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EZEKIEL 3:25

[NKJV] — And you, O son of man, surely they will put ropes on you and bind you with them, so that you cannot go out among them. [Ezekiel 3:25 NKJV]

[FBV] — You will be tied up with ropes, son of man. You will be bound so that you won't be able to go out among the people. [Ezekiel 3:25 FBV]

The Spirit of God declared this to Ezekiel the prophet, as you read in the Bible verse above:

"The People will surely bind the Prophet as if they were binding or tying up a mad-man, to the degree that the prophet would not be able to go out among them."

He's not Samson that could not be bound (tied) when Samson was filled the Holy Spirit, neither was he the madman by the tombs at Gadarenes that could not be sustainably bound (tied) when possessed by the Legion of unclean spirits: He was Ezekiel the son of man that was mightily possessed by the Spirit of God, and yet people could bind or tie him up inspite of the Mighty Spirit of God on him.

The reason for that is because the ropes or bonds (chains) from the people over the man of God filled with the Holy Spirit of God were also serving the will of God for and through the man of God. Christians were taught to take authority in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, to bind or chain others in prayers, especially when the others are devils or enemies to them. But have anyone taught us to also be the Christians who others may bind, tie or chain?

It was Saul (Paul) that took authority to bind, not bind demons, but took authority to bind Christians; before he was eventually arrested and converted into being Christian himself and later he too was bound (tied). As it is written,

[Acts 9:14] — "And here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all that call on Your name."

Ezekiel did not bind nor cast anyone, but he was bound (tied) even with the Holy Ghost within him. See how the Holy Ghost demonstrated to Paul that he shall be tied-up.

[Acts 21:10‭-‬13 FBV] — After we'd stayed there for several days, a prophet called Agabus arrived from Judea. Approaching us, he took Paul's belt, and bound his own hands and feet. Then he said, “The Holy Spirit says, ‘This is how the Jews in Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt, and will hand him over to the foreigners.’” When we heard this, we and the believers there pleaded with Paul not to go to Jerusalem. However, Paul answered, “What are you doing, crying and breaking my heart? I'm ready not only to be bound in Jerusalem, but to die in Jerusalem for the sake of the Lord Jesus.”

Imagine a man of God on pulpit or platform throwing anointing that makes some people closeby to fall; then imagine Paul that could not wave or make hand throw, and could not even hold a microphone because he was always in bonds; for he's a man of God who's hands were always tied. Imagine him preaching, "Standfast in the liberty wherewith Christ has made you free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage;" but he himself was in bonds or chains, and does not appear to have physically shown what he's teaching here. Here are five bible references where Paul spoke of his bonds/chains:

*1* And now, compelled by the Spirit, I am going to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there. I only know that in town after town the Holy Spirit warns me that chains and afflictions await me.
[Acts 20:22‭-‬23]

*2* For which I am an ambassador in chains. Pray that I may proclaim it fearlessly, as I should. [Ephesians 6:20]

*3* As a result, it has become clear throughout the whole palace guard and to everyone else that I am in chains for Christ. And most of the brothers, confident in the Lord by my chains, now dare more greatly to speak the word without fear. [Philippians 1:13‭-‬14]

*4* "The salutation by the hand of me Paul. Remember my chains…." [Colossians 4:18]

*5* "Remember those that are in chains, as if you are chained with them; and those who suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body." [Hebrews 13:3]

Isaac as the most loved son of Abraham was tied or bound up by his own father who loves him and yet bind him up on the altar to be offered to God. Nebuchadnezzar bind (tied) the three friends of Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah, and cast them into a fiery furnace. But unlike Ezekiel, over whom the Spirit of God declared that people shall surely bind him with ropes, behold Jeremiah was told to actually make his own yoke and ropes, and bind himself, for a demonstration of his message of God to the people:

[Jeremiah 27:2] — “Thus says the Lord to me: ‘Make for yourselves bonds and yokes, and put them on your neck,

Wise in Your own Eyes: - The Wisdom of Satan


GENESIS 3:5

[NKJV]
For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

[FBV]
“It's because God knows that as soon as you eat it, you'll see things differently, and you'll be like God, knowing both what is good and what is evil.”



See the vanities in the devil's temptations, for his temptations are like his meaningless journeys: going to and fro, and going up and down. Satan goes to and fro, up and down, because Satan follows Satan's temptations. That means any one who follows Satan's temptations would also be going to and fro, up and down, in vain and meaningless wanderings. At the end of it all, there's nothing new such one would say he/she had done that had not been done before, except for the useless wasting of more lives, time and resources. Why would you follow the temptations or counseling of the devil who obviously has not led himself and his demons well. Satan's own heart and mind are parts of the curses plaguing Satan since iniquity was found in him.

According to the serpent, eating of the tree of knowledge of good and evil would open one's eyes to be like God in knowing the good and evil that God already knows. The serpent admits that God knows good and evil, but refused to accept what the God that knows good and evil calls evil or forbids for mankind created in God's image after God's Likeness. God was already doing for the woman what the serpent was promising her as reward from eating the forbidden tree. God was the Eyes for mankind to see through and to know the nature of everything, but the devil just wanted mankind to remove their dependence, reliance or trust on God into depending or trusting themselves.

When the God who knew all things called that forbidden act, "evil" or deadly, the serpent protested and deceived the woman into committing the act to have an open eyes that know what is good and evil like God already knew.

▪If God's Open Eyes that knows good and evil tell mankind what is good and evil, the serpent would deceive the woman to reject what God revealed as good, evil, life or death. But,

▪If mankind's Open eyes would know good and evil tell mankind what is good and evil, the serpent would accept that as being wise, civilization, freedom and illumination, for mankind.

This is called, "Being wise in your own eyes" or "Being wise in your own conceit" and it's basically rejecting God's Wisdom and God's leadership instead for man's self leadership that depends on man's eyes or his ability to know good and evil. We have seen where being wise in his own eyes have led the serpent to, and though he was more crafty than all the beast of the ground the serpent became cursed above all the beast of the ground.

Berean Study Bible (BSB)
[Isaiah 5:21] — "Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight."

We must walk by faith in God, not by sight or wiseness in our own eyes.

Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the LORD and turn away from evil. This will bring healing to your body and refreshment to your bones. [Proverbs 3:7-8]

THE SERPENT BEGAN THE FALSE GOSPEL


GENESIS 3:4
[NKJV]
Then the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. [NKJV]

[BSB]
“You will not surely die,” the serpent told her.


Here the Serpent was a "False Prophet" that declared with authority to the woman, "You shall not die" or "You shall not surely die" even when she goes on to break the Word of God from her own mouth or even if she commits the sin. When you hear such a false prophet, false apostle, false teacher, like this Serpent, they inspire motivation by making no deal or trivializing the fear attached to committing a sin against God; and tends to sound more assured of faith or security that is unaffected even if one commits sin.

Satan is the minister and founder of such false gospel that guarantees safety, security or consequence, to women and men who breaks the Law or Commandment of God, building false trust on God's kindness, goodness and mercy, to overlook their sin.

This is called, "Triv​i​al​i​za​tion" in "Flattery." And one of the ways the devil fights the true Word of God to mankind is by trivializing the Warnings or Consequences codes contained in the message of God's Word to mankind, and through that the devil further pushes or motivates mankind into defying the Word and Warnings of God to them. Thus the Serpent basically removed the "Not" or "Negative" that was forbidding the eating of the forbidden tree, and then the serpent introduced the "Not" or "Negative" in the position that trivializes the assurance of consequence or warning that must follow such act.

When you see a pastor or prophet fighting your death rather fighting your sins, attacking your enemies or poverty rather than attacking your unrighteousness and your foolishness, that pastor or prophet is very much preaching this false gospel of the serpent to you. Sin, unrighteousness and foolishness, are the first and the worst things any true gospel minister of God must first destroy in all your life and ways; before thinking of attacking demons or death in your life.

The soul that sin shall surely die: That's the true. Even the greatest Savior preached repentance from sin or death by perishing to sinners who do not repent. As it is written,

[Luke 13:5] — "I tell you, No: but, except you repent, you shall all likewise perish."

You see how the Serpent by craftiness or cunningly switched the "NOT" or the negative from forbidding the woman's sin to forbidding the woman's death so she could go on and commit the sin with assurance that no evil or penalty for the sin would come to her. That is how false teachers, false pastors, false ministers of the gospel prophesy and declare no evil or no death shall come upon sinners, and they seem to be speaking by faith, knowledge and motivation, but they are still using the lies or falsehood of the Serpent or the devil. As it is written,

This is what the Lord of Hosts says: “Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you. They are filling you with false hopes. They speak visions from their own minds, not from the mouth of the Lord. They keep saying to those who despise Me, ‘The Lord says that you will have peace,’ and to everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart, ‘No harm will come to you.’ But which of them has stood in the council of the Lord to see and hear His word? Who has given heed to His word and obeyed it? Behold, the storm of the Lord has gone out with fury, a whirlwind swirling down upon the heads of the wicked. The anger of the Lord will not turn back until He has fully accomplished the purposes of His heart. In the days to come you will understand this clearly. [Jeremiah 23:16‭-‬20 BSB]

Beware of flattery and beware of false ministers. Flattery is the form gospel that Satan (or his agents) bring along when he comes in as an angel/minister of light, or when the lying devil uses 'ministers of God' as was done and shown in "1 Kings 22:22, 5-23." There are many such false ministers found in the midst of churches today [2 Corinthians 11:13-15].

Flattery may almost sound like the true gospel of Christ, for this reason the lazy Christians, the liars, and the undiscerning Christians, would gladly subscribe to Flattery rather than to the love of the truth. These are the days in which Flattery would proliferate and fill the waves in the churches and in the world in order to spread the spirit of the Antichrist according to the prophecy of Daniel [Daniel 11:32-35].

DANIEL 2:40

And the fourth kingdom shall be as strong as iron, inasmuch as iron breaks in pieces and shatters everything; and like iron that crushes, that kingdom will break in pieces and crush all the others.
[Daniel 2:40 NKJV]

The fourth kingdom will be strong as iron and in the same way that iron crushes and smashes everything—it will crush and smash all others.
[Daniel 2:40 FBV]


THE IRON KINGDOM

According to the Bible verse above, a fourth Kingdom was to come, not just to overcome or overthrow the others, but to crush other Kingdoms that existed before it. Five features describe it:

*1* It's Divers or very Different from the others.

*2* It's Stronger than all the preceding or other Kingdoms, just as iron: For it is "Iron-Kingdom."

*3* It does not just rule with the rod of Iron, but it is actually Iron that breaks or crushes other substances.

*4* It is the longest and the last kingdom or empire before the Kingdom of God takeover. The Fourth/Last.

