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♨️‭Ezekiel 6:3 AFV ‬♨️ - “And say, 'Mountains of Israel, hear the Word of the Lord God. Thus says the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers and to the valleys, "Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places.

♨️‭Ezekiel 6:3 TLV ‬♨️ - “‭Say: mountains of Israel, hear the word of Adonai!” Thus says Adonai Elohim concerning the mountains and concerning the hills, concerning the wadis and concerning the valleys: “Behold, I will bring a sword on you. I will destroy your high places.

SWORD TO DESTRUCTION OF HIGH PLACES

Prophets and Ministers of the Word of God were not only called to prophesy or speak the word to people, but also to the creation and creatures. Even if men would not listen to the Word of God, we will still preach and prophesy the Word of the Lord to the mountains and earth that bear them, to the houses and stones that shelter them, to air and water that sustain their lives, to their death and grave that shall damn them, and to everything and everywhere they sinned or committed iniquities against God.

Example, the man of God all the way from Judah to Bethel, came to prophesy the word of the Lord, but basically to altars in high places. As it is written,

[1 Kings 13:1-2] — And behold, a man of God came out of Judah by the word of the LORD, to Bethel. And Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn incense. And he cried against the altar by the word of the LORD and said, "O, altar, altar, thus says the LORD. 'Behold, a son shall be born to the house of David, Josiah by name, and upon you he shall offer the priests of the high places who burn incense upon you, and men's bones shall be burned upon you.' ”

In the top bible verse, the son of man began his ministering the Word of prophecies, which were addressed by God basically to objects in the word of the Lord and witness of men concerned. Later he would prophesy to even dry bones, but now he was directed to face and prophesy to the mountains of Israel, to the hills of Jacob, to the rivers and valleys of the place that was once a land flowing with milk and honey.

In his prophecy to these Geographical or Topological features, the word of the Lord through him promised to imminently bring a Sword on them: And with the Sword, the Lord will destroy the high places of those mountains of Israel. “High Places” then meant “Shrines” or ‘Temples/Altars’ for Idolatry/Idols/demons. The mountains of Israel were not Holy mountains because of the high places on them, as well as in their rivers and valleys. The Sword was not primarily meant to destroy those places, but to destroy the high places of those places. When you come to “Ezekiel 36” the son of man was again directed to still face and prophesy but good things or gospel to the same mountains, hills, rivers and valleys of Israel, after the high places in them are destroyed from them, for God to rebuild them after cleansing them from high places.

Now understand these:

☆A☆ We still prophesy or preach the gospel, the Word of the Lord, to every creature;

☆B☆ The Lord, even as Jesus Christ, brought Sword into the world in place of peace;

☆C☆ We moved from destroying the high places (shrines) to destroying the spiritual wickedness in high places, as well as principalities, powers, rulers of darkness of this world, strongholds and high things that exalt themselves against Knowledge of Christ.

It's not flesh or carnal destruction, but spiritual destruction of high places: especially now that the high places are integrated in some churches so that to destroy those high places would mean to destroy those churches integrated with idolatry and demons.



♨️‭Ezekiel 6:4 AFV ‬♨️ - “And your altars shall be desolate, and your incense altars shall be broken. And I will make your slain fall before your idols.

♨️‭Ezekiel 6:4 NKJV ‬♨️ - “Then your altars shall be desolate, your incense altars shall be broken, and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.

DETAILS OF THE DESTRUCTION OF THE HIGH PLACES

The purported destruction of the high places spoken of, is hereby described in detail: There would be both physical aspects to it and spiritual aspects to it.

☆a — The Physical aspects to the destruction of the High Places ‐ These are covered in the bible verse above, and entails

Desolation and Brokenness of the Altars in the Shrines or High Places, and

Slaying or killing the worshippers/attendants, and piling up their carcasses before their idols.

Their idols will have their worshippers and believers killed before them, but those idols cannot raise them to live nor take vengeance for their own worshippers before them.

This prophecy of Ezekiel is also exactly the same with the prophecy of Moses, saying:

[‭Leviticus 26:30 NIV‬] — I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars and pile your dead bodies on the lifeless forms of your idols, and I will abhor you.



♨️‭Ezekiel 6:5 NKJV ‬♨️ - “‭And I will lay the corpses of the children of Israel before their idols, and I will scatter your bones all around your altars.

♨️‭Ezekiel 6:5 NIV ‬♨️ - “I will lay the dead bodies of the Israelites in front of their idols, and I will scatter your bones around your altars.

DETAILS OF THE DESTRUCTION OF THE HIGH PLACES 2

In continuation of describing the purported destruction of the high places spoken of, here are the spiritual aspects to it.

☆a — The Spiritual aspects to the destruction of the High Places ‐ These are:

Desecration/Defilement of the Altars in the Shrines or High Places with the deadness and bones of the worshippers/attendants of those idols.

Recall the man of God from Judah to Bethel, prophesied against the altar of the high place there, saying those priests’, worshippers’ and men's bones shall be burned on the altar [1 Kings 13:1-2] — Josiah the king fulfilled that prophecy, defiling those altars.

What desecrating or defiling those altars and idols with the deadness/dead bones of the same people who worshipped/served them would achieve includes — reversing or voiding all the proceeds and profits those idols and altars that fed them received from the same dead people. All their previous renderings are canceled by such desecration. Just as the dead do not praise or worship the Lord (Psalms 115:17) unless they rise up from the dead (Psalms 88:10), even so dead worshippers by desecrating their idols and high places with stench instead of incense/worship, nullify their earlier renderings.

Behold how Josiah fulfilled the prophecy of the man of God from Judah in Bethel:

[b][‭2 Kings 23:5-20 NIV‬] — He did away with the idolatrous priests appointed by the kings of Judah to burn incense on the high places of the towns of Judah and on those around Jerusalem—those who burned incense to Baal, to the sun and moon, to the constellations and to all the starry hosts. He took the Asherah pole from the temple of the Lord to the Kidron Valley outside Jerusalem and burned it there. He ground it to powder and scattered the dust over the graves of the common people. He also tore down the quarters of the male shrine prostitutes that were in the temple of the Lord, the quarters where women did weaving for Asherah. Josiah brought all the priests from the towns of Judah and desecrated the high places, from Geba to Beersheba, where the priests had burned incense. He broke down the gateway at the entrance of the Gate of Joshua, the city governor, which was on the left of the city gate. Although the priests of the high places did not serve at the altar of the Lord in Jerusalem, they ate unleavened bread with their fellow priests. He desecrated Topheth, which was in the Valley of Ben Hinnom, so no one could use it to sacrifice their son or daughter in the fire to Molek. He removed from the entrance to the temple of the Lord the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun. They were in the court near the room of an official named Nathan-Melek. Josiah then burned the chariots dedicated to the sun. He pulled down the altars the kings of Judah had erected on the roof near the upper room of Ahaz, and the altars Manasseh had built in the two courts of the temple of the Lord. He removed them from there, smashed them to pieces and threw the rubble into the Kidron Valley. The king also desecrated the high places that were east of Jerusalem on the south of the Hill of Corruption—the ones Solomon king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the vile goddess of the Sidonians, for Chemosh the vile god of Moab, and for Molek the detestable god of the people of Ammon. Josiah smashed the sacred stones and cut down the Asherah poles and covered the sites with human bones. Even the altar at Bethel, the high place made by Jeroboam son of Nebat, who had caused Israel to sin—even that altar and high place he demolished. He burned the high place and ground it to powder, and burned the Asherah pole also. Then Josiah looked around, and when he saw the tombs that were there on the hillside, he had the bones removed from them and burned on the altar to defile it, in accordance with the word of the Lord proclaimed by the man of God who foretold these things. The king asked, “What is that tombstone I see?” The people of the city said, “It marks the tomb of the man of God who came from Judah and pronounced against the altar of Bethel the very things you have done to it.” “Leave it alone,” he said. “Don’t let anyone disturb his bones.” So they spared his bones and those of the prophet who had come from Samaria. Just as he had done at Bethel, Josiah removed all the shrines at the high places that the kings of Israel had built in the towns of Samaria and that had aroused the Lord’s anger. Josiah slaughtered all the priests of those high places on the altars and burned human bones on them. Then he went back to Jerusalem.[/b]

THE WORD: — THE MESSAGE AND THE MESSENGER

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[Daniel 4:36 AKJV] — At the same time my reason returned to me; and for the glory of my kingdom, my honor and brightness returned to me; and my counsellors and my lords sought to me; and I was established in my kingdom, and excellent majesty was added to me.

[‭Daniel 4:36 AMP‬] — Now at the same time my reason returned to me; and for the glory of my kingdom, my majesty and splendor were returned to me, and my counselors and my nobles began seeking me out; so I was re-established in my kingdom, and still more greatness [than before] was added to me.

