to be at this time, in our conduct, particularly for those who are leaders of God’s people in any place that is called a church? The things that happened to Israel are written for our examples. The things that happened in Leviticus 10 are going to happen again and that’s why Paul gave the admonition in Romans 11:22 – Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off. Which one do you want to experience – God’s goodness or His severity? This word is saying stop it now before the Breaker comes upon you.

He that spoke is speaking clearly again – the Breaker is upon His people. If under the camouflage of “man of God,” you do things contrary to the word of God expect the Breaker to come at work in judgment. This hour is dangerous for everyone in the priesthood. Know the significance of the times we’re in and know how to walk. The time has come when the Lord would begin to make examples out of church leaders because of the misrepresentation that some have become. Unbelievers are the ones complaining, showing consternation and asking,What is the difference between a man of God and a rock star? Does your manner of living, your disposition show God?

You may debate with me about this saying: they have come again with their extremism. I place before you the evidence of the Word of God. Challenge me based on evidence of the Scriptures.

Reverential silence

What would you do if you were Aaron and saw your first two sons killed right before your eyes? Aaron broke down in tears and Moses said to him, Uncover not your heads, neither rend your clothes; lest ye die, and lest wrath come upon all the people: but let your brethren, the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning which the LORD hath kindled. And ye shall not go out from the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: for the anointing oil of the LORD is upon you. And they did according to the word of Moses.

Another dimension of God’s mercies and His faithfulness. There is no written record that Aaron questioned God. The Torah interestingly focuses on the reaction of the bereaved father, but never spoke about the two children that were killed. Aaron had been crying but stopped when Moses told him to stop crying. Aaron received the reward of silence when God said to him, not Moses: Then the Lord said to Aaron, “You and your sons are not to drink wine or other fermented drink whenever you go into the tent of meeting, or you will die. This is a lasting ordinance for the generations to come (Lev 10:8-9 NIV)

Your response in bad times would do you a lot of good. When bad things happen your response should be that of reverential silence. It is not a time to curse God. It is not a time to walk out on God. Are you going through issues now – the loss of your only child, the loss of your job, financial collapse? No matter how bad things are, keep silent. Let it not be a time of complaining, grumbling and speaking about things you do not understand. God is not obligated to give us answers but out response would be the trigger for either receiving blessings or receiving judgment.  Whatever the bad things that you are going through now or the bad things you may yet go through, understand that there are times to keep silent before God and meditate. Don’t rob yourself of a great opportunity to draw from the fountain of wisdom Himself by grumbling and murmuring against God.

“Tradition is a guard for Torah. Giving is a guard for wealth. Vows are a guard for asceticism. A guard for  wisdom is silence” is a quote by Rabi Akiva. And the Scriptures do agree with him as seen in the following verses:

He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him. He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope (Lam 3:28-29).

And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; And patience, experience; and experience, hope: And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us (Romans 5:3-5)

Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience (James 1:3)

Acceptable Worship

Acceptable worship is required of those that have drawn near to God. Then Moses said unto Aaron, This is it that the LORD spake, saying, I will be sanctified in them that come nigh me, and before all the people I will be glorified. And Aaron held his peace (Lev 10:3).

Psalms 65:4 says, Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and causest to approach unto thee. God did not hate Nadab and Abihu otherwise He would not have brought them near Him. They were chosen by Him. So why did they die? They didn’t die because God hated them, so take it away from your heart that God hates you, because He doesn’t. That you are here is evidence. We need to note that Nadab and Abihu were not hated, because God was the one that called them. He chose them. He caused them to approach Him. So why then did they die? Because they offered strange fire, alien fire – fire they had not been commanded to bring.

In certain circumstances we are to do only what we are commanded -– there is no room for initiative. Only that which God has prescribed is legitimate in His temple. Individual religious expression, even the most heartfelt feelings of the soul have to be channeled and expressed in a particular way. Don’t begin to rationalize, it would only cause your death. Nadab and Abihu broke this sacred code and they learnt a frightening lesson.

In the days of Moses, Korah and those who followed him were fervent in their love for God but they did not adhere to the boundaries that God had set in the books of the Law. Your love, passion and zeal for God must be expressed according to His word. You cannot use your love to break the law of the Living God, it will get back at you.

The death of Uzza again highlights this.

And they carried the ark of God in a new cart out of the house of Abinadab: and Uzza and Ahio drave the cart.  And David and all Israel played before God with all their might, and with singing, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets. And when they came unto the threshingfloor of Chidon, Uzza put forth his hand to hold the ark; for the oxen stumbled. And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzza, and he smote him, because he put his hand to the ark: and there he died before God. And David was displeased, because the LORD had made a breach upon Uzza: wherefore that place is called Perezuzza to this day. And David was afraid of God that day, saying, How shall I bring the ark of God home to me? So David brought not the ark home to himself to the city of David, but carried it aside into the house of Obededom the Gittite. And the ark of God remained with the family of Obededom in his house three months. And the LORD blessed the house of Obededom, and all that he had. 1 Chronicles 13:7-14 .

In both Leviticus 10 and 1 Chronicles 13 there was a revelation of God’s presence. God’s presence was going to appear. His presence was going to come down. In each of the cases where people messed up in the presence of the Lord the Breaker broke forth – the anger or the anger of the Lord was kindled.

The words translated the Lord’s wrath had broken out is the Hebrew word – perez which is translated Breaker. The Breaker came out in judgment against Uzzah.

David’s reaction vs Aaron’s reaction

David was angry because the Lord’s wrath had broken against Uzzah. He went away in anger (1 Chron. 13:11-12). God blessed the house of Obededom to draw David’s attention (1 Chron 13:14; 2 Sam 6:11-12). In His mercy, God wooed David back. This is the nature of our God. He did not leave or abandon David. You are the one that loses when you are angry against the Lord. That’s the point God made when He blessed the house of Obededom.

Rather than draw near to God to find out what had gone wrong, David was angry. It took 90 days before David considered and sought out how he got it wrong. God was patient.

Don’t be angry against God. Don’t let it be too long before you retrace your steps. It’s a time for an inward search when bad things happen. What did I miss, Lord? What steps did I take wrong? Repent if you have taken wrong steps. Know that God is not out to kill you. He is just waiting for you to retrace your steps.

Fervency in our love for God, zeal and ignorance of His word is not an excuse for disobedience. I did not know is not a basis for disobedience. God does not countenance that. It is inexcusable for those who are kings and priests to be presumptuous and negligent in sanctifying the Lord. When God is not sanctified in worship the priest dies, people die. In Leviticus 10, the priests – Nadab and Abihu died. In Chronicles 13 Uzzah died. The people died when David numbered the people (2 Sam 24; 1 Chron 21).

Church leaders, if you do not sanctify the Lord people will die, you will also die. It’s not a curse but a pattern in the word. Priest lose their lives like it happened for Nadab and Abihu.

It’s important that you pray for your church leaders, that they don’t step in the wrong direction and mess up and then the people they lead bear the brunt of their leaders’ mistakes. Far be it from you. But remember your leaders in prayers before God. Don’t keep pointing fingers. Help them with your prayers. God answers your prayer. Don’t forget that you have this responsibility.