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DANIEL 3:11

[Daniel 3:11 TLV] - And that whoever does not fall down and worship will be thrown into the midst of a furnace of blazing fire.

[Daniel 3:11 GW] - ‘Your order said that’ whoever doesn’t bow down and worship will be thrown into a blazing furnace.

THEOCRACY AND FORCED RELIGIOUS POLICIES

In history and in the times to come, Kings who were Kings of Kings have enacted and executed laws and orders that either commanded forced religions of their governed people or commanded forbidding of religions (anti-religious policies) of their governed people in system of Government called “Communism.” It’s all about the State Authorities, kings, forcing or forbidding religious practices or worship, using death sentence and instruments of legality to control and determine the divers people’s relationship and faith with their gods or the true God.

|**| Nebuchadnezzar began such Theocracy, Religious Policies or Superimposition of government into and over peoples’ religion, faith, moral and doctrines of practices, by making a decree or law that whoever does not worship his golden image shall be thrown into the furnace of fire as in the top bible verse above. He was a religious zealot and bigot that used his powers over the world to force people to serve and worship the gods he favored. After him, there came other world's kings of kings that also commanded and forced certain religious practices and beliefs on the people of the world, including the Roman Empire that went from opposing Christianity initially into adopting the Roman Catholics’ version of Christianity, and allocating state powers to enforce the commands and judgments that promoted the Catholic faith and doctrines. The word “Catholic” meant “Universal” and represented the goal of making the entire world adopt the Catholic faith and doctrines of Catholicism. The antichrist would also come with his own forced religion and would be greater than his predecessors to enforce one global religion upon almost all people in the world, forcing all to receive his mark (666), to acknowledge him, identify with him and to worship his image.

|**| Darius began such Prohibition or Anti-Religious Policies of government to peoples’ religion, faith, moral and doctrines of practices, by making a decree or law that whoever worships or prays to any god except to him as government shall be thrown into the lions’ den (Daniel 6). After him, There have been several countries in history where communist or socialist governments have implemented anti-religious policies and persecutions in an effort to suppress religious beliefs and practices. Here are a few examples: Soviet Union - Under the rule of Stalin, the Soviet Union implemented strict anti-religious policies. Religious leaders were persecuted, religious buildings and artifacts were destroyed, and practicing religion was outlawed. China - Under Mao Zedong, China's Communist Party implemented policies that sought to control and limit religious practices. Religious groups were restricted and persecuted, with many religious leaders and believers being arrested, imprisoned, or executed. Cambodia - During the Khmer Rouge regime from 1975 to 1979, religion was outlawed and almost all religious institutions and artifacts were destroyed. Religious leaders were executed and religion was seen as a threat to the government's authority. Albania - Under the Enver Hoxha regime, Albania was declared the world's first atheist state and religious practices were outlawed. Religious leaders were persecuted and many places of worship were converted to other uses. North Korea - North Korea's government is officially atheist and prohibits religious practices. Individuals found practicing religion are punished, and religious activity is reserved for state-approved organizations. These are just a few examples, and there are many other historical and contemporary contexts where anti-religious policies and persecutions have been implemented.

So Nebuchadnezzar and Darius both began those two extremities for and against religions in their realms, and Daniel witnessed both eras. One king of kings used throwing defaulters into burning fiery furnace to force divers nations of people into one unified religion he introduced or promulgated, while the other king of kings used throwing defaulters into lions’ den to force divers nations of people into anti-religion or atheism he introduced or promulgated.

(1) To see men of God who stood up against one unified false but forced religion, without fearing the burning fiery furnace, and how God delivered them after they were thrown in there: Behold, Hananiah (Shadrach), Mishael (Mishach) and Azariah (Abednego).

(2) To see man of God who stood up against forced atheism or anti-religious policies, without fearing the lions’ den, and how God delivered him after he was thrown in there: Behold, Daniel.


[Daniel 3:11 MKJV] - And whoever does not fall down and worship, he should be thrown into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.

That was a decree made by, and rehearsed to, the king of kings then: and it applied to all men of all nations, tongues, languages, tribes and peoples, under Babylon in that era. For though it was the king of kings’ decree then and it commanded such judgment and power of execution then over those said people, it neither applied to all men of all generations, including both the living and the dead. So I rehearse to you the current universal Decree of the true and eternal King of Kings to all people, all men of all nations, all tongues, all languages, all tribes and all people, in all generations, all places, all times and seasons, including the living and dead: - “That whosoever believes in the Son of God given in God’s love to the world, shall not perish but have everlasting life. He who believes in the Son shall not be condemned, but he who does not believe in the Son of God is condemned already, because he does not believe in the name of the Son of God (John 3:16, 18).

As it is now, all Muslims, Atheists, Non-Christians in faith, and infidels of the Jews, are condemned already because they do not believe in the name of the Son of God.

Now that’s a decree from heaven, not about worshiping a golden image, but about believing in the Son of God given to the world that the world may be saved through Him alone; and apart from Him, there shall be no Savior or Hero that can deliver or save any soul from the weight of God’s condemnation upon all men.
And such condemnation is far beyond the burning fiery furnace mentioned in the top bible verse above. As you may not have seen, the words of that king in the top bible verse above only carried power and judgment to command the execution of his will upon mankind within his given reach and the worst he could do to them for not falling for his word to worship his image was to throw them into the burning furnace. He could command men that fed the furnace, but could neither command the burning fire of the furnace nor tell that fire what to burn or what not to burn within it. So he was not supernatural in power, though he was in power. He could send defaulters into the furnace or into hell, but could neither command the fire of that furnace nor the fire of hell (Gehanna) to burn or not to burn those he sent into it. For even the fire did not fear or obey that king, though the men that fed the fire feared and obeyed the king to their own death. Even so, fear God and the King of Kings who commands the Wind, the Waters, the Fires and all things, and they obey and fear Him. As it is written,

[Matthew 10:28-33 TLV] - And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Instead, fear the One who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna. Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them shall fall to the ground apart from your Father’s consent. But even the hairs of your head are all numbered. So do not fear; you are worth more than many sparrows. “Therefore whoever acknowledges Me before men, I will also acknowledge him before My Father who is in heaven. But whoever denies Me before men, I will also deny him before My Father who is in heaven.

[Ezekiel 5:4]

Then take some of them again and throw them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire. From there a fire will go out into all the house of Israel. [NKJV]

Then take a few of them out again, throw them in the fire, and let them burn up. From them fire will spread to the whole nation of Israel.” [GNT]

THE FIRE AND ITS CAST OF ESCALATION

Under this instruction, the son of man, Ezekiel, would eventually cast some of those hair (he bound in his skirts) into the furnace of fire (In the bible verse above). In like manner, that dragon (Satan) that was bound in the bottomless pit shall be taken from where it's bound and cast into the lake of fire (Revelation 20).

However, as soon as those hair that were previously bound were cast into the fire, where some of their colleagues had previously been cast sometime earlier, then the fire spread or expanded and the fire extended into the entire nation and house of Israel (In the bible verse above).

In like manner, as soon that dragon (Satan, Devil) that were previously bound was cast into the lake of fire, where some of his colleagues (antichrist, false prophet, false ministers) had previously been cast sometime (a thousand years) earlier, then the lake of fire (second death) spread or expanded and the fire extended into the entire human race and generations of mankind who's names are not found in the book of life (Revelation 20).

So the reason for binding and sparing those hair from the fire when their colleagues were already cast into the fire, though they all have been judged and doomed to the same fire, is because delaying their contact with the fire is delaying the fire from getting into the people of the nation. Even so, the reason for delaying God delays casting Satan, Death and Hell, into the Lake of Fire is because delaying their contact with the lake of fire is delaying the fire from getting into the entire earth and world, including getting all those who's names are not in the Book of Life.

No matter how much you hate Satan, Death and Hell, still know that their continuity is the continuity of the this material world and this system of matter. I don't want to call him the god of this world, but I am saying to you that:

*1* If the prince of this world (Satan) is judged, the world is judged (John 16:11)

*2* If the lake of fire was prepared for the devil and his angels, and the devil be cast into the fire, the goats or people who are not of God's sheep shall also be cast into the fire prepared for the devil and his angels (Matthew 25:41).

*3* If the devil goes down, many people and things shall go down with or after him.

As a mere human, I would have thought that as soon as the devil and his angels are removed and destroyed, God would then forgive and rehabilitate those whom the devils made to sin. As in, remove the cause and then heal the rest. But God does not operate like that. To show you He is not sending people into the lake of fire because of Satan, there would be no Satan and no devil, and yet there would be no manipulation of the Justice, Righteousness or Judgment of God for or against Satan. For all those who belong to Satan, antichrist, hell and death, shall be sent after Satan, antichrist, hell and death, when they are absent and have no advocate to insist they are not cheated. The Lord and Judge would not use the absent or death of those devils for forgive mankind and giving them second chance. The Book of Life will not be rewritten after the antichrist, Satan, Death and Hell, are cast into the lake of fire. For even the lake of fire, Second Death must not be cheated from having every man, woman, boy, girl, child, baby, old, young, and everything of the material heaven and earth that belong to the lake of fire including all the glories and pride of men.

[Ezekiel 5:3]

"You shall also take thereof a few in number, and bind them in your skirts." [AKJV]

You shall also take from these a small number of hairs and bind them in the skirts of your robe. [AMPC]

"HAIR IN THE HEM OF HIS SKIRTS"

Other Bible versions chose to avoid the use of "Skirts" in this Bible verse above but these which I cited above remained faithful to showing forth that the son of man or men generally wore skirts in those days. When you find people that argues a woman should not wear trousers, they would most likely be quoting from that which was written in "Deuteronomy 22:6." But that Bible reference never mentioned "Trousers" nor "Skirts" but just "What belongs to a man" and "Woman's Garment." I don't know how people conclude trousers belong to men, and skirts belong to women. And foolishly, the same people fighting against women putting on trousers were permitting women putting on pants/boxers under their skirts/wrappers.

But I tell you, trousers are pants or pants are trousers. Any cloth or garment that your legs put on to cover your private part is either of these two: "Trouser (Pant)" or "Skirt."

* Trouser or Pant, if that cloth/garment separate your two legs/thighs with a partition in between.

* Skirt, if that cloth/garment does not separate your two legs/thighs or has no partition in between.

In Bible days, both men and women all wore "Skirts" outwardly, and trousers were just formed as short pants with the folding of garments as napkins between thighs, like you saw in pictures or movies that the Lord Jesus wore while hanging on the cross. So a man's garment differed from a woman's garment in the Bible days just by the way they were designed to reflect their gender difference, not by being Skirts or Trousers.

