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How to kill a Goliath

1Sa. 17:40 Then he took his staff in his hand, chose five smooth stones from the stream, put them in the pouch of his shepherd’s bag and, with his sling in his hand, approached the Philistine.

In order to kill a Goliath, to begin with, you must have the staff of authority in your hand. What is this staff?

Jn. 3:5 Jesus answered, “I tell you the truth, no-one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit.

Mk. 16:16 Whoever believes and is baptised will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.

Ro. 8:9 You, however, are controlled not by the sinful nature but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to
Christ.

The staff of authority is the Spirit of Christ in you. If you have not been baptized into Jesus Christ in water and in the Spirit, quickly locate a Spirit-filled minister of the gospel and submit yourself to him for baptism into Jesus Christ in water and in the Spirit.

If you already have the staff in your hand, in order to kill a Goliath, you need to go down to the stream, which is the Scripture, and choose some stones that are suitable for the Goliath that is facing you. The stones are promises of God that relate to the Goliath.

2Pe. 1:3 His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.
2Pe. 1:4 Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature and escape the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.

How do you very effectively throw a stone at a Goliath? Answer is in the next post.

He sent forth His word and healed them

Ps. 107:17 Some became fools through their rebellious ways and suffered affliction because of their iniquities.
Ps. 107:18 They loathed all food and drew near the gates of death.
Ps. 107:19 Then they cried to the LORD in their trouble, and he saved them from their distress.
Ps. 107:20 He sent forth his word and healed them; he rescued them from the grave.

All the afflictions that we suffer in this world are due to sins. As people of God suffer, they pray and pray to God. Most times nothing happens; the affliction just continues. This has been my life’s story. For several decades, I suffered the same set of afflictions. I prayed and prayed and there was no change. Funnily enough, while I was in the middle of the afflictions, prophecy came that said that I will discover a principle that heals incurable diseases. I searched and searched for this principle and the afflictions continued. God only made sure that enemies that wanted to kill me by all means did not succeed.

Ps. 107:20 shows that even before we were born, God sent the solution to all our afflictions. He sent His word. And yet people of God continue to yell: “O God heal my afflictions!” God’s people perish from lack of knowledge (Ho. 4:6). God sent the healing long before any of us was born. The people of God should just apply the healing to their situations. How? Put God’s word suitable for your situation in your mouth and speak word of faith (Ro. 10:.

Je. 1:9 Then the LORD reached out his hand and touched my mouth and said to me, “Now, I have put my words in your mouth.
Je. 1:10 See, today I appoint you over nations and kingdoms to uproot and tear down, to destroy and overthrow, to build and to plant.”
Je. 1:11 The word of the LORD came to me: “What do you see, Jeremiah?” “I see the branch of an almond tree,” I replied.
Je. 1:12 The LORD said to me, “You have seen correctly, for I am watching to see that my word is fulfilled.”

God puts His word in the mouth of His son and thereby appoints him over nations and kingdoms to uproot and tear down, to destroy and overthrow, to build and to plant. What mechanism is the son of God supposed to use to uproot and tear down, to destroy and overthrow, to build and to plant? It is the very word that his Father God has put in his mouth.

jekagadura:
Assassinated?...please which scriptures are you referencing?

Re. 13:3 One of the heads of the beast seemed to have had a fatal wound, but the fatal wound had been healed. The whole world was astonished and followed the beast.
Re. 13:4 Men worshipped the dragon because he had given authority to the beast, and they also worshipped the beast and asked, “Who is like the beast? Who can make war against him?”
Re. 13:5 The beast was given a mouth to utter proud words and blasphemies and to exercise his authority for forty-two months.

jekagadura:
Wrong...very wrong...the anti Christ will be revealed before the feast of trumpets will be fulfilled. The 2 witnesses of the LORD Jesus Christ will be killed and be resurrected before the feast of atonement will be fulfilled and only when the church enters into the rest of the Father shall the feast of tabernacles be fulfilled...

Kei144:
After the events of the sixth seal, every human being on earth suddenly realizes that the great day of God's wrath has come. How do they know? The resurrection!

Something similar to the event of the sixth seal happened when Jesus died on the cross. Three days after Jesus' death, resurrection of the dead happened (Mt. 27:53). In the same way, the messiah that today's Jews are expecting will be assassinated just before the the great earthquake that follows the sixth seal. Three days after today's Jewish messiah is assassinated, he rises from the dead at the very time that the dead in Christ resurrects (1Th. 4:16). Those who are alive and remain in Christ will transform from mortal to immortality (1Co. 15:52). This is the adoption of the sons of God.

