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PlayerMeji:
For I say to you, Among those that are born of women there is not a greater prophet than John the Baptist: but he that is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he."

meaning Jesus Christ meant John the Baptist is greater than Moses who parted the Red Sea, Elijah who called forth fire from heaven, Elisha who called bears to devour some children, Isaiah, etc....

Have you asked yourself why Jesus Christ said John the Baptist is greater than all these prophets?...

I will like to know what you think before I go ahead to further on this issue ...

Good day..

The Lord Jesus did not say 'John the Baptist was greater than those you mentioned;" rather He said "No man had been greater than John the Baptist among all born of women."

By implication, the highest people are in the same ranking with John the Baptist, not greater or lesser that John the Baptist.

However, in the rankings of the Kingdom of God, the least person in the kingdom of God (the least king/priest in heaven) is greater than the greatest prophet on earth, using John the Baptist as the highest grade or standard of man a woman's womb ever produced.

budaatum:
Actually, I reason like this because I can read and understand what I read, and don't go about creating crap in my head and believing it.

It was only after God had rested on the seventh day that God took dust and breathed into it to create the slave Adam who was put in the garden and commanded to slave in it and not eat the fruit that would enabled him to do what Genesis 1 humans created in Gods image could.

The lesson is that humans choose to either believe they are powerful fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground Genesis 1 humans, or Genesis 2 ignorant naked stupid slaves.

You obviously did not understand what you read, even in the "Genesis 1" or you wouldn't have said "The humans in Genesis 1 are different from the humans in Genesis 2."

Do not read the scriptures like a novel or newspaper. Those who blaspheme or mock the realities of God and revelations of the Scriptures are usually those who think the Bible or scriptures are like academic books.

budaatum:
The Adam that lived a total of 930 years, and then he died, "died that day they ate the forbidden fruit" when he was just about 130?

No, Adam was not 930 years, rather Adam was "0" years, he and Eve, when they ate the fruit and was driven out. It was just a day inside the Garden. Night had not began, and so the years or time spent by Adam had not began counting. So when there was no night, no sun, no timing or aging inside the Garden, it was technically the same day, all the creatures mentioned in "Genesis 2" were created or named in the Garden of Eden, which was basically paradise or heaven on earth then.

The years or aging/dying of Adam began from the moment he and Eve were driven out of the Garden, and God placed Cherub and flaming sword to keep the Garden. Then Adam began to age, and began to experience the Sun, Night, times etc. Then it was 130 years later from the time he lost the Garden that Adam begat Seth, who replaced Adam. 130 years was not when he came of the Garden, but when he's son, Seth, came out of him. Then he lived 800 years after he begot Seth, and then fully returned to dust at the age of 930 years after.

Correct yourself

budaatum:
"A day to God might be a thousand years" to God, but I'm very certain God knew it was talking to a man called Adam. Regardless, I am not "angels or spiritual beings" and am only human to whom a day is a 24 hours and a year is 365 days give or take, and I have no reason to think you are a "angels or spiritual beings" neither, so welcome to planet human reality.


So, God did not know that die means to stop existing at the moment of death?


"He began to die that day", lol, when the text clearly shows he went on to live like 800 more years during which he gave birth to Cain and Abel and Seth, and some believe populated the earth. Or does what Adam went on to do sound like "began to die that day" to you?



I wonders what made Adam so not ignorantly unaware of MR NIGER D which was clearly stated long before naked ignorant Adam was created.

"I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. 30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds in the sky and all the creatures that move along the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food."

Sir, you reason this way probably because you have no understanding of what being inside heaven in the realms of God and Angels means. There in heaven, you don't use earthly parameters to measure either the Times, Seasons or Body Processes, as they are in heaven. Even a man inside heaven understands the Calender or Time language used there. Listen to this simplified 10 points:

*1* Adam in the Garden of Eden means Adam was inside Heaven, which was from Earth. Inside the Garden of Eden, Heaven and Earth were one. Outside the Garden, was this world as we know it. Thus, two different worlds or realms but on one earth.

*2* Those in heaven do not hunger for food or thirst for water. And yet they eat and drink. Even though they eat, they do not excreate or defecate or urinate, like the earthly mortals do.

*3* Everything you understand or read from "Genesis 1" are true according to invisible realities or when God created or made them. But how they were generated or emerged on earth is what you read in "Genesis 2."

How they emerged is about how they were needed or invoked into physical realities. Every thing you saw in Genesis 2 had a need for it first before God formed it into physical reality. Demand before supply.

So while all things were created or completed in the first six days, their emergence physically on earth is the stories in Genesis 2 from verse 4. Even till today, there are still many things God created in Genesis 1 that are yet to emerge or be discovered by Scientists, People or unveiled. There's so much in existence that are not in visibility nor yet materialized.

PlayerMeji:
There is none higher than a prophet except a child of God!

Being a son or daughter of God, you are automatically greater than so called prophets!

No, but there are those higher than a prophet, and not even a son/daughter of God yet: Viz:

*1* A High Priest is higher than a prophet

*2* An Anointed King is higher than a prophet

*3* A Government (Governor or President) is higher than a prophet.

*4* A Messiah, Saviour or Deliverer is higher than a prophet

*5* A Watchman is also a Prophet but also higher than a prophet

As it is written,

[Luke 7:26-28] — "But what went you out for to see? A prophet? Yes, I say to you, and much more than a prophet. This is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before your face, which shall prepare your way before you. For I say to you, Among those that are born of women there is not a greater prophet than John the Baptist: but he that is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he."

budaatum:
Now you are just making stuff up! Night and sun were created way back in Genesis 1 where superior human beings were created in God's image, and long before the enslaved Adam and Eve were created from inferior mud.

Sun was created in the fourth day indeed, plants in the 3rd day and land animals in the 6th days together with mankind, according to Genesis 1 account. But in Genesis 2, There was no plant on earth, no animal, and first to emerge on earth was Adam before plants or Garden of Eden. What you saw in Genesis 1 was about how they were created, but in Genesis 2 is how they emerged physically on earth.

So in Genesis 1, Man was like the last born; but in Genesis 2 Man was the first born on earth. This was about emergence.

Even so, the concept of time, day and night, sunrise and sunset, which meant 24 hours (12 hours day and 12 hours night) was not yet operational over Adam inside the Garden until Adam was driven out of the Garden into the ground. Then Adam experienced his first night, first sun or sunrise, first sweating, first thirsting, first hunger, first defecation, first...etc.

It's like when men go into heaven where God dwells, and there is no night, no sun, no tears, no sweat, no hunger as we know it, no thirsting there etc. The Garden of Eden was basically paradise or heaven to Adam and Eve.

The Lord Jesus Christ told His Neighbor on the cross, "Today you will be with Me in Paradise;" and that day Jesus Christ died and that neighbor did not seem to have gone to paradise. Was that a lie to you also?

A day is like a thousand years to men.

budaatum:
The Adam that lived a total of 930 years, and then he died, "died that day they ate the forbidden fruit" when he was just about 130?

Read "Psalms 90:4" and "2 Peter 3:8:" — A Day to God is like a thousand years to men. It may take a man 38 years to travel to the Sun from the earth that is light-years apart, but for angels or spiritual beings it takes just few seconds or minutes like flashes of lightning. A nano second (less than a second) to the higher beings could be equivalent to days or months to mortal beings.