Even so, there are women do put on trousers (pants) as well as men; just as men could put on skirts as well as women. None belongs to one gender alone.
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[Ezekiel 5:3]
"You shall also take thereof a few in number, and bind them in your skirts." [AKJV]

In this Bible verse, the son of man, Ezekiel, was under instruction of the Word of God to still spare few of his fallen and judged hair. Sparing those few while the others were given to third-part destruction still does not mean to save them, but meant to delay their destruction the way Satan would be cast into the abyss of bottomless pit for a thousand years, delaying Satan's being given into the lake of fire were the antichrists, false prophets, false pastors, and false teachers, would have been for a thousand years before Satan would join them there. So the son of man, Ezekiel, would spare few of those hairs of his head but for later to be cast into fire also.

In sparing those few, he was under instruction to bind (chain) them; not in the bottomless pit like Satan would be, but those hair would be bound by or at the Hem of his garment or his skirts precisely.

In my childhood, I used to see women including my mother wrap money with the hem or tips of their wrappers worn as Skirts, and then fold the wrapper around their waists. If a man would reach for the money, he may be accused of trying to reach for something else under those wrappers. So the women's wrappers were securing so many secrets that a man's could not easily reach. It was easier for me as a boy to reach the money my mom kept in her pulse than to reach the money she bound with the hem of her wrapper on her waist as secure pocket.

The son of man (Ezekiel) wearing skirts in those days, had no pockets on those skirts. But then like those women, even men who wore skirts would form pockets with the hem of their skirts to bind, store or safely secure pieces of treasures. In this case, they were few hair of his head, not pubic hair under his skirts.

NoSmoking:
Na because of hair cut u write all this things?

Hair wey I dey cut at least two times in a month

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I wrote all these things, not because of haircut but, because of the messages and inspirations I got from that Bible Verse only (EZEKIEL 5:1)

[Ezekiel 5:2]

"You shall burn with fire a third part in the middle of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled: and you shall take a third part, and smite about it with a knife: and a third part you shall scatter in the wind; and I will draw out a sword after them." [AKJV]

A third you will burn in fire in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are complete. Take a third and strike it with the sword all around the city. Scatter a third to the wind, and I will draw out a sword after them. [TLV]

"THIRD-PART DESTRUCTION"

See what happened to the fallen hair of the son of man, Ezekiel, in his live show:

a The hair all fell off his head by his own sword (sharp knife/blade). This means those hair did not fall or disconnect from his head by natural way like aging, weakness or getting pulled off: For the head got them cut off from him by his own hands and sword against them, even when they were still parts/members of his body. Once members of his body/head got cut off by his sword

b As the sword was cutting them off from the head/body of the son of man, the scale (balance) was weighing them. This is called, "Judgment" - symbolized with "Sword and Scale."

Which part of His Head did the Lord Jesus Christ promised to cast off the church or Christians that are lukewarm, Hair of His Head or of His Beard? From His Mouth, which is also in His Head. (Revelation 3:15-16). But then the judgment must follow those who were thus spew out of the Head. Behold, the Lord Jesus Christ judges His own House or Body, beginning from His Head, with the Sword and Scale.

c He did not cast off his fallen hair immediately they fell, nor got rid of them at once; rather he weighed and divided them into groups, and then still allowed them to continue in their groups among other hairs until the Day of the Siege is completed. In other words, he allowed the Tares to continue with the Wheat until the Harvest Day comes, and then shall the Tares be separated from the Wheat and burn with the fire. [Matthew 13:30]

This means, those fallen hair were already cut-off and judged, but they were not immediately destroyed even though their judgment was already set. They were allowed to continue while the son of man was still in the period of bearing the sins of the people for over a year until the siege is fulfilled and the harvest comes. Unfortunately, those hair would still be thinking their being weighed meant they were getting favored from the son of man, not knowing they were weighed and sheared to their perdition or destruction in waiting.

Even so, some people are already judged but yet allowed to continue existing on earth because their time has come to an end but the time for their destruction has not come yet.

d When the time or days of the siege are completed, then came the destruction of those fallen and ostracized hair.

e Their destruction is according to their divisions or judgment: and their divisions grouped them into “THIRD PARTs.”

1. The first “Third Part” of the fallen hair of the son of man shall be burnt with fire in the midst of the city of Jerusalem. They are to be given to total consummation of the flame or fire called “FAMINE”

2. The second “Third Part” of the fallen hair of the son of man shall be given to the destruction of war & death by human hands within the city.

3. The third “Third Part” of the fallen hair of the son of man shall be given to scattering Wind & to the sword of the Lord drawn out against them.

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Here, third part destruction means destruction of third part (fraction) of an item which suggest there was a careful weighing, scaling or measuring of the whole item and then one-third or third part of it was given to such destruction or plague.
There are other examples of “THIRD PART DESTRUCTIONs” such as in these bible references:

[b]-- [Ezekiel 5:12 MKJV]
A third part of you shall die with the plague, and shall be consumed with the famine in your midst. And a third part shall fall by the sword all around you; and I will scatter a third part into all the winds, and I will draw out a sword after them.

-- [Zechariah 13:8-9 MKJV]
And it shall be in all the land, says Jehovah, two parts in it shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left in it. And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried. They shall call on My Name, and I will answer them; I will say, “It is My people;” and they shall say, “Jehovah is my God.”

-- [Revelation 8:7-12 MKJV]
The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mixed with blood, and they were cast on the earth. And the third part of trees was burned up, and all green grass was burned up. And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea. And the third part of the sea became blood. And the third part of the creatures in the sea, those having souls, died; and the third part of the ships was destroyed. And the third angel sounded, and a great star burning like a lamp fell from the heaven, and it fell on the third part of the rivers and on the fountains of waters. And the name of the star is called Wormwood, and a third part of the waters became wormwood. And many men died from the waters, because they were made bitter. And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was stricken, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars, so that the third part of them was darkened, and the day did not appear for a third part of it, and the night also.


-- [Revelation 9:15-18]
So the four angels—who had been prepared for the hour and day and month and year—were released to kill a third part of mankind. The number of mounted troops was two hundred million—I heard their number. Now here is how I saw the horses and those riding on them: they had breastplates that were fiery red, hyacinth blue, and sulfur yellow. The heads of the horses were as heads of lions, and out of their mouths came fire and smoke and brimstone. By these three plagues a third part of mankind was killed—by the fire and the smoke and the brimstone that came out of their mouths.[/b]

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[Ezekiel 5:1]

“And you, son of man, take a sharp sword, take it as a barber’s razor, and pass it over your head and your beard; then take scales to weigh and divide the hair [NKJV]

“Now you, son of man, take a sharp sword. Use it as a barber’s razor to shave your head and your beard. Then take balances to weigh and divide the hair. -- [TLV]

You heard Him right. This was an instruction but not a doctrine; an illustration, but not a pattern to follow. The discipleship from here is to surrender your hair and beard to the Lord’s use when He would use them for the ministry and message that must both be published and accomplished. A disciple like Ezekiel the son of man would be ready to use or lose his hair and beard, including shaving them in ways that they speak forth the words of the prophecy or gospel of the Lord. However, it’s important they are instructed and guided by the Lord on ways they shave/barb their hair and beard for those hair/beard to carry the anointing, prophecy, significance, thorns and crowns of God.

• Samson’s hair, Samuel’s hair, and Nazarites’ hair were to bear the anointing of Spirit, and they were not to allow razor or blade come in contact with the hair of their head. [1 Samuel 1:11, Judges 13:5, 16:17, Numbers 6:5]

• But the Priests chosen by God from the descendants of Zadok were to trim their hair or beard in lowcut, but not to completely remove them; because they bear the consecration of Priesthood [Ezekiel 44:20]. This was not just for the priests of the sons of Zadok, but also for the descendants of Aaron, who are priests forbidden to make “Baldness” or complete riddance of the hair and beard in a haircut now called “Skin” as you saw in profile picture. For baldness or skinned head (void of hair) is unholy for Priests according to “Leviticus 21:5-6.”

• Men of God like Elisha and Paul had bald head, and yet they were carrying hairless anointing. And even Paul was of the opinion that if a man have long hair it is naturally a shame for him (1 Corinthians 11:14).

• In the top bible verse above, the son of man, Ezekiel was instructed to barb his hair. However, it does not mean his should barb it skin or bald; for he yet had the lock of his head, which the Hand of God pulled him with afterwards. As it is written,

[Ezekiel 8:3 MKJV] - And He put out the form of a Hand, and took me by a lock of my head. And the Spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heavens, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the opening of the inner gate facing north, where there was a seat of the image of jealousy, which provokes to jealousy.

I learnt to barb my own head by myself without needing a Barber, and to shave my beard with my own hands without going to a salon or shop for haircut. I have not used sword or sharp knife like the son of man was instructed in the Bible verse above; and not even a plain razor blade do I remember using thus. But I only used clippers or shaving sticks with the blade or razor not directly held with my fingers.

Is the Lord our God a Barber? Does He support haircuts since He makes hair grow and He numbers the hair of His beloved people? A prophecy revealed the Lord God Himself would be a Barber to barb or shave people in a particular given day. [Isaiah 7:20]

MAIN BIBLE VERSE COMMENTARY
[Ezekiel 5:1]
“Now you, son of man, take a sharp sword. Use it as a barber’s razor to shave your head and your beard. Then take balances to weigh and divide the hair.

Another difference between my barbing/shaving myself and the way the Lord instructed Ezekiel to do so in this top Bible verse is in what happens next to the hair the man has cut off from his head and beard. I usually flush my hair as waste down the WC or Washhand basin, and in fewer times I cast them outside or set them ablaze. But in the bible instruction above, it is not the son of man barbing his own hair that is the message/prophecy, but what he does with his own hair after he barbed and shaved them that bears the message/prophecy.

Some people’s hair are just worthless and useless as soon as those hair leave their body; but some other people’s hair have more value and importance as soon as those hair are cut off from their body, like those whose hair carry significant weight after leaving their body. Example with Absalom’s hair:

[2 Samuel 14:25-27 TLV] - Now in all Israel there was none as handsome as Absalom — so highly praised. From the sole of his foot to the crown of his head there was no blemish in him. When he cut the hair of his head—at the end of every year he would cut it because the hair got so heavy on him that he had to cut it. The weight of the hair from his head was 200 shekels by the royal weight. To Absalom were born three sons and one daughter, whose name was Tamar—she was a beautiful woman.

