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↝ FRUITFUL VINE BUT WOODLESS VINE ↜

[Ezekiel 15:3 AKJV] — "Shall wood be taken thereof to do any work? or will men take a pin of it to hang any vessel thereon?"

[Ezekiel 15:3 AMPC] — Shall wood be taken from it to do any work? Or will men take a peg of it on which to hang any vessel?

[Ezekiel 15:3 FBV] — "Can you make anything useful from vine wood? Can you use it to make even just a peg to hang up pots and pans?"

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In this Bible verse in red, are questions or interviews for assessing the employability of the services or productivity of a Vine Tree apart from fruit or wine bearing abilities and functions of the Vine. Again, this matter is between “The Vine” and “The Divine:” — Here, the Divine interrogates the Vine to show any of its Wood-work beside Wine-work.

The Vine therefore is a tree, which is good for Wine, but not good for Wood.

The Vine-tree is like the Fig-tree the Lord Jesus Christ was said to have cursed by just saying to it, “Let no man eat of you again” — And it instantly dried up as cursed or useless. There are trees that would still be useful even after, if the Lord Jesus Christ had said to them the same thing He said to that fig-tree: This is because, those trees wood still have Wood or Timber to offer to men, though they give nothing edible to men. But you see that fig-tree immediately dried up and became cursed simply because no man will eat of it, and it therefore became as useless as the Vine Tree that has no wood to yet offer man for works that require heavy weight, heavy liftings or load bearing in any form including direct bearing or anchoring as pin or peg.

When the Lord Jesus Christ needed the symbol for His Blood, He found the Fruit of the Vine Tree useful, using the Wine or Fruit of the Vine for Holy Communion. But when the Lord Jesus Christ needed an actual tree to be hanged on a tree or to actually shed His Blood on a cross, He did not use the Vine Tree because it has no wood or weight to carry the Lord's Body on it as Cross or Tree for Him to hang on or be pinned to. So, while the fruit of the Vine tree was good Communion to represent the shedding of His Blood, the Wood of the Vine tree was not good for His Cross, for crucifixion or for the shedding of His Blood.

↝ MAN AS JUDGE: CASE BETWEEN GOD & VINE TREE ↜

[Ezekiel 15:2 AKJV] — "Son of man, what is the vine tree more than any tree, or than a branch which is among the trees of the forest?"

[Ezekiel 15:2 AMPC] — Son of man, How is the wood of the grapevine [Israel] more than that of any tree, the vine branch which was among the trees of the forest? [Ps. 80:8-13; Jer. 2:21.]

[Ezekiel 15:2 GNT] — “Mortal man,” He said, “how does a vine compare with a tree? What good is a branch of a grapevine compared with the trees of the forest?

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In this Bible verse in red, even though the Vine tree was compared with other trees of the forest, the case or matter was not between the Vine Tree and the other trees, rather the case was between the Vine Tree and the Lord God Himself, Who also brought the matter to the court or jurisdiction of the son of man, Ezekiel, for the man's judgment.

Thus the Maker of all varieties of products and creations engaged a man for his reviews or opinions on some of His creations (particularly the vine tree), and He rhetorically asked the man to defend the value or worth of the vine tree in comparison with other trees or products. In this Bible verse in red, God seemed to demarket the Vine Tree, while the Son of man, (the prophet), was engaged to market, defend or advocate, for the same Vine Tree if there's any comparative value in it.

A man serving as advocate or attorney for Vine tree or Vineyard before God. This Vine tree or vineyard here is not just natural, but figurative. The Vine tree or Vineyard here represents special people to God, and not just biological plants. Once it's a Vine, especially the Vine that has case between it and God before a Court or Witnesses to judge, then the Vine represents people. God had case with the Vineyard or Vine Tree, but man was to judge the matter as umpire. He gave man this in:

[Isaiah 5:3-4 BSB] — "“And now, O dwellers of Jerusalem and men of Judah, I exhort you to judge between Me and My vineyard. What more could have been done for My vineyard than I have done for it? Why, when I expected sweet grapes, did it bring forth sour fruit?”

Nevertheless, there had been a time the Vine Tree, whose woods or timbers are less than those of all trees in the forest, had the choice and chance of becoming the "Undesputed King of Forest Trees,” and the Vine Tree declined such political opportunity over the forest trees in order to retain its role of fruit bearing to God and to men.

[Judges 9:12-13 BBE] — "Then the trees said to the vine, You come and be king over us. But the vine said to them, Am I to give up my wine, which makes glad God and men, to go waving over the trees?"

Even if that Vine tree had agreed to be king over the trees of the forest, it couldn't have been able to wield dominion or power over them. Therefore, apart from “Fruits and Wine,” what else has the vine tree more than any other tree, or has its wood more than any branch which is among the trees of the forest? Nothing.

Nevertheless, there's a Vine greater than all trees of the forest in all ramifications and comparisons — This Vine is the Lord Jesus Christ Himself as the True Vine, has faithful Disciples and Saints of the Lord as Its Branches, and has God the Father as the Husband to the Vine.

↝ THE WORD OF GOD COMES TO EVERYONE ↜

[Ezekiel 15:1 NKJV] — Then the Word of the Lord came to me, saying:

[Ezekiel 15:1 NIV] — The Word of the Lord came to me:

[Ezekiel 15:1 GWN] — "The LORD spoke His Word to me. He said,"

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Supposing you want to speak or whisper into the ears of someone in different country far away from where you are, how could that have been possible centuries ago? Today it is very common to do so by use of phones or radio communication devices, unlike centuries ago when it was uncommon and unthinkable to do such paradox of being very far away from a person and still able to whisper into the person's ear in such a way that another person close by may not even hear or know what you that's far away whispered to your hearer or voice receiver.

Spiritually, and is all ages past, present and future, the Lord God has been doing such communication with mankind from the heavens and realms far away to various places and locations on earth, even without the use of any carnal technology or physical communication tool.

In this Bible verse in red, Ezekiel the prophet was witness testified the Word of the LORD came to him, saying things into his ears, soul and spirit, which no man close by was able to receive or hear.

It was not by dialing a number line, phone gadget or radio device. The Lord God made everything, both living and dead things, with inbuilt hearing or receiving of the Word of God privately as were as generally. Nothing needs mobile phone, auxiliary device or amplifier to hear God speaking to it privately or openly.

The Word of God “Comes” with or without communication technology: For the Word of God is Spirit and Life: — The Word therefore Lives and Moves as a Spirit-Person, and the same Word is Life that makes things live or come alive. It's not by volume or loudness, but by Spirit and by Life do we have the mystery of hearing Him anywhere regardless of distance or noises. Nevertheless, we must seek to hear Him, and to not harden our heart to hear him.

[John 5:25-26 AKJV] — "Truly, truly, I say to you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live. For as the Father has life in himself; so has he given to the Son to have life in himself;”

Therefore, the Word of God will surely come to everyone dead or alive.

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↝ THE LAST ONE WEEK: — END OF THE DESOLATE ↜

[Daniel 9:27 NKJV] - Then he shall confirm a covenant with many for one week; But in the middle of the week he shall bring an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of abominations shall be one who makes desolate, even m.”
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[Daniel 9:27 NIV] — He will confirm a covenant with many for one ‘seven.’ In the middle of the ‘seven’ he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And at the temple he will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is decreed is poured out on him.”
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[Daniel 9:27 CEVDCI] — For one week this foreigner will make a firm agreement with many people, and halfway through this week, he will end all sacrifices and offerings. Then the “Horrible Thing” that causes destruction will be put there. And it will stay there until the time God has decided to destroy this one who destroys.

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This is about the last one week of the seventy weeks — the last seven years. This last 1-Week was supposedly connected with its preceding 69-Week in the tune of Gabriel's explanation as seen by these Daniel's writings — but that's not exactly how these events of the last one week emerged. There has been a very long gap or suspension, extending to about 2 millenniums between 70-AD and the year beyond the year 2025-AD.

This suspension means some things more urgent or more emergent had to withhold (suspend) the planned events and to occupy the period of times. Thus, the suspension means the prophecies are already working in a mystery, though not manifest in timelines or dates yet, because more urgencies or emergencies are occupying the times of “Today,” suspending completion of the last one week prophecies in the 70 weeks.

[2 Thessalonians 2:6-8 GWN] —"You know what it is that now holds him back, so that he will be revealed when his time comes. The mystery of this sin is already at work. But it cannot work effectively until the person now holding it back gets out of the way. Then the man of sin will be revealed and the Lord Jesus will destroy him by what He says. When the Lord Jesus comes, His appearance will put an end to this man.”

Apart from the Person withholding or suspending emergence of the Antichrist, here are few mysteries preempting the mystery of sin (iniquity) that should allow for the Antichrist and Abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel:

■1■ Mystery of the Fullness of the Gentiles [Church Ages]: — The Jews had their time or enjoyed their terms with God for about 2000 years from the time of Isaac or Jacob till 33-AD time of the death of the Lord Jesus Christ. Now, the Gentiles are having their own time or enjoying their own terms with God for about 2000 years from 33-AD time of the death of the Lord Jesus Christ till 2025 and some extra but few years perhaps. Unfortunately, Gentiles are not aware we have spent almost the same years Jews had with God, and Christians or Gentiles have not proportionally raised much great men of God as proportionate as the Jews had in their own 2000 years terms. And to think the Jews were able to achieve all those without having the fulness of the Holy Spirit in them and without the Lord Jesus Christ Himself having come by then and brought much grace, gifts and powers, to all flesh by then, reveals that the Jews have been more faithful than we the Churches, Christians or Gentiles, though we have all these treasures and technologies but yet havr produced more worldly minded, carnal, lukewarm and confused, groups and individuals, we call Churches and Christians but with little or no impacts or fruits.

Soon our own 2000 years terms or time will finish, and the door will be reopened to the Jews again. As it is written,

[Romans 11:25-27 WEB] — "For I don’t desire you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, so that you won’t be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in, and so all Israel will be saved. Even as it is written, “There will come out of Zion the Deliverer, and he will turn away ungodliness from Jacob. This is my covenant to them, when I will take away their sins.””

You saw the last sentence in this immediate Bible reference, that the Lord Himself will — Take away the sins of the Jews (Israel). But for now the Lord is the Lamb of God that — Takes away the sins of the world (Gentiles). Soon, He will take away the sins of the Jews, and then sins will be ended as well.

■2■ Mysteries of the Kingdom of God, the Sower and the Harvest: — The Lord Jesus Christ Himself taught these entire mysteries in “Mathew 13” using parables: — The Kingdom, the Sower and the Harvest (end of the world). These mysteries also suspend or withhold the emergence of the Antichrist and Abomination of desolation.

Now let's focus on the Bible verse in red:

Four major keypoints and significant things will be done by and on that ruler (Antichrist) during the last one week or 7 years:

◇A◇ — He will confirm the covenant with many: — He will come with his own “new covenant” different from the “New Covenant we have in the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.” The Antichrist will also confirm that covenant or establish the covenant, for only in the duration of that week or 7 years would he have the powers to enact, establish or confirm covenant with millions of people who put trust in him. He will prosper in deeds.

◇B◇ — In the middle of the week or after 3½ years, he will end the daily sacrifices and offerings that are Lightbearers to prayers in the Temple for all men: — he will change after 42 months, and then reveal his true colors as a great deceiver, destroyer and opposed in the likeness of Satan himself. His first target is to weaken daily prayers and offerings to God, and instead release blasphemies towards God in direct opposition and confrontation against the LORD God and His Heavens.

