FIGS 2[b]

[1 Adam+Eve 36:4] — Then the cherub took two figs and brought them to Adam and Eve. But he threw them to them from afar; for they might not come near the cherub by reason of their flesh, that could not come near the fire.[/b]

The "Social Distancing" the Cherub maintained while throwing the food or fruits to Adam and Eve was not for fear of infection but safety of Adam and Eve. Two most popular reasons the Lord or His Angels do keep "Social Distancing" in proximity to avoid to close contact even with people of God in their full manifest glorious appearance include:

*1* Holiness: Being too close would negatively affect the Holiness of the Lord or His Angels.

*2* Fiery Glory: Being too close would negatively affect the Health (Body) or Life of the People.

As a mortal man in flesh and blood, you can even get too close to the sun in its full glory and heat. The Lord told Moses to warn the people to keep Social Distancing and not be too close to Mount Sinai when the God came in thick darkness that still could not completely veil off the intensity of His appearance and Thunderous Voices and Shakings. The people could not even bear to see the face of Moses that had some of the glory on his face.

It was not leprosy that made Moses to be covering his face in rule of social distancing while relating with the people, but it was glory that was making Moses to hide or to cover his and isolate from them because of their inferior body. The way glorious women are made to wear complete hijabs or cover their glorious bodies because of men of weak bodies. So also, the Cherub put in some measure of Social Distancing by not coming too close to hand the gifts from heaven (garden) to them, but cast it to them on the ground as Manna that fell from heaven for them to pick them from the ground and eat them.

From a Distance, God is watching us, from a distance: Social or Safe Distance. Ask those who didn't abide the Ark of God closely.

[1 Adam+Eve 36:5] — At first, angels trembled at the presence of Adam and were afraid of him. But now Adam trembled before the angels and was afraid of them.

All have sinned and fell short of the glory of God. Mankind was deceived with promise of becoming like gods or angels in knowing good and evil, and instead mankind fell far below angels after Lucifer fell.

Mankind was in the Image of God and the likeness of God before, and all angels trembled and respected Adam then, who alone was the image reflection of Godhead among His creation. But by sin and fall of Adam, he is not the Image of God anymore, but the image of himself. His offspring bear his image/likeness to death.

[1 Adam+Eve 36:6] — Then Adam drew near and took one fig, and Eve also came in turn and took the other.

Yes, Adam and Eve took those which were given to them from above, but they drew nearer than they were to acquire them. Fear not, these were not fruits the Serpent offered them, but fruits the Lord offered them when they asked of Him.

As for Eve, she was no longer too forward to go first and get the fruits for herself and her husband. She waited for Adam to lead, but she was not expecting him to bring both his own and her own to her. Everyone one went to gather the Manna from heaven for his or herself.

[1 Adam+Eve 36:7] — And as they took them up in their hands, they looked at them, and knew they were from the trees among which they had hidden themselves.

As soon as Adam and Eve picked up their daily bread or Manna, they looked and knew exactly the trees where they were taken from, just as Adam knew where Eve was taken from as soon as he was gifted her.

Adam and Eve had it in them to discern or know where their gifts came from, including their food. Not all people knew or cared to know where their resources are sourced. The Church in the desert led by Moses ate Manna everyday, but the reason they call it by the name "Manna" was because they didn't know where details about it including not knowing where it came from, though knew it was from God. The Chairman of the Wedding in Cana did not know where the best Wine came from, but those who served him knew where it came from. To be frank, I have eaten and drank drinks and juices I did not know where they came from or the basic recipe or ingredients used in cooking them.

Adam and Eve knew trees by their fruits, and they knew you don't gather such figs from trees that not Fig-trees. As it is written,

[Luke 6:44 NKJV] — For every tree is known by its own fruit. For men do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather grapes from a bramble bush.

Figs


[1 Adam+Eve 36:1] — THEN God commanded the cherub, who kept the gate of the garden with a sword of fire in his hand, to take some of the fruit of the fig-tree, and to give it to Adam.

Notice that God ordered the same Cherub, that was assigned to keep mankind out of the garden, to bring some fruits of the Garden (Fruits of the Fig-tree) to the people he and his sword of fire should not allow inside the gate. A man went to an embassy for visa processing, and when he got to the gate two police with guns and two security officers where there to keep him from entering the embassy, the security officers where also there to bring things from inside the embassy to him outside whenever they receive the order from above. Would you say they were being difficult or being kind to the man?

You may have realized it's easier for angels to bring gifts/ things from heaven to people on earth, than for them to bring those people into heaven. When the Lord Jesus Christ promised and said, "Ask, and you shall receive; seek, and you shall find; knock, and the door will be opened to you" — That aspect that says the door will be opened to you if you knock, does not guarantee opening the door for everyone who knocked to enter, but only guarantees opening the door for everyone who knocked to receive either through the door or through the Porter (Gateman) at the door (gate). Infact, as far as it is heaven, you don't have to knock before you enter anywhere inside: Entrance is usually ministered to everyone who qualifies to enter anywhere in heaven before the person gets to the door or gate (2 Peter 1:11). It's as if the doors, the gates or the porters/gatemen already anticipate the worthy person's coming in before they get to them, and the doors open for the worthy person on their own accord like in "Acts 12:10" or like those doors that have sensors buried around their perimeter so that as soon as someone comes close and steps within the perimeter of their sensors the doors automatically opens for them. The doors in heaven that do not open in such ways are usually "Portals" or "Doors one just goes through" by entering into the doors/walls like bridges to enter into other realms/realities. Other doors in heaven that do not also open in such ways are usually "Decisions or Choices Doors" that is directly linked to people's destiny: These are doors everyone has to choose and open by choice to go through.

In heavenly communication, a person is usually invited or welcomed into any place or room just by the doors opening to the person. They usually don't send invitation cards, but sign of opening to whoever they want. E.g. Elijah and Elisha walking, Elijah saw the heavens opened, but Elisha was only busy making sure he saw Elijah when he was taken but was not concerned about whether the heavens where opened or inviting him also. In the book of Revelation (4), John saw the heavens opened, and the voice of the invitation, "Come up here." Opened Holy of Holies.

If you find people knocking on a door in heaven, it's either the door shall be opened to give them what they are asking for or they just do not have entrance which is why they knock. The Lord Jesus Christ did not promise entrance into heaven by knocking on the door, but promised opening the door to receiving by knocking:

[Luke 13:25-27] — "After the master of the house gets up and shuts the door, you will stand outside knocking and saying, ‘Lord, open the door for us.’ But he will reply, ‘I do not know where you are from.’ Then you will say, ‘We ate and drank with you, and you taught in our streets.’ And he will answer, ‘I tell you, I do not know where you are from. Depart from me, all you evildoers.’"

See Cherub instructed to bring fruits of the garden to Adam, but still mandated with the sharp flaming Sword to keep Adam out of it. Some of these angels bringing you blessings from heaven, wait till you meet them at the gates or doors into heaven, then you will know whether they are keeping their smiling faces and friendliness towards you trying to enter heaven. Even the Lord Jesus Christ in the Bible reference I just cited above used to eat and drink with those people, and was teaching in their streets and healing them, but suddenly at the Door He changed towards them and declared He does not know them, instead of giving entrance.

[1 Adam+Eve 36:2] — The cherub obeyed the command of the Lord God, and went into the garden and brought two figs on two twigs, each fig hanging to its leaf; they were from two of the trees among which Adam and Eve hid themselves when God went to walk in the garden, and the Word of God came to Adam and Eve and said unto them, "Adam, Adam, where are you?"

From those two Fig-trees where Adam and Eve hid themselves from the walking Presence of God in the cool of the day inside the garden: The same Fig-trees, who's leaves Adam and Eve sew apron and covered themselves while hiding from God because they knew they were naked by having eaten of the knowledge of good and evil tree that was forbidden by God to be eaten of man: It was from those two Fig-trees the Cherub brought two twigs of Fig to them, in obedience to the command of the Lord to the Cherub.

Now notice that even though Fig-trees have much leaves that could cover or hide Adam and Eve, yet the number of the leaves in the two twigs were equivalent to the number of fruits (figs) in the twigs that the Cherub brought out of the two Fig-trees in the Garden. In paradise, fruits are almost as abundant as the leaves in fruit bearing Tree.

There was a day it was not Adam that was hungry but the Lord Jesus Christ Himself was hungry. He saw a fig tree with many leaves from afar, and He was expecting many fruits as well from it. Since fig leaves are good in covering, after all they covered or hid Adam and Eve from the Lord in the garden, perhaps the leaves are also covering the fruits from Him walking in the cool of that day. But when He got there and searched thoroughly, no single fruit in the midst of all those multitudes of leaves as hypocrite. And the Lord cursed that Fig-tree, and took His hunger elsewhere.

[1 Adam+Eve 36:3] — And Adam answered, "O God, here am I. When I heard the sound of You and You Voice, I hid myself, because I am naked."

The Cherub knew or witnessed all these that transpired between God and Adam, hiding behind those Fig-trees. The Cherub was very much aware and deliberately chose those Fig Trees with those memories in the verse above.

The Lord did not punish nor cursed those Fig-trees in the Garden for hiding Adam and Eve from His Presence; and because the Lord did not curse the Fig-trees, "Man could yet eat of them." Infact, Adam and Eve were about to eat from the Fig-trees where they hid themselves and covered their unclothedness from God

But you see that Fig-tree the Lord Jesus Christ cursed, "No man shall ever eat of it." The case of that cursed Fig Tree became worse than the forbidden tree of knowledge of good and evil. The Forbidden Tree was not cursed, though forbidden; but that cursed Fig Tree was cursed and instantly dried up or died.