After the son of man, Ezekiel have used a sword or sharp knife as his clipper to barb his head and shave his beard, he was to weight his fallen hair with a scale of balance machine and then share or divide those fallen hair into groups. They all came from the same head, but they shall be assigned different fate by different message.

Remember, in this bible verse, the Lord was still continuing with the instructions He began giving to Ezekiel in the preceding chapter, [Ezekiel 4], in which he was to put up one man’s show/drama to illustrate his prophecies and messages to both Israel and Jerusalem. Starting with illustrating the siege of Jerusalem, laying on one side of his body for months to bear the sins of Israel and Judah, eating rationed food and bread baked with cow’s shit; here in “Chapter 5” he was also to barb/cut his own hair and beard in his illustrative message and demonstration of his prophecies.

For the preceding Chapter and verses Commentaries of Ezekiel 4, go to
www.peterch.com/bible-commentary/ezekiel-4

[Genesis 3:24]

So He drove out the man; and He placed cherubim at the east of the Garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life. [NKJV]

So He drove out the man and stationed cherubim on the east side of the Garden of Eden, along with a whirling sword of flame to guard the way to the tree of life. [BSB]

"MAN WAS BANISHED, BUT NOT BANNED, FROM HEAVEN"

In this bible verse above, God drove mankind out of the Garden [banished but not banned], then placed Cherubim at the East of the Garden [meaning mankind was driving out from the West of the Garden], and also set up special kind of “Laser Beam” or “Cutting Light” called “Flaming Sword” that turns all direction to guard the Way to the Tree of life.

Notice,
A. The purpose was not to guard the Tree of life, but to guard the Way to the Tree of life, making the Way harder.

B. The Flaming Sword – “Fire+Sword” was neither cutting nor burning any of the trees of the Garden, yet turned all directions.

C. The Cherub was not placed by the Tree of Life, but by the East Side of the Garden: Even the Cherub was not get to the Tree of Life himself, but he guarded the way to it.

Now understand, it appeared sending the man out of the garden's heaven did not get the man out, and so God rather drove the man out of the garden's heaven. God banished man from the garden containing the tree of life, and still placed His cherubim and flaming sword to guard the way to the tree of life. It was not the devil that took those measures to deny mankind access to the tree of life, but God did so. In life, the devil does not care the Way you get things for yourself; but God cares and judges the way. In that case, the road map to gaining life (tree of life) became the road to getting killed or way to die for the life so desired. Man had to give up his life to gain the greater life (everlasting life) the tree of life offers. Any man who must get to the tree of life then must be killed either by the cherubim or the flaming sword. This is similar to the road map the Lord Jesus revealed to us, saying,

[John 12:24-25] — "Truly, truly, I say to you, Unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it abides alone; but if it dies, it brings forth much fruit. He who loves his life shall lose it. And he who hates his life in this world shall keep it to life eternal."

God drove the man out but He did not keep the man out. The cherubim and flaming sword were brought to keep/guard the way to the tree of life, but not to close or shutdown the way. It was to make the way to the tree of life harder, but not impossible, to the man from whence the man could just put forth his hand to take of the tree of life to where the man must now put forth his heart and his life for same access to the tree of life. Just as God was not blocking the man from eating food but made it harder for him (so that man had to sweat before he finds his food from the ground), so also God wanted the man to go through the losing of his life to find the eternal life such as is in the tree of life. This is about faith and value, not about rejection.

God drove the man out of the garden but brought cherubim and flaming sword into the garden to guard the way to the tree of life. In that realm, the way is the same as the door or gate. Having access through a way means having access through a door or gate. Supernatural Security Forces took over man's work in the first heaven or garden of God as soon as the man was driven or cast out.

Nevertheless, mankind now have a new and living Way, and a new and living Door, to access the tree of life; not just in that garden anymore where man was driven away from, but in a new and far better paradise and new City that is eternal through the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. This new Way or Door to eternal life is not a way that cherubim or supernatural security forces need to guard or keep; but the Way or Door that keeps cherubim and keeps everything in the New Heaven and New Paradise. The Lord Himself is the Way and the Door, and He is the Son of man.

Take up this Assignment:

[Revelation 22:14-‬15]—Blessed are those who do His commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter through the gates into the city. But outside are dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and whoever loves and practices a lie.


[Luke 13:25-30] — "And once the Master of the house has risen up and has shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us, and He shall answer and say to you, I do not know you; from where are you; then you shall begin to say, We ate and drank in Your presence, and You have taught in our streets. But He shall say, I tell you, I do not know you; from where you are. Depart from Me, all workers of unrighteousness! There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you will see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and yourselves being thrust out. And they will come from the east and the west, and from the north and the south, and will recline in the kingdom of God. And behold, there are last ones which will be first, and there are first ones which will be last."

elated177:
Jeremiah 6: 16 This is what YHVH says:

“Stand at the crossroads and look;
    ask for the ancient paths,
ask where the good way is, and walk in it,
    and you will find rest for your souls.
    But you said, ‘We will not walk in it.’[b]

[b] Isaiah 8: 20 Consult God’s instruction and the testimony of warning. If anyone does not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.

Hebrews 1: In the past YHVH spoke to our ancestors through the prophets at many times and in various ways, 2 but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom also he made the universe.

I am sure you have understood where I am going to with those Scriptures quoted above, PCHC?

Well you also omitted "2 Peter 1:17-21"

-- [2 Peter 1:17-21 GW] - - For example, we were eyewitnesses when he received honor and glory from God the Father and when the voice of our majestic God spoke these words to him: “This is my Son, whom I love and in whom I delight.” We heard that voice speak to him from heaven when we were with him on the holy mountain. So we regard the words of the prophets as confirmed beyond all doubt. You’re doing well by paying attention to their words. Continue to pay attention as you would to a light that shines in a dark place as you wait for day to come and the morning star to rise in your hearts. First, you must understand this: No prophecy in Scripture is a matter of one’s own interpretation. No prophecy ever originated from humans. Instead, it was given by the Holy Spirit as humans spoke under God’s direction.

If you understand this passage from "2 Peter 1" above, you will know that what "Hebrews 1:1" was saying is this: "In old times, God only spoke to us through the prophets" but in the last days, "God now speaks to us both through His Son and through His Prophets." Jesus Christ the Son was not a replacement of the Voices of the Prophets, but the major Addition or complement added to us." We are still getting spoken to by the Prophets of old times, but have a new privilege of also hearing from the Son of God besides hearing from the Old Prophets. So the Old Prophets and Ministers of God still have voices in the Oracle of God to us in the last days, even though the Voice of the Son of God is the
Chief or Captain over them all. Paul puts it this way, "We are built on the Foundations of the Apostles and Prophets (of Old), while Jesus Christ is the Chief Corner Stone. [Ephesians 2:20]

In plain language, Old Prophets and Ministers of God still speaks to us today as they did to those in their times, except that we have the privilege of hearing the Lord Himself, the Word of God made flesh. Yes, even angels still speaks or ministers to us, as well as the Saints of old that are part of the whole oracle of God to mankind from the first Adam. We must hear them and we must hear one another because the Spirit of Christ speaks in them and in us and through us to one another.

Lukuluku69:
1. Can you quote for me what Moses and Elijah said about Jesus death at the Transfiguration?

-- [Luke 9:29-32 GW] - While Jesus was praying, the appearance of His face changed, and His clothes became dazzling white. Suddenly, both Moses and Elijah were talking with Him. They appeared in heavenly glory and were discussing Jesus’ approaching death and what He was about to fulfill in Jerusalem. Peter and the men with him were sleeping soundly. When they woke up, they saw Jesus’ glory and the two men standing with Him.

This was much I have from the Bible reference: They were talking about Jesus' death, suffering and exit at Jerusalem. But the witnesses who were supposed to capture the full details of the discussion or message were sleeping or weren't paying attention. However, Peter shared that testimony in "2 Peter 1:16-21."

Lukuluku69:
2. Enoch did not die too according to the Bible.

Yes, Enoch did not die because he walked with God, and that means tree of life (Living forever). Whoever walks with God cannot die.

Lukuluku69:
3. But John the Baptist never joined Jesus in his Ministry neither were John's Followers.
As a matter of fact, John sent his Disciples To inquire from Jesus if there would be another one after Jesus.

John the Baptist wanted or desired to join Jesus Christ in ministry, and become His follower or disciple too; but the Lord Jesus Christ wouldn't allow him because the Lord Jesus Christ wanted John to continue on his own path and calling to fullfil all righteousness. This was the meaning of what John said to Jesus, "I wanted to be baptized of You, and You come to me?" And the Lord Jesus instructed John the Baptist, "Let it be so for now to fulfill all righteousness."

There were few others too that wanted to join the Lord Jesus Christ as His disciples or followers, but the Lord Jesus wanted them to instead handle another ministry or assignment He called them to do somewhere else. E.g. the former madman that was healed and delivered from legion of demons, begged to become one of the followers of the Lord Jesus Christ; but the Lord Jesus Christ would not, but sent him to go evangelize his community (Mark 5).

Even the Lord Jesus Christ said Himself, "I have other sheep (people) that are not in this fold (among His followers then); and that He will later gather them and join them together so that all would become one fold and He will be just the One Pastor (Shepherd) over all" [John 10:16].

Nevertheless, by the time the Lord Jesus Christ began to admit followers or disciples, John the Baptist was already locked up in prison. This means, John was first arrested before the Lord Jesus Christ began His own public ministry and calling disciples or followers. Soon after John baptized the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord Jesus went for 40 days fasting; and not long when He returned John was already arrested before the Lord Jesus Christ began preaching "Repent for the Kingdom of God is at hand." As it is written,

-- [Mark 1:12-15 MKJV] -- And immediately the Spirit drove Him into the wilderness. And He was there in the wilderness forty days, tempted by Satan. And He was with the wild beasts, and the angels ministered to Him. And after John was delivered up, Jesus came into Galilee, proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom of God, and saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God draws near. Repent, and believe the gospel.

So it's was not even as if John was free but refused to join the Lord Jesus Christ, but that John the Baptist had to be removed and replaced by the Lord Jesus Christ as the next Light-Bearer. So John was in prison hearing the miracles and teachings of the Lord Jesus Christ, before he sent some of his disciples to ask the Lord Jesus Christ whether He was the one to come or should we expect another?

Lukuluku69:
Op, did Elijah preached to Christians? If not, how can you say with your full chest that he was "Warning Christians"?

