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WHEN GOD CONVICTS SINNER THAT FEELS RIGHTEOUS

[Genesis 3:17]

Then to Adam He said, “Because you have heeded the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it’: “Cursed is the ground for your sake; In toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life. [NKJV]

And He said to the man, “You listened to your wife and ate the fruit which I told you not to eat. Because of what you have done, the ground will be under a curse. You will have to work hard all your life to make it produce enough food for you. [GNT]

Notice that God convicted Adam or showed Adam his fault first before or while making His ruling here.

*1* When God spoke with the Serpent, He did not convict the Serpent because the woman already convicted or indicted (accused rightly) the Serpent, which was adopted without argument or controversy.

*2* When God spoke with the Woman, He did not convict the Woman because the Man already convicted or indicted (accused rightly) the Woman, which was adopted without argument or controversy.

*3* But here as God spoke with the Man here, He first convicted the Man because no one or no conscience already convicted or indicted (accused rightly) the Man, who still felt he was blameless in the matter for he was not the actor but the pawn in the matter.

Here was God's conviction(s) to Adam: (Instead of one conviction now, it became two or more convictions because He allowed God to search him out Himself instead of him judging himself so that God would not have to judge him):

"a" — Convicted Adam of listened to his wife rather than to God.

Some think that the ears do not commit sin by hearing or listening, only the mouths are capable of committing sins: But the first sin of Adam the first human was the sin of listening or hearing to someone.

[Luke 8:18] — "Be careful therefore how you hear: for whoever has, to him shall be given; and whoever has not, from him shall be taken even that which he seems to have."

[Ecclesiastes 7:21] — "Do not pay attention to every word that is spoken, or you may hear your servant cursing you."



"b" — Convicted Adam of eating of the tree God told him not to eat, even though Adam did not touch the tree nor pluck the fruit from the tree.

What a great conviction or indictment! Instead of one, it became double transgressions against Adam. That is, Adam figuratively ate of the forbidden tree twice, though he did it once: One he listened to his wife when the wife already ate the fruit of that tree, and became like an extension of the forbidden tree to him. So as soon as his wife already ate of the forbidden tree, she was in transgression or she was metaphorically a part of the forbidden tree, and her hand was as a Branch of the forbidden tree extending the fruit to Adam. So, Adam listening to his wife after she was initiated then was already as Adam feeding from the forbidden tree… Well all these may not make sense to you now, but when you experience God's power of conviction or judgment interpreting/analyzing things to you, you would be amazed how things you thought were blameless or innocent suddenly become faulty and despicable. Ask Job who thought he was righteous and blameless until God massively convicted him, and he abhorred himself and repented in dust and ashes. Even Job claimed he was not hiding his sin as Adam was hiding according to "Job 31:33."

[Psalms 19:11-14] — "Moreover by them is Your servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward. Who can understand his errors? cleanse You me from secret faults. Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression. Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in Your sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer."

Better judge yourself to avoid the Lord doing it Himself, and even when you judge yourself you may not see some errors in your spirit because you are relatively blind to some of your own errors or faults. Therefore, God's judgment is way better than yours, but still judge yourself and approach His judgment with humility.

[Proverbs 16:2] — "All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weighs the spirits."

There's an "Aura" everyone carries in his/her soul-spirit being, just as every man carries unique body odor. The aura of your soul-spirit being either reveals you are "foul spirit" or you are "pure/virtuous spirit" in divers degrees. The evil and uncleanness people do are written in the aura of their spirit-soul being forever, and the purity or fruits of the Spirit people bear are also written in the aura of their spirit-soul being forever. So it's hard to endure or stay with some people no matter how rich and wealthy they are in gold and material wealth, because they have foul aura and are repulsive, though they have prosperity.



"c" — Holding Adam responsible as the "Cause" for the "Curse" on the ground. The third way God convicted Adam was by putting blame on him or implicating Adam by holding Adam responsible for something that's about to get damaged or result from what he did in the past: It is called, "Imputing sin" on someone.

Shebi Adam think say him sabi push blame on the woman? God go teach am how to push blame.

For God cursed the ground for the sake of Adam: and then almost every man blamed Adam for the death and sufferings and for losing the first paradise, and even the ground blamed Adam for the curse on it, and so the ground rebelled against yielding easily to Adam's efforts. Infact, in the new testament, Paul blamed Adam couple of times, saying, "My one man's transgression, many were made sinners" or "In Adam, all men died." Etc.

Remember, Adam began blaming the Woman and the Lord who gave her to be with him for giving him the fruit: and Adam was feeling blameless. Now, God imputed blame implicating, indicting Adam as the cause or the reason for the fall of mankind and the ground for his sake, all the days of his life before he died. But thank God for the Lord Jesus Christ, who took away the sins of Adam and the sins of all men upon Himself and died to end sins.

MightySparrow:
Which? Pastor or Sheikh?



In case of any misunderstanding, Bible enjoins ona to deal with women with wisdom as of weaker vessel; Quran asks the man to beat them according to their stubbornness.

Where in the Quran? I want to see the verse.

MaxInDHouse:
People everywhere are doing this today but it's a pity that they don't know!

Do you recite the national anthem?

If you do whose image was lifted up before you start reciting or making pledges?

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GOSPEL IN THE PENALTY AGAINST THE WOMAN AND HER RELATIONSHIPS

[Genesis 3:16]

To the woman He said, I will greatly increase your sorrow and your conception. In pain you shall bear children, and your desire shall be toward your husband, and he shall rule over you. -- [Genesis 3:16]

To the woman He said, “I will greatly increase your pain from conception to labor. In pain will you give birth to children. Your desire will be toward your husband, yet he must rule over you.” -- [Genesis 3:16 TLV]

God Himself said this to the Woman, and consider the severity of the statement: for in our days there are social civilizations that would consider this as inappropriate thing to say or to do to a woman. Such philosophy includes, “You don’t hit a woman, you don’t make a woman cry, you don’t disrespect a woman, you don’t put a woman to sorrow and painful labors for that’s domestic violence and abuse, you don’t force a woman to be subject to the man/husband because that’s removing women’s right against woman’s emancipation and gender equality, etc.”

To some extent I agree with them, for Adam should never say or do those things to the Woman or to his wife, Eve (the Bone of his bones and flesh of his flesh). But while a man should not say or do that, God Himself is the Judge and Lord of all, and He alone could say and do those and even more to Women both here on earth, in death and in hell fire. I tell you, before God began the punishment of the man, He began the punishment of the woman. Woman first received the wrath of God before Man did; and averagely, more women are receiving God’s judgment than the men.

I am inspired to write this to warn women who think that God is like the society where women are treated like goddesses and queens, and favored above the men. The Lord God is the Righteous Judge, and He judges both male and female, men and women, weak and strong, each person is righteously judged according to his/her deeds and roles. Woman, you are not getting away with the things you do against the man or against the Word of God; and Man, you are not getting away with the things you do against the woman or against the Word of God. God is no respecter of men, neither is God a respecter of women, in God’s righteous judgment.

So a man must never maltreat his wife nor even do what God is doing to her in the top Bible Verse above: It’s not a man’s thing to do, but God’s thing to do. Let God judge between you and your wife or your husband, not you judging your wife or your husband by your own self. Like Sarah said to Abraham her husband, “…the LORD judge between me and you.” She said this because Abraham was gaining another woman in a way that meant robbing or defrauding the first woman, Sarah, his wife. You see she did not take the law into her hands, neither did she take Abraham to court or law enforcement agents to settle them; but she allowed the LORD to be the judge between she and her husband.

And the danger with man maltreating his wife includes, “The man’s prayers shall be blocked or hindered” and “The man’s faith is cut off and he is considered worse than infidel or worse than unbeliever” before God. Imagine Abraham that was supposed to be a great example of faith, suddenly become worse than unbeliever simply because he did not provide for his wife and family as the Lord Jesus Christ loved and nourished His Church.

-- [1 Peter 3:7 TLV] -- In the same way, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way. Though they are weaker partners, honor them as equal heirs of the grace of life. In this way, your prayers will not be hindered.

Sarah’s was example of a wife maltreated by her husband, but she let the LORD be the judge between she and her husband without letting any other man into the secret of her husband seeing another woman to the point that the woman he’s sleeping with is robbing or maltreating her in her own matrimony. What of example of a husband maltreated by his wife, and he did not take laws into his own hand to either fight, beat or oppress her, but he only reported her to the Lord God, who became the Judge between him and his wife? That was Adam, who reported Eve his wife to God; and God judged her in the top bible verse above. According to Adam, “The woman (wife) You gave to be with me gave me of the forbidden tree, and I ate.” Though Adam’s fault was that he listened to his wife more than he listened to God, yet because he had reported his wife to God the Judge He must punish her as the Lord must punish the Church that is not subject to Him but feeds His people with things offered to idols (wrong doctrines) and fornication (worldliness).

To the woman He said, I will greatly increase your sorrow and your conception. In pain you shall bear children, and your desire shall be toward your husband, and he shall rule over you. -- [Genesis 3:16]

In comparing and contrasting with that which the LORD God said to the Serpent before, let me make these two points under this top bible verse above:

*1* This Penalty against the Woman came without previous warning like the one that came against the Serpent. This is to imply that there was no previous “Warning” nor “Precedence” that such punishment would befall him or her for doing what they did. The only previous warning of God was against eating of the forbidden tree, with assurance of death to man if he eats of the forbidden tree. But no previous warning of God about what will befall the person who would seduce, deceive or give another person false/wrong doctrines or immorality of eating it. Therefore, neither the Serpent nor the Woman saw the Penalties coming against their giving wrong advice, wrong doctrines, misleading information or seduction of the other person. They taught the penalties or consequences would only affect the people who broke the commandment, not knowing they who taught, deceived or seduced the people shall also be dealt with more severely with unseen and unheard curse, sorrow, pains etc.

*2* This Penalty against the Woman would affect her in relationship with the man like the one that came against the Serpent affected the Serpent in relationship with the woman and her Seed. The relationship between the Serpent and the Woman was turned into enmity. But between the woman and her husband, the relationship is not enmity but with complications in affinity inspite of sorrows involved in her desire for the man and for childbearing. She would have to bear pains, sorrows or sufferings, not from enemies or strangers this time, but from her own family husband and fruit bearing. Therefore, the penalty against the woman brought complications in relationships between the woman and her own body (menstruations and complications of conceptions), and between the woman and her own husband.

Nevertheless, her labor comes with reward for it; it is not laboring in vain, but laboring and bearing in gain. Gain is the fruit of the Woman’s endurance and labor, not Vain. God had to turn her sorrows into joy and gain because of us the Church and disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ yet to come. As it is written,

-- [John 16:20-22 MKJV] -- Truly, truly, I say to you that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. And you will be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy. The woman has grief when she bears, because her hour has come. But when she brings forth the child, she no longer remembers the anguish, because of the joy that a man is born into the world. And therefore you now have sorrow. But I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you.

Ezekiel 4:13

And Jehovah said, Even so shall the sons of Israel eat their defiled bread among the nations, where I will drive them.
-- [MKJV]

Then the LORD said, “In the same way, the people of Israel will eat unclean bread among the nations where I scatter them.”
-- [GW]

That is the Communication (prophecy) in the Communion of the defiled bread, which the man of God was showing forth to the people. Even though the LORD was the One talking all this while in Ezekiel 4, yet the Bible verse above had to specially mention, “Then the LORD said” as if this statement was to be given special notice from what the LORD had been saying before it.

