In this new apostolic season, Jesus (as the husband of His bride/church) is lifting the veil to reveal who His true bride is. God is unveiling a mystery for us to see what He sees. And in the unveiling of the bride of Christ, the mystery is revealed.

The woman (bride) is seen in the stewardship of the house of God, for the steward bears the burden of the family.

God’s steward, Moses, said, “Have I conceived all this people? have I begotten them, that thou shouldest say unto me, Carry them in thy bosom, as a nursing father beareth the sucking child, unto the land which thou swarest unto their fathers?” (Numbers 11:12)

And even as Apostle Paul, speaking by the Spirit of the Lord, also confirmed about his stewardship, “My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you.” (Galatians 4:19)

God personifies the stewardship as a woman who gives birth to the church through the seed of truth he receives from God. The steward is personified as the mother of His people, and all those who identify with and accept God’s sanctified steward are included as belonging to the woman and Jesus will take ownership of her and take her, as a husband does His bride. As Jesus’ bride, the church is joined to her husband to build His house.

[The video teaching, “The Face Behind the Veil”, opens up many of God’s mysteries, as Apostle Eric makes connections that at one time was veiled to the church.]

The temptation upon the church is seen in those who remove themselves from the steward to build their own houses, or Independent Ministries (IM). In that God gave the stewardship to the church as a refuge and a covering, these independent ministers have removed the headship of Jesus and God personifies them as the headless bride.

So, what is a headless bride? It is the church under the stewardship of independent ministers who are without government, even as Isaiah also prophesied.

Isaiah 9:6
For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

Independent ministers do not serve God according to the terms of service and tradition that God established in Jesus Christ, so they establish their own traditions and stand separate from the work of Christ. They are not the woman, so God gives a sign that they are headless.

As Jesus lifts the veil of the bride of the false religious system, we see that she is indeed headless. The headless bride has no husband.

Colossians 2:19
And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.

God puts His witness in the grace He issues to the steward by which His children bear the face of the Father. The image and likeness of God is in the pattern, design, and power of His gifts He bestows on the woman for the nourishment of the body which is the church.

Seeing that she resisted stewardship and refused her priesthood, the headless bride cannot contribute to build the house of God and will be cast out as Hagar. She has no peace and is without God’s care. God is teaching the church that if you remove yourself from His stewardship, you remove yourself from His care.

So, to recap, the head represents government, so first of all, the headless bride has no government, which means she has no sanctified covering. Though she fathers many children, these are children of fornication, and that’s the mother of harlots.

God always establishes His house of faith separate from the house of idols, or those stewards who follow their own nature, or the natural sign. When David fled from Saul, God was making a division between the steward of disobedience (Saul) and the steward that came to replace him (David).

All those who joined themselves to David were called after the house of David, and all those who joined themselves to Saul were called of the house of Saul. Both were anointed of the Prophet Samuel, but only one was obedient to God.

God uses Saul for contrast. David built the house of God, but Saul built for himself, as God said, this will be the manner of the king that you choose, he will take everything from you (1 Sam. 8:11), and this Saul did, but that was not so with David.

We see further that although all Israel at the time of David was circumcised, not all came to him to establish him as God’s steward over Israel. So, the sign was not in the circumcision, but in the steward – David.

We see the same thing today, everyone who is baptized with the Holy Spirit and speaks in tongues includes themselves into the house of God, but they haven’t accepted God’s steward (the true sign) and therefore they are as Saul and also as Ishmael who was the steward of those outside of promise having born 12 princes.

Moses is another example of God establishing His house of faith in a steward. We read about him earlier, where Moses spoke of his stewardship as giving birth to a nation.

Everyone likes to quote Psalm 127:1 to affirm that God has to be in the thing you’re building or else you’re simply spinning your wheels.

Psalm 127:1
Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.

People quote this scripture because they see a lot of church building and church planting, and a lot of prophesy and revival conferences and calls to prayer and calls to repentance. These calls are all independent buildings going up – constantly being erected in an effort to lead the church, but each minister has come in his own name.

Every man is doing that which is right in their own sight, building altars on every green hill, which is the same bad habit God addressed in the children of Israel. After Moses said that the children of Israel were to only gather in one place where he had built the tabernacle, and only there shall you serve God, their habit was to go into the wilderness to erect their own altars.

Jeremiah 2:20
For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot.

God is causing the church to consider and to know without doubt, that resisting stewardship is to build for self, which is to build alone, apart from God.

Ministry names whether or not it bears the name of a person, bears the image of their IDL = IMAGINATION + DOCTRINAL LANGUAGE, which is the idol of the heart that God sees. These are the many different streams of ministries.

An independent ministry is a service apart from (absent of) the Godhead. An independent minister is one who does not function as part of God’s restored spiritual government (kingdom), but has set up his own house of ministry (wilderness wandering) and comes in the authority of his own name, while claiming the name of Jesus Christ.

John 5:43
I am come in my Father’s name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.