There was a time Moses and Elijah came to the Lord Jesus Christ on the Mount of Transfiguration, while Peter, James and John, were close by. They were speaking with the Lord Jesus and talking about His death and sufferings which He was about to experience in Jerusalem. As soon as they were done delivering their message and about to return to heaven, Peter and the other Christians who unfortunately were sleeping and weren't attentive to grab the details of the message or discussion began talking about setting up three tabernacle there on the mount, one for Jesus, another for Moses and the third for Elijah.

Elijah truly had been coming and speaking as witness from heaven, and not just him but some of God's messengers who still have their parts in witnessing even in the last days. Infact, in Revelation 11, two witnesses of God (men of God) who never died on earth before entering heaven and becoming part of heaven shall eventually be sent to walk the earth again and witness as men of God. Then they would later be get killed and die for the first time on earth: for it is appointed to man, "Once to die" or man can only die one times, and not more than once. Then in about three and half days, they would rise from the dead and ascend into heaven physically.

Elijah came in spirit in John the Baptist to prepare the way of the Lord Jesus Christ then, and Elijah comes even in our last days or era of Christians to prepare the way of the second coming of the LORD. Indeed, there are men who have already began to hear him as the Voice that speaks in the wilderness.

Genesis 3:23]
therefore the Lord God sent him out of the garden of Eden to till the ground from which he was taken. [NKJV]

So the Lord God sent them out of the Garden of Eden and made them cultivate the soil from which they had been formed. [GNT]

Therefore the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken. [BSB]

DISTRACTED BY OCCUPATIONS

In this Bible verse, even though the main reason God was casting mankind out of the Garden (heaven) was to keep mankind from stretching out their hand and eating of the tree of life and thereby living forever by their own innovation or handwork, God wisely made it appear to mankind that it was for the purpose of tilling the ground or doing an earthly project (distracting them from setting their mind on spiritual, heavenly and eternal things, because they were occupied with goals, purposes and activities of earthly things - tilling the ground).

God began doing this to mankind, making them to focus and occupied on earthly or worldly things, neglecting the spiritual, heavenly and eternal things: thereby, God hides the most important purposes and secrets of eternal life from mankind, while they are busy chasing after vanities (tilling the ground they were taken from, but never able to take anything out of this world).

When God was banishing the man from the paradise of God, He made the banishment appear like He was drafting or sending the man to perform a course, a work or assignment somewhere else. Adam was the to be sent out by God from heaven (paradise/garden) to the ground to fulfill his husbandry purpose on the earth's ground. As it is written,
[Ecclesiastes 3:9-11] — "What do working people gain from their hard labor? I have seen the burden that God has laid on men to occupy them. It is beautiful how God has done everything at the right time. He has put the world in people’s minds so that mortals will not know what God is doing from the beginning to the end of time."

However, the Lord Jesus Christ sets His Disciples free from the bondage of living for earthly or worldly things, neglecting the spiritual, heavenly, needful and the eternal things. He instructed His disciples, seek first the Kingdom of God, and do not lay up treasure on earth but in heaven. Set your mind on things that are above in the heavens where Christ is sitted at God's Right Hand; not the carnality and distraction of earthly things.

Though the Book of Adam and Eve show us that Adam and Eve struggled to regain the Garden heaven instead of getting occupied with earthly things (tilling the ground), the Bible verse above painted the picture of God sending or casting them out but giving them a purpose or assignment for the ground just to occupy them.

If you are wise, you will set your mind and heart more on heavenly, needful, spiritual and eternal things, than your occupations, career, family, business, school, marriages, eating and drinking, and earthly things generally. Do not waste your lifetime, there's eternity after this life.
● ▪︎The mission for which God sent Adam out of the first heaven to do on the ground was to keep him far away from the tree of life in the heaven or garden.
● ▪︎The mission for which God sent Adam out of the first heaven to do on ground was to make him serve his sentence or penalties as suffering for his sin.
● ▪︎The mission for which God sent Adam out of the first heaven to do on ground was to occupy Adam until he dies.
● ▪︎The mission for which God sent Adam out of the first heaven to do on ground was a restitution to the ground, returning Adam back to the ground he was taken from, as God returned the woman back to the man she was taken from.
● ▪︎Basically the mission for which God sent Adam out of the first heaven to do on ground was to place Adam in position where all that God said to them would be fulfilled upon them.

Nevertheless, the banishment or mission ends when Adam is dead and then, Adam would be returning to the third heaven and to access the tree of life through the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

Ken4Christ:
Read the passage below and explain it.

John 3:13 And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.

No man has ascended up to heaven until the Son of man, but there were men that was taken into heaven. You must differentiate between "Ascending? Climbed into heaven" and "Taken/caught up into heaven."

Use this example: "No fish has ascended or climbed a mountain or tree outside water, but there are fishes that were caught up/taken up to a mountain or tree by birds or land animals that took such fishes up there outside the waters."

Before the Lord Jesus Christ came as the Son born of a woman, there were men of God that were taken or caught up into heaven either by the Hand of God, by Clouds, by visions, by angels, or by Chariots of fire and horses. Adam was caught up by God's Hand into the first heaven (Garden of Eden) as soon as he was made a living soul. Enoch was translated and caught up into heaven because God took him. Elijah too was caught up by chariots and horses that were heavenly, not earthy horses that cannot stand fire.

Moreover, entering heaven is as simple as entering the spiritual realms like a portal. So prophets of God such as Moses, Samuel, Isaiah, Michaiah, Ezekiel, etc. that saw God entered heaven in spirit though their physical bodies were on earth. Ezekiel was getting caught up by the Spirit even with his whole body.

Yet, none of these men ascended into heaven even though they have been in heaven. The idea is that, it's not by their own hands; they had grace or help to get into heaven, which means they did not ascend into heaven but they got into heaven or where taken there by God's helping Hand or grace. It's like God not wanting the man to stretch out his hand and take of the tree of life and eat and live forever, by his hand except by God's helping hand.

Don't forget in Jacob's dream, angels were ascending and descending heaven on the ladder; and so it is with angels ascending and descending on the Son of man, the Lord Jesus Christ. And Manoah saw the man of God (angel) ascending on the smoke of the burnt offerings.

The Word, "Ascend into heaven" means "Exaltation:" and the word "Descend from heaven" means "Humbleness." It comes with implications to say someone ascend into heaven. Such implications include:

[1.]. Whoever ascended or ascends into heaven is automatically "God" or "Son of God:" Lucifer tried to qualify as God by attempting to ascend into heaven, but failed: As it is written, "For you have said in your heart, "I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High." -- [Isaiah 14:13-14]

But the Lord Jesus Christ was the Son of man who first descended from heaven and also ascended, qualifying as the true God or Son of God. As it is written, "When He ascended up on high, He led captivity captive and gave gifts to men." (Now that He ascended, what is it but that He also descended first into the lower parts of the earth? He who descended is the same also as He who ascended up far above all heavens, that He might fill all things.) - [Ephesians 4:8-10 MKJV]

So the Lord Jesus Christ saying no man has ascended into heaven does not mean no man has being in heaven, but means no man is God enough to do so. Acts of the Apostles says, "For David has not ascended into the heavens, but David (in spirit or in heavenly realm) says himself, "The LORD said to my Lord, Sit at My right hand until I place Your enemies as a footstool to Your feet." Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God made this same Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ." - [Acts 2:34-36 MKJV]

So we agree that whoever descended and ascended into heaven is God, even if He is a Man. As it is written, "Who has ascended up into heaven, or descended? who has gathered the wind in His fists? Who has bound the waters in a garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? what is His name, and what is His Son's name, if you can tell? - [Proverbs 30:4 KJV]

[2.]. The second implication of saying one ascends heaven, but as God's Holy Hill, is that person is fully Worthy, Holy and Qualified in Righteousness; and that the everlasting doors will respect that person enough to open for him/her in the process of ascending. This is contained in this Psalm as it is written,

Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in His holy place? He that has clean hands, and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to vanity, nor sworn deceitfully. He shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from the God of his salvation. This is the generation of them that seek Him, that seek your face, O Jacob. Selah. Lift up your heads, O you gates; and be you lift up, you everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in. Who is this King of glory? The LORD strong and mighty, the LORD mighty in battle. Lift up your heads, O you gates; even lift them up, you everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in. Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, He is the King of glory. Selah. - [Psalms 24:3-10 KJV]

MaxInDHouse:
So who are those that have received ranks in the kingdom of heaven before the Christ?
Remember that John is the greatest of all who has been born of women so John is greater than Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, David, Elijah and whoever may come to mind because they're all born of women.

Firstly, John the Baptist is not the greatest, neither is John the Baptist greater than those men of God you mentioned as quoted. The scriptures did not say John was greater than anyone, but said none born of a woman is greater than him. This means John the Baptist is just one of the greatest, but not the greatest.

In the kingdom of God, no man or angel is termed the greatest except the Lord Jesus Christ or God. So the highest ranks is for those classified as the "Rank of the Greatest."

John the Baptist only represented the greatest of souls or persons born of a woman, but it doesn't mean he was greater than all born of a woman.

To your question, "So who are those that have received ranks in the kingdom of heaven before the Christ?"

Part of getting a place in the Kingdom of God is getting a rank or level relative to the people and things in the Kingdom. It's Hierarchy, order and positioning. It's like in military, but far greater. Every angel, star, cherub or saint in heaven has a rank because he has a place in heaven. These three are important for identity of every one in heaven: Rank, Number or Name, and Class. As it is in heaven, so it is in the Kingdom of heaven.


What the Lord Jesus Christ was relating to us by comparing John the Baptist to every man on earth and then comparing John the Baptist to those in heaven is this:

The least person in the kingdom of heaven is far greater than the greatest person on earth. The least thing in heaven is greater than the greatest thing on earth. Heaven is far greater than the earth in all ramifications, to the degree that even the smallest or least thing in heaven is far greater than its counterpart on earth. E.g. the poorest man in the kingdom of heaven is far richer than the richest man on earth. Solomon in all his earthly glories and riches was not as glorious as the grass of the kingdom of God.

Ken4Christ:
Elijah didn't go to heaven. He didn't have the legal ground to go to heaven. He went to Abraham's bosom. This is where all the saints of old went to when they die or mysteriously taken away.

Yes, they saw him ascend. But I am very certain he descended from the sky to Abraham's bosom.

It was after Jesus resurrection that all the saints in Abraham's bosom were released and went with Jesus to heaven.

