Usually, a person’s faith is steeped with questions about everyday struggles to try to see where God fits into the equation, and that’s because the battle lines to win man’s soul have been drawn in the fleshly kingdom where most have been taught to weigh what they think God values.

Battles have been fought over theological grounds for a long time, but I want to share a divine dream with you that breaks open what exactly people are fighting over and it has to do with what has been lost to the church.

The teaching of Jesus’ covenant has been lost to the church and with it all that God placed in Jesus for Him to begin His work in you. God broke this open in a divine dream on August 28, 2021. The dream speaks of this time as God reopens the apostolic door and reveals the true apostolic character. I’ll go through the details of the dream and then we’ll talk about it.

In this dream, I saw a woman who held a pearl out in her hand for me to see. Then with great joy she rubbed the pearl between her hands and the pearl increased to the size of a baseball.

The woman had a beautiful pedestal made of silver and set the pearl on it and placed the pedestal in the center of a table as a centerpiece, which stood in the middle of a beautiful garden in the back of a mansion.

In the next scene, everything had changed. The once immaculately groomed garden was overgrown with weeds. The table fell into disrepair and fell over, and the pearl, now small again, rolled into the gravel walk that lined the garden.

In the dream, I was sitting in a lawn chair as an observer. I watched as armies over the centuries battled over the grounds. After each victory, a leader would come to look for the pearl but each left unsuccessful, as the pearl of great price remained hidden among the gravel.

The final battle to reclaim the pearl was a sweeping victory. The armor worn by the victorious army was gold and silver and the soldiers didn’t walk on the ground, they just moved forward with swords and shields.

Having secured the area, I saw Apostle Eric vonAnderseck in his youth searching for the pearl. With his hand open towards the ground, he moved in a sweeping pattern, as if he could sense the presence of the pearl. He stopped, stooped down and picked it right up.

When he did that the mansion and the garden with everything in it was immediately restored to its original condition. End of dream.

Now let’s break this dream open to see what the Lord is bringing to light for the church today as He bears witness to the true apostolical character.

In this divine dream, God gives a much-needed reality check. A lot of theological wars have been fought to lay claim to God’s original plan (the pearl of great price) and each leader lays claim to theological victories, but all failed to restore the church to the covenant of Jesus Christ, which is how God lays claim to us and begins His divine work in us.

Apostle Eric makes mention of many of these failed leaders who have searched for God’s pearl. Leaders who rose up before the Jesus Movement with reformation strategies and those who rose up after it, including the failed Laughter Movement, the failed Faith Movement, the failed Prophetic Movement, the failed Prosperity Movement, and the failed Deliverance Movement.

It’s interesting to note that when the apostolical character is absent, ministers lay claim to the scriptures, hoping to duplicate in their lives what they read in the Bible. After each defeat, they are determined to double down with more prayer, more fasting, and more evangelism to come up with new strategies.

Instead of admitting defeat, each leader insists that the gravel they found was God’s pearl. But God’s sheep will not follow those voices.

John 10:4
And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice.

Jesus said that His sheep know His voice and His voice is heard in His grace and truth. And this is what Apostle Eric recently brought out, “The voice of the apostolical character is the sound the sheep hear to proceed and progress and increase.”

The woman in my dream represents the virtues, strength, and purity of the first century church. According to God’s plan, Christians were instructed and guided by Jesus’ apostles and therefore they knew how to build their relationship with God through Jesus’ priesthood tools and this is why she is seen in the dream to rub the pearl in her hands with great joy.

Acts 2:42
And they [Christians] continued stedfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.

God meant for us to be active with the knowledge of His covenant as He works His nature in us. The pearl represents this transformation within which God highly prizes. Our relationship with God is based on Him knowing us through this daily application of faith as we serve Him in our priesthood.

The term “apostolic”, according to God’s mind, refers to the oversight of His house according to the covenant He established in Jesus and the blueprint of truth the Spirit empowers.

Under the guidance of the original apostles, God joined the steward of His house to the priesthood of the believer and the pearl grew in the hands of the church.

Each believer glorified God through the progression of their own growth, which God likened in my dream to the beautiful grounds and mansion under His care. Our soul, under God’s care, prospers. That’s the true apostolical character.

Jesus likened the prosperous soul to the “pearl of great price” in His parable.

Matthew 13:46
Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it.

3 John 1:2
Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.

The pearl represents the value of the original gospel and the beauty of the fruit born within us that glorifies God. This is what God prizes above all else and we worship Him by reciprocating the same value He placed in Christ in the same manner in which He gave it.

What is so striking in the dream is that the failure of each invading army did not deter the next generation of seekers. The philosophical mind games are costly to the saints that God is attempting to reach.

Thinking of how a pearl is formed naturally from a single grain of sand that is rolled over and over inside the mouth of the clam and coated with layers upon layers of a special substance that the clam produces, we see a parallel to our own transformation by the work of the Holy Spirit.