◇C◇ — At the temple he will set up an abomination that causes desolation: — Antichrist will not be a Roman Catholic, for a typical Roman Catholic would rather merge things of idols (idolatry) together with things or names belonging to God, angels, saints and services in honor of these Heavenly Beings. Example, the Roman Catholic would rather leave the daily sacrifices, but introduce the idols, abominations or practices of evil cults with good religious names and themes, while merging both the daily sacrifices, offerings and the pagans’ ways of serving idols to serve the true God and saints instead.

But unlike the Roman Catholics, the Antichrist is all out to kick God out of even the temple of God, setting up himself as god with his own image, his name or mark of the beast and his own covenant, religion and laws. So, he will remove the daily sacrifices, but setup abomination that causes desolation in the Holy of Holies place.

◇D◇ — Until the consummation, which is determined, is poured out on the desolate: — The Antichrist is the Desolate and as well as the Son of Perdition, all according to this expression in bold or red. The term, “Consummation, which is determined” — means he’s predetermined or predestined to the Perdition, Consummation or Destruction already. Thus, he's son of Perdition or he is going expressly into perdition, nothing changes that but may be delayed a while.

But it's not just he going to meet his perdition, but the perdition coming to meet him — hence you noticed the use of the word, “Poured” or “Rained” upon him the desolate.

Why is he the desolate or abomination hat makes desolate?

He is desolate or he is the curse that makes desolate because whatever he joins with, or whatever joins with him, becomes desolate. Even receiving his mark or name on oneself would make a man desolate and lost forever. He is figuratively associated with Jerusalem since the Lord Jesus Christ wept for Jerusalem, leaving the house of Jerusalem desolate. When they rejected the true Christ, they opened their house for the Antichrist and their house became desolate.

But as you saw in the bold or red letters, the predetermined Consummation will be poured out on the Desolate (Antichrist), at the returning or coming of the Lord Jesus Christ again back to Jerusalem — And when the desolate is destroyed, the house of Jerusalem shall never again become desolate or destroyed.

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↝ AFTER 62 + 7 WEEKS: — THE DESTRUCTION & WAR ↜

[Daniel 9:26 NKJV] - “And after the sixty-two weeks Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself; And the people of the prince who is to come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end of it shall be with a flood, And till the end of the war desolations are determined.
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[Daniel 9:26 CEVDCI] — At the end of the 62 weeks, the Chosen Leader will be killed and left with nothing. A foreign ruler and his army will sweep down like a mighty flood, leaving both the city and the temple in ruins, and war and destruction will continue until the end, just as God has decided.
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[Daniel 9:26 NLV] — "After the sixty-two weeks, the Chosen One will be killed and have nothing. And the people of the ruler who is to come will destroy the city and the holy place. The end will come like a flood. Even to the end there will be war. For the Lord has said that much will be destroyed."

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After the sixty-two weeks plus seven weeks of building up things in Jerusalem, came destruction of those things that were built. Not even the Messiah Himself was spared, but infact His been cut off with nothing of Himself left in Jerusalem, ushered in the era of desolation of the house of Jerusalem.

[Luke 13:34-35] — "“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, like a hen gathers her own brood under her wings, and you refused! Behold, your house is left to you desolate. I tell you, you will not see Me, until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!’””

But be skillful from considering this matter while understanding this vision: — You saw “Desolation or Destruction” of Jerusalem in the vision, but you should beware more of the “Deception” than of the “Desolation or Destruction” of Jerusalem. Here, the Deception includes both the lack of knowledge and the lack of love and faith in the truth, which results in believing lies.

God said, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.” I express this also as, destruction of Jerusalem comes for lack of both Knowledge, Love and Faith in the Truth of the Lord. This simplifies as ‘Destruction or desolation through Deception.’

The Lord Jesus Himself spoke of the complete demolition of the temple of Jerusalem built in 7 weeks (about 49 years) after He would have gone. On hearing about the destruction prophesied, His disciples came to ask Him for the signs of the times when these will happen and when He the Messiah will come back again or return. To these, the Lord Jesus warned them against “Deception” rather than focusing on “Destruction” only:

[b][‭Mark 13:1-8, 14 NKJV‬] — Then as He went out of the temple, one of His disciples said to Him, “Teacher, see what manner of stones and what buildings are here!” And Jesus answered and said to him, “Do you see these great buildings? Not one stone shall be left upon another, that shall not be thrown down.” Now as He sat on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter, James, John, and Andrew asked Him privately, “Tell us, when will these things be? And what will be the sign when all these things will be fulfilled?” And Jesus, answering them, began to say: “Take heed that no one deceives you. For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am He,’ and will deceive many. But when you hear of wars and rumors of wars, do not be troubled; for such things must happen, but the end is not yet. For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be earthquakes in various places, and there will be famines and troubles. These are the beginnings of sorrows. — “So when you see the ‘abomination of desolation,’ spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not” (let the reader understand), “then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. [/b]

You see you have to take more heed against deceptions than against destructions of Jerusalem and the temple. And just as Daniel wrote of Messiah (Jesus Christ) and the Abomination of Desolation, so did the Messiah (Jesus Christ) also spoke of Daniel and the Abomination of Desolation Daniel wrote of.

Now, let return focus to Daniel's writing in the Bible verse in red: These come in 3 outlines with their briefs:

■1■ And after the sixty-two weeks Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself: — Here, the Messiah was prophesied to become a great “Loser” in that He will be both cut off (which means He will not only be rejected but also killed as in cut off completely) and have nothing, neither gain nor inheritance when He is cut-off. He would lose both His life and His portions after 62 weeks or the 69th week.

But we know Him as the greatest achiever, for in Him and by Him — To die is great gain, not great loss. When the corn of wheat fell into the ground and died, it began bringing forth much fruits — Losing life for His Sake became the path to some greatest rewards and gaining far more greater and eternal life and treasures beyond riches known yet on earth.

[Revelation 14:13] — "And I heard a voice from Heaven saying to me, Write, Blessed [are] the dead who die in the Lord from now on. Yes, says the Spirit, they shall rest from their labors, and their works follow them.”

■2■ And the people of the prince who is to come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary: — Just as some of the other eschatological prophecies by Daniel, this event has happened before during the destruction of both Jerusalem and the temple (sanctuary) in 70AD, but not by the people of the prince (Antichrist) that would come or take charge of the last one week. So, there will be another invasion and destruction of Jerusalem and her temple to some degree after rebuilding, in the reactivation of the last one week completing the 70 weeks.

Infact, there will be atleast two more attempts at invasion and destruction of Jerusalem and the temple going forward: one is just before the Millennial Reign of Christ, and the other just after the Millennial Reign of Christ. The first will not become total because of Jerusalem’s covenant with the Antichrist and his Deceptions plus Abomination of Desolation, and the second will not prosper because of Jerusalem’s covenant with the Lord and true Christ, Messiah, Jesus Christ, reigning from within her.

■3■ The end of it shall be with a flood, and till the end of the war desolations are determined:: — The end of the war and destruction decreed against Jerusalem will also be the end of the world. When Jerusalem begins having everlasting peace that can never be interrupted by any war, invasion or rumors of wars will also be when this world will end. I didn't say when the Messiah returns, but said when the world ends is when Jerusalem will be forever free of war, destruction or desolation. So, Jerusalem is under a curse of fighting wars or destructions till the end of time of this world, unless she remains desolate or ruled by the Messiah Himself (the Lord Jesus Christ) within her.

[2 Chronicles 16:9] — "For the Eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show Himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward Him. Herein you have done foolishly: therefore from now on you shall have wars.”

The end of the war and desolations decreed upon Jerusalem will also become the end of sin. The wars and desolations will be ended, as well as the sins of mankind and sins of all the creatures will be ended at the end of all things that have end.

↝7 + 62 WEEKS: — THE BUILDINGS AND THE MESSIAH↜

[Daniel 9:25 AKJV] - "Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem to the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and three score and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times."
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[Daniel 9:25 CEVDCI] — You need to realize that from the command to rebuild Jerusalem until the coming of the Chosen Leader, it will be 7 weeks and another 62 weeks. Streets will be built in Jerusalem, and a trench will be dug around the city for protection, but these will be difficult times.
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[Daniel 9:25 FBV] — "You need to know and understand that from the time the command is given to restore and rebuild Jerusalem, until the Messiah, seven weeks plus sixty-two weeks will elapse. It will be built with streets and defenses, in spite of the difficult times."

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These parts of the seventy weeks’ prophecies all came to pass pretty much according to the schedule. There were a distinct 7 weeks (49 years) about the time it took to rebuild the temple, and then 62 weeks (434 years) extra, making a total of 69 weeks (483 years) which ended about the year in which the Lord Jesus Christ died on the cross and ascended into the heavens, from the time that Cyrus issued the decree for the rebuilding of Jerusalem.

This period is the “Building” or “Rebuilding” period for both Jerusalem and the temple. Streets will be built in this period, meaning there shall be infrastructures or roadworks and paving of the streets.

However, the building-up or redevelopment of Jerusalem and the temple will neither be permanent solution to her troubles nor be without troubles. The Buildings and Developments will come in the times of troubles for the people, and yet the buildings or development shall be ruined, destroyed again or wasted at the ending of the seventy weeks. Almost everything built in Jerusalem during the first 69 weeks, came under destruction during the last one week or after the ascension of the Lord Jesus Christ. It was as if the buildings done during the period were all for the coming of the Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ. But afterwards, the house of Jerusalem was left desolate especially because they did not know the things belonging to their peace through the reception of their Messiah or Savior, Jesus Christ. Therefore, the Lord Jesus wept for Jerusalem before He was crucified or condemned by men in Jerusalem.

So, these building up of Jerusalem did not mean they were free from suffering for their sins. Children of Israel were building Rameses in Egypt while they were in bondage. That you see prosperity or developmental strides of the sinners is not proof that he or she is off the hook of judgment. They are only building up things that shall be destroyed. So, what should we learn in wisdom of the Bible verse?

● — The entire Seventy Weeks were meant to be troublous times to Jerusalem and her inhabitants. People build things in troublous times, but they risk the destruction or loss of the things they built or invested.

● — If the people spent the times and resources they spend in building things, rather on seeking and sticking to the Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ, the troublous times will become to them times of peace, true stability of times by wisdom and building things of eternal values.

● — They began building before the Messiah came, and so they did not need the Messiah to build or rebuild Jerusalem and the temple. The Messiah, Jesus Christ, was simply the Foundation or the Chief Corner Stone, which the Builders rejected. Those who built without Him as the Foundation are as foolish builders who built-on mere sand, without Foundation; and surely the storm will crush down their building

● — The Messiah did not come as a Savior to save whatever is built in Jerusalem, but came as the Savior to save whatever is built on Him as the Foundation and as the true Chief Corner Stone.

Here's a reference idea of the 46 years, which is about 49 years (7 weeks), it took to rebuild the temple the Lord Jesus Christ met in Jerusalem:

[John 2:18-25 NLV] — "Then the Jews asked Him, "What can You do to show us You have the right and the power to do these things?" Jesus answered them, "Destroy this house of God and in three days I will build it again." Then the Jews said, "It took fortysix years to build this house of God. Will You build it up in three days?" Jesus was speaking of His body as the house of God. After Jesus had been raised from the dead, His followers remembered He said this. They believed the Holy Writings and what He had said. Jesus was in Jerusalem at the time of the special religious gathering to remember how the Jews left Egypt. Many people put their trust in Him when they saw the powerful works He did. But Jesus did not trust them because He knew all men. He did not need anyone to tell Him about man. He knew what was in man.”