(Daniel 4:36 TS2009‬) — At the same time my understanding returned to me, and for the preciousness of my reign, my esteem and splendour were returning to me. And my counsellors and nobles sought me out, and I was re-established to my reign, and excellent greatness was added to me.

Amazing! Wonderful! Marvelous! Thank You Most High for these You have done here! This top bible verse above is one of the bests in the Gospel of Restoration of God.

Recall Adam and Eve were naked but were both unaware and unashamed: then as soon as they had eaten of the forbidden tree, they realized they were naked and thus they were embarrassed. When their eyes were opened or certain knowledge or reason came on them, it came to expose them to their shame and their shame to them, without help but instead they lost their brightness, glory or honor, being aware in their own shame.

In contrast to that of Adam and Eve, that of Nebuchadnezzar in the top bible verse above was glorious Entrance of Understanding, Reawareness or Enlightenment because when the understanding (reason/sanity/knowledge) returned to the naked, mad, disgraced or humiliated, Nebuchadnezzar was at the same time when his kingdom glory and brightness, honor and majesty, nobles, princes, counsellors, re-establishment etc, returned to him, so that his shame or disgrace was covered as if it never existed or he was never aware of it. Basically, his understanding and that particular disgrace never coexistence together in him: when one was present in him the other was absent.

With what I know as an adult, I know that when I was child or baby I must have defecated or urinated shamefully and must have been naked and done shameful or foolish things as a baby — but I was not aware nor can I point out any particular occasion in my memory of doing any of those shameful things as a baby, unless if an older person who was a witness and aware taunts me with them; and even so, it would not even have any deep impact in me if the person taunts or mocks me because my understanding or awareness cannot relate whatever the person is saying about me to cause any impact, moreover cameras to video, snap or record me in my shame was not even common by then as they are now: so whether the person's saying is true or not, it will not matter or impact me because when I awoke in my understanding I found myself in clothedness, honor, fairness and among friends. To me, it's like those childhood shame never happened because though I was in it, I was never aware in it.

The exception to that would be if a much older woman tells me that she sexually took advantage of my private parts secretly or defiled me, even though I am not aware. A teenage girl, living with a family as househelp was sleeping deeply, and an older man in that house took advantage and uncovered her private part and saw what she was hiding without her being aware. When she woke up, she continued normally as nothing happened, and still preserving her honor that the man had never seen the colors of her inner pants (not knowing what transpired). But the man decided to confess his sin against her, for he was feeling guilty about it: he couldn't tell her plainly what he did or saw, but he advised her, saying to her, “Last time you were sleeping, you slept so carelessly that your skirt was opened and your private was easily seen. So next time you want to sleep, wear trouser or pants under your skirt or wrapper to avoid such; and shut your door.” The girl felt shy and defeated on being aware of this, and she became more apprehensive before and during sleeping (with one eye open) and began wearing trouser or long pants firmly tied before sleeping.

A drunkard who's shame was exposed in his/her drunkenness (stupor) but was not aware when sanity or soberness returned, is like:

[‭Proverbs 23:35 FBV‬] - “People punched me, but it didn't hurt me; they beat me, but I didn't feel a thing. I've got to get up because I need another drink.”

A church was busy celebrating her being rich, her having no need or no problems that she has not taken care of, and nothing that church lacked in all that money or riches can afford. It was as if there was no poor or needy man/woman in her. She was a church swimming in prosperity, but the Lord Jesus wrote an “Open Letter” to her exposing her shame and misery that she was unaware of, and He did not keep the letter private just between Him and that church, but made it open letter to go viral so that all the churches would be aware and learn. In the letter's, He said inter’alia:

[‭Revelation 3:17-19 NIV‬] — You say, ‘I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.’ But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked. I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined in the fire, so you can become rich; and white clothes to wear, so you can cover your shameful unclothedness; and salve to put on your eyes, so you can see. Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest and repent.

But behold how He helped and handled Nebuchadnezzar's unclothedness, wretchedness, and shame, vis-a-vis the returning of his understanding, awareness, as He did to Adam in Anastasia when He performed Procedure or Operation in his body to collect his rib and to form a woman for him, in such a way Adam woke up never feeling the pains.

As soon as Nebuchadnezzar's understanding or awareness returned, his kingdom (instead of his abasement), his honor (instead of his shame), his brightness (instead of his unclothedness), his nobles, princes, counsellors, wisemen, richmen, senators, seeking and coming to him (instead of the wild fleas and desolate forsaken loneliness in no man's land), and the addition of excellent majesty (beyond that which he ever had ago) — These all returned to him as convoys or escorts to his understanding returned. No time for him to dwell in the consciousness of his disgrace because he awoke or dwelt in the consciousness of his honor and brightness and glory etc., that were present with him when his understanding or sanity or awareness of sound mind re-entered him.

Solomon asked God for wisdom, which is understanding heart: — That Understanding came together with convoy or escorts, (which Solomon did not even ask for), because that understanding (wisdom) was a Kingdom Understanding or Understanding of Kings (not mere understanding). And as Kings go in convoy or escorts, so does Understanding of Kings goes or comes with Kingdom Convoy or Escorts:

☆1☆ When the Understanding of Kings came to Solomon, its convoys entail riche, long reign and dominion over his enemies, even though Solomon did not ask.

☆2☆ When the Understanding of Kings returned to Nebuchadnezzar, its convoys entail his kingdom, his glory and honor, his brightness, his attraction to princes, nobles and senators and Counsellors, and additional excellency and majesty, re-establishment.

☆3☆ When the Understanding of Kings comes to those worthy of Her, She brings the following convoys, some at Her Right Hand and some at Her Left: as it is written,

[b][‭Proverbs 3:13-18] — Happy is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gains understanding; For her proceeds are better than the profits of silver, And her gain than fine gold. She is more precious than rubies, And all the things you may desire cannot compare with her. Length of days is in her right hand, In her left hand riches and honor. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, And all her paths are peace. She is a tree of life to those who take hold of her, And happy are all who retain her.

[‭Proverbs 8:14-21] — I am Understanding, I have strength: Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom. By Me kings reign, and rulers decree justice. By Me princes rule, and nobles, all the judges of the earth. I love those who love Me, And those who seek Me diligently will find Me. Riches and honor are with Me, Enduring riches and righteousness. My fruit is better than gold, yes, than fine gold, And My revenue than choice silver. I traverse the way of righteousness, In the midst of the paths of justice, That I may cause those who love Me to inherit wealth, That I may fill their treasuries.[/b]

HIS INFINITY AND SUPREMACY

[Daniel 4:35 NKJV] — All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; He does according to His will in the army of heaven And among the inhabitants of the earth. No one can restrain His hand Or say to Him, “What have You done?”

(Daniel 4:35 FBV) — Everyone who lives on earth is as nothing compared to Him. He does whatever He chooses among the heavenly host and among those who live on earth. No one can hold Him back from what He does, or ask Him, “What are You doing?”



Nebuchadnezzar witnessed these realities of the Most High God: In the preceding top Bible verse to this, Nebuchadnezzar spoke of the “Eternity of God,” while here he speaks of the “Infinity of God.” Behold the Infinity of God in Size and in Supremacy.



♧1♧ - All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing (compared to God):

All the Satan, Demons, Witches, Cultists, all the Nations, and all the Peoples on earth are as less than nothing and vanity compared to God in all ramifications or aspects. Put every living thing that roam the earth together in comparison to God, and they all shall be as insignificant and microscopic below the level of what one regards as nothing or vanity. They do not even amount to zero, but are in negative integers compared to the infinity of God.

[‭Isaiah 40:17-18 NKJV]‬ — All nations before Him are as nothing, And they are counted by Him less than nothing and worthless. To whom then will you liken God? Or what likeness will you compare to Him?”

There's no way to even see any significance of all men and devils combined when you have seen the manifest realities of the size and dimensions of God. God is just beyond Billions of Universes and Galaxies. And when you see the earth inside the whole map of just one galaxy, you will understand that the earth and all in it are truly less than a speck of one dust particle. The scriptures say that a thousand years is like a day to God, but I think even that is grossly an understatement: I think billions of light-years is like a day to God. There's just no worthy comparison we can make between God and His Creations from earthly perspective. [See Psalms 89:6].