God speaks of a single process that begins with a single seed. The baseball size pearl represents the fullness of the fruits of the first century church. The testimony of Christ was in their spiritual labor, meaning that their covenant relationship with God was living and growing.

In my dream, the pearl was properly displayed on a beautiful pedestal made of silver that was placed in the center of a table as a centerpiece, which stood in the middle of a beautiful garden in the back of a mansion.

Let’s look at this for a minute. The centerpiece speaks of the very center or focus of God’s plan. God’s will and purpose for us is to allow Him to work in us the virtues of Christ in a way that engages Him through the new covenant priesthood. This is how God creates in us what He is. That was the church of the First 8th Week and now again the church of the Second 8th Week.

This is a sobering section of this teaching, so I want to give it our full attention. God in His mercy has elected this time (the Second 8th Week) to give sight back to the church to discern the difference between the true and original pattern God laid out for our faith and the counterfeit.

True apostolic ministry did not exist in the fallen church. The church of the 6th Week of darkness fell into disrepair as the gospel took on many different faces.

God spoke of this challenge through His Prophet Ezekiel, pointing to a time of restoration when His people would again be taught.

Ezekiel 44:23
And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.

God also speaks to this generation saying that His people are again being taught to discern the difference between the real apostolical character and the false and unclean counterfeit apostles and prophets who profane the name of God by teaching their own truths, half-truths, mixed truths, and partial truths.

The gravel gospel is the unclean knowledge that has been pushed on the church during the 6th Week of darkness.

Gravel is common like sand and points to knowledge that does not transform the soul. It also speaks of trampling under foot the precious things of Christ, even as Apostle Paul instructed.

Hebrews 10:29
Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?

In Matthew 25:32-33, Jesus spoke of separating the sheep from the goats because every goat thinks he is one of God’s sheep. All goats lay claim to the scriptures as the true and original pattern, but God points to Jesus and His covenant blueprint. That’s the true apostolical character.

In my dream, God turns our attention to the theological wars that broke out as the church of the 6th Week of darkness emerged. The garden grounds in my dream that at one time was breathtakingly beautiful, bore no resemblance to its former glory.

Through neglect and disuse, the garden was overgrown with weeds, the beautifully crafted table of silver was rusted and ruined, and the pearl shrunk down to its original size and rolled into the gravel and was lost.

In other words, the knowledge of Jesus’ covenant was trodden under foot like common gravel. This is symbolic of how the gospel changed from the original message to the 45,000 different messages and ministry visions we see today.

Fake ministry networks and fake apostolic organizations reworked God’s plan around many false messages from material prosperity to the fake Great Commission and prophetic formulas (you have what you say, confessing the word, manifesting your destiny, generational curses, prophesying into people’s lives, etc.).

The many battles that have been fought over the territory (church) were mission critical to finding the pearl of great price. Leaders greatly sought after God’s original plan of redemption through Jesus to lay claim to it for their aspiration.

The church of the 6th Week lost sight of God’s true covenant gospel in Jesus and they lost sight of God’s purpose for the priesthood of each believer.

The predominant religions claimed apostolic succession, but they did not possess the measure of grace to teach Jesus’ covenant. And today, many independent ministry leaders have also staked claim to the apostolic calling, but they also have failed to restore Jesus’ covenant gospel.

They lost sight of God’s plan and searched for the pearl among the stones of their own knowledge, where it could not be found. This is an important point to take on because God highlights that one’s religious aspirations – that’s not His pearl, and the many truths of the fake gospel – that’s not His pearl.

God also brings home His teaching that His truth cannot be discovered, it is given to the church through the apostle He chooses.

The Lord often points to the heart of leadership not being right, and those in leadership today have confessed in so many ways that this is true. God is saying that their heart was to use those things they find in the Bible to fulfill their own visions of His work. Therefore, they are not prepared to find the pearl of great price.

Many today have heard the restored gospel, but continue to step on it as if it is worthless gravel beneath their feet. They are not worthy.

In my dream, God intervened and I saw a significant shift in the battle over the pearl. Angels were doing God’s work to remove unsanctified occupiers from the area. I saw Apostle Eric in his youth, guided by the hand of God to pick up the pearl.

Let’s look at that symbolism for a moment. Youth is symbolic of the time period in which God called Apostle Eric in 1977 and it also symbolizes the strength of God’s grace to renew His church in the covenant of Jesus Christ.

God’s testimony upon Apostle Eric is clear. There is no substitute for the grace that God gives to the calling. Throughout the Bible, we read that God prepares one whom He chooses for His work. We don’t call ourselves. The opening of the Second 8th Week on God’s timeline is a significant turning point for the church.

In this divine dream, I saw that it was after Apostle Eric picked up the pearl and separated it from the gravel that the mansion and grounds were restored to their original beauty. This represents the effect of sanctified stewardship as the head of the household of Jesus Christ, to restore Jesus as the foundation and cornerstone of our faith.

The real apostolical character brings the body into one faith as God restores the original foundation of truth to equip His saints again to function in their priesthood.