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(Daniel 5:15 - AKJV) — And now the wise men, the astrologers, have been brought in before me, that they should read this writing, and make known to me the interpretation thereof: but they could not show the interpretation of the thing:

(Daniel 5:15 - GW) — The wise advisers and the psychics were brought to me to read this writing and tell me its meaning. But they couldn’t tell me its meaning.

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IF YOUR REPUTATION THAT PRECEDED YOU COULD STAND BEFORE THE KING, KNOW THAT THE REPUTATIONS OF MEN, WITH SIMILAR CALLING THAT PRECEDED OR GONE BEFORE YOU, FAILED OR FELL SHORT BEFORE THE KING

I wish I could write this long title in shorter form and yet capture the content of its theme and table therein. Looking beyond the title, let's look at the top bible verse above it. The king was telling Daniel about the failures of the wisemen or hired men that had come into his presence, and looked at the problem on the Wall, but they all could not fix the problem on the wall, not even to solve half or part of it. The king did not have to pay them as bargained, since they could not get the job done: and the king heard about Daniel's reputation in fixing similar and even more difficult problems.

I had felt it's not necessary or fair for the king to talk down on the previous men who attempted but failed, now that the king have Daniel as a new man to look at it. But I understood that — Spiritually, it's necessary to reveal or bear witness of those who tried but failed because it's part and portion of the Works to be done, in the treasures of the nature and extent of the trials and the glory thereof.

[Luke 7:44-47] — Turning to the woman, Jesus said to Simon, “You see this woman? When I came into your house, you didn't give Me water to wash My Feet. But she has washed My Feet with her tears, and wiped Them with her hair. You didn't give Me a kiss, but since I came in she hasn't stopped kissing My Feet. You didn't anoint My Head with oil, but she poured perfume over My Feet. So I tell you, her many sins have been forgiven—that's why she loves so much. But he who is forgiven little, only loves little.”

There will always be witnesses to compare you and others who have the same calling as you for the same reputations that must stand where others fell, in the Presence of the King and of God. If any of those wisemen had succeeded to do the works, neither Daniel nor Joseph in Egypt would have had a chance for his reputation to stand before the king. So, if a man's success prevents reputation of another from shining, his failure should also serve reason for reputation of another to be placed instead of him.

In whatever God or the King of Kings Jesus Christ, has assigned and called you to do, know that if you fail or come short, two things are bound to happen: One, those who depend on you shall suffer for your failure as long as their dependence on you remains; and Two, those who do not have any dependence on you will find better replacement over you that will succeed where you failed — And the king will tell your failure story to the person succeeding the story with success and faithfulness — Thus, you must forever bow down or serve the person that fulfilled the calling you received but failed.


(Daniel 5:16 - AKJV) — And I have heard of you, that you can make interpretations, and dissolve doubts: now if you can read the writing, and make known to me the interpretation thereof, you shall be clothed with scarlet, and have a chain of gold about your neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.

(Daniel 5:16 - GW) — I have heard that you can interpret such things and untangle problems. If you can read the writing and tell me its meaning, you will be dressed in purple, wear a gold chain on your neck, and become the third-highest ruler in the kingdom.”

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DON'T JUST BE USED TO SET THE PRICE TO PAY ANOTHER PERSON

After the men that the king called to do the job failed, their failure provided opportunity for the king to hear of Daniel and what he could do in regards to the king's pressing job. King Belshazzer did not hear of Daniel until all his wisemen or astrologers failed to deliver in his most critical condition, and then he heard of Daniel, a prisoner from different tribe, different race, different religion, but he could delivered as needed.

Next in the bible verse above, king Belshazzer demonstrated one of the principles of the Kingdom of God — in that the king was offering the same “Calling and Promises (Reward)” to Daniel as he had earlier offered to each of the others before him that failed to accomplish the ministry (services). He did not reduce/increase the amount or the reward he offered to the elite or political class when he was negotiating with a captive, slave, prisoner, Jewish or hated tribe with hated religion. The same rewards to a prisoner or a man from another tribe, country, religion, language, etc., different from his, as he offered to those in same social class or group similar to his.

Let me illustrate it with this: Supposing I want to fix a car: I invited professionals in automechanic engineering and car specialist engineers with PHDs to fix the car. And according to their grade or professional level and overheads involved in hiring such high grade professionals, their charges or fees that I have to pay them to fix the car will be $1,000. Then I agreed with them for the said payment if they fix the car. But eventually when they took some look at the problem, they could not fix the car. Then feeling disappointed, someone came and told me about a roadside mechanic who could fix any car problems, even though he is from another tribe, another religion, and never went to formal education/engineering school. I sent for the roadside mechanic to come, and he came looking like a madman in dirt wears. And I already know that if I ask the man how much he would charge me to fix the car, he will probably say $15 or $20 to fix the same car that the professionals would charge $1000 to fix but cannot fix. Then, having the heart of the Kingdom of God I will tell him either one of these 2:

♡1♡ If the professionals and witnesses who knew I earlier bargained for $1000 to fix the car are not around when I am bargaining with the common roadside mechanic who is an illiterate or unlearned and unkempt man from another tribe, religion etc., (But those professionals and witnesses would be around and see what I pay the mechanic later in testimony of the car was later fixed by a man when they failed or couldn't do it) — I will tell the Mechanic, Fix the car and later what is right/due I will pay you.

[Matthew 20:1-2, 6-7, 12-13 AFV] — "The kingdom of heaven shall be compared to a man, a master of a house, who went out early in the morning to hire workmen for his vineyard. And after agreeing with the workmen on a silver coin for the day's wage, he sent them into his vineyard…. ……And about the eleventh hour, he went out and found others standing idle, and said to them, 'Why have you been standing here idle all the day?' They said to him, 'Because no one has hired us.' He said to them, 'Go also into my vineyard, and whatever is right you shall receive.'...…But he answered and said to them, 'Friend, I am not doing you wrong. Did you not agree with me on a silver coin for the day? Take what is yours and go, for I also desire to give to the last ones exactly as I gave to you.

♡2♡ If the professionals and witnesses who knew I earlier bargained for $1000 to fix the car are around when I am bargaining with the common roadside mechanic who is an illiterate or unlearned and unkempt man from another tribe, religion etc. I will just make the offer of reward of $1000 to the mechanic as I made to the professionals.

Therefore, Belshazzar the king of Babylon was faithful in demonstrating this way of the kingdom of heaven, even though he was unfaithful and foolish to degrees that the Handwriting on the Wall came against him.

Daniel would reject the receiving of the same rewards the king offered in this context, but the king would still faithfully fulfilled his word of giving Daniel the full reward he had offered and agreed with those wisemen, who failed to deliver, even though Daniel with his mouth rejected the reward or even though Daniel's interpretation was all speaking evil against the king — King Belshazzar remained faithful to implement his rewards described above to Daniel irrespective of whether Daniel's preaching was too bitter or evil for his liking, and irrespective of how much Daniel underpriced himself to receive the full rewards. That was the last act of Belshazzar in the scriptures, and that last act was the act of faithfulness.

Learn this: — Even if that kind, humble or lowly person will not accept your great rewards for his services to you but would do it for free, what those other higher persons would only do when they would greatly be paid for it, always insist you fulfill the Kingdom's Principle on the Humble, Lowly and Kindhearted people. Do not take advantage of their lowliness, humility and kindness, less you be called a Fool.

The ways of God would make those higher in class or society to determine the rewards or payments worthy for whoever would accomplish His Task, Will or Calling. He usually make the offer to princes, chiefs, professionals, honorable, elites, senators, presidents, governors, etc., so that how He would have rewarded those calibers of people if they do His Will/Task will be His standard for rewarding everyone whether poor or rich who fulfills and accomplishes the Will/Task or Calling. How God would reward/punish Satan and his angels was the standard He used in preparing the Lake of fire as rewards for sinners, and how God would reward His Son Jesus Christ and His angels was the standard He used in preparing the Kingdom of Heaven and the world to come for saints

The wedding of the King's Son in the Kingdom of Heaven were prepared with the greatest dignitaries, nobles and princely invited guests in mind: but when those invited failed to come, the street people, illiterate, road tramps etc., were invited instead to enjoy the wedding capacity & rewards meant/made purposely for royalties or the rich.

Another example, there was a king who was thinking of how to reward a gateman in his gates for revealing a secret that saved his life, but did not know just how to set the right reward or honor suitable for a common gate man. Then the highest prince to the king came around, and the king used how the prince would have the king to reward him as prince to know and decide how to reward the gate man. As it is written,

[Esther 6:6-10 FBV] — When Haman came in, the king asked him, “What should be done for a man the king wants to honor?” Haman said to himself, “Who would the king want to honor except me?” So Haman said to the king, “A man whom the king wants to honor should be brought royal robes the king has worn, a horse the king has ridden and which has a royal headdress on its head. Have the robes and the horse handed over to one of the king's highest officials and nobles. Let him make sure the man the king wishes to honor is dressed in the royal robes and that he rides on the horse through the city streets, and have the official announce before him, ‘This is what is done for the man the king wishes to honor!’” Then the king told Haman, “Right! Off you go! Quickly get the royal robes and the horse, and do just what you've said for Mordecai the Jew sitting at the palace gate. Don't leave out anything that you mentioned.”

(Daniel 5:13 - AKJV) — Then was Daniel brought in before the king. And the king spoke and said to Daniel, Are you that Daniel, which are of the children of the captivity of Judah, whom the king my father brought out of Jewry?

(Daniel 5:13 - FBV) — So Daniel was brought in before the king. The king asked him, “Are you Daniel, one of the prisoners my father the king brought from Judah?

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YOUR REPUTATION PRECEDES YOU

The Queen's words were heeded, for the king did as the Queen recommended, and Daniel was brought in before the king. These three men of God, Joseph, Micaiah and Daniel, were each brought before a king after the respective king's prophets or wise men failed to reveal the true Mind of God on things about to befall those kings; they were prisoners. Joseph was recommended by a Chief to a king, Michaiah recommended by another King to a king, and Daniel recommended by a Queen to a king.

There's what is called, “Your Reputation Precedes You” in the presence of the King, and in that “Your Reputation Precedes You,” being a prisoner, a captive, a slave, a poor, or in dungeon/ghetto/chains, doesn't defeat the reputation, but amplifies its greatness. Because it proves the Reputation scaled great even in your restrictions or limitations, making the Reputation even more a wonder or excellence of greater output from little.

“Your Reputation Precedes You” means you have a “Forerunner” that gospelizes your name, story, track, records, personal character, things found in you, or your fame; and the Forerunner travels faster than you and reaches places you may not have ever reached by your human labours or efforts alone, building omens or impressions of good praises and favors before God, angels and men towards you. Does the King know you by name, by your people, by your reputation, already before you come into His Presence?

(Daniel 5:14 - AKJV) — I have even heard of you, that the spirit of the gods is in you, and that light and understanding and excellent wisdom is found in you.

(Daniel 5:14 - BSB) — I have heard that the spirit of the gods is in you, and that you have insight, intelligence, and extraordinary wisdom.

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What was the reputation of Daniel, or Joseph, the king heard or that preceded the man of God into the king's presence to the extent that the king did not even wait for the man of God to introduce himself, but rather the king was already describing the man that just came into his presence, giving all necessary descriptions of the man with excitement so that the man would not have anything else to say about him that the king had not already said or known about him? I mentioned three men of God recommended by a Chief, by a king, and by a Queen, to three different kings, to do what those hired and paid Prophets and Mediums failed to do in as duties to their king.

But also notice that neither the Chief, the king nor the Queen, spoke of these men of God in “Intercession” but rather spoke of them in “Reputation and Recommendation.” Joseph wanted the Chief to speak of Joseph to Pharaoh the king in “Intercession” for deliverance from the prison/dungeon; but God made the Chief to rather speak of Joseph in “Reputation and Recommendation:” Thus, Joseph's Reputation preceded him.

The king said to Daniel, “I have heard of you, that the spirit of the gods is in you, and that light and understanding and excellent wisdom is found in you.” — Endowment

Reputation of Spiritual Endowments in Daniel:

♡1♡ Daniel was endowed with the Holy Spirit of God - This was not on and off way the Spirit of God used to come on people in old testament, but rather the Spirit of God was resident in Daniel, as He was resident in Joseph and in David (until David's adultery).

♡2♡ Daniel was endowed with Light (Insight or In-light) - The inner being and inner world of Daniel's Body was full of Light because of the Wisdom in him. As it is written:

[Ecclesiastes 8:1 AKJV] — Who is as the wise man? and who knows the interpretation of a thing? a man's wisdom makes his face to shine, and the boldness of his face shall be changed.

[Luke 11:34-36 GW] — “Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eye is unclouded, your whole body is full of light. But when your eye is evil, your body is full of darkness. So be careful that the light in you isn’t darkness. If your whole body is full of light and not darkness, it will be as bright as a lamp shining on you.”

♡3♡ Daniel was endowed with Understanding or Intelligence -

♡4♡ Daniel was endowed with Excellent Wisdom -

Now, these were written to us to know that a man can be endowed with these and more, without getting busted. Spiritual Endowments and gifts are some of the things God permits us and even encourages us to covet or be greedy to grab as many as you want. Don't covet another man's things, but covet God's things and be more endowed.

(Daniel 5:12 - AKJV) — For as much as an excellent spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, interpreting of dreams, and showing of hard sentences, and dissolving of doubts, were found in the same Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar: now let Daniel be called, and he will show the interpretation.

(Daniel 5:12 - FBV) — because Daniel, (called Belteshazzar by the king) was found to have an excellent mind, full of understanding and insight, and also able to interpret dreams, explain mysteries, and solve difficult problems. Call Daniel in and let him explain what this means to you.”

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SEEK THESE THINGS FOUND IN DANIEL

This Bible verse above is giving reasons or causes to its preceding Bible verse, in explaining why Daniel was set as master or chief over all the magicians, enchanters, Chaldeans, and astrologers; and also in the Queen's last word in this matter, by which she recommended Daniel to be invited to do what only wisdom of the Gods could do.

Someone taught, saying, “Elohim” means “Gods” (plural) and not just God in single. Thus, Elohim, already expresses the Godhead or Trinity of God “El.”

☆1☆ In giving the reasons or causes why Nebuchadnezzar set Daniel up over the entire spiritists, mediuns and wisemen of Babylon as Master or Chief over them all: — The Queen said forasmuch as or because “Excellent Spirit, Knowledge, Understanding, Interpreting of dreams, Explaining of hard sentences, and Dissolving of doubts”, were found in the same Daniel.

Notice that she did not mention “Power, Ability to do Magic, Ability to do Miracles, Ability to do Healing, Ability to do Enchantments or any Superpower found in Daniel.” Why would a man called “Apostle” be preaching “Power of God” in the church, using the miracles of Moses, Samuel, Elijah, Joshua, etc., to hype Power and Charisma as the the most important gift of God for a Christian to fulfill the Will of God or his purpose? Indeed, Power of God is extremely important, but Power of God is servant to Virtues, to Excellent Spirit, to Wisdom, to Knowledge, to Understanding, to Will & to Love of God. There was nothing Charismatic found among those found in Daniel. In Daniel was found

-1- Excellent Spirit: Excellent Spirit is not basically Charismatic — What is Excellent Spirit? — Excellent Spirit is another word for Excellent Wisdom and Understanding. Wisdom (Understanding) is Excellent Spirit. As it is written,

[Daniel 5:14 AKJV] — I have even heard of you, that the spirit of the gods is in you, and that light and understanding and excellent wisdom is found in you.