[b][‭Isaiah 40:15, 17-18, 22-23, 25-26, 28 NKJV‬]
[15] Behold, the nations are as a drop in a bucket, And are counted as the small dust on the scales; Look, He lifts up the isles as a very little thing. [17] All nations before Him are as nothing, And they are counted by Him less than nothing and worthless. [18] To whom then will you liken God? Or what likeness will you compare to Him? [22] It is He who sits above the circle of the earth, And its inhabitants are like grasshoppers, Who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, And spreads them out like a tent to dwell in. [23] He brings the princes to nothing; He makes the judges of the earth useless. [25] “To whom then will you liken Me, Or to whom shall I be equal?” says the Holy One. [26] Lift up your eyes on high, And see who has created these things, Who brings out their host by number; He calls them all by name, By the greatness of His might And the strength of His power; Not one is missing. [28] Have you not known? Have you not heard? The everlasting God, the Lord, The Creator of the ends of the earth, Neither faints nor is weary. His understanding is unsearchable.



♧2♧ - He does according to His will in the army of heaven And among the inhabitants of the earth.[/b]

God does whatever He chooses among the heavenly host and among those who live on earth. No one else can do such both in heaven and on earth, not even Angels, Satan or Demons can do whatever pleases them in heaven and earth either by rebellion or by any means. All are bound by laws, principles or ordinances, so that even when a rebel or sinner does as he likes what he does is still bound by laws, ordinances and processes. Only God is Above the Laws.

[‭Psalms 115:3 NKJV‬] -But our God is in heaven; He does whatever He pleases.

We all were created for His Pleasure to please God or to do His Will on earth as it is in heaven. I have heard people say God gave man ‘sovereign will’. But in difference I say, the will of man is not sovereign and no nation or country is sovereign to God, which why all are subject to God's Judgment for Righteousness and Justice. But the Will of God is Sovereign, Supreme and is the Law or Constitution that governs all things, all realms and all kingdoms. The reason you cannot condemn the acts or deeds of God as sinful or as not being morally right is because God's doings are God's Will, and the Will of God is the definition of Righteousness and Morality. The way the Porter is always right in whatever the porter does to his clay, so is God to all and any of His Creations.



♧3♧ - No one can hold Him back from what He does, or ask Him, “What are You doing?”

Remember a king that (was also a Preacher) wrote, saying:

[Ecclesiastes 8:4] — Where the word of a king is, there is power: and who is going to question him, saying, “What are you doing?”

Let say that King is the Most High God Himself, King of Heaven, as Nebuchadnezzar testified in the top bible verse above - Who can ask or question Him, “What are You doing or what have You done?” But if that king is not the Lord and King of Heaven, surely there is One who will question that king on whatever the king says or does.

Again I say, the will of man is not sovereign, but are endorsed by Authorities which God ordains and regards in connection with such will. Spiritually, Authority is not Sovereignty, but endorsement of Ranks, Orders, Assignments, Titles and Honors.

[Psalms 62:9 AKJV] — Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.

[‭Psalms 62:9 GNBDC‬] — Human beings are all like a puff of breath; great and small alike are worthless. Put them on the scales, and they weigh nothing; they are lighter than a mere breath.

Who are you to question God? Are you more righteous or wiser than God?

[‭Romans 9:18-24 NIV‬] — Therefore God has mercy on whom He wants to have mercy, and He hardens whom He wants to harden. One of you will say to me: “Then why does God still blame us? For who is able to resist His will?” But who are you, a human being, to talk back to God? “Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, ‘Why did you make me like this?’ ” Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for special purposes and some for common use? What if God, although choosing to show His wrath and make His power known, bore with great patience the objects of His wrath—prepared for destruction? What if He did this to make the riches of His glory known to the objects of His mercy, whom He prepared in advance for glory— even us, whom He also called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?

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HIS UNDERSTANDING

[Daniel 4:34 NKJV] — ‭And at the end of the time I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted my eyes to heaven, and my understanding returned to me; and I blessed the Most High and praised and honored Him who lives forever: For His dominion is an everlasting dominion, And His kingdom is from generation to generation.

(Daniel 4:34 NIV) — ‭At the end of that time, I, Nebuchadnezzar, raised my eyes toward heaven, and my sanity was restored. Then I praised the Most High; I honored and glorified him who lives forever. His dominion is an eternal dominion; his kingdom endures from generation to generation.

Jonah led the story of a man whom God made to be swallowed by a beast to teach that man the lesson of “Discipline and Obedience” to the ministry and message God sent him: But Nebuchadnezzar led the story of a man whom God made to be possessed by a beast in heart to teach that man the lesson of “Humility and Knowledge” of the Most High God. Therefore, whether it was Nebuchadnezzar that swallowed a beast or it was a beast that swallowed Jonah, there's a swallow and a restoration after in both.

Consider His dealing with these Four: - Job, Nebuchadnezzar, Jonah and the Lord Jesus:

♧♤ He brought Job from being the richest man in the East into being the poorest and most tormented in captivity; but later He restored Job back and better than before

♧♤ He brought Nebuchadnezzar from being the highest king on earth into being the most despicable brute, unqualified and unfit for human dwelling places; but later He restored Nebuchadnezzar back and better than before

♧♤ He brought Jonah from being a minister of God bearing His message and grace into being a jinx or bearer of badluck (ill-fortune) to those in the same ship with him so that they had to cast him as badluck away from them in the ship for everything bad to stop happening to them in that fellowship/ship; and when they did, a sea beast that was prepared for Jonah swallowed him. But later He restored Jonah back and better than before, so that even the destruction of God could not happen upon Nineveh because Jonah had walked through Nineveh with effective message that produced. No sinner remained in Nineveh after Jonah passed through Nineveh bearing the message and grace (virtue) of Goodluck and Repentance so that all men and all animals in Nineveh repented, including God Himself who also repented regarding Nineveh.

♧♤ He brought the Lord Jesus Christ from where He was in the beginning with God into the fashion and likeness of men, reducing Him to sacrificial Lamb that must be slain, One Man that must die for all men or otherwise all men would perish, He must not escape death so that mankind would be made to escape death, and even though the Spirit of God arranged for Satan to tempt Him in the wilderness and yet He overcame the temptations and even though the Father forsook Him in whom the Father is well pleased, all in order to find excuse for putting Him to death, since He faithfully pleased God well and no sin was found in Him to justify putting Him to death: yet He just had to die the death of a Sinner on the cross, He just had to be sin for us even though He knew no sin, and had to be curse for us even though all He did was please God the Father well, He has to go into hell when He die even though He was Holy: just as sheep still follows its shepherd to be slaughtered without challenging or opening its mouth in protest, so was the Lamb of God forsaken by all including by God the Father, and yet He forgave all and still trusted the commitment of His Spirit into the Hand of God the Father who forsook Him: and He died for all to live. He was the personification of Meekness, Humility, Love and Faith, Lowliness, Goodness, Sanctification, Wisdom and Righteousness of God. Now God the Father has given Him all things so that nothing remains again to give that the Father has not given to the Lord Jesus Christ, and yet the Father still feels indebted to the Son after giving all to Him. Up till now and beyond, the Father is still moved and touched by the story and virtues from the Cross and Death of the Son of God.
From the top bible verse above, Nebuchadnezzar testified in his testimony, saying:

♤A♤ — ‭And at the end of the time I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted my eyes to heaven, and my understanding returned to me;

♤B♤ — ‭And I blessed the Most High and praised and honored Him who lives forever: For His dominion is an everlasting dominion, And His kingdom is from generation to generation.



♤A♤ — ‭And at the end of the time I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted my eyes to heaven, and my understanding returned to me;

Unlike how David was the minister that usually cast out evil spirit from king Saul to cure the madness of that king through playing musical instrument, in the case of Nebuchadnezzar it was neither any exorcist nor any minister that cast out the evil entity out of Nebuchadnezzar. Not even Psychiatrist nor Psychologist cured his mental illness. No man was involved, and he was not even dwelling among men; yet by the grace of God, he was cured within himself, because at the end of the appointed time (7 times passover) he lifted up his eyes to heaven and instantly his understanding returned to him. Thus, he was one of the greatest madman who was cured by himself.

It was not angel that came to cure him, not Holy Spirit that came to drive out the evil entity and cure him: It was his own understanding that came home to him and cured him. Job and Jonah had their restoration through prayers, but Nebuchadnezzar and the Lord Jesus Christ had their restoration through fulfilling their time appointed to pass over them in their captivity and then without needing prayer they just sprung up and out of what held them captive by the returning of their understanding or Spirit back.

Now learn these four things about the restitution of Nebuchadnezzar's Understanding:

1☆ Before/when the seven times passover began, whatever heart of a beast or evil spirit (entity) that possessed Nebuchadnezzar was stronger than his understanding (his heart/sound mind), resulting in the displacement of his understanding by the incomer. But here at the end of the seven times passover, his understanding has become stronger and more powerful than the hijackers or heart of beast that earlier displaced it. When a stronger man comes and overcomes the strong man, the stronger dispossessed the strong and possesses the palace afterwards (Luke 11:21-22).