There is emphasis to this which the LORD (Jehovah) said in the bible verse above, more especially because it may sound odd to some people to believe the most “HOLY ONE” could actually speak or make people eat unclean bread or do unholy things. The Holiness of God does not approve His people doing or eating anything unholy or defiled, but the Judgment of God gives/grants to people exactly who they are and then when “Who they are” is added to them they advance in doing or eating even unholy things in defilements and pollutions. Remember, the doves feed on clean foods, the swine/pigs or worms feed on unclean foods; some dogs have instincts of going back to eat their own vomits; some vultures have instincts of scavenging on dead and rotten meats, etc.: The LORD God made them all, not necessarily the Devil.

I have come to know God as He who sanctifies but He also gives to people “who they are” and “who they become:” He helps people become Clean/Holy if those people chose that for themselves and He also help people become unclean/defiled if those people chose that for themselves. Therefore, choose “who you are” and “who you want to become” because He will grant you who you are/choose. He had set before us these:

[Revelation 22:11] - He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.

God will grant who you are to you: If you are filthy God will grant you to be filthy, and if you are holy God will grant you to be holy.

I saw on Twitter (x) a clip where man practically opened his own mouth while lying on the floor with his eyes closed facing upward, and a woman squatting over his face practically defecated or excreted her shit directly into the man’s mouth as if his mouth was a pit latrine, and the woman made the man eat her shit. All kinds of uncleanness, defilements, abuses of one’s body, perversion, desecration, defilement, out there in the world; and people call those things funs, pleasures, enjoyments or freedom.

So how does God grant “who you are” or “who you become” to you? By either allowing you without restraining you if you chose the evil/unholy or by giving you the sound “mind” or right “spirit/heart” if you chose the right/holy. These include: “Harden Heart” like Pharaoh’s, “Another Heart” that changed Saul as soon as he left Samuel or that came to Nebuchadnezzar during his being converted into animal, allowing “Strong Delusion/Lies” or “Reprobate Mind” like those allowed for the ungodly people who do not like to retain God in their knowledge so that they could go on doing all kinds of sexual perversions, immorality, desecrations of themselves and their own bodies in sexual fantasies etc. As it is written,

-- [Romans 1:24-28 MKJV]
Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves. For they changed the truth of God into a lie, and they worshiped and served the created thing more than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. For this cause, God gave them up to dishonorable affections. For even their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature. And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust toward one another; males with males working out shamefulness, and receiving in themselves the recompense which was fitting for their error. And even as they did not think fit to have God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do the things not right,

Daniel proposed in his heart not to defile himself with the king’s meat or the king’s wine, and God helped Daniel not to eat unclean food even in strange land where he was taken to. But that king that ate the king’s meat and drank that wine that defiles was later given another heart when he was driven from human mind into dwelling as beast among animals to eat grasses like oxen.

In the top Bible verse above, the LORD said that the people of Israel shall be driven out of their land into strange lands where they shall eat defiled or unclean food, even as shown by Ezekiel. And by eating those defiled food shall they be defiled (unclean) – The saying “not what goes into a man defiles him but what comes out of the man,” did not apply – for by eating the defiled or unclean food in the strange land they were defiled or made unclean. As it is written,

[Hosea 9:3-4] - The people of Israel will not remain in the LORD's land, but will have to go back to Egypt and will have to eat unclean and defiled food in Assyria. In those foreign lands they will not be able to make wine offerings to the LORD or bring their sacrifices to Him. Their food will defile everyone who eats it, like food eaten at funerals. It will be used only to satisfy their hunger; none of it will be taken as an offering to the LORD's Temple.

jom28gy:
From which book are you making reference from?

From the Books of Inspirations.

EZEKIEL 4:12

[FBV] — You are to eat the bread as you would a barley loaf. You are to bake it over a fire burning dried human excrement as everyone watches.” [Ezekiel 4:12 FBV]

[BSB] — And you shall eat the food as you would a barley cake, after you bake it over dried human excrement in the sight of the people.” [Ezekiel 4:12 BSB]

Symbolism and message in both how the man of God was to baked this bread and how he was to eat this bread in the very presence of the people, makes it a communion: Except that:

1 The Bread is not a "Hallowed Bread" but "Defiled Bread."

2 The Mass is not a "Memorial or Remembrance" of things done in the past but a "Prophecy" of things yet to come in future, when it becomes the turn of the people to partake in fulfilling of its substance though now they see only Ezekiel partaking thereof.

3 The Show : — In the old covenant, the Hallowed Bread is also called "Show-Bread" meant only for priests, though David and his men ate the "Show Bread" without being priests as the Lord Jesus Christ alluded in His advocative defense of His own disciples eating unlawfully on a Sabbath day (1 Samuel 21:6, Luke 6:1-5). In the new testament, the Holy Communion is also meant to be a "Show." That is, not eating in secret but eating openly to make a "Show of the Lord's Death till He comes:" — Thus it's also a Show or Display for it to be a Communion.

And in the top Bible verse above, Ezekiel was instructed to both bake the cake and eat the Bread as a "Show in the Sight of the People," and thus a Communion, notwithstanding the bread be defiled.

The Show included:— showing the people's sight how the Bread baked with defiled fire and smoke; for it's neither a gas-cooker nor kerosene stove, but a local oven that should burn human feases first and then by burning human shit the smelling heat and odorous smoke would then burn/bake the bread to be eaten as baked Barley Bread. This means that fire should burn both the food that had passed through a human body's digestive system and the food that was yet to pass through another man's digestive system, together.

The fire would heat both the unclean food and the clean food, and by this the clean food is defiled. Hence, "Defiled Bread." For unclean dung would be joined into the fire that would minister heat or energy to the clean food, thereby corrupting or defiling the clean food.

[Haggai 2:11‭-‬14 ICB] — “This is what the Lord of heaven’s armies says: ‘Ask the priests what the teachings say. A person might carry meat made holy for the Lord in the fold of his clothes. And that fold might touch bread, cooked food, wine, olive oil or some other food. Will the thing the fold touches be made holy for the Lord, too?’” The priests answered, “No.” Then Haggai said, “A person who touches a dead body will become unclean. If he touches any of these foods, will it become unclean, too?” The priests answered, “Yes. It would become unclean.” Then Haggai answered, “The Lord says this: ‘This is also true for the people of this nation. They are unclean, and everything they do with their hands is unclean to Me. If these people offer something at the altar to Me, it is also unclean.

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DANIEL 3:4

[Daniel 3:4 AKJV] — "Then an herald cried aloud, ‘To you it is commanded, O people, nations, and languages,"

[BSB’19] — "Then the herald loudly proclaimed, “O peoples, nations, and men of every language, this is what you are commanded:"

Some said that today, if you add your age to the full year of your birth, the answer must be “2023.” I am “39 years” born on a Sabbath Day (Saturday, September 15th) in the year “1984.” This means:
“39 + 1984” = “2023”
Now, if you do this today, adding your age to your year of birth, and it did not give “2023” then perhaps you have a wrong age or wrong year of birth. Confirm your own.


In the Bible verse above, the herald made his voice loud and audible to all that were there present, presenting an oral circular or 'oral memo' pertaining the new command from the throne room of the king of kings by then to all civil servants, public servants and Government Officials therein present. The herald here means the Announcer, the Broadcaster or Spokesperson for the Power Head to the people. Though the herald is not the commander himself nor had authority/rank above all those over whom he raised his voice loud to issue the king's command there, the herald voice or speech was the bearer and booster of "Thus says the King" or "The Word or the Command of the King of Kings" then. And all the top, great and small government officials and staff must obey the publicly issued directive or command of that little herald as they would the King, though they did not hear the Words directly from the mouth of the King himself. Infact, in the Bible verse above, the herald did not even say nor used, "Thus says the King" nor mentioned the King while publishing and publicizing the Command to all the different Personalities, of different Peoples, different tribes and different languages: Instead the herald said with a loud and authoritative voice, "To you it is commanded…" Who gave the command? They don't ask, but know or regard the herald as the king's oracle.

Nothing like, "I know Jesus, and I know Paul, but you saying the command, "Who are you?" in their approach to the directive from the herald. Infact, I heard either a former president's ADC or Chief of Staff had ways of using "the president said or ordered" to cause other staff or officials of the government to do whatever the ADC or COS wanted even when the president is neither aware of such nor ever issued such order.

Similarly, many prophets, pastors and priests, used and still use, "Thus says the Lord God…" (When the Lord God Himself has not commanded it) to decree things and deceive people into doing those things. Remember the old prophet in Samaria used "Thus says the angel that came to me…" to deceive the man of God from Judah that heard directly from God, which stopped him from ever hearing directly from God ever again till he died because he was hearing directly from God but foolishly subscribed to hearing and obeying a prophet that was neither hearing directly from God nor qualified to hear directly from God until he took the place of the man of God from Judah in hearing directly from God while the man of God lost such hearing directly from God to the prophet. It's like me, Peterch, hearing directly from the Lord; if I later listen to Muhammad of Islam or Muslims' prophet who neither heard directly from God nor qualified to hear from God, but claimed he received his messages from an angel "Gabriel" who gave him the Quran when he could neither literate nor could read/write, will I not lose my hearing directly from God because I am hearing from Muhammad of Islam or other prophets who do not hear directly from God? That happened to the young man of God from Judah in "1 Kings 13, who lost his hearing directly from God by hearing the words of prophets who do not hear directly from God but perhaps lying angels.

Know this, being called "Man of God" is greater in authentication than being called "Prophet" "Apostle" "Pastor" "Teacher" etc. The reason is because, there can be "False or Fake" attached to "Prophet, Apostle, Pastor, Teacher etc." for one could be fake/false and still be those things with the fakeness/falseness; but nothing like "False/fake man of God." If he is a "man of God" then he cannot be fake or false; if he's fake/false then he cannot be a man of God.

In "1 Kings 13" the young man from Judah was younger in age or ministry but spiritually he was far greater or higher than the popular/prosperous prophet with many disciples in Samaria: for though the young man was walking, trekking alone in poverty to preach, he was already a "Man of God" while the older one was just a "Prophet." That means, the Man of God hears directly from God as His messenger, which qualified him with the title "Man of God;" but the prophet do not need to qualify nor hear directly from God to be a prophet, but just need to hear or see beyond the average people can see or hear into the supernatural either by angels, by dreams, by visions, by stars or signs and omens, etc. There were many prophets, pastors and priests, in the Bible but few among them were referred to as "Man of God." And if any man is called "Man of God" (not prophet, pastor or priest, but man of God), you don't even dare to insult such ones because God instantly attacks whoever insults a "Man of God."

*1* In "Numbers 12," a prophet and a priest challenged a man of God, and instantly God showed up, rebuked both of them for challenging the Man of God (Moses) whom God spoke with face to face (unlike how God uses dark speeches, dreams, omens etc. to speak to other prophets); and God struck the prophet (Miriam) with leprosy and was disappointed with the high priest (Aaron) because they were challenging Man of God (Moses)

*2* In "1 Kings 13," the king Jeroboam himself anointed for the division of the kingdom of Israel out of Solomon's seed, commanded the arrest of the young man of God from Judah. And because he was a man of God, the king's hand that was stretched out against the man of God was instantly paralyzed and dried like wood for pointing accusingly to a man of God.