[Proverbs 17:27 AKJV] — He that has knowledge spares his words: and a man of understanding is of an excellent spirit.

-2- KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING: Same as in “Excellent Spirit.”

-3- INTERPRETING OF DREAMS: This is not basically Charismatic — Rather this is Interpretation by Word of Knowledge.

-4- SHOWING HARD SENTENCES OR EXPLAINING MYSTERIES IN SENTENCES: This is not basically Charismatic — Rather this is Exposition by Discernment.

-5- DISSOLVING OF DOUBTS OR SOLVING DIFFICULT PROBLEMS: This is not basically Charismatic — Charismatic believes, or uses, Power solves all problems and resolves all doubts no matter how difficult. — But in Daniel, solving all problems and dissolving all doubts is by Faith and Revelation.

☆2☆ Another thing the Queen said in the top bible verse above was Nebuchadnezzar renamed Daniel, “Belteshazzar” — She was recommending “Belteshazzar” to king “Belshazzar.” The difference between the names “Belteshazzar” and “Belshazzar” was just the difference of “te” between them. But far more differences abound between he who was called Belteshazzar and he who was called Belshazzar.

In the last words of the Queen, ‘Call Daniel in, and let him explain the meaning of this.’ Well, to us who are here today and no Daniel to call, there are still those things found in Daniel even where/when there's no Belteshazzar to embody them. Those things found in Daniel were the reason the Queen said call Daniel; If those things were not in Daniel, no queen would say to a king, call Daniel in. Those things Matters in Royalty.

(Daniel 5:11 - BSB) — There is a man in your kingdom who has the spirit of the holy gods in him. In the days of your father he was found to have insight, intelligence, and wisdom like that of the gods. Your father, King Nebuchadnezzar, appointed him chief of the magicians, enchanters, astrologers, and diviners. Your own father, the king,

(Daniel 5:11 - AFV) — There is a man in your kingdom in whom is the spirit of the holy gods. And in the days of your father there was found in him light and understanding and wisdom like the wisdom of the gods. And the King Nebuchadnezzar, your father the king, I say, your father appointed him master of the magicians, enchanters, Chaldeans, and astrologers,

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FOUND IN DANIEL

She didn't say, there's a man in your kingdom that has eaten of the forbidden tree of knowledge of good and evil, which gave him insight, intelligence and wisdom as that of the gods. It's the Serpent that said that to the woman in the garden, projecting the forbidden tree as a source of insight, intelligence and wisdom of the gods to mankind.

The Queen speaking in the bible verse above, explained the source of the greatest light and insight and intelligence and understanding and wisdom that equates the wisdom of the gods: — That Source is the Spirit of the Holy Gods in a man, such as Daniel. This is not just Spirit of God, but more than being Spirit of God is Spirit of the Holy God or the Holy Spirit or the Spirit of Holiness.

Now according to the words of this last queen of ancient Babylon:

♤1♤ There is a man (Daniel) in whom the Holy Spirit of God dwells, and yet the man filled with the Holy Spirit is dwelling inside the kingdom of Babylon: — Learn — You can be filled with the Holy Spirit of God while dwelling in any kingdom anywhere, but you cannot dwell in the Kingdom of God without having the Holy Spirit of God in you. This means you can dwell in another kingdom of men while the kingdom of God dwells in you, but you cannot dwell in the kingdom of God without the kingdom of God in you.

If you do not have the Spirit of God in you now, you cannot enter the kingdom of heaven.

♤2♤ In the days of the previous administration and kingdom of your father, Nebuchadnezzar, these things were found in Daniel: Light (Insight), Understanding (Intelligence) and Wisdom that equates that of the gods: — Learn — When the bible use the word “Found-in” a man, as in, something was found in a person, it means the person was judged, tried or examined, and what's found in him was the result/outcome. During their final exam, Daniel and his three brethren were found ten times better than the magicians, enchanters, diviners, wizards or fortunetellers [Daniel 1:20-21].

“Find in” or “Found in” in a person is an effective method of judging the person. Most of the parables of the Lord to us concerning His Judgment is based on ‘Found-in’ Judgment, and not just “Judgment according to your works.”

So, though everyone shall be judged according to his/her works, after applying that standard the Lord will apply another standard on everyone based on “Found-in or Found-with.” For example, if you read “Revelation 20:10-15,” everyone was judged by their works/deeds according to various books, but after that, another method of “Found-in or not Found-in” the book of life was again used to finally judge and cast people into the second death. Have you asked why they have to use other books to judge first, and later use the Book of Life to also judge?

A man could appear very dirty and evil in the books used to judge his deeds, and yet he's found in the book of life. And a man could appear very good and righteous in the books that judged his deeds, and yet he is not found in the Book of Life. So, do not just amend your ways or deeds, but also work on what could be found-in you. Don't be a hypocrite, outwardly appearing to be doing good works, but in you is found dead men's bones like a white washed sepulcher. This character that many refer to as Lucifer or Satan was having all his ways/deeds perfect before God, not knowing God looks at the heart also to apply “Found-in” scrutiny. As it is written,

[Ezekiel 28:15 AKJV] — You were perfect in your ways from the day that you were created, till iniquity was found in you.

Now, in Daniel was found Excellent Spirit, Light, Insight, Intelligence, Understanding, Wisdom of the gods, and the Holy Spirit of the Holy God. These imply that series of tests, trials or examinations, must have been laid on Daniel to manifest these Gifts and Fruits of the Spirit of God. Those in whom are found these qualities must have endured

♤3♤ And your father, Nebuchadnezzar, appointed Daniel to be chief or master over all the Chaldeans, astrologers, enchanters, diviners, magicians, wisemen of Babylon — Learn — Was Daniel a magician? Was he doing any literal wonder, supernatural acts, miracle or showing any superpower/superstrength? Negative. Yet, he was master over magicians and enchanters who could do those things. All that he had as spiritual gifts were Light (Insight), Understanding (Intelligence), and Wisdom of the gods.

Supposing there are three men of God, gifted with different powers of the Spirit of God in signs and wonders:

1—One has gifts and ability to do miracles, signs & wonders, as Moses, Samuel, Elijah

2—Another has the gifts of wisdom, light, insight, intelligence, understanding, interpretation and ability to demystify mysteries, interpret enigmas, and uncover signs and omens like Daniel, Joseph, Solomon

3—The other has the gifts of revelations, visions & prophecies, as Enoch, Ezekiel, John

Which of these three men of God would you rather have as leader over you?

(Daniel 5:10 - BSB) — Hearing the outcry of the king and his nobles, the queen entered the banquet hall. “O king, may you live forever!” she said. “Do not let your thoughts terrify you, or your face grow pale.

(Daniel 5:10 - FBV) — When the queen mother heard the noise the king and the nobles were making she went to the banquet hall. She said to Belshazzar, “May Your Majesty the king live forever! Don't be frightened! Don't look so pale!

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A QUEEN IN WEEPING BANQUET

There was a queen, who was not among the wives, the concubines, and the noblemen, that were at the banquet, where they desecrated the vessels of the temple house of God in drinking idolatry. She did not come into the banquet hall by invitation to the party, neither did she come into the banquet hall by invitation to the wisemen of Babylon. She was the second and last of two uninvited persons, (after the Handwriter), who showed up into the banquet hall uninvited and changed the mood of those in it.

Was she sent by God into the banquet hall?

☆1☆ To show the man of God who could read the Handwriting on the wall and explain its prophecies or to recommend Daniel to the king, just as the Cupbearer Chief recommended Joseph to Pharaoh in Egypt — Yes, the queen was sent by God.

☆2☆ Nonetheless, to say the things the queen said to the king in the bible verse above — No, the queen was not speaking Mind of God by telling the king, “Live forever or Rest in peace.” That was not what the Handwriting on the Wall says to the king.

(Daniel 5:9 - BSB) — Then King Belshazzar became even more terrified, his face grew even more pale, and his nobles were bewildered.

(Daniel 5:9 - FBV) — This made King Belshazzar even more frightened and his face grew even paler. His nobles also were in panic.

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THERE ARE TROUBLES FOR NOT KNOWING HANDWRITINGS WRITTEN TO YOU

A king was exceedingly terrified, his face grew paler, and his partying 1,000 noble or princes were also stricken into panic. Was it because of insecurity or threat they were thus frightened? It was not for insecurity or threat that those king and lords were frightened yet; but they were frightened for the existence of a handwriting on his wall and presence, which none of all the priests of all foreign/false gods could read or interpret because it was beyond the abilities of those false gods, demons, fallen angels, and satan to know.

In the kingdom of God, and in the world to come, there will be such writings that both angels and saints will not be able to read or know: This inability will not cause them to be terrified or troubled, but will cause them to accord respect and rank to the only man/saint (besides God) that can read or know that which is written. As it is written,

[Revelation Rev 2:17 AKJV] — He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit said to the churches; To him that overcomes will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knows saving he that receives it.

When the person to whom it's given knows the Handwriting on the Wall or Handwriting in the Stone, there will be no trouble even if others around him cannot read or know that which is written. But we are dealing with a case, in which the person, to whom the Handwriting on the Wall was given, could not read or know it, neither could all the wisemen of Babylon read or know that which is written to him. In congruence, the Almighty God wrote on a scroll back and front, sealed it with 7 seals, and though it was written by His Fingers to the Creation, no living creature in His Creation could unseal or read through the Handwriting on the Scroll: This troubled the seer into weeping.

[Revelation 5:1-10 BSB]
1 Then I saw a scroll in the right hand of the One seated on the throne. It had writing on both sides and was sealed with seven seals. 2 And I saw a mighty angel proclaiming in a loud voice, “Who is worthy to break the seals and open the scroll?” 3 But no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll or look inside it. 4 And I began to weep bitterly, because no one was found worthy to open the scroll or look inside it. 5 Then one of the elders said to me, “Do not weep! Behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has triumphed to open the scroll and its seven seals.” 6 Then I saw a Lamb who appeared to have been slain, standing in the center of the throne, encircled by the four living creatures and the elders. The Lamb had seven horns and seven eyes, which represent the seven Spirits of God sent out into all the earth. 7 And He came and took the scroll from the right hand of the One seated on the throne. 8 When He had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb. Each one had a harp, and they were holding golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints. 9 And they sang a new song: “Worthy are You to take the scroll and open its seals, because You were slain, and by Your blood You purchased for God those from every tribe and tongue and people and nation. 10 You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to serve our God, and they will reign upon the earth.”

(Daniel 5:8 - AFV) — Then all the king's wise men came in. But they could not read the writing, nor make the interpretation known to the king.

(Daniel 5:8 - FBV) — However, after all the king's wise men had come in, they could not read the writing or explain to him what it meant.

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SPIRITUAL TO READ SPIRITUAL WRITINGS

Being wise, learned or literate, does not guarantee ability to read, hear, see, perceive or understand, all communications of the heavens. There are books, scripts, writings and communications, that cannot be gotten by decoding or deciphering them: They are only gotten and assimilated by the Spirit of God, by revelation and by the gift of God.

The Handwriting on the Wall was a spiritual expression though physically seen by men. The wisemen, Magicians, Witches, Cultists, Enchanters, Mediums, Sorcerers, etc., are not spiritual men though they operate in supernatural realms and engage extra beings. They may be spiritists but are not spiritual. To be Spiritual involves the Spirit of God.

[1 Corinthians 2:13-15 AFV] — Which things we also speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in words taught by the Holy Spirit in order to communicate spiritual things by spiritual means. But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God; for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them because they are spiritually discerned. However, the one who is spiritual discerns all things, but he himself is discerned by no one.

So, those wisemen of Babylon were not spiritual, which’s why they couldn't discern it.

[Isaiah 29:9-14 GW]

If you confuse yourselves, you will be confused. If you blind yourselves, you will be blinded. You are drunk, but not from wine. You stagger, but not from liquor.

The LORD has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep. He will shut your eyes. (Your eyes are the prophets.) He will cover your heads. (Your heads are the seers.)

To you all these visions will be like words in a book that is closed and sealed. You give this book to someone who can read, saying, “Please read this.” He answers, “I can’t read it. It’s sealed.”

Then you give the book to someone who can’t read, saying, “Please read this.” He answers, “I can’t read.”

The Lord says, “These people worship Me with their mouths and honor Me with their lips. But their hearts are far from Me, and their worship of Me is based on rules made by humans.

That is why I am going to do something completely amazing for these people once again. The wisdom of their wise people will disappear. The intelligence of their intelligent people will be hidden.”

(Daniel 5:7 - GW) — The king screamed for the psychics, astrologers, and fortunetellers to be brought to him. He told these wise advisers of Babylon, “Whoever reads this writing and tells me its meaning will be dressed in purple, wear a gold chain on his neck, and become the third-highest ruler in the kingdom.”

(Daniel 5:7 - FBV) — The king shouted, “Bring in the enchanters and astrologers and diviners!” He told these wise men of Babylon, “Anyone who can read this writing and explain it to me will be clothed in purple and have a gold chain placed around his neck, and he will become the third highest ruler in the kingdom.”

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WISE TO READ

It was a Kingdom where the ability to read and explain divine writings to a king will earn you royalty in dressing, in ornament of gold and in lordship/rulership. It's also a Kingdom where king would gladly pay all those as price or prize to anyone who truly reads and interprets any awesome message the fingers of heaven have written in the very presence of the king. Not like writing it in the absence of the king and then after sending it to the king as mail or message through a man of God or messenger: Rather, the reason all the dreams and visions of kings in the bible commanded such great and frightening attention of those kings was because whatever happened in those dreams or visions happened right in their presence or while they were watching it happen. In dreams or visions, the men of God, interpreters or messengers usually hear about them after the kings have experienced them. The kings did not hear after messengers received it, rather the messengers heard after the kings received it directly from God.

Belshazzar was the last king in the old testament to receive or experience such visions in the bible, and the Handwriting on the Wall was the last vision from God shown to any man with a title of a “King” first hand in the bible. So, Belshazzar was the last King was a “Seer” in heavenly visions. Nevertheless, though he was a Seer of such visions, he was not a Reader or Interpreter of such visions.

In this Bible verse above you saw the caliber of people the king invited and employed to read the Handwriting on the Wall: They were psychics, astrologers, enchanters, diviners, wizards or fortunetellers, who were also referred to as wisemen of Babylon.

If they were wisemen of Babylon, why were they just invited into the banquet hall by the king to read the Handwriting on the Wall, but not invited to the party at first?

This was because though they were the wisemen of Babylon, they were not the lords or rulers of Babylon. The unwise were the politicians, lords and bosses of Babylon, and as you can see an unwise man was the king of Babylon, who hires the wisemen of Babylon to perform tasks only the wise and intelligent can do, but when giving appointments he considers fellow politicians like the 1,000 lords or princes he was hosting with wine.

Well, atleast he's offering a “Third-Place” rulership to just one of the wisemen who can read and explain the Handwriting on the Wall to him, and if that wiseman succeeds he will be an only wiseman among the 1000+ cabinet members of the king of Babylon. One of the reasons the world is not balanced is because many worst among men are in the corridors of power through politicking, and governing the rest and the best of men.

Nevertheless, it's evil to consult the psychic, the enchanters, the diviners, the wizards, the witches, the cultists, the necromancers, the fortunetellers, zodiac signs, priests of any shrine/temple that not of the God of Heaven etc. For consulting any of these mediums is idolatry.