GOD'S WORD COMES BEFORE HIS SOLUTION IN REACTING OR RESPONDING TO HUMAN CHALLENGES, PROBLEMS OR NEEDS

[1 Adam+Eve 35:1] — THEN God looked again upon Adam and his weeping and groaning, and the Word of God came to him, and said unto him:--

God looked upon the sufferings, weeping and groaning, of all the people on earth by then; but it was not instant Solution of God that came to those suffering, rather it was the Word of God that came to them and began speaking of the cause (not solution) of their sufferings and convicting them of their sin against God.

I understand pastors, who's hearts are broken at seeing the people of God suffering, and the first thing they want to do is provide or prophesy instant solution, provisions, prosperity and miracles, for those people of God. Who doesn't want that for his congregation or family? However, you should bring the Word of God to them first to reprove them, before you bring relief, solution/provision. Let their pain or problem fulfill good purpose before resolving it.

Whether they are sick, hungry, whatever be the emergency, always let the Word of God speak to them to reprove or correct them into repentance before feeding them the relief or solution.

Now imagine if every Christian in the world would first speak the Word of God to beggars before giving alms/money to the beggars; first speak the Word of God to the sick before laying hands on them; first speak the Word of God to the Nations before providing solutions to their national problems; and first speak the truth of the Word of God to their church congregations/members before praying for them or blessing them like Samuel in this reference:

[I Samuel 12:23] — Moreover, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the Lord in ceasing to pray for you; but I will teach you the good and the right way.

Slight difference between how Elijah dished out miracles/solution to people and how Elisha dished out miracles/solution to people:

Elijah sought Reformation of the people first before he solved their problem, while Elisha dished out miracles/solution without demanding their reformation (repentance) or offerings. Infact, Elijah would even create problem for the people to force them into reformation/repentance before solving the problem he (Elijah) created: E.g., Elijah would shut up heaven so there would be no rain in a such way that even if all prophets or ministers prayed for years, God would not give the rain because Elijah insisted its only by his own word that rain would fall, and yet he was hidden where no one could reach him to open what he shut.

Oh fellow Christians and Disciples, let us not be too quick to give solutions or gifts to people without giving them the Word of God. Before the Lord Jesus Christ fed the five thousand people, He first fed them the Word of God for about three days. And when they sought Him again for another round of food, He gave them the true Bread of Life from Heaven that gives life, that is, The Word.

[1 Adam+Eve 35:2] — O Adam, when you were in My garden, you knew neither eating nor drinking; neither faintness nor suffering; neither leanness of flesh, nor change; neither did sleep depart from thine eyes. But since you transgressed, and came into this strange land, all these trials are come upon you."

This was the Word of God He preached to the hungry, thirsty, sickly/emaciated and suffering man first before the first time He fed them outside the garden.

*1* He spoke to the hungry, thirsty, sickly, emaciated and suffering man about the time or place (heaven on earth, paradise or garden) when/where there is no hunger, no thirsting, no failure of the body and no suffering;

This kind of message that glorifies heaven in contrast to the present earth would make the suffering man to set his mind or hope into seeking heaven where all the comforts are. The aim is instead of the suffering man getting the solution/provisions that would make him too comfortable on earth to the point he would not need or seek heaven/paradise, rather show him the realities and glories of heaven/paradise where he needs to be seeking for.

*2* He spoke to the hungry, thirsty, sickly, emaciated and suffering man about his sin and sins of mankind as the cause of all the problems befalling them in this strange land on earth.

Sin is not tolerated in heaven/paradise/garden, which is the reason those problems cannot befall anyone there. But you see this land where sin has room, those problems and death also have room over the sinners and the righteous in this land. Until God remove sin completely from the earth, the problems befalling men on earth would not completely be removed from the earth.

Bestbrain123:
veil..! you said hahaha. what veil? One thing with religious fanatics is they don't accept they are teaching wrongly and blindly all they focus is their forge doctrine.

You see, accepting I am teaching wrongly when I am teaching rightly just because people classify my teaching wrongly - such acceptance is denying the true doctrine. People's feelings about my message should not decide or dictate the structure and presentation thereof, especially when the message is supposed to be the Word of God and not just the word of men.

Anyway, what makes you say we are teaching wrongly and blindly using my messages as case study? What are you seeing that we or I am not see as a blind man?

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[1 Adam+Eve 34:9] - O God, You made them obedient to me, and did order that not one of them break from my sway, according to Your commandment, and to the dominion which You have given me over them. But now they are all estranged from me.

The first earthly creatures God taught or commanded to honor, obey, submit to the head, higher authority, government or leader, God placed in hierarchy over them, were the living creatures. Before God commanded the woman to submit to her husband, He already commanded the living creatures to submit to the Adam, and to the authority and government of mankind in God's Image.

God's commandment to man was to not eat of the forbidden tree, and God's commandment to Animals was to subject selves to man. However, when Adam broke God's commandment, he lost mandate and dominion over the ground and living creatures of the ground.


[1 Adam+Eve 34:10] - Then it was in that third hour of Friday, in which You did create me, and didst command me concerning the tree, to which I was neither to draw near, nor to eat thereof; for You said to me in the garden, 'When you eat of it, of death you shall die.'

The same hour Adam was created, the same hour man became a living soul, that same hour Adam or man was told about his death if he sins/disobeys God's commandment about a tree to avoid.

[1 Adam+Eve 34:11] - And if You had punished me as You said, with death, I should have died that very moment.

Indeed God did not punish Adam with the death sentence His Law stipulated against the law breakers within that same moment, but it happened within that same day as God said: for a Day is 1000 years, and before Adam reached 1000 years the death struck him.

Stop saying Adam died spiritual death instead of the physical death in that he ate of the forbidden tree. Adam and Eve were still spiritually alive. Infact, Adam and Eve have never been spiritually dead even till now.

[1 Adam+Eve 34:12] - Moreover, when You commanded me regarding the tree, I was neither to approach nor to cat thereof, Eve was not with me; You had not Yet created her, neither had You yet taken her out of my side; nor had she yet heard this order from You.

I heard this saying, "If you educate a man you educate a individual but if you educate a woman you educate a nation." But I also heard the saying about women, who are ever learning but never able to come to knowledge of the truth (2 Timothy 3:6-. The same man that commanded women not to usurp authority in the church, but to learn from their husbands because Eve was not first formed, but was deceived. But God did not wait for Eve to be formed before giving the commandment, neither did God repeat the commandment in her presence to educate her directly from the Mouth of God. She only heard from Adam what God said or what God's Law was, and she got deceived by the serpent too.

Oh God, speak more directly to our women; disciple the women more, give them Your Words, and let them hear more directly from You than how much the devils, distractions, side attractions and the lusts of this world is speaking into them.

[1 Adam+Eve 34:13] - Then, at the end of the third hour of that Friday, O Lord, You did cause a slumber and a sleep to come over me, and I slept, and was overwhelmed in sleep.

The same hour Adam was created and made into a living soul, that same hour Adam was also made to fall into deep sleep and the woman to be made.

Remember a day is like a thousand years, and one hour is like many years in our human perspective of time here.


[1 Adam+Eve 34:14] - Then You did draw a rib out of my side, and created it after my own similitude and image. Then I awoke; and when I saw her and knew who she was, I said, 'This is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; henceforth she shall be called woman.'

How did Adam knew all these things about Eve even though Adam was deeply asleep? It was by one of the spiritual gifts he received from God, and that is the spiritual gift called "Word of Knowledge" or simply "Knowledge." It's a gift that enables the receiver to know hidden secrets, details, history etc of a person, animal, creature or object, just by supernatural instance.

Adam was created in the image of God, but the woman (Eve) was created in the image and reflection of Adam (1 Corinthians 11:7). Eve was the first person to resemble Adam so that if you see the face of one of them you can tell the face of the other. Another person with striking resemblance to Adam was Abel and Seth, and perhaps their first daughter whom Cain married after killing Abel.

[1 Adam+Eve 34:15] - It was of Your good will, O God, that You brought a slumber and a sleep over me, and that You did forthwith bring Eve out of my side, until she was out, so that I did not see how she was made; neither could I witness, O my Lord, how awful and great are Your goodness and glory.

Even with his spiritual gifts and Word of Knowledge, Adam only knew her source and purpose and what to call her, but God kept the secret of how He made the woman from the man.

It's not just only about the Woman, but about every man and woman: God hides how He forms or makes a child from even the mother or father. He keeps the details secret, and works secretly when forming another man, woman or child from mankind.

[Ecclesiastes 11:5] — "As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the bones are formed in a mother’s womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things."

Only God is allowed to see another man/woman while God is forming them into a living human being in their unformed state.

[Psalms 139:14-16 BSB] — "I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are Your works, and I know this very well. My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in secret, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed body; all my days were written in Your book and ordained for me before one of them came to be."

Man can only see the unclothedness of the newly born/formed, but not see how God worked on it in the formation process.


[1 Adam+Eve 34:16] - And of Your goodwill, O Lord, You made us both with bodies of a bright nature, and You made us two, one; and You gave us Your grace, and did fill us with praises of the Holy Spirit; that we should be neither hungry nor thirsty, nor know what sorrow is, nor yet faintness of heart; neither suffering, fasting, nor weariness.