(1 Kings 13:4-6) – "When King Jeroboam heard the man of God condemning the altar in Bethel, he pointed to the man across the altar. “Arrest him," he said. But the arm that he used to point to the man of God was paralyzed so that he couldn't pull it back. The altar was torn apart, and the ashes from the altar were poured [on the ground]. This was the miraculous sign the man of God performed at the LORD's command. Then the king asked the man of God, "Please make an appeal to the LORD your God, and pray for me so that I can use my arm again." So the man of God made an appeal to the LORD, and the king was able to use his arm again, as he had earlier."

You may recall that story, and how the old prophet heard and deceived the man of God into his death. I always feel a pain of loss whenever I dwell on how such great man of God was lost, one who should have ranked among men of God like Enoch, Moses, Samuel, Elijah, Elisha, Ezekiel etc. But as a consolation, I tell myself that this man of God was lost but God gave us another man of God called "Elijah" after the young man of God from Judah.


*3* In "2 Kings 1," military commanders and soldiers tried intimidating a man of God (Elijah) using "thus says the king" to issue a command to a man of God who does not regard "thus says the king" or "thus says an angel;" but only regards the direct approach of God or Angel speaking to him and not through a third-party unlike the man of God from Judah did.

[2 Kings 1:9-10] — "Then the king sent to him a captain of fifty with his fifty. And he went up to him: and, behold, he sat on the top of an hill. And he spoke to him, "You man of God, the king has said, "Come down." And Elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty, "If I be a man of God, then let fire come down from heaven, and consume you and your fifty." And there came down fire from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty."

This was repeated, for no doubt Elijah was a man of God. But for the Widow, it was when Elijah raised her son back to life from the dead that she confirmed he is truly a "Man of God" because a mere prophet, priest, pastor, teacher or apostle, cannot raise a dead person back to life unless he is a man of God.

[1 Kings 17:24] — "And the woman said to Elijah, "Now by this I know that you are a man of God, and that the word of the LORD in your mouth is truth."

*4* In "2 Kings 4," the barren Shunamite Woman herself confessed to her husband that Elisha is a "Holy man of God" and let them make room for the man of God inside their house (2 Kings 4:9). But when the man of God gave her his Word, not even thus says the Lord, but his own word, saying by this time next year you shall have your son in your arms; but she said, "Man of God don't deceive me" which was the offense. If he is a man of God, then he cannot be called a deceiver or false: or if he's false or a liar then do not call him a man of God. Don't join the two contrary terms:

(2 Kings 4:16-39 GWN) "Elisha said, "At this time next spring, you will hold a baby boy in your arms." She answered, "Don't say that, sir. Don't lie to me. You're a man of God." But the woman became pregnant and had a son at that time next year, as Elisha had told her. Several years later the boy went to his father, who was with the harvest workers. [Suddenly,] he said to his father, "My head! My head!" The father told his servant, "Carry him to his mother.""

To shorten the story, the boy died in her arms, and she ran to the man of God in frozen shock, repeating what she said about the man of God not lying to her. Nevertheless, the man of God raised the boy back to life.

5 In "Luke 1," a priest doubted a man of God who was Angel of God called Gabriel, just as the angel of God that heralded the birth of Samson to Manoah and his wife was also called "Man of God" though angel of God

[Judges 13:6-7 BSB’19] — "Then the woman went and said to her husband, “A Man of God came to me. His appearance was like the Angel of God, exceedingly awesome. I did not ask Him where He came from, and He did not tell me His name. But He said to me, ‘Behold, you will conceive and give birth to a son. Now, therefore, do not drink wine or strong drink, and do not eat anything unclean, because the boy will be a Nazirite to God from the womb until the day of his death.’”"

So having been established that Angels of God could also be called, "Men of God," Angel Gabriel was the man of God that stood in the very presence of God in holy of holies of heaven, indicating his high ranking as Man of God, beholding God face to face. Why should a priest doubt the Words of such Man of God even if the priest is old in ministry and was giving great offerings to God? Therefore, the Man of God (Gabriel the archangel) struck the priest with dumbness or muteness until he see the words of the Man of God which must come to pass without failure.

Back to the old prophet, for though he deceived the man of God he never doubted the man of God unlike this old priest. Infact, though the old prophet in Samaria was popular then and very rich, (and if it were in our days the old prophet would perhaps have private jets ranked among the most influential pastors and prophets), the old prophet humbly sought after the young man of God and humbly treated the young man of God as his lord, seeking to be discipled by the young man of God. You may read where the old prophet made his Will that if he dies let him be buried in the grave with that young man of God. Infact, before Elisha succeeded in collecting double portion of the man of God's spirit (Elijah's) by closely following Elijah, this old prophet in Samaria first collected the grace or spirit from the young man of God from Judah to the point that when the man of God was eating, the old prophet received the direct word of God on behalf of the man of God and became the one now hearing from God instead of the man of God; and immediately he had the spirit of the man of God from Judah, he confirmed all that the man of God had prophesied shall surely come to pass though the man of God died a shameful death; and he commanded his disciples to bury him next to the man of God's body because he would be privileged to be called successor of that young man of God.

How many of such influential pastors and prophets of our times with their glories and private jets even have the eyes to see and know a man of God, talkless of a man of God who is younger than them in age, in material things, in ministry and in followership. So that old prophet knew had value


In concluding about the "Herald's Proclamation" all the top government officials there were to obey without asking questions who signed the memo or was it the king (Nebuchadnezzar) that ordered us, since the herald did not mention "Thus says the king." The Herald was the one who had face to face conversation with the king, and was among them as the king's oracle.

However, in his speech, the people which the herald was addressing were of different Peoples, different tribes, and different languages: and they were all those who formed the government of Babylon under the king of kings then, Nebuchadnezzar. So it was not a Nepotistic Government, nor a Government dominated by one tribe, one race of people or one language, like the foolish past government of this country I am in now, who filled his government officials and positions with his tribal people and language people and same religion, so that Fulani, northerners and cows dominated the country, taking the country many years backwards instead of forward.

Nebuchadnezzar appointed Government Officials based on merits, and maintained what we now called, "Federal Character" of giving equal opportunity to all different race, different tribes, different languages, different religions (except he is about forcing them to his paganism), etc. including the Jews whom they regarded as captives or slaves in Babylon, he made Daniel Chief Governor and made three of his friends rulers too. Nebuchadnezzar was a nice king of kings, except for idolatry and pride.

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DANIEL 3:4

[Daniel 3:4 AKJV] — "Then an herald cried aloud, To you it is commanded, O people, nations, and languages,"

[BSB'19] — "Then the herald loudly proclaimed, “O peoples, nations, and men of every language, this is what you are commanded:"

Some said that today, if you add your age to the full year of your birth, the answer must be “2023.” I am “19 years” born on a Sabbath Day (Saturday, September 15th) in the year “1984.” This means:
“19 + 1984” = “2023”
Now, if you do this today, adding your age to your year of birth, and it did not give “2023” then perhaps you have a wrong age or wrong year of birth. Confirm your own.


In the Bible verse above, the herald made his voice loud and audible to all were there present, presenting an oral circular or 'oral memo' pertaining the new command from the throne room of the king of kings by then to all civil servants, public servants and Government Officials therein present. The herald here means the Announcer, the Broadcaster or Spokesperson for the Power Head to the people. Though the herald is not the commander himself nor had authority/rank above all those over whom he raised his voice loud to issue the king's command there, the herald voice or speech was the bearer and booster of "Thus says the King" or "The Word or the Command of the King of Kings" then. And all the top, great and small government officials and staff must obey the publicly issued directive or command of that little herald as they would the King, though they did not hear the Words directly from the mouth of the King himself. Infact, in the Bible verse above, the herald did not even say nor used, "Thus says the King" nor mentioned the King while publishing and publicizing the Command to all the different Personalities, of different Peoples, different tribes and different languages: Instead the herald said with a loud and authoritative voice, "To you it is commanded…" Who gave the command? They don't ask, but know or regard the herald as the king's oracle.

Nothing like, "I know Jesus, and I know Paul, but you saying the command, "Who are you?" in their approach to the directive from the herald. Infact, I heard either a former president's ADC or Chief of Staff had ways of using "the president said or ordered" to cause other staff or officials of the government to do whatever the ADC or COS wanted even when the president is neither aware of such nor ever issued such order.

Similarly, many prophets, pastors and priests, used and still use, "Thus says the Lord God…" (When the Lord God Himself has not commanded it) to decree things and deceive people into doing those things. Remember the old prophet in Samaria used "Thus says the angel that came to me…" to deceive the man of God from Judah that heard directly from God, which stopped him from ever hearing directly from God ever again till he died because he was hearing directly from God but foolishly subscribed to hearing and obeying a prophet that was neither hearing directly from God nor qualified to hear directly from God until he took the place of the man of God from Judah in hearing directly from God while the man of God lost such hearing directly from God to the prophet. It's like me, Peterch, hearing directly from the Lord; if I later listen to Muhammad of Islam or Muslims' prophet who neither heard directly from God nor qualified to hear from God, but claimed he received his messages from an angel "Gabriel" who gave him the Quran when he could neither literate nor could read/write, will I not lose my hearing directly from God because I am hearing from Muhammad of Islam or other prophets who do not hear directly from God? That happened to the young man of God from Judah in "1 Kings 13, who lost his hearing directly from God by hearing the words of prophets who do not hear directly from God but perhaps lying angels.

Know this, being called "Man of God" is greater in authentication than being called "Prophet" "Apostle" "Pastor" "Teacher" etc. The reason is because, there can be "False or Fake" attached to "Prophet, Apostle, Pastor, Teacher etc." for one could be fake/false and still be those things with the fakeness/falseness; but nothing like "False/fake man of God." If he is a "man of God" then he cannot be fake or false; if he's fake/false then he cannot be a man of God.

In "1 Kings 13" the young man from Judah was younger in age or ministry but spiritually he was far greater or higher than the popular/prosperous prophet with many disciples in Samaria: for though the young man was walking, trekking alone in poverty to preach, he was already a "Man of God" while the older one was just a "Prophet." That means, the Man of God hears directly from God as His messenger, which qualified him with the title "Man of God;" but the prophet do not need to qualify nor hear directly from God to be a prophet, but just need to hear or see beyond the average people can see or hear into the supernatural either by angels, by dreams, by visions, by stars or signs and omens, etc. There were many prophets, pastors and priests, in the Bible but few among them were referred to as "Man of God." And if any man is called "Man of God" (not prophet, pastor or priest, but man of God), you don't even dare to insult such ones because God instantly attacks whoever insults a "Man of God."

1 In "Numbers 12," a prophet and a priest challenged a man of God, and instantly God showed up, rebuked both of them for challenging the Man of God (Moses) whom God spoke with face to face (unlike how God uses dark speeches, dreams, omens etc. to speak to other prophets); and God struck the prophet (Miriam) with leprosy and was disappointed with the high priest (Aaron) because they were challenging Man of God (Moses)

2 In "1 Kings 13," the king Jeroboam himself anointed for the division of the kingdom of Israel out of Solomon's seed, commanded the arrest of the young man of God from Judah. And because he was a man of God, the king's hand that was stretched out against the man of God was instantly paralyzed and dried like wood for pointing accusingly to a man of God.