[Deuteronomy 18:10-12 FBV] — There should be no one who sacrifices their son or daughter in the fire, practices divination or fortune-telling, uses magic or sorcery, practices witchcraft, visits a medium or spiritist, or communicates with the dead. Anyone does such things offends the Lord. It's because of these offensive things that the Lord your God is driving out the nations before you.

(Daniel 5:5 - NIV) —Suddenly the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall, near the lampstand in the royal palace. The king watched the hand as it wrote.

(Daniel 5:5 - AFV) — At that moment fingers of a man's hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall of the king's palace across from the lampstand. And the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.

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THE SMART FINGERS AND THE DIVIDED BODY PARTS

That appearance was a vision with physical manifestation, which involved a fraction of an invisible being becoming visible and seen in the world of matter and physical energy. With this, we understand that no law mandates full or complete appearance of complete body from one realm to another: Partial appearance or fragmented visibility is allowed across various realms to those who are given the ability do so.

Therefore, in the above verse, whoever had the fingers or the part hand that appeared, had the authority to operate paradoxically: His revelations in this vision are paradoxes:

◇1◇ He wanted to partially appear/be-seen, but did not want to fully appear/be-seen.

◇2◇ He wanted to partially appear in a night, but wanted to appear by a light/lamp.

◇3◇ He wanted to see people to see his writing on the wall, but did not want them to be able to read his writing or understand the message.

◇4◇ He wanted to get their attention and apprehension without comprehension.

Therefore, this is example of “Dark Vision, Dark Revelation, Dark Saying/Dark Speech;” not because it came in the dark, but because it came by the light and yet dark in light.

Such paradoxes are parables, and parables are paradox that involves partial seeing but no perceiving, partial hearing but no understanding, commanding attention but no true comprehension. As it is written,

[Matthew 13:13-14 BSB] - This is why I speak to them in parables: ‘Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand.’ In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled: ‘You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.

The king, Belshazzar, was seeing and watching the hand that wrote. Somehow, I feel that because Daniel was not there when this happened but yet he wrote the bible verse above, that perhaps it was the king, Belshazzar, (or those there) who gave Daniel the details of what he wrote in the top bible verse above.

Therefore, the king saw the fingers as Fingers of a man's hand, not the fingers of God or the fingers of animals. We already saw that the Rabim, Cherubim of the Four Living Creatures attending the Throne of God, have a Man's hands under their wings. A man's hands go with a man's fingers. If you are a man, check whether you have man's fingers.

Yet, the hand whose fingers wrote on the wall was not using ink or pen to write, just as you don't need those to write on your smart screen phones or gadgets. Neither the wall was a smart screen nor was the plaster on the wall a canvas; but the Fingers as smart.

(Daniel 5:6 - GW) — Then the king turned pale, and his thoughts frightened him. His hip joints became loose, and his knees knocked against each other.

(Daniel 5:6 - AFV) — Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosened, and his knees knocked against one another.

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Do you have sense? You will not fully know what it means for all your senses, muscles, conscience and thoughts, to torment you until you have come to see what the heavens have written about you. You think you are in control of your body parts and thoughts, wait until you see your judgment verdict or sentence written, even before they are read to you. Oh man, stop deceiving yourself with “May his/her gentle soul rest in peace.” Stop wishing the dead “Rest in peace” or “Mercy” etc., because by doing so you are rebelling against the ordinances of God pertaining the issues death. Rather, wish or pray for the dead to live again. Peace, mercy or grace, cannot be given to a dead soul unless the dead first rise to life. Those are transactions that happen when there's life. If the man/woman did not have rest, peace, mercy, grace, when alive, its too late to have it when dead. So, any dead person you wish rest in peace for, first raise the person from the dead back to life because that's easier than deceiving yourself that the prayers of the living can give peace or mercy to the dead when that prayer cannot bring the dead back to life. Your rest, your peace, your mercy, your judgment, and your rewards, are usually determined or set while you are alive, not when you are dead. What happens when you die, is not to determine your judgment, but to make you face or see your already determined judgment or the Handwriting already written in the books concerning you, just as the king, Belshazzar, was seeing what was already determined and now written concerning him in “Judgment is Set.”

In the top bible verse here above:

☆1☆ The king's countenance changed — There was fall or change in his appearance, because he read what the heavens have written about him, seeing written judgment.

☆2☆ The king's thoughts troubled him — His thoughts and conscience became his enemies/troubles in self torture, when he saw what the heavens have written of him.

☆3☆ The king's hip joints became loose — Should I call it “Waist Pain?” Rather, let me call it “Waist Dislocation:” - No more sex with those wives or concubines around, for all muscles and joints for sex are gone on sighting what heaven has written of him.

☆4☆ The king's knees knocked against each other — Some knees are too proud to do what their feet are doing on the ground because those knees refuse to bow. But behold, even proud knees are turned against each other, fighting themselves for what the eyes have seen written by the heavens in judgment concerning the man in them.

Question: It was not the king alone that saw the handwritten on the wall; why was he the only one all these things in the bible verse above was befalling?

Answer: Though others saw what the king saw, those things did not befall them so much as they befell the king because they were not yet seeing what the heavens have written about them but seeing what the heavens have written about the king. If you see what the heavens have written about someone else in terrible things, you may be touched or affected but not as much as when the person in the character is seeing or hearing them himself/herself, or when you see/hear your own handwritten Judgment.

Thus, all that was written on the wall were basically about Belshazzar, not the others.

(Daniel 5:4 - NKJV) — They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze and iron, wood and stone.

(Daniel 5:4 - TLV) — They drank the wine and praised the gods made of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood and stone.

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IN AND OUT THEIR BODIES

They were both putting something into their mouth and bringing another something out of their mouth.:Wine was going into them, but praises to the gods made of gold, silver, bronze, iron, wood and stone, was coming out of them.

[Mark 7:15-16 GW] — Nothing that goes into a person from the outside can make him unclean. It’s what comes out of a person that makes him unclean. Let the person who has ears listen!” 

Supposing they were praising the Lord God, even though they drank wine from the gold Vessels of the temple house of God in Jerusalem, their act of praising the Lord God would have sanctified their act of drink wine from the vessels of God's house. What comes out of men weighs more than what goes into men. So, whether you eat or drink, giving glory to God and the name of Christ Jesus is grace to whatever you are doing.

[1 Corinthians 10:19-22 GW] — Do I mean that an offering made to a false god is anything, or that a false god itself is anything? Hardly! What I am saying is that these sacrifices which people make are made to demons and not to God. I don’t want you to be partners with demons. You cannot drink the Lord’s cup and the cup of demons. You cannot participate at the table of the Lord and at the table of demons. Are we trying to make the Lord jealous? Are we stronger than He is?

[1 Corinthians 10:30-32 GW] — If I give thanks to God for the food I eat, why am I condemned for that? So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do everything to the glory of God. Don’t cause others to stumble, whether they are Jewish, Greek, or members of God’s church.

That was not the case in the top bible verse above: They were drinking from the cup of the Lord, and at the same time glorifying demons through praising gods of gold, silver, bronze, iron, wood and stone. They were imbibing from vessels of the Lord on the table or altar sacrificed to idols or devils.

The scene here is like a king who hosted over 1,000 men, beside women (concubines and wives) in a drinking party, with beer, strong drinks or expensive wine. And as they drank, they praised and hailed the gods of gold, silver, bronze, iron, wood and stone, (perhaps in some form of worldly music and songs). This form of idolatry involves eating and drinking as ritual or rite in worshiping or adoring idols or the gods of material things. There is a similar idolatrous ritual involving fornication, and not just eating and drinking. Though that was where Belshazzar and his lords were going to next if not for the Handwriting on the Wall, considering wives and concubines where particularly mentioned in that party, carnival or ritual. Nonetheles,

♧1♧ When only eating and drinking are involved in ritual or party of idolatry, the Idolatry is called “Eating (or Drinking) food sacrificed to idols.”

♧2♧ But when fornication (sex or orgies) are involved in ritual or party of idolatry, the Idolatry is not called “idolatry” but “fornication.” This is because, Fornication is greater abomination than idolatry. So, if a man is worshiping idol and he is also into fornication, supposing he is to be condemned by his greatest sin, then his greatest sin is fornication (sexual immorality). Fornication by default involves covetousness, lust, idolatry, abuse of God's creation, uncleanness, forbidden fruit, corruption, robbery or theft, unholy covenant and unholy union (evil marriage or soul-tie) etc, all in the act of Fornication. Every other sin or iniquity does not affect the body, except Fornication.

Twice did the children of Israel joined in a party or ritual of idolatry or worshiping idols while Moses was yet their leader in the wilderness journey to the promised land.

◇A.◇ The first time they worshiped idol (golden Calf) in party or rite, only eating and drinking was involved (without fornication) — [Exodus 32:6-9], Only 3,000 of them were killed despite Moses’ Intercession, and God gave them over to worship the host of heaven according to Stephen (Acts 7:40-42). And Paul still called the worship and ritual of eating and drinking, idolatry. As written,

[1 Corinthians 10:7 AFV] — Neither be idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, "The people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play."

◇B.◇ The second time they worshiped idol (Baal) in party or rite, fornication was involved — [Numbers 25:1-6]. 24,000 of them were killed despite Moses’ Intercession, and the killing would have continued had Phinehas not killed one or the remaining leader of Israel among the heads or leaders God told Moses to execute but God's instruction was not fully carried out as this one was remaining and so killing continued until Phinehas killed the last head or prince during sex in fornication. Though Paul mistakenly gave the number of those killed to be 23,000 instead of the 24,000 thousand counted [Numbers 25:9], yet Paul did not call the sin idolatry but called the sin Fornication -[The only Fornication of Israel before Canaan]. As is written,

[1 Corinthians 10:8 AKJV] — Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

Therefore, the ritual party, celebration or carnival, of idolatry may involve:

Sacrifice in which eating and drinking from the cup, vessels, tables or alters, of demons, making something of demons to go into the people's body through partaking in eating or drinking of the sacrifice; or,

Fornication, which also involves joining bodies to the demons by joining to the LovePeddler or Harlot in fornication or sex with fellow human or animals.

Supposing a woman called Jezebel is committing four different sins including: 1. She's a false prophetess claiming to be a prophet, 2. She's doing pastoring/teaching job over the church (when some have problems with women pastoring a Church as Paul had), 3. She's seducing servants of God into eating things sacrificed to idols (demonic unholy communion in idolatry) as she does even in a church, and 4. she's also seducing servants of God into committing fornication as she does. Now, supposing also you as a preacher is only allowed to warn her to repent of one sin alone out of the four or more sins I mentioned Jezebel does: Which of these sins will you warn her to repent from?

Tell her to repent of her fornication rather than telling her to repent of her idolatry, falsehood etc , if you have only one shot at telling Jezebel just one thing to repent of.

[Revelation 2:20-23 AFV] — But I have a few things against you, because you allow the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce My servants into committing fornication and eating things sacrificed to idols. And I gave her time to repent of her fornication, but she did not repent. Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and those who commit adultery with her into great tribulation, unless they repent of their works. And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am He Who searches the reins and hearts; and I will give to each of you according to your works.

(Daniel 5:3 - NKJV) — Then they brought the gold vessels that had been taken from the temple of the house of God which had been in Jerusalem; and the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines drank from them.

(Daniel 5:3 - TLV) — So they brought the gold vessels that were taken out of the Temple of the House of God in Jerusalem, and the king and his nobles, consorts and concubines drank from them.

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THE SOURCE MARK ON SPIRITUAL THINGS

We are looking at these two sentences:

♧1♧ They brought the gold vessels that had been taken from the temple of the house of God which had been in Jerusalem; and,

♧2♧ The king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines drank from them.

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The gold vessels they brought still retained the mark or identity of where they came from — Which is, “Taken from the temple of the house of God in Jerusalem.” Spiritual Treasures have this property of retaining the mark or linkage to their sources where they were taken from, irrespective of the distance/place apart, time apart, or transformation they had undergone. This could be ‘blessing’ or ‘problem’ depending on whether such treasures allow separation from their sources or not, and whether they are used according to their purpose or abused against their purpose and purity.

In the top bible verse above, it sounded like they just brought those gold vessels all the way from the temple in Jerusalem at that very moment, but the said gold vessels have been over 20 years or more in Babylon: Or they were taken from the treasure of a shrine belonging to one of the false gods of Babylon in the land of Shinar as in “Daniel 1:2.” But inspite of those gold vessels were brought from a treasury of a false god located in the land of Shinar after so many years, the vessels of gold were not bearing the mark or source code of coming from a Shrine or Shinar, but still retained and bore the mark and source code of coming from the temple of the house of God in Jerusalem.

Other examples of such instances in support of this spiritual reality about spiritual treasures bearing the mark, source code or identity, of where they were taken from no matter what or where they have been through, include:

A. The Ark of the Covenant being captured, taken from Israel, and kept in the shrine or idol house of Dagon in the land of the Philistines, but still retained the glory, the rules, the sanctification and power it had in its source host [1 Samuel 4, 5].

B. The Rib or Bone God took from the man, Adam, and transformed into a woman, and yet “Woman” forever bears the mark or source code of “Taken out of or from a man.”

C. The Forbidden Fruit already taken or separated from the Forbidden tree, and was in the hand of the woman, and though the man did not take or eat the Forbidden fruit directly from the Forbidden tree, yet wherever he got/saw that fruit it bore it source.

D. Etc.

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The King, his lords/princes, his wives and his concubines drank from the gold vessels taken from the temple of the house of God in Jerusalem. Because those treasures all carry the mark or source code of taken from the temple of the house of God in the city of Jerusalem, what those king, lords, wives and concubines, were doing with those vessels in Babylon is equal to them doing the same thing with them in the temple or house of God in Jerusalem.

And none of these mentioned were Levites, priests, holy or sanctified to do what they did with those vessels bearing such temple of God mark on. The same way it applies that Adam eating the forbidden fruit from the woman's hand is same/equal in offense as if Adam was eating the forbidden fruit from its forbidden tree.

Nothing wrong with a King hosting a banquet or feast for his lords, noblemen or guests as Belshazzar did; Neither is improper for the Ruler to eat and drink with his ministers and subjects. But the King's Presence must overshadow the presence of all at his table. The King's presence must be influencing their table manners more than their presence is influencing the King at the table. Belshazzer was obviously under the influence of the thousand of his lords or noblemen he was hosting with a feast. And this influence on the king was more dangerous than the influence of the wine he drank on the king. Soon, he would give a command to bring the vessels of God's house to please his lords, noblemen, wives, and concubines, by making them available for them to drink with.

I know such influence: It's not the influence of drugs or drinks, but some form of peer pressure or political pressure, influence of class and women. The young, inexperienced, king Belshazzer, trying to please the top echelons of princes and their women.

May you not organize or host a feast, party or event, in which the people you invited, the guest you are hosting, and the publicity you are craving, will overwhelm, influence and pressure you to make decisions you would not have made or say things you would not have said in being yourself.

☆1☆. Don't be like Belshazzar here, under such party and publicity influence, leading him into a pride and desecration in direct mockery of God.

☆2☆. Don't be like Herod, under such party and publicity influence, leading him into beheading John the Baptist, who was sent as forerunner to the greatest Man.

☆3☆. Don't be like Herod, under such party and publicity influence, leading him into receiving the adoration of men calling him a god and not man, before angel killed him.