Jesus identifies the root and tethering of a person’s faith according to the name of the house to which his faith belongs and connects the receiving of stewardship to that name. Jesus came in His Father’s name to carry the root and origin of the knowledge of God’s kingdom to man. This is why He said, “I am the vine, you are the branches”, meaning I am the point of contact for your fruit. Those who partake of the stewardship, partake of the fruit. This is the vine that is cared for by the Father (John 15:1-5).

Jesus’ stewardship identifies that name and tether of ownership, which is the true bride.
Then, Jesus provides the contrast. The religious leaders of His time came in their own name. They are independent of His stewardship, denying the new knowledge Jesus came to give, they denied their tether to God.

The religious leaders of Jesus’ time confessed that their authority was Moses, saying that they were Moses’ disciples (referencing their roots and culture); that they were not born of fornication (outside the house of God); they laid claim to Abraham as their father because they used their heritage as a measuring rod in place of the anointing.

Religious leaders today follow the same example of independence. Some claim Jewish heritage and culture and claim to benefit the church by drawing from the Hebrew dictionary, but in truth, they are drawing from their imagination. Some claim their roots in the Jesus movement, some claim their roots in the laughter movement, some claim their roots in the prophetic movement, but these are all separate houses independent of the Godhead. When you attach yourself to their vine, you are in their house, under their stewardship, which produces sour grapes.

I brought out earlier that the woman (bride) is seen in the stewardship of the house of God, for the steward bears the burden of the family. The house that God is building through my stewardship (Eric vonAnderseck; EVA) is the true house of Jesus Christ, the house of covenant. It is the house of EVA, the name of the sanctified stewardship through whom God birthed again His people to renew them to the covenant.

The “house” represents the origin and root, the place of birth and refuge, which God has returned to the church through my stewardship. The true bride has emerged. I am one whose calling is born of the anointing, which is the eternal sign, which carries the scent of the knowledge of Christ. All who accept my stewardship enter into the holy city, New Jerusalem who is the mother of us all.

Galatians 4:26
But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.

Hebrews 11:10
For he [Abraham] looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

Revelation 21:2
And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

Look at Hebrews 11:10. Abraham did what? He looked for a city. Well, where was the city? The holy city, New Jerusalem, is in heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. Abraham understood the prototype. God unfolded to Abraham this mystery.

In the presence of Jesus’ stewardship of the church through His apostles, the woman (bride) recognizes His covenant, the terms of our engagement with Him, His spiritual tools, His new priesthood, and the church accepts the foundation of truth. Face answers to face. That which is above is reflected in the heart.

Even as a mother knows the scent of her children, so also does Jesus identify all those who carry the scent of His anointing to receive them into His heavenly city and kingdom.

To acknowledge the stewardship does not deny the Father, nor His Son, Jesus Christ. All those who acknowledge the anointing on the stewardship acknowledge the one who gave it. We’re talking about the presence of the anointing and the vessel that bears it.

When God revealed to Abraham saying that Sarah shall bear him the son of promise as the sign of Christ, Abraham pleaded for Ishmael because God was going to give us the contrast.

Abraham said, “O that Ishmael might live before thee!” (Genesis 17:18) But God said He would place His sign upon Sarah.

Genesis 17:15-16
15 And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be.

16 And I will bless her, and give thee a son also of her: yea, I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of people shall be of her.

Sarah’s name change reveals the sign of blessing, that God will change the force of nature and that which is born of the Spirit shall carry His name and give birth to His kingdom. God would bridge nature and she would be the mother of His people. Isaac bore the sign of God’s promise and covenant, having come through the womb of promise.

We also come through the womb of promise or the womb of the covenant of Jesus Christ. God teaches us that the blessing of His redemption and knowledge of salvation does not come through man’s nature, which is the common religion, whereas you come to church and go through the motions where you are challenged by a message, you search your heart, you weep in repentance, make vows for change, you let music wash over your soul, and try to hear the voice of God in this natural rhythm.

It’s a vicious cycle that the church has been in bondage to, has tried and tried to break free out of, but returns to over and over again. Independent ministers try to make a distinction without tethering God’s saints to His steward. They’ll say,

God teaches that man cannot break out of the natural into the spiritual without His steward who brings a new knowledge and new priesthood.

Apostle Paul makes the contrast between the natural (common religion) and the spiritual (uncommon religion), again using Hagar as the example of the natural.

Galatians 4:22-26
22 For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.

23 But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.

24 Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.

25 For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.

26 But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.

As Jesus spoke of two kinds of grapes, the sweet (cared for under God’s stewardship) and the sour grape (that which grows wild), Hagar is used to represent the wild nature of man’s religion, or the common religion that is after the natural force.

Apostle Paul made contrast, that which is born from beneath and that which is born from above. Even as there are two Jerusalem’s (earthly and heavenly), so also are there two churches (earthly and heavenly). The earthly Jerusalem went through many changes of hands through wars and shedding of blood and that’s what the false religious system does.

The change of nature is the true sign, and that is the blessedness of Abraham that Apostle Paul spoke of in Romans chapter 4. God’s sign is upon the stewardship that bridges nature. I’m not talking about inducing laugher and feigning revival, I’m talking about the preaching of the gospel apart from the nature of man, using nothing of man’s nature to profess Christ and no earthly tokens for his boast.