(1 Kings 13:4-6) – "When King Jeroboam heard the man of God condemning the altar in Bethel, he pointed to the man across the altar. “Arrest him," he said. But the arm that he used to point to the man of God was paralyzed so that he couldn't pull it back. The altar was torn apart, and the ashes from the altar were poured [on the ground]. This was the miraculous sign the man of God performed at the LORD's command. Then the king asked the man of God, "Please make an appeal to the LORD your God, and pray for me so that I can use my arm again." So the man of God made an appeal to the LORD, and the king was able to use his arm again, as he had earlier."

You may recall that story, and how the old prophet heard and deceived the man of God into his death. I always feel a pain of loss whenever I dwell on how such great man of God was lost, one who should have ranked among men of God like Enoch, Moses, Samuel, Elijah, Elisha, Ezekiel etc. But as a consolation, I tell myself that this man of God was lost but God gave us another man of God called "Elijah" after the young man of God from Judah.


3 In "2 Kings 1," military commanders and soldiers tried intimidating a man of God (Elijah) using "thus says the king" to issue a command to a man of God who does not regard "thus says the king" or "thus says an angel;" but only regards the direct approach of God or Angel speaking to him and not through a third-party unlike the man of God from Judah did.

[2 Kings 1:9-10] — "Then the king sent to him a captain of fifty with his fifty. And he went up to him: and, behold, he sat on the top of an hill. And he spoke to him, "You man of God, the king has said, "Come down." And Elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty, "If I be a man of God, then let fire come down from heaven, and consume you and your fifty." And there came down fire from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty."

This was repeated, for no doubt Elijah was a man of God. But for the Widow, it was when Elijah raised her son back to life from the dead that she confirmed he is truly a "Man of God" because a mere prophet, priest, pastor, teacher or apostle, cannot raise a dead person back to life unless he is a man of God.

[1 Kings 17:24] — "And the woman said to Elijah, "Now by this I know that you are a man of God, and that the word of the LORD in your mouth is truth."

4 In "2 Kings 4," the barren Shunamite Woman herself confessed to her husband that Elisha is a "Holy man of God" and let them make room for the man of God inside their house (2 Kings 4:9). But when the man of God gave her his Word, not even thus says the Lord, but his own word, saying by this time next year you shall have your son in your arms; but she said, "Man of God don't deceive me" which was the offense. If he is a man of God, then he cannot be called a deceiver or false: or if he's false or a liar then do not call him a man of God. Don't join the two contrary terms:

(2 Kings 4:16-19 GWN) "Elisha said, "At this time next spring, you will hold a baby boy in your arms." She answered, "Don't say that, sir. Don't lie to me. You're a man of God." But the woman became pregnant and had a son at that time next year, as Elisha had told her. Several years later the boy went to his father, who was with the harvest workers. [Suddenly,] he said to his father, "My head! My head!" The father told his servant, "Carry him to his mother.""

To shorten the story, the boy died in her arms, and she ran to the man of God in frozen shock, repeating what she said about the man of God not lying to her. Nevertheless, the man of God raised the boy back to life.

5 In "Luke 1," a priest doubted a man of God who was Angel of God called Gabriel, just as the angel of God that heralded the birth of Samson to Manoah and his wife was also called "Man of God" though angel of God

[Judges 13:6-7 BSB'19] — "Then the woman went and said to her husband, “A Man of God came to me. His appearance was like the Angel of God, exceedingly awesome. I did not ask Him where He came from, and He did not tell me His name. But He said to me, ‘Behold, you will conceive and give birth to a son. Now, therefore, do not drink wine or strong drink, and do not eat anything unclean, because the boy will be a Nazirite to God from the womb until the day of his death.’”"

So having been established that Angels of God could also be called, "Men of God," Angel Gabriel was the man of God that stood in the very presence of God in holy of holies of heaven, indicating his high ranking as Man of God, beholding God face to face. Why should a priest doubt the Words of such Man of God even if the priest is old in ministry and was giving great offerings to God? Therefore, the Man of God (Gabriel the archangel) struck the priest with dumbness or muteness until he see the words of the Man of God which must come to pass without failure.

Back to the old prophet, for though he deceived the man of God he never doubted the man of God unlike this old priest. Infact, though the old prophet in Samaria was popular then and very rich, (and if it were in our days the old prophet would perhaps have private jets ranked among the most influential pastors and prophets), the old prophet humbly sought after the young man of God and humbly treated the young man of God as his lord, seeking to be discipled by the young man of God. You may read where the old prophet made his Will that if he dies let him be buried in the grave with that young man of God. Infact, before Elisha succeeded in collecting double portion of the man of God's spirit (Elijah's) by closely following Elijah, this old prophet in Samaria first collected the grace or spirit from the young man of God from Judah to the point that when the man of God was eating, the old prophet received the direct word of God on behalf of the man of God and became the one now hearing from God instead of the man of God; and immediately he had the spirit of the man of God from Judah, he confirmed all that the man of God had prophesied shall surely come to pass though the man of God died a shameful death; and he commanded his disciples to bury him next to the man of God's body because he would be privileged to be called successor of that young man of God.

How many of such influential pastors and prophets of our times with their glories and private jets even have the eyes to see and know a man of God, talkless of a man of God who is younger than them in age, in material things, in ministry and in followership. So that old prophet knew had value


In concluding about the "Herald's Proclamation" all the top government officials there were to obey without asking questions who signed the memo or was it the king (Nebuchadnezzar) that ordered us, since the herald did not mention "Thus says the king." The Herald was the one who had face to face conversation with the king, and was among them as the king's oracle.

However, in his speech, the people which the herald was addressing were of different Peoples, different tribes, and different languages: and they were all those who formed the government of Babylon under the king of kings then, Nebuchadnezzar. So it was not a Nepotistic Government, nor a Government dominated by one tribe, one race of people or one language, like the foolish past government of this country I am in now, who filled his government officials and positions with his tribal people and language people and same religion, so that Fulani, northerners and cows dominated the country, taking the country many years backwards instead of forward.

Nebuchadnezzar appointed Government Officials based on merits, and maintained what we now called, "Federal Character" of giving equal opportunity to all different race, different tribes, different languages, different religions (except he is about forcing them to his paganism), etc. including the Jews whom they regarded as captives or slaves in Babylon, he made Daniel Chief Governor and made three of his friends rulers too. Nebuchadnezzar was a nice king of kings, except for idolatry and pride.

DANIEL 3:3

[Daniel 3:3 AKJV] — "Then the princes, the governors, and captains, the judges, the treasurers, the counsellors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, were gathered together to the dedication of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up; and they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up."

[Daniel 3:3 GW'20] — "Then the satraps, governors, mayors, military advisers, treasurers, judges, officers, and all the other provincial officials assembled to dedicate the statue King Nebuchadnezzar had set up. They stood in front of the statue."

I stopped saying my national pledge after my NYSC, wherein I've served my country and fulfilled the pledge I said before. But in the Bible verse above, the State-Actors and State-Powers of the Government of Babylon gathered to dedicate the Shrine and pledged to it according to either the invitation and the demand of king Nebuchadnezzar sent to them. And going by the caliber of principalities mentioned here, one could reasonably suspect Daniel and his three friends in the faith could be in their midst to dedicate the Golden idol of Babylonian Kingdom, for those four men had also joined the politics and government of Babylon.

Positions and Powers of this world do not just give you great influence, for they also subject you under some influence and pressure to do things you would not wanted to do if you are not of world: Aaron was there when Israelites worshiped a Golden Calf for political reason though he was made high priest of God, and Daniel was there when Government Officials stood and worshiped a Golden Statue for political reason though he was made a prophet of God. Whether it is Golden Calf or Golden statue of man, let neither gold, nor political or religious position bring you to attending pagan dedication or ritualistic ceremony or any consecration in idolatry. For some attended such party because of their political reasons or pressures .

Atleast these ones "Sat down" to eat before the Golden Calf, but those in the top Bible verse above (the dignitaries and State-Powers that came to the dedication of the Golden Statue) did not even sit, for they stood (not sit) before the Golden Statue. Those who sat in the seats of the government and kingdom ruling the entire world then stood before a golden image, about to bow down to it. So it moved from the government dedicating the Golden Calf into the government being dedicated to the Golden Calf or making pledge to it. And though they golden statue had more stature and stood taller than them, yet they stood before it. After the pledge, it would be the anthem proclaimed so that as soon as the music started the Government Officials and all that stood bowed down and worshipped the Golden Statue.

When Nebuchadnezzar the king promoted those government officials, they rejoiced for such promotions; now the same king that promoted and honored them now used them to promote and honor the golden statue he made. Some how, it's like that king who promoted and honored Haman but used the same promoted and honored Haman to honor Mordecai, saying, see how the king rewards the man he wishes to honor.

When the man/people who promoted and honored you later promote and honor foolish things or foolish person more than he promoted and honored you, he has insulted you indirectly. Sometimes, it comes as giving award to you in public and still giving either the same award or greater award to a man of no moral standing, a criminal, a lowlife etc, putting you in the same group or lower category with such lowlife. It could also come as a woman/wife who has slept with you going to sleep with lower man or animal, joining your glory/honor to the same or lower than the glory/honor of the other man/beast she also slept with. May your honor, power and glory, not be made lower than the honor, power and glory, of idols or beasts (animals); neither be like those kings who give their own honor and power to the Beast.

[Revelation 17:12-13] — "And the ten horns which you saw are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast. These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength to the beast."

[Proverbs 31:3] — "Don’t give your strength to women or your power to those who ruin kings."

Those who stood in dedication of the Golden Statue gave their own glory and allegiance to that image, and those who worshiped the Golden Calf changed their own glory into the glory of ox that ate grass. As it is written,

[Psalms 106:19-21] — "They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the molten image. Thus they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eats grass. They forgot God their savior, which had done great things in Egypt;"

Be careful whom you bestow your honor, power and glory, to.

[Genesis 3:15]

And I will put enmity between you and the woman, And between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel.” [NKJV]

And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He will crush your head, and you will strike His heel. ” [BSB]

Though the Serpent was foremostly cursed, the Serpent was still dangerous and a potent threat because of this enmity God promised or implemented between the Serpent and the Woman.

*1* The Curse was potent: it paralyzed and reduced the Serpent. Nevertheless the Curse did not touch the Serpent's head except that Serpent shall eat dust. This made the Serpent sleek but dangerous seeing the curse only arrested the belly of the Serpent and what goes into his belly, but left out the Serpent's head, tails and offspring (seed) of the Serpent.

*2* The Enmity was added here: to arrest and end remaining threats and potencies the Serpent still had to cause problems and damages to the glorious creatures of God, particularly mankind.

In this top Bible verse above, God promised "Retribution" in the name of "Enmity" between the two parties, the Serpent and the Woman, which extended to their offsprings (seeds). Instead of God to use the Curse only to fulfill the payback or retribution, God rather reserved some rights and privileges for the Woman and her Seed to use their own hands or will to decide what happens to the Serpent and his seed. But the Serpent too was given the privilege to also bite or inflict damages to the Woman's Seed. For though the curse made the Serpent eat dust, it did not remove the ability to bite, crush, sting, venomize, or inflict wounds with his mouth. Therefore the Serpent that shall eat dust shall also have "teeth" or "power" to bite.