(Daniel 5:2 - NKJV) — While he tasted the wine, Belshazzar gave the command to bring the gold and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken from the temple which had been in Jerusalem, that the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines might drink from them.

(Daniel 5:2 - GNT) — While they were drinking, Belshazzar gave orders to bring in the gold and silver cups and bowls which his father Nebuchadnezzar had carried off from the Temple in Jerusalem. The king sent for them so that he, his noblemen, his wives, and his concubines could drink out of them.

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Let's go to the Wedding at Cana, when the Lord Jesus Christ turned Water into Wine, not for party pressure or influence even though His hour had not yet come. The way the Chairman of the occasion tasted the Wine the Lord Jesus brewe, and issued a statement to the Groom, so also in the top bible verse above the king, Belshazzar, tasted the wine and issued a statement. The Chairman's statement was about serving the best wine first before the worst, but the king's statement was an order to bring the best and dedicated vessels to serve the wine they drank in the feast.

In both occasions, the vessels for the wine come into play. One of the silent facts in the Best Wine the Lord Jesus brewed was the vessels the Wine was made or served. It was not just about the difference between the wine, but also the difference between their vessels. The Lord Jesus did not turn water into wine in the vessels of wine; rather He turned water into wine in the vessels of water. He did not use the container where wine had been before, nor was the vessels of the old wine used to serve the governor/chairman of the occasion. Both the containers and the cup were for water, not for wine, and yet they became the vessels that served the best wine therein.

Well in that story, we were told the chairman did not know where the wine came from, even though the servers knew where it came from. Knowing where a wine comes from is not just about knowing its source but also knowing the giver and the vessels. Learn this secret about wine and their vessels:
“Wine can damage a wrong vessel, and a wrong vessel can ruin a wine.”

The quality of a wine is not just about its source, ingredients or recipe, but also vessels or packaging/bottling of it. Else, wine and vessel may damage each other. As is written:

[‭Mark 2:22 AMPC] — And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; if he does, the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost and the bottles destroyed; but new wine is to be put in new (fresh) wineskins.

One of the differences between “Oil and Wine” is that oil gains more refined from one container into another but wine loses quality from one container into another. So, the less a wine gets turned or moved from one container (vessel) to another, the better it's.

[Jeremiah 48:11 FBV] — The people of Moab have been living comfortably since the country was founded. They're like wine that hasn't been disturbed, not poured from one container to another. So the taste and fragrance remains the same. They haven't experienced exile.

From the top bible verse above, Belshazzar had ordered that the vessels, which his father (actually grandfather) Nebuchadnezzar had looted from the temple he also destroyed in Jerusalem, to be brought in and used to serve the wine he, his noblemen, his many wives and concubines, would drink. The vessels he was summoning were gold and silver vessels, but were also sacred and dedicated vessels to the Lord God of Israel

(Daniel 5:1 - NKJV) — Belshazzar the king made a great feast for a thousand of his lords, and drank wine in the presence of the thousand.

(Daniel 5:1 - GNT) — One night King Belshazzar invited a thousand noblemen to a great banquet, and they drank wine together.

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See his error in the bible verse above so you don't repeat it: — He hosted the banquet for the thousand of his lords, but he drank in their presence: instead of him to comport in ways for them to drink in his presence, he was the one drinking in their presence. Somehow, this great feast for a thousand lords and their king’s drinking of wine in their presence became their last supper: Not Holy Communion, even though they later used holy vessels or cups from the Lord’s temple to drink of the wine.

When I read this Bible verse above with GNT as expressed above, I became occupied on its use of the word “One Night:” — That would mean the following:
☆1☆ The Last Night of the Kingdom of Babylon,
☆2☆ The Night when the part of silver shall take over the head of gold as in Daniel's interpretation of Nebuchadnezzar's first dream,
☆3☆ The Night for the Handwriting on the Wall: Handwriting on wall comes in nights.
☆4☆ The Night of the last supper or last feasting for a thousand lord and their king.

But beside GNT, no other bible versions (I have) mentioned night in the bible verse above. So, let me walk with what is available in the bible verse above. “Daniel 5” is a special chapter in so ways, particularly in transition of the kingdom and dominion from one kind of people to another kind of people. In today's terms, it's about how existing “World Superpower” was overthrown by unexpected “Rival,” not in battle field but from a banquet feast of wine orgies.

RECOGNIZING THE CHERUBIM BY THEIR FEATURES

(Ezekiel 10:20 - AFV) — These were the living creatures that I saw under the God of Israel by the river Chebar, and I knew that they were cherubim.

(Ezekiel 10:20 - NIV) — These were the living creatures I had seen beneath the God of Israel by the Kebar River, and I realized that they were cherubim.

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Ezekiel recognized them as the same Living Creatures he saw under God by the River Chebar: but more than recognizing them this time, he knew them or realized who they were — “Cherubim.” This means, the first time he saw them by the River Chebar he did not know or realize they were the Cherubim; but now that he saw them by the temple he both recalled seeing them before (by River Chebar) and also understood they were Cherubim, and not just the Living Creatures.

Why couldn't he know they were the Cherubim in the first time he saw them?

It's in the perspective he was viewing or seeing them relatively to seeing God in the visions. In the top bible verse above, he first saw the Living Creatures “Under God” and that means now he saw more clearly by seeing “God above them” — Cherubim.

I know you have not fully understood the difference between the two perspectives, so I explain further: — In “Ezekiel 1,” he first saw the Living Creatures before he saw God - (God was the last Person or Vision he saw by the River Chebar visions), but in these current visions of “Ezekiel 8-11,” he first saw God before seeing the Living Creatures - (God was the first Person or Vision he saw, from his room in captivity). So, therefore: –

☆1☆ — The viewing perspective of the first Visions was “From Bottom to Top”

☆2☆ — The viewing perspective of the current Visions was “From Top to Bottom”

Seeing people under/beneath God is good, but seeing God first before seeing the people above whom God dwells is better perspective that will enable you know those people or things better. For by such views, you will not just see things or people under God, but see the wrung of the ladder, rank, proximity, order in position or hierarchy that further identifies or defines who they are in the presence of God. Seeing the Living Creatures under or beneath God wouldn't give you that because all things or all living creatures are under/beneath God: but viewing from Top to Bottom, those defined them better. That was how he realized they were the Cherubim, by realizing they were the dwelling place of God in closeness. If these Creatures, Beasts, or Winged Creatures, are the dwelling place of the Most High, who does not dwell among animals, creatures or Beasts, except mankind as “Immanuel,” then those Living Creatures are the Cherubim, because Cherubim are the only Beasts or Living Creatures that God dwells among or between or above, them.

Like Ezekiel here, some men have seen some men more than ones before they realized the men they've been seen were angels, and some men have seen angels more than ones before they realized the angel is the Lord Himself or realized who the angels are.

The way I used to see men of God before I really knew or saw the LORD was very different and inadequate for me to really know those men of God, until I began seeing from the Head downwards rather than seeing from the Feet upwards. In viewing His Dwelling Place or Household, Top to Bottom is always a better perspective to view. Even in architecture, top to bottom is better view than its inverted inverse.

Always remember, someone's relative position to the Throne of God holds part of the person's identity or who the person really is: — ID is not just about name, number, etc.

(Ezekiel 10:21 - NKJV) — Each one had four faces and each one four wings, and the likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings.

(Ezekiel 10:21 - NIV) — Each had four faces and four wings, and under their wings was what looked like human hands.

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COUNT THEIR FACES
The number of their faces did not change from how Ezekiel first saw them by the River Chebar. And the first time he saw them, the Face of a Man was the first Face he saw as the leading Face: but currently, the Face of a Cherub was leading face. Nonetheless, their Four Faces are for the Four Cardinal Quadrants of Creations - NEWS.

COUNT THEIR WINGS
The number of their wings in current visions did not change from how Ezekiel first saw them by the River Chebar. The Rabim, identified as Cherubim, have 4 faces and 4 wings, and perhaps 2 hands. There's a tradition that holds the name “Cherubim” to mean or refer to the angels with just two wings, and one face — Typical picture of Angel, having two wings but looking as a man or woman in all physical appearance, is who a Cherub is. Atleast that's the portrait of the cherubim in the Holy of Holies, overshadowing the Mercy Seat and the Ark of the Covenant — Two Wings, One Face, Two Hands, Men. Then, in “Ezekiel 41” Cherubim was portrayed on the walls of the Temple as having — Two Wings, Two Faces. Nonetheless, their Four Wings are for the Four Cardinal Winds of Heaven: North Wind, East Wind, West Wind, South Wind - NEWS

COUNT THEIR HANDS
The number of their wings in current visions did not change from how Ezekiel first saw them by the River Chebar. God does not dwell in temple built by men's hands, but He dwells between Cherubim that have the kind of men's hands.

(Ezekiel 10:22 - NKJV) — And the likeness of their faces was the same as the faces which I had seen by the River Chebar, their appearance and their persons. They each went straight forward.

(Ezekiel 10:22 - NIV) — Their faces had the same appearance as those I had seen by the Kebar River. Each one went straight ahead.

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Recall that he saw one of the four faces as the Face of an Ox by the River Chebar [Ezekiel 1:10], but in the current Visions he was seeing the face he once saw as the Face of Ox now being the Face of a Cherub [Ezekiel 10:14].

Since the Bible verse above equates the resemblance of the faces in current visions to those faces in the visions by River Chebar, even though the face of an Ox was replaced by the face of a Cherub between both visions, therefore it means — The Face of a Cherub is as the Face of an Ox.

BETWEEN THE CHERUBIM, ABOVE THE CHERUBIM & BESIDE THE CHERUBIM

(Ezekiel 10:18 - BSB) — Then the glory of the LORD moved away from the threshold of the temple and stood above the cherubim.

(Ezekiel 10:18 - NIV) — Then the glory of the Lord departed from over the threshold of the temple and stopped above the cherubim.

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While the Glory of the LORD was by the entrance door or threshold of the temple, supposing a man was to guess where next the Glory will go from there, the man would have guessed that the Glory of God would enter inside next. But from the Bible verse above, it was evident that even if the LORD stands at an open door to His temple, His returning to the Cherubim is more likely or attractive to Him than entering His Temple.

Those who seek God in tabernacle, during the old times, addressed Him as “He who dwells between the cherubim,” not He who dwells within the temple/tabernacle. See examples of “He who dwells between the cherubim” in “1 Samuel 4:4.” It was a name or title used address Him like “Your Excellency, Your Majesty:” As written-

[‭II Samuel 6:2 NKJV‬] — And David arose and went with all the people who were with him from Baale Judah to bring up from there the ark of God, whose name is called by the Name, the Lord of Hosts, who dwells between the cherubim.
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[‭I Chronicles 13:6 NKJV‬] — And David and all Israel went up to Baalah, to Kirjath Jearim, which belonged to Judah, to bring up from there the ark of God the Lord, who dwells between the cherubim, where His name is proclaimed.

So, the Lord God may put His name in the temple built by men to Him, but His name is proclaimed as “He who dwells between/above the Cherubim,” not as a name as “He who dwells in a temple or church built by men” because He does not dwell in any house, temple or church, built by men's hands. As it is written,

[Act 7:47-48 BSB]- But it was Solomon who built the house for Him. However, the Most High does not dwell in houses made by human hands. As the prophet says:

So, when you go to temple or church to pray or speak to God, do not address Him as if He dwells in that church/temple; rather address Him as He dwells in heaven, not earth:

[Ecclesiastes 5:1-3 GW] — Watch your step when you go to the house of God. It is better to go there and listen than to bring the sacrifices fools bring. Fools are unaware that they are doing something evil. Don’t be in a hurry to talk. Don’t be eager to speak in the presence of God. Since God is in heaven and you are on earth, limit the number of your words. Daydreaming comes when there are too many worries. Careless speaking comes when there are too many words.

The same Lord Jesus who said where two or three of you are gathered in My Name I'm in your midst, also said, “When you pray, say, “Our Father in heaven…” Address Him as God in heaven, or to be more precise, “God who dwells between or above the Cherubim:” — For no other god, angel or being, dwells between/above the Cherubim

So, to close this lesson, here is a good example of a man who though he went into the Temple or House of God to pray to God, the man/king addressed God as He who dwells between the cherubim (not God who dwells within the temple or house of God).

[Isaiah 37:14-16 AFV] — And Hezekiah received the letter from the courier's hand, and read it. And Hezekiah went up into the house of the LORD and spread it before the LORD. And Hezekiah prayed to the LORD, saying, "O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, Who dwells between the cherubim, You are God, You alone of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made the heavens and the earth.



In the top bible verse above, the glory of God moved away from being just above the Door to the House of God to being above the Throne and the Cherubim. The Glory of God would rather be above the Throne and the Cherubim, than just be above the Temple — For the Throne and the Cherubim are greater than the Temple. Coming to the Throne of God is greater than coming to the house of God.

Angels, especially the Seraphim, stood above the Temple of God in the next bible reference below; and even birds do perch above the temple or house of God as built; but no angel, no Seraphim, no Cherubim, no Satan in temptation of Jesus, ever stands above the Throne and the Cherubim of the Throne, except the LORD God alone.

[Isaiah 6:1-2] — In the year that King Uzziah died, I then saw the LORD sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and His train filled the temple. Above the temple stood the seraphim; each one had six wings; with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew.



(Ezekiel 10:19 - BSB) — As I watched, the cherubim lifted their wings and rose up from the ground, with the wheels beside them as they went. And they stopped at the entrance of the east gate of the house of the LORD, with the glory of the God of Israel above them.

(Ezekiel 10:19 - NIV) — While I watched, the cherubim spread their wings and rose from the ground, and as they went, the wheels went with them. They stopped at the entrance of the east gate of the Lord’s house, and the glory of the God of Israel was above them.

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☆1☆ Once the Cherubim lifted up their wings, they rose or ascended from the ground — they were not even flapping their wings, neither was their wind or storm current — All they needed to do to fly or ascend was to raise their wings or point them up.

☆2☆ The Wheels, having the spirit of the cherubim in them, was always beside them inseparably. Nothing could part between them and the Wheels having their spirit in them, not even height, depth, things present or things to come, could separate them.

That's too much more than I could say transpired between Elijah and Elisha, having the double or twice of the spirit of Elijah, and yet could not go with Elijah when taken up by a chariot into heaven — the same Elisha that swore he would not be parted from following Elijah, but will follow him wherever he goes, but during upward rising above the ground, even the double spirit of Elijah on Elisha could not help Elisha to follow Elijah. Now, therefore, appreciate the reality that the spirit of the cherubim in the Wheels keeps the Wheels unparted from the Cherubim even when they rose upward.

☆3☆ Well, they are not gone yet, for their next stop was the Eastern Gate, done with the Northern gate. The next Chapter, “Ezekiel 11” contains more from the East Gate.

SPIRITUAL SIMULATION

(Ezekiel 10:16 - BSB) — When the cherubim moved, the wheels moved beside them, and even when they spread their wings to rise from the ground, the wheels did not veer away from their side.

(Ezekiel 10:16 - NIV) — When the cherubim moved, the wheels beside them moved; and when the cherubim spread their wings to rise from the ground, the wheels did not leave their side.

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These Living Creatures do not move anyhow, considering what's at stake whenever they move or change position. Their moving or changing position come with equivalent movements or changing in position of gigantic Wheels. This means the Living Creatures were in control of the Wheels, but also means they are in chain with the Wheels: they are both in control and in chain. This "Remote Control."