2☆ His understanding was not bound, trapped or caged within him, but was not with him during the period. Some demon possessions involve binding the soul or mind of the victims inside their bodies as house arrest. Some people's brains are chained but within them so that they still have their brains but cannot use them beyond some limits. So also some have eyes but cannot see because veil binds their eyes. Some have their heart and understanding in them, but cannot understand or perceive for gross. But Nebuchadnezzar's understanding or heart was absent from him until this event.

3☆ It was only the return of his understanding that restored his manliness. He did not say his body was Transfiguration, transformed or healed, because he was not bodily changed to animal or was there any extra work done on restoring his body: all that happened to Nebuchadnezzar was just the lost of his understanding, and thus the restoration of his understanding was all that made him whole again. No member lost.

4☆ His Understanding was learning of the Most High wherever his understanding was, while he was eating grass as ox. So his understanding did not stop understanding or learning even when separated from him. It's like being in a dream outside your body on the bed, but learning things in that trance while your body is doing something else. Behold some of the things his converted heart and understanding learnt, which his mouth began to say as soon as his understanding returned and entered him bodily.



♤B♤ — ‭And I blessed the Most High and praised and honored Him who lives forever: For His dominion is an everlasting dominion, And His kingdom is from generation to generation.

Before, his understanding only celebrated, praised and honored, men and things that have greatness or value but do not have eternity or everlastingness in them: that was the level of his understanding before these events and experiences happened to him.

Now, his understanding has matured to look beyond men in high places or minding high things or valuable things, to now celebrating, blessing, praising and honoring:

A- Most High Person, rather than men in high places,

B- He who lives forever and is immortal rather those who are aging, mortal, dying

C- Dominion that eternal or everlasting, rather than Dominion that is fleeting,

D- Everlasting Kingdom that is eternal, rather than Tenures and Regimes.

Therefore, Nebuchadnezzar's understanding experienced the kingdom of God and testified: “Yours (God's) is the Kingdom, the Power and the Glory, forever and ever in everlasting, endless or eternal life. Amen.”

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[Daniel 4:33 AFV] — The same hour the thing was fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar. And he was driven from men, and ate grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of the heavens until his hair had grown like eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds' claws.

(Daniel 4:33 BSB) — At that moment the sentence against Nebuchadnezzar was fulfilled. He was driven away from mankind. He ate grass like an ox, and his body was drenched with the dew of heaven, until his hair grew like the feathers of an eagle and his nails like the claws of a bird.

♤1♤ — The same hour the thing was fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar.

♤2♤ — And he was driven from men, and ate grass like oxen,

♤3♤ — And his body was wet with the dew of the heavens until his hair had grown like eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds' claws.

♤1♤ — The same hour the thing was fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar.

Three Oracles spoke similar things upon Nebuchadnezzar at different times and ways: The Watcher in the visions was the first Oracle that spoke it, but it did not happen to Nebuchadnezzar until some hours later Daniel reiterated it. Daniel was the second Oracle that spoke it, but it did not happen to Nebuchadnezzar until the end of twelve months when the Voice from heaven reiterated it. As soon as the Voice from heaven, the third and final Oracle herein spoke it, instantly it literally happened and fulfilled.

Understand this:

* The First Oracle (Holy Watcher from heaven in the dream) was not meant to fulfill (make it happen), but meant to “Invoke.” It was a Watcher's sign or prophecy invoking the Final Oracle from heaven to speak the same or similar things. Therefore, when the Voice from heaven interrupted and began speaking to Nebuchadnezzar was when the first Oracle or vision of the Holy Watcher was fulfilled. It had no business with what happened to Nebuchadnezzar, but had business/purpose with the Voice from heaven.

* The Second Oracle (Daniel the interpreter) was also not meant to fulfill (make it happen), but meant to “Advocate/Intercede/Reconcile.” It was a Watcher's sign or prophecy advocating or reconciling between the First Oracle and Nebuchadnezzar, to prevent the need for the Final Oracle. Like the Servants and the Son sent to the Tenants in the Vineyard, trying to prevent the need for the coming of the Lord upon the Tenants in His Vineyard according to a parable of the Lord Jesus [Matthew 21:33-44]

* The Final Oracle (Voice from heaven) was the Final Say, the Unchangeable and the Inevitable: No single time delay comes between the Final Oracle saying it and the instant fulfilling or happening of it. It's like the Voice that created the heavens and earth in Genesis 1, bringing everything said to “It was So” which is “Yes and Amen.”

Ministers of God among men are basically His Oracles called to operate as the Second Oracle above in Advocating, Intercession and Reconciliation, like Daniel. To us in this Second Oracle Group, “Fulfilling our ministry and message is more important than fulfilling our prophecies or predictions.” E.g., Jonah's prophecy/predictions on Nineveh did not happen as he foretold they would, but Jonah's ministry and message were fulfilled. How much men regard or value the Word of God from our mouth is more fulfilling to us than how much God regards or values the word of men from our mouth.



♤2♤ — And he was driven from men, and ate grass like oxen,

You see the first step began with his getting driven away from men before the metamorphosis on his body. First, Losing his kingdom, next Losing his glorious place (habitation) or was excommunicated (ostracized, cast away) from mankind. Then he began eating grass like oxen. Again losing your kingdom and place in glorious habitation is worse than losing your body or your members.

But between losing his kingdom and losing his place among men, there was his losing his understanding or heart of a man and getting possessed by the heart of a beast.

A man who is possessed by unclean/evil spirits or demons is in captivity, but,

A man who is possessed by heart of a beast/animal goes into exile if not into perdition.

Nebuchadnezzar, being possessed of by the heart of an animal, was driven into exile away from men because so was he driven in heart. And that he ate grass like oxen does not mean he had the heart of an ox nor even dwelt among oxen. Daniel told Nebuchadnezzar's grandson, king Belshazzer, where Nebuchadnezzar dwelt in exile: -

[Daniel 5:20-22 AFV] — But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit became so proud that he behaved arrogantly, he was put down from his royal throne, and his glory was taken from him. And he was driven from the sons of men. And his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild donkeys. He was fed with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven until he knew that the Most High God rules in the kingdom of men, and that He appoints over it whomever He will. And you his son, O Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, though you knew all this.

So according to Daniel, the exiled Nebuchadnezzar dwelt with the wild donkeys in the wild, but ate grass like oxen. Not like George of the Jungle dwelling with apes, not like Tarzan in the jungle, not like in the beauty and the beast wherein the Beast still got to dwell in his palace as a man though changed to a beast, not like a king of Dreamland dwelling with bears in the woods, or not like that king that was struck with leprosy (for his pride in trying to takeover the duty of the Levites as Priest to God) still dwelling close to his palace though a deposed leper. Nebuchadnezzar was driven away from men to dwell with wild Asses or Mules (Donkeys), having lost his understanding.
[Psalms 32:9] - Do not be like horse or mule, which have no understanding; they must be controlled with bit and bridle to make them come to you.



♤3♤ — And his body was wet with the dew of the heavens until his hair had grown like eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds' claws.

This is where I would dwell more on the physical aspect of the changes that struck that king. From the kingdom change, then his mental or heart change (psychological change), then his displacement or casting away (geographical change); now here are his physical metamorphosis or mutations (physiological changes).

First understand that though people say this king was turned into a beast, it was not his physical body but his heart and mentality (understanding). Physically, he was still in the shape or likeness of a man; nothing physical changed on his body from his being a man except his hair and nails that were not trimmed or barbed, metaphorically grown so much that they looked like those of birds’ feathers and claws.

So the physical changes on his body were not necessarily an act of God but by natural reactions and outcomes, seeing his body was drenched constantly with the dews of heaven: and you know how grasses and plants grow rapidly in rainforest under constant rain or dews of heaven with no one to trim or cut them. These two categories of outgrowths are like some of what some women buy and wear for artificial makeups or makeovers: Viz:

A. Grown Hair like Eagles’ feathers: There are women who love such hair in artificial form on their heads, provided the hair is neat and well patterned.

B. Grown Nails like birds’ Claws: There are women who love such claws in artificial form on their finger nails, provided the claws are neat, shiny or painted with different colors.

Is it wrong to wear artificial hair or attachments of the hair of another person or animal? No, the Lord has not forbidden it. Infact, one of the greatest prophets, who was also exposed in the wild the way Nebuchadnezzar was exposed in wild, (but did not have grown hair like Nebuchadnezzar had), had to get artificial hair cloth called Carmel’s hair for clothing and survival in the wilderness while imitating Elijah who was naturally a hairy man (2 Kings 1:, just as Jacob wore artificial hair of sheep to imitate Esau who was hairy man.