Thus, the vengeance or retribution was awarded to both parties, and it appeared to be in favor of the Serpent here because there was no Seed of the fallen Woman that could have stood up and defeated or harm the Serpent's head in any battle or contest between mankind and the Serpent's head that later became 7 heads when the Serpent was seen as the great Red Dragon in "Revelation 12." But the Word or Promise of God cannot fail, though mankind have fallen or failed. By implication, the way for the Seed of the Woman to be able to both endure the deadly Serpent's bite on His Heel and still be able to crush the Serpent's head in a battle or fight, without the interference of God or Angel, was by God raising the grace and abilities in the fallen Seed of the Woman to degrees far greater than the Serpent previously knew and had. Thus, God just got the Serpent curious to know who or which of the Woman's Seed will have such grace and power to withstand and crush the Serpent's head. But God kept the mystery of the Woman's Seed either foolish or confusing to the Serpent.

For that part of the prophecy or promise of God to be fulfilled, it means the Woman's Seed must have these four:

*4 — The Woman's Seed must come, though she be a Virgin: This means He must be the Seed of the Woman without the Man: Seed of a Virgin. This was done in the Virgin Birth of the Lord Jesus Christ.

*3 — The Woman's Seed must both inherit and sustain the enmity of the Woman which God implemented between the Woman and the Serpent: This means He must make neither friendship nor affinity with the Serpent the devil; not even being unequivocally yoked together with the enemy just as true light has no fellowship with darkness.

[James 4:4‭-‬7 NKJV] — Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who dwells in us yearns jealously”? But He gives more grace. Therefore He says: “God resists the proud, But gives grace to the humble.” Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.

[Matthew 16:23 NKJV] — But He turned and said to Peter, “Get behind Me, Satan! You are an offense to Me, for you are not mindful of the things of God, but the things of men.”

*2 — The Woman's Seed must survive the Serpent's Bite or the Serpent's greatest chances of Retribution or Enmity. This means He must survive the Devil's Stealing, Killing and Death or Destruction thrown at that Seed of the Woman. This was done by and in the Resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ.

*1 — The Woman's Seed must be both worthy and able to bruise or crush the Serpent's Head, even without interference of God.

So which of the Seed of the Woman met all those criteria for guaranteeimg the "Gospel of Enmity" between the Woman and the Serpent? For though God made this gospel as promise to the Serpent in awarding retribution, it was the first Gospel of redemption for mankind.

THE FIRST BOOK OF ADAM AND EVE
1 ADAM+EVE - CHAPTER 32


1. AND Adam and Eve remained in the Cave of Treasures until the seventh day; they neither ate of the fruit of the earth, nor drank water.

*2* And when it dawned on the eighth day, Adam said to Eve, "O Eve, we prayed God to give us somewhat from the garden, and He sent His angels who brought us what we had desired.

*3* "But now, arise, let us go to the sea of water we saw at first, and let us stand in it, praying that God will again be favourable to us and take us back to the garden; or give us something; or that He will give us comfort in some other land than this in which we are."

*4* Then Adam and Eve came out of the cave, went and stood on the border of the sea in which they had before thrown themselves, and Adam said to Eve:--

*5* "Come, go down into this place, and come not out of it until the end of thirty days, when I shall come to thee. And pray to God with fervent heart and a sweet voice, to forgive us.

*6* "And I will go to another place, and go down into it, and do like thee."

*7* Then Eve went down into the water, as Adam had commanded her. Adam also went down into the water; and they stood praying; and besought the Lord to forgive them their offence, and to restore them to their former state.

*8* And they stood thus praying, unto the end of the five-and-thirty days.

[Genesis 3:14]

So the Lord God said to the serpent: “Because you have done this, You are cursed more than all cattle, And more than every beast of the field; On your belly you shall go, And you shall eat dust All the days of your life. [NKJV]

Then the Lord God told the serpent, “Because of what you've done, you are cursed more than any of the other animals. You will slide along on your belly and eat dust as long as you live. [FBV]

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That would be the first thing/time "the Lord God said to the Devil," which the scriptures delivered to us on this side ever captured. The Serpent began his talk with the woman in this chapter, probing what God has said to her about eating of every tree in the Garden. We are also interested in what God said to the Serpent on that matter and every matter about a man or mankind.

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"Because you have done this" meant that for what the Serpent has done God is judging the Serpent according to his work, not according to God's feelings, nor anger, nor hatred, if any for the Serpent. It's a righteous judgment, according to the Serpent's deed (work). The Serpent was the first to be judged by God according to his work, after being the first to be praised for his wiseness or craftiness among the creatures of the field God made.

Don't forget what the Serpent had done, for which God herein judged him, was not a physical action but a "Doctrine." Because you have done this, God said to the Serpent: "Done this" implied "Taught this (Doctrine or Deception)" by which the woman was deceived into the transgression. The Serpent did not touch the woman but he taught the woman; and in his conversation with her the Serpent mentioned or used the name of "God" more times than the woman, indicating he spoke to her as a kind of a man of God or prophet. The woman only mentioned "God" once but the Serpent used the name of God twice or more times in talking with her, being very subtle in his approach to the woman.

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Until then, no curse was on earth but only Blessings of God upon His Creatures. The first curse, that entered the world in the beginning, was the curse that came upon the Serpent. The Serpent was both the first cursed thing and also the most cursed above all living Creatures of the field. And when the Lord God pronounces a person is/as cursed one, the accursed one shall depart from Him [God] and shall go into perdition or into the lake of fire and brimstone prepared for the devil and his angels.

[Matthew 25:41] — "Then He will say to those on His left, ‘Depart from Me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels."

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The curse upon the serpent was a life-sentence for his wickedness against God, against mankind, against living creatures, and against paradise on earth. The curse was a life imprisonment with hard mobility labor of moving or crawling on the serpent's belly and eating dust all the days of the serpent's life. Therefore, the curse upon the serpent is unbreakable curse, and the serpent cannot be redeemed from the curse during the days of his lifetime. When a curse is irreversible, irredeemable and unbreakable, forever, then the accursed is a son of perdition.

We may not have literally read were God blessed the serpent before but we know the serpent was blessed by being very crafty (wiser) than beasts of the field and fruitful to bear seed of the serpent; but we hereby read God cursed the serpent for the woman's sake.

Let's do some reviews:

The serpent that was more crafty than any beast of the field became the serpent that is cursed more than all cattle and beasts of the field, for deceiving the woman of God. It also means the Serpent himself was deceived because he did not see the curse or consequences of deceiving someone coming from God's Judgment of his deed. The serpent that was asking the woman of what God said about man's eating of every tree in the garden, and assuring her she will not surely die, (like one of these Pentecostal Pastors that decree and declare prophetically to sinners as if their own words of declarations would supercede the Word of God if they are louder), was himself ignorant of the righteous Judgment of God but only knew a part about the tree of knowledge of good and evil and the prosperity message of that tree he preached and mentored the woman into having. For what he had done to the woman (to the church), he was cursed; and reduced from being the most informed (wisest) among the living creatures of the field into becoming the most abominable and cursed creature among the living creatures.

This is the first lesson that demonstrates, "Any wisdom, knowledge or counsel, against God is either a deception or a curse, or even both."

[Proverbs 21:30] — "There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the LORD."

[Galatians 1:8-10] — "But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be under a curse! As we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you embraced, let him be under a curse! Am I now seeking the approval of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a servant of Christ."

EZEKIEL 4:11

[NKJV] — You shall also drink water by measure, one-sixth of a hin; from time to time you shall drink.

[BSB] — You are also to measure out a sixth of a hin of water to drink, and you are to drink it at set times.


"Dry Fasting" was regarded as different from "Wet Fasting" because in Dry Fasting one will neither take food nor water whereas in Wet Fasting one takes only water or some fruits but no food.

In the Bible verse above, Ezekiel was also to make his fasting dry by drinking water just once in a day, and the water he would drink in a day must not be upto nor exceeding "1 litre" {⅙ of a Hin (Hin = 5.7litres)} water in a day.

Now, supposing Fasting means "Self-Affliction" and "Abstinence," intended to touch another concerned Person or get his/her attention to act for he/she who's fasting: or supposing Fasting means becoming a "Masochist" to prove the concerned Person is either a "Sadist" or "Sympathetic" pertaining to you — Then it's not the goal of Ezekiel here to engage in these fasting for God's attention, rather the goal was to engage the people's attention.

You may have come across where the Lord Jesus Christ taught us that when we fast, we should not appear to people that we are fasting by putting on long face, but rather we should anoint our selves and fast in secret; and the God who sees in secret will reward us openly. Well, Ezekiel's own case here was exception to that Lord's Teaching because clearly Ezekiel's fastings, sufferings and bearing the sin of Israel, was not to be kept secret for only God to see but more importantly to be made openly for the people to see and behold Ezekiel bearing their sin and demonstrating their afflictions before them and God.

*1* The Testimony of Jesus - is the spirit of prophecy or the true mark of a true prophecy or prophets' messages; not the miracles, signs and wonders or fulfilling of the prophecy, but the message or testimony of Jesus Christ should be the spirit you use in judging prophecies/revelations of prophets. [Revelation 19:10].

*2* This Testimony of Jesus - as the spirit of prophecy, is not just about using the "Name of Jesus Christ" to speak but about the suffering afflictions because prophets have spoken in the name of Jesus Christ the true message of Christ. If they don't use the name of Christ but their own name or other names, no affliction follow those prophets; and even if they use the name but do not speak the same things Christ speaks - they speak what they saw instead of speaking what the Word of Christ is saying - no affliction or persecution but gifts, tithes, offerings, private jets.

[James 5:10] — "Take, my brothers, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience."

Ezekiel was an example of suffering affliction and patience. Here were five different afflictions or fastings Ezekiel had to endure:

*1* Fasting of Eating only once a day;

*2* Fasting of Drinking water once a day, less than a litre;

*3* Fasting of not turning the other side for 390 days;

*4* Fasting of no sexual intercourse with his wife those days;

*5* Fasting of no movement or no leaving there for 390 days.

EZEKIEL 4:9

[NKJV] — “Also take for yourself wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt; put them into one vessel, and make bread of them for yourself. During the number of days that you lie on your side, three hundred and ninety days, you shall eat it.

[BSB] — But take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt; put them in a single container and make them into bread for yourself. This is what you are to eat during the 390 days you lie on your side.


That saying, "No food for a lazy man" or "He that will not work, let him not eat" should not be applied to this man of God who basically will not be working but lying down on one side for over one year and about a month extra. Though he be lying down on one spot for over a year, doing nothing in humans ideas for working and productivity to earn a living; spiritually he would be doing far more greater works and productivity than the most busiest men and women in secular and economic activities though he be lying down on one side for over a year.

"Proverbs 26:14" states — "As the door turns on his hinges, so does the slothful on his bed." But this man of God is neither slothful nor turning like some turning hinges though he lay on one side for about 13 months. This is to disabuse the minds of those who always say, "Lazy man wake up, don't lie down on the bed waiting for manna to fall from heaven."