Not all the saints went to Abraham's bosom when they died by then, except Lazarus and perhaps few children of Abraham. There were other places where the saints were collected after they died depending on how they died. E.g. Those who were martyred or killed, such as Abel, were not collected in the same place with those righteous ones who died natural death like Abraham. Many saints had died before Abraham was born. So disabuse your mind about "Abraham's bosom."

However, Elijah was translated so that he should not see death: and therefore, Elijah became a spirit or immortal, which is beyond what could be held in Abraham's bosom or any place in hell beneath. Indeed, Elijah became as Angel of God in heaven, like Enoch.

MaxInDHouse:
Yes of course!
He served when servants of God still CURSE those that offended them but i now know better that sinners are not supposed to curse sinners but pray for them {Luke 6:27-28} he slaughtered pagans while i allow them to see God's grace {Luke 9:51-55} no wonder Jesus (God's Son) said we (Christians) are greater than John the baptist who is also greater than all those born through women! Matthew 11:11

The Lord Jesus did not say Christians are greater than John the Baptist: Rather He said, "The Least of those in the Kingdom of heaven is greater than John the Baptist." There is great difference between those who have received ranks in the kingdom of heaven and Christians on earth.

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[Genesis 3:22]

Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he put out his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever”— [NKJV]

Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil. And now, lest he reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever...” [BSB]

FOREORDINATION

Here you will understand that the program and dealing of God with mankind was changed, and the reason is clear. God had to change how he was relating or dealing with mankind because mankind had become unworthy of God’s first program and dealing with them by two reasons, one is breaking God’s commandment or covenant and two is knowing good and evil.

Keywords:
• Word of Knowledge
• Becoming as God(s) – may be good or evil
• How is that a fall when it is becoming as God?
• His hand – Not by hand, to live forever (immortality)
• Knowledge gained him God’s acknowledgement but took from him God’s trust


In the bible verse above, “The Lord God said…” and that which the Lord God said was the last word God said or spoken both in this chapter and in the bible’s account of Adam being in the paradise of Eden before the eventual fall of man out of Eden. And actually, in this word is the basic reason mankind was cast out of heaven (the first heaven or Eden); and therefore, the fall of man.

This Word of God in the Bible verse above was a “Word of Knowledge” that preempted the “Knowledge of good and evil” in mankind. Before the knowledge of good and evil could conceive in man the idea of eating of the tree of life and living forever, the “Word of Knowledge” or “Foreknowledge” of God said or revealed it to the Godhead. Before any knowledge reveals any thought/idea to you or to any man, the Word of Knowledge (Foreknowledge) would have revealed it to God already. This means, there is a preemptive or foreknowledge that predicts or foretell to God what every other knowledge would reveal to man. Example, in “Ezekiel 38:10” God revealed ideas or thought that will come into people’s mind beforehand.

O LORD, you have examined me, and you know me. You alone know when I sit down and when I get up. You read my thoughts from far away. You watch me when I travel and when I rest. You are familiar with all my ways. Even before there is a single word on my tongue, you know all about it, LORD. You are all around me—in front of me and in back of me. You lay Your Hand on me. Such knowledge is beyond my grasp. It is so high I cannot reach it. Where can I go to get away from Your Spirit? Where can I run to get away from You? If I go up to heaven, You are there. If I make my bed in hell, You are there. If I climb upward on the rays of the morning sun or land on the most distant shore of the sea where the sun sets, even there Your Hand would guide me and Your Right Hand would hold on to me. If I say, “Let the darkness hide me and let the light around me turn into night,” even the darkness is not too dark for You. Night is as bright as day. Darkness and light are the same to You? -- [Psalms 139:1-12 GW]

Back to the top bible verse above, where we see man becoming as God(s) but not sure whether that’s good or evil for the man. A question arose thus, “How is that a fall when it is becoming as God?”

Why do we say “The Fall of Adam” or “Fall of Man” if God admitted the man became as one of the Godhead? Shouldn’t that be celebrated as man’s achievement rather than mourning over that as man’s fall?

Becoming as God without God means a great fall. If you successfully become as God without God Himself making you as God, you are fallen. The fall of mankind and the fall of Lucifer were both linked to becoming as God without God’s doing or approving that. As it is written,

How are you fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How are you cut down to the ground, who didst weaken the nations! For you have said in your heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. Yet you shall be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit. - [Isaiah 14:12-15]

Even Lucifer attempted being like the most high, but without the Most High approving it with grace. The antichrist too would become as God without God approving it with grace, and that would become his great fall into perdition. As it is written,

Who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sits in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. - [2 Thessalonians 2:4 KJV]

Again,

Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus said the Lord GOD; Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet you are a man, and not God, though you set your heart as the heart of God: - [Ezekiel 28:2 KJV]

So the first mistake already made was Adam becoming as God (in knowledge of good and evil) without God approving that with grace. But the second mistake must be prevented, which would be “Adam becoming immortal” by his own hand (without God approving that with grace).

His hand – Not by hand, to live forever (immortality). In the top bible verse, the bible versions I cited mentioned something the man’s hand must not be allowed to do for the man to live forever. Some other bible versions did not mention hand, but hand of man was key in understanding the point here.

• It was by the hand of man that they became as God in knowing good and evil. It was not by the hand of the serpent or any angel, but by the hand of the woman, which also means by the hand of man.

• It must not be by the hand of the man for them to become immortal or live forever through reaching out his hand and taking from the tree of life.

Eternal life or immortality for man must be by God, not by man’s hands. You must be saved by grace through faith, not by your works, lest any man should boast (Ephesians 2:8-9). God does not want the tree of life to be what gives man eternal life; but wants man to have eternal life through Him (the Lord Jesus Christ) before man eats of the tree of life. So by the time we eat of the tree of life, we would have already gotten eternal life or already living forever before the tree of life becomes just icing of the cake.

Eternal life is inside the Son of God, the Lord Jesus Christ. It is not inside heaven for you to have it, neither is eternal life kept for you on a tree for you to go and get it there: Eternal life is kept for you inside God the Lord Jesus Christ for you to believe and abide in Him and He gives you eternal life for you to live forever through His Resurrection from the dead and endless life.

Behold, the man gained the Knowledge of good and evil and gained God’s acknowledgement but lost God’s trust. It’s like a boy-child who was getting the privilege of bathing among naked bathing women and ladies when he was without knowledge or ignorance as a little child; but as soon as the boy gained knowledge and aware of certain things, he gained some acknowledgment but lost trust or privilege of such exposures.

Expanse2020:
I taught when helija went to heaven he didn't comeback again...
Abeg who come write all this narrative oo

Elijah has been coming back even after he was taken into heaven. E.g/


And His disciples asked Him, saying, Why then do the scribes say that Elijah must come first? And answering Jesus said to them, Elijah truly shall come first and restore all things. But I say to you that Elijah has come already, and they did not know him, but have done to him whatever they desired. Likewise also the Son of Man shall suffer from them. Then His disciples understood that He spoke to them about John the Baptist.
-- [Matthew 17:10-13 MKJV]


Behold, I am sending you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of Jehovah. And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the sons, and the heart of the sons to their fathers, that I not come and strike the earth with utter destruction.
-- [Malachi 4:5-6 MKJV]

2024 will, of course, be a leap year, and as we know, leap years occur once every four years to keep our calendar in line with the Earth's revolutions around the sun. However, from a spiritual perspective, we can see that this extra day can be viewed as a gift from God. The Lord has given us an extra day to use wisely, to glorify Him, and to serve others.

2024 is also a significant year from a biblical perspective. The Bible speaks of the number four being significant and representing the creation of the world, the four seasons, the four elements, and the four gospel writers. Four also symbolizes the four corners of the earth, indicating that God's message is universal.

Moreover, in Isaiah 43:19, the Lord says, "See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?" Let us be sure to be ready for this new thing the Lord is doing in the year 2024. Let us pray for increased discernment and wisdom to be sensitive to His leading as we move through this leap year.

As we ponder the significance of 2024 and the leap year, let us remember that time is a precious gift from the Lord, and we need to use it wisely. Let us strive to live our lives according to God's will, to honor Him, and to fulfill the purpose He has for us. Let us seize each day He gives us with gratitude and joy.

In conclusion, let us thank the Lord for the gift of time, for each day, and for the extra day He has given us in 2024 through the leap year. Let us commit to making the most of this extra day to love and serve Him, and to make a positive difference in the lives of those around us.

May God bless us all and give us His wisdom and guidance in all that we do in the year 2024 and beyond. Amen.

Wait!!!

That doesn’t sound like me.

I, Peterch, was born in 1984, which was also a “Leap Year.” And because a day, February 29, was added to that year during the count down to my emergence on earth, my Birthday therefore became “September 15th” instead of “September 16th” if that year was not a Leap year. You see how an extra day in a leap year changed the count down and worked to ensure I be born on September 15th, instead of September 16th, of the year 1984.

A day is enough to shift your position forward and ahead of that which it should have been. And may it not just be a shift, but a leap.

Joshua commanded and the sun stood still for a whole day, meaning that year was opposite of a leap year because one day was lost in that year instead of one day been added to the year as is the case in a Leap. Infact, more souls died that day from the war because the sun stood still and made one long day that should have been two days if the sun had stood still or frozen in motion. [Joshua 10:12-14].

Yea, that day was prolonged, but a day was not added. I teach you to rather ask the Lord to “Add to your days” than asking Him to “Prolong your days.” For the mercies of God are new every morning: great is the LORD’s faithfulness in each distinct day - [Lamentations 3:23 KJV]

Naijanascam:
It's like you are only living in the spirit and stop using earthly things because black man is advancing spiritually instead of in physical development,activity and advancements.

This is laughable and shouldn't be repeated please

Again, in the sight of God, the Black race and Nigeria in particular is one of the most progressive nations and peoples in the program of God. As it is in the spiritual, so shall it manifest in the physical in the days to come.

Naijanascam:
It's like this warning is only meant for Africans and Nigeria in particular.... The time you used to compose the above text is enough for you to think deeper about what kept the black race backwards

In my own evaluation, the Black Race is not backward in the sight of God compared to other races. What is your definition of backwardness? and what are your parameters?

Those who come to the faith in the Lord Jesus Christ may appear backward in carnal man's eyes, but spiritually they are advancing.

ELIJAH’S WARNING TO CHRISTIANS
AFTER HE WAS TAKEN TO HEAVEN


The Living water belongs to anyone who will drink it. You did not see it because you did not look for it; and you did not see Him because you did not seek to see Him.