As the heart of a beast possessed and made Nebuchadnezzar driven into the wild, so did the spirit of Elijah possessed and made John the Baptist dwell in the wilderness.

However, Nebuchadnezzar's hair and nails grew on his body, making his dwelling in the wild easier for him. But John the Baptist did not have the gift of such natural hairy body, and so artificially he used Camel's hair/skins

[Mark 1:6] - And John was clothed with camel's hair, and with a girdle of a skin about his loins; and he did eat locusts and wild honey.

(Eating Wild Honey instead of eating Wild grass like Nebuchadnezzar). Behold the kind of Universities Nebuchadnezzar and John the Baptist went to learn of God.

Paul wrote, saying,

[1 Corinthians 11:14-15 AKJV] — Does not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame to him? But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering.

But I tell you nature was not putting shame on Nebuchadnezzar in the wild for him having grown and long hair like eagles feathers; rather nature helped the covering of the shame and the exposure of Nebuchadnezzar by those long hair, and fortifying the fingers of Nebuchadnezzar by those grown claws like those of birds. As you have read in the top bible verse above, the dews of heaven drenched his body until his hair grew up to being like eagles feathers. The hair therefore began protecting his body from the dews of heaven afterwards, and the claws armed him to inflict harm in self defense.

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[Daniel 4:32 AFV] — And you shall be driven from men, and your dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field. You shall be made to eat grass like oxen, and seven times shall pass over you until you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men and gives it to whomever He wills."

(Daniel 4:32 AKJV) — And they shall drive you from men, and your dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field: they shall make you to eat grass as oxen, and seven times shall pass over you, until you know that the most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomsoever he will.

THE VOICE FROM HEAVEN (continued):

And the Voice from heaven that interrupted the word of the king on the palace rooftop (in preceding Bible verse to the above) continued with these sayings to the king:

♧~ “They shall drive you from men, and your dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field:” - The king was to be ostracized, outcast or cast away to men: — Adam was driven away from Paradise (Garden of Eden), but not from the presence of God. Abel was driven away from the surface of the earth in murder by man, but not from the presence of God. Cain was driven away from the presence of God, and was also driven away from men to become fugitive, always fleeing from men.

In the case of Satan the Devil, he gets constantly driven away from God and from men, but he also gets opportunities to return to those or to where he's driven away from. Meaning, when God and men drive/resist Satan the devil, he flees or goes away from them for a while and for the next opportunity to return again to those who drove him away before. So, driving away Satan the devil is temporary and not a permanent ban. That's something Satan and some of his demons enjoy from God until Satan's place is removed also from wherever he's cast away from.

In “Revelation 12:8-9” Satan's place in heaven was removed from heaven together with his being cast away from heaven - No more place for Satan again in heaven - meaning he shall never again return to anywhere in heaven after that last casting away. Unlike before then when after Satan was cast away from heaven, he still returned to heaven. After the Lord Jesus Christ cast Satan away to get behind Him, Satan still returned to the Lord Jesus Christ and continued tempting after sometimes. The Lord Jesus even said, “The prince of the world comes but finds nothing in Me;” and right where the Lord Jesus was eating the blessed and sacred Holy Communion, Satan had no respect nor fear for the Holy Communion but even entered Judas Iscariot who just took Holy Communion directly from the Hand of the Lord Jesus. I am illustrating how resisting or driving away Satan and some demons may not be permanent ban to them but just temporary; and one may have to keep resisting them repeatedly to keep them out constantly. For: “When an unclean spirit comes out of a man, it passes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it. Then it says, ‘I will return to the house I left.’ [Luke 11:24 BSB]. So Satan, some demons or unclean spirits, may return to where they were once driven away from or fled away from.

The driving away from men, to which Nebuchadnezzar was sentenced, came with removing his dwelling (place) among men and relocating his dwelling (place) among the beasts of the field (wild animals). Meaning during that period, he was not even permitted to return to where humans dwell. It's important for you to know that this removing of his place was worse than his deformation into a beast. In Spiritual realms, Banning someone from a glorious place/habitation is worse punishment than marring, mutilating, disfiguring or deforming that person. It's better for you to rather have a maimed body, mutilated body, disfigured members etc, but enter the kingdom of God, than for you to have a whole and beautiful body but banned from the kingdom of God and therefore thrown or cast into hell fire [Matthew 5:29-30]. The worst in Cain’s punishments was getting banned from the presence of God, for Adam it was getting locked out from the Garden, for Satan it was getting banned from his place in heaven and in the presence of God. Satan is not as pained by his going to the lake of fire as much as he's pained for being banned from Heaven and from Paradise. If Satan is pained more by the lake of fire where he's headed, he would have repented because he still has time, to reduce his punishment. But instead he's even committing more sins and wickedness the more he gets closer to his appointment in the lake of fire. This is because Satan is more interested in keeping men from entering the kingdom of heaven than he cares about them going to hell or lake of fire with him. People going to hell or lake of fire do not really add much value to Satan, because damned souls are liabilities even to rulers of hell. If God does not have value in any soul, Satan too will not find value in that soul. Satan's goal is to prevent men from heaven and the kingdom; but as it is, whoever misses heaven and the kingdom shall not miss hell or lake of fire: that's where refuse are dumped.

Domestic Animals or Animals that have dwelling (place) among the dwelling of men have been favored more than wild animals or animals of the field that are driven away from men. There are Animals you find humans dwell with, pet, feed and even fight other fellow human beings over concerns for those animal. But Nebuchadnezzar's humiliation drove him away from where Domestic, Pet, or Zoo Animals dwell to where wild animals dwell without shelter to cover them from the dews of heaven. The madman that was dwelling among tombs or in burial ground, possessed of legion of unclean spirits, was not altogether driven away from men but was the one driving men away from that arena. But Nebuchadnezzar was driven away to where even unclean spirits would not like to dwell because unclean spirits do not like walking in watery places or where dew of heaven falls, but instead they prefer dry places (Luke 11:24) for their exposed bodies, until they enter their hosts’ bodies. The Lord knew what those swine did to those legion of unclean spirits by drowning together with them in the sea.


♧~ “You shall be made to eat grass like oxen: - Some have said,

“No matter how tough the economy of the jungle is, a lion cannot eat grass.”

But the experience in the top bible verse here above reveals the greatest earthly king of Lions and of men (in the world then) was under the sound of the Voice from heaven that took away his kingdom and also took away his mandate, reducing that Lion king into a likeness of an ox that eat grass. I liken that king of Babylon to a “Lion King” because in the visions of Daniel concerning the four Beasts, that king or kingdom of Babylon was represented as the first and the Lion among the four beasts (Daniel 7:4).

Also understand the goal or purpose for which the Lion king was made to eat grass in the bible verse above: It was for the promotion of the Knowledge and Acknowledge of God on earth particularly in that Lion king who was made to eat grass as ox. Basically, one of the purposes for which a Lion is made to eat grass or straw as oxen is for the promotion of “The Knowledge of God on earth.” As it is written,

[Isaiah 11:7-9 AFV] — And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. And the suckling child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the viper's den. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain; for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.

For making mankind eat of the forbidden tree of knowledge of good and evil, the Serpent was cursed above the cattle that eat grass and the Serpent was made to eat dust forever. Even when God would restore predators’ food from eating other animals to eating straw or grass, the Serpent shall continue eating dust.

[Isaiah 65:25 BSB] - The wolf and the lamb will feed together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox, but the food of the serpent will be dust. They will neither harm nor destroy on all My holy mountain,” says the LORD.

Adam's food was also altered to suit their getting driven away from Paradise into a ground cursed for Adam's sake. But for Nebuchadnezzar, as God would change his dwelling away from men to dwelling among wild beasts so also was his food changed to suit his new habitation.

♧~ “and seven times shall pass over you until you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men and gives it to whomever He wills:” - Concluding Parts of the message by the Voice from heaven to the king -

I don't know how many years you spent in school, especially in University, to learn your current discipline. But look at a man, a king, whom God made to spend Seven Years in University of Wild Animals to study and learn a single lesson — “The Most High rules in the Kingdom of men and gives it to whomever He wills.” I label that course he studied for seven years as — “True Political Science, and Kingdom Government.” I put the word “True” because other political sciences, government or political institutions of learnings in the world are false because they don't teach “The Most High God rules in the kingdom of men, and He ordains and removes governments and powers as He wills irrespective of democracy, autocracy, or any system of government they think they practice among them.” And see who the Most High made to compulsorily attend that lesson classes for seven years to learn that as training: the king of the world himself, who has been in the greatest world power then. He did not learn that before getting into that power, but it was not too late for him to be schooled and educated for seven years practical, forest and tough schooling: accommodation was open wild forest, both in rain and sunshine, feeding was on wild grass. No carryover and no jump over, but just the seven times passover, to learn the curriculum.