Imagine a heavy duty truck is tied to your moves: then you are in control but you are not free from the truck because the truck follows you everywhere and you must be careful to also watch out for the truck's own moves and spaces when calculating/making your own moves and rooms. Women who bear the burden of always carrying and caring for a child wherever she goes will understand a little of such burden.

Supposing you forgot the truck that's following you in changing positions in equal and corresponding reaction to your own changes in position, then you ran into a crowded area to greet a friend, the truck too will run after you into the same crowd and cause terrible accident: for your motions are remote controlling the motions of the heavy duty truck, and you cannot cease, pause or put the truck away from repeating your motions in equivalency.

(Ezekiel 10:17 - BSB) — When the cherubim stood still, the wheels also stood still, and when they ascended, the wheels ascended with them, for the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.

(Ezekiel 10:17 - NIV) — When the cherubim stood still, they also stood still; and when the cherubim rose, they rose with them, because the spirit of the living creatures was in them.

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Bond of the living spirit between the cherubim and the Wheels is stronger than the force of gravity and frictions at work. Even when the Cherubim with their wings rise up from the ground, the wheels without wings would still fly or rise by the Cherubim who use wings. Is it natural for wingless wheels to fly against gravity and mount without wings yet as eagles?

You must believe that spirit and affection are strong enough to pull heavy things against gravity in the physical as well as in the spiritual realms. When you are truly joined in spirit and affection to Someone who can fly or ascend, you who can neither fly nor ascend on your own will surely fly or ascend according to your spirit bond to that Person. For us I am referring to Christ, but for the Wheels I am referring to the spirit of the Living Creatures in them. When men vulcanize tyres, they fill the tyres with air; and the air inside the tyres carries the weight of the vehicle and all loads on them. But inside the Wheels are not just air, but the spirit of the living beings.

☆1☆ The spirit of the living creatures was inside the Wheels, but the life of the wheels was inside the living creatures. Even so,

☆2☆ When the Spirit of Christ dwells inside you, your life dwells inside the Christ. You're a member of His Body, but He's your life.

[Colossians 3:2-4] - Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. For you are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall you also appear with Him in glory.

You are seeing one of the ways spiritual "Remote Control" works, between the Living Creatures and the Wheels. Their spirit is inside the Wheels, and that alone is the "Simulation" that remote controls the Wheels. It was not microchip, but spirit behind this simulation.

So imagine God sitting on the Throne, and the Throne on those high and gigantic Wheels, do you think the Living Creatures will mistakenly move around knowing their movement will pull those Wheels which may pull the Throne of God without His Will to move? How much standing at attention, at a point, like a tree, do you suppose these Living Creatures endure whenever they have to keep these Wheels steady on one spot?

These are Escorts to the Most High, and they have some of the greatest endurance and discipline to be who they are to the Almighty God.

[Ezekiel 1:21 AKJV] — "When those went, these went; and when those stood, these stood; and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels."

When you fall others connected with you will fall also, when you stand others connected with you will stand also, when you go up others connected with you will go up too. So whether you know it or not, you are leading others connected with you in whatever you do or go. This is more real in the spiritual.

AS THEIR FACES AS DIFFERENT

(Ezekiel 10:14 - BSB) — Each of the cherubim had four faces: the first face was that of a cherub, the second that of a man, the third that of a lion, and the fourth that of an eagle.

(Ezekiel 10:14 - FBV) — Each of them had four faces: the first face was a cherub's face, the second a man's face, the third a lion's face, and the fourth an eagle's face.

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Some people have said or used these words: — “As our faces are different, so are our needs/problems.” But such words may not be used or true for the Cherubim of glory. These have different faces, but are in perfect sync and perfect harmony. As it happens among these Living Creatures where the Throne of God dwells, I hereby point out where we are moving to as chosen people when Throne of God dwells among us:

☆1☆ We are moving away from ‘As our faces are different, so are our needs different,’ and are moving to attain “Our faces are different, but our needs are the same.”

☆2☆ We are moving away from “As our faces are different, so does our minds vary,” and are moving to attain “Our faces are different, but we have the same mind.”

☆3☆ We are moving away from “As our races/kindreds are different, so are our bonds or boundaries different,” and are moving to attain “Our races/kindreds are different, but we are in one same Body and Bond.”

☆4☆ We are moving away from “As some of us face North, some face South, some face East, and some face West, so are some of us from the North (Northerners), some of us from the South (Southerners), some of us from the East (Easterner), and some of us from the West (Westerners),” and are moving to attain “Some of us face North, some of us face South, some of us face East, some of us face West, and yet we all come from, and go to, same direction irrespective of where we face.”

In the top bible verse above, the Cherubim had attained all these destinations with different faces, different races and different traces, for the Throne. They are proofs that the harmonization and unification of very different kinds of living beings are feasible and glorious. They are evidence that Heads can join together, hands can join together, feet can join together, and that living creatures and machines can join as one.

When you said to other men, “Let's join heads together,” you did not mean literally. But in these Cherubim, there is literally joining of heads together as one without losing each individual's face in the union. Your face is your unique identity, just as your name and unique number peculiar to you in glory.

To us, the divers Faces of these Living Creatures are illustration of the divers Facets of the Living Creator God. He reveals His divers Facets to different people, and yet all aspects/facets of God perfectly fits together in who He is. Even the Back Side of God, which Moses saw, is not His Blindside but a Facet of God which Moses was called to attend to in His Ministry. The Presence of God is not just about His Front Side, but also include His Right Hand Side, His Left Hand Side and His Rear or Back Side.

I agree with these Living Creatures, to never back any side of God's Manifest Presence; but to always be Facing any side of God that's made Manifest, no matter where or what one is doing. That's a meaning of doing all things to God, by facing or focusing on God while doing all things. Do no back Him, but always Face Him — These Living Creatures have the capacity to always do this; for they are never backing the Living God, but always Facing the Living God and yet facing all things around them.

(Ezekiel 10:15 - BSB) — Then the cherubim rose upward. These were the living creatures I had seen by the River Kebar.

(Ezekiel 10:15 - FBV) — Then the cherubim rose up in the air. They were the beings I'd seen beside the River Kebar.

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While Ezekiel watched these “Watchers full of Eyes,” the Watchers or Cherubim were lifted up or they ascended up and were just hanging in the mid air. They did this even without the Head or God sitting on over them yet. God was by the entrance door or threshold of the temple, but wherever the glory of God was He could still “Remote Control” or “Ride” the living creatures with His Face and Body-Language. Therefore, the fact that the Cherubim suddenly rose upward, mounting up like eagles but without a storm, means the Face or Body-Language of God remotely controlled them to do so, because they only move and go where the Head is Facing or where the Spirit would go.

Also, in this bible verse above, Ezekiel equalized these Cherubim he saw by the temple in Jerusalem to the Rabim he saw by the River Chebar in Babylon. The Living Creatures could be seen anywhere whether by a River or by a Temple, or in the Heavens as John.

But saying they are the same even when your details about them varied slightly, should both raise and quell a concern: — In the immediate or preceding Bible verse to this one above, Ezekiel described their four faces thus: (1) Cherub’s Face, (2) Man's Face, (3) Lion's Face, and (4) Eagle's Face [Ezekiel 10:14]. But these differ in outline from how he described their faces as seen by the River Chebar thus: (1) Man's Face, (2) Lion's Face, (3) Ox's Face, and (4) Eagle's Face [Ezekiel 1:10]. So, unless the Face of a Cherub is as the Face of an Ox, the Cherub's Face replaced the Ox's Face in this second appearance of the same Living Creatures.

Therefore, I teach you to know the Living Creatures by their spirits and functions to the Throne of God, and not just by their appearances in visions or occasions. Their outward appearances or features may come differently, conflicting some things you think you already know about them as security measures: for those who are highly trained in Security Discipline understand the importance of being “Unpredictable,” as in, always changing their operandi, always changing their passcode and their features.

In the scriptures, no man has seen them twice in different occasions and fully gave the same descriptions of them:

☆1☆ Ezekiel saw the Rabim as “Living Creatures” - Having Four Wings and Four Faces — But the first or leading face he saw then to them was the Face of a Man. Since Man’s face was the leading Face, the Rabim were just called ‘Living Creatures.’

☆2☆ Ezekiel, again saw the Rabim as but as “Cherubim” - Having Four Wings and Four Faces — But the first or leading face he saw then to them was that of a Cherub. Since Cherub’s face was the leading Face, the Rabim were just called “Cherubim.”

☆3☆ John, [in Revelation 4:6-8] saw the Rabim as but as “Beasts” - Having Six Wings (not four) and One Face each (not four) — But the first or leading face he saw then to them was that of a Lion. Since Lion's face was the leading Face, the Rabim were just called “Beasts.”

In all of these appearances of the Rabim, the Eagle's Face had always been the last or fourth Face but not the least, and the most variable Face is the face of an Ox, which changed to appear as a face of a Cherub, and changed to appear as a face of a Calf. Ezekiel saw them on earth with four wings, but John saw them in heaven with six wings

(Ezekiel 10:11 - TS2009) — When they went, they went on their four sides; they did not turn aside when they went, but went in the direction the Head was facing. They did not turn aside when they went.

(Ezekiel 10:11 - GNT) - When the creatures moved, they could go in any direction without turning. They all moved together in the direction they wanted to go, without having to turn around.

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These special Cherubim, Rabim, are Living Creatures that do not turn to face anywhere because they are always facing everywhere everytime. They do not have “Turn-Aside” or “Blindside.” They could go everywhere without turning away from anywhere: this means they neither gain nor lose direction in all their movements.

According to the top Bible verse above, wherever direction the Head (God) turns to face, there the Living Creatures move in (without turning). The Face of God while riding them directs their movements, but does not direct their faces.

The usefulness of these in the days to come would include, when neither sun, stars, climes, nor landmarks, exist to indicate the four cardinal quarters (North, East, South, West), the Faces of the never turning Cherubim will tell each from the others, while movements of the Cherubim at any time will tell the direction the Head, God, is facing.

A direction does not cease to exist just because God is not facing that direction. For God had ordained Beings that always face every direction even when they are not traveling or walking that direction. These beings are not trees or static in one place, but are Living Creatures that move as the greatest “Vectors” God made with directions


(Ezekiel 10:12 - TS2009) — And their entire bodies, and their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels that the four had, were covered with eyes all around. [13] The wheels were called in my hearing, “Wheel.”

(Ezekiel 10:12 - GNT) - Their bodies, backs, hands, wings, and wheels were covered with eyes. [13] I heard a voice calling out, “Whirling wheels.”

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To make them face all four directions all the time, they were made to have four faces for all four directions; but to make them face all things all the time, they were made to be full of, and covered with, eyes, including their Wheels that are all covered with eyes. To see all things requires far more eyes than is required to see all directions.

A man has just two eyes that barely see everything visible in front of him, and yet the man is more distracted by the very little he is able and he loses more focus by just his two fleshy eyes than a full of uncountable number of eyes that see everything around them and yet are never distracted nor ever lost focus. Imagine the capacity of data such seeing beings have to process each time in lightning superfast speed.

Their entire bodies, backs, hands, wings and wheels, being covered with eyes also means they do not need clothing for covering anymore. Any clothing they put on over their eyes will be a veil covering their eyes. Men on earth wear eyeglasses, especially as recommended by their optometrist doctors; but in the Heavens, veils are removed from the eyes including eyeglasses being cast away from men's eyes just as scales fell off Paul's eyes in the day he was delivered from blindness.

When Adam and Eve had their eyes opened by the forbidden tree, they realized they were naked because by opening their eyes they had shut (closed) their more seeing eyes to open their carnal eyes. It's like when a man is dreaming with his eyes closed but seeing things in another realm of consciousness, and then he suddenly wakes up with his eyes opened in the natural reality but no longer seeing the things he saw.

Opened Eyes are glorious covering or clothing on those Living Creatures, like Body Cameras. People say eyes are delicate organs in the body that must be tendered and cared for; but I tell you that in the bodies and wheels of the Living Creatures that mann the Throne of God, Eyes are stronger than Steel even as the Wheels are.

In man, if your eye is single (pure) your whole body is full of light as clothing of brightness; but in those Living Creatures, their whole eyes are single (pure) and their whole body is full of eyes, and not just light. No Palace, Place or Power, has been so endowed with ornaments of so much eyes, lenses or cameras, as the Throne of God in the Protocol of these Living Creatures.


(Ezekiel 10:13 - TS2009) — The wheels were called in my hearing, “Wheel.”

(Ezekiel 10:13 - GNT) — I heard a voice calling out, “Whirling wheels.”

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The Wheels are called by their given name, “Wheel.” That's their name, and who they are. They are Wheel, not Wind, even though they do whirling as wind, they are wheel: called them “Whirl-Wheel” rather than “Whirl-wind.”

They have spirits, they have eyes, they have name by which they are addressed. Though they have no wings, yet they fly beside the cherubim with wings.

LESSONS FROM THE WHEELS

(Ezekiel 10:9 - NKJV) — And when I looked, there were four wheels by the cherubim, one wheel by one cherub and another wheel by each other cherub; the wheels appeared to have the color of a beryl stone.

(Ezekiel 10:9 - NIV) - I looked, and I saw beside the cherubim four wheels, one beside each of the cherubim; the wheels sparkled like topaz.

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From this Bible verse above, I will substantiate three things about the Wheels: Their Number, their Harmony and their Purity. By the way, the Wheels are the Rollers or Tyres on which the Throne of God may sit on to move like “Wheel-Chair” or be mobile.

The NUMBERS OF THE WHEELS

The Wheels are countable, not uncountable: There were four of them. But even this number, 4, may be seen as 8, in the next top bible verse after this one above. This is because each of the four Wheels are basically 2-in-1, as in Wheel in Wheel. Talk later.

The HARMONY OF THE WHEELS

Wheels or Tyres in a vehicle usually maintain harmony called “Wheel Alignment and Balance” which is also a synchronization to make all the wheels be in relative harmony. But unlike how man made vehicles, trucks, barrows or carts are made with something that serves as “Aisle” to hold and control the wheels in the harmony; The Wheels in the top bible verse above has nothing like an Aisle or there is no connection between one Wheel to another of the Four Wheels. The Wheels are not interconnected with themselves, and yet they were always in perfect harmony, perfect alignment, balancing and in perfect sync with themselves without visible joint or connection amidst them.

Thus is how it worked: — Non of the Four Wheels is interconnected with one another, but rather each of the four Wheels is directly connected and loyal to one of the four Cherubim. One Wheel to one Cherub: and yet all the Wheels worked together in sync and perfect harmony with the others, without dealing with the others in the business.

Their perfect harmony was not achieved by imitating, copying, pleasing or following their neighbor or their fellow Wheels; rather their perfect harmony came by their full loyalty, devotion and obedience to their different commanders, which were, Cherubim. It's like when well trained platoons of Soldiers are in marching parade, and all the platoons are marching in sync or harmony: No soldier is in harmony with the others by looking at them or doing what the others are doing, but rather all soldiers are synced by being focused, attentive and obedient to the voice of the parade commander. But we the church are breaking ranks and out of order or harmony because we are paying attention to the people we shouldn't be paying attention to, and not paying attention to our right and proper Instructors. The Wheels were in order because each one knows the voice of Its Instructor among the Four Cherubim; and the Cherubim too were in order and harmony with them, not by taking instructions one another, but by attention to and instructions from, the Spirit, God. So, in overall, the whole Tree is in harmony.