In the top Bible verse above, Ezekiel was to lie down for 390 days, but not to wait for manna to fall from heaven; for he was to make provision for his own feeding so that he would not have to provide for his own food in the days of his sticking to one place like a tree for 390 days: This differentiate between "Making Provision" and "Providing." He was to make the Provision for what he must eat before the days of his lying down comes, so that he would not be providing for what he must eat during those days. This is like the wise ants that gather up and store Provision of food in one season so that when another season comes they would not have to be working to earn a living or Providing also in that season.

[Proverbs 6:6-11] — "Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, Provides her meat in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest. How long will you sleep, O sluggard? when will you arise out of your sleep? Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: So shall your poverty come as one that travels, and your want as an armed man."

Well, we are in the age (Information and Artificial intelligence age) wherein one could be lying down and yet be doing far more greater and productive works than some out there laboring and toiling with sweat. Again, the man of God in the top Bible verse above did far more greater works than the most busiest men in the 390 days he lay down one on side and fed on his bread and cake made from Cereals and Legumes he gathered in a container.

All the food he was to feed on for over a year were to fit into a single container, including the Cereals (Wheat, Barley, Millet, Spelt) and the Legumes (Beans and Lentils). That container therefore became the Measurement or Weigh by which his over one year feeding was rationed.

It's not a miracle of multiplying fives loaves and few fishes to feed over five thousand men and perhaps extra five thousand women and children in addition. Neither was it like the miracle in the Ark of Noah that made the food Provision inside the Ark to not be spent for about a year they were inside the Ark with all the land animals that needed saving from the destruction then, though Noah prepared provisions for 40 days but the lockdown lasted beyond 40 days to about 365 days. This Ezekiel's own is clearly a rationing, not a miracle, for a Provision of foods in one container (about half bag of 50kg rice) to sustain the man of God for 390 days, who would be lying down on his left side to which his large intestines within him are closer.

This is the message: Even the foods he was to eat while bearing the sin of Israel for 390 days (against 390 years), yes what he eats and how he eats what during those times, were part of the messages and prophecies he was demonstrating to the people. From the days of Joseph, foods and plants and how they were eaten in dreams (visions) were messages and prophecies to those who saw them getting eaten in such ways, not to those eating them in the visions: That is, not those eating in the dream had the burden of the message, but those seeing or watching the food eaten in the dream had the burden of the message in Joseph's era: including he who saw the birds eating pharaoh's food from his head, and he who saw the fatted cows eating the grass while the skinny cows ate up the fatted cows or saw the thinny corn plants ate up the fatted corns plants.

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DANIEL 3:2

[Daniel 3:2 NKJV] °°°° And King Nebuchadnezzar sent word to gather together the satraps, the administrators, the governors, the counselors, the treasurers, the judges, the magistrates, and all the officials of the provinces, to come to the dedication of the image which King Nebuchadnezzar had set up.

[Daniel 3:2 FBV] — Then he summoned the provincial governors, prefects, local governors, counselors, treasurers, judges, magistrates, and all the officials of the provinces to come to the dedication of the statue he had set up.
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When Nebuchadnezzar had that dream and saw that image statue in dream, he woke up to gather these caliber of people, including the magicians, Chaldeans, religious, esoteric and occultic people, etc. But in the Bible verse above, Nebuchadnezzar changed the caliber of people⁹ he gathered for the dedication of his image into idol to be worshipped.

The caliber of people he invited were Government Officials, State-Actors and Politicians.

Instead of priests, he called the politicians; instead of prophets/seers, he invited administrators of Government; and instead of mediums/spiritists, he summoned principalities and powers that govern the state or province. And it was supposed to be the dedication of his Image into an idol or gods to be worshipped; what business had state actors (who should be handling the governance of the realms) with the dedication of a Shrine?

From the list:

(a) Satraps (Prime-Ministers); (b) Administrators (Ministers); (c) Governors; (d) Counselors (Advisers); (e) Treasurers (Bankers/Accountants); (f) Judges and Magistrates (Judiciary or Lawyers); (g) All Officials of the State (Province)

By so doing, he was forcing government and governance of the state into unofficial/religious matters, and basically ascribing government and powers of the state to idols and abuse of official public duties.

Surely, Daniel was supposed to be among them by then, not just Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, because Daniel was state actor in the government under the kingship of Nebuchadnezzar. Though nothing was said about Daniel in this Chapter, it was Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego.

Take this, if you are invited to the dedication of an idol or ceremony for the sacrifice to an idol, do not go.

[Numbers 25:1‭-‬5 FBV] — When the Israelites were staying at Shittim the men started to have sex with Moabite women who invited them to the sacrifices made to their gods. The Israelites ate the pagan meals and bowed down before these gods. In this way the Israelites devoted themselves in worship to Baal of Peor, and the Lord was angry with them. The Lord told Moses, “Arrest all the Israelite leaders and kill them before the Lord where everyone can see in order to turn the Lord's furious anger away from the people.” So Moses instructed Israel's judges, “Each of you has to kill all of your men who have devoted themselves to worshipping Baal of Peor.”

DANIEL 3:1

Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was sixty cubits and its width six cubits. He set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon. [Daniel 3:1 NKJV]

King Nebuchadnezzar had a gold statue made, ninety feet high and nine feet wide, and he had it set up in the plain of Dura in the province of Babylon. [Daniel 3:1 GNT]

In this Bible verse above, this King of Babylon, and reigning king of kings then, made a great image like the one he saw in his dream which Daniel declared. Only that he thought he could change destiny my making all it's parts to be gold instead of the gold, silver, bronze, iron and clay, that was in the vision he saw. Would making all the parts to be only gold guarantee for his kingdom everlasting Kingdom and Dominion?

Let's see some comparative analyses of the contents in the Bible verse above:

*1* The Image/Statue he made was gold, while he was flesh/clay: One of the follies of foolish people is in using superior materials in building an image for themselves that is more expensive or worth more than their own body. I know he was the king of kings then, and so the most valuable man in the then world among men; but the treasures he spent on his image weighed more than the treasures of his dead body or carcass.

Learn this, do not invest more into your own image/statue than the worth of your own flesh and blood. Be more precious and treasurable than your image or pictures. God will never make His Image richer than the treasures of His Own Body or Blood.

*2* The Image/Statue he made was larger in size than him: Another folly of men is in making or projecting images of them larger in size or dimensions above their own sizes. Well, it is not folly if the larger creations of men are subservient to (serving) the men who built them; but the folly is in just making them and still serving the Images, Statues or Idols, which cannot walk but may have legs, nor see but may have eyes.

Learn this, do not project an image of you that is actually larger than you truly are in size or dimensions. God never made any of His Image greater or larger than Him in size. There's nothing God made that is actually larger or bigger than God in size; no house or creation of God is bigger than God in any dimension of size. The size of God is way bigger than the size of the entire universe and creations combined.

*3* The Image/Statue he made was for his rulership to worship it even more than they worship him as king: While I am against men getting worship to themselves, I would still prefer a man to rather be the one getting worshipped than giving his worship to his image or creation. It's the turning of things upside down that makes men to prefer worshiping the creature more than the creator of the creature.

[Romans 1:24-25] — "Why God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves: Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen."

In God's wisdom, he who built a house should have more honor/glory than the house he built (Hebrews 3:3), but men turning things upside down make them to love and glorify things that were built more than the maker.

Nebuchadnezzar in this Chapter gave "Worship" to this image, and in the next Chapter took "Pride" for himself over all he built. Which is greater to take for yourself between "Pride" and "Worship?" Why give your worship to image of gold but gather up pride for yourself?

Learn this, do not give worship to whatever you made and do not receive pride from whatever you made or did. Neither worship the works of your hands nor be proud by them. God will never share His Worship Glory with anything He created or made, except His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ.

The Antichrist or Beast will also have an image of him made, and his false prophet will make people to worship the image of the Beast, Antichrist, and receive the number of his name.

*4* Apart from making that great image statue all "Gold" in eliminating other competitions of silver, bronze, iron and clay, Nebuchadnezzar ensured the Image/Statue was placed in the Plain of Dura, in Babylon, to prevent any mountain nearby or stone cut out without hands from falling on the Image as it happened in the dream. A "Plain" is usually a flat and low lands with vast area devoid of mountain or hill. It was in the Plain of Dura that Nebuchadnezzar felt his Image Statue of gold was safe.

WOMAN, WHAT IS THIS YOU DONE?

[Genesis 3:13]

And the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.” [NKJV]

The Lord God asked the woman, “Why did you do this?” She replied, “The snake tricked me into eating it.” [GNT]

Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” “The serpent deceived me,” she replied, “and I ate.” [BSB]

God's question to the woman was this, "What is this you have done?" or "Why did you do this?" But the woman's reply was that she was deceived by the Serpent and she ate it. What about the part where "She gave the fruit to her husband and made him eat the forbidden fruit from her hand?" She did not say anything about that part except the part where the Serpent deceived her and she ate, without mentioning part where the Serpent used her or she used her hand to bringdown her man or husband.

In the Bible verse above, God's question to the first Woman, (and to every woman), is "What is this you have done or what is this you are doing?" But hardly you find a woman that truly knows and answers this question about what evil she did or yet doing, without mentioning what another person has done or playing the victim for her to be pitied even where she's the perpetrator.

Woman, build up into taking responsibility (which is authority) for your own actions without shifting blame to another person as the cause that made you do them either in retaliation (payback), in rape/use of force, in deception or in seduction. Be the leader (author) in your own actions, not the follower (victim) in your own actions. Try to find the rationality (objectivity), not just the emotions (feelings/instincts), of what you are doing or about to do. Not that you didn't find objectivity the first time you were deceived into doing it, but that when it backfired you suddenly changed from seeing objectivity the way you saw it when you began it, and then you ran to emotional support of blaming another person for it. Though this change or swinging makes you bit secure and free from some blames, it also make you lose your leadership authority or command of headship. You become like men who make promises or decisions when the conditions are favorable, but when the conditions change their words also change and they fail their own promises showing that they should not be trusted nor entrusted with anything headship/authority for being unstable or swinging to easier/favorable sides for convenience in betrayal of trust.

Sarah was the one who gave Hagar as wife to Abraham, and later she turned back to blame Abraham for Hagar's despising her after she conceived. A shift from the initial objectivity she saw at the decision.

The objectivity that the Woman (Eve) first saw that made her do what she did was actually the most important part of the answer she should have stood up with in answering this God's Question to a Woman, "What is this you have done?" If she had maintained her stance on the objectivity or rational that made her took those decisions of eating and making her husband eat the forbidden fruit, her actions would still be wrong but her motive would gain some weight and respect for God to still allow her headship or authority with the man. But she failed both in her actions and in her rationality/objectivity of this "what" she had done because she was emotionally driven to blame, implicate or punish the Serpent by playing the victim or follower to the Serpent, instead of playing the leader or author to the man; or both. So she gained the vengeance against the Serpent, but lost authority with the man. Yes, the Serpent became the most cursed creature because of deceiving the woman, but also because the woman was deceived according to her own answer in the verse above she was not allowed to head a family or God's church over a man there in.

[1 Timothy 2:12,14] — "But I do not permit a woman to teach, nor to use authority over a man, but to be in quietness. … And Adam was not deceived, but the woman, having been deceived, came into transgression."

That word "Deceived" or "Lied to" was first used by a woman in the top Bible verse above, to describe or market (actually "demarket" what she had done. Though Satan as the Serpent had been a deceiver or liar, the word used for him was "Subtle or Cunning" until the Woman introduced the use of "Deception or Deceit" in describing what the Serpent did instead of her describing what she did when God asked her.