*5* It will be the kingdom by which Antichrist emerges.

In the Bible verse below, the same kingdom was represented as a beast with Iron-Teeth, that crushes or breaks things others pieces.

[Daniel 7:7‭, ‬23‭-‬25 BSB] — After this, as I watched in my vision in the night, suddenly a fourth beast appeared, and it was terrifying—dreadful and extremely strong—with large iron teeth. It devoured and crushed; then it trampled underfoot whatever was left. It was different from all the beasts before it, and it had ten horns. This is what he said: ‘The fourth beast is a fourth kingdom that will appear on the earth, different from all the other kingdoms, and it will devour the whole earth, trample it down, and crush it. And the ten horns are ten kings who will rise from this kingdom. After them another king, different from the earlier ones, will rise and subdue three kings. He will speak out against the Most High and oppress the saints of the Most High, intending to change the appointed times and laws; and the saints will be given into his hand for a time, and times, and half a time.

EZEKIEL 3:24

[NKJV] — Then the Spirit entered me and set me on my feet, and spoke with me and said to me: “Go, shut yourself inside your house. [Ezekiel 3:24]

[FBV] — Then the Spirit came into me and made me stand upright. He told me, “Go into your house and shut the door. [Ezekiel 3:24]

HAVE THE SPIRIT OF GOD AND LEARN TO SHUT YOUR DOOR FOR YOU AND HIM ONLY


That falling down of the man of God before the Manifest Presence of God in Glory also meant that the Spirit of God temporarily left him before he fell, but here the Spirit of God repossessed him again and made him stood up before God. Recall he had experienced the same glory of God by the River Chebar, and he also fell and the Spirit of God entered into him and stood him up according to "Ezekiel 2:2." So there was also a repetition of the Spirit of God entering Ezekiel again or more than once, and each time after he fell before the Manifest Presence and Glory of God.

So what happened, as in, did the Spirit of God left him after the first time and then return to enter and possess him the second time?

To explain this, there are measures to how much the Spirit of God dwells and possesses the people of God. And somehow it is related to the task or challenges that man has to bear or perform. If you ask some Christians what the hardest task that requires the greatest infilling of the Holy Spirit and Power? Some may tell you it is Preaching the gospel in the midst of Satan's or enemies greatest strongholds; that's the task that requires the greater measures of the Spirit of God. Some may say it is facing Satan, Antichrist or Death, and still Witnessing as it happened to Stephen the martyred. Some will even say is the resurrection from the dead as the Power of the Lord's Resurrection. Etc.

Behold I tell you when the Spirit of God is required in greater measures in and on a man or woman: It is when standing or dwelling in the manifest Presence and Glory of God. It requires more Holy Spirit and Power to abide the Manifest Presence of God and behold Him, than is required to face Satan or Death. Remember, not even all the Angels in heaven abide or see the Face of God all the time because some of them cannot bear it. But who is Satan to them that they cannot withstand him. So angels who always abide and behold the Face of God are higher, holier and more powerful than others who just assemble to God and then return to their places.

For we human beings, it's the same. Do not think that this level of Holy Spirit possessing me or you right now is enough for me/you to stand and face God when He manifest. There shall be a tremendous increase of the Spirit of God in us to enable us stand face to face with the most indescribable and most fearful Being.

Jesus Christ had all the Holy Spirit without measure while He walked as the Son of God born of the Holy Spirit. But after His resurrection from the Dead, whatever amount of the Holy Spirit the Lord Jesus Christ had was multiplied by Seven to enable Him sit at the Right Hand of God in the same Throne and as God's High Priest. This means, the Lord Jesus has "Seven Spirits of God" on Him, far greater than the amount of the Spirit of God He had when God anointed Him with Holy Spirit and Power and He went about doing good and healing all that were possessed of the devil.

Why Ezekiel had repossession of the Spirit of God again here is because when the manifest Presence of God left him the first time, the extra measure of the Spirit of God also left because he would not be needing that. It's only necessary when a mortal is facing the Consuming Fire and the Almighty God. Even so, there are certain Grace, Power, Extra Measures of the Spirit of God, and Glory, that is only available at the Presence of God; you cannot take them with you when leaving God's Manifest Presence, but as long as you are there in the Manifest Presence of God, you will enjoy those Grace, Power, Extra Measures of the Spirit of God, and Glory, because they never leave the Presence of God. I hope you understand my points.


There was a time I had to proof to some Jehovah's witness evangelists that the Holy Spirit was not just an "Active Force" of God as they proclaimed, but that the Spirit of God was truly a "Person" having His Own Mind and He actually talks or speaks. I cited some bible references where the Spirit of God spoke. He who has ears, hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches: today if you hear the Holy Spirit, do not harden your heart. etc

In the top Bible verse above, the Spirit of God that entered into the man of God, Ezekiel, spoke and instructed him to go into his house and lock his door, shutting everyone else outside. There are people who naturally are introverts, and they lead isolated life, shutting their doors, and cutting off from socialism, so that only them and the Spirit of God would be inside their House-Arrest or Self made prison. There were times I also consider myself as a Prisoner of the Lord as Paul, because I would shut my Gate and my Door, and neighbors outside will not see me for weeks.

People say miracles are on the streets or outside not inside one's closed doors, but I tell you, there are miracles that do take place within "Shut your Door." Elisha said to the late prophet's widow, go get vessels from neighbors but shut your door against those neighbors you collected vessels from; it was within "Shut your Door" that the Anointing was multiplied to fill all the empty vessels within the shut your door. Did I say Anointing was multiplied? Ok use the Oil was multiplied instead.

The first deliverance those angels gave to Lot that last night of Sodom and Gomorrah, was that the Angels pulled Lot into his own house and the Angels themselves shut the door of Lot's house before striking the men outside with blindness that could not find the shutting of door. Is it the Ark of Noah, which God Himself shut the door to keep Noah and his company inside? But sometimes it is not God or Angel that will do the "Shut your Door for you?" And the Spirit of God may instruct you as Ezekiel to go and shut your door, and remain within the shut door. As it is written,

[Isaiah 26:20 TLV] — Go, My people, enter your rooms, and shut your doors behind you. Hide for a little while, until the wrath is past.

[Matthew 6:6 TLV] — But you, when you pray, go into your inner room; and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father, who sees in secret, shall reward you.

EZEKIEL 3:23

[NKJV] — So I arose and went out into the plain, and behold, the glory of the Lord stood there, like the glory which I saw by the River Chebar; and I fell on my face. [Ezekiel 3:23 NKJV]

[FBV] — So I got up and went to the valley, and there I saw the Lord's glory. It was like the glory I had seen by the River Kebar. I fell facedown on the ground. [Ezekiel 3:23]

Supposing a man is singing, "Be Thou exalted, Oh Lord, above all heavens; and let Your glory be above all the earth." But at the same time, another man is singing, "Let Your glory fall, let Your glory fall…" Which one would you have God do between raising His Glory above the heavens and earth, and making His Glory fall or drop?

In the Bible verse above, Ezekiel got up to come down into the valley below the plateau or mountain, and there the Glory of the Lord stood in the lower grounds called "Plain" opposite of Plateau. Compared to the first man's singing, instead of the Lord's glory being above all the earth, the Lord's glory was in the valley or low lands that it seems it couldn't be seen from the nearest mountain unless one descends into the Valley to see the glory of the Lord. And compared to the second man's singing, instead of the glory of the Lord to fall, the glory did not fall but stood on the plain while it was the man of God that fell rather than the Lord's glory fall.

But in the top Bible verse above, the man of God was seeing the same Glory of God the second time, but in different places. He described the glory he was seeing in the Valley (Place 2) like or similar to the glory he saw by the River Chebar (Place 1). Since it was the same or similar glory in different places and different times, and yet he still fell facedown upon seeing the same glory the second time: I will outline for you two things to learn from it:

*1* No matter how many times a man had already seen the manifest glory/presence of God before, he doesn't get past falling down and making similar reactions as if that was his first time of experiencing Him in such glory. — Up till now the twenty four elders yet fall down with casting crowns before Him from time to time. This is not just a deliberate or voluntary act, but reflective act and involuntary reaction at the awesomeness and wonders of the unfathomable glory and power and grace of the Lord's glory and manifest presence.

As a man, if you've seen something the first time, when seeing it subsequently you systems would have adjusted to feel less shock or suspense from how they felt in the previous sighting of it. But God is ever glorious, and the more you see Him manifest the more intense, more glorious and more enigmatically wonderful He seems to have become than He previously was the previous time.

*2* Lest you feel it's because they were on the grounds of heaven that they easily fell by just seeing the Lord in glory, here the grounds changed and yet the effects remained. Whether is on the mountain, down the valley, on the land or in seas, the Lord's glory carries the same weight effects.

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THE WOMAN AS THE TEACHER

GENESIS 3:2
[NKJV]
And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden; [NKJV]

[BSB]
“We may eat the fruit of any tree in the garden,” the woman answered, [GNT]

According to the woman's answer to the serpent, mankind could eat of the trees of the garden. As long as they were trees of the garden, mankind could eat of them because mankind dwelt and worked in the garden. Any man who gains entrance license into the garden also gains eating license from every tree of the garden. However not every tree inside the garden was a tree of the garden. There was a tree inside the garden that was not a tree of the garden. Trees in the garden could be grouped into three based on their sources:

■1■ Trees of the Garden,

■2■ Tree of Life,

■3■ Tree of Knowledge of good and evil.

The last two were not trees of the garden but were trees in the Garden, in the middle of the Garden precisely. Just as none of the living creatures (animals) were creatures of the Garden, but they were creatures in the Garden because they're imported (brought) into the Garden from the ground outside the Garden.

In this Bible verse, the woman "Taught" as if she was a Teacher to the Serpent, and after the Serpent acted as a Student to ask her the question she's herein providing answer to. What she said in here she said with authority; because she was neither quoting God nor quoting her husband, not even making reference to God saying this part of eating every tree in the Garden. By the time she mentioned the other about the tree they were not to eat, that was when she quoted or linked it to God has said we should not touch it lest we die.

Remember the woman was not even made by the time God gave the man the Words for the trees; and therefore whatever the woman was teaching with authority here was what she acquired from her husband, but she did not give him any credit, and she spoke as if she too heard God or was hearing God on the matter.

However, the Woman went from being a teacher to being deceived, and she fell into transgression, deluded by even the same 'Student' or 'Serpent' she taught on the same subject matter. That means there was a problem in the way she taught, which was the reason she was deceived and she into transgression.

The problem in it was that the Woman by her state of nature then was an "Open Source:" and by that I mean the Woman had an open mind that allowed both the man to program her mind and the Serpent to reprogram her mind. Open source programs allow any willing and able person to reprogram, restructure or modify, it.