Adam lived 930 years, less than 1000 years or millennium, which is equivalent to less than one Day to God. Adam died that day meant he did not complete the millennium or a 1000 years and also meant he was sent to the ground to return to the dust. He began to die that day because he began to hunger, sweat, his body became altered, cells in his body began to die while others sprung up. Basically, the biological processes and features described as "MR NIGER D" for acronym began working on Adam, which was not so with Adam before they ate the forbidden fruit.

budaatum:
Go read the book. Detecting the lie is part of personal development.

The Serpent or the Devil lied. God's Word remained true. They died that day they ate the forbidden fruit.

Remember, A day by then meant a thousand years to us today. In the Garden, there was no night and no sun, but just Day. Technically, Adam and Eve were created or made in the same Day, but judging from our concept of 24hours to a day, it would have been many years apart from when Adam was formed, watched all the trees grew in the Garden, and gave names to all the living creatures or animals in the Garden before the woman was made.

Not forgetting the concept of losing the garden of Eden that same Day into a different world/ground and time calendar, where a day is 24hours. Even Scientists know that different planets have different measurements for day or year to them.

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EZEKIEL 3:18


[NKJV] — When I say to the wicked, ‘You shall surely die,’ and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life, that same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood I will require at your hand.

[TLV] — When I say to the wicked, ‘You will surely die,’ and you do not warn him or speak to warn the wicked of his wicked way, to save his life, that wicked person will die in his iniquity, but I will require his blood from your hand.


If God had spoken to the wicked, saying to him/her, "You shall surely die!' why would there still be need for a watchman to give the "Warning of Salvation" to that wicked man?

In the Bible verse above, when God says to the wicked, "You shall surely die" or "Your death is inevitable:" There are yet "three Grace" in this Word of God for that wicked man or sinner:

*1* The Grace of "Not being the Final Hearing;"

*2* The Grace of "Not being the Final Saying;"

*3* The Grace of "Time."

The essence of the first grace (Grace of that Word not being the final hearing from the Mouth of God) is to ensure there is a watchman, a witness, a messenger or an interpreter, between God and that wicked man or sinner. Since God chose to be invisible to the world of wicked men, the authentication of the wicked men hearing from God will be by hearing them hearing from God's Watchmen. Thus, their hearing depends on watchmen.

[Romans 10:14-15] — "...and how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach, except they be sent?..."

The essence of the second grace (Grace of that Word not being the final saying from the Mouth of God) is to ensure that even though God always has the final say, not every word of God should be the final say. There are some Words of God that should not be the final say: This will help us differentiate between "The Prophets of God" and "The Watchmen or the Watchful Intercessors." Thus, to defeat or overthrow even such saying of God that favors death or destruction of the wicked.

[Matthew 9:13] — "But go you and learn what that means, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."

The essence of the third grace (Grace of time) is to ensure that wicked or sinner hears the message or warning of salvation on time before his/her death or destruction. That time between, when he/she heard and the day of death, is the time of grace or time of salvation through repentance.

To differentiate between "A Prophet" and "A Watchman:"

A "Watchman" is both a prophet and more than a prophet, like John the Baptist. As it is written,

[Luke 7:26-27] — "But what went you out for to see? A prophet? Yes, I say to you, and much more than a prophet. This is he, of whom it is written, "Behold, I send My messenger before Your face, which shall prepare Your way before You."

That's what a Watchman does, preparing the Lord's Way before Him. Between God and men who should direct the way of the other? God is He that should direct the way for men to follow. But Watchmen have ways of preparing the way of the Lord God, and influencing the direction of the Lord would have taken for destroying people into a different direction (of sparing/saving them as) the Watchmen wanted God to take. You should be able to figure out men of God and women of God who redirected God from imminently destroying people, by the watchmen being both proactive and preemptive. A woman like Zipporah, who preempted and aborted the Lord God's intents and move to kill Moses; a man like Moses, who preempted and aborted the Lord God's intents and move to destroy all children of Israel and to rebuild the children of Moses as God's chosen people; a man like Phinehas, who stopped already move of the Lord God's destruction among Israelites who had committed fornication or had sexual intercourse, to the degree that both Moses intercession/prayers and Aaron as high priest intercession with his censer and offering of incense could not prevent the anger and destruction of God that was killing thousands per hour; until Phinehas used spear to pin a man that was having sex in fornication with a strange woman, pinning both the man and woman into the ground while they were having sex. That act of Phinehas stopped the wrath of God and the destruction of Israel stopped: Therefore, Phinehas was automatically made or appointed "An Everlasting Priest" in the eternal kingdom of God far greater than the high priesthood of Aaron. In "Revelation 5" the twenty four elders testified that the Lamb (Jesus Christ) was first slain and through His Blood He has made us Kings and Priests to God in the everlasting Kingdom of God. But there was one man who did not have to wait for the death of the Lord Jesus Christ before he was guaranteed the kingship and priesthood inside heaven — That was Phinehas.

You see, if I continue list other examples of watchers or watch men or women who influenced or changed the path or course of God, this writing would be more voluminous. So here is simple difference between a prophet and a watchman.

A prophet is in the business of promoting the fulfilment of all the Words of God spoken by the prophet: He declares whatever God says and the words of the prophet comes to pass whether they are good news or calamity: just let not a word of the prophet fail.

In contrast, a watchman is in the business of preventing the fulfilment of the destructive Words of God spoken by the watchman: He declares whatever God says and the words of the watchman is supposed to generate "Repentance/Reformation" and not "Fulfilling of Prophecies" as those of prophets.

Sometimes, it may seem a watchman is a false prophet because his prophecy did not later happen; but if his prophecy generated repentance, correction or made God to change His mind from what God earlier told the watchman, then spiritually that watchman has achieved far greater success than what the world celebrate as a prophet who's words always come to pass.

Another difference between a prophet and a watchman sometimes is that: A prophet knows that when he speaks God's Words to those they are sent those words must happen, but a watchman knows that when he speaks God's Words to those they are sent those words may not happen, usually because those people believe him, received his warning, and repented or obeyed by faith

So because a watchman feels if I say it or preach it, people will know and repent which prevents their destruction and death; so sometimes a watchman may want to avoid warning or teaching people so that they would keep heading their way into the pit of destruction. However, God will require the blood of those they refused to warn from the hands of the watchmen who refused to warn them. So the reason a watchman is more than a prophet is because the watchman carries more responsibility than a prophet.

Like Jonah and Nineveh he hated: Ninevites were enemies to Jonah and Jonah was made by God a watchman over his enemies. If Jonah warns them of God's destruction that was coming in 40 days like that of Sodom and Gomorrah, they will repent and then the destruction will not have to be. Jonah wanted them to be destroyed, and so he would not prophesy or warn them. He was traveling to Tarshish when God began to require the blood of the Ninevites at Jonah's hand. Thank God they were not destroyed yet and Jonah experienced hell in the belly of the whale that swallowed him, and he had the grace of 40 days before the destruction of the same Nineveh would seal up his own destruction for not warning them as God sent him to be their watcher.

John the Baptist, would you not warn the Pharisees and Church Pastors of your time to repent and flee from the wrath to come?