Supposing she "marketed" this which she had done, bringing out the objectivity, rationale, intention, inspiration or motive, she had for doing what she had done, in answering God's question to her: She would have repeated the contents in 'Genesis 3:6' as her drive or objectivity, and then humbly plead for mercy of God: would be more noble than being deceived.

[Genesis 3:6] — "And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also to her husband with her; and he did eat."

Everything in "Genesis 3:6" was true about that tree and its fruit, and though it is not enough reason to disobey God, it is far more understandable reason if that was her rationality or objectivity — she was a discoverer or she saw things that no man saw or knew about the tree and her quest for knowledge, discernment and wisdom, for both herself and her husband made her to eat and to give to her husband also, hoping they become wiser together: but she did not mean to rebel against God's Word for the Serpent told her God would understand if she did what she had done in the quest for becoming more like God and having the eyes of mankind opened to know good and evil. How about this as the Woman's answer to the God's Question to her, "What is this you have done?"

MS247:
It's a myth since I can't be proven to a logical conclusion that this events happened or not

Again

Since God almighty forbid an act or a fruit or even an apple then it automatically becomes a taboo, since he created us he has full knowledge of what can illuminate and over enlighten us

Nothing in that story was a myth: everything about the garden of eden, about Adam and Eve and the creation, and the trees of the Garden, were all realities that began other realities of the worlds that came through them.

That tree of Knowledge of good and evil still exists even today, just as the tree of life still exists. Adam and Eve exist in heaven presently, and they are now with the Lord Jesus Christ. These things are real, not a myth or fable.

MS247:
Why do people keep mentioning apple as the fruit, when Bible never mentioned any type of fruit as it was just an illustration for taboo

Apple doesn't grow in Africa or Middle east where the myth of Adam and Eve came from

I am yet to understanding why people think it's an apple fruit, but I know it was neither a myth nor an illustration for taboo, but for wisdom or civilization other than that which is centred in the Wisdom of God alone.

[Genesis 3:12]

Then the man said, “The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate.” [NKJV]

And the man answered, “The woman whom You gave me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it.” [BSB]

The man's defensive answer or argument was that he did not take from the forbidden tree directly and ate, but that he received it at the hand of the woman that came from God, who took it from the forbidden tree, and when he received it at her hand he ate it. Imagine because the Woman of God served it to him as a Roman Catholic Priest serves 'holy communion,' and because the forbidden fruit came from the holy hands of a woman of God, you foolishly ate it; thereby listening to the woman/man of God even in disobedience to the direct Word of God. Do you think if you tell God it was the Woman of God or Man of God that gave, made or told, you to sin the sin, God will punish her/him and spare you?

Adam's excuse revolved around passing the blame onto Eve, who had given him the fruit. He also indirectly shifted responsibility onto God, saying that it was God who bestowed Eve upon him. By pinning the blame on both Eve and God, Adam tried to deflect his own culpability for his decision to eat the forbidden fruit.

In the Bible verse above, the man did not take the fruit directly from the tree, but he took the fruit from the woman's hand after the woman took it from the tree, and he ate the forbidden fruit he received the woman from God. Adam's confession here was indirectly a defense or excuse for eating the forbidden fruit:

▪You [God] gave me this woman as gift; I didn't ask You for her, and I received her from You and I have been with her. And then,

▪The woman [who is Your gift to me] also gifted or gave me the fruit from the tree; I didn't ask her for it and I did not take it from the tree, and I ate the fruit taken from her hand.

The man did not touch the forbidden tree but he ate the forbidden fruit. Was he thinking the forbidden fruit was no longer forbidden because it was no longer on the forbidden tree? Remember that:

• Whatever is forbidden by God to man in the tree is also forbidden by God to man in human hands,

• Whatever is prohibited by God to man in the heavens is also prohibited by God to man on earth,

• Whatever is called evil by God in the acts of a sinner is also called evil by God in the acts of a man/woman of God.

• Whatever is an idol/abomination outside the church is still an idol/abomination inside the church.

Do not be deceived by packaging that changed the location, the extension or the appearance of evil from one form to another.

If the Word of God forbade it, but the Woman of God bade it: you must choose between the Word and the Woman, even when both are of God. If the Word of God told the young man of God from Judah not to eat in Samaria, but an old prophet of God told the young man of God to eat in Samaria according to an angel: choose between the Word and the old prophet, both of God. [1 Kings 13]

DANIEL 2:49

[Daniel 2:49 NKJV] °°°° Also Daniel petitioned the king, and he set Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego over the affairs of the province of Babylon; but Daniel sat in the gate of the king.

[Daniel 2:49 FBV] — At Daniel's request, the king placed Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in charge of the province of Babylon, and Daniel remained at the king's court.

Look at this Bible verse above, and what do you read therein? "Daniel who was greatly exalted into great governmental positions used his closeness to the king to lobby for his classmates and friends to also be given appointments or great jobs too." That was a great and true friendship indeed. I have seen classmates or friends who had great privileges in government jobs or connections, but they never cared to help their fellow old classmates or friends whom they know were also good at what they do. Such self-centered friends would only be inviting their jobless classmates to come celebrate good things they achieved in their lives, and glory in the congratulations their not so well to do former classmates or friends are giving them; but they would never strive to help their former classmates to get jobs in government or highly paying jobs as God had helped them.

How much can you go, give or do, to raise at least three of your former classmates, friends or brethren, in the same faith like Daniel did? People have replaced true friendship with group meetings or associations making contributions for members whenever need arises. It's not forming charity organizations I am talking about, but forming true friendship. Charity organizations are basically for donations or contributions to members within or outside the group. But true friendship is beyond giving a man fishes, but helping him to become a successful fisherman himself. Instead of handouts, give true helping hands, even as Daniel sought for Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah to be established with royal appointments too, as he's. So both Daniel and the three friends had charge over the province of Babylon: The sky is large enough for all birds to fly, but many false friends do not like competition or are too insecure to help their fellow classmates or friends. Truly, some people are deceitful in what they call helping others; for their help never took their helpless out of poverty.

Nevertheless, I must approach the top Bible verse above with more spiritual perspective, than those at sociological levels. In this higher spiritual perspective, even Daniel's help above was insufficient help for those his classmates, friends and brethren.

[Psalms 108:12 or Psalms 60:11] — "Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man."

The help of man is vain without God's help; yes even this help of Daniel for his friends or classmates had to be reduced to vanity, before the true help of God later became what established these three men, instead of Daniel's help. How?

*1* Daniel's help by connection and prayer to the king got them those great job appointments over the province of Babylon; but as you also read above, Daniel sat in the king's gate while these three men were not given to sit in the king's gate because though the king favored them because of Daniel the king had no direct respect or relationship with them.

*2* Daniel had undoing of not reforming the king from worshiping idols or other gods except the Lord God Himself, and that undoing was going to haunt the three friends outside the king's gate.

*3* Daniel sitting in the king's gate was somehow like Mordecai sitting in the king's gate in Esther's time: Except that for Mordecai there was a king decree that all the king's servants sitting in the king's gate much bow down to the king's favorite Prince Haman, while in Daniel's time those to bow down to the king's favorite image/idol were those servants of the king sitting outside the king's gate. Thus, as Mordecai sitting in the king's gate would not bow down to the king's man according to the king's decree, so were Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah, sitting outside the king's gate adamantly refusing to bow down to the king's idol.

*4* If they had not gotten the positions by Daniel's intervention, they would not have been in that temptation or trial of either bowing down to the king's idol or be burnt in the fiery furnace. Thus, that job by Daniel was either going to make them lose their "Faith" to keep their life or lose their life to keep their "Faith."

*5* No Daniel even tried to intervene for them, but they lose the Daniel's connection jobs and were cast into the furnace because they would keep their faith in God against the idolatrous king.

*6* The Lord God showed up on their behalf after the help of man failed them; and because they honored God, God honored them. Therefore, without the help of Daniel but by the help of God only:

[Daniel 3:30] — "Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, in the province of Babylon."

DANIEL 2:48

[Daniel 2:48 FBV] °°°° Then the king promoted Daniel to a high position and gave him many expensive gifts, making him governor over the whole province of Babylon and head of all the wise men of Babylon.

[Daniel 2:48 AMP] — Then the king promoted Daniel [to an exalted position] and gave him many great gifts, and he made him ruler over the entire province of Babylon and chief governor over all the wise men of Babylon.


In the Bible verse above, the king of Babylon redeemed or fulfilled his promises for whoever could tell him his secret dream and interpret same for him according to "Daniel 2:6." Daniel, by the grace of God, emerged the winner of those royal prizes. Nebuchadnezzar, the king of kings made Daniel a ruler under him, but over the province of Babylon in geography and over all the wise men in the realms of Babylon.

Well, while this account proved that king (Nebuchadnezzar) fully kept the words of his promises, it on the other hand proved Daniel did not fully live by the words of his prophecies or revelations.

Though Daniel prophesied of the coming Kingdom of God, he did not wait for the Kingdom of God to come before receiving the rewards and promotions of the kingdom of Babylon, which he knew was soon coming to an end. He became a part of the passing kingdom of Babylon by being promoted to an exalted position of being a ruler/governor of the province of Babylon, and chief ruler of the wise men council of wizards, astrologers, magicians, etc. Now, early apostles of the Lord Jesus Christ would have rejected these things that Daniel accepted, to prefer the kingdom and treasures of Christ Jesus above the riches of Babylon, as Moses.

[Hebrews 11:24-27] — "By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter; Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect to the recompense of the reward. By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible."

I don't want you to imagine the Lord Jesus Christ getting made a ruler or governor by the people or by the existing world king then. Daniel was so different from the other Old Testament Prophets since the time of Moses because he's life style was not typical to those of the prophets of old, who had no kingdom, no rewards or no inheritance outside God on earth. Nevertheless, Daniel was not partaker of the destruction of Babylon, but he was partaker of the glories and rewards of Babylon. This is written,

[Revelation 18:2‭-‬4 GNT] — He cried out in a loud voice: “She has fallen! Great Babylon has fallen! She is now haunted by demons and unclean spirits; all kinds of filthy and hateful birds live in her. For all the nations have drunk her wine—the strong wine of her immoral lust. The kings of the earth practiced sexual immorality with her, and the merchants of the world grew rich from her unrestrained lust.” Then I heard another voice from heaven, saying, “Come out, my people! Come out from her! You must not take part in her sins; you must not share in her punishment!

These things are real

[1 Adam+Eve 31:1] — After Adam had requested something from the garden for comfort, God said to him, "I have given you these three signs as a consolation: that you should trust in Me and in My covenant with you."

God did not just give Adam the consolation token for which he asked to receive from the garden, but more importantly God expressly told him the three gifts were to serve as three consolation tokens (signs) which were to abide with him always for the purpose of earning the exchange and security of his trust and faith in both God and His covenant with Adam. Thus, those three gifts were three signs from God, and not just from the Garden: They were not given just to confirm the existence of the Garden nor just to keep a memorial of the Garden with Adam; rather they were given to confirm the gravity or earnestness of God and His unfailing Covenant of coming as the Savior to recover mankind and restore all that were lost through the first Adam. Therefore, God gave them to Adam as “Bonds” or “Collaterals” for security of both his trust and his consolation in the unseen Covenant of God above the seen Garden of God then. For in those days, it was easier for mankind then to see and believe the existing paradise (garden) of God which they had seen and experienced, than for them to see and believe the Covenant of God (in the Lord Jesus Christ) which they had not seen nor experienced.