Adam and Eve were two that became one flesh or one body. They were naked but had bodies of Bright Nature, which is glory that swallowed the shame of unclothedness between them. Grace and Praise of the Holy Spirit filled them, and so they could not get hungry, thirsty nor faintness.

Adam rejoiced that Eve was given most of the grace and gifts he received; and he was satisfied that she was in his image, kind and likeness in almost all aspects. Some of the greatest joy in those days was seeing your offspring having striking resemblance and similarities in you as your reflection. I wish God still gives men and women their marriage partners that look exactly like them, so every one would marry his own reflection and character the in opposite gender.

Bestbrain123:

This question of yours shows your mindset is not right even while you read. There's already prejudice in your reading of the Old Testament, which means there's veil over your eyes. Perhaps you should ask yourself whether you are also a gullible or unenlightened one.

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[1 Adam+Eve 34:1] — AND on the morning of the forty third day, they came out of the cave, sorrowful and weeping. Their bodies were lean, and they were parched from hunger and thirst, from fasting and praying, and from their heavy sorrow on account of their transgression.

From the time God drove mankind out of the Garden of Eden till this morning captured in the verse above, both Adam and Eve had not eaten nor drank anything; and it's over 42 days in the 43rd morning. Hence, 42 days dry fasting, prayers and mourning: let's say in the first full month and two weeks extra of the calendar.

They 've been fasting, mourning, sorrowing, weeping, self-afflicted and praying, in penance and penitence, regretting their sin.

This resulted in the leanness of their bodies, the very first bodies of man and woman emaciated: that's the second bodily alteration.

[1 Adam+Eve 34:2] - And when they had come out of the cave they went up the mountain to the west of the garden.

Inspite of the leanness of their bodies, hunger and dehydration, they were not too weak nor sick to come of their cave and climb up the nearest mountain to the Garden's Western Gate.

[1 Adam+Eve 34:3] — There they stood and prayed and besought God to grant them forgiveness of their sins.

They still stood up on the Mountain with supplication for the forgiveness of their sins. Notice that though the Supreme Judge had spoken the final verdict upon their sin and the Court finally decided they were still pleading. This implies though they sought the forgiveness of God over their transgression, it was not the fear of punishment/pain that inspired them, but rather it was the love and longing for who/what they lost that inspired their still seeking for forgiveness and restoration.

Losing your place in heaven with God is more painful than being in hell. Satan is more pained that he lost his place in heaven more than he seems to worry about his place in the lake of fire.

It's always better to seek forgiveness out of love than out of fear.

[1 Adam+Eve 34:4] - And after their prayers Adam began to entreat God, saying, "O my Lord my God, and my Creator, You did command the four elements to be gathered together, and they were gathered together by Your order.

Before any of us was born, Adam already knew God commanded creation and they obey Him. By the Commanding Word of God the creations were created and made. The Four Elements God ordered to gather together in the day God made Adam (Man) included: The Wind, the Earth, the Water, and the Fire.

[1 Adam+Eve 34:5] - Then You spread Your Hand and did create me out of one element, that of dust of the earth; and You did bring me into the garden at the third hour, on a Friday, and did inform me of it in the cave.

God did not create man out of nothing, but out of something He created man in His Image. It was from one of the four Elements that God created man as in "Manufactured or Fabricated man." God's Hand did Work in the Dust to formulate the man.

However, though one of the four Elements was the basic raw material for the production of the man's body, the presence of the other Elements were necessary for the man's life and soul: the Water for his life-blood, the Fire for his Eyes/Light, the Wind for his Breath of life.

All these happened on the 6th day (Friday) just before the next day (7th Day - Saturday) became God's Sabbath Day of Rest. It did not take God up to one hour to make the man. Infact, it was in the third hour of Friday, means about 3.am in the morning on the first Friday that Adam was made in God's Image, and raptured from the Earth's strange land into the Earth's Paradise (Garden of Eden).

And God communicated to the man how God made him and where God took him from, ensuring the man knew details of his origin and God also ensured the man knew details of the origin of the woman even though he was in deep sleep and not watching when God secretly made her. Man's been more believing to where God told him he came from than to where God told him he's headed.

[1 Adam+Eve 34:6] - Then, at first, I knew neither night nor day, for I had a bright nature; neither did the light in which I lived ever leave me to know night or day.

Adam knew the hour (time) then, but did not know the night; for he was in bright nature or glorious as light Though night or darkness was already created by God, yet evening and morning were all forming days, not night between evening and morning. The Fire Element in the nature of the Man made him come out in Bright Nature as Light or Angels. Angels are built with flames of fire, making them light or bright in nature.


[1 Adam+Eve 34:7] - Then, again, O Lord, in that third hour in which You did create me, You also brought to me all beasts, and lions, and ostriches, and fowls of the air, and all things that move in the earth, which You had created at the first hour before me of the Friday.

These living creatures were already created and made in the first hour of Friday when no man was. However, their existing without a man was like sheep without Shepherd or like a nation without a leader. To have all those living creatures on earth without man to head, rule or have dominion over them as king as well as over the earth, meant something about purpose and order was lacking. Before man was needed to till the ground, those living creatures invoked the need for a man in God's Image to preside over them.

However, just as it was not good for the living creatures and the ground to continue without a Man, so also it was not good for the man to be alone even though he was enjoying in paradise (garden of God). God had to resolve for both sides by bringing those living creatures to come to the man and stay under him where the man was, so that things would be very good when the living creatures are helping the man while the man is providing them leadership.

[1 Adam+Eve 34:8] - And Your will was that I should name them all, one by one, with a suitable name. But You gave me understanding and knowledge, and a pure heart and a right mind from You, that I should name them after Your own Mind regarding the naming of them.

You see the first task God gave to man which man successful completed and could say, he finished his course: Fulfilling the Will of God in assigning or ministering names to all living creatures God brought to the pastor (Adam) in the house of God (garden of Eden). He did and finished that assignment of God before he married a wife.

But when God gave him that task, God also gave him spiritual gifts and grace to do it perfectly to God's acceptable standard. The grace God gave to the very first man of God (Adam) as the minister of God to help God before God finished His Works of Creation or before God created the last one yet to be created, included:

*1* Gift of Wisdom/Understanding,

*2* Gift of Knowledge (Word of Knowledge) without the tree of knowledge of good and evil,

*3* Pure Heart — even though Adam had not sinned, yet the needed special Pure Heart to able to name God's creatures without transferring corruption in the creation that was good. Remember, what comes out of a man comes from his heart, and they defile the man, because out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. For Adam's naming to equate God's spoken Word without having Adam in it, God had to give Adam the purity or holiness of heart that can speak the pure Word of God into the creatures without the defilement/impurity in the words of man.

*4* Right Mind — Even with the purity, wisdom, understanding and knowledge, God still gave to that minister or man of God the Right Mind or the Mind of God. This will enable him not just doing good, but doing good in the right mindset, right motive, mentality.

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THE FIRST BOOK OF ADAM AND EVE [1 Adam+Eve]
Chapter 35

[God's reply.]

*1* THEN God looked again upon Adam and his weeping and groaning, and the Word of God came to him, and said unto him:--

*2* "O Adam, when you were in My garden, you knew neither eating nor drinking; neither faintness nor suffering; neither leanness of flesh, nor change; neither did sleep depart from thine eyes. But since you transgressed, and came into this strange land, all these trials are come upon you."

THE FIRST BOOK OF ADAM AND EVE [1 Adam+Eve]
Chapter 36

[Figs.]

*1* THEN God commanded the cherub, who kept the gate of the garden with a sword of fire in his hand, to take some of the fruit of the fig-tree, and to give it to Adam.

*2* The cherub obeyed the command of the Lord God, and went into the garden and brought two figs on two twigs, each fig hanging to its leaf; they were from two of the trees among which Adam and Eve hid themselves when God went to walk in the garden, and the Word of God came to Adam and Eve and said unto them, "Adam, Adam, where are you?"

*3* And Adam answered, "O God, here am I. When I heard the sound of You and You Voice, I hid myself, because I am naked."

*4* Then the cherub took two figs and brought them to Adam and Eve. But he threw them to them from afar; for they might not come near the cherub by reason of their flesh, that could not come near the fire.

*5* At first, angels trembled at the presence of Adam and were afraid of him. But now Adam trembled before the angels and was afraid of them.

*6* Then Adam drew near and took one fig, and Eve also came in turn and took the other.

*7* And as they took them up in their hands, they looked at them, and knew they were from the trees among which they had hidden themselves.

THE FIRST BOOK OF ADAM AND EVE [1 Adam+Eve]
Chapter 34

[Adam recalls their creation, and also appeals for their food and drink.]

*1* AND on the morning of the forty-third day, they came out of the cave, sorrowful and weeping. Their bodies were lean, and they were parched from hunger and thirst, from fasting and praying, and from their heavy sorrow on account of their transgression.

*2* And when they had come out of the cave they went up the mountain to the west of the garden.

*3* There they stood and prayed and besought God to grant them forgiveness of their sins.

*4* And after their prayers Adam began to entreat God, saying, "O my Lord my God, and my Creator, You did command the four elements to be gathered together, and they were gathered together by Your order.

*5* "Then You spread Your hand and did create me out of one element, that of dust of the earth; and You did bring me into the garden at the third hour, on a Friday, and did inform me of it in the cave.

*6* "Then, at first, I knew neither night nor day, for I had a bright nature; neither did the light in which I lived ever leave me to know night or day.