[Matthew 3:7‭-‬10 FBV] — But when John saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to be baptized, he said to them, “You vipers' brood! Who warned you to run away from the coming judgment? Show by what you do that you have truly repented, and don't presume to say proudly to yourselves, ‘Abraham is our father.’ I tell you that God could make children of Abraham from these stones. In fact the ax is ready to chop down the trees. Every tree that doesn't produce good fruit will be chopped down and thrown into the fire.

GENESIS 2:25

[NKJV]
And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

[TLV]
Now both of them were naked, the man and his wife, and they were not ashamed.


Let's first share the testimony that the Lord God had finally fulfilled His Promise for the man, for God had made for the man a helper suitable for him. The Lord God be glorified for providing Woman for Man: Thank You.

It's no longer "The man being alone" anymore, but has become "The man and his wife." So the issue of loneliness passed but then another issue, that of unclothedness, became the next in line.

In the Bible verse above, both the man and his wife were naked, yet were neither ashamed nor embarrassed. And I want to bring out something mankind had that angels do not have, and also something angels had that mankind did not have in the Bible verse above.

*1* Marriage: The man had wife; but angels do not have and must not have.

*2* Shame of unclothedness or Knowledge of good and evil: The man and his wife did have either shame of unclothedness or knowledge of good and evil, and must not have them; but angels have them.

This means "Shame of unclothedness or Knowledge of good and evil" was the forbidden thing to mankind, while "Marriage or having wives" was the forbidden thing to angels. I assume you already know the story of what happened when mankind breached the law into acquiring the knowledge of good and evil, and then acquired shame of unclothedness and thereby mankind became like angels or gods in knowing good and evil. I also assume you already know the story of what happened when angels breached the law into acquiring wives of the daughters of men and bearing children or offspring through them. Or how sufferings today came by those

In the top Bible verse above, the man and his wife were yet in the "Class of Animals or Lower Carnal Creatures" and not yet in the "Class of Angels or Higher Spiritual Beings." Animals are by default made to have sexual intercourse or mate, procreate and be naked without shame of unclothedness. If any animal seems to be hiding its unclothedness, its not hiding it for shame but hiding it to prevent access: the animal is not closing up for others not to see it, but for others not to touch or access it especially when the animal is not in the mood but the other ones are in desire for it. So animals do not have shame of unclothedness even though many of them do close-up or retract (withdraw) their unclothedness when not in use.

But the man and woman were were not using their unclothedness for something productive or procreative, and yet they were not closing up or retracting (withdrawing) them: and yet they were not ashamed nor embarrassed.

At that stage, there were three steps for man to fully become as the angels. It should have been two steps if the man was not married and had no wife; for being married makes them 3 steps:

*1* Acquire Immortality or Living Forever.

*2* Acquire Knowledge of good and evil.

*3* Acquire Death to dissolve the marriage and resurrection of the dead to live forever without marriage.

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GENESIS 2:24

[NKJV]
Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

[TLV]
This is why a man leaves his father and his mother and clings to his wife; and they become one flesh.


The "Bond (Connection)" between a man and his wife should be greater than the bond (connection) between the man and his father/mother. This is because "Taken out of man" is stronger than "Came out of man."

*1* Taken out of man — Woman or Wife

*2* Came out of man/woman — Son of man or daughter

Her being taken out of the man was naturally a breach, including taking something that would never have wanted to leave the man's body and creating hole/way where there should be no way or hole, just for the purpose of taking a man's rib in ways that were not according to the natural reproductive system. That was unlike the way children are formed and birthed, with reproductive organs and hormones pleased to get them out, first from the man into the woman, and then nine months later the woman is pleased to have them separated from her as deliverance/freedom for her.

The bond that naturally never wanted to be separated is stronger than the issues that people enjoyed, felt relieved, or celebrated because of the separation. A man has some kind of feelings when his sperms or semen have accumulated, and he gets relief when he discharges them; a woman has menstrual pains because she needs her egg fertilized so that the egg can begin the process of coming out of her. If fertilized, then months later she feels pains (labor) because she has a child in her, but as soon as the child comes out, she has joy and relief for the fruit has come out of her womb. But she will never wish for that child that came out to return back into her womb: No man re-enters his mother's womb.

So a man leaving his father and mother is a great relief or achievement; but a man joining or clinging to his wife, especially after leaving his father and mother, is also a great relief or achievement. Father and Mother were the man's first home but he had to leave, beginning with leaving his father into his mother; but finally his last home is in clinging to his wife until death.

Don't let your mom or dad be the reason you are having problems with your husband or wife. At their womb, God was in the business of putting "asunder" or "separation" between you and your mother and father, as it is written:

[Galatians 1:15] - "But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace,"

[Genesis 25:23] — "And the LORD said to her, "Two nations are in your womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from your bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger."

I believe you saw "Separated" or "Putting asunder" a child from its mother's womb. She may boast that she carried the child for nine months, and so she has authority or right in the child than his/her wife/husband. But follow God, who put asunder between the man and his father and mother, saying,

[Mark 10:6‭-‬12 NKJV] — But from the beginning of the creation, God ‘made them male and female.’ ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’; so then they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.” In the house His disciples also asked Him again about the same matter. So He said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her. And if a woman divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”

To separate from your father and mother as a man is called "Advancement;" but to separate from your wife as a man is called "Divorce" or "Adultery."

The bond connection between a man and his/her biological parents is described as "One Blood" with them; but the bond connection between a man and his/her wife is described as "One Flesh" or "One Body" with her. The Bond called "One Flesh" or "One Body" is stronger and greater than the Bond called "One Blood." Having "One Blood" with another person does not make us one body; but having one flesh makes us one body.

This is even more reason you should run away from fornication or sexual intercourse in immortality: Because it goes beyond making you one blood into making you one flesh or one body with her. Hence, Body-Count, not Blood count.

Better to do blood transfusion, having the blood of a LovePeddler/harlot inserted into your blood stream, for that will only make you to be one blood with the harlot; than for you to have sexual intercourse with a strange woman or harlot and become one flesh or one body with her.

[1 Corinthians 6:16‭-‬18 FBV] — Don't you realize that anyone who has sex with a prostitute becomes “one body” with her? Remember that Scripture says, “The two will become one body.” But whoever is joined to the Lord is one with Him in spirit! Stay away from sexual immorality! All other sins that people commit are outside of the body, but sexual immorality is a sin against your own body.

I hope I find another occasion to show you how your body is your greatest temple or church building to God on earth; and there's no how whatever you do in any temple, church, cathedral, altar, can weigh greater than what you have done within your body. You cannot be keeping a church or temple holy when you have not kept your body holy. You are inside that body even when you are in any temple. Honor and sanctify your own body as if you are doing so for the house of God, even His holy Temple.

[1 Corinthians 6:19‭-‬20 FBV] — Don't you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit that is within you, that you received from God? You don't belong to yourself—a price was paid for you! So glorify God in your body!

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WHY SHE'S CALLED: *WOMAN*


GENESIS 2:23

[NKJV]
And Adam said: “This is now bone of my bones And flesh of my flesh; She shall be called Woman, Because she was taken out of Man.”

[AMPC]
Then Adam said, This [creature] is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of a man.