The Woman as Open-Source was learning and she was teaching: She was learning and she was talking. And though she was teaching, she was learning. Yes, people learn while they teach; but when what you are learning contradicts what you are teaching, it means you are getting reprogrammed.

She learnt none of this Tree matter directly from God; but you see her acting and switching with authority, trying to teach two distinct teachers (Her Husband and the Serpent) because she's unstable in doctrine or discipline (program). She fluctuates:

*1* First, she learnt about the trees from the man (her husband) as her first teacher, and here she's applying what she learnt from her first teacher or programmer on the Serpent (second teacher). Remember, God did not speak or taught her directly about trees.

*2* Secondly, she learnt different things about the same tree from the Serpent as her second teacher or contrary programmer, and you will later see her with authority going back to teach her first teacher by giving him the forbidden fruit to eat, following the second teaching or reprogramming she received by deception.

I tell you, there are even women that have been reprogrammed or retaught to go fight their own husbands or disrespect them, different from how they were initial programmed to relate to their husbands; and those women suddenly changed after they were reprogrammed by what motivational speaker, activist, pastor, priest or even their peer group (fellow women) fed into their mind. Very unstable Women, easily carried away by next happening things. Opened to all or anyone who may come after.

[2 Timothy 3:6-7] — "For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth."

Therefore, unless the woman that is hearing directly from God or from the Holy Spirit, let no woman who is depending on another man for learning become teacher over men. As it is written,

[1 Timothy 2:11‭-‬14] — Women should learn quietly, respecting their place. I don't allow women to be teachers, or to dominate men; let them remain quiet. For Adam was made first, and then Eve. Adam wasn't deceived, but Eve was completely deceived, and she fell into sin.

✓PROVING ** THE SERPENT WAS WISER


GENESIS 3:1

[NKJV]
Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, “Has God indeed said, ‘You shall not eat of every tree of the garden’?”

[BSB]
Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field that the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden?’”


From this Bible verse above, understand that though the Serpent had been more crafty or wiser than any living creature of the earth, the Serpent and his craftiness was not worth our attention all those while until the Serpent asked the Woman this question or talked with her on this subject matter. It was the "Persons" and the "Subject-Matter" that brought the Serpent into this limelight of the scriptures.

Learn from the Serpent in this Bible verse above: The Class or Kind of Persons and Subject-Matters you deal with defines were you belong. Remember Satan was the Serpent, but it is assumed the Serpent was one of the beasts or animals. Among the animals, the Serpent distinguished himself by not reasoning like animals, but reasoning like the gods (angels or higher spiritual beings) that knew life and death, good and evil, wisdom and mysteries. E.g.

*1* Supposing other animals or beasts of the field God made were only thinking about their own food and what they will eat, the Serpent was not thinking about what he will eat but caring about what the woman or human race could and could not eat. Well, these days I have seen dogs trained to feed sheep and cattle as shepherd, and I have seen a clip where a dog snatched snacks from a passing man and ran to give the food to his own master that was a man without legs and without hands: that is, a dog caring for and feeding a man, instead of the man feeding the dog.

*2* Supposing other animals or beasts of the field God made were only thinking about their spouses (mates) or sexual partners, the Serpent was not thinking or worried about his female, neither was the Serpent after sex or bestial instincts even when talking to the Woman that was another man's wife.

*3* The Serpent was interested in the "Persons" and "Subject-Matter" because God Himself was interested in those things: That is mark of Wisdom or Wiseness — Being interested in whoever or whatever God is interested in. Some people would be interested in gossips, because they are interested in "What a particular man/woman said or did to the woman;" but the Serpent was not interested in gossips, neither was the Serpent interested in the man/husband have said or done to the woman as gossipers or talebearers. Rather the Serpent was interested in what God said to the man and woman. Do you think Satan is interested in gossips of what your neighbor said or did? Satan is only interested what God said to you and what you said, did or will do based on what God said or will do. Someone said, small minds discuss people, while bigger minds discuss ideas: but beyond discussing ideas, the Serpent was wiser than every beast of the field and was discussing what God said to mankind. Fools do not discuss what God is saying or what God said, and they do not know or even care about the Word of God. But Satan or the Serpent is very interested in the Words of God, especially to keep the Word from foolish human beings. When the Sower sowed the Word of God in the minds of men that were like the wayside mindset, the Devil like devouring birds came and took away the Word of God sown in their them. If you know anything else above how much you know the Word of God and what God is saying, you are already a fool; and the Serpent is very much more crafty than you.

The serpent talked to the woman because the serpent felt God had talked to the woman, and the serpent was interested in the woman's eating of the trees of the garden because the serpent felt God had instructed the woman about eating of the trees in the garden. The crafty serpent seemed to be interested in the woman, interested in God, and interested in the trees of the garden, but those false interests and false concerns of the crafty serpent were parts of his pretense and charming deception on the woman.

Unfortunately, the serpent's talk to her was to woo her mindset away from the Word of God and into doubting or questioning the practicality of what God said regarding all she eats in the garden.

There was a serpent in the garden who was a beast that talked to a beauty. The serpent, being more crafty than any other beast of the ground God made, did not have a mindset that only related to low-class creatures and its fellow beasts, but had a mindset that related to the woman's mind. At that time, there was no enmity between the serpent and the woman, instead, there was attractive and friendly communication between the serpent and the woman who loved to wonder after wisdom and craftiness. Wise things attracted her, and she would do anything she could to know more and to be wiser than she was.

The craftiness of the serpent, more than any other beast of the ground, revealed that he was a beast himself, and yet he had a mindset and conversation that was beyond the cunning of the natural beasts. Many beasts think of being a beast as motivation to be ferocious, aggressive, stronger, or more fearful, but the cunning serpent trod that path with craftiness above all the beasts.

All animals were made by God, but they do not all bear the Image of God in them, and all living creatures are made through the wisdom of God, but they do not all share an equal amount of wisdom and discernment of the wisdom of God.

The evidence of how wise the serpent was compared to the rest of those animals then was provable in the secrets and the subjects that mattered to the serpent most when the serpent talked to the woman.

Take up this assignment:

To retain and keep what God sent or said to you in the midst of wolves in sheep's clothing or in the midst of devouring beasts, you must be wise as a serpent in mind but harmless as a dove in heart.

DANIEL 2:38

and wherever the children of men dwell, or the beasts of the field and the birds of the heaven, He has given them into your hand, and has made you ruler over them all—you are this head of gold.
[Daniel 2:38 NKJV]

He has made you ruler of all the inhabited earth and ruler over all the animals and birds. You are the head of gold. [Daniel 2:38 GNT]


✓ THE "GOLD-HEAD" KING OF KINGS ✓

Incase you don't understand this heading, "The "Gold-Head" King of Kings:" then let me spread it out for you. The whole mysterious dream events, (that Nebuchadnezzar had, but would not share with any man while demanding the wise men in his kingdom to guess or give word of knowledge of it), were all about one thing: That is, "King of Kings."

Thus, the Statue and the Stone in that dream were all about all the different "King of Kings" that shall arise. Remember, there can only be one King of Kings on any stage or era. The great Statue (Image) that was made up of (5) different Substances in the image of a giant man represent different Kingdoms of King of Kings that shall emerge. And the Stone that destroyed the Statue also represent the most different, unique and everlasting King of Kings that shall have no end nor limit/boundaries.

In the Bible verse above, there's the "Gold-Head King of Kings" who was Nebuchadnezzar himself, who also was the seer of the vision or dream. He's like their head and was represented with gold on the image statue. In the subsequent verses, other king of kings shall arise after the gold head (Nebuchadnezzar and his grandson), but the next king of kings shall be inferior or lower in greatness than Nebuchadnezzar had been, just as silver is lower to gold.

In the Bible verse above, the prophet, Daniel, did two things:

*1* He defined the scope of the Dominion or Kingdom God gave to Nebuchadnezzar as the king of kings: And according to his definition, the scope or realms of expanse which this king of kings, Nebuchadnezzar, was given by God reached and covered anywhere any living creature of the earth had walked or dwelt. Wherever any man, animal or bird is or has been was included in the places and realms God both gave to Nebuchadnezzar and made Nebuchadnezzar to rule over all of those living creatures and mankind there.

You know, this was greater than the Dominion God gave to mankind in "Genesis 1:28." For the Dominion in "Genesis 1:28" was not given to one man but to mankind or all men as in human race. And so, there was nothing like "king of kings" deemed in "Genesis 1:28" because no one man had it all; all Adam had was for the entire human race. On the other hand, Nebuchadnezzar was one man that was King of Kings, and the whole nations and living creatures were given to him as both their Lord and king over all nations and animals of the world. As it is written,

[[b]Jeremiah 27:5‭-‬9 TLV] — "‘I have made the earth, mankind and beast which are on the face of the earth, by My great power and by My outstretched arm—and I give it to whom it seems right to Me. So now I have given all these lands into the hand of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, My servant. I have even given the beasts of the field to serve him. All the nations will serve him—and his son, and his grandson—until the time of his own land comes, and then many nations and great kings will make him their slave.’ “Now it will be, that the nation or the kingdom which will not serve the same King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, and will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation I will punish with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence,” declares Adonai, “until I have destroyed it by his hand. But as for you, do not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your dreams, your soothsayers, or your sorcerers, who speak to you, saying, ‘You will not serve the king of Babylon.’"[/b]

*2" - The second thing Daniel, the prophet, did in the top Bible verse above was he told the king of kings, the dreamer himself, "You are that Gold-Head," which he saw in his dream.

Again, understand that people could see unrelated/unconnected images, persons or objects, in their dreams and visions, and yet spiritually those things they are seeing or working on could be themselves either in their past, present or future selves. I have used Joseph and his brothers' sheaves to illustrate how they bound or chained themselves by binding/chaining sheaves in the dream and whereas those sheaves were their future selves.

Though I do not intend to encourage this witchcraft or reprobate mystery, but I share it here for illustration: Witches, Magicians, Dark Artists, Dark Craftsmen, have ways of linking a man/woman to an object such as image, stone, doll, tree, bunch of wood, statue, mannequin, pictures, or any convenient object: and it will be so real that they could actually control that man's/woman's life by what they do to that object that represents him/her in their shrine or coven: if they want to kill, paralyze, bind, or do anything to the man/woman, they just do it to that object there with them and it will automatically happen to that man/woman that has his or her personality/soul/body linked to that object in their black or witch crafts. And it may even be done in a way that even if the man or woman sees that object (either as living creature or non living thing) the man or woman will never be able to naturally know he/she is that thing.