*7* "Then, again, O Lord, in that third hour in which You did create me, You also brought to me all beasts, and lions, and ostriches, and fowls of the air, and all things that move in the earth, which You had created at the first hour before me of the Friday.

*8* "And Your will was that I should name them all, one by one, with a suitable name. But You gave me understanding and knowledge, and a pure heart and a right mind from You, that I should name them after Your own mind regarding the naming of them.

*9* "O God, You made them obedient to me, and did order that not one of them break from my sway, according to Your commandment, and to the dominion which You have given me over them. But now they are all estranged from me.

*10* "Then it was in that third hour of Friday, in which You did create me, and didst command me concerning the tree, to which I was neither to draw near, nor to eat thereof; for You said to me in the garden, 'When you eat of it, of death you shall die.'

*11* "And if You had punished me as You said, with death, I should have died that very moment.

*12* "Moreover, when You commanded me regarding the tree, I was neither to approach nor to cat thereof, Eve was not with me; You had not Yet created her, neither had You yet taken her out of my side; nor had she yet heard this order from You.

*13* "Then, at the end of the third hour of that Friday, O Lord, You did cause a slumber and a sleep to come over me, and I slept, and was overwhelmed in sleep.

*14* "Then You did draw a rib out of my side, and created it after my own similitude and image. Then I awoke; and when I saw her and knew who she was, I said, 'This is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; henceforth she shall be called woman.'

*15* "It was of Your good will, O God, that You brought a slumber and a sleep over me, and that You did forthwith bring Eve out of my side, until she was out, so that I did not see how she was made; neither could I witness, O my Lord, how awful and great are Your goodness and glory.

*16* "And of Your goodwill, O Lord, You made us both with bodies of a bright nature, and You made us two, one; and You gave us Your grace, and did fill us with praises of the Holy Spirit; that we should be neither hungry nor thirsty, nor know what sorrow is, nor yet faintness of heart; neither suffering, fasting, nor weariness.

*17* "But now, O God, since we transgressed Your commandment and broke Your law, You have brought us out into a strange land, and has caused suffering, and faintness, hunger and thirst to come upon us.

*18* "Now, therefore, O God, we pray You, give us something to eat from the garden, to satisfy our hunger with it; and something wherewith to quench our thirst.

*19* "For, behold, many days, O God, we have tasted nothing and drunk nothing, and our flesh is dried up, and our strength is wasted, and sleep is gone from our eyes from faintness and weeping.

*20* "Then, O God, we dare not gather aught of the fruit of trees, from fear of You. For when we transgressed at first You did spare us, and did not make us die.

*21* "But now, we thought in our hearts, if we eat of the fruit of trees, without God's order, He will destroy us this time, and will wipe us off from the face of the earth.

*22* "And if we drink of this water, without God's order, He will make an end of us, and root us up at once.

*23* "Now, therefore, O God, that I am come to this place with Eve, we beg You will to give us of the fruit of the garden, that we may be satisfied with it.

*24* "For we desire the fruit that is on the earth, and all else that we lack in it."

[Ezekiel 5:17]

So I will send against you famine and wild beasts, and they will bereave you. Pestilence and blood shall pass through you, and I will bring the sword against you. I, the Lord, have spoken.’” [Ezekiel 5:17 NKJV]

I will send famine and wild animals to attack you. You'll have no children left. Disease and killing will sweep over you, and I will bring armies to attack you. I the Lord have spoken.” [Ezekiel 5:17 FBV]

FOUR ARMS OF DESTRUCTION

Remember the idea of three or four Arms of Destruction, well it's confirmed "Four Arms of Destruction" and not just Three. They include:

1-(a) Famine
2-(b) Beast or Predators
3-(c) Pestilence or Plague (Epidemic)
4-(d) Sword or War (men killing men)

Again, as it is written,

[Ezekiel 14:21] — "For thus said the Lord GOD; How much more when I send My four sore judgments on Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the noisome beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from Jerusalem man and animal?"

In the book of Revelation, Death was riding on a Pale Horse, and Hell (Hades) was following Death about. And Death was using these four Arms of Destruction to massively collect people from the surface of the earth for both Death and Hell. As it is written,

[Revelation 6:7‭-‬8 FBV] — When he opened the fourth seal, I heard the fourth living creature say, “Come!” I looked and saw a pale horse. The rider was called Death, and Hades followed him. They received authority over a quarter of the earth to kill people by the sword, by famine, by plague, and by wild beasts.

[Ezekiel 5:15]

‘So it shall be a reproach, a taunt, a lesson, and an astonishment to the nations that are all around you, when I execute judgments among you in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes. I, the Lord, have spoken. [Ezekiel 5:15 NKJV]

So it will be a disgrace, a taunt, a warning and an object of horror to the [pagan] nations who surround you when I execute judgments against you in anger and in wrath and in raging reprimands—I, the Lord, have spoken. [Ezekiel 5:15 AMP]

JUDGING HIS PEOPLE IS ALSO WARNING THOSE WHO ARE NOT HIS PEOPLE

When God's Judgment began and executed the furious anger of God in that house of God, Jerusalem, what happened to the people of God then was like four things to the rest of the world around:

- 1 - It was a disgrace or shame on God's people;
- 2 - It was a Taunt for the world against God's people;
- 3 - It was a lesson or warning the world to learn
- 4 - It was a horrorful or astonishing to the world.

The nations and the world would still fear God when God judges His people with such destructive anger. It wouldn't make God lose His regards before the world even though it makes the people of God lose their regards or respect before the world.

Towards Jerusalem (the fallen People of God) the world and nations around would see what happened and taunt/mock them; but towards God the same world and nations around would see what happened and take warning or learn great lessons from it.

This is the warning or lessons all nations must take from God had dealt severely with Israel and Jerusalem in the past:

[Romans 11:11-22] — "I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come to the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy. Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fullness? For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify my office: If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them. For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead? For if the first fruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches. And if some of the branches be broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and with them partake of the root and fatness of the olive tree; Boast not against the branches. But if you boast, you bore not the root, but the root you. You will say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in. Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by faith. Be not high minded, but fear: For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not you. Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness: otherwise you also shall be cut off."

Judgment of God must begin in the house of God and that would allow the rest of the world to take warning, and many outside the church would begin to fear God when they see how God severely punishes, judges and disciplines His own People. It would be like how those heathens in the ship feared God and worshipped Him as soon as they saw the way God dealt with Jonah and the storm of His anger was appeased only when Jonah was cast into the sea overboard to be isolated and dealt with more severely until he experienced hell in the base and in the beast.

[Ezekiel 5:14]

Moreover I will make you a waste and a reproach among the nations that are all around you, in the sight of all who pass by. [Ezekiel 5:14 NKJV]

I will make you a ruin and a disgrace among the nations around you, in the sight of all who pass by. [Ezekiel 5:14 BSB]

THE SHAME AND DISGRACE OF JERUSALEM

It's not just about pain but also about shame and reproach. Truly, God knows how to disgrace someone in the sight of people that once respected the person; and God also knows how to honor someone in the sight of people that once disrespected the person.

[Psalms 25:1-3 KJV] — Unto Thee, O LORD, do I lift up my soul. O my God, I trust in Thee: let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me. Yea, let none that wait on Thee be ashamed: let them be ashamed which transgress without cause."

Behold the Lord sends His Messengers to bring His people out of shame, not to put them to shame. Part of His grace is to bring His people out of disgrace. Do not receive the Grace of God in vain, so you don't become vain or disgraced by the grace of God.

If a church is in ruins and disgrace, the pastors and prophets are to blame. Jerusalem was ruined and disgraced because of her pastors and prophets who were praying for Jerusalem and prophesy good things over her, but never exposed her sins to bring her out of her spiritual shame into repentance. Many pastors and prophets today are leading multitudes of Christians into shame and disgrace by praying for them and prophesying or declaring good things over them without exposing the sins of those Christians and warning against sin. This was the reason Jerusalem was disgraced because of such pastors and prophets who never exposes the sins of Jerusalem nor preach deeply against sins to her. As it is written,

[Lamentations 2:14‭-‬17]
[GNT]
Your prophets had nothing to tell you but lies; Their preaching deceived you by never exposing your sin. They made you think you did not need to repent.
[FBV]
Everyone who passes by mock you, clapping their hands, hissing and shaking their heads in scorn at the Daughter of Jerusalem. “Is this really the city that people called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?” they ask.
[GNT]
All your enemies mock you and glare at you with hate. They curl their lips and sneer, “We have destroyed it! This is the day we have waited for!”
[FBV]
The Lord has achieved what he decided; he has done what he warned he would. Just as he determined to do long ago, he has destroyed you, showing no mercy. He has allowed the enemy to gloat over your defeat, and he has given power to those who attack you.

[Ezekiel 5:13]

‘Thus shall My anger be spent, and I will cause My fury to rest upon them, and I will be avenged; and they shall know that I, the Lord, have spoken it in My zeal, when I have spent My fury upon them. [Ezekiel 5:13 NKJV]

Thus shall My anger be spent and I will cause My wrath toward them to rest and I will be eased and comforted. And they shall know, understand, and realize that I the Lord have spoken in My zeal, when I have accomplished My wrath upon them. [Ezek. 36:6; 38:19.] [Ezekiel 5:13 AMPC]

WILL THE TROUBLES SATISFY OR END GOD'S ANGER?

In this Bible verse above, the gospel is that God's angel and fury would eventually rest, be appeased, satisfied and comforted by the Great Tribulation and the Four arms of Destructive Judgment on Jerusalem.