The PURITY OF THE WHEELS

The makeup of the Wheels is linked to a precious stone called “Beryl,” which is a rare gem that is colorless when it's 100% percent pure. The presence of any speck of impurity in a Beryl would make the Beryl to have or change color. So, to achieve any color you want from a Beryl, just add the right amount of impurity, defilement or dirt into the crystal or mixture of the Beryl. Topaz too is like Beryl — both are colorless and crystal clear when there is no speck or atom of impurity in them. That's substance the Wheels were built with — Beryl — Colorless and Clear Crystal of high preciousity



(Ezekiel 10:10 - NKJV) — As for their appearance, all four looked alike—as it were, a wheel in the middle of a wheel.

(Ezekiel 10:10 - NIV) - As for their appearance, the four of them looked alike; each was like a wheel intersecting a wheel.

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From this Bible verse above, the appearance of the Four Wheels in further detailed in a way that prompted recounting the numbers of the Wheels from 4 officially, to 8 fragmentally. Let me just discuss this under a subheading I will called:

TRINITY OF EACH WHEEL AMONG THE FOUR WHEELS

Each of the 4 Wheels is Triune or has trinity — Three in One:

☆1☆ — The Wheel that Runs along One Axis inside the Wheel — Let's call it “X-Axis Wheel”

☆2☆ — The Wheel that Runs Perpendicular Axis inside the Wheel also — Let's call it “Y-Axis Wheel” — Because of the Perpendicular Wheel (Spare Tyre), the Wheel does not have to turn left or right to change direction, but will just activate the Perpendicular Wheel that always faces the direction and then runs it without turning.

☆3☆ — The Spirit of the Cherub that commands, steers or connects the Wheel is inside the Wheel also — There's the spirit of the cherubim in his wheel.

[Ezekiel 10:17 BSB] — When the cherubim stood still, the wheels also stood still, and when they ascended, the wheels ascended with them, for the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.

LIGHT BEARER — FIRE TRANSMITTER

(Ezekiel 10:7 - AMP) — Then a cherub stretched out his hand from between the cherubim to the fire that was between [the four of] them, and took some [of it] and put it into the hands of the man clothed in linen, who took it and departed.

(Ezekiel 10:7 - NIV) - Then one of the cherubim reached out his hand to the fire that was among them. He took up some of it and put it into the hands of the man in linen, who took it and went out.

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Fire is one of the wonderful things God made in ways that it does diminish by sharing. Take some fire from fire does not reduce the remaining fire, unlike some water or oil. The wise virgins would not share their Oil with the other virgins because the Oil they had was such that cannot endure sharing, lest it runs out. But instead of sharing to diminish true Fire, sharing rather multiplies the true Fire. A little fire is great matter.

In the bible above, sharing true Fire was well demonstrated to us:

☆1☆ — The four dwellers in the Presence of God always have the Fire in them and in their all the time, and that Fire that never dies nor quenches: Always in His Presence.

☆2☆ — A man clothed in linen came by seeking to get some of the glorious Fire to take to where such Fire is absent but needed more: He’s the Evangelist here, willing to take the Fire from the Throne out of the Temple where glory of God was saturated, into the streets and city outside the church or temple, to spread the Fire and glory to other places. This is outreach or reaching out. Though lots were going on or happening in the church/Temple, with God manifestly doing wonders and glories, the Evangelist was thinking about his mission, his field outside the temple or church venue, those he marked with his pen for saving or for escape out there, and he wasn't even going to wait till the end of the wonderful session of things God was doing in the temple church

☆3☆ — The Cherubim were busy playing the music sounds with their wings, and were key players in the ongoing session in the church premises, but yet because of the urgency of the Evangelist, who was standing by and without saying a word already sent his urgency signals - the cherubim understood their music was keeping him in church. Therefore, one of the Cherubim in the midst of playing the sounds with their wings, stretched out his hand through their to take some of the Fire, and gave the Fire he took to the Evangelist clothed in linen.

☆4☆ — Behold the miracle of multiplication of the Fire that began to happen from there: The Cherub used one hand to take some of the Fire, but by the time the Cherub would give the Fire he took with one hand to the Angel/Evangelist clothed in linen, the man clothed in linen needed two hands to receive/hold the Fire: thus he used 2 hands.

☆5☆ — As soon as the Evangelist received, he went out without waiting for sharing the grace in fellowship — he went with the Fire to reach out or evangelize and spread the Fire he was bearing. He was not just a Light-bearer, but Fire/Power Transmitter.

☆6☆ — Yes, that Fire he was transmitting was like electricity power transmission because that Fire from the Cherubim was basically a source of lightning: Written —

[Ezekiel 1:13 GW] — The living creatures looked like burning coals and torches. Fire moved back and forth between the living creatures. The fire was bright, and lightning came out of the fire.

☆7☆ — Therefore, that Fire that grew from one hand to two hands would eventually grow into becoming enough for the entire city, and in terms of wattage, I estimate the Fire to be exceeding 100,000 Megawatts of electricity.

(Ezekiel 10:8 - AMP) — Beneath their wings the cherubim seemed to have [something in] the form of a man’s hand.

(Ezekiel 10:8 - NIV) - (Under the wings of the cherubim could be seen what looked like human hands.)

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The hands of the Cherubim look like a man's hands, not a man's hands look like the hands of the Cherubim. The hands of Apes or some Monkeys may look like a man's hands, but a man's hands do not look like the hands of Apes or Monkeys.

In the bible verse above, the Cherubim have a man's hands under their wings. Behold, their wings were not under their man's hands; rather their man's hands were under their wings. Their hands are subject to their wings, and they had to lift up their wings before they could wave their hands or even do certain things with those hands.

Yes, Wings rank higher than hands of a man among the Living Creatures in the Heavens. And they subdue more with their Wings than with their hands. And, even the Wind would come under their Wings to exalt them in flight above. Nevertheless, they could still make their hands and their wings to move as one or join together.

Remember, though they have man's hands, yet when the scriptures says that God does not dwell in temple built by men's hands, that does not include the man's hands the cherubim. Their man's hands are not of men, but of God.

SATURATION: See what may have triggered the Temple's Cloudy Saturation

(Ezekiel 10:5 - AKJV) — And the sound of the cherubims' wings was heard even to the outer court, as the voice of the Almighty God when He speaks.

(Ezekiel 10:5 - NKJV) - And the sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard even in the outer court, like the voice of Almighty God when He speaks.

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Let me quickly drop this here before proceeding: “God has shown that even the courts outside the temple are as important as the space within the temple.” Now having made the point, let's proceed: — The Cherubim were in the inner court, and yet even from the outer court the sound of their wings was so audible and loud like the voice of the Almighty God when He speaks outloud. To relate the reach of the sound of their wings and the reach of the cloud of glory from the Lord: — With their wings in harmony they played music sounds that glorified God, and being glorified the glory of God filled everywhere with bright cloud or atmosphere of glory. Similar things were done by Priests/Levites choirs, as Cherubim here were doing, but in east side:

[‭II Chronicles 5:12-14] — and the Levites who were the singers, all those of Asaph and Heman and Jeduthun, with their sons and their brethren, stood at the east end of the altar, clothed in white linen, having cymbals, stringed instruments and harps, and with them one hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets— indeed it came to pass, when the trumpeters and singers were as one in harmony, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the Lord, and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised the Lord, saying: “For He is good, For His mercy endures forever,” that the house, the house of the Lord, was filled with a cloud, so that the priests could not continue ministering because of the cloud; for the glory of the Lord filled the house of God.

However, we must take the starting point backwards to include the outpouring of wrath or satisfaction of the wrath of God, which is judgment done in the house of God, as the foundation for the glory of God filling the temple in and out with cloud of glory. I am illustrating another similar or related event, which I will reference below. The glory of God would not celebrate that way if there was still shame or wrath in the temple or house of God. So even if all the choirs in the world play music and sing with all they have, if there's abomination or wrath of God in the house of God, the glory of God will not fill the house of God with the cloud of glory.

Inside heaven, the temple inside heaven, was a house of God where they stored sacred and Holy food, drinks and liquids. But interesting things the angels were also storing inside the temple inside heaven were plagues (pestilences/illness) like some kind of dangerous acid: — Why store such things as the wrath of God in bowls, plagues or illnesses inside the holy|sacred temple? And as soon as those seven angels with those plagues came out of the temple, one of the Cherubim or Rabim also brought seven bowls containing wrath of God from the Throne and gave them to the seven angels of plagues. That is not my point, but that upon all the music sounds and praises around the temple by angels, yet the glory of God did not saturate the temple in heaven with the cloud or smoke of glory, until the bowls containing the Wrath of God was removed from the Throne and the plagues removed from the temple in heaven to be poured out on the earth to satisfy God's wrath: Then the temple in heaven became saturated with cloud or smoke of the glory of God to degrees that no one could go into the Temple.

[b][‭Revelation 15:5-8] - After this I looked, and I saw in heaven the temple-that is, the tabernacle of the covenant law-and it was opened. Out of the temple came the seven angels with the seven plagues. They were dressed in clean, shining linen and wore golden sashes around their chests. Then one of the four cherubim gave to the seven angels seven golden bowls filled with the wrath of God, who lives forever and ever. And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God and from His power; no one could enter the temple until the seven plagues of the seven angels were completed.

(Ezekiel 10:6 - AKJV) — And it came to pass, that when he had commanded the man clothed with linen, saying, Take fire from between the wheels, from between the cherubim; then he went in, and stood beside the wheels.

(Ezekiel 10:6 - NKJV) - Then it happened, when He commanded the man clothed in linen, saying, “Take fire from among the wheels, from among the cherubim,” that he went in and stood beside the wheels.

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He had commanded the linen clothed man/angel to go take fire “Between the Wheels” but the linen clothed man went and stood “Beside the Wheels.” Is between the wheels the same as beside the wheels? Is the word take sounding as stand? Why couldn't the man clothed in linen able to reach between the wheels and take the fire himself when he got there?

Now recall the bible reference from “Revelation 15” I cited under the preceding Bible verse, and recall that the seven angels that came out of the temple in heaven with plagues were like this man all clothed in linen, and all assigned to get some things from the Throne and to pour them on earth lands. But with this experience here, the cherubim in Revelation 15 just prepared and packaged the stuff for them in bowls so that the seven angels clothed in linen would not have to come and stand waiting like this one is doing in the top bible verse above.

But notice also how this Bible verse above, in repeating the Lord’s instruction to the man clothed in linen, changed or replaced the use of the word “Coal of Fire” as God said it to him with just “Fire” as this Bible verse above rephrased it. So, it now sounds like he was commanded to take fire between the wheels and pour or scatter the fire in the city, not like Sodom under fire, but like Elijah sent to bring fire to the city's streets.

(Ezekiel 10:3 - AKJV) — Now the cherubim stood on the right side of the house, when the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court.

(Ezekiel 10:3 - NKJV) - Now the cherubim were standing on the south side of the temple when the man went in, and the cloud filled the inner court.

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One translation said the Cherubim were standing on the right side of the temple and another said they were standing on the south side of the temple: Both are correct. The temple as built by Solomon had its Front view/elevation in the east, rear view in the west, left view in the north and right view in the south. Recall that those men worshiping the sun in the east were backing or had their backs toward the temple.

Just as the space inside the House/Temple had “Outer Room” and “Inner Room,” so also the Premises of the House/Temple had “Outer Court” and “Inner Court.” So when the man clothed in linen went to were he was sent to the Cherubim, he left God in the outer court and entered the inner court, right side, where the Cherubim, the Wheels and the Throne, were. And the Cloud that filled the inner court was of the glory of God there ahead of him even though he left God behind to enter the inner court: God is everywhere. And the cloud already filled the inner court, or he walked into the cloud.

Don't forget that in the Holy of Holies towards the west side of the temple, there were portraits of Cherubim covering a Mercy seat with two wings. But the Real Cherubim do not cover the Throne, which is also above them and not under their covering wings; The real Cherubim were in the inner court at the right side, and the glory of God on them filled the inner court with cloud without rain of water, but cloud of glory.



(Ezekiel 10:4 - AKJV) — Then the glory of the LORD went up from the cherub, and stood over the threshold of the house; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of the LORD's glory.

(Ezekiel 10:4 - NKJV) - Then the glory of the Lord went up from the cherub, and paused over the threshold of the temple; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of the Lord’s glory.

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Then again the glory of the Lord God went up from the Cherubim and stood again by the entrance door of the House in front/east side, now within the outer court. This time, the glory of God was releasing cloud of glory into the Temple Room and cloud of brightness into the outer court.

☆1☆ Whenever I see the Lord God Himself doing this, I feel He is performing Priestly to His Temple or to His Creation by releasing glorious cloud and atmosphere over and within them. Men as priests do similar thing by releasing incense smoke to fill a space.

☆2☆ Again, the manifest glory of the Lord God went up from the Cherubim to skip the fence and the door instead of entering or exiting through the door. Recall the reason He had to avoid the use of the door in such manifest Glory, as I explained in my writing under “Ezekiel 9:3.” And to get the cloud into the Temple, the glory of God stood by the entrance of the door in a manner for the cloud to enter through the door while He would not Himself enter through the door with His manifest Glory.

☆3☆ As it was then, the Holy of Holies, which was supposed to be the head source for the glory or cloud became the tail, while the opposite direction was the source. Sometimes in crusade or gathering, the Lord may start from any angles or direction.

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(Ezekiel 10:1 - AKJV) - Then I looked, and, behold, in the firmament that was above the head of the cherubim there appeared over them as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne.

(Ezekiel 10:1 - AMP) - Then I looked, and behold, in the expanse (firmament) that was over the heads of the cherubim there appeared something [glorious and brilliant] above them looking like a [huge] sapphire stone, formed to resemble a throne.

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Remember we already saw that visions of God usually come in sequential phases, such as first comers, second comers, third… etc of more appearances or unveilings as one continues to see what is already revealed in the visions or dreams. In the bible verse above, a fresh vision or appearance happened, revealing a Throne above the firmament that was above the Cherubim. Though the Throne had been there all along the time the glory of God was there, the Throne did not manifest in the vision until this time when It appeared and was having the appearance of a Sapphire Stone. Now do learn these:

☆1☆ The Sapphire Stone appearance of the Throne means the Throne was blueish in coloration - [You may read my commentary on “Ezekiel 1:26” - www.peterch.org]. Sometimes you look up into the heavens and see it's blueish, but if you travel through space you hardly see what particularly makes it blueish.

☆2☆ The Firmament of the Cherubim is not the same as firmament of this space or physical heaven. Rather the firmament of the third heaven possessed the firmament of the second heaven in these revelations and visions. This second firmament is called ‘Open Heaven’ but a Firmament of the Cherubim is called “Opened Heaven” to man.

☆3☆ The reason the Throne was hidden before but suddenly appeared now is has something to do with the report the man (angel) clothed in linen gave, saying, “I have done or completed Your (the Lord’s) command.” In other words, when Judgment is restored to the house of God the Throne of God will be restored to the house of God. The Throne of God does not dwell where the Judgment of God is lacking. This’ because — Righteousness and Justice (Judgment) is the Foundation or Base of the Throne.

It was easier for the Glory of God and His angels to appear or dwell in place lacking judgment than for the Throne of God to be there. So do not just seek the glory of God or the power of God, rather seek the Throne, which is also called the Kingdom of God and It's Righteousness and Justice (Judgment). The Church and the Temple have been given the power and glory of God when the Spirit of God was given Her; but it's about time for the Throne of God to be given to Her when the Judgment of God begins in Her.