Daniel told the king of kings, Nebuchadnezzar, "You are that Gold-Head;" in another occasion or another dream, the same Daniel will tell the same king of kings, "You are that Tree" (Great Tree that was cut down).

Have understanding: Take this life as if you are your neighbor or you are any man you see, and treat every man/woman you meet as if he/she is your future self: then you are safe. As it is written,

[Matthew 7:12 FBV] — "Treat others the way you want them to treat you. This sums up the law and the prophets."

Again,

[Luke 6:37‭-‬38 TLV] — "Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Pardon, and you will be pardoned. Give, and it will be given to you—a good measure, pressed down, shaken together, overflowing, will be given into your lap. For whatever measure you measure out will be measured back to you.”

We are like Joseph and his brothers, either binding or loosing our sheaves by how we treat others and whatever we do to others especially when they are lower, poorer, weaker, or below us, for that's even much when they decide our future and destiny by how and what we do to them. If you know this, you will begin to truly love every man or woman, including loving your enemies too.

DANIEL 2:37

You, O king, are king of the [earthly] kings to whom the God of heaven has given the kingdom, the power, the might, and the glory. [Jer. 25:9; 27:6; 28:14.]
[Daniel 2:37 AMPC]

You, O king, are king of the [earthly] kings to whom the God of heaven has given the kingdom, the power, the might, and the glory. [Jer. 25:9; 27:6; 28:14.]
[Daniel 2:37 AMPC]


✓ KING OF KINGS ✓

In this Bible verse above, Daniel, telling what the interpretation of the king's dream is, began telling who the king is. Meaning, "What the interpretation of the dream is had connection with who the king and dreamer is." The king and dreamer had his reflection or image in the Image (Statue) he saw or dreamt. He was seeing a different Image or Statue, but did not know he was seeing himself as significant part of the different Image, Statue or Object.

When people know they are in their own dreams, they usually see themselves doing or saying things in their own dreams while they are seeing/watching their dreams. Like watching yourself in a movie, you are there acting a character in the movie and you are here observing/watching the movie at the same time. Well that's when you know it's you in the movie, but you never knew you would/could do those things you did, or would/could interact with those people, places and things, as you were doing in the dream.

However, there are more mysterious dreams in which people may be seeing themselves in the dreams without knowing they are the ones (the characters) in those dreams, thinking who or what they are seeing in the dreams are different people or different things but not them because who/what they are seeing is not carrying their face, image, impulsive and instincts, in the dream. They may even attack who or what they are seeing in the dream that came with different face/shape, not knowing they are attacking themselves because they are those see in their dreams.

It's like David the king judging and condemning the rich man who robbed the poor man of the only Ewe he had, whereas the rich man had so many sheep he did not want to sacrifice for his visitor, in the story or parable that Nathan the prophet told him. But the prophet, Nathan told the king, David, "You are that rich man in the story;" just as the prophet, Daniel told the king, Nebuchadnezzar, "You are that rich head or head of gold in the image statue of the dream or vision he saw." We will get to where he told him that, but now let's prepare the background.

Under the preceding verse before this Bible verse above, I told you about "Seeing things you did not see from the things you saw" (Go-to www.peterch.com and find "Daniel 2:36" lines). Now you are understanding that one could be seeing different and unconnected image, person or object, in dream or parable without knowing that is himself right there. Joseph saw himself and his brothers in the field binding or chaining sheaves, not knowing the sheaves they were binding or chaining were themselves: like a man binding and chaining what appears to be demon, not knowing that thing he's binding or chaining is himself in the future. Though Joseph saw his own bounded shelf stood upright while the sheaves his brothers bound bowed down to Joseph's bounded shelf, meaning they were to become like the sheaves they bounded and bow down to Joseph: but they all will be in bonds or chains both the ones bowing down to Joseph's and Joseph himself that will rule or be king over them, are all bound in slavery called "Egyptian Bondage." So though Joseph became Governor or Prince in Egypt over them, Joseph too was not free but under chain as the shelf he bound in his dream at the age of 17 years.

What?! That was in showing how seeing someone/something else in one's dream or vision could be interpreted as seeing oneself, even when it's unrelated or unconnected. I will show you further illustration in the next Bible Verse after this top Bible verse above, where Daniel will be straight up to tell the king, You are that head of gold you saw on Image Statue in your dream.

Now concentrating in the top Bible verse above:

You, O king, are king of the [earthly] kings to whom the God of heaven has given the kingdom, the power, the might, and the glory. [Jeremiah 25:9; 27:6; 28:14.] [Daniel 2:37 AMPC]

There are can be many kings, but there can only be one "King of Kings;" and only one "Lord of Lords" while there are many lords. There was a time the LORD was not the King of Kings on earth, but He was the Giver of Kingdoms or the "King of Kings Maker." Many people have been called "King makers" but there is only One "King of Kings Maker" — the Lord God in Heaven, who rules in the Kingdom of men and gives it to whomever He wills.

Later you see how the Lord God stopped giving the Kingdom, the Power and the Glory, to whomever He wills and came Himself as that Stone that struck the Image Statue, and from thence the Lord God Himself as Son of man became the King of Kings and Lord of Lords forever, never ever giving the Kingdom, the Power and the Glory, to any man besides or without Himself: and He will share the Kingdom, the Power and Glory, with those He made worthy in His Kingdom.

But before the Lord God Himself came to "take over" from men, He was "taking sides" among men, giving the Kingdom, the Power, and Glory, to the men He will and chose, and putting down the others under them. He made others kings, but made those He chose King of Kings. Few examples of "King of Kings" until the Lord Jesus Christ became the King of Kings.

*1* Nebuchadnezzar, King of Kings: It was a position greater than David or Solomon held. According to this top Bible verse above.

*2* Artaxerxes, King of Kings: It was a position greater than David or Solomon held. As it is written, "Artaxerxes, king of kings, to Ezra the priest, a scribe of the law of the God of heaven, perfect peace, and at such a time. I make a decree, that all they of the people of Israel, and of his priests and Levites, in my realm, which are minded of their own freewill to go up to Jerusalem, go with you." – [Ezra 7:12-13]

Remember, God and not Satan, is He who gave the Kingdom, the Power and the Glory, to whomever He wills. Satan tempted the Lord Jesus, claiming it was given to him (Satan) and he could give it to whoever he will. Satan as the Dragon will give his kingdom and power to Beast, Antichrist, and for about 3.5 years the fake king of kings, antichrist, who was not made by God but by the Devil, will rule. No one who is below the status of King of Kings can prevail against the Antichrist: even when all Christians or Churches make war against the Antichrist, they will all fail before the Antichrist until the True and Greater King of Kings (Jesus Christ) comes, and defeat the existing king of kings. For only a King of Kings could defeat a king of kings. As it is written,

[Revelation 17:14] — "These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful."

[1 Timothy 6:15] — "Which in his times he shall show, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords;"

DANIEL 2:36


“This is the dream. Now we will tell the interpretation of it before the king. [Daniel 2:36 NKJV]


This was the dream, and now we will explain what it means to the king. [Daniel 2:36 FBV]


THERE'S INTERPRETATION TO WHAT YOU SEE


In the Bible verse above, Daniel showed the king the extent of what the king saw (dreamt) and completed it in the king's dream; and Daniel then promised to also show the king the extent of the same dream that king never saw nor understood (as in, the meaning or interpretation of the king's dream). I could rephrase his speech in the Bible verse above as thus, "Oh king, this was the nature and extent of what you saw in your dream, but now we will tell you what you did not see from what you saw: for what you did not see from what you saw is the interpretation, meaning or hidden revelation of what you saw."


Again, higher spiritual beings could tell how much you know in a matter, and could also tell you more beyond how much you already know, saw or heard, in the same matter. For interpretation is not just about translating but also about applying and implying. Again, things are not all as they seem: there are more to and beyond the things men see about everything they see daily: those extra things men do not naturally see from what they naturally see is the "Interpretation. It's foolish to think all a man saw about anything is the end or all about that very thing. The way we see things in physical realities is like the way that king saw the statue and the Stone in his dream; but there is interpretation he was yet to see or know to fully understand.


However, when Daniel successfully told the king how much the king knew in that matter, Daniel promised "We" (instead of "I" will show the king the interpretation or meaning. When it was about telling the king's dream he did not include any man among those having the ability to reveal such secrets but God in heaven; but after he revealed the dream, he included other wise men.


It was beyond human resources for another man to unveil the king's secret dream of such nature, and only God could have revealed that to the king through a man God revealed the secret. It falls within the class where one could say to the man revealing it, "Flesh and Blood has not revealed this to you, but God the Father in heaven." Therefore Daniel revealing this king's dream is in similar grade to Peter revealing the Divinity and Godhead status'quo of the Lord Jesus Christ while he dwelt among them as ordinary Man or like regular men.

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EZEKIEL 3:22

[NKJV] — Then the hand of the Lord was upon me there, and He said to me, “Arise, go out into the plain, and there I shall talk with you.” [Ezekiel 3:22]

[FBV] — The Lord's power took control of me there, and He told me, “Get up! Go to the valley, and I will talk to you there.” [Ezekiel 3:22 FBV]


This power or Hand of God upon Ezekiel here was grace to empower him to get up and go where he was sent. The power to raise him up. Sometimes, as God is saying to you, "Arise…" His Power or Hand on you to raise you.

Nevertheless, the Hand or Power of God was upon him in this place, but He sent him to different place (a Valley) for God to talk with/to him there. This implied that with all the Hand or Power of God on him there, it was still not the place for God to deliver or discuss the message He was about to tell him. There’s a place, and not just a power, for certain divine revelations and messages: For it is not just about the Presence (Hand) of God in a place for the revelation or message to be unveiled, but also about the places and the people who must become (integral) parts of the message or revelation.

Therefore the man of God was heavily under the Hand or Power of God, but God sent him into “the” valley or plain, where God will continue talking with him. The communication or revelation of God was moving or shifting places and positions faster than the presence and power of God that was with the man of God. So the man of God must be dynamic and build a movement, not a monument, to capture the journeys and walking with God. It is called “Walking with God” and not just “Standing with God;” and you need to keep “Walking with God” for God to keep “Talking with you.”

Many people among us usually build monuments or memorials to religiously get stuck to the past places where they met and felt the great Hand or Power of God upon them. They will even build temple there and worship God there forever, and turn there into their religious pilgrimage site.

However, I want you to outgrow getting stuck in same places you encountered miracles, power or presence of God and angels; and move on to seeking God and not just feeling God, and to looking “At Him” and not just looking “for Him.”