Even the youngest disciples are taught where to find the Living water and how to drink from it daily. Is there no discipleship left? Did you not have a mentor to teach you this?”

Natural waters may run dry or absent in the some of the driest wildernesses, but the Living Water never runs dry nor absent in any wilderness or desert. The living water is available to sojourners at any time and in any place, if you stay on the right path. When you are on the right path it will always be close to you, so find it, drink it often, and never go far from it. This is one of the most basic lessons you must learn for where you are headed and what you are called to do.”

Everything on the right path changes over time. Even though you have been here before, it did not look like this. You must understand this for the journey. The familiar things you are looking for to give you bearings are not the same, and you are not the same. Therefore, your guidance must come from your heart, your spirit. You must see with the eyes of your heart more clearly than you see with these eyes, or you will not stay on the right path.

There is more than one path, and all but one go to a place you do not want to go. There are delusions, deceptions, distractions, and traps all along the path. They are all there to divert you from your purpose. It will take more discernment, more wisdom, and more courage to stay on the right path than anyone has.

One road mark you can trust to keep you on the right path is the Living Water: It is sure compass and guide in your map through any wilderness or way. Always walk close by the Living Water, and always drink it whether you are thirsty or not, so long as you can drink more. Do not lose sight of the Living Water, less you get lost.

You don’t think you’ve ever been as close to death as you were just a few minutes ago. But after drinking this Living Water, you don’t think you have ever been this alive. You have a mental clarity you don’t remember ever having except when you were before the throne. Just a few minutes ago you could hardly think at all. Now you wish you can be this way all of the time.

You not only can be this way all the time, but you must remain as you are now all the time. Whenever you are in the Spirit, you are before the throne of God. His kingdom is within. The King is in you. You are His temple. To walk in truth is to know this and to live in His presence.

Until one is born again they cannot see the kingdom. But just because they are born again does not mean that they see it. Few of those who are born again in these times are opening their new eyes, their spiritual eyes. Few who are coming here now have seen the kingdom. It is a marvel that any get this far with so little vision. This is why so few are making it through even part of the wilderness.

The Lord gave the warning, ‘Woe to those who nurse babes in these times’, or ‘Woe to those who keep their people in immaturity in the last days’ [Matthew 24:19, Mark 13:17, Luke 21:23]. His warning was true—this is the great tragedy of your time.

It is the tragedy of your generation to have brought in the greatest harvest of the age, but then lost most of it. There is an even greater ingathering coming, and this must not happen again.

There is great rejoicing at a single sinner that repents, and there is great lamentation when a single one falls away. There are not many true disciples because there are not many true shepherds (pastors). You have excelled at making converts, but you are not making them into His disciples. The Great Commission is to make disciples. The Lord gave a definition of what a disciple is, and we have few who make it even this far because you are not making disciples. This is the bane of your age.

The church leaders have given themselves to building organizations and churches more than building people. You do have some great ministries and organizations being raised up, but great saints are becoming rare. The great commission is not to go into the world and build great cathedrals, ministries and organizations; but go into the world and make disciples of the Lord.

This is why the judgment of teachers is even more severe. Your shepherds (pastors) have been feeding themselves and have not taken care of the people. Now the final battle is near. We have an army where even its leaders do not know how to fight. Right now few could even survive the first attack. There are already many needless casualties because of this.

I came at the beginning of the age to help prepare the way for the Lord then, and I have come again at the end of the age to prepare the way for Him again. I do this by helping to prepare His people. Now the first thing that must be done to prepare for Him and the times is to make the leaders into disciples. They will not know how to make disciples if they have not been disciples.

No one can make it on this path who is not a disciple, and they certainly won’t last long in the battle without being one. There should be multitudes that are on this path now, but there are few.

You are the generation that was given the greatest resources, the most knowledge, the most freedom, but so few have come to the knowledge of the truth. Where are the shepherds?”

The last shall be first. The generation emerging is called to be the greatest of all. Right now, it is in the worst shape of all. This happened on your watch. Even so, ‘where sin abounds grace does that much more abound.’ There is still grace available to change this if you repent.

The fabric of Christianity in your time is very thin. You are as weak and unprepared, but this path will prepare you, and I will help you. I was with John the Baptist to do this in his time.

It begins with repentance. You cannot stay long on this path without a strong foundation of repentance. You must be quick to see your sin—quick to see your mistakes and to correct them. Some of you are quick to see your sin and mistakes. This is helpful, but you have not been quick to correct them, and that can be your doom. Repentance is more than feeling sorry for your sin, it is turning from the sin.

Only a foundation of repentance will keep you humble enough to walk in the grace of God. Humility is to be teachable and dependent on the Holy Spirit. This has not been a foundation that many have built upon in your time. You must start with preaching and teaching repentance. You must start praying for the Spirit to come to convict of sin. Your generation hardly even knows what sin is.

I prayed for the judgment of God to come upon my own nation. Then I had to challenge the false teachers and prophets of my time. This is a basic duty of the prophets. Where are your prophets? Where are your apostles? Where are the shepherds who will protect God’s people from the great deception of your time? Why are the wolves allowed to devour God’s people right in front of them and they do nothing?

I was taken up so that I would not see death so that I could return to prepare the way for the Lord. The Baptist loved the people enough to warn them. He loved them enough to risk his life to tell them the truth and to stand for the truth that could set them free. Where are those that can be used to prepare the way for the Lord in your time? Where are those who will even risk being rejected for the sake of the truth?

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Ministering to the Lord God and Father ranks greater than ministering to His People. Yet, all are important to Him, and He also ministers to you while you minister to Him and to His People. Just don't allow His ministering to you in the process of ministering to Him distract or turn you away from continuing and completing your ministering to Him, no matter how much you are receiving of Him while giving to Him. Still press to give to Him, for He is more important than those gifts you have gained or received of Him.

The Spirit is willing but the flesh is weak: thankfully, it's not by might (strength) nor by power but by God's Spirit as the Lord said. Do not forget that you can pray in the flesh and you can pray in the Spirit. It could be like in your dream or trance, having your flesh or body relaxing while you advance in and with your spirit into the realms of God, seeking Him even when you already found Him, and ministering to Him beyond the rewards you are receiving of it.

The curtain was torn open when the Lord died for us on the cross, and the way of accessing the Holy of Holies through the Blood of the Lamb (Jesus Christ) made available for all who come into the temple to seek Him. This temple is not just a building of Solomon or Zerubbabel at Jerusalem in the Middle East, but the temple within your body.

The flesh is weak, but you don't have to walk after the flesh nor led by the flesh, to come to your Lord God and Father of spirits. In the journey of coming to Him by the ways of the Spirit, seek Him more even when you already found Him and His angels. Elijah had left all, including leaving his first servant (that was willing to accept been left behind - unlike Elisha) while Elijah went to seek the Lord in far distance away, even though the Lord was reachable to Elijah wherever Elijah was or had been. Elijah could reach God anywhere and even opened or shut the heavens from wherever he was on earth, and yet he realized through Jezebel's threat that his fleeing is not over yet, and since there was fleeing for him to do there was seeking the Lord God for him to do therefore. In the battle, where you stopped seeking the Lord determines where you stopped advancing in the realms of His Salvation and Presence.

Elijah came to the place where angel prepared his food and fed him couple of times, where he rested. He had advanced from ravens bringing him food to where a widow brought him food; and then later he came to where angel of God brought or served him food physically. Yet, he sought the Lord in his journey on the strength of the angel's food for 40 days and nights still seeking the Lord at Mount Horeb.

There at Horeb, Elijah was still seeking the Lord God, whom he could hear audibly but did not see. The Wind, the Quake, and the Fire, all passed and did wonders, but Elijah did not see the Lord whom he was seeking in any of those Powers that were advertising themselves for him to possess them. Yes, Elijah was not seeking for powers to do more signs and wonders, either the powers of the element of fire, element of earth-(quake) or element of wind. Elijah matured above seeking the Powers or gifts of God to do miracles, signs and wonders before people; for Elijah was seeking God.

He couldn't stop seeking the Lord at Mount Horeb, and he had to relinquish his mantle or ministry to another man (Elisha) to succeed him because he would rather continue seeking the Lord than occupied with prophetic ministry. And then, no important place where the Presence of God was on earth around Israel that Elijah wouldn't travel to seek the Lord there beyond Mount Horeb. Even in the day the Lord was to take Elijah away from Elisha, Elijah traveled from place to place in that same day, from Gilgal through Bethel and Jericho, and crossing Jordan. By implication I say that since nowhere on earth called for Elijah to go in seeking the Lord, he was taken into heaven where the call of seeking the Lord God in the heavens continued, dropping his remaining mantle of ministry on earth when taken.

Now, we have this great privilege of not needing to seek the Lord God throughout the land of pilgrimage (on earth) first before we begin seeking Him in the realms of the heavens. You don't have to travel through Israel or go various places seeking the Lord or His Kingdom, because the Kingdom of God (which you should seek first) is within you in heavenly/spiritual realms via the Spirit. Seek first the Kingdom of God, but seek the Kingdom of God within you. The primary purpose for you to be "Born Again" is for you to see or enter the Kingdom of God. Many people are 'born again' but they are neither see nor entering the Kingdom of God; and the reason is because they are not seeking the Kingdom of God. Seek and you shall find; but seek first the Kingdom of God, and all other things shall be added to you so you don't have to seek them anymore.

If you are 'born again' and you are not seeking or seeing the Kingdom of God and God of the Kingdom, your being born again is getting wasted day by day.

herlecks:
Thanks, got even more. How trusted are these books?

Just use discretion and allow the Spirit of God to lead you with the scriptures while reading those books.

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Again, the following excerpts I have extracted from a book written by Professor Iyke Nathan Uzorma, titled, “SECRETS FROM HEAVEN.” They are not mine, but I share them here.

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THE LORD OF LORDS

The Lord spoke further to me, saying:

“Harbinger of the Last Covenant, remember the coming of your Lord into the world of man, even My coming in the order of the Son, in which I was Called Jesus Christ. That particular manifestation of Myself as the Son of God is from the everlasting, an d is far greater than each of the manifestations of My Seven Spirits.

“Behold, Adam, Enoch, Noah, Melchisedec, Isaac, Moses and Elijah, are far below the very manifestation in which I died on Earth for the sins of the world and rose again from death. O ye Iyke Uzorma, Harbinger of the Last Covenant, bear witness that your Lord Jesus Christ was not the manifestation of one of the Seven Spirits of God.