But when is the sixth seal?

The man that will become the Antichrist will be assassinated just before the fulfillment of the Feast of Trumpets.

Italians have voted in a referendum to cut the size of the country's parliament by more than a third.

Almost 70% of people voted in favour of the change, with almost all votes counted.

The number of MPs in the lower house will be reduced from 634 to 400. The senate will also be downsized.

The referendum was pushed by the Five Star Movement, part of the governing coalition, which argued that the move would reduce costs.
It was held alongside several key regional elections, where the results were seen as a setback for far-right League leader Matteo Salvini and a boost for the centre left Democratic Party, which is part of Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte's coalition government with the populist Five Star movement.

What the referendum result means

The total number of MPs and senators will be cut from 945 to 600. The change had already been pushed through parliament. But it needed to be backed by a referendum because it amends the Italian constitution. The changes will have to be made before the 2023 election.

"The reason why most voters have voted in favour of the reductions of the parliamentarians, in my opinion, is that they wanted to have less professional politicians around," Mr Orsina said.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54244025

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-09-22/italians-vote-to-dump-a-third-of-parliamentarians/12688792

oluwaseyi1759:
Welldone Brother in the Lord..You will never fail on your way to make heaven. Amen.

My dear readers A word is good enough for the wise.
I pray you reading will make heaven.

You are blessed, my brother.

Feast of Tabernacles

Le. 23:34 “Say to the Israelites: ‘On the fifteenth day of the seventh month the LORD’s Feast of Tabernacles begins, and it lasts for seven days.
Le. 23:42 Live in booths for seven days: All native-born Israelites are to live in booths

1Th. 4:17 After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord for ever.

Feast of Tabernacles in the ancient Hebrew calendar begins by sundown on November 30th. It is the time of the rapture. The resurrected saints of God are snatched out of the world, to meet the Lord Jesus in the clouds. The clouds most likely refers to the second heaven. It is here that the saints of God will stand before the judgment seat of Christ, where they will be assigned the ranks they will hold for eternity. Satan and his angels would have been expelled from the second heaven for good, before this time (Re. 6:7-9).

2Co. 5:9 So we make it our goal to please him, whether we are at home in the body or away from it.
2Co. 5:10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive what is due to him for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad.

From the second heaven, Jesus Christ leads the saints of God to the third heaven, where they enter the throne of God.

Re. 7:9 After this I looked and there before me was a great multitude that no-one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and in front of the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands.
Re. 7:10 And they cried out in a loud voice: “Salvation belongs to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb.”

It must be noted that Jesus fulfills the three remaining Feasts of the LORD in the period between the opening of the sixth and seventh seals. It is also in this period that the 144,000 Israelites will be sealed. Opening of the first to the fifth seals will take place between October 1st and middle of November. The world will become really hot from the month of October.

Feast of Atonement

Le. 23:27 “The tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. Hold a sacred assembly and deny yourselves, and present an offering made to the LORD by fire.
Le. 23:28 Do no work on that day, because it is the Day of Atonement, when atonement is made for you before the LORD your God.

Re. 7:14 I answered, “Sir, you know.” And he said, “These are they who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

Feast of Atonement in the ancient Hebrew calendar begins by sundown on November 25th. By this time, the resurrected saints of God are still in the world. It is on this day that the blood of Jesus Christ is finally applied to the resurrected saints, making them perfect and fit to enter the throne of God.

It is widely known in Christianity that Jesus Christ fulfilled the first four Feasts of the LORD just after his life on earth.

• He fulfilled the Feast of Passover when he hung on the cross at Calvary as the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of mankind.
• He fulfilled the Feast of Unleavened Bread the next day, when his body lay in the grave. He knew no sin and yet died.
• He fulfilled the Feast of First Fruits when he behttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqXg5s3SB7Qcame the first fruit from among the dead.
• He fulfilled the Feast of Pentecost when he released living water into his followers, ten days after his ascension to heaven.

The remaining three Feasts of the LORD will be fulfilled before the end of 2020.

Feast of Trumpets

The next Feast of the Lord to be fulfilled by the Lord Jesus Christ is the Feast of Trumpets. People generally think that the Feast of Trumpets for the year 2020 is already a history, but that is according to modern Jewish calendar. The Feast of Trumpets according to the ancient Hebrew calendar begins by sundown on 16th November, 2020. How did I come by this? I have posted in the following thread that the Hebrew calendar that is operated in my village of origin is in synchrony with the ancient Hebrew calendar.

https://www.nairaland.com/5875777/modern-hebrew-calendar-not-synchrony

The founder of my native village was a descendant of Jews who fled from Judea to Egypt after the conquest of Judea by Nebuchadnezzar. The Hebrew calendar that is operated in my village of origin is out of phase with modern Jewish calendar by -2 months; this means that my village of origin’s Hebrew calendar lags the modern Jewish calendar by two lunar months.