Listen to this:

His power, His angels, His miracles, etc., could still be there or remain there, but He Himself is no more there for you or He has moved on from there to another place. Yes, God is omnipresent, meaning He is everywhere at the same time. However, there’s is something called, “He is not there for you” or “He is not here for you” even when you can still see and feel His Power, Grace, Angels, Miracles etc., there.

This differentiates between “God is here with Me” and “God is here for Me.” Even when God is here with you, God may not be here for you: That was what Ezekiel understood in the top Bible Verse above, when the Hand of God or Power of God was “here with the man of God” but the fellowship, revelation or communication of God talking or chatting with the man of God was waiting for the man of God outside there but in the valley or plain, wanting the man of God to humbly descend or come down from that height where he presently was. To condescend to lower place where God will continue talking with him and showing him more things and revelations.

The name, “Immanuel” means “God with us;” but that does not translate into “God for us.” As we mature, we will understand better the difference between “God is here with us” and “God is here for us.”

But let’s share few more examples of men and women that somehow felt God is here/there with them, but at that moment God was not there for them though they felt and heard Him.

The women who sought for the Lord’s Body at His grave met angels and glory there, and observed signs and wonders of the Lord there; but the Lord was not there (for them). The angels asked them, “Why are you looking for the living among the dead: He is not here, but He’s risen from the dead and has gone ahead of you to Galilee” (Luke 24). Will you see such miracles, signs and wonders, including seeing angels for the first time there, and will not like to return to that church or place? And yet the angels told those women that the Lord is not here, even though the angels were relaxed there. And in another occasion, Mary Magdalene still saw the Lord there or in the same place where angels told the women that the Lord is not here. Yes, the Lord was there with her, but not there for her: therefore, when she wanted to touch Him there, the Lord refused her, saying to her, “Do not touch Me, for I have not ascended to My Father: But go to My Disciples, tell them I...”

Well there were women who knew how to still convert “The Lord here with me” into “The Lord here for me;” because those women knew how to take even the advantage of just seeing or feeling Him to grab His attention towards them. Examples, the woman with the issue of blood knew the Lord was passing by there, not for her but for some others; and yet she converted that moment for her. Another woman was the Canaanite woman that saw and knew the Lord Jesus in another country called Syria; and though He was not there for her, and He was not even sent but for the lost sheep of the house of Israel, yet she had Him heal her daughter, delivering her daughter from demons possessing her daughter. And lastly, the prostitute woman who repented, and came with Alabaster Box of Oil to grab her forgiveness from the Lord who was not even there (in another man’s house) for her.

Back to evidences of the LORD’s power, grace, angels, miracles, glory, etc., being and felt in a place by a man/woman, and yet the LORD is not there/here for him/her:

Elijah was very good at discerning this mode of walking with God, and perhaps that was one of the reason God was so impressed with Elijah and God had to take Elijah long after He took Enoch. Learning from Elijah: While he was by the Mountain of Horeb, the Lord spoke to him to climb up the Mountain and wait for Him up there. (Unlike how He spoke to Ezekiel in the top bible verse above, to go out and down to the valley, Elijah was instructed to climb up the hill). On the hill, the Lord was to pass by him, but instead the power of God passed by in form of great wind, great fire and great earthquake or shakings that shook the rock where he stood; but the Lord was not in any of His Power or Miracles that was available there on the Mountain where Elijah was asked to wait for Him.

Then a still small voice spoke to Elijah, and suddenly, Elijah understood that a better way for waiting for the Lord is seeking the Lord. Instead of continuing waiting for the LORD, he would rather continuing seeking the LORD. Waiting for the Lord means waiting where He ask you to wait for Him until He comes to you. While seeking the Lord means searching and reaching at the Lord where He is currently available for you, leaving your place to go to where next He is available and reachable for you to keep walking with God and not just waiting for God.

Elijah just knew when to change place and where to go next to keep walking with God. See what happened the day he was to be taken: God sent him to Gilgal, and he told Elisha to wait for him: But even Elisha already knew that “Walking with him” is better than “Waiting for him:” and Elisha insisted he must go or walk with him rather than waiting for him. Imagine if Elisha had waited, he would have died still waiting for Elijah to come back to him as he promised.

So while Elijah had the wisdom of walking with God, Elisha had the wisdom of walking with Elijah; rather than just waiting for Him or him. Sent to go to Gilgal, but on getting there the LORD did not seem to show up there but just resend him to Jericho, and kept resending him after what may have appeared as disappointments to the earlier scheduled rendezvous or meeting. Imagine someone important told you to travel to another state or province, and there he will have time for you. You traveled there as he told you, but he sent to tell you again to travel again because he moved to another state or province. And yet you traveled again there to meet him; and there again you saw signs of his convoys or evidence that he had been there, but sent that you should still cross one great river and meet him the other side etc. Some people may get offended or disappointed and stop following or seeking for that very busy man who seem not to be remembering his own scheduled appointment with them. But Elijah kept following and moving, constantly walking with God and moving with Him to wherever He led, without getting discouraged. Therefore, the LORD God found in Elijah another man like Enoch who walked with God, and was not, because God took him.

Can you walk with God? If you were the one God told to go down into the valley and there He will talk with you, will you not wonder why you have to go down that far for Him to talk with you when He’s obviously talking and could have just simplified things by just telling you here what He wants to talk to you about without having to travel that distance and back just to hear what He has to say? What if after going that far, He changes the venue or reassign you to another place without apologies for changing the earlier announcement?

Abraham’s own was even difficult because he was told by God to leave his father’s people and father’s land that he was supposed to inherit as the firstborn son of his father, forfeiting his father’s property and land that should be his, to go to where God will show him. And God did not even tell him the place or direction, whether east, west, north or south; and Abraham by faith obeyed without knowing where he was going or which direction, but trusting the LORD will show him. Perhaps if the LORD had told him straight up he should go to Canaan land, Abraham would not have to spend much following longer routes or other directions but to follow the shorter route to Canaan. But God did not disclose where he was to go, and Abraham just kept traveling until one day God showed up and told him this was the place. In another occasion, God told him the place he was to go and sacrifice his only son, Isaac, and he traveled three days journey to that place: but there God changed the instruction, that he should not go ahead again with the earlier command of sacrificing his only son as offering to God.

I felt the Disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ did not go where He sent them to go and meet Him after His resurrection: For He sent them to meet Him at Galilee; but they remained in Jerusalem behind closed and locked door for fear of the Jews and for unbelief because they did not believe those who saw the LORD Jesus Christ was risen from the dead and spoke to them to bring His message to them. So because they did not believe or obey to go meet with the LORD at where He was to talk to them, and the Lord Jesus Christ did not want to ignore them and move on without them, He decided to come to them and appeared to them inside the locked room; but He rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, making Him to appear in Jerusalem to them after His resurrection.

But here is one apostle who was one of the best apostles at going where the LORD sent him and walking with Him: as soon as he was converted into Christianity by the fear of God upon him that made him trembling: He began asking the Lord, “What do you want me to do?” He did not began asking for what the Lord will do for him; rather he began asking what he will do for the Lord. Who was that Christian? Well, the Lord Jesus first told him where to “Go” before the Lord Jesus told him what to “Do.” If you first learns how to “go” wherever the Lord sends you, you will surely know how to do whatever the Lord tells you.

As it is written,

And trembling and astonished, he said, Lord, what will You have me to do? And the Lord said to him, Arise and go into the city, and you shall be told what you must do. -- [Acts 9:6 MKJV]

THE FIRST BOOK OF ADAM AND EVE

1 ADAM+EVE - CHAPTER 29


1. BUT when the merciful God saw that Satan wished to kill Adam with his manifold devices, and saw that Adam was meek and without guile, God spake unto Satan in a loud voice, and cursed him.

However, when God, who is full of mercy, observed Satan's intention to harm Adam through various cunning schemes, and recognized Adam's innocence and simplicity, God addressed Satan with resounding voice and placed a curse on him.

2. Then he and his hosts fled, and Adam and Eve remained standing on the top of the mountain, whence they saw below them the wide world, high above which they were. But they saw none of the host which anon were by them.

Subsequently, he and his hosts hastily departed, while Adam and Eve remained on the summit of the mountain, overlooking the expansive world below them, which seemed to be far beneath their elevated vantage point. However, they were unable to catch sight of any of the host that had just been present with them.

3. They wept, both Adam and Eve, before God, and begged for forgiveness of Him.

Tears streamed down Adam and Eve's faces as they knelt before God, their hearts burdened with regret and sorrow. With quivering voices, they pleaded for His mercy and forgiveness, knowing that they had strayed from His will and violated His trust.

4. Then came the Word from God to Adam, and said unto him, "Know thou and understand concerning this Satan, that he seeks to deceive thee and thy seed after thee."

Once again, the Word of God reached Adam, delivering this message: "Take heed and comprehend, for Satan is intent on deceiving you and your descendants."

5. And Adam wept before the Lord God, and begged and entreated Him to give him something from the garden, as a token to him, wherein to be comforted.

Adam, with tears streaming down his face, pleaded fervently to the Lord God, earnestly asking Him for a comforting token from the garden.

6. And God looked upon Adam's thought, and sent the angel Michael as far as the sea that reaches unto India, to take from thence golden rods and bring them to Adam.

Upon observing Adam's request, God considered his thoughts and dispatched the angel Michael on a mission that extended to the vast sea reaching India. Michael was tasked with retrieving golden rods from that distant land and delivering them to Adam.

7. This did God in His wisdom, in order that these golden rods, being with Adam in the cave, should shine forth with light in the night around him, and put an end to his fear of the darkness.

God, in His wisdom, arranged for the golden rods to be in Adam's cave, enabling them to emit a luminous light during the nighttime. By doing so, God intended to dispel Adam's fear of the darkness and surround him with a comforting glow.

8. Then the angel Michael went down by God's order, took golden rods, as God had commanded him, and brought them to God.

In obedience to God's command, the angel Michael descended and retrieved the golden rods as instructed, bringing them before God.

EZEKIEL 3:21

[TLV] — If you warn the righteous person not to sin and the righteous person does not sin, he will surely live, because he took warning. You will have delivered your soul.” [Ezekiel 3:21 TLV]

[GNB] — If you do warn a good man not to sin and he listens to you and doesn't sin, he will stay alive, and your life will also be spared.” [Ezekiel 3:21 GNT]


Are you still warning only the sinners or unrighteous people, without warning the righteous and godly people? Pastors and watchmen must not stop warning both Christians and Sinners, both the Righteous and Unrighteous.

According to this Bible verse above, Warning the righteous and saints will both prevent them from committing sin/backsliding, thereby saving them to the uttermost, and also save the pastors/watchmen over them who are warning them. I tell you, there are lots of pastors and priests that shall not saved because they are not Warning their followers or church members. Do not become teacher or pastor if you cannot do it well, for greater condemnation awaits pastors, priests, teachers, apostles, prophets and ministers, who are not doing well to feed and keep the people of God under them.