↝ THE SEVENTY WEEKS END-TIME PROPHECY OF GABRIEL TO DANIEL ↜

[Daniel 9:24 NKJV] - “Seventy weeks are determined For your people and for your holy city, To finish the transgression, To make an end of sins, To make reconciliation for iniquity, To bring in everlasting righteousness, To seal up vision and prophecy, And to anoint the Most Holy.
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[Daniel 9:24 CEVDCI] — God has decided that for 70 weeks, your people and your holy city must suffer as the price of their sins. Then evil will disappear, and justice will rule forever; the visions and words of the prophets will come true, and a most holy place will be dedicated.
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[Daniel 9:24 NIV] — “Seventy ‘sevens’ are decreed for your people and your holy city to finish transgression, to put an end to sin, to atone for wickedness, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the Most Holy Place.

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In the scriptures, Angel Gabriel was the one who began predicting, with dates and time estimation, when the world should end and when the new age of righteousness and perfection should begin. However, even this prediction from Angel Gabriel himself was only about 80% accurate: His predictions of Seventy Weeks were accurate in the first 69th week, but the millennial gaps between the first 69 week and the last one week had scattered the entire 70 weeks schedules.

So, like the Lord Jesus Christ Himself said, no man, including the Son of man Himself, knows the day or the hour, except the Holy Father in Heaven. As you may later see from this Gabriel's predictions, no angel even know the exact day or hour for the end or fulfilling of these things within the Bible verse in red.

■A■ According to Gabriel's eschatological predictions — Seventy Weeks are determined upon Jerusalem and all Israel. — This means they were sentenced to Seventy (70) Weeks of Rising and Falling in terms of instability of struggling and suffering for sins.

The way the children of Israel in the wilderness were sentenced to 40 years, instead of 40 days, journeying to their promised land because of their sins, which in turn left them wandering in the wilderness for 40 years being busy but fruitless in their works or progress: — That was similar to the 70 weeks sentence upon them instead of 70 years.

A Week here is not 7 days, but 7 years.
Thus, 70 weeks = 70*7years
= 490 years

■B■ According to Gabriel in this Bible verse in red — The Seventy Weeks or 490 years were all the time it would take to achieve these six Items:

●1● — Finish Transgression: — This was achieved by the Lord Jesus Christ Himself on the cross, especially when He cried, “It is Finished.” This was achieved accurately within the Sixty-nine Weeks.

●2● — End Sin: — This has not been achieved yet. Though sin was finished on the cross, sin has not been ended yet. People still do sin.

●3● — Atonement or Reconciliation for Sin: — This has been achieved by the Offering the Lord Himself once and for all within the 69th Week of the 70 Weeks.

●4● — Everlasting Righteousness: — This has been acquired but not yet setup because Judgment has not fully been set up on earth, or sin has not been fully ended.

●5● — The Visions and Prophecies Sealed or Fully Fulfilled: — Surely, these have not been fulfilled yet. More are yet to come to pass.

●6● — Anoint the Most Holy: — The Most Holy Place — The Holy of Holies — is unveiled and accessible by the Body of the Lord Jesus Christ. However, the physical sanctuary or temple is yet to undergo the Antichrist's defilement, abomination that makes desolate, desecration or destruction. Afterwards, there will be the restoration, cleansing and then anointing of the Most Holy Place.

Going forward, I will relate the true Christ (the Messiah) with building or rebuilding of the temple and the holy Jerusalem, while I also relate the prince (the Antichrist) with the destruction or desolation of both.

↝ READING THE REMNANTS AS EPISTLES ↜

[Ezekiel 14:23 NKJV] — And they will comfort you, when you see their ways and their doings; and you shall know that I have done nothing without cause that I have done in it,” says the Lord God.

[Ezekiel 14:23 NIV] — You will be consoled when you see their conduct and their actions, for you will know that I have done nothing in it without cause, declares the Sovereign Lord.”

[Ezekiel 14:23 BSB] — "They will bring you consolation when you see their conduct and actions, and you will know that it was not without cause that I have done all these things within it,’ declares the Lord GOD.”"

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Just as comfort or consolation comes through reading and learning scriptures written (Romans 15:4-5), so also comfort or consolation shall come through reading the men that are remnants or Survivors from the destructions or judgments of God upon Jerusalem as in the Bible verse in red. Thus, they shall become epistles read by men in deriving consolation or comfort on the works God had done upon Jerusalem based on the works or deeds of those remnants.

In and according to this Bible verse in red: — The Acts of these men will validate or justify the Acts of God: — Seeing the conducts and actions of the remnants that escaped the destructions or judgments of God will bring consolation and justification of those acts of destruction or judgments God had done. We will eventually agree with God and even praise God for His judgments and destructions, for they also work righteousness and they fulfill good purpose or worthy cause.

[Psalms 145:10] — "All Your works shall praise You, O LORD; and Your saints shall bless You."

All the works of God, both those of destructions and judgments, shall praise God and show forth His praises. Those who are remnants from the destructions must show forth the praises of God as we behold their actions and deeds, and those who are chosen and elect of God must also show forth the praises of God.

[1 Peter 2:9] — "But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that you should show forth the praises of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;”

The destructions or judgments of God upon His Own people may not seem joyful when beheld by our own human and earthly perspectives; but afterwards we will adjust into adjudging them to be faithful, true and righteous.

[Hebrews 12:11 BBE] — "At the time all punishment seems to be pain and not joy: but after, those who have been trained by it get from it the peace-giving fruit of righteousness.”

Never have the impression that God is wicked, no matter how much wrath, anger, destructions or judgments, He does on any of His creation. Truly speaking, God is righteous in all His ways. God is love. God is good. God is wise and perfect.

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↝ GABRIEL TO DANIEL: TEACHING VIP MORE AS HONOR OR RESPECT TO THE VIP THAN TO THE TEACHER ↜

[Daniel 9:23 NKJV] - At the beginning of your supplications the command went out, and I have come to tell you, for you are greatly beloved; therefore consider the matter, and understand the vision:
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[Daniel 9:23 GW] — As soon as you began to make your request, a reply was sent. I have come to give you the reply because you are highly respected. So study the message, and understand the vision.
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[Daniel 9:23 NIV] — As soon as you began to pray, a word went out, which I have come to tell you, for you are highly esteemed. Therefore, consider the word and understand the vision:

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Angel Gabriel, who knows what it is to be highly respected by God in the presence of the Heavens and Angels, showed Daniel in this Bible verse that God highly respectested, highly esteemed or greatly beloved Daniel, even to degrees that as soon as Daniel began praying on earth far up there in Heavens the command went out immediately and a high ranking Angel like Gabriel had to come flying himself to attend to Daniel, all across some of the greatest distances through Heavens or spaces.

Many of us know only very little of what values or honor there are, in God seen by angels and saints to honor and respect a man or woman. No respect is as great as the respect God Himself shows to anyone, and no disrespect is as terrible as the disrespect God Himself have for any. Some of us who already know these should wisely seek the respect and honor that come from God, instead of the respect or honor we have by men or among men.

And as fellow teachers, we should learn this from the Angels of God: Angels don't teach men for men to respect the angels more and start calling them father, daddy, papa, mentor, etc. Rather angels teach men as way of expressing respect, honor or regards they have for those men they are teaching. Among men, teachers are given respect and honor by the students or learners they teach, as one who knows more and feeds them. But among Angels to men, the angels as teachers are giving their respect and honor to the students or learners they teach by teaching them as one highly respected or loved by God. That you are even willing to learn, and to seek wisdom, makes them even have more respect and desire to teach you, not to improve their status but to improve your status.

As soon as Daniel began praying and making supplications, the reply was sent and the dispatch rider was Angel Gabriel in speed or swift flight to Daniel's address or current location. Though the content of the dispatch was not exactly what Daniel requested for, the content was what God ordered or commanded instead to Daniel.

The whole motion was to reveal and reserve the regards and respect for Daniel, and not necessarily grant exactly what Daniel was praying about. You may already know many prayers people pray, show they need skills, understanding, knowledge or wisdom, more than they need what they think they are saying or praying for. Prayer requests or petitions do have ways of exposing how unlearned or untaught many believers are. These are so even among those who glory in results or powers of prayers, rather than in knowledge, understanding and uttering the right things in wisdom before God and in presence of the Holy Ones in Spirit.

Daniel's prayers and confessions are good, and are expressed in the scriptures for our learning or discipleship in prayers. However, even he and his prayers needed to gain skills, understanding, knowledge and revelation of wisdom from Angel Gabriel his teacher or mentor from heaven.

This chapter of Daniel, particularly his prayers, reveals that mankind could not have prayed their way back into full restoration of place and relationship with God after they are cast away because of their sins. The point is that, it's not just about “Forgiveness of Sins” but beyond forgiveness of the sins there is requirement of “Righteousness” to cover the sinners’ gaps. Daniel's prayers were filled with confessions of sins, requests for Forgiveness, and therefore requests for the restoration or rebuilding of his people and the Lord's Holy Mountain.

If you read my writings sometimes ago, you may recall I was speaking on “The First Book of Adam and Eve” especially how Adam kept praying God to forgive their sin and restore them back into the Garden of Eden as they were. The same way Daniel prayed for restoration by forgiveness of confessed sins, so had Adam prayed for restoration by forgiveness of confessed sins: — But the replies God kept giving them were that Forgiveness of their sins alone cannot fix the sins, rather what must fix the sins and the gaps is the coming of the Lord Himself as the Messiah or Jesus Christ to bring on everlasting Righteousness.

Being Forgiven will not get you into heaven, being Righteous will. It is not that God doesn't forgive, infact God forgives and shows mercy more than all men, and to all men. However, Forgiveness or Mercy do not fix sins committed in the past, but only overlooks or forgets the sins. To fix sins committed in the past or present, we need more than Forgiveness or Mercy from God: — We need Righteousness from God or a Man who never sinned before. Righteousness, not just Mercy.

What Mercy or Forgiveness does to offense or sin is to prevent the evil or punishment for that sin or offense: making the guilty cleared or acquited from the rightful terrible actions he or she deserves for it. But the mercy or forgiveness does make the guilty one righteous, faithful, trustworthy or man of integrity. If Adam and Eve were shown mercy or forgiveness inside the Garden of Eden, mercy would have meant nothing by then because punishment or consequence was not yet established. They did not know what suffering for sins was, because it had not yet been established even though God said they will die the day they sin. So, God had to curse the ground, inflict pains of childbearing on the woman, and made the punishments of sins, etc. to exist in a world outside the Garden of Eden. Then God drove them out of the Garden. When they were outside the Garden, they began to know the consequences or punishments of sin committed. They asked for mercy or forgiveness, and God showed them mercy: but by then it was too late for mercy of God to return them into the Garden again — It was now the duty of Righteousness, not just Mercy or Forgiveness.

If I dwelt in land of righteousness and offended, and at risk of deportation, while I'm still there mercy can prevent me from getting deported. But once I am already deported or banned from the land, and I seek entry or returning back to that land, then I should not just seek mercy but righteousness — The License or Right of the Land. This Gabriel would teach Daniel in the “Seventy Weeks Lecture” he taught Daniel. To Daniel it came as “Seventy Weeks” but to Adam+Eve it came as “Five and half days:” — These figures are figurative.

But for now, in this Bible verse in red, Gabriel said to Daniel, “Consider the matter and understand the vision.” The matter to consider is the message to study, and the vision to understand is the revelation to add to your skills and virtues. Study to get approved.