Don't forget these three things that are highly precious but are “Hard to get” because they are not seen or found everywhere: Their being selective makes them uncommon

A. The Throne of God —Which does not show or dwell anywhere unless there is Righteousness and Justice/Judgment there.

B. The Tree of Life —Which is even more selective than the Throne is in being hard to get: this is because the Throne where righteousness & justice reigns, even if there are sinners or unrighteous people there - after all, it's on the Throne the Lord will judge sinners, provided righteousness & justice thrive there. But the Tree of Life will not even show up in a place where righteousness and justice/judgment dwell as long as there is still a fraction of sinner there. The Throne is against the sins, not against the sinners; but the Tree of Life is against both the sins and sinners for ever. In protest, the Tree of Life will never again show up on this earth no matter whether its millennial reign of Christ and righteousness, but the Tree of Life don't want the ground or soil where even the dead sinners were buried. So for the Tree of Life to show, this earth must be destroyed and a new earth brought where righteousness dwells and no sinner.

C. The Queen Bride of the Lamb as the City, New Jerusalem —She's as the Tree of Life, but in addition she does not even the Sunlight to exist in her space or any light or lamp that is from outside Her. All light that touches Her or reveals Her must come from within Her, not light from outside shining on her. And yet, She's the Light of the World to Come, while God and the Lamb are the Source of Her Light within Her. Moreover, She would not even have a Temple or no pastors will build a Church Building, Auditorium or Cathedral, within Her City walls - She's the House of God and men — for in Her, the House of God must not be separate or different from the house of men. That's full meaning of “The Tabernacle of God is with Men.” [Revelation 21:9-27].

Is a husband's house different from his wife's house? Or is a father's house different from the children's house? Even if they were different in heaven and on earth before, they shall not be different in Her.

(Ezekiel 10:2 - AKJV) — And He spoke to the man clothed with linen, and said, “Go in between the wheels, even under the cherub, and fill your hand with coals of fire from between the cherubim, and scatter them over the city.” And he went in in my sight.

(Ezekiel 10:2 - AMP) - And the Lord spoke to the man (seventh angel) clothed in linen and said, “Go between the whirling wheels under the cherubim; fill your hands with coals of fire from between the cherubim and scatter them over the city.” And he entered as I watched. [Rev 8:5]

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Interesting! Rarely do you find the Throne of God empty without anyone sitting on it like in this scenario. I remember a brother who usually say, “God is on the Throne” as a way of giving assurance that all will be well. But literally in this Bible verse above, God was not on the Throne, and yet He sent a man or angel to the Throne to take some things from a treasury under the Throne.

The Throne of God is not like a sit of Power that you say doesn't allow vacuum/vacancy: no one can even sit on the Throne if God was not there. And not only on the Seat of God, but in the entire heaven no man can sit on another man's seat even if man for whom the seat is has not yet come to heaven. So whether absent or not, seats are reserved. Some untaught people on earth do not see anything wrong sitting on seats meant for kings, chiefs or highest ranking person in office in their absence. They will say, “The person is not around, so let me sit and when he comes I will stand up.” But in heaven, you dare not even sit on a higher rank person's seat in his absence, let alone try to sit on God's Throne when He's not sitted. Don't act like Reuben going into his father's couch in his father's absence.

Now in the bible verse above, God Himself sent the angel or man clothed in linen to go fill his hands with coals of fire from between the cherubim and between the wheels under the Throne of God who was some distance from the Throne. It's like sending a messenger to go underneath boss's office, desk, vehicle, etc, while the PA and special purpose Guards in charge are their as their duty post. Some PAs, managers, secretary or escorts, will not still that messenger to enter that corner or room to get what the boss sent the messenger to get even if they are sure the boss truly sent the messenger especially because the messenger described accurately the exact position and content of the said thing, which is a password or code secret that the boss truly sent him/her. They will rather ask the messenger to wait outside and then will go inside themselves and get those things and then hand them out to the messenger instead of allowing the messenger to go inside and get them irrespective of how the boss instructed the message.

So you see how the Lord God instructed the man clothed in linen to go get his hands filled with coals of fire, and gave him the secret location of the coals as passcode, yet by the time the man or angel gets to the Throne, the Cherubim would not allow him to go in or even take the coals by himself; rather they will get the coals and give him.

When some angels were sent by God to cherubim manning the garden of Eden to get some treasures out of the garden and give them to Adam and Eve, the cherubim allowed them to go in and get them. But the case was different with the cherubim manning the Throne of God. That's supposed to be the most highly secured place that not even Angels on errands can come near to touch Throne even though God sent the angels. Wherever the Throne goes, the Cherubim as escort must go, wherever the Rabim go, the Wheels will go: because the spirits of the cherubim is in the Wheels. Telling the man clothed in linen to go get coals of fire from the wheels is sending him to where the spirits were. So one of the Cherub will by his hand get the coals and give them to the angel in linen according to “Ezekiel 10:6-7.”

COALS OF FIRE

In “Isaiah 6:6-7” one of the Seraphim took a coal from the altar before the Lord, and touched the lips of Isaiah and therefore cleansed/purged him therewith. In “Revelation 8:5,” an angel fill a censer with coals of fire and poured out the same throughout the earth. And here the man clothed in linen is to cast handful of the coals of fire from the wheels throughout the city. This was for the purification of the city.

THE EVILS FROM AND THE EVIL COMMUNICATION THAT BEGAT THEM

[‭Ezekiel 9:9 NKJV] — Then He said to me, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is full of bloodshed, and the city full of perversity; for they say, ‘The Lord has forsaken the land, and the Lord does not see!’

[Ezekiel 9:9 BSB] — He replied, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great. The land is full of bloodshed, and the city is full of perversity. For they say, ‘The LORD has forsaken the land; the LORD does not see.’
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Should I say the reason the inquity of the house of Israel and Judah became exceedingly great, the reason the land became full of bloodshed, and the reason city became full of perversity, was all because the Lord acted/appeared like He had long forsaken the land and was acting like He does not see what were going on for long?

Or I should I say the reason why the inquity of the house of Israel and Judah became exceedingly great, the reason the land became full of bloodshed, and the reason city became full of perversity, was all because the people were telling themselves or saying that the Lord has forsaken the land and He does not see what were going on the land?

While the Lord’s seeming or acting distant, silent, hidden, blind or oblivion, has its own contribution too, it is men's misinformation and misapplication of God's seeming or acting distant, silent, hidden, blind or oblivion, that usually seduced or corrupted the men. That's the basic example of “Evil Communication Corrupts Good Manners.”

Here are few examples of such evil communications (wrong doctrines, misinformation, lies, deceptions etc.) about the Lord God that corrupts (decays, seduces or backslides) men who uphold them.

☆1☆ In the bible verse above, the evil communication that corrupted or seduced the community of believers among the house of Israel and Judah was the doctrines or beliefs that “the Lord had forsaken the land” and “The Lord does not see.” This in turn subtly turned those men with such ideologies into workers of iniquity, the land they say God had forsaken became full of bloodshed, and the city/society in perversity.

☆2☆ In Luke 12:45, the evil communication that corrupted or seduced the servants of the Lord among the community of believers was the doctrines or beliefs that “the Lord delays His return” and “The Lord will take far too long before returning.” This in turn subtly turned those servants with such ideologies into self-serving, wicked or negligent at feeding the house of the Lord God with the right food meant for them.

☆3☆ In Psalms 14:2, the evil communication that corrupted or seduced atheists or so-called freethinkers was the doctrines or beliefs that “there is no God” and ‘that evolution and natural selection were their creators/makers.’ This in turn subtly turned those men with such ideologies into corrupt, vile, people of reprobate mindsets.

In all of these, mankind has not been able to attain and sustain a society, land or city that is void of iniquity, wickedness, oppression, corruption, evil, in the absence of God. No matter how much people deny God, without God mankind cannot hold Moral society void of injustice, crimes, or evils, amongst themselves. We do really need the Lord God.

MUST REAP WHAT THEY SOWED

[‭Ezekiel 9:10 NKJV] — “And as for Me also, My eye will neither spare, nor will I have pity, but I will recompense their deeds on their own head.”

[Ezekiel 9:10 BSB] — But as for Me, I will not look on them with pity, nor will I spare them. I will bring their deeds down upon their own heads.”
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When people that holds such ideologies, deceptions, doctrines, or beliefs, about God become emboldened to do whatever they like and then get away with whatever and however they have done, that proves their points about God to be more real even if those points were false. So because their points are not true but the evidence of their getting away with whatever they did is glaring, that will mean “God is mocked.”

So for God not to be mocked by counsels of men's heart, men must reap their deeds:

[Galatians 6:7-8 BSB] — Do not be deceived: God is not to be mocked. Whatever a man sows, he will reap in return. The one who sows to please his flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; but the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.

In the top bible verse above, if God's mercy or pity prevents God from repaying the deeds or seeds sown by men upon their heads, that means in this immediate bible verse God is mocked because a man never reaped what he sowed because of “Pity.” However, even though God said He will neither spare nor have pity, but will repay everyone's deeds or ways upon him; yet that act of repayment is also the act of Mercy, Pity, as well as act of Justice and Retribution. Making men to reap what they sowed is also kindness as well as severity - it's both mercy and judgment for God to repay one's deeds on him, to cause him reap the fruits of the seeds and labors he sowed/invested.

THE ANGEL'S REPORTING AFTER DUTY

[‭Ezekiel 9:11 NKJV] — Just then, the man clothed with linen, who had the ink horn at his side, reported back and said, “I have done as You commanded me.”

[Ezekiel 9:11 BSB] — Then the man clothed in linen with the writing kit at his side reported back, “I have done as You commanded.”
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It didn't take long for the man or angel clothed in linen to have performed the census and marked all the chosen ones in the entire city. God's angels are superlatively fast and efficient. Those in charge know every righteous or chosen ones on earth and beneath the earth. This is the reason the rapture will happen in a blink of an eye - not because of the trumpet sound, but because of the angels the Lord will send. Those who dramatize the rapture show it as suddenly disappearance and ascending of saints to heaven, but do not show the angels that must come to take them as they did Elijah. No rapture without angels coming down to earth to lift the rapturable from earth — For a man does not yet levitate or ascend into heaven without angel (except the Lord Jesus) just as a fish do not climb a tall tree outside water without a bird to pick it up.

[Mark 13:26-27 GW] — “Then people will see the Son of Man coming in clouds with great power and glory. He will send out his angels, and from every direction under the sky, they will gather those whom God has chosen.

My point of bringing rapture into this story of the top bible verse above is to point out the reality that the angels know the righteous and chosen ones in any location any where. Why wouldn't I connect this with rapture, seeing in the Book of “Revelation 7” similar things happened, the angel in charge of marking or sealing the foreheads of the chosen sealed the “144,000” in Israel and then the rest of the chosen in all other nations and locations of the world were raptured and were holding leaves or branches of palm tree as soon as they were in heaven before the Throne of God in same period.

In the top bible verse above, the angel/man clothed in linen came back to report to God that he has done as God commanded. We also saw that there was an occasion that the Lord sent an angel to go throughout the earth and bring back his report; and when the angel returned, he reported to another angel instead of reporting directly to God.

[Zechariah 1:10-11 BSB] Then the man standing among the myrtle trees explained, “They are the ones the LORD has sent to patrol the earth.” And the riders answered the angel of the LORD who was standing among the myrtle trees, “We have patrolled the earth, and behold, all the earth is at rest and tranquil.”

Angels may be reporting to their leaders among angels, not necessarily directly to God.

REMNANT OF ISRAEL

[‭Ezekiel 9:8 NKJV] — So it was, that while they were killing them, I was left alone; and I fell on my face and cried out, and said, “Ah, Lord God! Will You destroy all the remnant of Israel in pouring out Your fury on Jerusalem?”

[Ezekiel 9:8 NIV] — While they were killing and I was left alone, I fell facedown, crying out, “Alas, Sovereign Lord! Are you going to destroy the entire remnant of Israel in this outpouring of your wrath on Jerusalem?”

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The Scribe clothed in linen did not mark Ezekiel and yet the Executioners did not kill Ezekiel there. He was left alone or was the only man in flesh and blood standing while the rest of mankind in the open temple court were killed.

☆ So why was Ezekiel neither marked nor executed among the people there?

Though Ezekiel was there in Jerusalem (and in the temple), he was not classified or memberized within Judah or Jerusalem but within Israel and precisely those in exile. Infact, when you read beginning of “Ezekiel 11” you will discover there were yet 25 men and leaders of the city of Jerusalem by the East Gate of the Temple, who were evil schemers and evil politicians that gave evil counsel to Jerusalem, and yet they were not destroyed during this outpouring of wrath and destruction. In “Ezekiel 11:13,” one of those 25 men would suddenly be killed while Ezekiel was prophesying, and then Ezekiel will repeat similar thing he did or said in the top bible verse above by then.

In the top bible verse above, this was what Ezekiel did and said after the killing of the 25 men who worshipped the sun, which Ezekiel would again do and say in similar but slightly different way when one of another set of 25 men was killed in “Ezekiel 11:13:”
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He fell on his face and cried out, and said, “Ah, Lord God! Will You destroy all the remnant of Israel in pouring out Your fury on Jerusalem?”

In both occasions, what prompted Ezekiel to react this way was the destruction of God on those in Jerusalem or Judah, whom those who were in exile considered as “Remnant of Israel” because they were still left in their land while those who were taken into captivity or exile were considered as the lost people of Israel. So the hope of Israel was on those still in their land, whom they referred to as “Remnant of Israel.” However the Lord God correct that wrong impression or wrong reference to who were “Remnant of Israel” after Ezekiel use the same reference in “Ezekiel 11:13.” For then God began to reveal to him that these people of Jerusalem you and your people in exile (including they themselves in Jerusalem) call the “Remnant of Israel” based on geographical location are not whom God sees as “Remnant of Israel” because God will back those Israelites who were scattered in different countries of the world into their land, and give them a new heart and new spirit, removing the stony heart away from them, and rebuild them in their land. And meanwhile, many of these ones at Jerusalem currently then and calling themselves remnant of Israel shall be removed and lost instead.

You may recall the lessons that God taught Ezekiel by the dry bones rising again to redefine how God can bring back or restore the seemingly lost hope of Israel back even from their graves and from far countries.

So God may have different numbering for counting who are truly “Remnant of Israel, Children of Abraham, True Jews indeed (not synagogue of Satan) or True Christians.”

John the Baptist told them to not think that parading themselves as the ‘Children of Abraham’ grants them immunity or makes them untouchable, because God can raise these Stones into becoming the Children of Abraham before God” [Luke 3:8]. Paul —

[Romans 9:6-8 FBV] — It's not that God's promise has failed. For not every Israelite is a true Israelite, and all those who are descended from Abraham are not his true children. For Scripture says, “Your descendants will be counted through Isaac,” so it's not Abraham's actual children who are counted as God's children, but only those children of God's promise who are considered his true descendants.

Basically, God had different system for determining who “The Remnants of Israel” or The True Jews” are, from how men count or consider these things. Nevertheless, Ezekiel employing that “Remnant of Israel” technique in making Intercession helped in preventing total annihilation of the sinners in Jerusalem then. Do not forget this lesson: — Even if God will not have Mercy on Israel, God will still have Remnant of Israel. Therefore, when using mercy to intercede will not work, using remnant to intercede may work, just as Ezekiel was good at doing before God.