Funny how the same king used to school other princes or sons of other kings, turning them into Eunuchs, accommodating them and making them eat the food he ate from and drink the wine he drank, in the king's own University that Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, also attended. Now that king is made to attend the university that a Higher Ruler than him, the Higher One called the Most High, prepared for him.

Thanks be to God who kept the experience from exceeding seven times passover or seven years time. I don't know whether this seven years time should begin counting from one ago when he first had the dream and it's interpretation, making it six years left or the seven years would begin from the moment that Voice from heaven spoke it.

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Bible verse above: —

the king exclaimed, “Is this not Babylon the Great, which I myself have built by the might of my power as a royal residence and for the glory of my majesty?” - [Daniel 4:30 BSB]

The king spoke and said, "Is this not great Babylon that I have built for a royal residence by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?" - [Daniel 4:30 AFV]


THE QUESTIONS:

The king in the bible verse was asking it as a question, and I also had related question, saying; “What is the lie, the wrong or the falsehood in what the king claimed or EX-claimed here? To some degree, I have known the danger in taking to myself all credits and glories over what another man built, made or created. But what is wrong, lie or fraud in a man like that king taking to himself the credits and glories over what he actually built, made or created by your own might, power, talent, influence or majesty? If the show-off or boastful claim is in agreement with the truth and facts, why should it be regarded as Pride or considered morally offensive?

No doubt this “Babylon the Great” was great Babylon built by that very king into glory of kingdoms

No doubt this “Babylon the Great” was different from the “Mystery Babylon the Great” because this Babylon the Great was built for “Royal Residency, Excellency, Glory and Majesty” but the mystery Babylon the Great was built for “Fornication and Abominations of the world” but later fell into becoming the habitation of devils, unclean spirits, foul spirits and every unclean and hateful flying objects.

Nevertheless, even this Babylon the great that was built for Royalty, Excellency, Majesty and Glory of all kingdoms was later to fall and become like Sodom and Gomorrah according to the prophecy of Isaiah. As it is written,

[Isaiah 13:19 KJV] - And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.

But before it became as Sodom and Gomorrah, that Babylon the Great was actually called “The Glory of Kingdoms” meaning it was the residence of Royalty and glorious Majesty. In the top bible verse above, the same king that actually built “Babylon the Great” was taking his own credits and glory from and over Babylon the Great, which he actually built by his own power, might and for the glory of his majesty. Again, what was the lie, fraud, or wrong in that?

THE ANSWERS:

No Pride is in agreement with the Truth; only true Humility is in agreement with the truth, Pride is a form of lies, and a relative to strong delusion (deception). No one who walks in pride is walking in truth.

A man who takes credits or glories for what another man accomplished or built is doing the same wrong things as a man who takes credits or glories for what himself accomplished or built without acknowledging the Lord God, as that king in the bible verse above did. To say you built, made or created any thing of significance or value in this world without God the Maker of all things, makes you more fraudulent than a man who claims the works of another man as his. This is because to deny God is worse than to deny man: To deny the works of God is falser than to deny the works of men in any human accomplishments, successes, prosperities, victories, innovations or technologies.

In the volume of his speech above, that king was deceived by pride and boasted that Babylon the great was

“Of him”
“Through him or by him” and
“For him”

No knowledge or acknowledgment of God in any angle of his claims, but a centralization of the glory and excellence of Babylon the great to himself. He was both proud and fraudulent in that claim, and that revealed lack of knowledge. When God said “My People are destroyed for lack of Knowledge,” that expression meant “Lack of Knowledge of God” and not lack of knowledge of things as motivational speakers distort that expression to mean lack of knowledge (information) of things. Knowledge of God is far more important than knowledge of things: But fools would spend many of their years in schools and universities studying to know things but care nothing about knowing God.

It is not of you, nor through (by) you nor for you, though you seem to be the face of the builder, maker or creator of anything of significance in life. Rather all things are of the Lord, through the Lord and for the Lord: As it is written,

[Romans 11:36 BSB] - For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever! Amen.

You are proud and therefore fraudulent when you project anything that consist to be either from you or for you, even when God is using you to bring them forth or birth them into this world.

[Colossians 1:16-17 BSB] - For in Him all things were created, things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities. All things were created through Him and for Him. He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.

No man brought anything into this world, even though men built things in this world: yes, even though men brought children by birth into this world, the truth remains – “We brought nothing into this world and we shall take nothing out of this world” (1 Timothy 6:7). It is deception to thing you brought anything into this world, including your children or offspring. Power belongs to God, yes, all things belong to God.

[Hebrews 3:4 BSB] - And every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything.

They will experience things in their death

The greatest miracles are those wonders that move God, not those that move only men. Imagine what it will take to surprise the Almighty God or cause Him to marvel in awe and wonder. When God is so touched by an act of man that marvels Him greatly, the ecstasy usually cause Him to walk more in His emotional engrossment, than in logic. There are things God says or does when He is such emotionally engrossed, which He might not have said or done otherwise - thanks to the miracles of touching Him deeply to cause such effect on Him.

Noah was privileged to have cause such effect on God, immediately after the flood, when Noah offered clean animals as sacrifice to God and the LORD smelled the sweet smelling savour; and the LORD began to soliloquize in His Heart, but what God was saying in His Heart to Himself was heard and recorded by His prophet as if God had spoken them out loud (Genesis 8:20-22). Similarly, Abraham touched God so much when he offered up Isaac, his only begotten son, to God in obedience to God. That wonder touched God so much that He swore by Himself to Abraham, seeing He could swear by none greater than Himself. Phinehas also touched God by his zeal for His holiness, which turned away the wrath of God from consuming the rest of His people, making atonement for them through his zeal. Therefore, God gave him an everlasting covenant of priesthood. (Numbers 25:11-13).

Many others had touched God with works, acts and words that caused God to marvel. The centurion so much touched the Lord Jesus with his word of faith to the point that the Lord Jesus began to declare that people would come from various corners of the world to sit with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom while the children of the kingdom are cast into outer darkness (Matthew 8:10-12). He said He never found such great faith in Israel before.

Faith it is, through which we must please God. For without faith, it is impossible to please God. This is about the miracle of pleasing God, and faith is thus indispensable.

There are two flows of miracles:

* The miracles of God to men - works of God.

* The miracle of man to God - pleasing God by faith or touching God with love.

The greatest miracle is the miracle of pleasing God and touching Him deeply in love; not miracles of healings, breakthroughs, promotions, getting cars, houses, wives, children, lands etc.

What more miracle should your pastor or priest emphasize most to you than the greatest of all miracles, which is to move the One who moves and made all things? Again, the greatest miracle you need in any condition you are or in any feeling you have is to have great love and faith that pleases and touches God greatly. Seek for this miracle daily, and perform this miracle always for the heavens to marvel and rejoice at you.

The woman that was once with the issue of blood touched the Lord Jesus, and power went out of Him to the woman without His permission. The Lord Jesus was touched, and the woman was miraculously healed: but who did the greater wonder between Jesus the healer and the woman that touched Him deeply just at the hem of His garment?

Surely, the Lord Jesus was more alarmed at what that touch had done in Him than the woman was alarmed at what the miracle of healing had done in her. The Healer Himself was the One who first turned, publicly confessing or testifying that someone has touched Him, who was that? Some thought it was a foolish question to ask, considering the multitude around Him that were thronging Him; but the woman had to open up to save Jesus that embarassment.

Even so, the miracle of touching God deeply exceeds that of He touching you. However, when you touch God He also touches you in return. Part of Him goes after you when you touch Him deeply.

Faith and love - Faith that works by love (Galatians 5:6).

To please God is through faith, and true faith works through love. Therefore, love is the true wonder in faith and in all miracles. As it is written, "Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have no love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profits me nothing." (1 Corinthians 13:1-3).

When the Lord Jesus Christ taught, His Instructions were not just what we must do but were also where we must be and who we must become. They were both His Instructions and His calling. To do His Instructions well requires making a spiritual upward journey, walking closer and deeper with Him in the Spirit and Fellowship with Him. Without Him, you can do nothing and bear no fruit: you cannot even effectively do His Will or His Instructions without Him.

Everything you do for God or to God has way of showing how far you are from Him or how close with Him. You must believe and you must build and sustain ever-increasing relationship and contact with the Lord Jesus Christ in the Holy Spirit. The prophets and men of God who moved and spoke with miracles, signs and wonders, were not operating from the spiritual levels/realms that you are now. They grew and advanced in higher levels and realms where these things and more are manifest before these things followed or obeyed them to where they were once unmanifest and to manifest. Those things are looking for men/women to accompany into this world and be done on earth as they are in heaven, where the Father dwells.