↝ REMNANTS AND FRUITS FROM THE EVILS ON ZION ↜

[Ezekiel 14:22 NKJV] — Yet behold, there shall be left in it a remnant who will be brought out, both sons and daughters; surely they will come out to you, and you will see their ways and their doings. Then you will be comforted concerning the disaster that I have brought upon Jerusalem, all that I have brought upon it.

[Ezekiel 14:22 NIV] — Yet there will be some survivors — sons and daughters who will be brought out of it. They will come to you, and when you see their conduct and their actions, you will be consoled regarding the disaster I have brought on Jerusalem—every disaster I have brought on it.

[Ezekiel 14:22 NET] — "Yet some survivors will be left in it, sons and daughters who will be brought out. They will come out to you, and when you see their behavior and their deeds, you will be consoled about the catastrophe I have brought on Jerusalem — for everything I brought on it."

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In the Bible verse in red, even though Noah, Daniel and Job could not have delivered sons or daughters by their own righteousness, yet there shall be sons and daughters of Jerusalem that shall become the remnants or survivors of all the evils, catastrophe, disasters, judgment or destructions brought upon Jerusalem. No matter the nature and extent of destruction and judgment sent upon Jerusalem, there must always be remnants or survivors. This is not based on deliverance by people's righteousness, but based on the election of God, Jerusalem.

[2 Kings 19:31] — "For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the LORD of hosts shall do this."

It's impossible for Jerusalem to be like Sodom or Gomorrah no matter the nature or extent of destructions upon Jerusalem. Jerusalem cannot go into total annihilation or neither can her children go into riddance.

Jerusalem is may be a widow, barren or desolate, but she will never go childless. For in the case of Jerusalem, more are the children of the desolate than the children of she that has a husband.

Now, in the Bible verse in red, there is also a promise of finding good justifications for the evils or disasters God brought upon Jerusalem, when men assesses the lifestyle, conducts, behavior and ways of the remnants or survivors of Jerusalem.

Certain evils, pains, trials, problems and even destructions, may become justified or sources of good things such as strength, learning, character, discipline or comfort, by their fruits. If you know this, then you know there is something evil or painful you felt before, but afterwards you later appreciated the experience or began reaping good things as fruits from the evil that happened to you in the past.

We do not find pleasure in the evils that happen to Jerusalem, but we will find pleasure and fruits from the evils that happen to Jerusalem when they turn out to work together for good.

↝GABRIEL TO DANIEL: HOME-BASE PRIVATE LESSON↜

[Daniel 9:2] — "And he informed me, and talked with me, and said, O Daniel, I am now come forth to give you skill and understanding."
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[Daniel 9:22 NET] — "He spoke with me, instructing me as follows: “Daniel, I have now come to impart understanding to you."
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[Daniel 9:22 BBE] — "And teaching me and talking to me he said, O Daniel, I have come now to give you wisdom."

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Okay, let's replay this: Imagine me, as a Teacher as Gabriel in the Bible verse in red is, and I flew or took flight from one country or continent all the way to a far distance to another to meet and interrupt a man that was praying: The man already knew or saw me before in an earlier vision or spiritual encounter. On arriving and meeting with the praying man, I begin talking to the man who is talking to God, for my talking to him at that point is more important than his continued talking to God without understanding. And the first thing I tell the man is, “I have flown all the way and distance to teach you, give you skill, give you wisdom and understanding.” No tea served me on the visit, and no reception with any gifts for the far distance I traveled just to teach someone.

That's a long way to go to serve understanding and education to anyone without them paying for the services. He didn't even use online facilities or communication tools to pass the skill, training, or education to the man from the distance, rather he came in person or present to teach the man in private tutorial or “home-based, one on one, teaching private lesson” angel Gabriel gave to Daniel in this Bible verse in red. Greetings to true teachers doing home-based private lessons, coming from far distance to seek your students or pupils at home, and delivering skills, understanding and wisdom to them, especially without charges or compensation as a ministry or service to God and to the mentee, even as angel Gabriel did to Daniel here.

Now, the angel called it “Skill, Understanding, Wisdom” etc., and not “Prophecy or Predictions.” — This implies and means the talk about the “Seventy Weeks” came more as teaching for wisdom, skill and understanding, even it is also a prophecy or prophetic. This was the foundation for the Seventy weeks prophecy — Gaining wisdom, skill and understanding, rather than predicting the calendar or date of the events the things will happen.

↝ FOUR EVILS ON JERUSALEM: FATAL, NOT TOTAL↜

[Ezekiel 14:21 NKJV] — For thus says the Lord God: “How much more it shall be when I send My four severe judgments on Jerusalem—the sword and famine and wild beasts and pestilence—to cut off man and beast from it?

[Ezekiel 14:21 LITV] — "For so says the Lord Jehovah, How much more when the four of My evil judgments: sword, and famine, and evil beast, and plague I send on Jerusalem, to cut off from it man and beast!"

[Ezekiel 14:21 NET] — "“For this is what the sovereign LORD says: How much worse will it be when I send my four terrible judgments — sword, famine, wild animals, and plague — to Jerusalem to kill both people and animals!"

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According to this Bible verse in red, assuming the Lord God sent the four terrible evils all at once upon Jerusalem, to kill both people and animals in Jerusalem. In this case, Famine, Evil Beasts, Sword of destruction and Pestilence that plagues, coming like the four winds of heaven in full force against the inhabitants of Jerusalem in destruction.

Even in this case, yet on Mount Zion shall be deliverance, even though on Jerusalem are four terrible judgments or destructions. Destructions on Jerusalem do not affect or prevent deliverance on Mount Zion.

[1 Chronicles 21:15] — "God sent an angel to destroy Jerusalem. But as he was about to destroy it, the Lord saw the trouble and was sorry. He said to the destroying angel, "It is enough. Now take your hand away." The angel of the Lord was standing by the grain-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.”

The reason to that includes, no destructions of God or of the devil shall completely destroy all of Jerusalem unlike the case for both Sodom and Gomorrah. Take this, there must be remnant that must escape or remain of Jerusalem, because of the Holy Mountain of God or Zion.

The four evils in the Bible verse in red, sent to Jerusalem, maybe four times more severe than each one, and the chances of Noah, Daniel and Job, saving anyone else in Jerusalem other than themselves may be 4 times more difficult and impossible; nevertheless the chances of the four judgments or evils destroying everyone in Jerusalem are also difficult and impossible. So, though the three righteous men couldn't save anyone from Jerusalem, yet the four terrible evils couldn't destroy everyone in Jerusalem too. There must be remnants indestructible in Jerusalem, even if the remnants are not righteous enough as the three

↝ WHEN ANGELS INTERVENE BUT NOT INTERCEDE IN PRAYERS OF RESPECTED MEN OF GOD ↜

[Daniel 9:21 AKJV] — "Yes, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation."
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[Daniel 9:21 BSB] — "while I was still praying, Gabriel, the man I had seen in the earlier vision, came to me in swift flight about the time of the evening sacrifice."
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[Daniel 9:21 GNT] — While I was praying, Gabriel, whom I had seen in the earlier vision, came flying down to where I was. It was the time for the evening sacrifice to be offered.

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The “Meanwhile” or “While” to these Daniel's Prayers was his seeing in physical reality the same angel, Gabriel, whom he had seen in a vision earlier. In nutshell, Gabriel came physically to Daniel, and not just in trance or vision. Physically, as he, Gabriel, would much later come to Zachariah or to Mary, so did Gabriel first came flying like Eagle to Daniel who was still praying here and he touched Daniel at about the time of the evening sacrifice of the daily sacrifices.

There are cases in scriptures that angels came to a praying man of God, without or instead of the granting of the requests that man of God was asking for. It was like God diplomatically telling such men of God, see I respect you and your prayers very well, but you have to understand that your requests may not be exactly granted at this time or in this way.

So the coming of those angels to such respected men of God, instead or without the execution or granting of the imminent prayers of those men of God, was to honor and comfort those men of God in another way other than in them having what they asked foe in prayers.

■1■ Daniel here was experiencing such in this Bible verse in red

■2■ Elijah too was experienced such, when he prayed that God should take away his life, and was heavily discouraged and gave up his being different and exceptional from his fathers. Then God made him fall asleep and an angel came to cooked food for him twice to comfort and strengthen him. But his requests were not granted.

■3■ Again, Elijah had prayed twice that fire come down from heaven and consume soldiers after him, being a man of God, and though the Heavens granted that requests twice to Elijah, they would not continue to grant that request again to him. So an angel preemptively intervened and told Elijah to

■4■ The Lord Jesus Christ Himself experienced such at the night of His Agonizing in the Gethsemane Garden. He prayed for the Cup of Suffering to pass away from Him if possible, but later surrendered to the Will of God in the matter. Meanwhile angels came to strengthen Him, when His sweat was dripping like blood.

So, I want you to watch and learn how God and Heavens respectfully declines, denies or disapproves, requests or prayers of respected men without disregarding their feelings, pains or inconveniences, such “No” or “Denial” may cause. Can we be firm on saying “No” and still heal or comfort the person to whom we say “No”?

I titled this message, “WHEN ANGELS INTERVENE BUT NOT INTERCEDE IN PRAYERS OF RESPECTED MEN OF GOD.” You know there are churches that do ask angels to intercede for them, especially in their asking for God's mercy. But I have you to know here that angels are not simple beings, that will intercede or pray for anyone just because they were asked. While they help our prayers to be administered to God, they also intervene in our prayers to either redirect us in the prayers or gives us strength, understanding and counsel, instead of what we are asking for in prayers. So, they are basically “Arbitrators or Administrators” between us and God during prayers and God's response to the prayers.

↝ WHEN A SAVIOR MUST BE THE HEALER TO SINNERS↜

[Ezekiel 14:20 NKJV] — even though Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as I live,” says the Lord God, “they would deliver neither son nor daughter; they would deliver only themselves by their righteousness.”

[Ezekiel 14:20 GNT] — even if Noah, Danel, and Job lived there—as surely as I, the Sovereign Lord, am the living God—they would not be able to save even their own children. Their goodness would save only their own lives.”

[Ezekiel 14:20 GWN] — "As I live, declares the Almighty LORD, not even Noah, Daniel, and Job could, by their righteousness, rescue their sons or daughters. They could rescue only themselves."

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According to this Bible verse in red, as long as God lives, Noah, Daniel and Job, has no Healing Powers or Grace to heal any member of their own family that's plagued by deadly pestilence sent out by the Anger of God. To save or deliver here also means to heal, since this is about bloody sickness or pestilence that kills.

Only a Righteous Man with powers to forgive sins, atone for sins, stop the anger of God and heal sinners can deliver or save a sinner in this case, and not just Righteous men like Noah, Daniel and Job.

Recall that Job himself was struck by pestilence or plague from the devil in his captivity, so that he was covered with boils and he couldn't save or heal himself when his righteousness or integrity was tried. However, God turned away the captivity of Job and confirmed the righteousness of Job.

Behold the Lord Jesus Christ — The Messiah, the Anointed One of God: Himself took our infirmities and bore our sicknesses, having taken away our sin in His Blood that heals. Lord, if You are willing, You can make us clean and whole.

[Acts 4:12] — "Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.”

Moses lifted a bronze serpent for all the people of the land under the pestilence of the serpents’ venom to look up to it and be delivered or healed, so is the Lord Jesus Christ the One to look at and be healed and saved.

[John 3:14-17] — "And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: That whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved."

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↝ PESTILENCE AS BLOODY MESSENGER ↜

[Ezekiel 14:19 NKJV] — “Or if I send a pestilence into that land and pour out My fury on it in blood, and cut off from it man and beast,

[Ezekiel 14:19 GNT] — “If I send an epidemic on that country and in My anger take many lives, killing people and animals,

[Ezekiel 14:19 GWN] — "I could send a disease on that country and because of My anger I would kill many, both people and animals."