You recall how God worked intensely for six days and finished His Works, and then rested on the Seventh day. That same way the great Tribulation would be the intensely pouring out of God's anger at once upon Jerusalem, meant then the anger of God would eventually and quickly be appeased, satisfied, fulfilled or finished.

[Revelation 15:1 ICB]
Then I saw another wonder in heaven. It was great and amazing. There were seven angels bringing seven troubles. These are the last troubles, because after these troubles God’s anger is finished.

This option may be intense and overwhelming, but it settles the anger of God faster than the option that comes one by one and yet the anger of God is not yet satisfied for long time. E.g. Look this Bible reference, where despite the much the Lord God anger had been destroying His People, yet His anger was not satisfied, and His Hand was stretched out still to continue striking His People in Judgment. As it is written,

[Isaiah 5:25, 9:13,17]
The Lord is angry with His people and has stretched out His Hand to punish them. The mountains will shake, and the bodies of those who die will be left in the streets like rubbish. Yet even then the Lord's anger will not be ended, but His Hand will still be stretched out to punish …..:...... Arameans from the east and Philistines from the west have greedily swallowed Israel up. Yet even then the Lord's anger will not be ended, but His Hand will still be stretched out to punish …..:...... As a result the Lord is not pleased with their youths, He has no mercy or pity for their orphans and widows, because all of them are hypocrites and they do what is evil—they all talk stupidly. Yet even in all of this the Lord's anger will not be ended, but His Hand will still be stretched out to punish …..:......

[Ezekiel 5:11]

‘Therefore, as I live,’ says the Lord God, ‘surely, because you have defiled My sanctuary with all your detestable things and with all your abominations, therefore I will also diminish you; My eye will not spare, nor will I have any pity. — [Ezekiel 5:11 NKJV]

“Therefore, as I am the living God—this is the word of the Sovereign Lord—because you defiled my Temple with all the evil, disgusting things you did, I will cut you down without mercy. — [Ezekiel 5:11 GNT]

DO NOT DEFILE THE TEMPLE OF GOD

I don't have to say much in explaining this Bible verse above because this Bible verse below explains it perfectly.

[1 Corinthians 3:17] — "If any man defile the temple of God, God shall destroy that man; for the temple of God is holy, which temple you are."

It's a lawful Judgment for God to destroy anyone who defiles God's temple, sanctuary or House of God where God dwells.

Listen, God values Mercy above Sacrifice/Judgment, but when it comes to Holiness and Mercy, God values Holiness above Mercy. Look again at the top Bible verse above carefully.

Don't make the mistake of defiling God's Holy Temple, which is your Body and any holy dwelling place for the Holy Spirit.

[I Corinthians 3:16‭-‬17 NKJV]
Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, which temple you are.

[I Corinthians 6:18‭-‬20 NKJV]
Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

[II Corinthians 6:16‭-‬18 NKJV]
And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will dwell in them And walk among them. I will be their God, And they shall be My people.” Therefore “Come out from among them And be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, And I will receive you.” “I will be a Father to you, And you shall be My sons and daughters, Says the Lord Almighty.”

[Ezekiel 5:10]

Therefore fathers shall eat their sons in your midst, and sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments among you, and all of you who remain I will scatter to all the winds. — [Ezekiel 5:9 NKJV]

As a result, parents in Jerusalem will eat their children, and children will eat their parents. I will punish you and scatter in every direction any who are left alive. — [Ezekiel 5:10 GNT]

DETAILS OF A GREAT TRIBULATION

Is this or does this qualify for the "Great Tribulation" I hyped? Yes, it is or does.

Every Great Tribulation in the Bible was in a way related to the lost or failure of "Love in family and Relationships" especially between parents and children and between brethren. That is, to measure the degree of the Great Tribulation, you may weigh it to the degree of lost of love or degree of hatred between parents and children. So most of the times the Great Tribulation was talked about in the Bible, parents and children conflicting were somehow mentioned. For instance in these couple of Bible references below, note what is said about parents and children while expressing great tribulation.

[Mark 13:12‭-‬19 BSB] — Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise against their parents and have them put to death. You will be hated by everyone because of My name, but the one who perseveres to the end will be saved. So when you see the abomination of desolation standing where it should not be (let the reader understand), then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. Let no one on the housetop go back inside to retrieve anything from his house. And let no one in the field return for his cloak. How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers! Pray that this will not occur in the winter. For those will be days of tribulation unmatched from the beginning of God’s creation until now, and never to be seen again.

Mark's Gospel captured it in more detail, but in Matthew's account for the same great tribulation, Matthew just summarize it as "Because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold" (Matthew 24:12). That love that wax cold in Matthew's account is what Mark's account (cited above) described as brothers betraying brothers to death, fathers causing their children's death and vice versa. Another Bible reference about the great Tribulation also spoke of the failure of love or relationship between parents and children in this way, in addition to people loving only themselves and no one loving anyone else except being lovers of themselves (selfishness):

[2 Timothy 3:1-5] — "This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, truce breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, high minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away."

So when we are talking about "Great Tribulation" and "Perilous Times" don't think it is about natural disasters, or pandemic, etc; rather Great Tribulation or Perilous Times is basically about lost or failure of Love in all ramifications of human relationships, resulting in betrayers, killings, covetousness, false accusations, hatreds, traitors, scarcity of love among people, which would in turn bring poverty, hunger, terrors, famine, deception, scams, falsehoods including false prophets, false pastors, false brethren.
……………………,

Now go back to the top Bible verse above, concerning the great Tribulation in Jerusalem.

It would be so terrible to the degrees beyond levels where a man's enemies being members of his own family (Matthew 10:36) to levels where a man's eater or predator is member of his own family.

Like children eating their own parents in cannibalism, and parents eating their own children like in "Resident Evil." This was the great Tribulation which would never be repeated again, but it was a greater punishment than the punishment that came upon Sodom and Gomorrah, which were destroyed at once.

Again, that Great Tribulation in Jerusalem described in the top Bible verse above was greater punishment than what Sodom and Gomorrah received before destruction. As it is written,

[Lamentations 4:6‭-‬13] — The punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people (Jerusalem) is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, which was overthrown in a moment, with no hand to help her! Her Nazirites were brighter than snow and whiter than milk; They were more ruddy in body than rubies, Like sapphire in their appearance. Now their appearance is blacker than soot; They go unrecognized in the streets; Their skin clings to their bones, It has become as dry as wood. Those slain by the sword are better off Than those who die of hunger; For these pine away, Stricken for lack of the fruits of the field. The hands of the compassionate women Have cooked their own children; They became food for them In the destruction of the daughter of my people. The Lord has fulfilled His fury, He has poured out His fierce anger. He kindled a fire in Zion, And it has devoured its foundations. The kings of the earth, And all inhabitants of the world, Would not have believed That the adversary and the enemy Could enter the gates of Jerusalem— Because of the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests (pastors), who shed in her midst The blood of the righteous.

Again, it was written,

[2 Kings 21:12] — "Therefore thus said the LORD God of Israel, Behold, I am bringing such evil on Jerusalem and Judah, that whoever hears of it, both his ears shall tingle."

[Ezekiel 5:9]

And I will do among you what I have never done, and the like of which I will never do again, because of all your abominations. — [Ezekiel 5:9 NKJV]

Because of all the things you do that I hate, I will punish Jerusalem as I have never done before and will never do again. — [Ezekiel 5:9 GNT]

GREAT TRIBULATION

When the Preacher that wrote the Bible Book of Ecclesiastes said, "The thing that has been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun" [Ecclesiastes 1:9], that preacher had not known the revelation of "Great Tribulation."

Great Tribulation is an exception to that general principle, which the Preacher or Scribe of Ecclesiastes said in the alluded verse.

In the top Bible verse above, God declared He'd do in Jerusalem (House of God) something terrible that was never done before and that will never be done again. That's "Great Tribulation:"

* Why call it "Great?" — It's because it's never done before neither shall it be done after it. It's therefore great in magnitude and uniqueness.

* Why call it "Tribulation?" — It's because it's terrible, perilous.

However, even though the same great tribulation never reoccurs, there's another "Great Tribulation," different from the one in the top Bible verse above, yet to come not just upon Jerusalem but also upon the Churches and Christians and the world.

You may have heard some preachers say "Rapture comes before the Great Tribulation comes;" but the reason the Great Tribulation is even coming is primarily because of the fallen Churches and Christians, just as the reason why the great Tribulation in the Bible verse above was to come was because of Jerusalem.

Just as Jonah (prophet of God) was the reason the great storm came upon the Ship onboard to Tarshish, and not because of the unbelievers or heathens in the same ship: and as soon as Jonah was cast into the sea the storm disappeared — for Jonah, as the Churches, Pastors and Christians today, deviated from where God sent him and was going to Tarshish for prosperity and things of this world when destruction was about to wipe the greatest city in the world then in about 40 days.

*1* - *1* The fallen Churches and Christians would be the reason why God would allow the Great Tribulation come - But also,

*2* - *2* The true Churches and Christians (Elects) would be the reason why God would shorten the days the Great Tribulation and end the tribulation.

As it is written,

[Matthew 24:21-24 BLB] — "For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, and never shall be. And unless those days had been shortened, no flesh would have been saved; but because of the elect, those days will be shortened. Then if anyone says to you, ‘Behold, here is the Christ,’ or ‘Here,’ do not believe it. For false Christs and false prophets will arise and will give great signs and wonders, so as to mislead, if possible, even the elect."