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[Daniel 4:29 AFV] - At the end of twelve months he was walking on the roof of the royal palace of the kingdom of Babylon.

[Daniel 4:29 GNB] - Only twelve months later, while he was walking around on the roof of his royal palace in Babylon,


What difference is there between ‘End of Twelve Months” and “Twelve Months Later” used by the different bible translations for the bible verse above? I like “End of Twelve Months” because it brings a consciousness of “Ending” or “Expiration” of grace or period of time.

If it is “Twelve Months” that passed, then it’s about an Anniversary between when he received those visions and message, and where he is at this time above, Some of us would have marked that anniversary of such tremendous visions and message by either revisiting the message, reflecting on how much we have lived or performed the content of that message, visions or revelations from heaven. Thanks to some social media that have ways of reminding us of the messages we stored in them at their anniversaries or multiples of twelve months later.


In the top bible verse above, at one-year anniversary or end of twelve months, the king of the kingdom of Babylon walked on the roof of the royal palace instead of walking through the heavenly visions and message he received a year ago. At that point he had already began fulfil the forgotten visions or message negatively by walking on top of the highest building in the entire world, and thus stood taller than all on top of the highest built kingdom of men. This of course is without inclusion of the great mountains. Recall that an elder sitting down can see what a child that climbed up a tree or high building cannot see, but that child can be seen from that height more than the elder sitting down. Like the saying, lightning would target the tallest first before the lower.

Did you see how I shifted it from just being “Grace Period of twelve months” to “Trigger of being in the wrong place at exactly the anniversary or twelfth month later?” Under the preceding bible verse, I described these visions and prophecies as “Consequential” (heart-based) and not “Sequential” (time-based). Thus, while others would read ending of the twelve months as the ending of the grace period God gave to him before the advent of those things coming upon Nebuchadnezzar, I would read his walking on the top of the roof of his kingdom or palace at the end of the twelve months as the trigger or the last straw that broke the camel’s back. I would explain this. But before then, appreciate the fact that it took the ending of twelve months or one year later before those things came upon the king, Nebuchadnezzar, unlike how the handwriting on the wall instantly happened upon Belshazzar that very day or night.

Normally, there is nothing wrong in climbing or walking up to any height or even to the roof of your house: But when pride, self-centeredness and the devil are involved, then there is a something significant about climbing a higher position in height.

*A* When Nebuchadnezzar the king climbed up and walked on the roof of his palace, the devil was not obviously involved but Pride and Self-centeredness were involved – That was in the time twelve months ended, and Nebuchadnezzar climbed the roof of his palace to see and glory over the glories of his kingdom and majesty.

*B* When David the king climbed up and walked on the roof of his palace, the devil and pride were not obviously involved but Lust (fornication) and Woman-centeredness (which is also self-centeredness) were involved – That was in the time when kings go out to war, but David climbed the roof of his palace to see the unclothedness of a man’s wife.

*C* When Satan took the Lord Jesus and climbed up and walked on the high mountain, the devil was obviously involved together with his Pride and Self-centeredness; but no pride or self-centeredness in the Lord Jesus who was full of humility and being a true worshipper of God in spirit and truth – That was in the time the Lord Jesus Christ had been humbling Himself further with 40 days fasting and humbling His appetites, but the Devil was showing Him all the kingdoms/glories of this world asking the Lord Jesus to worship him for them, acknowledge or accolade him for them.

*D* Also when Satan took the Lord Jesus and climbed up the pinnacle of the temple, the devil was involved but no pride nor self-centered was found in the Lord Jesus Christ, neither any desired to be seen even among the people of God under that temple was found in the most humble and lowly Jesus Christ. He was not seeking to be seen or announced even inside the church or temple worshippers when He stood on the pinnacle of the temple with the devil.

Did I not say I will explain how “Advancing in Pride” or “Making any step in Pride” whether upward step or crossing over step in pride is different from the normal or ordinary steps in same axes? So, you know it’s not just when it happens in upward directions but also when it happens in crossing over or crossing the line in pride which one should not cross in that manner.

Horizontal Crossing the Line: There is a story of a man that was under house (hotel) arrest by former Soviet Regime, and he was lodged on a big hotel as his prison sentence with a warning that if he should ever leave that hotel for any reason he shall be killed. But he was to be fed and cared for within that hotel for the rest of his life. The line for that man was horizontal – external doors of that hotel – which he was never to cross. However, the same man, after years of being trapped in the hotel, found a way of climbing to the roof top of the hotel where he could see sunlight and view outside world. For him, crossing the line was not vertical but horizontal.

Vertical Crossing the Line: Unlike the case of that man, Nebuchadnezzar was free to go out and come into his palace, but his climbing the roof of his palace to see the world around him was crossing the line.

Understand these about Pride:

Pride can be involved in thoughts, words, acts and steps/choices: There are steps or choices that involve pride, and not everyone would discern pride involved in these things. The Lord Jesus Christ taught us saying, when we are invited into an occasion, we should take the lower or lowest seat, not the highest seat in the occasion: for it is better for the host to invite us to higher seat than for them to demote us to lower seat in the public view.

[Luke 14:7-11 BSB] - When Jesus noticed how the guests chose the places of honor, He told them a parable: “When you are invited to a wedding banquet, do not sit in the place of honor, in case someone more distinguished than you has been invited. Then the host who invited both of you will come and tell you, ‘Give this man your seat.’ And in humiliation, you will have to take the last place. But when you are invited, go and sit in the last place, so that your host will come and tell you, ‘Friend, move up to a better place.’ Then you will be honored in front of everyone at the table with you. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”

Avoidance of Pride – There is difference between “The House of God” and “The Place of God:” The House of God is the not the same thing as the Place of God, neither is the Place of God the same as the House of God. Differentiate both.

When a Mountain is God’s House, you climbing that Mountain is humility; but when a Mountain is God’s Place, you climbing that Mountain is Pride. The pride of Lucifer was his thought on ascending the Mountain of the Most High in the sides of the North to be like the Most High (Isaiah 14:12-14). When God was manifest on Mount Sinai, Mount Sinai was the Place of God, not the House of God: and any man other than Moses and the called, who climbed or touched Mount Sinai then would be struck dead. But now that God is manifest on Mount Zion, Mount Zion is the House of God and all who climb Mount Zion shall find deliverance, salvation and holiness on Mount Zion. Your Body is the Temple of God, but not the Place of God. That Roof of the Royal Palace of the Kingdom of Babylon on which Nebuchadnezzar climbed and walked at the end of the twelfth month was supposed to be the Place of God the Most High, even though that Palace was not a temple or house of God the Most High. Humility would help you to know and keep your place and the place of God sacred.

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[Daniel 4:28 NKJV] - All this came upon King Nebuchadnezzar.

[Daniel 4:28 ICB] - All these things happened to King Nebuchadnezzar.

Thank You Lord for enabling me.

That king, Nebuchadnezzar, had two significant dreams in different days, weeks, months or years apart: but before all things of the first dream could come to pass, behold all things of the second dream came upon the dreamer. Messenger Dreams or Prophecies do not necessarily follow the protocol of first to come is first served, especially when they are not "Sequential" but are "Consequential."

*A* - The First Messenger Dream of Nebuchadnezzar was Sequential — Therefore, it was time based, following program schedule or Calendar Timeline of events to the last days.

*B* - The Second Messenger Dream of Nebuchadnezzar was ConSequential — Therefore, it was not time based but "Heart Based," waiting for a specific heart, mindset, thoughts, words or act of the target.

In the top bible verse above, all the things or prophecies of the second messenger dream of Nebuchadnezzar came upon him: And I say the reason was not necessarily because they must be infallible or inevitable, but because the heart, mindset, thought-set or more precisely the word-set of Nebuchadnezzar the king, caused them to befall him. And when you read the next couple of verses following the top one above, you will come to where a particular word was yet in his uttering mouth and then the things of that dream befell him, for his heart, mindset & words.

Here are three examples of Consequential or Heart based prophecies that were dependent on the condition of the king's heart or mindset: *1* In one example the king who did not have the heart for such prophecy suddenly developed or received the heart for all those things to come upon him, so that God would not allow the prophet's prophecy to fail because the king did not have the heart. *2* in another example the king was having the heart for such prophecy to befall him, but he humbled himself and that humility altered his heart and therefore the things of the prophecy were suspended from him but they were hanging waiting for his descendant to develop that heart for the prophecy to befall his descendants after that humbled king had died and gone; and somehow God had to codedly apologize to the prophet who delivered that prophecy to the king that later humbled himself, because God respected that prophet so much that God wouldn't allow anything that prophet says to any man to fail even if the prophet spoke it carelessly. *3* In the third example a king and his city totally changed their heart in humility and deep repentance to a degree that God had to cancel or nullify (not suspend) the entire prophecy of the prophet; and the prophet was mad with the rage of anger because he didn't initially want to deliver that message of God in the first place and God had to force him and punish him with badluck (jinx) following him wherever trip or business he was going to do, so that he was forced to go deliver that prophecy in pains, only for God to later change His Mind and wouldn't do what the prophet painstakingly suffered to prophesy.