The three things Adam called her was directly related to three things Adam called himself or his body parts, in this Bible verse above. The lesson is this,

"Whatever the man was saying to or saying about his wife, he was relating to himself; whatever the man was doing to her he was directly or indirectly doing to his own self or his own body."

In the Bible verse above, Adam called her by three, 3, titles; but out of the three titles, only one title was a general title for her.

**1** When Adam called her "Bone," he also mentioned "of my bones:" This means whatever he will do to her will be counted as what he will do to his own bones. This title, "Bone of my Bones" is not a general title any other man or spirit being can call her, except Adam (her husband) alone can call her this title.

**2** When Adam called her "Flesh," he also mentioned "of my flesh:" This means whatever he will do to her will be counted as what he will do to his own flesh. This title, "Flesh of my Flesh" is not a general title any other man or spirit being can call her, except Adam (her husband) alone can call her this title.

Implication of these two titles above means a man who loves his wife loves his own body (flesh and bones), and the man who hates or abuses his wife hates and abuses his own body. As it is written,

[Ephesians 5:28-32] — "So men ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loves his wife loves himself. For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord loves the church: For we are members of His Body, of His Flesh, and of His Bones. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church."

**3** When Adam called her "Woman," he also mentioned "taken out of Man:" This means whatever he will do to her will be counted as what he will do to himself as a Man. This was both the first time Adam called himself "Man" because he called his wife "Woman." This title, "Woman" is a general title every one can call her, even if one is not her husband such one can call her "Woman" because she was taken out of "Man" in general sense without being particular or specific about which Man it was.

Infact, Adam said in the Bible verse above, "She shall (should generally) be called, "Woman," which is a title that suggests she's offspring of a Man.

The "Woman" is like the words "Son of man" or "Daughter of man:" They all refer to offspring of man. Actually, "Woman" means "Taken out of man;" the offspring of man that was taken out of man or caught out of man. This is different from "Come out of man (son or daughter)" because she did not just come out like a daughter, but was taken out or snatched out of a man by external Force (God).

However, not the same man for every woman. Each woman has a different man she was taken out of, relative to another woman. So one woman is different from another woman, answerable to a different man. If you put two or more of them together, they become "Women" or "Taken out of Men (not man)."

A woman's reference to the man she's taken out from is not her father, for she's his daughter; but just the fact that she exist as a female of man means there's a single man that has something already taken out of him that will be completed when he marries her and the two become one body in completion again. Therefore, it's when a woman is married and bears the name of her husband as her surname that the reference would be fully defined as her husband is the man she's taken out from because he's the one to whom she's returned in restitution or restoration of God called "Marriage." Marriage is basically restitution and institution.

So the first two titles Adam called her were "Possessive," showing she belongs to him alone; while the third or general title he said "She shall be called" by others beside himself was a "Collective" title or term. The latter was more like a formal way of addressing her, but the former means she's is Adam's Wife.

You see how "Naming Ceremony" became "Wedding:" Adam just conduct his own wedding in the presence of God even before declaring that others shall call her "Woman."

** Was there a third party or priest to declare/decree them "Man and Wife?" No; for Adam himself declared her "Bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh" which is greater than another man declare them two "Man and wife."

** Was there any wedding dresses or wedding costumes? No; for the man and his wife were naked and were without reproach.

** Were there Witnesses to the marriage? No other human being were there but God and the heavens; and behold thousands of generations after, people witnessed Adam and Eve were truly married and by them was the foundation + institution of Marriage.

That was the Wedding — The First two Possessive Titles He declared and claimed over her, which could not be argued or disputed in any realm or generation, having full ownership and evidence of his entitlement, possession or ownership of her. It's like a man declaring publicly and laying claim over a property that is undisputably his by his own resources and gift of God. A man's wife is basically the man's property, which is why making sure she's fully paid for and rightfully acquired are all that matter most to any wedding in God's Sight. www.peterch.com

engrchykae:
the life of the flesh is the blood
But the resurrected Christ had flesh and bone,but this time,the body wasn't powered by blood but by Spirit.
The life giving Spirit.
Do you code the mystery?

The first Adam was of the earth, earthly; but the Lord Jesus Christ as Second Adam was from heaven, and His Body was the Word of God became Flesh from Heaven. No iron in His Blood, and His Blood is Drinkable indeed as His Flesh is edible.

engrchykae:
scientifically clay is iron,red clay is iron 3 oxide while yellow clay is iron 2 oxide.
And our blood is iron based,hence red tending towards Mars the red one.
The creator used all the minerals in making man.
Iron is not a taboo to the Creator

Thanks, for this. And yet Iron has no revealed use in Heaven. Thankfully, flesh and blood of men do not inherit kingdom of heaven:

Flesh (clay) and Blood (iron) cannot inherit the kingdom of God, neither does corruption inherit incorruption [1 Corinthians 15:50]

paxonel:
What is altar and what is heaven?

Is this question rhetorical?

paxonel:
I think you have read so much and have acquired knowledge and come out with ignorance at the other side thereby defeating the purpose why you started reading in the first place

Well, thanks for thinking of me. But what do you think of the focal points pertaining Iron, Clay, God's Materials selection, building and growing?

What do you think?

DANIEL 2:33

its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of clay. [NKJV]

The lower part of the legs were made of iron. Its feet were made partly of iron and partly of baked clay. [ICB]




That image or statue in Nebuchadnezzar's dream stood on iron legs with feet that were partially iron feet completed with clay. The budgeted iron completed its legs but could not complete its feet, and there was no other remaining metallic Materials that was available to complete the formation of the feet, and so clay was used to fill in the deficit. Either whoever estimated the size or volume of the four metals required to complete the statue underestimated it, or whoever built those metals into the statue mismanaged the available resources of metals, so that it could not complete the entire project as projected: and someone decided to use clay to compensate for the deficiency of metals before the full image of a man statue was built.

God only used a single rib of the man, and built a complete woman just from a rib that was not up to an arm's length; but the builders of that Statue had so much but could not finish it. Why?

[Luke 14:28-30] — "Which of you, wishing to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost to see if he has the resources to complete it? Otherwise, if he lays the foundation and is unable to finish the work, everyone who sees it will ridicule him, saying, ‘This man could not finish what he started to build.’"

I asked "Why" and you quoted "Luke 14:28-30;" I want to know why or how the Lord God Himself used just a man's rib to build a woman that was almost as large as the man, but the builders of the statue in Nebuchadnezzar's dream had so much gold, silver, bronze and iron, and yet the feet of the statue they built were where they hid their inadequacy of metals with clay to makeup.

This differentiates between "The Wisdom of God" as Master Builder and "The wisdom of men of this world."

*1* When men build image or glory of a man, their wisdom at best leads them to choose materials based on "Quality and Quantity." Mind you that's wisdom, but not the ultimate Wisdom.

*2* When God builds image or glory of a man, His Wisdom at least leads Him to choose materials based on "Life, Eternity and Purpose." God is not after Quality or Quantity, infact, God is not a professional Quantity Surveyor: If you ask God to estimate the quantity of materials required to build a structure, God may tell you just one small stone is enough a mansion or a giant. I mean, there's a way God evaluates things differently from how "Professionals" in various fields would evaluate or value them.