“Your Lord then came as the Supreme Manifestation of the sum-total combination of all the Seven Spirits of God put together. Your Lord Jesus Christ is the perfect fill strength of the Seven Spirits of God in total consummation. Behold, your Lord Jesus Christ is the Perfect God; the Perfect Son of God; and, verily, He is the Perfect Son of Man.

“Remember also in the book of Revelation (5:6), how I revealed Myself as the Lamb with seven horns and seven eyes, which are the Seven Spirits of God. That I revealed Myself thus shows My manifestation as the sum total of the Seven Spirits of God.

“I am the Seven Spirits, even the Holy Spirit; l am the Son, and, behold, I am the Supreme Father of all. I am far beyond all you know of My manifestations. I hold the keys of life and death in all the known realms and the unknown realms of My creation. I am the Godhead; behold, I am everywhere at all times managing all things; and he who comes to Me is free in eternity.

“Son of man, the life of spirits, angels, men, demons, every creature, even the Prince of Darkness, are completely under My control. I control all things while I, even I, thy Lord, am beyond control.

“O ye Harbinger of the Last Covenant, Iam the Seven Spirits which came into the Earth as the Messengers of Light. I am the Son who gave My life for the sins of the world; and I am the Father, the Owner of the Vineyard, whose coming at the fullness of time on Earth brings forth judgement. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”

As soon as the Lord said, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear, “the Holy Spirit returned me to the world of my physical abode. Then I praised the Lord God Almighty.

THE SECOND ADVENT

I learnt from the Lord, however, that His next coming to the Earth, after the coming in which He was known as the Son of God, (Our Lord Jesus Christ), shall be mainly not only in the order of the Son of God, but in the final order of the Father of Creation.

For instance, we found in Revelation chapter 1 verse 4 that the Almighty Father is referred to as the One “which is, and which was, and which is to come.” The One which is to come therefore is the Father of Creation, with the Son (Lamb) to establish the “Throne of God and of the Lamb” (Rev. 22:4) on Earth.

The coming of God as the Father also includes the One who came as the Son. The Seven Spirits are also included, even the Angels and mighty Beings of the realms of God, as well as the First Fruits of the Lamb. Please take time to study the parable of Our Lord Jesus Christ, as recorded in Matthew chapter 21 verses 33 to 41.

There you will have a clear understanding of the Divine manifestation of the Almighty Father into the world of man at the fullness of time. Children of men, the vineyard in this parable stands for the world of man. The husbandmen mentioned by the Lord are both religious and political leaders of the Earth that killed the prophets. The servants sent at one time or the other by the owner of the vineyard, are the saints and prophets of old. The Son sent by the Owner of the vineyard, is Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, the Son of God. While the Owner of the vineyard Himself who came at last, is the Supreme Father of the Universe. It means that the Divine manifestation of God (as the Father) with the clouds of Heaven (Rev. 1:7) is the ultimate consummation of what we believers know as ‘The Second Advent.’

The glory of God came forth and covered me, whilst I stood in spirit in the midst of His Almighty Power; the Power which came with the clouds of Heaven. From the midst of this cloud, a mighty voice, the Word of God, came to me saying: “Son of man, whom I have called and set apart to walk on the path of My Power, My Righteousness, even My Wisdom, now consider this:”

He continued with a question, saying: “Thy Lord and the children of men who serves the other?” I answered and said: “O my Lord, Thou knowest.” And He said to me:

THE DOER OF ALL THINGS

"Son of man, who washes your clothes and sweeps your house? Who cooks your meal and serves you to eat? Who provides your food and clothes you? Who takes away sickness and death from the midst of thee? Who is your driver that drives you on the streets?

“Son of man, who fights the battles of life for you, even the battles that you know not? Who guides you in the day and in the hour of the night? Behold, I, thy Lord, do all these and more. I do all these for the children of men and for every creature in all the realms of existence.

“Daily I serve My children on Earth in diverse ways more than they think that they serve Me.

“Know this therefore that I am the Chief Servant of the Universe, and, behold, I am Supreme Enjoyer.

“I am the Servant, the Servant of servants; I am Supreme in service and in mastership, O son of man.

“I create, maintain and serve every creature. But I am the only Servant, the dear most Servant, the true Servant of all that serve Me in spirit and in truth. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”

As I heard these from the Lord, while still in spirit, I remembered what Psalm 127 verse 1 says, that: “Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman watcheth but in vain.”

HE SERVES US BETTER

When at last the Spirit of the Lord returned me back to the Earth, I recognised the workings of His mysterious Power, especially towards those who are on the path of Light and righteousness, by His grace. I learnt a spiritual lesson, that if one is a true servant of the Lord God Almighty, who is on the path of Light, the Spirit of Our Lord Jesus Christ does all things for him.

THE HIDDEN TRUTH

One thing I observed is that while the Lord was speaking to me about the manifestations of His Seven Spirits in human forms, He did not follow the order of their manifestations. Such as Adam, Enoch, Noah, Melchisedec, Isaac, Moses, and Elijah. Rather He spoke of Melchisedec, Enoch, Elijah, Adam, Isaac, Noah and Moses.

The reason for this was not made known to me. However, the Lord taught me in spirit that when one of the Seven Spirits comes to the Earth in a human form, the greater portion of that Spirit of God does not inhabit the human form. While a specific amount of that Spirit takes the human form, the greater portion of the same Spirit resides and operates in the eternal realms of Universal Spirit.

The human form therefore becomes one of the multidimensional projections that the Spirit of God, (One of the Seven Spirits of God) takes in multifarious manifestations. The very Spirit of God in manifestation in a human form and in multitudinous projections, is more than the sum-total of the human form and His multidimensional manifestations in various systems put together.

Yet such projections of Himself, as well as the human form that He takes on Earth, are eternally one with Him with that portion of the Spirit of God from whence they emerge. This is a mystery. The Lord also spoke to me, saying:

“Son of man, these Mighty Ones, even Melchisedec, Enoch, Elijah, Adam, Isaac, Noah and Moses, each was the first manifestation in human form of the particular portion of the Seven Spirits from whence they came. Each of the Seven Spirits of the Lord thy God has other manifestations, both as humans and other forms, which the children of men do not recognise as such.”

Then the Lord spoke to me of myself in a manner which I shall not reveal. And He spoke further, saying:

“Behold, John the Baptist was also a manifestation of one of the Seven Spirits of your Lord. But it was the portion of the Seven Spirits that came as Elijah that also reappeared as John on Earth.

“Of a truth, the Spirit of your Lord that became Adam also at the same time became Abel, even the seed of righteousness. The portion of My Spirit that was Enoch later returned to the Earth as Joseph; Daniel was the portion of My Spirit that first came as Melchisedec; while Job was the portion which came as Noah.

“There were portions of My Spirit, O son of man, which took human forms and lived in Europe, Persia, America, China, India, Africa, the realm of the Arabs and other places, but are not known as such among the children of men.”

Perhaps it might interest you to read about the Incarnations and Reincarnations of the Seven Spirits of God, which incarnated as Adam, Enoch, Noah, Melchizedek, Isaac, Moses, and Elijah; and later reincarnated or retuned as Abel, Joseph, Job, Daniel, and John the Baptist. Or perhaps you need to know that the Lord God is neither Male nor Female, but both and beyond.

Again, the following excerpts I have extracted from a book written by Professor Iyke Nathan Uzorma, titled, “SECRETS FROM HEAVEN.” They are not mine, but I share them here.

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DIVINE VISITATION

It came to pass, after all that I discussed with Ambassador Yuri that morning that in the night of the same day the Lord appeared to me and stood in my prayer room. This divine visitation was physical, for the Lord sat down and commanded me to write at the same time all that He would say. Then Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ spoke to me and said:

“Harbinger of the Last Covenant, I have come to show you part of the mystery of My Being, for I am the Lord thy God. All that you made known to My son Yuri in the morning were brought forth by Me and represents the truth of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, which for ever is One God. I am the source of all things, I am the mystery of the beginingless of God, and behold, l am the end and the endless.”

As the Lord spoke these words, immediately I was in spirit and saw the planets, stars, moon and the sun coming out of His mouth. Thereafter I saw myself standing alone in the space whilst the Sun appeared before me. The Sun changed to a burning fire and the face of the Lord of the Universe appeared in the midst of it. Then He spoke to me with a strong voice, saying:

KNOW MORE ABOUT GOD

“Son of man, I, thy Lord, can only be experienced. And everyone experience Me. Whether one knows it or not, he experiences Me through his existence, in every moment of his life.

“Behold, I am neither male n or female, yet I am both and beyond. In the most irrevocable truth, on the Most High dimension of My reality, I am neither human nor a personality in earthly terms. “The human concepts of form and personality are too minute and greatly limited to contain and comprehend the multitudinous, nay the endless facets of My multidimensional infinite existence. But again I say to you, I am human; behold, l am a portion of each human Being and of every creature.

“Son of man, know also and understand that within the eternal vastness of My Almighty Omnipresence experience, there is a unit by which I identify Myself and hold the ‘Idea-shape’ of Myself as human. It is through this unit that I relate with mankind and gives man the grace to relate with Me.

“Through this unit of Myself, O son of man, the Spirit of your Lord proceeds from time to time out of the fountain head of the Godhead to manifest or appear in the world of man, in a human form, or in other forms known and unknown to man. You have read in the Holy Scripture that your Lord has Seven Spirits.”

THE SEVEN SPIRITS

The 4th chapter part of verse 5 of Revelation says: “And there were Seven Lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the Seven Spirits of God.” And the Lord spoke further to me, saying:

“Behold, each of the Seven Great Spirits is Supreme and they are Mighty Powers of the Almighty God. By them I, even I, created all things. By them I created the seven major systems of reality, or planes of life, which are within the order of the four major realms of existence.”

I learnt from the Lord, even before this time that He spoke to me, that the whole creation are in four order within the framework of seven systems. The four order of creation are the higher planetary systems (heavens), the middle planetary systems where our Earth belongs, the order of endless universal sea and the lower planetary systems, also called ‘under the Earth,’ Revelation (5:13) spoke of “every creature which is in heaven and on Earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea.” The Lord spoke again to me saying:

“There are seven systems of existence, which are created by My Seven Spirits. These planes are that of the protoplast, earth, plant, beast, man, angel and cherubim. Son of man, unknown to some who believe in Me, the Seven Great Spirits of the Lord thy God, each had manifested on earth and lived as human.

“This happened even before my coming into the world of man, in the full combined strength of the Seven Spirits, in which I was known as JESUS CHRIST. And this continues even after that. My coming into the world then was in the position of the Son of Man.