[‭Ezekiel 9:7 AMP‬] — And He said to the executioners, “Defile the temple and fill its courtyards with the dead. Go out!” So they went out and struck down the people in the city.

[Ezekiel 9:7 BSB] — Then He told them, “Defile the temple and fill the courts with the slain. Go forth!” So they went out and began killing throughout the city.

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Though this event illustrated “Judgment begins at the house of God,” this event differ here from the one to come. The reason is because this one in the bible verse above would result in desecration or defilement of the temple or house of God, while the judgment to come have the goal or purpose to purify or cleanse the temple or house of God from all filthiness of both the flesh and the spirit, perfecting holiness in the true fear of God.

In the bible verse above, the Lord God commanded the executioners to defile the temple, fill the courts with the corpses and then go out to continue the killing and slaughtering spree in the city outside the temple, after they are done with the temple. Before then the Word of God had revealed to Ezekiel about such defiling/desecrating:

[Ezekiel 7:22 BSB] - I will turn My Face away from them, and they will defile My treasured place. Violent men will enter it, and they will defile it.

Judgment Began from the House of God

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(Ezekiel 9:3 - NKJV) - "Now the glory of the God of Israel had gone up from the cherub, where It had been, to the threshold of the temple. And He called to the man clothed with linen, who had the writer’s inkhorn at His side."

(Ezekiel 9:3 - NIV) - "Now the glory of the God of Israel went up from above the cherubim, where It had been, and moved to the threshold of the temple. Then the Lord called to the man clothed in linen who had the writing kit at His side."

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#1. Clear your mind from thinking it's from the Cherubim inside the innermost holy chamber called Holy of Holies that the glory of the God of Israel alighted to the entrance of the temple here. And make it clear the Cherubim here were the true and living ones, not their image within the temple.

#2. Brief on how God alighted here — the significance of His alighting from above the Cherubim by going up first before coming down directly to the entrance of the temple more rather like a vertical entrance rather than horizontal entrance through the gate.

#3. In comparing these events inside this particular verse above with the preceding two verses and the events in "Numbers 12:4-5" outline three or four similar acts of God in those two references as His patterns:

A■ In both instances, God first called them to come there before the Glory of God moved to there.

B■ In both instances, the glory of God descended from above them while they were there already: not from the sides the glory came but from above, and the Glory did not come before they came but when they were there.

C■ In both instances, the glory of God stood by the entrance, and He called them the second time to come nearer to Him — When you have fulfilled the invitation and finally come to the church, ushers will beginning giving you another invitation to make you sit or come to the front seat or closer to the Pulpit. But in both instances, when they fulfilled the invitation and were there, the Lord God Himself was ushering them, not to the front seat and not even to enter the hall, but ushering them to draw nearer to Him in glory.

D■ It is to “His Side” the Lord ushers, not to the frontier or higher seat like other ushers in church do. The Lord is calling men to His Side, including those who are in His house. For not all who are in His house are on His Side, for not all who come to His house come to Him. — “Who is on the Lord’s Side? Let him come to Me.”

#4. Return back to how the glory of God vertically came down into the Temple premises even though the glory of God was upon the Cherubim just outside the premises and the gates were opened. This is not just about the image of jealousy that provokes to jealousy by the entrance, but more of how the glory of God preferring to descend or fall rather than coming from the sides/gates. You may also recount how Satan took the Lord Jesus up the pinnacle of the temple and asked Him to cast Himself descending down from there in the sight of the people, rather than they seeing Him use the side gates to enter. You may recall the Jews want to see a man descending from heaven to believe He is their messiah, not a man that they know how he came from below or among them. And that in the last days, they would eventually see the Lord Jesus Christ descending from above, even the same Jesus whom they pierced; and they shall mourn because of Him, and believe in Him. Some believed Him when He came humbly through the womb of a woman; some believed Him when they saw He ascend into heaven; but there are those who would not believe Him until they see Him descend from heaven to earth. Recall what the angels told the apostles in "Acts 1:11."

#5. Well incase someone would ask, has the glory of God never came into the Temple through the gates or doors before? Explain that as the Spirit or the Wind, He comes through all and He's in all: but when He comes in manifest appearance and glory, He does not just pass through any door or gate or way. Then explain that the first time God in manifest Glory shall enter or pass through a gate into His Temple, that Gate shall never be opened for all men (except the Prince) to ever pass through that Gate or Door again because the Lord God Himself has passed through it — "Ezekiel 42:1-3."

#6. In furtherance on that, let them know that unlike how the glory of God skipped the fences or gates into the Temple premises in the top bible verse above, similar events was later witnessed by the same Ezekiel, who saw the glory of God entering the future Temple of God but through the Gate this time (not the upper gate or northern gate, but the eastern gate), which was the reason the East Gate of the Temple shall be strictly out of bound to all men except only the Prince (the Lord Jesus) - this similar event to the top Bible verse above was witnessed by Ezekiel in "Ezekiel 43:1-4."

#7. Behold, before then the Glory of God was by entrance of the gate as if He would enter by the Gate, but when He entered He jumped the gate or fence. Again the glory stood by the entrance door into the main temple, as if He would use that entrance door if He would even enter inside; but He wouldn't use that door to enter though He stood by the door and calls man clothed in linen to come nearer to Him as He stood by that tent of meeting in the wilderness and called Moses, Aaron and Miriam to draw nearer to Him instead of Him to enter through the door.

#8. Infact, I have not seen or read where the Lord being manifest ever entered any man's house through the door until He became the Lord Jesus Christ and began entering people's houses using the door. In the old times before Christ, the Lord being manifest hardly if entered inside any man's house or tent through a door, unless in Spirit, in Dreams or Visions or in His own House like when He called, Samuel Samuel. However, His Spirit and His angels do enter into men's houses and homes physically or manifestly. Example, three Men (the Lord God Himself and two angels) visited Abraham and they only sat outside under a tree; but when the two angels met Lot in Sodom, the two angels went into Lot's house. Perhaps if the Lord as Man or Manifest was with the two angels, they would not have entered nor lodged in any man's house. But the Lord came as Jesus Christ, and behold He's does not only enjoys entering homes/houses of men, but He's Infact standing at the door knocking for who will hear and open the door for Him to enter through the door for a feast date with the person.


(Ezekiel 9:4 - BSB) - “Go throughout the city of Jerusalem,” said the LORD, “and put a mark on the foreheads of the men sighing and groaning over all the abominations committed there.”

(Ezekiel 9:4 - FBV) - “Go through the whole the city of Jerusalem and place a mark on the foreheads of those who sighing and mourning at all the disgusting sins that are done there.”
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The Lord’s instruction to the Scribe clothed in linen was to pass through the city of Jerusalem and write/sign his signature (autograph) on the foreheads of those who frown, sigh, cry and protest against sin, iniquity or abomination in the city. To avoid ambiguity, let me state that:

He did not say those who are righteous or innocent; but said those who are pained, afflicted or fighting against sins, iniquities or abominations. There are so-called righteous people or let's say in today's words, so-called Christians who are “Lukewarm” - neither hot nor cold - they may not be doing the sins or abominations, but they are doing nothing against the sins either. They are playing as civilian in a warfare that all must be either soldiers for Righteousness or soldiers for sins - no civilian or sitting on fence. Therefore, such Lukewarm or confused liabilities shall become casualties because they shall not receive such mark on their foreheads.

He did not say those who are protesting or fighting against poverty, hunger, insecurity or sufferings; but said those who are pained, afflicted or fighting against sins, iniquities or abominations in the land and in the house of God.

[Hebrews 12:3-4] — Now meditate deeply on Him Who endured such great hostility of sinners against Himself so that you do not become weary and faint in your minds. You have not yet resisted to the point of losing blood in your struggle against sin.

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(Ezekiel 9:1 - KJV)
"And he cried also in mine ears with a loud voice, saying, Cause them that have charge over the city to draw near, even every man with his destroying weapon in his hand."

(Ezekiel 9:1 - NIV)
"Then I heard him call out in a loud voice, 'Bring near those who are appointed to execute judgment on the city, each with a weapon in his hand.'"

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In this Bible verse, Ezekiel witnesses a profound moment of divine communication and action. Here are five significant aspects of this passage:

#1. "The Lord spoke with a loud voice" — relate His difference in voice loudness from how He previously spoke to Ezekiel nearer to Him then to His speaking to someone seemingly distant. Then relate the impart the loudness which the Voice had on Ezekiel's feeling and awareness of other beings he seemed not to have noticed — The loudness of God's voice does things, not just to whom He's addressing in speech but also, to all who hear. Show His loud Voice is not just when it's heard from heaven to earth as if He uses a voice magnifier in heaven, but also here on earth His Voice can still be loud from earth to heaven or to hell as indicated:

The loudness of God's voice signifies its authority and importance. When God spoke closely to Ezekiel, it conveyed intimacy and direct communication. In contrast, when speaking with a loud voice from a distance, it commands attention and signifies the magnitude of the event unfolding.

#2. "Cause those in charge (or executioners) of the city to draw nearer" — Build on them having charge of the city, but were not near the city until they were called to draw nearer. Use them to differentiate two kinds of having charge over a city or over a man: One is having charge or assignment over a city by occupying the city and running things there, and the other having charge of the city but kept far away from it until time of emergency or of taking over comes. Even though death is given charge over men, death stays far from men until the appointed time or call comes.

The phrase "those who have charge over the city" can imply both spiritual and earthly authorities. These figures were summoned to draw near, indicating they were not always present but were assigned to execute judgment when called upon. This contrasts with earthly rulers who govern from within the city, illustrating a different kind of authority.

#3. They were men He was referring to, even though they were angels or spirit beings — build on how those given such charge are both angels and men, using the three Men that passed through Abraham on their way to Sodom to destroy it as illustration.

Although described as men, these figures could represent angelic beings tasked with executing divine judgment. The reference to the three men visiting Abraham before the destruction of Sodom highlights how spiritual beings can take on human-like forms to fulfill their duties on earth.

#4. Coming with their weapons of destruction along — build with — These ones are not given mere "Weapons of our Warfare" as Christians were given to take charge of their cities; rather for their taking charge over their city they were given "Weapons of Mass Destruction."

The "destroying weapons" these figures carry signify the severity of their mission. Unlike spiritual weapons used by believers for spiritual warfare, these are instruments of physical judgment and destruction, emphasizing the finality and severity of divine judgment.

#5. Relate this event to that of the first passover, and these ones called forth to the angel of death in the passover.

Just as the angel of death passed over homes marked with the blood of the lamb during the first Passover, these appointed figures will spare those marked with the seal on their foreheads. This signifies divine protection amidst judgment, drawing parallels between God's acts of justice and mercy across biblical events.

(Ezekiel 9:2 - NKJV)
"And suddenly six men came from the direction of the upper gate, which faces north, each with his battle-ax in his hand. One man among them was clothed with linen and had a writer’s inkhorn at his side. They went in and stood beside the bronze altar."
(Ezekiel 9:2 - NIV)
"And I saw six men coming from the direction of the upper gate, which faces north, each with a deadly weapon in his hand. With them was a man clothed in linen who had a writing kit at his side. They came in and stood beside the bronze altar."

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PART A — "...Six men came from the way of the Higher or Upper Gate, which at the North side, each with a deadly weapon in his hand:" — Here are four notable points:

#1. Six men responded or showed up to answer the Loud Voice call of the Lord, and therefore they drew near as the ones in charge over the city. Show that there's place for more than one men or angels to have charge over one single city or even one individual. You may use the scripture Satan quoted to the Lord Jesus, saying, "God will give His angels charge over you..." as illustration of multiple men or angels having charge over seemly one unit.

These six men, embodying the authority given by the Lord, arrived at the city ready to execute judgment, akin to the angel of death in Egypt or the angel of destruction in David's time. This underscores that multiple agents can hold authority over a single city or person.
#2. These six men with such mandate were already in the city by the time Ezekiel saw them coming through the upper gate, and they did not come empty-handed because they would not leave without casualties in their city of charge: Relate how their presence already in the city was like the angel of death's presence in Egypt or the angel of destruction over Israel because David chose that option after he numbered Israel.

Their presence within the city already, as Ezekiel observed them entering through the upper gate, indicates their preparedness for executing divine judgment. This parallels David's choice of judgment upon Israel, signifying that their mission would not be without consequences.

#3. As for the direction through which they entered into where Ezekiel began seeing them: Let us know the higher Gate or upper Gate was the biggest gate to access the temple of God. That Upper Gate to the temple was built by a man (a king) who never stepped foot into the Temple, because his father was struck with leprosy inside the temple: and so like a vow he never attended church there but he helped build the upper gate (2 Chronicles 27:2-3). Behold he who came to build never entered the upper gate he built, but those who came to destroy had no problem entering through the upper gate they didn't build, even if the image of jealousy that provokes to jealousy be found there.

The upper gate through which they entered was significant as it provided access to the temple of God, even though it was built by a king who never set foot inside due to his father's affliction. This gate symbolizes access for those who come to destroy, contrasting with its builder's vow.

#4. The six men were not coming into this gate with Thanksgiving, Praise, Offerings, but they came in Obedience to the Lord and did not come empty-handed even though they were not bringing offering or tithes. Their bringing weapons of mass destruction would suffice. If any has problem with such bringing of weapons of destruction into the Lord’s house, recall where the sword of Goliath was kept and given to David in "1 Samuel 21" or recall "Psalms 149:6-7."

These men did not enter with offerings or praise but obeyed the Lord with weapons of destruction, reminiscent of the sword of Goliath kept and given to David or the psalmist's exhortation in Psalms 149:6-7.

PART B — "With them was another man clothed in linen who had a writing kit at his side. And they came in and stood beside the bronze altar."

#1. Now in this section, you will relate how a man who was clothed differetly, not holding weapons of destruction like them was among them. Was he supposed to be there given the details of the instruction of the Loud Voice call out to them and the instruction of bringing weapons of destruction? And yet the man brought ink pen for writing or as a Scribe.

Amid the six armed men, there was another figure, dressed in linen, not carrying weapons but equipped with a writing kit. His presence raises questions about his role alongside the armed men, highlighting his unique function as a scribe or recorder.

#2. Show that the man was even more in charge of the city than the rest of them — he was the Accountant General in charge of the souls or population of the city. So while multiple angels may have charge over one city, they have their specific roles or different departments.

This man in linen held a higher role, akin to an Accountant General overseeing the souls of the city. This distinction among the angels demonstrates that while they share responsibility, each has specific duties or departments.

#3. If that reason doesn't suffice for the man being more incharge than them over the city — Show the fact that the man was clothed in linen reveals he was higher in rank or office than they were. Not all angels appear on earth as men dressed in Linen, example like Daniel saw in "Daniel 12:5-7."

Immediately Pharaoh exalted Joseph into a prince, he clothed Joseph with Linen. And in the days to come, no priest shall qualify to minister inside the temple unless he qualifies and wears linen according to the angel in "Ezekiel 44:17." And though not all these six men were wearing linen when they came to destroy, the true Bride of the Lord shall be wearing Linen when She comes and follows Her Lord into the war of Armageddon and destruction of Kings [Revelation 19:8, 14].

The linen garment symbolizes higher rank, as seen in Daniel's vision and the priestly requirements in Ezekiel 44:17. This figure's attire contrasts with the armed men's, suggesting a different purpose or authority.

#4. As for the weapon of the man clothed in linen, his ink pen was far more formidable weapon than the weapons the rest brought: for their weapons are powerless on those or things on which the ink pen has written.