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God might send a (single) Pestilence, Disease or an Epidemic, driven by the furious anger of God against a country land of sinners, with that lone pestilence kill and cut off both people and animals out of the land.

Pestilence and Patience do not walk together in relation with the wrath of God: He usually binds Pestilence with His Patience, but when He sends out a Pestilence it is driven by His anger out of suspended Patience. So, here are few things to note from the Bible verse in red:

■1■ Pestilence is a messenger, sent by God: As in Bible verse in red — Pestilence walks like an angel, not like an accident. Pestilence is an entity, not just an event. When God sends Pestilence, it means God sends an angel: So, you that wants an angel should understand an angel may also be a minister of pestilence, or a messenger of destruction and death. Know what you seek: for some who've been struck by pestilence or plague did not even know angels are real, not to talk of knowing an angel is the cause of their plague or pestilence.

[Habakkuk 3:5 NET] — "Plague goes before Him; pestilence marches right behind Him."

[Psalms 91:6 AKJV] — Nor for the pestilence that walks in darkness; nor for the destruction that wastes at noonday.

[1 Chronicles 21:14-16] — "So the LORD sent pestilence on Israel: and seventy thousand men of Israel died by the pestilence that day. And God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was destroying, the LORD beheld, and He repented Him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed, It is enough, stay now your hand. And the angel of the LORD stood by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of the LORD stand between the earth and the heaven, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders of Israel, who were clothed in sackcloth, fell on their faces."

You may recall that story: — David was asked to choose an option from three options: 1, Three years of famine, 2, Three months of his enemies pursuing and oppressing them, 3, Three days of Pestilence: — Three days, actually one day alone, of pestilence already killed 70,000 people of Israel, remaining two days to go before God stopped the angel. So, pestilence can kill faster and wider than wars or famine.

■2■ Pestilence is driven by Anger of God: As in Bible verse in red — Pestilence or Plague is a container, storage or expression of God's anger or wrath — Pestilence is an emotion bearer in motion.

[Revelation 15:1] — "AND I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvelous, seven angels having the seven last plagues; for in them is fulfilled the wrath of God.”

■3■ Pestilence connected with Blood: As in Bible verse in red — You maybe thinking the only blood in heaven is the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, until you come into the faculty of Pestilence or Plagues and realize that some plagues either turn things into blood or the plagues are blood but infectious blood or blood hosts hosting the viruses or plagues that need the blood to thrive. Examples in Bible references below, but you note what is said about blood in the plague:

[‭Revelation 8:7 GNT‬] — The first angel blew his trumpet. Hail and fire, mixed with blood, came pouring down on the earth. A third of the earth was burned up, a third of the trees, and every blade of green grass.

The First Plague of the ten plagues on Egypt — Water Turned to Blood

[‭Exodus 7:20-21 GNT‬] — Then Moses and Aaron did as the Lord commanded. In the presence of the king and his officers, Aaron raised his stick and struck the surface of the river, and all the water in it was turned into blood. The fish in the river died, and it smelled so bad that the Egyptians could not drink from it. There was blood everywhere in Egypt.

[‭Revelation 16:3-7 GNT‬] — Then the second angel poured out his bowl on the sea. The water became like the blood of a dead person, and every living creature in the sea died. Then the third angel poured out his bowl on the rivers and the springs of water, and they turned into blood. I heard the angel in charge of the waters say, “The judgments You have made are just, O Holy One, You who are and who were! They poured out the blood of God's people and of the prophets, and so You have given them blood to drink. They are getting what they deserve!” Then I heard a voice from the altar saying, “Lord God Almighty! True and just indeed are Your judgments!”

[‭Revelation 8:8-9 GNT‬] — Then the second angel blew his trumpet. Something that looked like a huge mountain on fire was thrown into the sea. A third of the sea was turned into blood, a third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed.

[‭Joel 2:30-31 NKJV‬] — “And I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth: Blood and fire and pillars of smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness, And the moon into blood, Before the coming of the great and awesome day of the Lord.”

The last of the ten plagues on Egypt, just as first of the ten plagues, has something about blood. The seeing the bloodsign communicated to the plague or pestilence that it had been in there, even if it wasn't.

[‭Exodus 12:13 NKJV‬] — Now the blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you; and the plague shall not be on you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.

The woman with issue of blood knew she's healed of her plague when she felt the fountain of blood (hosting the plague) dried up within her.

[‭Mark 5:29 NKJV‬] — Immediately the fountain of her blood was dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of the affliction.

■4■ Pestilence cut-off both humans and animals: As in Bible verse in red — What dies or gets killed or destroyed by a pestilence tells somethings about the nature and message driving the pestilence. This one did not come to hurt plants, lands, environment or climate, but to hurt and kill living creatures and living people on the land.

↝THE SWORD AND THE DELIVERANCE ↜

[Ezekiel 14:18 NKJV] — even though these three men were in it, as I live,” says the Lord God, “they would deliver neither sons nor daughters, but only they themselves would be delivered.

[Ezekiel 14:18 GNT] — and even if those three men lived there—as surely as I, the Sovereign Lord, am the living God—they would not be able to save even their children, but only their own lives.

[Ezekiel 14:18 GWN] — "As I live, declares the Almighty LORD, not even Noah, Daniel, and Job could rescue their sons or daughters. They could rescue only themselves."

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In context, supposing these three righteous men — Noah, Daniel and Job — dwell together in a country land of sinners, and the Lord God Himself brought forth and instructed His sword to pass through the land and cut-off (kill) people and animals of that country land, this Bible verse in red, expressly reveals that the Lord Himself swore by Him being the Living God, that these three righteous men cannot deliver any of their blood relation or offspring, except deliver or save only themselves from the “Passing Through” Sword.

■1■ – It is “PASS-THROUGH” and not “PASS-OVER” the sword of the LORD will be sent to do through the country land: — If it were “Passover,” when the messenger sent to kill sees the blood, he will passover or skip that entire family or household in blood relation. But this is “Passing-Through” or “Piercing-Through” of the Sword of the Lord, and it leaves none out, not even for blood mark or bloodline.

Example, even Mary, who is direct blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, had the Sword pierced through her soul, without sparing her for the sake of the Lord Jesus Christ or her role with God Almighty. As it is written,

[Luke 2:34-35] — "And Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary His mother, Behold, this Child is set for the fall and rising again of many in Israel; and for a sign which shall be spoken against; (Yes, a sword shall pierce through your own soul also, ) that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.”

[Jeremiah 4:10] — "Then I said, Ah, Lord GOD! surely You have greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, You shall have peace; whereas the sword reaches to the soul.”

Don't for the Lord Jesus Christ brought Sword even though He was born of Mary, and the Sword He brought had to pierce even the soul of Mary because the Sword set a man at variance with his family, and He was to cause the falling and rising again of many in Israel, and He was a Sign many people would speak against, even the Sword He brought.

■2■ – It is deliverance (salvation) for “RIGHTEOUSNESS SAKE” and not deliverance (salvation) for “THE RIGHTEOUS SAKE” when it is deliverance (salvation) from the Sword of the Lord: — If it was for the Righteous sake, then Noah, Daniel and Job, would have their children saved as it happened in the Ark during the flood or as Lot had his children saved during the destruction of Sodom. Abraham had the Lord God said, I'd He finds 10 righteous men in the city, He will spare the entire city for the sake of the righteous men. But here, for the Sake of the Righteous men does not apply for deliverance from wrath of the Sword; rather what applies is for a sake of Righteousness.

[Ezekiel 24:21] — "Speak to the house of Israel, Thus said the Lord GOD; Behold, I will profane My sanctuary, the excellency of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pities; and your sons and your daughters whom you have left shall fall by the sword.”

[Job 19:29] — "Be you afraid of the sword: for wrath brings the punishments of the sword, that you may know there is a judgment.”

↝THE WORD SPOKEN TO THE SWORD OF THE LORD ↜

[Ezekiel 14:17 NKJV] — “Or if I bring a sword on that land, and say, ‘Sword, go through the land,’ and I cut off man and beast from it,

[Ezekiel 14:17 NET] — “Or suppose I were to bring a sword against that land and say, ‘Let a sword pass through the land,’ and I were to kill both people and animals."

[Ezekiel 14:17 NIV] — “Or if I bring a sword against that country and say, ‘Let the sword pass throughout the land,’ and I kill its people and their animals,

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This Bible verse in red, expressly reveals the Lord Himself could bring a Sword against an entire land or country, give charge or mandate to the Sword with a Word, and kill people and animals with the Sword. There are high chances the Lord God would do or have done that against inhabitants of a land of sinners. This use of the Sword to kill people and animals out of a land could be of God doings. Examples:

[‭Ezekiel 21:2-5 NKJV‬] — “Son of man, set your face toward Jerusalem, preach against the holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel; and say to the land of Israel, ‘Thus says the Lord: “Behold, I am against you, and I will draw My sword out of its sheath and cut off both righteous and wicked from you. Because I will cut off both righteous and wicked from you, therefore My sword shall go out of its sheath against all flesh from south to north, that all flesh may know that I, the Lord, have drawn My sword out of its sheath; it shall not return anymore.” ’

Again:

[Jeremiah 12:12] — "The spoilers are come on all high places through the wilderness: for the sword of the LORD shall devour from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land: no flesh shall have peace.”

Having established the Lord could do the sort of thing against both humans and animals, let's pick up details from the Bible verse in red.

■1■ The First Detail is the Lord God brings the Sword:

The Lord God, or the Lord Jesus Christ, brings a Sword along with Him when He comes to either make war or to judge. As Captain of the Hosts of the Lord, He came to Joshua with Sword even though He was neither for us nor for our enemies. As the Messiah or Lamb of God to take away our sins, He still brought a Sword to the world and not peace to the world, and He made a man's enemy member of the man's own family or close relations. Infact, there's a Sword that proceeds out of His Mouth in deeper revelation of the Lord Jesus.

[Revelation 1:16 BSB] — "He held in His right hand seven stars, and a sharp double-edged sword came from His mouth. His face was like the sun shining at its brightest."

[Revelation 19:15 WEB] — "Out of His mouth proceeds a sharp, double-edged sword, that with it He should strike the nations. He will rule them with an iron rod. He treads the wine press of the fierceness of the wrath of God, the Almighty."

[Revelation 19:21 WEB] — "The rest were killed with the sword of Him who sat on the horse, the sword which came out of His mouth. All the birds were filled with their flesh.”

So, whenever the Lord Jesus Christ comes as Judge or as War-Maker in Righteousness, if you cannot find any Sword around His sides, then know the Sword is in its scabbard or in His Mouth.

■2■ The Second Detail is the Lord God speaks or addresses the Sword with specific tasks as He charges or mandates it by words.

As in the Bible verse in red on top, the Lord addresses, communicates or speaks, to the Sword He brings, as in, telling the Sword what to do, assignment or tasks to carryout, where to go, how much to devour. In the Bible verse in red, the Lord might speak to the Sword, saying to the Sword He brings, “Sword, go through the land, and cut off men and beast.”

So, the sword He brought here differs from the sword He brought as a Son of man in flesh into the world, just by the charge, mandate or word He had spoken to the Sword. To this Sword, He told to go through and cut off man and beast from the land; but to the other He told to cut off selected relationships between a man and a member of his household.

