[Daniel 4:29 AFV] - At the end of twelve months he was walking on the roof of the royal palace of the kingdom of Babylon.

[Daniel 4:29 GNB] - Only twelve months later, while he was walking around on the roof of his royal palace in Babylon,


What difference is there between ‘End of Twelve Months” and “Twelve Months Later” used by the different bible translations for the bible verse above? I like “End of Twelve Months” because it brings a consciousness of “Ending” or “Expiration” of grace or period of time.

If it is “Twelve Months” that passed, then it’s about an Anniversary between when he received those visions and message, and where he is at this time above, Some of us would have marked that anniversary of such tremendous visions and message by either revisiting the message, reflecting on how much we have lived or performed the content of that message, visions or revelations from heaven. Thanks to some social media that have ways of reminding us of the messages we stored in them at their anniversaries or multiples of twelve months later.


In the top bible verse above, at one-year anniversary or end of twelve months, the king of the kingdom of Babylon walked on the roof of the royal palace instead of walking through the heavenly visions and message he received a year ago. At that point he had already began fulfil the forgotten visions or message negatively by walking on top of the highest building in the entire world, and thus stood taller than all on top of the highest built kingdom of men. This of course is without inclusion of the great mountains. Recall that an elder sitting down can see what a child that climbed up a tree or high building cannot see, but that child can be seen from that height more than the elder sitting down. Like the saying, lightning would target the tallest first before the lower.

Did you see how I shifted it from just being “Grace Period of twelve months” to “Trigger of being in the wrong place at exactly the anniversary or twelfth month later?” Under the preceding bible verse, I described these visions and prophecies as “Consequential” (heart-based) and not “Sequential” (time-based). Thus, while others would read ending of the twelve months as the ending of the grace period God gave to him before the advent of those things coming upon Nebuchadnezzar, I would read his walking on the top of the roof of his kingdom or palace at the end of the twelve months as the trigger or the last straw that broke the camel’s back. I would explain this. But before then, appreciate the fact that it took the ending of twelve months or one year later before those things came upon the king, Nebuchadnezzar, unlike how the handwriting on the wall instantly happened upon Belshazzar that very day or night.

Normally, there is nothing wrong in climbing or walking up to any height or even to the roof of your house: But when pride, self-centeredness and the devil are involved, then there is a something significant about climbing a higher position in height.

*A* When Nebuchadnezzar the king climbed up and walked on the roof of his palace, the devil was not obviously involved but Pride and Self-centeredness were involved – That was in the time twelve months ended, and Nebuchadnezzar climbed the roof of his palace to see and glory over the glories of his kingdom and majesty.

*B* When David the king climbed up and walked on the roof of his palace, the devil and pride were not obviously involved but Lust (fornication) and Woman-centeredness (which is also self-centeredness) were involved – That was in the time when kings go out to war, but David climbed the roof of his palace to see the unclothedness of a man’s wife.

*C* When Satan took the Lord Jesus and climbed up and walked on the high mountain, the devil was obviously involved together with his Pride and Self-centeredness; but no pride or self-centeredness in the Lord Jesus who was full of humility and being a true worshipper of God in spirit and truth – That was in the time the Lord Jesus Christ had been humbling Himself further with 40 days fasting and humbling His appetites, but the Devil was showing Him all the kingdoms/glories of this world asking the Lord Jesus to worship him for them, acknowledge or accolade him for them.

*D* Also when Satan took the Lord Jesus and climbed up the pinnacle of the temple, the devil was involved but no pride nor self-centered was found in the Lord Jesus Christ, neither any desired to be seen even among the people of God under that temple was found in the most humble and lowly Jesus Christ. He was not seeking to be seen or announced even inside the church or temple worshippers when He stood on the pinnacle of the temple with the devil.

Did I not say I will explain how “Advancing in Pride” or “Making any step in Pride” whether upward step or crossing over step in pride is different from the normal or ordinary steps in same axes? So, you know it’s not just when it happens in upward directions but also when it happens in crossing over or crossing the line in pride which one should not cross in that manner.

Horizontal Crossing the Line: There is a story of a man that was under house (hotel) arrest by former Soviet Regime, and he was lodged on a big hotel as his prison sentence with a warning that if he should ever leave that hotel for any reason he shall be killed. But he was to be fed and cared for within that hotel for the rest of his life. The line for that man was horizontal – external doors of that hotel – which he was never to cross. However, the same man, after years of being trapped in the hotel, found a way of climbing to the roof top of the hotel where he could see sunlight and view outside world. For him, crossing the line was not vertical but horizontal.

Vertical Crossing the Line: Unlike the case of that man, Nebuchadnezzar was free to go out and come into his palace, but his climbing the roof of his palace to see the world around him was crossing the line.

Understand these about Pride:

Pride can be involved in thoughts, words, acts and steps/choices: There are steps or choices that involve pride, and not everyone would discern pride involved in these things. The Lord Jesus Christ taught us saying, when we are invited into an occasion, we should take the lower or lowest seat, not the highest seat in the occasion: for it is better for the host to invite us to higher seat than for them to demote us to lower seat in the public view.

[Luke 14:7-11 BSB] - When Jesus noticed how the guests chose the places of honor, He told them a parable: “When you are invited to a wedding banquet, do not sit in the place of honor, in case someone more distinguished than you has been invited. Then the host who invited both of you will come and tell you, ‘Give this man your seat.’ And in humiliation, you will have to take the last place. But when you are invited, go and sit in the last place, so that your host will come and tell you, ‘Friend, move up to a better place.’ Then you will be honored in front of everyone at the table with you. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”

Avoidance of Pride – There is difference between “The House of God” and “The Place of God:” The House of God is the not the same thing as the Place of God, neither is the Place of God the same as the House of God. Differentiate both.

When a Mountain is God’s House, you climbing that Mountain is humility; but when a Mountain is God’s Place, you climbing that Mountain is Pride. The pride of Lucifer was his thought on ascending the Mountain of the Most High in the sides of the North to be like the Most High (Isaiah 14:12-14). When God was manifest on Mount Sinai, Mount Sinai was the Place of God, not the House of God: and any man other than Moses and the called, who climbed or touched Mount Sinai then would be struck dead. But now that God is manifest on Mount Zion, Mount Zion is the House of God and all who climb Mount Zion shall find deliverance, salvation and holiness on Mount Zion. Your Body is the Temple of God, but not the Place of God. That Roof of the Royal Palace of the Kingdom of Babylon on which Nebuchadnezzar climbed and walked at the end of the twelfth month was supposed to be the Place of God the Most High, even though that Palace was not a temple or house of God the Most High. Humility would help you to know and keep your place and the place of God sacred.

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