“I revealed Myself among men as the Son of God, but, behold I am God for ever. When my Spirit takes a human form among men, such Divine Manifestation lives and works for ever in the pool of My Universal Spirit.”

THE ANCIENT MELCHISEDEC

His Word came forth with power, as He spoke to me in His appearance from the Sun that turned into fire. He continued:

“Now, O son of man, who do you think was the Being known as Melchisedec? Behold, he was a Divine Manifestation of one of the Seven Spirits of the Godhead. He came to the Earth as a Messenger of Righteousness who prospered in the world of man.”

The Holy Scripture speaks of Melchisedec in Hebrews chapter seven. From the first to the fourth verse we read:
“For this Melchisedec, King of Salem, Priest of the Most High God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him; To whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all; first being by interpretation king of righteousness and after that also king of Salem, which is King of peace; Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually Now consider how great this man was, unto whom even the patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils.”

It may be recalled that in Genesis chapter 18, the Lord God physically visited Abraham as a human and even ate food in his house. The record has it that the Lord visited Abraham with two men who were Angels in disguise. The Lord and the men sat under a tree wherein they ate food and blessed Abraham.

Now the question is: who was this Lord that came physically to Abraham as a human Being and ate food like the children of men? In answer to this question, let me recall what I wrote in my book entitled ‘The Greatest Revelation of Our Time Vol. 1. There I stated:

“Even Melchisedec was the Spirit of God who came to the Earth then and served as Priest of the Most High God. And it was he who gave blessings in those days to our father Abraham. Melchisedec came to the Earth without earthly father and mother: And even though it was said that all have sinned, he was not only recognised as a righteous man, but was even called ‘King of Righteousness,’ a title which belongs only to God. It is further reported in the Holy Scripture that Melchisedec had no beginning of days nor end of life. And I learnt from the Lord that, verily, Melchisedec was the God of Abraham.”

CODED KNOWLEDGE

When the Lord told me in Spirit that the Seven Supreme Spirits of the Almighty God have all appeared and lived as human Beings in the world of man, I knew that many believers past and present are not aware of this, as this is not part of the general teachings of Christianity.

Nevertheless, I discovered that even the foremost evidence of this is found in the Holy Scriptures. The Scriptures presented this in divine codes that only the Holy Spirit can properly decode.

THE PROPHET ENOCH

After speaking to me about Melchisedec, as a manifestation of the Spirit of God among men, the Lord further spoke to me saying:

“Son of man, behold, Enoch was another manifestation of the Spirit of God, even My Spirit, among men. Enoch came forth from Me and lived with the children of men by the mystery of My Being. “He stood as an ancient Prophet, but, behold, he was more than a Prophet before Me. For by him the Words of the Lord thy God became established upon the rock beyond the circle of the Sun. And it came to pass that at the end of his mission in the world of man, which was to record and report the activity of everyone in his time, that he returned to the pool of My Spirit wherein is his portion.”

The Holy Scripture has it that at the end of the mission of Enoch on Earth, he disappeared from the human world without death in earthly terms. Genesis (chapter 5 ver ses 23 to 24) says: “And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years: And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him “

The Living Bible has it thus: “When he was 365, and in constant touch with God, he disappeared, for God took him.” As the Lord was speaking of Enoch, I later considered that by leaving the Earth without death, Enoch in his time was the living seal and true symbol of the Almighty God on Earth.

THE MYSTERIOUS ELIJAH

Furthermore, the Lord spoke to me saying: “Son of man, who do you think was Elijah?” Then I answered and said, “O my Lord, I know not; for I know nothing except that which You grant that I should know.” Then He said to me:

“Son of man, behold, Elijah was a manifestation of one of the Seven Spirits of the Lord thy God. Through him, the Omnipotence of the True God was established in his time over the messengers of darkness, even the idols of the children of men.”

When I took time later to study the life of Elijah in the Bible, I further learnt certain things in connection with the fact that he was God’s Spirit which appeared on Earth, as the Lord told me. For instance, prophets set forth spiritual decrees upon men, nations and elements by the Word of the Lord God spoken through them. But we are told that at a time Elijah made a decree according to his word. This is recorded in 1st Kings chapter 17 verse 1. There we read: “And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, as the LORD God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.”

I learnt from the Lord that when His Spirit takes a human form to live in the world of man, the word of such an empowered Divine representative of God prevails over all the elements of nature. Here we found that Elijah did not say ‘according to the word of the Lord,’ rather he said ‘according to my word’.

This is so because he was the Spirit of God in manifestation, a bona-fide representative of God in the world of man. Remember also that Elijah finally left this world without death in earthly terms. In the second chapter of second Kings, it is written: “And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked that behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder, and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.”

THE PRIMORDIAL ADAM

Again, the Lord spoke to me, saying:

“Son of man, behold, the primordial Adam was the first manifestation of the Spirit of your Lord in the world of mankind. Adam was set apart to dominate and rule the Earth.”

“Remember what Genesis (2: 7) says: ‘And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.’ Son of man, this means nothing else than that Adam was an expansion of your Lord, a direct projection of My Spirit, sent forth to experience life in the world of gross matter.

“Understand that the body of man is not the real man, but a house of that which is beyond; a temple which I made for Myself. Behold, the earthly body of Adam, formed out of the dust of the ground, was dormant, it was lifeless when it was made.

“Yea, it remained on this state until ‘The Breath of Life’ from Me entered in to it. Then Adam became a living Soul. He became a concentrated unit, the first individualized human unit, of the Spirit of thy Lord on Earth.

“Adam therefore sprang up from My Spirit, as all things came from Me. But Adam became the highest and the most concentrated unit of My Spirit known in all the realms of mankind, of the beast, of plant, of the element, of the Earth and of protoplast.

“Son of man, the ‘breath of life’ is not a creature but it creates. It was not created because it is the Spirit of your Lord which has no beginning and cannot end. The breath of life, which became Adam, is My Spirit. My Sprit, O son of man, is the Life Current of the Godhead, that is forever one with God. There is no point in which it ends and begin.

“Therefore by breathing My Spirit into Adam, he immediately became a manifestation of My Spirit. But learn this, Harbinger of the Last Covenant, that the projected drama of the fall of Adam was not unknown to Me from the day he was made. Rather this was disguised to enrich the multidimensional systems of My creation, from a point of reference hitherto unknown in earthly terms.”

THE BLIND ONE

The Lord spoke further to me, saying: “The Prophet Isaac, son of Abraham, was also a manifestation of one of the Seven Spirits of your Lord.”

My later studies of the life and works of Isaac also revealed that of a truth, as spoken to me by the Lord, he was a consummate representative of the Lord in his time on Earth.

Isaac was even conceived not by the process of sexual act, for his parents had transcended such system of life at that time. For instance, then Abraham was one hundred years whilst his wife Sarah had reached her menopause. The Scripture in Genesis (18: 11) spoke of them thus: “Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well striken in age; and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.”

That “it ceased to be with Sarah a fter the manner of women “means that she was in her menopause, the end of her menstrual period. To this end, she had lost all biological ability to conceive and bear a child via sexual act. This was also why she laughed scornfully at the Lord’s promise of making her bear a son in her old age.

In this promise itself lies the foremost Scriptural evidence that Isaac was God’s Divine Spirit in manifestation. To this end, God told Abraham in Genesis (18: 10) that: “I will certainly return unto thee I according to the time of life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son.”

The expression “I will certainly return unto thee,” was used by God to show that He (His Spirit) was the one that would return to Abraham and be born on Earth as the son of Sarah. And truly He returned as spoken at that time and manifested in the world of man via Abraham and Sarah. This divine manifestation, this Spirit of the Lord, was Isaac.

Furthermore, we found in the Holy Scriptures that Isaac himself even spoke on Earth as a true divine representative of God on Earth. In Genesis (27: 37), after Jacob had taken the blessings of Esau from Isaac by means of manipulation, it came to pass that the blind Isaac told Esau: “Behold, I have made him thy lord, and all his brethren have I given to him for servants.”

Here Isaac did not say ‘God has made him your lord’ or ‘all his brethren has God given to him for servants’. Rather he made it clear that “I” (Isaac himself) did it. This should not be taken to be ordinary. No one can give what he does not have. No one can run beyond his shadow.

The words spoken by Isaac to this end proceeded from his ultimate identity as the Spirit of the Lord in manifestation, which is eternally one with God. The Lord brought this understanding to me in spirit. The words also which he spoke on the platform of the “I” the Spirit of the Lord which was himself, fulfilled as pronounced by him.

NOAH THE SAVIOUR

The Lord spoke to me and said:

“Behold, Noah was another manifestation of one of the Seven Spirits of your Lord among the children of men.“ He said again: “Son of man, verily, Noah was sent forth from the realm of the Highest and set apart to save the world in his time. And it came to pass that he saved the world by My Word.” The Lord spoke further to me of Noah and said: “Son of man, by the ark he saved remnant, even of his seed, from the great flood. This was done that they would replenish the Earth as ordained by Me. “

In speaking of Noah, the Scripture (Gen. 6: 9) says: “These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a Just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.” In Romans (3: 10) it is said, “there is none righteous, no, not one.” And in the same chapter verse 23 we read: “For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God." Now, whereas it was said that all have sinned, we found as already stated that this did not apply to Noah.

This is because he was a manifestation of a portion of God’s Spirit, who came in those days to save the world, he was not categorised among “all that have sinned”. It was said of Noah that he was both just (righteous) and perfect. This took place in the strength of what he was: God’s Spirit in manifestation.

THE GOD MOSES

While in spirit, in the presence of the Holy Face of the Lord my God, which appeared and covered the Sun that was powerful than fire, He spoke again to me, saying:

“Son of man, consider how great Moses was before thy Lord. For, behold, he, even Moses, was a manifestation of one of the Seven Spirits of the Lord thy God. Moses was ordained and set apart to operate on Earth even as God. While in the world of man, Moses, as the Spirit of God, acted as God, and his brother Aaron acted as his prophet.”

It may be recalled that it was said unto Moses by the Lord God Almighty (Exo.7: 1): “See, I have made thee a god to Pharaoh: and Aaron thy brother shall be thy Prophet” Here the small letter “g” was used in reference to Moses as a god to Pharaoh. However in another place (Exo. 4:16), the capital letter “G” was used with regards to Moses as a true Spirit of God in manifestation. There we read: “And he shall be thy spokesman unto the people: and he shall be, even he shall be to thee instead of a mouth, and thou shall be to him instead of God.”

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