1Th. 4:16 For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.

1Co. 15:51 Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed —
1Co. 15:52 in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.
1Co. 15:53 For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality.

The fulfillment of the Feast of Trumpets will involve the resurrection of the dead in Christ, followed by the transformation of those who are alive and in Christ from mortal to immortality. This is the first resurrection.

teepee072:
Are you serious or this press was made under duress

What kind of duress? My original post was based on two parcels; one was trackable in Nigeria and the other was not trackable in Nigeria. I had posted that the two had been stolen by a NIPOST thief. It later turned out that they were not stolen. Integrity requires that I set the record straight. This does not mean that some other person's parcel has never been stolen by a thief in NIPOST.

Valentinooo:
But how come other items are coming in.

Someone will order for phone and memory card, memory card will arrive but phone will be nowhere to be found.


Another person ordered phone and pouch, pouch has since arrived but no phone

A lot of items arrives and there were few workers to sort them and apparently sorting is not often done according to date of arrival. I am not a NIPOST official. I also have these same problems with NIPOST, but I now understand that they are managing a crisis. Crisis management is not often so orderly, just like commanding troops that are under intense fire from the adversary. I once posted a damning thread against NIPOST, which I now regret:

https://www.nairaland.com/5661756/parcel-thief-nipost-frustrating-life#94146043

I want to make a closure to this thread.. In fact, I apologize to NIPOST. It turned out that the parcels that I referred to were not stolen after all. The one with tracking number that I complained about was misplaced after it was collected from my local Post Office. The one that is not trackable in Nigeria was eventually delivered to me about two months ago, even though more than one year after it was posted in China. The look of the cover of the parcel showed that it had been with NIPOST for a long time. My thinking is that the small parcel must have fallen into a corner, apparently when the bag containing it was being emptied. When a NIPOST official discovered it, it was sent to my local Post Office. I was so glad when I received it.

I can now say that NIPOST officials are doing their best to improve the quality of their services. They have actually improved the system a lot from what it was a few years ago and the improvement is continuing, especially as they get criticisms from social media. I recently noticed a great improvement in the performance of their online Customer Service.

COVID-19 seriously affected both Singapore Post and NIPOST. That is the reason for all the delays. You know that for some time only GL 14 and above were going to work because of COVID-19; it affected NIPOST Operations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XeMYovuYHQ

War is about to break out. That's probably why Israel is staring another lockdown today.

The rider on the red horse is about to ride! (Re. 6:4)

I am very disappointed by the kind of replies this thread had garnered. Apparently, people didn't bother to watch the YouTube movies. Only one reply shows that the author watched at least one of the videos. Incidentally, my message in this thread is extremely serious.

Summary of the Logic of my message in this thread

In the second video, the speaker cross-references two passages of the Bible and clearly shows that rapture and the wrath of God come after the sixth seal of Revelation 6. This becomes the basis of my effort in trying to determine the timing of the rapture. The question then is, when is the time of the sixth seal?

In the third video, somebody saw in a visionary dream that a large meteorite will hit the earth after October 31st (early in November) and cause earthquake that will shake the whole world. Obviously, that is the sixth seal event. Just before the sixth seal event, the man who will become the AC will suffer a fatal head wound (Re. 13:3). Three days after the sixth seal event, the AC and all the dead in Christ rise from the dead. People who are alive and in Christ transform from mortal to immortality. But how do we confirm the early November timing for the sixth seal event?

The fourth video is the popular Pastor Dana Coverstone dream of USA in November. The video shows great chaos following Trump's win in the November 3rd USA election. At about 11:35 point of the video, he sees big light in the sky, bright light and then darkness. The big light occurs when the asteroid enters earth's atmosphere. Darkness ensues when the asteroid strikes either the ocean or the ground. This is the sixth seal event. After the event, Pastor Dana sees Americans in very humble condition; boisterous rioting suddenly ends.

2Co. 13:1 “Every matter must be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.”

The fifth video describes the rapture dream of an eight-year old boy. The dream contains a very big earthquake and ends with what should be the rapture.

This doesn't mean that the rapture will be in November, but the first resurrection will be in November. After Jesus' resurrection, he remained on earth for forty days before he ascended to heaven. It is expected that the resurrected saints of God will follow a similar path.