In this Bible verse above, Pastors or Watchmen are supposed to warn the righteous or good men preventively, before any chance of them falling into sin or backsliding. Prevention here is better than cure. You are not warning them just to make them repent, but warning them to make them watchful themselves, vigilant and to arm them into being security conscious for themselves.

Warn those who seems not in need of the warning. No matter how much deep or grown they are in the way of Righteousness and Christianity, keep warning them as if they are babes in the faith. Warn the People of God as if they are about to become the people of the Devil, and warn the righteous as if they are sinners or as if they are about to commit sin.

Do it as if you mean it: Today they may be righteous, but tomorrow they may become sinners or unrighteous. Teach them that their salvation is not yet sure until they die being righteous: they can still end in hell fire tomorrow if they fall. Stop making believers think their state yesterday is same with their state today and forever. Here is example of how God Himself warned a righteous man as if he was a sinner and dead already, whereas the righteous man only contemplating to commit the sin: God warned him that way to prevent him from sin

[Genesis 20:3-7] — "But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, "Behold, you are but a dead man, for the woman which you have taken; for she is a man's wife." But Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, "LORD, will you slay also a righteous nation? Said he not to me, She is my sister? and she, even she herself said, He is my brother: in the integrity of my heart and innocence of my hands have I done this." And God said to him in a dream, "Yes, I know that you did this in the integrity of your heart; for I also withheld you from sinning against me: therefore I prevented you from touching her. "Now therefore restore the man his wife; for he is a prophet, and he shall pray for you, and you shall live: and if you do not restore her, know you that you shall surely die, you, and all that are yours.""

That's warning to a righteous man, to a man of integrity to prevent him from being compromised or corrupted. That warning saved the righteous man's life and righteousness (integrity, innocence).

Warning the righteous and wise men is called "Rebuke, Reprove, Preventive Correction, Instruction, etc.

That is how to arm a righteous man, that is, by giving Warnings, Rebukes, Doctrine, Reprove, Correction, Instruction, etc, not by giving him money or prosperity messages: All scriptures are designed to give Warnings, Rebukes, Doctrine etc to men for their own profit; and there is no single scripture that has the primary purpose of being used for any other uses apart from Warning, Rebuking, Reproving, Correcting, Comforting, Instructing and Doctrine. Therefore it is abuse of the Bible or scriptures if used outside these purposes and profit. As it is written,

[2 Timothy 3:16-17] — "All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished to all good works."

You will know a preacher is preaching the Word or Scriptures well when his messages come as Warnings, Rebukes, Reproofs, etc.

[2 Timothy 4:2-5] — "Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long-suffering and doctrine. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers (pastors), having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned to fables (false hopes). But watch you in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of your ministry."

Now those who will turn away from such sound doctrine and warning to go for teachers or pastors that are massaging their expectations and desires, are usually the mixt-multitudes who came with their lusts and cravings of their flesh into Christianity.

[Proverbs 9:6‭-‬10 TLV] — Abandon your foolish ways and live! Walk in the way of understanding.” Whoever corrects a scoffer is asking for insult. Whoever reproves a wicked man gets abuse. Do not correct a scoffer or he will hate you. Rebuke a wise man and he will love you. Instruct a wise man and he will be wiser still. Teach a righteous man and he will increase in learning. The fear of Adonai is the beginning of wisdom and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.

[Psalms 141:5] — "Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities."

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EZEKIEL 3:20

[TLV] — When a righteous person turns from his righteousness and acts perversely, I will lay a stumbling block before him and he will die. Because you have not warned him, he will die in his sin. His righteous deeds that he has done will not be remembered—but I will require his blood at your hand. - [Ezekiel 3:20 TLV]

[GW] — If righteous people turn from living the right way and do wrong, I will make them stumble, and they will die. If you don’t warn them, they will die because of their sin, and the right things they did will not be remembered. I will hold you responsible for their deaths. - [Ezekiel 3:20 GW]

WARNING THE RIGHTEOUS AGAINST BACKSLIDING

As a watchman, sometimes you may be busy working for the sinners/wicked to repent and you find the worse happening because the righteous/saints are backsliding. You think you are concerned with gaining converts from the wicked ones, but behold you are losing the righteous ones who are becoming wicked and sinners. This means conversion sometimes are like two-way traffic: Gaining on one hand, and losing on the other.

In this race, wicked people and sinners do turn from their wicked ways to embrace the way of righteousness and true repentance; and there righteous ones who also turn from their right ways to embrace the way of sin and wicked ways. This means, the watchman must warn both the wicked and the righteous. His messages must not just be for those who were all time wicked and sinful, but also for those who were and who are presently righteous and holy. Let him that thinks he stands, take heed lest he falls.

In the bible verse above, God will still require the blood of the backslider from the watchman, even though the backslider once knew the way of righteousness. The burden for even the saints as well as the sinners in on the watchman as a shepherd who must not allow the Lord’s sheep to be lost or eaten by the wolf, while seeking to convert the goats into the sheep.

You wonder why we still have to “Warn Christians or Righteous People” when they already are good to go. They are good to go, but we keep warning both them and others who are on the other side. So when we preach, we sound as if we are warning every man, whether they need the warning or not. Other ministers or pastors preach to Christians or believers as though they no longer need to be warned since they are in Christ and saved by faith; and so their preachings or messages are basically discussing other matters apart from discussing judgment, danger of sin, hell, death, reformation, repentance, salvation and righteousness. But we still Warn even when we preach to Christians, Pastors, Priests, or elders in the faith of Christianity, we still warn everyone both saints and sinners. As it is written,

[Colossians 1:27-28] – “…Christ in you, the hope of glory, whom we preach, warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, so that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus.”

Three years preaching and teaching of Paul, night and day, and all Paul’s messages were warning upon warning, even when the people he’s talking to were Christians or the Church.

Therefore watch and remember that for the time of three years I did not stop to warn everyone night and day with tears. [Acts 20:31]

The undoing of the watchman in the top bible verse above will be that the watchman did not warn the righteous man or felt no need to warn the righteous man either before he backslided or when he backslided: And therefore, when the once righteous man dies in his sin, his blood will be required from the pastor or watchman that did not warn the righteous man.

Sometimes, there are those who were walking in the way of righteousness and truth that later backslided into sin and began walking in lies and deception. Backsliding do happen to some, and they eventually leave or forsake their first love, first faith and first foundation in the way of the Lord. Whatever may have happened to them, either in form of greater temptations or greater pressures; and the world eventually overcame them and they changed from who and where they once were.

In the Bible verse above, if or when a righteous man, a zealous believer in the Lord, suddenly turns from his righteousness and integrity, and begins to sin and to pervert his/her ways: Two things will happen to such backslider:

*1* God may put a stumbling block before that backslider or even harden his/her heart to make it difficult for him/her to return back again into that same state/faith he/she once had in the Lord. As it is written,

[b]For how can those who abandon their faith be brought back to repent again? They were once in God's light; they tasted heaven's gift and received their share of the Holy Spirit; they knew from experience that God's word is good, and they had felt the powers of the coming age. And then they abandoned their faith! It is impossible to bring them back to repent again, because they are again crucifying the Son of God and exposing him to public shame. God blesses the soil which drinks in the rain that often falls on it and which grows plants that are useful to those for whom it is cultivated. But if it grows thorns and weeds, it is worth nothing; it is in danger of being cursed by God and will be destroyed by fire. But even if we speak like this, dear friends, we feel sure about you. We know that you have the better blessings that belong to your salvation. God is not unfair. He will not forget the work you did or the love you showed for him in the help you gave and are still giving to other Christians. Our great desire is that each of you keep up your eagerness to the end, so that the things you hope for will come true. We do not want you to become lazy, but to be like those who believe and are patient, and so receive what God has promised.
-- [Hebrews 6:4-12 GNB][/b]

So it would be better for them to never have even known or walked in the way of righteousness before, than for them to have before but backslided. As it is written,

For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than after learning about it, to turn back from the holy commandment passed on to them. What has happened to them confirms the truth of the proverb, “A dog returns to its vomit,” and “A scrubbed pig heads right back into the mud.”
-- [2 Peter 2:21-22 TLV]

*2* All the previous works or memories of the righteousness the person had done before he or she backslided shall be forgotten and there shall be no reward for those righteous or good works the person had done before backsliding.

This is true, when a sinner repents all his past evil deeds or sins are forgotten; and so also when a righteous person backslides, all his past good deeds or acts of kindness are forgotten. Conversion or changing brings wiping away of one’s past records without backup.

[Hebrews 10:35-39]-- Therefore do not cast away your confidence, which has great recompense of reward. For you have need of patience, so that after you have done the will of God you might receive the promise. For "yet a little while, and He who shall come will come and will not delay." Now, "the Just shall live by faith. But if he backslides, My soul shall have no pleasure in him." But we are not of those backsliding to destruction, but of those who believe to the preserving of the soul.

EZEKIEL 3:19

[NKJV] — Yet, if you warn the wicked, and he does not turn from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your soul.

[GNB] — If you do warn an evil man and he doesn't stop sinning, he will die, still a sinner, but your life will be spared.

PREACHING SETS THE PREACHER FREE

You see why I feel more secured when I have preached God's messages to men more than when I have prayed. I feel greater anointing while delivering the message than I feel while praying. Preaching the Word of God gives me far more greater security, preservation and power, than spending hours in prayers. I don't know whether it's the same for you or for other ministers of God. However I do know that the Bible verse above reveals that the Watchman is always delivered, spared or saved, by his giving God's Word or Warning even to those who are dying and about to die their death.

This is simple:

True Repentance does to the Wicked/Sinners what True Preaching of God's Words does to the Watchman.

On the flipped side, the danger of the Wicked/Sinners not repenting is similar to the danger of the watchmen/ministers not preaching.

As it is written,

"Yet when I preach the gospel, I have no reason to boast, because I am obligated to preach. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!" - [1 Corinthians 9:16]

Jonah thought that by him not preaching to the sinners in city of Nineveh, they will never change nor repent and thus shall they end in the destruction about to overtake them in about six weeks. But Jonah did not know the danger of not repenting in the wicked is also related to the danger of not preaching in the watchmen/ministers or men of God. Therefore, before the danger of not repenting could swallow the wicked men in Nineveh, the danger of not preaching to them first swallowed Jonah as a beast that took Jonah into hell in deep beneath the oceans.