So God is not after "Quantity or Quality" but after "Life, Eternity and Purpose" when selecting the materials to use for building. For example, that image in Nebuchadnezzar's dream had legs of Iron: and Iron is technically the strongest metal among the gold, silver, bronze/brass and clay. But clay is the weakest among them, unless burnt thoroughly or hardened. In the feet of that image, the strongest and the weakest materials, iron and clay, were used

But God would rather use clay than use iron in building image of man. Infact, I have not seen or heard anything inside God's heaven is made of Iron: Iron just have no place for use inside heaven or spiritual things, except earthly or carnal things. It is forbidden to allow or raise anything iron on a Holy Altar of God even on earth according to "Deuteronomy 27:5." Heavenly or spiritual things work with Stones, Dust, Precious Stones and Crystals, not Iron. Perhaps the only use of Iron for someone from Heaven is the use of "Rod of Iron" to rule on earth.

Iron is highly strong and cannot easily be broken by some hard metals; and even iron coming from the south may not break iron coming from the north in equal size and momentum. As is written:

[Jeremiah 15:12] — "Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel?"

However, "Iron sharpens Iron" (Proverbs 27:17).

But understand that though tough substance may not easily break iron on earth, soft substance such as air and water do have ways of rusting or corrupting iron, which means they break iron that harder ones could not break with time.

I told you God is not after Quality or Quantity unlike Structural Engineers; rather God is after Life, Eternity and Purpose. Iron does not fit any of these requirements of God in selection of materials for His Building.

*** Life here means the Substance or Stone God will use to build must be able to grow, live and move. Hence, "Living Stone." The "Growth or Growing" ability of the Substance or Stone is what replaces "Quantity" in God's estimation. One reason God could choose a small stone for gigantic project or a rib for the image and glory of man called woman, is because of its living abilities for growth, development and transformation. Not in quantity, but in growth: In the latter part of that Nebuchadnezzar's dream, a small Stone was cut out without hand just as a rib was taken from Adam, and that Stone struck the Image of men by those feet that had both iron and clay, crushing the entire statue: and then suddenly that small stone began to grow, expand, and transform into a great Mountain that filled the earth.

Where those metals or iron finished was where they stop in quantity or size; and therefore, they used clay to compensate for the shortage because those metals could not grow or multiply themselves to increase or reproduce. But see how God built our Body in ways that our cells can both grow and multiply themselves. Even so, the Body of Christ has both members fitly joined together, connected to the Head, and all grows in all things to Him.

[Ephesians 4:15-16] — "But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into Him in all things, for He is the head, I mean Christ: From Him the whole Body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplies, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, makes grow of the body to the building (edifying) of herself in love."

Not a physical church building that cannot grow beyond the size those who built it left or stopped building it; but a spiritual church where even when the builders stop building it, the church will still be growing by itself or edify itself without the builders; and keep growing forever like a Plant that never stops growing. And it will come to pass that not even the builders can take the credit they built the Temple or Church because the Church would have built Herself far above what the builders thought or imagined when they began building till they stopped building Her. So they cannot take the glory for building the Church, but only the honor for building Her Foundation: for all they ever built will best be described as foundation relatively to how much she grew Herself and became; and even the Lord Jesus Christ Himself that will build His Church on this Rock, will just become the Chief Corner Stone among Foundation Builders, for She built Herself.

[Ephesians 2:20-22] — "And are built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the Chief Corner Stone; In whom all the building fitly framed together grows to an holy temple in the Lord: In whom you also are built together for an habitation of God through the Spirit."

*** Eternity and Purpose: These replace Quality in God's selection of materials to use in building. As a result, whatever God builds endures forever (eternal) having both time and purpose for everything in it. As it is written,

[Ecclesiastes 3:14] — "I know that, whatever God does, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God does it, that men should fear before him."

Men can do something and it becomes temporary or pass away, but when God does something it is eternal or forever. People may think God is slow, but He knows the implications of His actions and how whatever He does are not something that can easily be added or subtracted (edited) like men find their works on earth during their times and seasons.

If you understand that eternity is a form of time, you understand Iron cannot stand the test of Time though Iron stands the test of Strength.

At the feet, the Iron members had begun rusting and changing into clay because Iron does not stand test of Time with all its strength. The Feet represent "Endtimes;" and the Iron could not endure through the endtimes or last days. But there are Feet that will do exploits in the last days, including the Feet of the Lord Jesus under whom all His Enemies are made His Footstool in subjection and the Endtimes Christians/Church who are the representative of all who have gone before them on earth. The Endtimes or Last days Christians are His Feet or our Feet.

[Romans 16:20] — "And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen."

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DANIEL 2:32

This image’s head was of fine gold, its chest and arms of silver, its belly and thighs of bronze, [Daniel 2:32 NKJV]

The head of that statue was of pure gold, its breast and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of bronze, [Daniel 2:32 TLV]


How the Head and the Body are Joined Together

Notice the "Riot" and not just the "Riches" in the Structures and Makeup of that Statue. If you are looking at riches only you will be captivated by the Gold, Silver and Bronze, while looking at the physiques of the naked body of that image in Nebuchadnezzar's vision. But going past the riches, we judge as those who have the Spirit of Christ Jesus, and judges through Him. Something's wrong with the Body of that image, because that thing would be wrong if found in the Body of Christ:

"The Lower Segments/Parts are not connected to the Head, though they are connected to the Body: and as a result, there exist Riot of Body Segments/Parts in the Image's naked body"

Well that was the Image Nebuchadnezzar saw in the dream, but that should not be the Image we see in the Body of Christ Jesus.

In that Image Nebuchadnezzar saw, Gold, Silver, Bronze, Iron and Clay, were segments of the its body, and they do not mix or blend. They fit together but do not blend or mix together; and therefore they are in riot with each other, though they together form the complete image. It's like a man or woman who's face or head is yellowish in complexion, but having chest that is whitish, having belly private parts and thigh that are brownish or darker, legs that are whitish, then feet that are color rioted with substances that neither mix nor agree with each other. Thus, "Disharmony."

The Body of Christ is membered but not divided. Division comes from members joining together to themselves without joining to the Head. As you saw in the picture of that image in the dream of Nebuchadnezzar, the bronze and the silver segments (together with the iron and clay) were neither connected nor joined to the Head though they are joined to the body. Members were joining members of the same body, without joining the Head of the Body.

In a lay man's language, that's like a situation when people are joining the church but they are not joining the Christ or Head of the Church. They have connections to other church members and to the leaders of the church including those they call their father in the Lord, but they are neither connected nor joined to the Lord Jesus Christ Himself, who is the true Head of the Church.

[Colossians 2:19 FBV] — Such people are not connected to the Head that directs the body, nourished and joined together through the body's sinews and muscles. As the body is united together it grows the way God wants it to grow.

The way God made our human body, though bones, blood, flesh and breath, are basically different Substances, they are well connected or joined together simply because they are all joined directly to the Head or Mind. The Head communicates with every external part of the body of a healthy man, through nerves, neurons and hormones, and the heart does the internal connections through blood, lungs through breath. The Bones, Flesh, Blood, and Breath, all have direct connection with the head and the nervous system maintains direct communication between any part of the body and the brain (head).