Usually, if the Lord God had spoken to the Sword, and some men speak to the sword in contrary to what the Lord God says to the Sword, the Sword of the Lord will always regard or obey what the Lord said or assigned it to do above what man are saying to it. Example:

[‭Jeremiah 47:6-7 NKJV‬] — “O you sword of the Lord, How long until you are quiet? Put yourself up into your scabbard, rest and be still! How can it be quiet, seeing the Lord has given it a charge against Ashkelon and against the seashore? There He has appointed it.”

↝RIGHTEOUS MEN DELIVERED FROM EVIL BEASTS↜

[Ezekiel 14:16 AMPC] — Though these three men were in it, as I live, says the Lord God, they would deliver neither sons nor daughters; they themselves alone would be delivered but the land would be desolate (laid waste and deserted).

[Ezekiel 14:16 GNT] — and even if those three men lived there—as surely as I, the Sovereign Lord, am the living God—they would not be able to save even their own children. They would save only their own lives, and the land would become a wilderness.

[Ezekiel 14:16 NIV] — as surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, even if these three men were in it, they could not save their own sons or daughters. They alone would be saved, but the land would be desolate.

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In this Bible verse in red, these 3 men, Noah, Daniel and Job, were also recognized and respected by the Living God as men above any beast or death by beast in respect to their righteousness.

● No beast could harm Noah, even when he practically lived with all kinds of beasts inside a wooden ark for about see months. Infact, God blessed Noah and put the fear or dread of Noah in all the beasts of the field.

● No beast could harm Daniel, even when he practically lived with lions inside Lions’ den.

● No beast could harm Job, not even Leviathan or ehemoth. There was a hedge around Job that even Satan the dragon serpent couldn't cross. To Job, this was said:

[Job 5:22-23] — "At destruction and famine you shall laugh: neither shall you be afraid of the beasts of the earth. For you shall be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with you.”

These three men would have been above all evil beasts and above all harm by those beasts, for their righteousness. They were above what could happen to that man of God from Judah, who was killed by a lion.

Nevertheless, according to this Bible verse in red, as surely as the LORD remains the Living God, none of these three men could have saved or delivered either sons or daughters in addition to themselves.

Salvation or Deliverance is personal race, especially in case described in the Bible verse in red and the few verses preceding it. Your father or mother may not save you by their own righteousness or faithfulness. They barely can even save themselves with their own righteousness.

[1 Peter 4:18 ISV] — ""If it is hard for the righteous person to be saved, what will happen to the ungodly and sinful person?"”

Do not rest on the fact that your father or mother is a pastor, priest, true and serious God-fearing person, to cover you. Neither believe you being as righteous as these three will save your son or daughter from such messengers of destruction sent by God to destroy a community of sinners, a city of destruction. You must flee or escape to be saved. Men like these three men, Noah, Daniel and Job, do not flee or hide in order to escape any danger for them to be delivered: — But men like Moses or Elijah, who though were of the greatest prophets, yet they must flee or hide to be delivered in some cases.

Yet, none of these three men of righteousness could have had their son or daughter saved in a case where evil beasts or killer terrorists sent from God rob and ravage the country land in which the men are.

So, there's no transference of righteousness or sin from father to son or from son/daughter to father/mother. As it is written,

[Ezekiel 18:20] — "The soul that sins, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be on him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be on him.”

Nevertheless, there's a way for transference of righteousness or sin from father to son or from son to father: — That is by the righteous laying down his life for the sinner — The way the Lord Jesus Christ did for us. If the Lord Jesus Christ would save Himself by righteousness, He would have delivered Himself; but couldn't have delivered or saved anyone else from the wrath of God. This is the same with Noah, Daniel and Job, saving themselves from wrath of God by their righteousness, but that would have been “opportunity cost” to saving any of their kins or relatives from the same danger. For a righteous man to save sinner from destruction, either the righteous preaches, converts or corrects, the sinner into repentance on time, or the righteous gives up his own salvation or life for the saving of the sinner.

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

↝WHAT IF GOD SENT TERRORISTS OR EVIL BEASTS?↜

[Ezekiel 14:15 TLV] — “If I cause evil beasts to pass through the land and they ravage it and make it a wasteland, so that no one would pass through because of the beasts,”

[Ezekiel 14:15 GNT] — “Or I might send wild animals to kill the people, making the land so dangerous that no one could travel through it,

[Ezekiel 14:15 FBV] — "I could send wild animals rampaging through the country, so they would leave it uninhabited and desolate, a place no one would travel through for fear of such animals."

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In this Bible verse in red, the Lord God Himself declares “Chance” or “Probability” of Him sending or sponsoring “Terrorists” that are literally “Evil Beasts” or “Wild Animals” against a society, community or country land: —The goal of these “Terrorists” or “Wild Beasts” is to pass through the land, ravage and kill people of the land arbitrarily, turn the land into wasteland, ungovernable and uninhabitable. So, it's possible to be right in some cases, saying, “These killer wild people or wild animals ravaging the land are messengers of the Lord against it.”

[Leviticus 26:21-22] — "And if you walk contrary to Me, and will not listen to Me; I will bring seven times more plagues on you according to your sins. “I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your high ways shall be desolate.

So, it's established in mouth of two or more witnesses, the Lord may send “wild beasts” or “Terrorists” among people to rob and ravage the people and their economic stocks, especially when people go contrary to the Lord God and His ordinances on the land. Yet, some won't see.

[Numbers 21:6-9] — "And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died. Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD, and against you; pray to the LORD, that He take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people. And the LORD said to Moses, Make you a fiery serpent, and set it on a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looks on it, shall live. And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it on a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.”

While not dismissing the possibility of heterogeneity or diversity in the wild beasts (Terrorists) that God usually send at a particular place or time, I affirm that these wild beasts usually come as homogeneous or army of the same kind, when sent by the LORD to rob or ravage a land or people.

■ Like in the last Bible reference above, the evil beasts He sent could all be “Serpents” of the same kind of serpent, so that Moses was instructed to make image of the specific serpent, not different serpent.

■ The evil beasts the Lord sent could all be “Lions” of the same kind:

[2 Kings 17:25-26 NET] — "When they first moved in, they did not worship the LORD. So the LORD sent lions among them and the lions were killing them. The king of Assyria was told, “The nations whom you deported and settled in the cities of Samaria do not know the requirements of the God of the land, so He has sent lions among them. They are killing the people because they do not know the requirements of the God of the land.””

■ The evil beasts the Lord sent could all be “Locusts,” “caterpillars,” or “Cankerworm” all of the same kind.

■ The evil beasts the Lord sent could all be special or hybrids of Locusts, Scorpions, men or women, horses, lions, serpents, and other features and characteristics peculiar to different brands of creatures, but they’re usually homogeneous or lookalike to each other like these:

‭[b]Revelation 9:1-11 NKJV‬
[1] Then the fifth angel sounded: And I saw a star fallen from heaven to the earth. To him was given the key to the bottomless pit. [2] And he opened the bottomless pit, and smoke arose out of the pit like the smoke of a great furnace. So the sun and the air were darkened because of the smoke of the pit. [3] Then out of the smoke locusts came upon the earth. And to them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power. [4] They were commanded not to harm the grass of the earth, or any green thing, or any tree, but only those men who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads. [5] And they were not given authority to kill them, but to torment them for five months. Their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it strikes a man. [6] In those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will desire to die, and death will flee from them. [7] The shape of the locusts was like horses prepared for battle. On their heads were crowns of something like gold, and their faces were like the faces of men. [8] They had hair like women’s hair, and their teeth were like lions’ teeth. [9] And they had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the sound of chariots with many horses running into battle. [10] They had tails like scorpions, and there were stings in their tails. Their power was to hurt men five months. [11] And they had as king over them the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, but in Greek he has the name Apollyon.
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↝ MEAN-WHILE OR WHILE SPEAKING IN PRAYING ↜

[Daniel 9:20 AKJV] — "And whiles I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the LORD my God for the holy mountain of my God;"
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[Daniel 9:20 BBE] — "And while I was still saying these words in prayer, and putting my sins and the sins of my people Israel before the Lord, and requesting grace from the Lord my God for the holy mountain of my God;"
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[Daniel 9:20 NET] — "While I was still speaking and praying, confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel and presenting my request before the LORD my God concerning His holy mountain —"

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I saw a social media video, in which its creator compared what was supposedly happening in China on Sunday morning with what was supposedly happening in some African countries on Sunday morning: — In the video, Chinese people were seen very busy inventing new things, manufacturing products, building things, and very busy in work. Then there was this painful “MEAN-WHILE” comparing those with what was happening in those African countries, and there was people in church vibrating while praying Pentecostally or Charismaticly, some blasting in speaking in unknown tongues, some violently beating the air while vibrating in prayers, etc, on the same Sunday morning. The content creator did that to compare and exalt Chinese people's productivity above African people's unproductive religiosity.

It was the “Mean-While” or “While” that struck me more in that video, but in this Bible verse in red, there is a better ‘Mean-While or Whiles.’ Let's expatiate the expression in this Bible verse in red:

● “While” I (Daniel) was still (not am still)... praying: — While he was still praying is different from while he is still praying: “was” here means he's narrating this story or testimony after he's done praying. He was not distracted while still praying, yet he now captured other important things that happened while he was praying but afterwards. Figuratively, his eyes were closed while in praying, but opened now.

● “While” I (Daniel) was still speaking or saying these (express) words, praying: — While he was speaking in express words, meaning he was not speaking in tongues or praying in tongues that no man could understand. We have seen, heard or read, the express word Daniel spoke or said in his prayers, and so they were not in unknown or strange tongues that only God understands mysteriously.

● “While” I (Daniel) was still... praying… confessing my sin: — So, though Daniel was one of the three righteous men God mentioned in Ezekiel 14 between Noah and Job, and Daniel was found blameless or faultless in excellent integrity and innocency, yet Daniel had to confess his own sin here while praying. There are churches, who's pastors had taught they are not to confess their sins, weaknesses or negativity; but instead they are to confess their righteousness in Christ, confess their strengths in faith or speak declarations of positivity in faith. But I tell, the prayers become effectual or fervent prayers of a “Righteous” man only after that “Righteous” man had confessed his sin and gets healed:

[James 5:16 AKJV] — "Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that you may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.”

● “While” I (Daniel) was still... praying… confessing… sin of my people Israel: — So many Christians today think that the way to defend Israel is by pretending or ignoring the sins of Israel, and just supporting Israel in everything they do or put out. Whether it's Israel or it's your own tribal, ethnic or kins people, praying for your people includes confessing the sins of your people before God, provided you are neither exposing their sins before their enemies nor accusing your people before God.

● “While” I (Daniel) was still... praying… presenting my supplication before the LORD my God for the holy mountain of my God: — The holy mountain of God is holy or without sin, and therefore, no sin is committed by the Holy Mountain to be confessed in prayers. However, people who are called to dwell in the Holy Mountain of God may have sinned and still have petitions, supplications, prayers or requests, that the Holy Mountain of God needs. So, His Holy Mountain is holy, but has needs, which we can meet by prayers and ministering the Words of the Lord. And though we have sinned, we can do much for the holy mountain of God if only we pray and confess all sins, in order to be healed enough to also heal God's holy Mountain

Here is my own better “Mean-while” or “While” speaking in praying:

[Isaiah 65:23-25] — "They shall not labor in vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for they are the seed of the blessed of the LORD, and their offspring with them. And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and [mean-while] while they are yet speaking, I will hear. The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain, said the LORD.”