Didn't those on board and on that journey prayed and gave offerings to God, and yet their prayers couldn't prevent the accident because someone who was supposed to preach the message of God was sleeping or fleeing from preaching to where he would not be recognized as preacher or pastor, in order for him to do business as the rest of the world and make money for a living? Are the churches not headed to similar direction as Jonah when fleeing to Tarshish to trade rather than going into the world and preaching the gospel of Salvation and Repentance to all men because all men have sinned and are headed to the same destruction?

From the top Bible verse above, "Each time you warn the Wicked or Sinner, you have added to your own salvation or deliverance, even if the wicked or sinner did not repent or heed to what you said.

Preach because your own salvation or deliverance depends on your preaching and reaching out to other sinners and other men. It becomes double achievement or multiple benefits for you when your preaching/messages succeeded in converting the man/sinner into repentance, winning his soul; but even if your preaching/messages did not succeed in changing/converting the man/woman, you have at least become delivered/save from whatever would kill/destroy the man you preached to, and you can bold:

[Matthew 10:14-15] — "And whoever will not receive you nor will hear your words, shake off the dust of your feet going forth out of that house or that city! Truly I say to you, on the day of judgment, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and of Gomorrah than for that city."

As Paul did to the Jews in "Acts 18:6."

There was a time when I understood being free from all men as "Having a Conscience Void of Offense towards God and towards Men." But I grew up to understand that it's not just about being free from offending men but also about being free from the blood of all men. The way to being free from the blood of all men is by preaching the true Gospel and Messages of God to all men. Paul attain it:

Therefore I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all men. For I have not shunned to declare to you the whole counsel of God (in preaching and teaching). — [Acts 20:26‭-‬27]

THE FIRST BOOK OF ADAM AND EVE

The Devil, mimicking a helpful guide: Lured Adam and Eve towards a supposed bathing spot near the garden


1 ADAM+EVE - CHAPTER 28

*1* The Devil pretends to lead Adam and Eve to the water to bathe. BUT when the wily Satan saw them, that they were going to the garden, he gathered together his host, and came in appearance upon a cloud, intent on deceiving them.

Disguised as an angel and accompanied by a host of followers, Satan appeared on a cloud, aiming to deceive them.

*2* But when Adam and Eve saw him thus in a vision, they thought they were angels of God come to comfort them about their having left the garden, or to bring them back again into it.

Adam and Eve, mistaking them for angels sent by God, were hopeful that they had come to offer comfort or guide them back to the garden.

*3* And Adam spread his hands unto God, beseeching Him to make him understand what they were.

Adam prayed to God, seeking understanding of their true identity.

*4* Then Satan, the hater of all good, said unto Adam, "O Adam, I am an angel of the great God; and, behold the hosts that surround me.

Satan, the adversary of all that is righteous, addressed Adam, saying, "Oh Adam, I am a celestial being of the mighty God. Look around and see the multitude of heavenly beings accompanying me."

*5* "God has sent me and them to take thee and bring thee to the border of the garden northwards; to the shore of the clear sea, and bathe thee and Eve in it, and raise you to your former gladness, that ye return again to the garden."

"Adam, know that I and these heavenly beings have been sent by God to guide you both to the northern border of the garden. There, by the shores of a pristine sea, you and Eve shall be cleansed and restored to your former joy. Only then can you both return to the sanctuary of the garden once again."

*6* These words sank into the heart of Adam and Eve.

Adam and Eve were deeply moved by these words.

*7* Yet God withheld His Word from Adam, and did not make him understand at once, but waited to see his strength; whether he would be overcome as Eve was when in the garden, or whether he would prevail.

God, however, withheld his revelation, testing Adam's resolve to see if he would succumb to temptation as Eve had in the garden or remain steadfast.

*8* Then Satan called to Adam and Eve, and said, "Behold, we go to the sea of water," and they began to go.

Afterwards, Satan summoned Adam and Eve, informing them, "Look, we shall venture towards the vast expanse of the water," prompting them to commence their journey.

*9* And Adam and Eve followed them at some little distance.

Adam and Eve obediently trailed behind at a safe distance.

*10* But when they came to the mountain to the north of the garden, a very high mountain, without any steps to the top of it, the Devil drew near to Adam and Eve, and made them go up to the top in reality, and not in a vision; wishing, as he did, to throw them down and kill them, and to wipe off their name from the earth; so that this earth should remain to him and his hosts alone.

As the group reached a towering mountain devoid of any reasonable path to its summit, Satan closed in on Adam and Eve. Here, the Devil shed his illusory guise and physically compelled them to ascend the treacherous peak. His true intention was to hurl them off the precipice, eradicating their existence from the earth and claiming it solely for himself and his maleficent cohorts.

EZEKIEL 3:18

[MKJV] — When I say to the wicked, “You shall surely die;” and you do not give him warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked one shall die in his iniquity; but I will require his blood at your hand.- [Ezekiel 3:18]

[GNB] — If I announce that someone evil is going to die but you do not warn him to change his ways so that he can save his life, he will die, still a sinner, but I will hold you responsible for his death. - [Ezekiel 3:18]

In this bible verse, God unveiled a new act of murdering a man or a new act of being guilty for a man’s death, even without having any connection/contact with what killed the man. If you come deeper into the Judgment of God, you will realize that what you are not doing have ways of implicating or indicting you with what you never imagined you ever did. For example, the fact you are not with the Lord Jesus Christ makes you against the Lord Jesus Christ, and the fact you are not gathering people with Him makes you guilty of scattering people or chasing people away from Him. As it is written,
"Anyone who is not for me is really against me; anyone who does not help me gather is really scattering. -- [Luke 11:23 GNB]

A new act of being guilty for sinners’ who died and went into hell fire is that you saw and knew they were headed there but you never warned them to repent and embrace salvation.

It is not the person who tells a wicked man, “You will die for your wickedness” that is actually cursing or doing damage to that wicked man; rather it is the person who is not telling the wicked man “You will die for your wickedness” that is actually doing him damage.

Therefore, it is a gospel (good news) to tell a wicked man or sinner, you shall surely die and end in hell fire. It is neither a bad news nor is it a message of doom, but a good news or gospel. It only becomes a bad news if it actually happens, but it is good news if you warned about it or announced it before it actually happened. You must forewarn people.
Every true proclamation, prophecy, preaching or teaching, is good news; but not every fulfilling of such prophecies/proclamation is good news. Knowledge of good and evil is good, because knowledge of good is as good as knowledge of evil too. It is the fulfilling of evil that is bad news, not the knowledge of evil.

Where it becomes curse or evil to whoever is telling a wicked man, “You shall surely die” is when that person saying it is also wishing it for the wicked to truly die. The difference is in meaning it without wishing it, even while saying it. The purpose and goal is to save that life of the wicked man from the death through the wicked man’s realization and repentance.
This is the realization: “The sin or iniquity of the wicked man consumes his life, and for him to die in his sin, iniquity or wickedness with no repenting from it meant he has no life or salvation of life. Even if the man hates to do righteousness and mercy, he should atleast not hate his own life to realize the implications of what he does not just to other people but also to himself and his soul. If he is too selfish to reconsider his ways and impacts upon other people, being selfish still has ways to keeping a man safe to preserving of his own life when he perceives the danger and threat to his own life. Atleast, being selfish can still get him to flee for his life and deliver self from death and hell.

YOU MINISTERS OF GOD:
Stop being a “Wisher” and become a “Watcher:” A Watchman has no business wishing for the people, but his/her business is in watching for the people. Your messages should have nothing to do with what you “Wish” but to do with what you have “Seen and heard while watching.”

Many pastors and preachers have taken after the wishing in “3 John 1:2” wishing prosperity above all things; and their messages and prayers have only being expressions of their wishes for people under the sound of their voices. That appears helpful to the people.

However, the people needs pastors and priests who are watchful, more than those who are wishful. The Blind leaders of the blind are full of wishes too, but they are not watchful while they lead the blind into ditches inspite of wishes.

DANIEL 2:35

Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were crushed together, and became like chaff from the summer threshing floors; the wind carried them away so that no trace of them was found. And the stone that struck the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth. [Daniel 2:35 NKJV]

THE STONE THAT STRUCK THE GIANT INTO PERDITION

Afterward, the iron, clay, bronze, silver, and gold were shattered simultaneously and transformed into the worthless residue resembling the husk from summer threshing floors. The wind swiftly swept them away, leaving no trace of their existence. As for the stone that struck the statue, it grew into a mighty mountain, covering the entire expanse of the earth.

We thought the era of the gold regime, silver regime, bronze regime, iron kingdom, were gone in the history of time; but all those ancient kingdoms (gold, silver, bronze and iron exclusive) somehow existed and were hidden during the era of the “iron+clay” regime in the last days. That meant, Babylon (gold) and the others were still mysteriously ruling the world even when “iron+clay” was the last days’ world superpowers and government. But what you saw in the bible verse above was that the day one of them will be destroyed to cease to exist will be the same day all of them will truly be destroyed and cease to exist. Before, they each of them was destroyed but somehow continued existing in other forms or means. Example, the head of Gold, Babylon, may have been destroyed according to prophecies of Isaiah and Jeremiah, but in Revelation existed mystery Babylon the great.

In the bible verse above, there was a “Crushing Together” or “Shattering Simultaneously” of gold, silver, bronze, iron and clay; and they together had to become like chaff, swept away together by the Wind, and terminated together. Not one by one, but together in the same day because they were all one, though in different substances or manifestations and different eras. If one of them was destroyed while the other continued, even the destroyed one will revive and come back alive. To destroy one requires destroying all altogether. It’s like one of the seven heads of the beast in “Revelation 13:3” that was deadly wounded or destroyed and yet that head was healed and lived because the other six heads lived. Even so, for one of them to truly go into perdition, all of them must together be sent into perdition.

The Wind carried them away, and they were never found; but the Wind that carried them away was found afterwards. Their being carried away by the Wind was their last flight, but into perdition and off the radar.

When we are done looking at the “Wind that Carried them away” be came to look at the “Stone that Struck them.” For the Stone that struck them did more damage to them than the Wind that Carried them away. The Wind did not carry them away until the Stone had struck them. The striking of the Stone upon them disfigured, shattered them, reduced them into chaff like those from the summer threshing floor, and basically remove all their places both on earth and in all realms of life: and when there was no more place and hope for them after what the Stone had done to them, the Wind only came carry them away like abominable trash into where iniquities were dumped.

Did you not see at least two kinds of “TRANSFIGURATIONs” or “ALTERATIONS” in the top bible verse above?