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Please remember the top Bible verse above recorded God also mentioning the reason for the great Tribulation in Jerusalem, House of God; and the reason was because they did the "Abominations God hates" among them. The Lord Jesus ordered one of His Servants (Apostle John) to write letters while the Lord Jesus Christ was doing the dictation for John to write in the letters addressed to Seven Churches. These were some of the things He hated which the Churches had in their midst:

* Neglecting First Love/First Works
* Deeds of the Nicolaitanes
* Blasphemy, which turns even Jews/Christians into Synagogue of Satan
* False Apostles, False Prophets, False Teachers
* Doctrine of Balaam or becoming Stumbling Block that makes other Christians fall or offend
* Idolatry and feeding from offerings to idols
* Fornication, sexual immortality and adultery
* Not being watchful, sensitive nor spiritually alert
* Lukewarm: Neither hot nor cold, full of worldly riches and carnality, but miserable in spiritual.

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[Ezekiel 5:7]

Therefore thus says the Lord God: ‘Because you have multiplied disobedience more than the nations that are all around you, have not walked in My statutes nor kept My judgments, nor even done according to the judgments of the nations that are all around you’— [Ezekiel 5:7 NKJV]

“So this is what the Lord God says: You caused more confusion than the nations around you. You did not follow My rules or obey My laws. You have not even obeyed the laws of the nations around you. — [Ezekiel 5:7 ICB]

ATLEAST CHOOSE RIGHTEOUS LAWS OF OTHERS FOR YOU

Atleast, if that Jerusalem did not like God's Laws and Ordinances, they should have adopted the righteous laws and ordinances of the surrounding nations — that would have been better than the city becoming lawless. The surrounding nations may not have been following the laws of God through Moses, but they have their own laws, justice system and ordinances that police and penalize sin against men among them. Though these laws and ordinances of the surrounding nations were not perfect for God's standard of Righteousness, Justice, and Holiness, yet they were better than lawlessness and wickedness in a lawless society.

Not saying one should abandon God's Laws and Ordinances, and rather choose traditional/foreign laws. For instance, the first African to be president of America was forcing Africans to accept the laws of Americans and Europe that legalized Sodomy and same self marriage; but the Africans wisely rejected that foreign law because it was against the foundation of the core values that define the Race that makes African People Uniquely different.

My point is, even if you are having problem in living by God's Law and Ordinances through Moses, then there are other sets of Laws, Ordinances, Ethics, Codes of Practice and Principles of God you can still be living by, so that you don't become lawless. To be lawless is to be wicked or antichrist. Antichrist is the lawless one.

Among Christians, you may hear some saying, "We are not under the law (of Moses) but under grace;" True, but why sin and become wicked or lawless under grace (Romans 6:15).

"Grace" is not lawlessness, rather Grace is the benefits and maximization of the rewards of one man's obedience to the law, whereby others can share in those benefits or rewards through faith without already done works or without having to reobey the same law that was already obeyed and fulfill by Christ Jesus. It's like whoever does this work or law earns these rewards, but yet every man do not have to do the work or law if only one man has done the work or law and he's willing to share the benefits with others without asking them to pay. It's like a street light, for which one man paid the bills but instead of making only him to enjoy the light he paid for, he realized he could position the same light in ways that others around there do not have to pay for their own light to benefit from it because it doesn't diminish benefits.

Grace means you are not under the law but you are under the Man of Law, who fulfils the Law. He is the one fulfilling the Law, but you are the one renting or benefiting from what He's doing through faith that obeys Him without direct dealing with the law.

(1.) To be under the law is bondage or curse, but

(2.) To be without law or lawless is wickedness or immoral

So don't be under the law, but also don't be lawless: have some rules, principles, discipline, ethics, integrity, faith, virtues, codes, Conscience etc that serve as 'Instructions of Destiny' for your life/death pathways.

We are talking about Jerusalem that did not continue with God's Laws, Ordinances, and yet she did not fill the void with the laws or ordinances of the neighboring countries or even the laws of animals with discipline, ethics and wisdom that mankind could learn from, such as the Ants, the Eagles, Serpents, Doves etc.

Learn to adopt other people's laws briefly in order to win them, but never be without the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus. As it is written,

[1 Corinthians 9:19-21 BSB] — "Though I am free of obligation to anyone, I make myself a slave to everyone, to win as many as possible. To the Jews I became like a Jew, to win the Jews. To those under the law I became like one under the law (though I myself am not under the law), to win those under the law. To those without the law I became like one without the law (though I am not outside the law of God but am under the law of Christ), to win those without the law."

Your true circumcision is tied to your having a law that guides the ways you live through life. If your penis is circumcised but you have no law you keep by your own self discipline to the pleasure and will of God, then the circumcision of your penis is useless.

[Romans 2:25-27 BSB] — "Circumcision has value if you observe the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. If a man who is not circumcised keeps the requirements of the law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision? The one who is physically uncircumcised yet keeps the law will condemn you who, even though you have the written code and circumcision, are a lawbreaker."

Atleast conscience is there as a law to guide you through the difference between right and wrong, and between righteousness and unrighteousness. As it is written,

[Romans 2:13-16 BSB] — "For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but it is the doers of the law who will be declared righteous. Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law, since they show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts either accusing or defending them. This will come to pass on that day when God will judge men’s secrets through Christ Jesus, as proclaimed by my gospel."

[Ezekiel 5:6]

And she has changed My judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and My statutes more than the countries that are round about her: for they have refused My judgments and My statutes, they have not walked in them. [Ezekiel 5:6 AKJV]

But Jerusalem rebelled against My commands and showed that she was more wicked than the other nations, more disobedient than the countries around her. Jerusalem rejected My commands and refused to keep My laws.
[Ezekiel 5:6 GNT]

DEGENERATION OF JERUSALEM

The 'middling Jerusalem' that's always in the midst or surrounded by nations did not remain a righteous city in their midst but became the most unrighteous and the most wicked city in the midst of the nations surrounding her. The surrounding nations were not much violating the Judgments, the Laws and the Commandments of God compared to how much Jerusalem in their midst were violating and rebelling against the Laws and Ordinances of the Supreme Court or Supreme Being. The Bible verse above corroborates this.

Disregarding the Laws, Ordinances and Judgments of God makes people become degenerate. This was not a case of evil corrupts good manners; rather it was a case of departing from the Laws and Judgments of God degenerates the good.

The city that was supposed to be the light in the midst of the nations surrounding her, became grossly darkness. Instead of being the city of righteousness to its surrounding nations or neighboring countries, Jerusalem because the Resident Evil city in their midst, corrupting the surrounding.

How did that Jerusalem get so degenerate in the midst of the surrounding nations? How did that city became so morally robbed considering the city has custody of the greatest temple of God on earth in her, has the best collection of wisdom, justice system, laws, ordinances, culture, tradition and priesthood system? What more was needed spiritually and morally that was not available to her?

Like someone said, "Judas Iscariot had the best Pastor, the best Teacher, the best Master (Jesus Christ) and yet Judas Iscariot turned out the worst student, evil goat, a most corrupt and indisciplined disciple." Is it that the Teacher or Pastor did not know how to teach or shepherd? He was the best.

The Sower sowed the good seeds, but the grounds that received the same seeds brought forth different results and harvests: some brought forth thorns and Tares, some brought nothing at all as if nothing good was ever sown there, some managed to bring forth thirty fold and sixty fold, but there are those who brought forth 100 fold.

kingxsamz:
The fact is those who believe in heaven don't really want to go there because they know how insanely boring it'll be. It's almost like torture. Imagine living for eternity in one place, serving a god forever with no football, movies, parties, games, music from your favourite artists, concerts, phones or social media. Your only purpose is to praise and worship a god for eternity. And I'm sure most people who believe in heaven and hell would rather prefer to die and become nonexistent than to exist in heaven forever. it's just that hell is not favourable, so they can only go with the better choice.
That's why pastors move around with body guards and armed men because they don't want to d!e. It's why they collect tithes and attain wealth because they know they won't have that experience in heaven. Good thing it doesn't exist.

Your whole imagination of heaven is vain and foolish. There is nothing boring about heaven. Infact, there are more varieties of things and activities in heaven and spiritual realms than there are yet in the physical world of mankind.

But even if it is about doing the same things in even, it is far from being boring. For instance, if a man is doing the same thing on earth repeatedly, it gets boring because it is part of the works of the earth to be consumed with boredom and vanity. But on the other hand, doing the same thing over and over in heaven never generates boredom but generates wonders and more revelation of glory the more the same thing is repeated.

I really do not want to call you a fool, but you are really far from true realities of the presence of God and the heavens.

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DANIEL 3:28

[Daniel 3:28 NKJV] - Nebuchadnezzar spoke, saying, “Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, who sent His Angel and delivered His servants who trusted in Him, and they have frustrated the king’s word, and yielded their bodies, that they should not serve nor worship any god except their own God!

[Daniel 3:28 ICB] - Then Nebuchadnezzar said, “Praise the God of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego. Their God has sent his angel and saved his servants from the fire! These three men trusted their God. They refused to obey my command. And they were willing to die rather than serve or worship any god other than their own.

[Daniel 3:28 BSB] - Nebuchadnezzar declared, “Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent His angel and delivered His servants who trusted in Him. They violated the king’s command and risked their lives rather than serve or worship any god except their own God.