*Example 1*
Samuel was the prophet of whom God would not allow any of his word fail, and Saul was the king to whom God gave another heart for the heart based or consequential prophecy of Samuel to come upon Saul the king:

[1 Samuel 10:9 BSB] — As Saul turned to leave Samuel, God changed Saul’s heart, and all the signs came to pass that day.

*Example 2*
Elijah was the prophet to whom God codedly apologized by showing him reason God would not be fulfilling his prophecy on Ahab the king because of the humbleness that king put on after Elijah's prophecy: but because of Elijah the prophecy would still be hanging (not cancelled) against the children of Ahab after he passed away.

[1 Kings 21:28‭-‬29 AMPC] — And the word of the Lord came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying, Do you see how Ahab humbles himself before Me? Because he humbles himself before Me, I will not bring the evil in his lifetime, but in his son's day I will bring the evil upon his house.

Therefore, when that prophecy finally came upon the house of Ahab in the absence of Ahab the king, the scripture gave credit or accordance to the Lord's words to Elijah - for it's Elijah's sake the prophecy was not cancelled but postponed and then fulfilled even after Elijah was already taken away from the earth to be with Enoch in the heavenly places. The entire generation or lineage of that king (including Jezebel) was wiped out or annihilated from the earth's surface to fulfill God's word to Elijah:

[2 Kings 10:17 AMP] — When Jehu came to Samaria, he killed everyone who remained of Ahab’s family in Samaria, until he had destroyed all of them, in accordance with the word of the Lord which He spoke to Elijah.


*Example 3*
Jonah was the prophet that gave the prophecy, and the king and city of Nineveh (Assyrian Capital) totally changed their heart in humility and deep repentance to a degree that God had to cancel or nullify (not suspend) the entire prophecy of the prophet.

[Jonah 3:10 AMPC] — And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God revoked His [sentence of] evil that He had said that He would do to them and He did not do it [for He was comforted and eased concerning them].

Nevertheless, among these three prophets, Jonah has been more compensated by God than all the other prophets in regards to God fulfilling the words of their prophecies. The reason is because the Very Word of God Himself, the Lord Jesus Christ, subjected Himself to fulfilling the Sign of Jonah. Roman Catholics celebrate "Sign of the cross" but the Lord Jesus Christ Himself with His Cross, Death and Resurrection celebrated and fulfilled the "Sign of Jonah" being in the belly of the beast three days and nights. And even till now, the church of the last days are replaying in prophetic patterning or figuratively, the ways of Jonah before, during and after Jonah was swallowed of the sea beast.

Back to Nebuchadnezzar the king, and Daniel being the prophet who wished that his own prophecy would not even come upon or befall that king, but yet all those things befell the king notwithstanding the wise counsel or advice of that proohet to avert his prophecy or interpretation.

The fact that all those things befell the king Nebuchadnezzar meant the heart of Nebuchadnezzar was not changed, neither was their repentance nor humility of heart to alter the messenger dream. This means his heart was hardened like pharaoh's heart was hardened before Moses, though Moses the prophet advised him against it. The same way the kings of Jerusalem were hardened inspite of Jeremiah's prophecies until the king of Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar, finally befell them to destroy Solomon's temple and the city of Jerusalem, so also was the same Nebuchadnezzar hardened inspite of the warning of Daniel and the Watchers until all those things befell him.

Nevertheless, understand that some prophecies or revelations would be averted or suspended because they actually do not have their own time for everything but only have their own heart/mindset for everything under the sun - and God can reverse His own words in such prophecies:

[Jeremiah 18:6‭-‬10 AMP] — “O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter does?” says the Lord. “Look carefully, as the clay is in the potter’s hand, so are you in My Hand, O house of Israel. At one moment I might [suddenly] speak concerning a nation or kingdom, that I will uproot and break down and destroy; if that nation against which I have spoken turns from its evil, I will relent and reverse My decision concerning the devastation that I intended to do. Or at another time I might [suddenly] speak about a nation or kingdom that I will build up or establish; and if they do evil in My Sight by not obeying My Voice, then I will reverse My decision concerning the good with which I had promised to bless them.

[Daniel 4:27 AFV] - Therefore, O king, let my advice be pleasing to you, and break off your sins by righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor, so there may be lengthening of your prosperity."

[Daniel 4:27 BSB] - Therefore, may my advice be pleasing to you, O king. Break away from your sins by doing what is right, and from your iniquities by showing mercy to the oppressed. Perhaps there will be an extension of your prosperity.”

Let both my tongue and my heart be humble when I make utterances, and may I not have any room for pride in me. I appreciate this, but is this the most important message or thing to say to us? Was that the most important message or advice Daniel should say to that great king considering the contest of the visions, his interpretation and the message of God on things about to befall that king, and considering that would be the last thing Daniel would ever say to that king in the scriptures, even his last opportunity of speaking the Word of God to such a king?

In the top bible verse above, Daniel preached a message of “Prosperity extension by Righteousness that breaks off one’s sins and by showing of mercy that knocks off one’s iniquities.” That’s bold because not every “Prosperity Preacher” would mention “Your sins or iniquities” while preaching prosperity to you like Daniel did here. Many prosperity preachers do not even offer or market the prosperity that righteousness and mercy bring, but instead they offer or market the prosperity that Sowing seeds, paying tithes, giving offerings, giving gifts, investing into some schemes etc. bring. Such Prosperity Preachers are not really after your repentance from sin, righteousness or mercifulness; but they sure are after your prosperity because your prosperity is also linked to (or will expand) their own prosperity. And people who do not want their sins to be a problem in their way would love such preachers and messages.

So appreciate Daniel who brought up the sins and iniquities/wickedness of that king of the world, and greatest living man on earth, then, to his face. This Daniel did, not in condemnation but in offering better and more secure prosperity (in guarantee) than that which the king already had but was insecure with having. In the context of his speech above, he spoke of “Pleasing/acceptable Advice to the King:” So he presented his speech both as advice and in a pleasing manner (manner seeking acceptance), not in an unpleasing manner, to that king with solutions and security in view against the imminent threats to the prosperity days of that king of the world.

But would such message of prosperity by righteousness and mercy sail in a world where sins, iniquities and wickedness also give faster and quicker prosperity to those who go through sins, iniquities or wickedness to gain prosperity and power? That man to whom Daniel was preaching prosperity by righteousness and mercy was already swimming in prosperity with his sins, iniquities or wickedness, not being hindrance or problem to his property but instead catalyst to his prosperity. How do you convince such man to switch to righteousness and showing of mercy against his sins, indulgences and insensitivity to the feelings of the poor and downtrodden?

After Joseph interpreted Pharaoh’s dreams, Joseph advised Pharaoh with an advice or counsel that brought both security of prosperity and deliverance to Pharaoh and to all the entire nation of Egypt. But Daniel here, who had both interpreted Nebuchadnezzar’s dreams and advised Nebuchadnezzar with an advice or counsel that will bring security of prosperity to Nebuchadnezzar, was not even sounding sure or convinced about his own proposal but placed that prosperity as “May be” or “Perhaps” even if the king applied righteousness and showing of mercy. Notwithstanding righteousness and mercy, humility and knowledge of the Most High were needed to truly work out the solutions to the danger revealed.

Just like Daniel here, Paul said, “The Kingdom of God is Righteousness, Peace and Joy in the Holy Ghost” (Romans 14:17), leaving out “Humility” in the key components of the Kingdom of God. But I am telling you not to make such mistake of leaving out “Humility” especially when talking about the kingdom to a man who has attain such glory or position such as Nebuchadnezzar attained. This is because “Pride” is the hardest enemy to see or know when one is in such glory, height or position. Many have fallen from such high glory of reaching heaven, heights and position, by not taking heed when they thought they were standing. Not all falls came by lack of righteousness (which is sin) or by lack of showing mercy (which is wickedness); but also many falls are by lack of knowledge and lack of humility.

Therefore, convert people into righteousness and mercy, but also convert them into humility: For even though the kingdom of God is righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost, no man shall enter the kingdom of Heaven without being converted in the conversion that humility brings. As it is written,

[Matthew 18:3-4 KJV] – “…Verily I say unto you, “Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.”

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