Today is the International Literacy Day. Why is it not popular in Nigeria?

https://www.nairaland.com/6106422/googles-read-along-app

Today is the International Literacy Day. Join the Celebration by installing Google's "Read Along" App to help your kids read.

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Listen to a parent share its amazing impact on her family.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxf_HHDCiKU

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Two Nigerian men have been arrested for allegedly scamming a German state that tried to buy 2.3m euros (£2m) of personal protective equipment (PPE).

Nigerian police say they cloned the website of a Dutch company to obtain an order from the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. When the PPE didn't show up, a state government representative visited the company's offices in the Netherlands. The company then informed him that they had never done business with him. The representative notified the Dutch police and investigations led to Nigeria where the two suspects were arrested in the commercial capital, Lagos. They are due to appear in court soon.

The suspects, Babatunde Adesanya and Akinpelu Hassan Abass, were members of a "sophisticated transnational criminal network", Nigerian police said in a statement. The pair allegedly cloned the corporate website of ILBN Holdings BV in order to carry out the scam on Freiherr Fredrick Von Hahn, who represented North Rhine-Westphalia. The PPE was needed for the battle against coronavirus.

Two more arrests have also been made in the Netherlands.

According to Nigerian police, Mr Von Hahn was "disturbed" when the PPE did not arrive, only to find out that "the company never did business with him and that the transaction was a scam".

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-54051424#:~:text=Two%20Nigerian%20men%20have%20been,state%20of%20North%20Rhine%2DWestphalia.

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The above YouTube video is about the rapture dream by an eight year-old boy. He saw a big earthquake. After the big earthquake, the boy ran to a big red boat. They were heading to to an island. In the water close to the island, he saw people with red dots (corona vaccine, may be). The people with red dots pursued them. They ended up entering a rocket that was pointing to heaven.

The rapture will take place some days after the resurrection, most likely forty days, because Jesus ascended to heaven forty days after his resurrection.

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The above YouTube video talks about a large meteor hitting the earth sometime after October 31st and causing worldwide earthquake. This will be in November. This will obviously be the sixth seal event.

I had to look up Pastor Dana Coverstone's dream about November.

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In the above YouTube video, USA elections hold on November 3 and is followed by great chaos. About 11.35 of the above YouTube video, Pastor Dana sees big light in the sky, bright light and then darkness. This occurs definitely after the election. I think this should be the asteroid impact of the sixth seal. Resurrection of the dead in Christ and the transformation of those who are in Christ and alive from mortal to immortality should take place three days after this event.

I have been trying to determine the timing of the rapture. I have a calling in end-time ministry. Due to what I have read or watched about revelations people have got that seem to indicate that rapture will be in 2020, I concluded that rapture will happen before the end of this year. But recent Pastor Dana Coverstone's recent dream about December and January threw me into confusion.

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He saw Christians in that dream and the Christians do not look like they have missed the rapture!

Then I looked up more YouTube rapture videos. The message in this one is very important:

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Re. 6:15 Then the kings of the earth, the princes, the generals, the rich, the mighty, and every slave and every free man hid in caves and among the rocks of the mountains.
Re. 6:16 They called to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb!
Re. 6:17 For the great day of their wrath has come, and who can stand?”

After the events of the sixth seal, every human being on earth suddenly realizes that the great day of God's wrath has come. How do they know? The resurrection!

Something similar to the event of the sixth seal happened when Jesus died on the cross. Three days after Jesus' death, resurrection of the dead happened (Mt. 27:53). In the same way, the messiah that today's )ews are expecting will be assassinated just before the the great earthquake that follows the sixth seal. Three days after today's )ewish messiah is assassinated, he rises from the dead at the very time that the dead in Christ resurrects (1Th. 4:16). Those who are alive and remain in Christ will transform from mortal to immortality (1Co. 15:52). This is the adoption of the sons of God.

But when is the sixth seal?

Israel’s biggest rabbis are all afraid to leave the country lest they miss Messiah’s coming.

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A recent interview on Israeli radio again featured prominent rabbis explaining that the Messiah is just about to reveal himself.

Rabbi Yaakov Zisholtz on Sunday told religious broadcaster Radio 2000 that Rabbi Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky recently told him that he (Kanievsky) is already in direct contact with the Messiah.

To understand why religious Jews are taking this seriously, it’s important to know that Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky is considered one of the two or three top rabbis of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in Israel.

And Rabbi Zisholtz says that Kanievsky and others of the mystical “concealed” rabbis have now tasked him with informing the public of the Messiahs imminent arrival.