THEY OVERCAME IN WORDS OF TESTIMONY


In this Bible verse, the king gave an open "Testimony-Blessing" or "Testimony-Praise" to the God of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, who proved to be true worshipers that worshiped God in Spirit and in truth even in the face of death and furnace of fire. The key contents of the Testimony-Blessing of that great world's king in ancient days include:

"A" What God did/sent His angel to do, against what the king had doubted if the same God or any gods could ever do before.

"B" What the three faithful Christians did, against what the king had said or commanded in all his authority and presence.

Remember the message about gradation of faith from what God can do, then what God will do or has done, and then what the men who have faith in God will do and have done by their faith and trust in God.

Talking about what those men who trusted and loved God did has overshadowed what God did or sent His angel to do in my analysis of that king's "Testimony-Blessing/Praise" to God of those men

It's not, let God's Light shine before men, but rather let your own light shine before men in ways those men would see your good works (not just see the miraculous/angel of God's work) and then glorify your Father (your God) in heaven (Matthew 5:16). That was what Nebuchadnezzar and the world in the Bible verse above were doing to the God of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, who did the goodwork and shined their light together with the Angel through the fire before all men there witnessing


I have cited these three translations because I like the different ways each of them phrased their concluding sentences about what those men did in that testimony of the king to the world:

*1* One Translation, (which did put the entire Bible verse as one single but long sentence), put its last pasts of the sentence thus: "and they have frustrated the king’s word, and yielded their bodies, that they should not serve nor worship any god except their own God!"

*2* Another Translation, (the one that put the entire Bible verse as group of five sentences), put its last two sentences thus: "They refused to obey my command. And they were willing to die rather than serve or worship any god other than their own."

*3* The next Translation, (the one that put the entire Bible verse as group of two sentences), put its last sentence thus: "They violated the king’s command and risked their lives rather than serve or worship any god except their own God."

The equation here implies that "Yielding their Bodies" is the same as "Willing to die" or the same as "Risked their lives." Whatever term used for it, it was the "Cost or Price" they had to pay both to overcome the king's word (overcome the world) and to upgrade the price of worshiping/serving God by standing against idolatry at the cost of putting their lives/bodies on the line. And you may later see how this price they paid for worshiping/serving only the true God resulted in the entire world praising/blessing the God of those men, and a decree to hallow the Name and fear the God of those men of God was issued through out the world.

In the Bible verse above, the king who was very furious and angry against those three men for defying the king's command or refusing the king's compromise, the same king is now praising the God of those men and praising those men for defying the king's command and standing for the truth and for God in faithfulness. The society that was against those men and wanted them cast away because those men were not doing like them in compromise, the same society was here celebrating those men who held their integrity. Have you not seen or heard such?

The Stone which the builders rejected is the same Stone the builders are now celebrating and praising as the Chiefest or Best Stone among the rest.

Those for whom you compromised your faith, your truth and holiness, because you desire to have their love — they would later lose their trust, their love and respect, for you. But those for whom you never compromised your faith, your truth, and your holiness, even despite the hatred or danger you had to face for refusing them — they would later trust, love and respect you for your devotion and faithfulness in God. If you are true servant of the Lord Jesus Christ and worshiper of God in Spirit and in Truth, you don't have to change for the world because the world is changing for you. All things work together for good to those who love God without compromise/backsliding, and are called according to God's Purpose.

The king was even celebrating a testimony that those men defied, rejected and disregarded the king's words and wrath, to stand for their faith, their religion and righteousness, in worshiping/serving God in Spirit and in truth, in life or death, in furnace fire or not.

The Bible that says, "Obey those in authority" also praised the faith/faithfulness of those who "Disobeyed those in authority in order to uphold their faith/obedience to God." Example:

Moses was a man who yielded his body, and was not afraid of the king's wrath: Moses refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, choosing rather to suffer for Christ than to enjoy the sin life of wealth and riches in the king's palace. As it is written,

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

We have many Christians in the world now than in history past, but how many of the Christians are ready to give up sin and riches for the reproach and suffering of Christ? How many Christians today would yield their bodies to be burnt like Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, or put their lives at risk on the line, striving against sin and against the entire world government and people?

[Hebrews 12:3‭-‬4 FBV] — Think about Jesus who endured such hostility from sinful people so you don't grow tired and become discouraged. Your resistance so far hasn't cost you blood as you fight against sin.

[Luke 9:23‭-‬27 BSB] — Then Jesus said to all of them, “If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow Me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will save it. What does it profit a man to gain the whole world, yet lose or forfeit his very self? If anyone is ashamed of Me and My words, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when He comes in His glory and in the glory of the Father and of the holy angels. But I tell you truthfully, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see the kingdom of God.”

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DANIEL 3:27

[Daniel 3:27 AKJV] - And the princes, governors, and captains, and the king's counsellors, being gathered together, saw these men, on whose bodies the fire had no power, nor was an hair of their head singed, neither were their coats changed, nor the smell of fire had passed on them.

[Daniel 3:27 GNT] - All the princes, governors, lieutenant governors, and other officials of the king gathered to look at the three men, who had not been harmed by the fire. Their hair was not singed, their clothes were not burned, and there was no smell of smoke on them.

PART 1 - BODY SCANNING/EXAMINATION

You are seeing in the Bible verse above that all the princes, governors, officials and kings there present, gathered, scanned or examined thoroughly the bodies of those three men that came out of the fire. Their Bodies were being searched and scanned for the depth of the fire in their bodies: No effect, no power and no sign, of the fire passing through them, even though they passed through the fire.

I believe you know what getting scanned, searched or bodily examined means. But have you integrated the use of body scanning in Spiritual path and judgment ahead? Scanning is part of the trials we have to go through. There is in the ministry of the priest, the work of body-scanning and quarantining [Leviticus 13]. The Lord Jesus Christ told the ten Lepers to go get Body-Scanned by the priest, and on their way going for body-scanning they were healed; but only one returned to the Lord Jesus Christ.

*** The Lord Jesus Christ Himself, after rising from the dead, submitted His Resurrected Body for people like Thomas to scan or examine His Body.

*** Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, came out of the fire, but have their bodies submitted to be scanned or examined by governors, officials, rulers, princes of this world.

And Jesus Christ said, [John 14:30] "... the prince of this world comes, and has nothing in Me."

When the princes of this world come or scan the body of a Servant of God, those princes of the world should find nothing that belong to their fire or to their nature on the body of that Servant of God just as those princes of this world could not find on the bodies of those three servants of the most high God anything done or belonging to their fire. But on the flip side, when the righteous/saints/angels scan the body of a Servant of God, they are looking for the properties or marks of the Lord Jesus Christ on the body.

And Paul said, [Galatians 6:17] — "From now on let no man trouble me: for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus."

You see why there's difference between when the world "Body-Scans you" and when the heavens "Body-Scans you." When the prince of the world Body-Scanned the Lord Jesus Christ, finding nothing of his marks in/on the Body of the Lord Jesus Christ was the excellent score for the Lord Jesus Christ. But when Thomas Body-Scanned the Lord Jesus Christ, finding the Marks of the Lord Jesus Christ in/on the Body of the Lord Jesus Christ was rather the excellent score for the Lord Jesus Christ.

Imagine you are to enter highly secured office for the first time, and you had to go through two check points:

*Check Point A* - At the first check point, the armed men there scanned/searched your body against you carrying arms, weapons, etc, which they themselves who are searching you are having or carrying on them. They carry those things (weapons/marks), but they are searching you to be sure you are not carrying them though they are carrying them: and if they find nothing (of those things/weapons/marks) on you when they body-scan you, then they rate you "Cleared" and allow you to enter.

*Check Point B* - At the Second/Last check point, the men there scanned or searched your body but they are looking for what you have or should carry along with you, such as ID, Passport, Invitation or Marks that shows you have been in communication or contact before with the person(s) you are looking for inside before they clear you and allow you to enter.

"How did you come in here without having your wedding garment?"

You see the difference between the two checkpoints and between their "Body-scans?" Now let's apply Check Point A to the context of the top Bible verse above:

CHECK POINT A

The Princes, Governors, Rulers of this world Body-Scanned the three servants of the most high God after they came out of the fire. In that case, they were looking for the fire's report card because it's the fire that actually did the body-scanning on them while they were looked for the results or reports on them. The fact the fire had no power or impact on them meant they had nothing belonging to or nothing in common with those rulers.

And may I add that they did not find any "Charms, Protection Spell, or Diabolical fortification" against fire or arms on their bodies when they Body-Scanned the three men out of the fire.

In the last Day, God's Fire would be used as one of the greatest Scanners. The rulers or princes of this world do not need to be there to check or scan anyone because God's Fire will do the Scanning and the Day would declare it. Whatever belongs to the world or whatever the princes of this world have in common marking with anyone shall surely not escape the fire.

[1 Corinthians 3:13-17] — "Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is. If any man's work abide which he has built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire. Know you not that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple you are."



[Daniel 3:27 GNT] - All the princes, governors, lieutenant governors, and other officials of the king gathered to look at the three men, who had not been harmed by the fire. Their hair was not singed, their clothes were not burned, and there was no smell of smoke on them.

PART 2 - SUPERIOR BODIES OF MEN BY GOD


The same calibers of dignitaries that once gathered to dedicate, to behold, and to adore, the "Golden Statue" are now in the Bible verse above gathered to behold wonders that are far above that which the golden statue had — Those were the wonders and glories of "Supernatural Bodies and Clothing" beyond the powers or effects of any natural fire to seventh degree.