It is by connecting to the Head we properly connect to the rest of the body; for this reason, Christians or Church members who know their pastors/priests but not know their God nor connected directly to the Lord Jesus Christ, those are the Christians who are usually used by the devils to create divisions that favors doctrines of their churches or pastors, but they hardly know God nor Spirit of God. They would argue, fight or die for their church's doctrines or pastors/priests, believing they are the true mediators between them and God.

[Ephesians 4:15‭-‬16 GNT] — Instead, by speaking the truth in a spirit of love, we must grow up in every way to Christ, who is the Head. Under His control all the different parts of the body fit together, and the whole body is held together by every joint with which it is provided. So when each separate part works as it should, the whole body grows and builds itself up through love.

The Bronze and Silver in the top Bible verse above did not care about connecting to the Head, but are concerned about being a part of the Body and defending their own territories or doctrines which somehow is beneficial to the body, but then that turned the entire body into a "Monument" (Statue) and not a "Movement."

The Church is supposed to be a Movement, not a Monument; Church of living people, not Congregation of the dead or statues.

GENESIS 2:22

[NKJV]
Then the rib which the Lord God had taken from man He made into a woman, and He brought her to the man.

[TLV]
Adonai Elohim built the rib, which He had taken from the man, into a woman. Then He brought her to the man.


*Line 1* One thing never left the rib that was taken from the man, that was, "The Mark of the Man on it" or "Tagging the Man as the Source whence the rib was taken;" — "Credit to its source or to the man from where the rib or bone was taken," continued to be part of the description and mark of that bone wherever God took it to. And God built the rib He took from the man into a woman, and the word "Woman" means "Taken out of Man."

*Line 2* What are you doing with another man's wife or with a woman that is already joined to another man in sexual act or in marriage? Don't you see wherever she goes she's carries a label that she belongs to the first man alive she was joined to sexually and separated from? What you see in Bible verse above was how sticky that tag, "Taken from the Man" remained on the rib, the bone or the individual, no matter how much God changed and transformed it into something or someone else. The Conversion of God upon her did not eradicate from her the mark of the man she was taken from. The only way to make peace was for God to do "Restitution" or "Restore her back to the man" from whom He took her or it: This is the Force and Foundation of Marriage, that is, the First Restitution which was also an Institution.

*Line 3* She's another man's wife, another man's property; and you took her, and inside her you were found as one of her "Body Counts" when she's another man's wife, even if her husband gave her to you? You are a "Dead man" because of that woman you took that's another man's wife. As it is written,

[Genesis 20:3 NKJV] — But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, “Indeed you are a dead man because of the woman whom you have taken, for she is a man’s wife.”

Though the man and his wife herself willingly gave her to you as a man, that's not withstanding — She's another man's wife, you must not touch her nor marry her. And though the man and his wife are divorced or separated by any court or law, that's not withstanding — She's another man's wife, you must not touch her nor marry her.

[Luke 16:18] — “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery; and whoever marries a woman who is divorced from her husband commits adultery.

*Line 4* She's another man's wife, another man's property; Taking her for yourself is the foremost kind of covetousness or lust:

[Deuteronomy 5:21 GNT] — “‘Do not desire another man's wife; do not desire his house, his land, his slaves, his cattle, his donkeys, or anything else that he owns.’

Taking her for yourself is worse than being a hungry thief:

[Proverbs 6:30-33 BSB] — "Men do not despise the thief if he steals to satisfy his hunger. Yet if caught, he must pay sevenfold; he must give up all the wealth of his house. But he who commits adultery lacks judgment; whoever does so destroys himself. Wounds and dishonor will befall him, and his reproach will never be wiped away."

*Line 5* The same Lord God who took the rib from the Man and built it into a Woman, and return or restored her back to the Man He took her from while she never stopped being "Taken from the Man" nor stopped belonging to the man she was initially joined together with: That same Lord advises and warns all men, saying:

[Matthew 5:27‭-‬32 GNT] — “You have heard that it was said, ‘Do not commit adultery.’ But now I tell you: anyone who looks at a woman and wants to possess her is guilty of committing adultery with her in his heart. So if your right eye causes you to sin, take it out and throw it away! It is much better for you to lose a part of your body than to have your whole body thrown into hell. If your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away! It is much better for you to lose one of your limbs than to have your whole body go off to hell. “It was also said, ‘Anyone who divorces his wife must give her a written notice of divorce.’ But now I tell you: if a man divorces his wife for any cause other than her unfaithfulness, then he is guilty of making her commit adultery if she marries again; and the man who marries her commits adultery also."

Thundafireseun:
Long pointless story

Did you read through all of it and in-between the lines?

The First Time Adam and Eve saw the Real Face and Visage of Satan the Devil, and became afraid of him


[1 Adam+Eve 27:12] - No sooner had Adam said this, than an angel from God appeared unto him in the cave, who said unto him, "O Adam, fear not. This is Satan and his hosts; he wishes to deceive you as he deceived you at first. For the first time, he was hidden in the serpent; but this time he is come to you in the similitude of an angel of light; in order that, when you worshipped him, he might enthrall you, in the very presence of God."

Adam had scarcely finished speaking when an angel from God suddenly appeared in the cave, warning him, "Fear not, Adam. This is none other than Satan and his followers. Just as he deceived you in the past by assuming the form of a serpent, this time he has come to you disguised as an angel of light. His intention is to ensnare you once more, even in the presence of God, when you offer him your worship."

The same Satan that came in the form of the Serpent also came in the form of an angel of light:

** Among animals, Satan could come as a Serpent or dragon;

** Among angels, Satan could come as a Angel of light;

** Among humans, Satan could come as a Man or Woman.

As we proceed in this book of Adam+Eve, we may later see where the same Satan returned to Adam and Eve as a man, claiming he was the first man God created or there are other men and women before Adam and Eve.

Just know Satan the Devil can assume these forms and disguises. And know that when you worship Satan in any form he comes even by mistake, then even the presence of God cannot save you from the Satan you worship. Therefore, never worship any man, angel or animal, even their images, lest you worship Satan.


[1 Adam+Eve 27:13] - Then the angel went from Adam, and seized Satan at the opening of the cave, and stripped him of the feint he had assumed, and brought him in his own hideous form to Adam and Eve; who were afraid of him when they saw him.

After that, the angel departed from Adam and apprehended Satan at the entrance of the cave. Swiftly, the angel removed the disguise Satan had adopted, revealing his true repulsive appearance. Once transformed, the angel presented him in his ghastly form before Adam and Eve, causing them to experience fear upon laying eyes on him.

You how the Angel of God disgraced Satan before Adam and Eve, and all the demons with Satan could not help him. The Angel stripped Satan off his disguise or costume for appearing like angel of light, as a man would strip a woman off her artificial hair and costumes/cosmetics that makes her appear more beautiful than she really was. When the angel of God stripped Satan, he brought Satan into the same cave Satan was afraid to enter, and there inside the Cave of Treasures the angel of God revealed the true face and appearance of Satan the Devil without his disguises.

That was the first time Adam and Eve or any man truly saw the true face, form and appearance of Satan the Devil without his disguises. And they saw Satan was very ugly and hideous. We have been deceived into thinking Lucifer is beautiful or Satan is very pretty. But even that is a lie and false projection of Satan the Devil. Granted he used to be beautiful before he fell; but now Satan the Devil is simply the ugliest that knows how to makeup and disguise with costumes or possessing of willing bodies to appear very handsome and get people worship or trip for him because of his beauty (false). Infact, Satan has industries that offer beauty, beautification, transformation of men + women into appearing more beautiful and fairer than they were either by sorcery or by surgery, by cosmetics or by costumes.

But remember, Adam and Eve were terrified by the horrors from the real face and real appearance of Satan the Devil. Satan has a dreadful visage that's both horrifying and hideous. Devil is Evil


[1 Adam+Eve 27:14] - And the angel said to Adam, "This hideous form has been his ever since God made him fall from heaven. He could not have come near you in it; therefore did he transform himself into an angel of light."

Understand that Lucifer did not remain Lucifer when God made him fall from heaven because he was disfigured and had a cursed and hideous visage, and thus the most repulsive being. He couldn't have been able to approach Adam and Eve with his true visage, and thus he came as the Serpent and here came as angel of light when he's not an angel of light. If he is still "Lucifer" then it would not be said he transformed into an angel of light because being Lucifer would mean he is truly an Angel of light or Morning Star.

But he is no longer Lucifer, and hence any of his disguises or claims of being an angel of light or Lucifer is actually falsehood of what he is not.

Remember this, there's something called "Transfiguration" and there's "Disfigurement:" Transfiguration means God will change the forms, shapes and appearance of those He glorifies and rewards within the eternal kingdom of God, changing them into the glorious Image of God from glory to glory. There's a Change more real than death, because it is written, "We shall not all die, but we shall all be changed "transfigured, translated" in the twinkling of an eye."

On the flip side, sinners that shall be damned shall be stripped of their beauties or disfigured, and become abhorrible or disgusting to the righteous and saints. The friends of Job hardly recognized him afar when they came to seat with him seven days without speaking to him because he was disfigured and it was horrible. It was called "Captivity of Job:" and only God could turn that away.

On the Mountains, Down the Valley


1 ENOCH 26 - {Ethiopic Enoch}

[Chapter Twenty-Six]


26:1 — Then I said, What means this blessed land, all these lofty trees, and the accursed valley between them?

26:2 — Then Uriel, one of the holy angels who were with me, replied, This valley is the accursed of the accursed for ever. Here shall be collected all who utter with their mouths unbecoming language against God, and speak harsh things of His glory. Here shall they be collected. Here shall be their territory.

26:3 — In the latter days an example of judgment shall be made of them in righteousness before the saints; while those who have received mercy shall for ever, all their days, bless God, the everlasting King.

26:4 — And at the period of judgment shall they bless Him for His mercy, as He has distributed it to them. Then I blessed God, addressing myself to Him, and making mention, as was meet, of His greatness.


[1 Enoch 26:1] — Then I said, What means this blessed land, all these lofty trees, and the accursed valley between them?

As Enoch gazed at the magnificent expanse of land, with its majestic trees reaching towards the heavens, a question emerged from the him, "What is the meaning behind this sacred land, with its grandeur trees, and the cursed valley that lies between them?"

The Plateaus or mountains were blessed grounds, but their valleys were cursed grounds. To descend into the Valleys meant to descend into accursed places, and to ascend or abide the heights of the mountains among the great trees rooted on those Mountains meant to dwell on blessedness.


[1 Enoch 26:2] — Then Uriel, one of the holy angels who were with me, replied, This valley is the accursed of the accursed for ever. Here shall be collected all who utter with their mouths unbecoming language against God, and speak harsh things of His glory. Here shall they be collected. Here shall be their territory.

In Uriel's answer to Enoch's question, that valley was perpetually damned, and it's the most cursed of all cursed places. That valley is where all who spoke disrespectful words against God and spoke evil of His glory shall be gathered and trapped in the deep and narrow pit.

[Joel 3:12-14 GW'20] — "Wake up, you nations. Come to the valley of Jehoshaphat. There I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations. Cut them down like grain. The harvest is ripe. Stomp on them as you would stomp on grapes. The winepress is full. The vats overflow. The nations are very wicked. There are many, many people in the valley of decision. The day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision."


[1 Enoch 26:3] — In the latter days an example of judgment shall be made of them in righteousness before the saints; while those who have received mercy shall for ever, all their days, bless God, the everlasting King.

Uriel continued to reveal more on that, implying that, During the final days, there will be a righteous judgment upon them, which will be witnessed by the saints. Conversely, those who have been granted mercy will eternally bless and give thanks to God, the everlasting King, throughout their entire lives.

The righteous judgment of the wicked shall be glaring to the saints, and the end of the unrighteous shall be witnessed by the righteous.

[Isaiah 66:24] — Then the righteous will go out and witness the deadness of sinners and those who have rebelled against Me. The worms that eat them will not die. The fire that burns them will not go out. All humanity will be disgusted by them."


[1 Enoch 26:4] — And at the period of judgment shall they bless Him for His mercy, as He has distributed it to them. Then I blessed God, addressing myself to Him, and making mention, as was meet, of His greatness.

The saints shall not be mourning nor weeping over those who die the second death, nor mourning when they witness the deadness of the sinners, ungodly and rebellious people; for tears shall be wiped away from the eyes of the saints, and human sympathy or empathy shall be removed from them, so that true Compassion and Mercy of God will fill the saints and not the distorted human sympathy/empathy. The only mercy that shall thrive shall be "God's Mercy" and not humans' mercy. And God's Mercy will be high up inside heaven for men to come up to heaven to access the Mercy of God by the throne of grace, to access the faithfulness of God when they reach the clouds, and access the Righteousness of God when they come up the great and sacred Mountains, because in that deep valley there shall be no mercy but wrath/judgment. Therefore, the way to mercy will be the way of ascending or climbing up the higher grounds, away from the ditch or pit below:

[Proverbs 15:24 GW] — "The path of life for a wise person leads upward in order to turn him away from hell below."

Therefore, one of the songs the Saints shall sing of the mercies of the Lord God in those days shall include this:

[Psalms 36:5-6,9] — "Your Mercy, O LORD, is in the heavens; and Your Faithfulness reaches to the clouds. Your Righteousness is like the great Mountains; your Judgments are a great Deep: O LORD, You preserve man and beast. … For with You is the fountain of life: in Your light shall we see light."

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Sitting Committee of Captives


EZEKIEL 3:15

[NKJV] — Then I came to the captives at Tel Abib, who dwelt by the River Chebar; and I sat where they sat, and remained there astonished among them seven days.

Why do I find men sitting idle outside by the streets in the morning, doing nothing but either discussing politics, gossipping about someone or group, watching and marking those passing by who are going to work or business, and when I pass by them without talking to them nor greeting them, it will seem as if I am being disrespectful and malicious? Must elderly people be sitting by the gates and streets doing nothing meaningful to add value, but expecting anyone who passby to greet them or gift them?

Going by this Bible verse alone, I say those Captives in Babylon were neither ladened under forced labor nor tasked unlike those in the bondage of Egypt before Moses came to them. They just sat idling by the river Chebar, doing nothing but gossip and remembering Zion: and the only thing their taskmasters required of them to do for them, they still would not do it because they were showing religious supremacy or holier than you attitude towards those who carried them to captivity.

You were carried captives into their land, but there they did not abuse, did not use you to build their cities, neither did they exploit you as the Egyptians did to some of your ancestors; rather the Babylonians recruited some of your talented men and promoted them in government power, brought some of your royal sons into university of the king, allowed you to carry your musical instruments and to sit by the River as long as you wanted during the captivity or exile, without forcing you to do works, to dig mines, to build cities, but the only thing they pleaded from you was to sing just one of the songs of Zion for them. But as soon as they asked you for song you rebelliously hanged your musical instruments, and you even despised them, saying, "How can we sing the Lord's song in a strange land?" If the land is a strange land does that mean the Land is not the Lord's Land? Is the earth not the Lord's and the fullness therefore? What is wrong with singing the Lord's song in the Lord's land that is strange to you?

[Psalms 137:1-4] — "By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yes, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps on the willows in the middle thereof; because there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion. How shall we sing the LORD's song in a strange land?"

The Lord of the songs Himself had described you as "Rebellious People" and He sent Ezekiel to you, not to require a song from you that sat by the River of Babylon called Chebar in Tel-Abib, but to show you "Thus says the Lord." For "Thus says the Lord" is far greater and more important than "All the Songs of Zion."

But in the Bible verse above, though Ezekiel was borne of the Spirit to a Tel-Abib to the Captives by the river, Ezekiel only sat with them seven days among them by that river being astonished and without uttering any word of thus says the Lord to them, as the three friends of Job sat seven astonished at him:

[Job 2:12‭-‬13 BSB] — When they lifted up their eyes from afar, they could barely recognize Job. They began to weep aloud, and each man tore his robe and threw dust in the air over his head. Then they sat on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights, but no one spoke a word to him because they saw how intense his suffering was.

Ezekiel was showing astonishment by sitting in silence among them for seven days, whereas God sent him to show "Thus says the Lord" not show "Shocking Astonishment" to the captives. For this reason, God may begin to warn Ezekiel that he was supposed to be the watchman among them, and he's responsibility is to hear the Warning of God and prophesy, preach or warn those people, and not sitting in astonishment among them seven days without speaking the Word or delivering the message to them.

DANIEL 2:31


"You, O king, saw, and behold a great image. This great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before you; and the form thereof was terrible." AKJV

O great king, you witnessed the presence of a magnificent statue. This statue, with its dazzling brilliance, stood in front of you, and its appearance was awe-inspiring.


Eyes-Witness

The King was sleeping but saw what stood before him. Someone had experienced a vision where an image or statue appeared like a being (an angel or demon) before him in his room while he slept on his bed. Though the king's eyes were physically closed in sleep, they were opened in a trance. Thus, he was very aware of what stood before him and his environment, even while sleeping.

[Numbers 24:4] — "He has said, who heard the words of God and saw the vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but with his eyes open."

The statue or sculptured image was not a living creature, but it stood before the king with a greatness that surpassed the king's own greatness. It had a brilliance or brightness that exceeded any brightness known to the king, and a form that inspired fear in a fearless king like Nebuchadnezzar. Somehow, the king felt before this giant statue what King Saul felt before the giant Goliath of Gath for forty days and forty nights. Saul used to be the tallest man among those over whom he presided as king, until he encountered the taller Goliath. Similarly, Nebuchadnezzar had not seen any king or man who commanded more respect in stature and appearance than himself until he beheld this gigantic statue and image that he could not look down upon.

Now, God does not approve of His people making graven images or statues to bow down to or worship. However, in the dream, God used a molten image or statue that possessed attributes of gods. If it appeared in physical form, people would have been compelled to bow down and worship it. The reason is that the image had these four great attributes associated with gods:

1. The image/statue was great (magnificent).
2. The image/statue had excellent brightness.
3. The image/statue stood before the king, not bowing before him. Later, the same king would command all those who used to bow before him to instead bow to a similar image at the sound of music because even the king gave his glory and honor to that standing image.
4. The image/statue had a terrifying or awe-inspiring appearance.

Joseph's sheaf stood up in his dream, and even in the dream, his brothers' sheaves bowed down to the image or sheaf of Joseph. Their stars also bowed down to the appearance of Joseph in the dream. Such dreams, including the one where others bow before an image, are always about kingdom, kingship, or rulership. However, if those people, images, or symbols were to do the same things in physical reality, it would constitute idolatry or idol worship.

In the next chapter, Nebuchadnezzar sought to reproduce the ideas of the dream's image in physical form and have everyone bow down to a similar image. But though that may be overlooked in a dream, it is an abomination for Christians like Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.

In the Bible verse mentioned above, Daniel was telling and convicting the king of what he saw as an "Eye-Witness." Does it occur to you that there will be an exposition of those things your eyes saw or witnessed? Someone else will see through your eyes while your eyes remain with you, and someone will tell you that they saw what you saw when no one else saw those things with you. Scientifically, there are ways to capture the last images seen by a recently deceased person and extract what they saw last before they died.

The coming Judgment of God has ways of indicting men by showing them exactly what/who they saw and what/who they did not see. I am not talking about seeing nude ones or pornographic content or observing people's shame. Instead, I am talking about seeing heavenly things, heavenly people, or eternal treasures. These things or people keep records of those who saw them from the earthly realms and how much of them were seen or known by those on earth now. Remember they are invisible for some reason, and their being invisible means they are very sensitive to being seen by those whom they are by default hiding from.

Between a woman that's hiding her nude conservatively and another woman that is a stripper or nude public actress, who do you think will be more sensitive and keeping record of those who have seen her bumbum or nudes? Is it not the woman that is conservative and hardly revealing her nudity, so that she could count how many people have seen certain parts of her private or invisible parts and how much those who saw those about her know? Does the stripper or public nude actress care about who or how many have seen her navel or buttocks when she made those parts of her visible and glaring to all men that cared to look? Even so, most invisible and spiritual things are very sensitive to being seen, heard or noticed by those from physical world, and their hiding or invisible tendencies entail keeping records of being seen.

It's similar to reading, playing, or watching content on certain websites that keep records of views, impressions, visitors, and identify specific individuals who accessed their content. Spiritual heavenly things/people are even more sensitive and keep records of the degree to which you saw them, visited them, and what you did when you saw them. It's not just your eyes that know you saw them and what you saw about them, but they also know when your eyes and light saw and connected with any part of them, along with the transactions that occurred as their virtues interacted with your eyes and knowledge of them.

The Priest and Levite were unaware that there was a record that bore witness to them seeing the wounded and helpless man on their way. They thought they only saw the man without the man seeing them, so they followed another path or turned their faces, pretending they never saw him. Be cautious if you constantly see heavenly treasures and people but act as if you did not see them, either from shame or a refusal to identify with them, or from being afraid or you hate/envy the ones manifesting them. For those things also know you saw them, or those people shall know later you saw them at those states, stages, times or conditions. The goats of the Nations shall be told when they saw the least of the brothers/sisters of the Lord Jesus Christ, but ignored, despised or neglected them for whatever motive or reason: because those people and their messages/treasures are parts of heavenly eternal treasures.

Therefore, Daniel declared to Nebuchadnezzar what the king saw in that dream because that was a heavenly vision, and the dream bore record of how, what and when the king saw it.
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