1. *1* The Transfiguration (Reduction) of the Image/Statue (gold, silver, bronze, iron, clay) into powder chaff. – That will be the end of “Money” or “Mammon” because the regime of gold and silver as powers that drive merchandise and transactions in the world will also be destroyed the Stone has struck. So also will Bronze, Iron and Clay, or carnal weapons of wars be ended in the world when the Stone has struck them. They shall all be changed, and shall pass away by being carried away.

2. *2* The Transfiguration (Magnification) of the Stone that Struck them. – That Stone that struck them shall grow and grow, and be magnified until the Stone if fully transfigured into a Mountain that fills the entire earth as the waters cover the seas, leaving no place for any strange atom nor vacuum or void.

It’s already an offense that you even stumbled at this Stone: because stumbling at this Stone means you are did not believe. But for being struck by this Stone and getting shattered, you therefore have no place on earth nor shall you find eternal life wherever you are.

Yeshua said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures? ‘The stone which the builders rejected, this has become the chief cornerstone. This came from Adonai, and it is marvelous in our eyes.’ Therefore I say to you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to people producing its fruits. Whoever falls on this stone will be shattered; but the one upon whom it falls, it will crush him.” -- [Matthew 21:42-44 TLV]

DANIEL 2:34

You watched while a stone was cut out without hands, which struck the image on its feet of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces. [NKJV]

While you were looking at it, a great stone broke loose from a cliff without anyone touching it, struck the iron and clay feet of the statue, and shattered them. [GNT]


THE STONE: THE WEAK AND STRONG

You saw a stone was cut or detached without hands, and the same stone struck the statue by its feet of iron and clay, and shattered them all. The stone did not strike the head or other body parts of the statue, but to strike its feet once and for all; and that impact pieced the entire statue. The head is usually the most important part of the human’s body, but in this statue the feet was because the feet represented all that were ahead of them in the last days or end-times. Again, the feet is prophetically connected with the end of days allegorically.

But understand that which you may not have seen from what you have seen. Both the feet of the statue and the stone had weakness and strength each, and had position to drag. It was a battle between the feet of the statue and the stone in the vision; and both parties displayed both their weakness and strength, but one was wiser and therefore stronger than the other. In that battle, strength alone will fail, and weakness alone will come to naught. It was not a battle where one is supposed to hide his weaknesses before his opponents, and show just his strengths: rather it was a battle wherein both strength and weakness were very important for exhibition and victory. The weaker vessels are as important or more than the stronger vessels. Excuse me let me quote this bible reference, and then continue:

But much rather the members of the body seeming to be weaker are necessary. And those members of the body which we think to be less honorable, on these we put more abundant honor around them. And our unpresentable members have more abundant propriety. -- [1 Corinthians 12:22-23 MKJV]

The statue’s feet was showing both strength and weakness because it was built with both iron (strength) and clay (weakness): But they did not mix. The strength and the weakness did not mix well, though they be present in the same feet.

On the other hand, Stone was perfectly a mystery and mixture of both weakness and strength, which was hard for the iron and clay to comprehend:

The Weakness of the Stone was seen manifest when Stone was cut without hands. It was so light or weak that nothing needed to touch it to detach it or cut it. That was what Moses failed to reveal to the people watching, when he should have just spoken to the Rock and the Rock will give Its water without hand or strike; but Moses was too mechanical in his approach to show how light and easy the Rock could be broken open with just a word. Speaking of word, mind you Nebuchadnezzar heard no word in that dream or vision, just as Joseph’s era when dreams came without audio or speech in Genesis.

The Strength of the Stone was seen manifest when Stone struck the Feet of iron and clay, and broke them into pieces without getting broken by them. Is iron not supposed to be stronger than stone? Not this Stone and not the Living Stones in Kingdom of God.

Therefore, the Stone that was light and weak that it was easily cut or detached even without hands/contacts, was stronger than that the greatest strength and greatest weakness in man-made dominion and kingdom statue. As it is written,

Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men. -- [1 Corinthians 1:25 KJV].

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[1 Adam+Eve 27:15] - Then the angel drove away Satan and his hosts from Adam and Eve, and said unto them, "Fear not; God who created you, will strengthen you."

Word of the Angel:
Fear not; for the God who created you will strengthen you.

This word came after the angel drove away Satan and his hosts from Adam and Eve with the angel’s great strength and power. The angel told Adam and Eve this in order to have them secure their faith in God who created them rather than securing their faith in that angel who drove Satan and demons away from them. The angel did not say, “fear not; for I who drove Satan and demons away from you will secure you or keep you safe;” neither was the angel encouraging Adam and Eve to put faith or trust in the security of angels’ strength. Rather, the angel encouraged the fearless faith of looking up to God Himself, the very Creator of mankind for strength to mankind.

That angel was so great that only him accomplished all those feats, including scattering the gathering of Satan and his demons, stripping Satan of his costumes to expose his hideous forms to mankind, and casting away Satan from Adam and Eve.

And yet, when the angel gave assurance of security to them, he was not promising of his own strength but promising God’s gift of Strength to them. He was not pointing them to rely on his great strength as angel after all he had done to Satan before them; rather he was pointing them to God as the source of both their existence, being and strength. Amen.


[1 Adam+Eve 27:16] - And the angel went from them.

After the angel drove Satan and his angels away from them, the angel too went from them without being driven away from them. At the end, no angel from God or Satan remained with them so that they would have their chance and time to live and make their own decisions without angelic influence or interference of any kind.

Yes, it was their play, and angels must both give and respect the privacies of mankind to express their God’s given sovereignty, freedom and rights. Though angels are greater than mortal men, they still allow and respect mortal men’s freedom and privacies as long as they are still gifted with time.


[1 Adam+Eve 27:17] - But Adam and Eve remained standing in the cave; no consolation came to them; they were divided in their thoughts.

As for Adam and Eve then, it was not privacy from angels they needed but consolation. Having all angels and demons cast away from them did not remove the darkness that remained as tormenting to them as before. No angel or no demon, but there was darkness without light and stress without consolation. And thus, there was division in their thoughts, which were not of faith.

But Adam and Eve remained standing in the cave, not sitting nor sleeping: They remained standing in all through these. They did not faint.

[1 Adam+Eve 27:18] - And when it was morning they prayed; and then went out to seek the garden. For their hearts were towards it, and they could get no consolation for having left it.

It was not only when it was night/darkness they prayed, for they also prayed when it was morning/light: They prayed in season and out of seasoning without ceasing.

It was not only when it was nightfall that their prayer came to God, but also when they was in daylight and morning rise. For their hearts were not in comfort zone within the cave or home where they were, because their heart was towards heaven (garden of God) where they find rest, pleasures and consolation of God. Therefore, they sought after God in prayers and sought after the Garden (paradise) of God after prayers; for in these were their consolation, pleasures and treasures.

But lay-up treasures in Heaven for yourselves, where neither moth nor rust corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. -- [Matthew 6:20-21 MKJV]

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jcross19:
so you mean samuel was lower than Saul when he dethroned Saul and his generation from kingship? So you mean Aron higher than Moses? What you lack simple ! You lack spiritual wisdom about the things of God!!

Wow, your questions would have been enough, but you added insult and judged me of lacking spiritual wisdom about the things of God. This puts me in conflict of whether to respond to you or to ignore you. Well, you still have a long way to go because you don't know how to talk or order your conversation arise without showing unnecessary anger and frustrations. I have encountered many on Nairaland who have the same problem of attacking, insulting or judging wrongly, while trying to respond to post or comment. You know your speech would far more better and wiser for one who judges my lack of wisdom, if you had not spoken to undermine or belittle me. It's not always about winning argument or putting someone down for you to feel superior or higher than him or her.

Isaiah had "Unclean lips" and did not know how to talk before; but God helped him, and he testified, saying,

[Isaiah 50:4] — "The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakens morning by morning, he wakens my ear to hear as the learned."

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As for your questions:

Yes, Aaron as high priest was in higher position than Moses who installed him, and Saul as anointed king was in higher position than Samuel who installed him. The Chief Justice of the Federation, CJN, may have installed the President into, but yet the President in office is higher than him.

Moses, Samuel, Elijah etc, were great men of God, who's words had great Authority and could make/unmake the High Priest or Kings they raised. Yet, they are Messengers of God, not Administrators or Government.

Spiritually, they have higher ranking than the Administrators (High Priest or Kings), but in hierarchy of seniority of the Throne of God, those prophets and ministers of God are way lower than the High Priest or Kings in Power over Israel.

It's just like the greatest pastor in Nigeria may be spiritually closer to God and has spiritual Authority more than the current President of Nigeria, who is even a Muslim and not a Christian. Yet, the President is higher in office or administration than all the pastors and prophets in Nigeria combined.

Paul was a great apostle of Christ, but there was an incident a high priest commanded a man slap Paul. And Paul used swearing words against the High Priest:

[Acts 23:3-5] — "Then Paul said to him, “God will strike you, you whitewashed wall! You sit here to judge me according to the law, yet you yourself violate the law by commanding that I be struck.” But those standing nearby said, “How dare you insult the high priest of God!” “Brothers,” Paul replied, “I was not aware that he was the high priest, for it is written: ‘Do not speak evil about the ruler of your people.’”"


When Jesus Christ came as "Son of God," He was subject to the High Priest of His time: For even though He's God Himself among us, because He's not yet the High Priest or King of Kings, He's under those who were.

In Revelation 13, the saints and prophets of God will all fail or be defeated when they make war with the Beast that was King or Head of Governments: Because the churches are lower than the beast in hierarchy.

However, in Revelation 17, the Lord Jesus will return to face the Beast or Kings in war, not as a Son of God, a Prophet or any "Messenger/Minister" role; but as the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, which is the position greater than that of all kings or lords. And then He will overcome the Beast or Kings.

[Revelation 17:14] — "They will make war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will triumph over them, because He is Lord of lords and King of kings; and He will be accompanied by His called and chosen and faithful ones.”"




Therefore, never insult anyone who is your president or governor.

Rom 13:1-2,4-6: "Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which is from God. The authorities that exist have been appointed by God. Consequently, the one who resists authority is opposing what God has set in place, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves. … For he is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not carry the sword in vain. He is God’s servant, an agent of retribution to the wrongdoer. Therefore, it is necessary to submit to authority, not only to avoid punishment, but also as a matter of conscience. This is also why you pay taxes. For the authorities are God’s servants, who devote themselves to their work."

jcross19:
so a prophet is not a son of God?

Yes, being a prophet doesn't may one a son of God. Yet the same Spirit of God in the Son could also be on the prophet. No one becomes a son of God without receiving and subjecting to the Spirit of the Son of God, the Lord Jesus Christ.

Same for righteous men not being sons of God without the Son of God, the Lord Jesus Christ, in them.

[Matthew 13:17] — "For truly I say to you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which you see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which you hear, and have not heard them."