Those people thought a magnificent body of man built completely of the gold (riches) of this world was the most glorious body adornment to man, until they began seeing supernatural bodies of real men which the gold in all the planet can not buy or afford. These supernatural bodies of men could be like:

*1* The Supernatural Bodies Adam and Eve had before their sin: Adam and Eve had supernatural and bright bodies that matched the best of all realms or all worlds as if they were Stars/Lights themselves.

*2* The Supernatural Body Moses had when his unveiled face was shine like light or his natural force unabated: Through Moses' Body, we saw that old aging, depreciation, failing of strength/freshness, dying, decaying of worms, and waxing old, had neither power nor effect on Moses' Body.

*3* The Supernatural Body Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, had when they walked in the midst of the 7-times burning fiery furnace: Through Bodies of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, we saw that natural fire had neither power nor effect on those class of supernatural Bodies or on the Clothing of those bodies.

*4* Above all, The Body of Immortality, Resurrection, Life and Glories the Lord Jesus Christ now has forever. Through Him, with Him and inside Him, we shall have or become parts of His Body.



Let's Grade the Bodies according to their Classes. But let's also assume all the Bodies we are grading here are in Sanctification, Virginity or Undefiled Bodies: No fornication (or adultery) and no defilement ever on these Bodies/Bed in marriage.

*Class 1* — The Virgins (Undefiled):

All the men/women of God I mentioned here in this second segment before or after were either virgins (before married) or undefiled (both before and during married). Moses was a virgin for 40 years before he married a virgin daughter of Jethro. Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego, Daniel, were all virgins (eunuchs). Adam and Eve were virgins throughout their stay in the Garden of Eden, even though they were married and naked there. The Lord Jesus Christ was born of a virgin and remained a Virgin.

Those in this class possess "Holy Bodies" or "Holy Vessels in Honor and Sanctification. Reproach (shame) and dishonor have no power on their bodies. Therefore, being virgins/undefiled in body, they were holy both in body & in spirit [1 Corinthians 7:34].

I am telling you to pursue holiness of the body:

[2 Corinthians 7:1] - Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

[Revelation 14:4-5] — "These are those who were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are those which follow the Lamb wherever He goes. These were redeemed from among men, being the first fruits to God and to the Lamb. And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God."

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*Class 2* — The Anointed/Consecrated Virgins (Custodians of God's Holy Spirit on/in their Bodies):

Those in this class possess higher Bodies than those in the preceding because the Anointing, Grace or Spirit of God attached to their physical Bodies. These include men like Anointed Priests like Aaron, Samson as Nazarite, Elisha who's dead bones could raise the dead, John the Baptist, Samuel, Anointed Nazarites or special people that came with special Bodies that come with special rules like no cutting hairs, no eating certain foods or drinks, or nearing dead bodies/corpses in connection with their bodies and the Spirit attached to their bodies. Hence, Separation.

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*Class 3* — The Supernatural Bodied Men

Those in this class were higher in Bodies than those in preceding class of Bodies. They had their bodies translated or transfigured into possessing some supernatural attributes on their bodies. And it's like God shared or distributed different portions of those supernatural attributes to different men whom God translated so.

Enoch was translated with portions that his body should not see death, but the Lord Jesus Christ was transfigured that His Body should see death and become the most acceptable Sacrifice to God but His Body should not see corruption in hell/grave. Moses was transfigured with portions that his body should bear the glory of God on his face and shine like stars/small sun, and his body should not see aging, depreciation or oldness failures. Elijah was transfigured that his body should be able to switch between the visible and invisible at his will, making him able to appear and disappear or become invisible like angels or ghosts, making Elijah with his body a spirit, and not just carnal flesh. Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, were transfigured that no lesser fire should have any power or impact on their bodies by any degree.

There are others who attained and received transfiguration of the bodies with just portions of the abilities of angels through those bodies. No man of God seemed to have had all there are to angel's bodies & abilities while dwelling on the earthly body before death.

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*Class 4* — The Spiritual Bodied, Resurrected Bodied, Eternally Glorified Bodied, and Immortal Bodied Men

This is the highest class of Bodies, and those who have these Bodies of immortality are called, "Sons of God." All those various portions exhibited by different supernatural bodied men and more would be complete in the Glorified Bodies of immortality that the sons of God shall have.

Like demonstrated with Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, in the top Bible verse above:

[Revelation 20:6] — "Blessed and holy is he that has part in the first resurrection: on such the second death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years."

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DANIEL 3:25

[Daniel 3:25 NKJV] - “Look!” he answered, “I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire; and they are not hurt, and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.”

[Daniel 3:25 FBV] - “Look!” he cried out. “How is it that I can see four men, not tied up, walking around in the fire and not being burned? And the fourth one looks like a god!”

THE SPIRITUAL IMAGE/PICTURES THAT WITCHES AND AGENTS OF DARKNESS SEE ABOUT TRUE CHRISTIANS

Nebuchadnezzar the king continued seeing revelations and visions more than many people of God in his time, though he was a pagan. In the preceding chapter, Nebuchadnezzar saw vision; in this Chapter and Bible verse above, Nebuchadnezzar saw vision again; and in the next chapter following, Nebuchadnezzar saw another.

When next you tell the story of the fourth Person in the fire, you may well remember that the testimony came from the man who forced people to worship idols and cast the three men of the four men he saw into that fire. It was not a Christian who saw and told that glorious testimony, but an Occultic man/king saw and told it.

I remembered incidents of agents of darkness, witches & cultists testifying how they usually saw true Christians in spiritual realms having lights, wearing shining bright robes, surrounded by fire or lights, or under some sort of protection/covering that immunes such Christians from their psychic attacks or spells. Have you not heard were one who was once in such diabolical group, testifying how they attempted to killed the true or strong Christians in spiritual realms, but they couldn't touch or harm those Christians; and they even saw lights or glories on those Christians, which ordinary people could not see physically? Even the Christians do not see those things while looking at themselves, but the agents of darkness were able to see those things on those true believers.

Well, this Bible verse above is an example of such, wherein a king of an Occultic world together with his astrologers, magicians, wise men or counselors, attempted to put three faithful Christians to death by fire and chains, but they saw they couldn't harm those Christians, their chains around the Christians were broken, their seven times fire was ineffective and harmless to the Christians, and there was presence of the Son of God or Angel in their midst.

Who was that man of God that the former occult grand master attempted to attack by esoteric ways, but he saw in spiritual realms that the man of God was in the middle of a field of fire, which neither the occult grand master nor the strong demon in him could approach?

Now, I want you to look beyond the image/testimony/respect of such occultists, cultists, witches, wizards, demons, agents of darkness, etc., about the power and glory of God on you, if you are a true and faithful Christian. Rather be more concerned about the image/respect/testimony of God and the heavens about you.

For usually, what those in darkness celebrate as great light may be a little or insignificant light to those who dwell in far more greater light and wisdom. Your night lights may feel like local champion in the night, but at noon day under the sun they're low.

[2 Corinthians 3:10] — "For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excels."

So let us who are mature in the light and revelations of the Lord look at that picture, image or vision, the king saw about those three faithful Christian in the fire.

Is that all they saw about you Christians in the fire? That you were free from the chains, you were untouchable and harmless even in fire, and the mighty presence of the Lord was manifest with you: and nothing by any means hurt you

While such testimony would make many pastors, men of God, Christians and Believers, celebrate or feel great about their stand and place in the Lord Jesus Christ; I, Peterch, would have felt so sad as if I was far short of my calling, if those details described me in the position of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, in the fire

This is because,

*1* I would not be comparing myself to the fire (which though is seven times hotter, yet had no power on me):

*2* I would not be comparing myself to the chains that were broken or yokes destroyed by the anointing present:

*3* I would not be comparing myself to the enemies, the rulers, the observers or people who I overcame or made to wonder at me:

What would I be comparing myself to in the midst of all those?

I would be comparing myself to the Person who was described as the Son of God or as God in the midst of us. Why I would have been sad would be because I was not yet as He is or as glorious as I beheld Him.

They were three the king cast into the fire, but the king saw four of them: but only the fourth Person was seen as "gods" or "Son of God" among them four. That would trouble me because I was not like Him in nature, though I have His Presence/Power with me.

Lord, I want to be like You in all ramifications of your Glory I see. This is not just about the liberty/freedom/power in wherever You or Your Spirit is, but about me seeing You and changing more and more into Your Image by Your Spirit or Presence. As it is written,

[2 Corinthians 3:17-18] — "Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. And we all having been unveiled in face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image, from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit."

Why should we be four in the fire, but only You appeared as the Son of God to those agents of darkness, whereas we see You but we were not like You nor seen as sons of God too? This has changed by the Father's Love and Grace. As it is written,

[1 John 3:1-3] — "Behold, what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called "the sons of God:" therefore the world does not know us, because the world did not know Him. Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it does not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when He shall appear, we shall become like Him; for we shall see Him the way He is. And every man that has this hope in him purifies himself, even as He is pure."

So, if I have to choose between "how the agents of darkness were seeing Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego in the fire" and "how the agents of darkness were seeing Samuel ascending from hell"

I would rather choose how they saw Samuel ascending from hell, because the witch saw him as a "god" or "son of God." As written,

[1 Samuel 28:13-14 GW] — "“Don’t be afraid,” the king said to her. “What do you see?” “I see a god rising from the ground,” the woman answered. “In what form?” he asked her. She answered, “An old man is coming up, and he’s wearing a robe.” Then Saul knew it was Samuel. Saul knelt down with his face touching the ground."