Now in our days through the Lord Jesus Christ the basics of that Covenant of God with mankind through the first Adam have all been fulfilled through the advent and triumph of the Lord God who became the Son of man, Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. What remains is His returning to perfect all things and to bring the rest of the true descendants of Adam born of the Spirit into the Paradise and Kingdom of God, in which Adam and Eve have already partaken since the resurrection and ascension of Christ into heaven. So for Adam, God has fully performed all He promised them; but for believers in Christ that yet remain in our mortal state or earthen vessels, we have these treasures and tokens in earthen vessels as “Bonds” or “Collaterals” guaranteeing for us the infallibility of God’s Covenant or Testament with us in the Lord Jesus Christ.

[1 Adam+Eve 31:2] — "For I will come and save you; and when I am in the flesh, kings will bring gold, incense, and myrrh to Me. Gold represents My kingdom, incense represents My divinity, and myrrh represents My suffering and death."

This is the Word of the Covenant of Promise from God to Adam: “I will come and save you, and when I am in the flesh, kings will bring gold, incense and Myrrh to Me…”

Adam could not have been saved by his coming to God or becoming like God, (remember it was their attempt of becoming like God in the garden that made them fall in sin and death through the forbidden tree); rather Adam will be saved by God coming to them or God becoming like them. Both the fall of Lucifer and the fall of Adam were about the living creatures trying to become as God without God becoming as them to become the only Way for them to become or come to God the Father through He who became or came to them, Unfortunately, after Eve was first deceived by Satan, Adam too was deceived by Satan into thinking salvation was in his returning into the Garden, especially without God coming/becoming like Adam (Son of man – Jesus Christ) and becoming the only way to that Salvation. This is the current deception Satan uses on false religions and Islam, by which billions of Muslims are deceived by the devil through their false and dead prophet called “Muhammad.”

Adam was not saved nor safe even inside the Garden of Eden from the time they had eaten of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, and became as God; and if they were to make the mistake of eating of the tree of life in that state of not being saved, they will live forever and never be saved for ever. This is how Satan and demons live forever but can never be saved nor redeemed, even if they do enter heaven sometimes. It is not the place (Heaven or Garden of God) that saves sinners; rather it is God becoming like us to redeem or save us by saving Himself when He is like us in the same death, sufferings and temptations, holding us. So even if sinners were to make heaven, those sinners cannot be saved by being inside heaven because they cannot be changed by heaven from being who they have already become. As it is written,

-- [Isaiah 26:10 TLV] -- Though grace is shown to the wicked, he does not learn righteousness. Even in a land of uprightness he will act wrongly, not perceiving the majesty of Adonai.

Lucifer was basically in heaven before he turned sinner or wicked, and Adam was basically in paradise before he turned sinner and mortal. So it is not the place that saves, but the Savior (God becoming as us in order for us to become as He is and be where He is) that saves. Does a spider in the bush stops being a spider or stops stinging if the spider is taken out of the bush into a king’s palace? Even so, it is not the place that changes (saves) sinners, rather it is the Savior and His Holy Spirit that changes (saves) sinners through His death that became possible.

Now back to the Adam+Eve verse above:

*1* GOLD: The Gold God gave to Adam (mankind) was to be given back to God when He became like man in flesh: For whatever measure you measure out will be measured back to you.-- [Luke 6:38 TLV]. Gold signifies His kingdom, and kings will be the ones to give that back to the Lord God when He becomes flesh as the Son of man. Surely, those wise men seeking for the He that was born “King of the Jews” were kings and rulers themselves from the east, and not just peasants. However, they were not the only kings that brought or would bring gold to the Lord Jesus Christ; even now and in the days to come, Kings and Queens shall bring Gold and Glory to the Lord of Lords and King of Kings, Jesus Christ or God in the flesh. For just as Gold represented the kingdom of Babylon in the Statue or Image of Nebuchadnezzar’s dream in the days of Daniel, much more shall Gold represent the Kingdom of God when the God King shall reign from the Golden City of Precious Stones.

*2* INCENSE: The Incense God gave to Adam (mankind) was to be given back to God when He became like man in flesh: For whatever measure you measure out will be measured back to you.-- [Luke 6:38 TLV]. Incense signifies His Divinity, and those kings (wise men) who gave gold to the Lord God when He became flesh as the Son of man also gave Incense to Him and they recognized His Divinity as God by worshipping Him as God. As it is written,

And when they came into the house, they saw the Child with His mother Miriam; and they fell down and worshiped Him. Then, opening their treasures, they presented to Him gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh. -- [Matthew 2:11 TLV]

I am not talking about Daniel, to whom a king of the gold kingdom fell down and worshipped as God and commanded incense to be offered as sweet smelling savor to him as though Daniel was God (Daniel 2:46); and Daniel did not restrain or stop that king of a gold kingdom from worshipping or recognizing him as divine deity, neither could Daniel ever preach against “Idolatry” or “worshipping any other gods apart from the true God” to that particular king that he allowed to worship him since Daniel lost his right or message to every correct that king in that regards.


Rather I speak of the true God in the flesh, to whom we shall ascribe Incense and our true Worship to Him and to His Father through Him.

*3* MYRRH: The Myrrh God gave to Adam (mankind) was to be given back to God when He became like man in flesh: For whatever measure you measure out will be measured back to you.-- [Luke 6:38 TLV]. Myrrh signifies His Suffering and Death, and those kings (wise men) who gave gold and incense to the Lord God when He became flesh as the Son of man also gave Myrrh to Him, and therefore through them suffering and Death began to pursue the Lord Jesus Christ. For Herod began to seek to kill the Child that was born King of Jews from the time those wise men brought the gospel, the gold, the incense and the myrrh, to that Child, Jesus Christ. His suffering and danger of death began, and therefore the God in flesh began to flee and He fled into Egypt being carried by Joseph and Mary.

Before the “Cross” became the symbol of His Suffering and Death, “Myrrh” was the symbol of His Suffering and Death. And before He was on the cross drinking the Cup His Father will for Him to drink, men offered a drink containing Myrrh for Him to also drink but He didn’t, and so they crucified Him on the Cross without Him taking the drink containing Myrrh: They were offering Him wine mixed with myrrh, but He didn’t take it. -- [Mark 15:23 TLV]. However, later He repented from refusing to take or taste the drink they offered Him, and He Himself requested on the Cross, saying, “I am Thirsty;” but this time they offered Him Vinegar or Soured Wine, which He thirsted so that it will not be that He rejected the drinks of those who crucified Him.

Myrrh continued to follow Him even when He died, for Nicodemus brought great amount of Myrrh and Aloes to anoint His Dead Body before Burial. Now, all His Garment smells of Myrrh and Aloes. (Psalms 45:

You see that though the convention is to order them as “Gold, Incense and Myrrh” but in practical He experienced the treasures of His Myrrh first before experiencing the treasures of His Incense from His Resurrection from the dead, and then behold the treasures of His Gold and Glory.

Does a Muslim believe in the treasures of His Myrrh? No, Muslims do not believe the Lord Jesus took our suffering, neither do they even believe Jesus Christ died on the cross; but believe He was replaced by His double or one of His disciples that look so much like Him to die. But even the Lord Jesus Christ spoke of His death in the Gospels that Muslim’s Quran told them to study; are they saying Jesus Christ lied or cheated His own death and fled into heaven?

Does a Muslim believe in the treasures of His Incense? No, Muslims do not believe the Lord Jesus is the Son of God, neither do they believe in His Resurrection from the dead, seeing they even deny His death and also His resurrection from the dead. They only believe He’s a prophet. But even the Lord Jesus Christ spoke of His being God and Son of God in the Gospels (John 10:36-38) that Muslim’s Quran told them to study; are they saying Jesus Christ lied about who He is in identity?

Does a Muslim believe in the treasures of His Gold? No, Muslims do not believe in the Kingdom of God, but believe in dominating the world with Islam and that Jesus will return again to do what the dead prophet Mohammad could not live to do in the last days. But even the Lord Jesus Christ spoke of the gospel of the Kingdom of God in the Gospels that Muslim’s Quran told them to study; are they saying Jesus Christ lied about who He is in identity?

EZEKIEL 4:7

[NKJV] — “Therefore you shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem; your arm shall be uncovered, and you shall prophesy against it.

[FBV] — Keep your face towards the siege of Jerusalem with your arm bared, and prophesy against it.



The Sin-Bearer here is also the one most qualified and inspired to smite woes or calamitous prophecies against the city (stronghold) of those who's sin he was bearing and suffering for. His bearing their sin was not guarantee to bless their city but to smite their city with woes and prophecies against it if they refused to repent.

Therefore, he bore their sin on his pinned right hand while his face and unpinned left-hand were making their city or strength to bear the woes of his prophecies against them if they remained adamant according to the Word of God in the Bible verse above.

In the Bible verse above, God told the Sin-Bearer for Judah to also prophesy against Jerusalem city of Judah: That is, while his right hand is bearing their sin in mercy, his left hand is smiting them with woeful prophecies and judgment. Behold therefore both the mercy and the severity of the Sin-Bearer: he's both a lamb that bore their sin and a leopard that laid siege against their hold of glory if they did not repent. They did not have to repent first before he began bearing their sin, but they must repent now he has begun and bore their sin, lest their woes and condemnation become swifter and against them. And if they reject his sacrifice or gospel, his prophecy or testimony against them would thrive. Therefore he's left-hand was uncovered like unsheathed two edged sword to shake off the dust of the hand against that city.

[Mark 6:11] — "And whoever shall not receive you, nor hear you, when you depart there, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony against them. Truly I say to you, It shall be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city."

[Psalms 149:6-9] — "Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a two-edged sword in their hand; To execute vengeance on the heathen, and punishments on the people; To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron; To execute on them the judgment as it is written: this honor have all His saints. Praise you the LORD."

Dtruthspeaker:
You are blaspheming (defaming) and Falsely Accusing Daniel, so you are the one sinning and doing an evil to him which every one here is telling you.

Apologies for making people see it as if I am defaming Daniel. My intent remained to expose the content in "Daniel 2:46," and to other related scriptures to interpret scriptures. I only brought up Paul and Barnabas and Peter and the Angel in Revelation 19, because they too were about to be worshipped by men who saw their divine revelation or divinity of God displayed through them. And compared to how they each restrained the worshipers from worshiping them, Daniel was odd among them for not restraining his worshippers from worshiping him.

Moreover, somethings that may not have been exposed over 2000 years before as wrong could be exposed in the last days wherein knowledge increases.

Dtruthspeaker:
Did Daniel ask anyone to worship him?

You are wrong for using Daniel to make this thread because Daniel did not solicit anyone's worship. Clearly, it was God Who raised him up to be honoured even by a King himself just as Saul and David and Solomon were so honoured and praised.

Neither did Paul and Barnabas solicit anyone to worship them, nor did Peter solicit Cornelius to worship him; yet these men of God restrained or forbade those trying to worship them from do so, and they redirected worship to God. This Daniel failed to do.