Rabbi Zisholtz began his explosive three-hour interview with a warning:

“…the process of redemption is about to start happening very quickly and at a fast pace. It is important that people remain calm and steady to act properly in the right time.

“There is a potential Messiah in every generation and there are righteous men who know precisely who it is. This is, of course, true in this generation.

“Getting the word out now that the Messiah is closer than ever is a matter of life and death. Haven’t you heard of Gog and Magog? That is what is going to happen very soon. Right now, the situation is explosive more than you can possibly imagine. Everyone needs to know whether they are on the inside or if they are going to be left out.”

He went on to reiterated a number of signs of which prominent rabbis have taken note and that they firmly believe to be evidence of the coming of Messiah.

“Rabbi Dov Kook, as everyone knows, is a very righteous man. He is one of the greatest men of our generation…[and] ten years ago, when Israel was suffering from a horrible drought, someone asked Rabbi Kook when the Sea of Galilee will again be full,” recounted Rabbi Zisholtz. “Rabbi Kook responded that when the Messiah arrives, the Sea of Galilee will be full. In a few weeks, the Sea of Galilee will be full for the first time since Rabbi Kook made this statement.”

The rabbi also pointed to Israel’s inability to elect a government, which he said will not change in the upcoming third election scheduled to take place on March 2.

“Another righteous rabbi said that according to the current situation in heaven, there will not be Israeli elections – rather, there will be a war,” cautioned Zisholtz. “If the elections do take place, it’s pointless since it will end like the other elections; no government will come out of it. No one will take the government away from Netanyahu.”

Decades ago, Rabbi Yitzhak Kaduri, one of modern Israel’s most revered sages, as well as the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Schneerson, both predicted that Benjamin Netanyahu would be the State of Israel’s last prime minister prior to the Messianic Age. A great many, if not most of the ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel continue to believe that to be true.

https://www.israeltoday.co.il/read/israeli-rabbi-says-hes-already-holding-meetings-with-messiah/

I had to watch Pastor Dana Coverstone's YouTube video about the events of September again to see if I could decipher some timing information from the video.

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Well enough, the timing information is there. In the video, the month of September begins with prayers. As the prayers progress, more and more people keep on joining the prayers. Apparently, by the time the prayers clear out the darkness that was hindering the move of God, fires of revival break out. The kingdom of darkness responds with fires of opposition and persecution. This is then followed by great war in heaven between angels of God led by Archangel Michael and Satan's angels led by Satan (Re. 12:7-9). Towards the end of September, Pastor Dana sees the face of Jesus in the sky calling on his people to prepare to pray and to prepare to fight.

My thinking is that the prayers currently being carried out by people of God, especially in USA, will succeed in clearing out of the way the darkness that has been hindering the move of the Holy Spirit of God, towards the middle of the month. By new moon of September, which happens to be the time of the )ewish Feast of Trumpets (Rosh Hashanah), the Holy Spirit begins the long-awaited great end-time revival. The forces of darkness will respond with great opposition and persecution against the people of God. The birth pains of Mt. 24:7 begins. Wars will break out around the world and collapse the world economy. Re. 12:7-9 war in heaven begins.

The appearance of Jesus' face in the sky towards the end of September is to warn Christians that Satan and his angels are about to be hurled down from the second heaven to earth. My thinking is that this will happen by the first full moon of October. God will allow Satan and his angels to sift Christians, thereby separating the wheat from the tares in the Church. Those that comprise the wheat will be adopted by God as His eternal sons. They are the ones that will ultimately ascend to heaven in the rapture.

https://www.nairaland.com/6070995/key-end-time-events-next-three#93110431

JennyEva:
Nawa for Plateau o

Temperature there is beginning to go down. It becomes full-blown winter by November. The infection rate will skyrocket as we approach year end.

Still available.

In my 20s, I fell in love with a Bendelite girl that I was in the same church with. But the church leaders were obstructing me from being close to the girl because they realized that I didn't believe in all their doctrines. One day, I was in an office and was talking to one Igbo madam from Imo State about the pains I was having due to the girl. One man that was also a visitor to the office just like me listened as I talked to the Igbo madam. When I finished talking, the man told me that he would advise me to go to my local government and find a wife. The man was not an Igbo. Later in life, I realized that that is the best advice an experienced man could give to an inexperienced young man.

The way the numbers for Plateau State is shooting up, it could become horrible when real cold weather begins in Jos by October.

Africans and their women!

Every prostitute is heavily possessed of demons. The only meaningful ministration any man of God could give to a prostitue is to cast out demons. Merely quoting Bible to them can only result in the subject of this thread.