↝ PERSUADING GOD TO HEAR PRAYERS ↜

[Daniel 9:19 NKJV] — O Lord, hear! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, listen and act! Do not delay for Your own sake, my God, for Your city and Your people are called by Your name.
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[Daniel 9:19 NIV] — Lord, listen! Lord, forgive! Lord, hear and act! For your sake, my God, do not delay, because your city and your people bear your Name.
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[Daniel 9:19 FBV] — "Lord, please listen! Lord, please forgive! Please pay attention and do something! For your own sake, my God, don't delay, for your city and your people are identified by your name.””

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This is calling upon the name of the Lord in prayer for the sake of the Lord on behalf of those called by the name of the Lord.

●1● The Prayer is calling upon the name of the Lord:

●2● The Persuasion of the prayer is for the sake of the Lord:

●3● The Projects of the Prayer is for those bearing the name of the Lord.

This kind of prayer is strong reason or strong argument in presenting such case before the Lord God. Calling upon the name of the Lord for those called by the name of the Lord, puts both God's own Name and God's own Sake at stake. Such prayers indict both God's name and God's sake.

Next, let's look at how Daniel repeatedly requested the Lord to hear, to listen, to pay attention etc. This might be the last content of Daniel's Prayers in the scriptures, though not the last prayers Daniel prayed; especially considering Daniel made these prayers before the prayers Daniel later made that caused Daniel to be accused and cast into the Lions’ den.

So in this last exposè of the words in Daniel's prayers in the Bible and in the verse in red, there are two calls to God to ‘Hear, Listen or Heed,’ which Daniel made upon calling upon the name of the Lord: and each hear comes at a great deal of responsibility on the part of God:

■A■ — The first “Hear” or “Hearing” requested from God will come with the responsibility of God forgiving those called by His Name but have offended or sinned against God while bearing His name.

To hear here means to forgive: — Those who cannot forgive cannot hear this kind of hearing that passes over sin, offense or transgression with great understanding and graciousness.

■B■ — The second “Hear” or “Hearing” requested from God will come with the responsibility of God complying, obliging, and performing speedily, without deferring, delaying or even deciding other options except, for the requested projects for those called by His Name.

To hear here means to comply or obey without hesitation: — Those who cannot do as instructed cannot hear this kind of hearing that passes over one's different opinions or choices, with great submission and humility.

[Isaiah 65:24] — "And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.”

↝ OPENING HIS EYES AND EARS IN COMPASSION ↜

[Daniel 9:18 NKJV] — O my God, incline Your ear and hear; open Your eyes and see our desolations, and the city which is called by Your name; for we do not present our supplications before You because of our righteous deeds, but because of Your great mercies.
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[Daniel 9:18 GNT] — Listen to us, O God; look at us and see the trouble we are in and the suffering of the city that bears Your name. We are praying to You because You are merciful, not because we have done right.
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[Daniel 9:18 GWN] — "Open Your ears and listen, my God. Open Your eyes and look at our ruins and at the city called by Your name. We are not requesting this from You because we are righteous, but because You are very compassionate."

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We have known prayers that open the eyes of the blind to see, and open the ears of the deaf to hear. But in this Bible verse in red, we hereby know and understand “The Prayer for Opening the Eyes of the “All-Seeing” God to see, and for Opening the Ears of the “All-Hearing” God to hear. Only God alone can open His own Eyes and Ears — No one else can unveil or veil either the Eyes or Ears of the Most High God.

Also, we know people who would showcase their glories, their riches, their beauties, their Successes, etc, for all to see. But in the Bible verse in red, the prayer to open God's Ears and Eyes, was for God to see the desolation, the ruins, the miseries, the sufferings, and the shame, we and our City, are in. This means showing forth our humility and humiliation, rather than showing forth our exaltation and pride.

You see both sides are balanced: That is, if you have to pray for God to open His own Eyes or Ears to see or hear something you are showing Him, then make sure what you are showing Him or what you want God to see is something or someone covered in Humility, in Mourning, in Downtroddeness or in Lowliness. Not everyone has the unveiled eyes or gracious ears to fully see and hear treasures covered in mourning, humility, suffering, shamefacedness or lowliness.

Such prayers as this in the Bible verse in red, appeal to the Mercies or Compassion of God: And if it appeals to His Compassion, then it must not be emboldened by our own righteousness or righteous deeds, lest it appeals to the rewards of justice or judgment instead of appealing to mercy and compassion without deeds.

The Prayer in the Bible verse in red is about presentation or directing what we want God to look at, to see or to hear, in order to appeal to His Mercies or Compassion.

■1. Showcasing our failures, humility, lowliness, and not our glories, our successes, our pride or Highness

■2. Downplaying our righteousness (if we have any) or good deeds, but trusting only in His Mercies and Compassion.

How can we deserve His Mercies or Compassion, without working for it? To appeal to God's compassion, you do not show Him what you did or have power to control and change; rather you show Him what was done to you (not what you did), under which you have neither pleasure nor power to control or change. See how the Lord Jesus was moved:

[John 11:33-38] — "When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping which came with her, He groaned in the spirit, and was troubled. And said, Where have you laid him? They said to Him, Lord, come and see. Jesus wept. "Then said the Jews, Behold how He loved him! And some of them said, Could not this Man, who opened the eyes of the blind, have caused that even this man should not have died? Jesus therefore again groaning in Himself comes to the grave. It was a cave, and a stone lay on it."”

In the reference, Lord saw people weeping and mourning, and the Lord's seeing Eyes were directed by men here, even though the Lord was described as the One who opened the Eyes of the blind. — And as in the Bible verse in red, the Lord's Eyes as directed by people saw the mourning, sorrow, pains, and state of laying in waste or covered in stone of His beloved, that made Him groan in the Spirit and He was troubled, to degree that the Lord Himself wept out of compassion.

[Lamentations 1:1-2,4] — "How does the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary! She weeps sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among all her lovers she has none to comfort her: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies. — The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.”

↝ PRAYERS TO SANCTUARY BUILDING AND EDIFICATION SERVICES↜

[Daniel 9:17 NKJV] — Now therefore, our God, hear the prayer of Your servant, and his supplications, and for the Lord’s sake cause Your face to shine on Your sanctuary, which is desolate.
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[Daniel 9:17 NIV] — Now, our God, hear the prayers and petitions of your servant. For your sake, Lord, look with favor on your desolate sanctuary.
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[Daniel 9:17 AMPC] — Now therefore, O our God, listen to and heed the prayer of Your servant [Daniel] and his supplications, and for Your own sake cause Your face to shine upon Your sanctuary which is desolate.

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Have you attained these levels in your spiritual maturity, where God’s Ears hearing your prayers also means God’s Eyes or Face shining more lights and favors on His Sanctuary, His Temple or His Dwelling place? In these levels, His hearing Your Prayers as His servant (you are) automatically builds, beautifies or glorifies His Sanctuary and Tabernacle, in the same time and fulfilling of His accepting and hearing your prayers.

When that is the case for you as a servant of God, then even your prayers being heard or accepted by God means you are building and edifying the Sanctuary of God: — Those your prayers are great services and edification to the Sanctuary or Dwelling Place of God.

Daniel in the Bible verse in red attained and rendered these Prayers to Sanctuary Building and Edification Services. And Solomon also did, so that even though Solomon built the temple with Wisdom, built the temple with resources, built the temple with materials and mobilization of skills and workmanship, built the temple with treasures, Solomon also built the temple with these Prayers to Sanctuary Building and Edification Services. As it is written,

[‭II Chronicles 6:19-20 NKJV‬] — Yet regard the prayer of Your servant and his supplication, O Lord my God, and listen to the cry and the prayer which Your servant is praying before You: that Your eyes may be open toward this temple day and night, toward the place where You said You would put Your name, that You may hear the prayer which Your servant makes toward this place.

Already the Daily Sacrifices of the Sanctuary impact and aid the prayers of the saints, but we seek to have saints’ Daily Prayers impact and edify the true Sanctuary, Temple or City of God.

[Ephesians 6:18 AKJV] — "Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;”

This is beyond, “God cause His Face or Countenance to shine upon you,” — This is, “God cause His Face or Countenance to shine upon His Sanctuary, Tabernacle, Temple or City, by hearing your Prayers.”

↝ THE STATE OF JERUSALEM IS FOR WHO'S SAKE?↜

[Daniel 9:16 AKJV] — "O LORD, according to all Your righteousness, I beseech You, let Your anger and Your fury be turned away from Your city Jerusalem, Your holy mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your people are become a reproach to all that are about us."
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[Daniel 9:16 NIV] — Lord, in keeping with all Your righteous acts, turn away Your anger and Your wrath from Jerusalem, Your city, Your holy hill. Our sins and the iniquities of our ancestors have made Jerusalem and Your people an object of scorn to all those around us.
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[Daniel 9:16 GWN] — "Lord, since You are very righteous, turn Your anger and fury away from Your city, Jerusalem, Your holy mountain. Jerusalem and Your people are insulted by everyone around us because of our sins and the wicked things our ancestors did."

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This supplication here in this Bible verse in red, is about the state of Jerusalem and the statement on Jerusalem. The state of Jerusalem and the statement on Jerusalem both go and come together. One is a reflection of the the other in truth and righteousness.

According to Daniel's supplication in this Bible verse: Please Lord, let Your Righteousness write the Statement on Jerusalem and determine the State of Jerusalem, instead of Your Anger or Wrath doing so. For when Your Righteousness determines both the Statement and State of Jerusalem, then the City truly reflects as Your Holy Mountain and City of God, because the Light and Righteousness of God fills Jerusalem.

But the anger and wrath of God reacts to the unfaithfulness, to the sins and offenses of the people of Jerusalem, and therefore the current state of Jerusalem does not truly thrive as “Holy Mountain” or “City of Righteousness” of God, but as a shame, a scorn or reproach to men.

Now the state of Jerusalem reflects the sakes and sins of generations of her people past and present, Jerusalem is a shame or desolate shamble. And the anger of God does not mind having Jerusalem in ruins.

But the Righteousness of God will be ashamed to have Jerusalem, His Holy Mountain, in a state of ruins, reproach or terrible sites to looking. Therefore, we beseech You, Lord of heavens and of Righteousness, fix Your Holy City, Jerusalem, Your Holy Mountain: let her be Mount Zion, bearing Your Light and Glories in Her, and then keep out anyone who has offended or ruined the City of Jerusalem far away from entering into Jerusalem in Her most Glorious, most Holy or Righteous State. As it is written,

[‭Revelation 21:23-27 NKJV‬] — The city had no need of the sun or of the moon to shine in it, for the glory of God illuminated it. The Lamb is its light. And the nations of those who are saved shall walk in its light, and the kings of the earth bring their glory and honor into it. Its gates shall not be shut at all by day (there shall be no night there). And they shall bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it. But there shall by no means enter it anything that defiles, or causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.

Therefore, instead of destroying Jerusalem for sake of the iniquities or sins of the mankind connected to Jerusalem, let God of Righteousness separate Jerusalem from the sinners, and then make Jerusalem be the Image or likeness of the highest glory, architecture and engineering, wisdom and light of the Lord Righteousness to all creation.

↝ ENJOY AND ENDURE AS FATHER TO HIS CHILDREN ↜

[Daniel 9:15 AKJV] — "And now, O Lord our God, that have brought Your people forth out of the land of Egypt with a mighty Hand, and have gotten You renown, as at this day; we have sinned, we have done wickedly.""
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[Daniel 9:15 NIV] — “Now, Lord our God, who brought Your people out of Egypt with a mighty Hand and who made for Yourself a name that endures to this day, we have sinned, we have done wrong.
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[Daniel 9:15 GNT] — “O Lord our God, You showed Your power by bringing Your people out of Egypt, and Your power is still remembered. We have sinned; we have done wrong.

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Even while the Lord's people were in captivity under different nations of the world, those nations knew the Lord their God has the power and wits to deliver His People out of any nation or powers holding them captives. They still remember His name and powers demonstrated in bringing forth His people out of Egypt.

However, this glory and fame, which the Lord God enjoys also came with responsibility of endurance and understanding as a Husband or Father He is: — He enjoys being their Father that brought them out of Egypt, but endures with the patience and tolerance of overlooking or suffering their disobedience, rebellion or their sins for His name's sake.

This is just as a man celebrated by those outside as having a wife or children he brought forth (begot), and he enjoys that praises, honor or glory from those outside: but deep inside, he must endure or suffer for the same wife and children he brought forth, suffering their rebellion, mistakes and ingratitude. For if he is not able to put up with them later, his glory will be his shame, because people will say he brought forth children but he could not feed or raise them well: he married wife and did elaborate wedding, but could not live with her for long.

This explains the Bible verse in red.

Only some parents will understand how much they are praised and held high outside for the same spouse or children they are secretly suffering for. What gives them joy is also giving them pains: — Even so, the Lord God enjoys the glory and praises for begetting or bringing forth His people out of Egypt with powers and might that could neither be denied nor forgotten: but then for His name's sake, He must endure those He had begotten and brought forth, lest He be put to shame that He couldn't care or raise the people He brought forth out of Egypt. This continues thus so long as people still remember He brought them out of Egypt with such elaborate powers and might. As it is written,

[‭Deuteronomy 9:25-29 NIV‬] — I lay prostrate before the Lord those forty days and forty nights because the Lord had said He would destroy you. I prayed to the Lord and said, “Sovereign Lord, do not destroy Your people, Your own inheritance that You redeemed by Your great power and brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand. Remember Your servants Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Overlook the stubbornness of this people, their wickedness and their sin. Otherwise, the country from which You brought us will say, ‘Because the Lord was not able to take them into the land He had promised them, and because He hated them, He brought them out to put them to death in the wilderness.’ But they are Your people, Your inheritance that You brought out by Your great power and Your outstretched arm.”

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↝WHEN THE RIGHTEOUS GOD OVERSEES THIS EVIL↜

[Daniel 9:14 AKJV] — "Therefore has the LORD watched on the evil, and brought it on us: for the LORD our God is righteous in all His works which He does: for we obeyed not His voice."
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[Daniel 9:14 ISV] — "So the Lord watched for the right time to bring the calamity upon us, because the Lord our God is righteous regarding everything He does, but we have not obeyed His voice.”
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[Daniel 9:14 BBE] — "So the Lord has been watching over this evil and has made it come on us: for the Lord our God is upright in all His acts which He has done, and we have not given ear to His voice."

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According to this Bible verse:

■1■ God had to watch over certain evil: — God became Overseer to that evil or calamity, even though God is good and not evil Himself. God, who is our General Overseer, was overseeing the evil or calamity, which He made to befall us, because He is Righteous.

■2■ The reasons God did that was because God is righteous or upright is all His works. and we have not obeyed His Voice: — God is good, but also God is righteous. The term “God is good” — refers or describes who God is based on “His Gifts, His Generosity or His Fruits. But on the other hand, the term “God is Righteous” — refers or describes who God is based on “His Works, His Ways, His Methods or Means [Modus Operandi].”

[Psalms 145:17] — "The LORD is righteous in all His ways, and holy in all His works.”

Based on giftings or giving, God is Good, and so no one should ever associate evil gifts or evil fruits as coming from God or going to God because nothing evil is acceptable or will of God: As it is written

[James 1:13,16-17] — "Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempts He any man: Do not err, my beloved brothers. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom is no ficklenss, neither shadow of turning.”

However, base on judgments or justice, God is Righteous in all His works as well as in all works done by all, and so He will judge all works with His Righteous judgments and reward all according to their works in righteousness.

Why is God interested in all works of everyone, to the point He must judge all works and pay all for all works done whether they are good or evil works? — Because God is Righteous, and so every single work done must directly involve His righteousness or else His justice. None is exempted. Good must be rewarded with good, and evil must be rewarded with evil.

Paul wrote: — [Romans 12:17] — "Recompense (repay) to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men.” - This instruction is to us, but not applicable to God, who is Righteous. God alone is righteous enough to repay evil, and no one among us has the right or righteousness to repay evil. Therefore, it is written:

[Proverbs 20:22 MKJV] — "Do not say, I will repay evil; wait on the LORD, and He will save you.”

[Hebrews 10:30 MKJV] — "For we know Him who has said, Vengeance belongs to Me, I will repay, says the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge His people.”

Goodness will gift (give) good things, but Righteousness does both giving and repaying both good and evil.

Now, in the Bible verse in red:

God is righteous in all His works, and yet we did not obey or follow His voice: — This implies we continued being unrighteous, by not obeying the Voice of the God of Righteousness. To not obey His Voice is to not be righteous or right in any works or ways. No one can be disobedient to the Voice of the LORD of Righteousness, who is Righteous in all His works and ways, and that disobedient person still be right or righteous.

If we are not right, we have no right. The constitutions and laws of the countries of this world gives or fights for people's Rights, including what they call “Human Rights, Women's Rights, Properties Rights, Freedom of Speech Rights, Right of Ways etc.” So, after they give these rights to everyone, everyone lives and acts based on the rights they have provided they don't infringe or abuse on the rights of others.

But God's Righteousness does not put the cart before the horse — So, “Being Right” is more important and ahead than “Having Rights.” If you are not right (Righteous), you have no right even if you have will. Having Rights is separated from having Will — Every man is given what some call “Sovereign Will” to choose or make choices; but having that will is not the same as having Right by Righteousness. You should wisely care more about “Doing Right” and “Being Right” far more than you should care about “having right, having will, having power, having authority or having power.” God did not call you to become Charismatics or Pentecostals; but God called you to become Perfect, Holy and Righteous, as He is.

[1 John 3:7] — "Little children, let no man deceive you: whoever does righteousness is righteous, even as the Lord is righteous.”

However, more important way of being righteous above doing righteousness is the way of obeying Him: — we obtain His righteousness, not just by doing right or righteousness, but much more by obeying Him — God of Righteousness: — This is righteousness by obedience of one Man as well as obedience to this same Man::

[Romans 5:19] — "For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of One shall many be made righteous.”

Righteousness is the Way, the Truth and the Life of a Person: To walk in righteousness is to obey Voice of His Person. Yielding or obeying Him yields righteousness, for in Him is God the Father well pleased.

↝ CORRECTION BY GRACE ↜

[Daniel 9:13 NKJV] — “As it is written in the Law of Moses, all this disaster has come upon us; yet we have not made our prayer before the Lord our God, that we might turn from our iniquities and understand Your truth.
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[Daniel 9:13 BBE] — "As it was recorded in the law of Moses, all this evil has come on us: but we have made no prayer for grace from the Lord our God that we might be turned from our evil doings and come to true wisdom."
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[Daniel 9:13 NIV] — Just as it is written in the Law of Moses, all this disaster has come on us, yet we have not sought the favor of the Lord our God by turning from our sins and giving attention to your truth.

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According to this Bible verse in red, Daniel confessed that though the disasters or threats written in the Law of Moses were brought upon the people for their sins, yet they were neither reformed nor transformed.

The judgments or disasters written in the Law of Moses could not prevent the people even though they destroyed or damaged the people. All the disasters written in the Law of Moses came upon them but none of them reform them: neither were they turned back to God. So, even judgment without grace fails, just as truth without grace fails. I see this Bible verse in red differs to the scripture that says:

[Isaiah 26:9-11 BSB] — "My soul longs for You in the night; indeed, my spirit seeks You at dawn. For when Your judgments come upon the earth, the people of the world learn righteousness. Though grace is shown to the wicked man, he does not learn righteousness. In the land of righteousness he acts unjustly and fails to see the majesty of the LORD. O LORD, Your Hand is upraised, but they do not see it. They will see Your zeal for Your people and be put to shame. The fire set for Your enemies will consume them!”

Why? All the disasters were unleashed on the people to correct them, yet they were not corrected: The use of violence (disasters) to reform them by fire and by force obviously failed, just as the use of dialogs and favors still failed to correct or reform the people. So both “Carrots and Sticks” method failed according to both Bible references here above. It's like it was seen in this revelation:

[Revelation 16:8-9 BSB] — "Then the fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was given power to scorch the people with fire. And the people were scorched by intense heat, and they cursed the name of God, who had authority over these plagues. Yet they did not repent and give Him glory.”

In this life, the use of corporal punishments may change some people into better people, but may also change other people into worse people. So, it's a bit complicated, but then one who applies corrections must be wise and discerning to know which fruits or the impacts of the impartation. An evil tree does not bear good fruits no matter how much that tree is cut, beaten or how much disaster befalls the tree.

[Proverbs 9:7-10 BSB] — "He who corrects a mocker brings shame on himself; he who rebukes a wicked man taints himself. Do not rebuke a mocker, 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 his learning. The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.”

Nevertheless, let's focus on the Bible verse in red and notice what Daniel said failed to happen when all disasters written in Moses' Law had happened.

On one hand, all the disasters happened on the people as they were written by Moses; but on the other hand, there was no equal or opposite reaction as written in the Newton's Law happening in the people. So, Moses’ Law happened but Newton's Law did not happen in reaction. The people did not seek nor ask for grace when they were receiving their punishment, and perhaps they also did not ask for mercy or maybe they did. Ask for grace, and not just for mercy.

Seek the face of God even when the face of God is against you and the hand of God is working against you. Some of us who love God and continue with Him are those of us who still continue to seek and love Him even when it seems He was opposed to us or working against us.

[Job 13:15-16 NLV] — "Even though He would kill me, yet I will trust in Him. I will argue my ways to His face. This will save me, for a sinful man may not come to Him.”

Not many understand this kind of love and bonding. Have you not met people wondering why that woman or man continues clinging to the other partner that abuses her/him, and continues faithfully in that relationship even though she or he is suffering terribly being there? So many would have cut off the relationship or even retaliated all abuses. Goats are different from Sheep. Like a sheep the Lord Jesus Christ was led to be slaughtered, and yet He did not open His Mouth in protest.

The same God who forsook Him was the God He still cried out to, kept on praying and trusting the same God and Father who was still forsaking Him and wouldn't show up when He needed Him most — Yes, He even committed or commended His Spirit into the Hand of the same God or Father who forsook Him, trust God and died still trusting God. What happened with God the Father, Who usually sounded from heaven, this is My Beloved Son, in Whom I Am well pleased, showing up those moments the Son was suffering and dying publicly, and God the Father repeating those words then and not forsaking the Son then? God the Father was silent, and the Son kept trusting Him even while headed into the deepest darkness of death and hell all alone, bearing the sins and curses of mankind.

These are some of the lessons to learn from the Lord Jesus Christ on this, about Son and Father relationship, Person and God relationship:

[‭Hebrews 12:2-14 NKJV‬] — looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. For consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, lest you become weary and discouraged in your souls. You have not yet resisted to bloodshed, striving against sin. And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons: “My son, do not despise the chastening of the Lord, Nor be discouraged when you are rebuked by Him; For whom the Lord loves He chastens, And scourges every son whom He receives.” If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom a father does not chasten? But if you are without chastening, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate and not sons. Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live? For they indeed for a few days chastened us as seemed best to them, but He for our profit, that we may be partakers of His holiness. Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it. Therefore strengthen the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees, and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed. Pursue peace with all people, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord: