IT IS A FLABBERGAST THAT JESUS IS MY FRIEND (three)

(Continued from part two…)

3)            The book of Romans 11:29 says, “For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.” The Greek word for ‘gifts’ is charisma (khar’-is-mah) ‘a (divine) gratuity, that is, deliverance (from danger or passion); (specifically) a (spiritual) endowment, that is, (subjectively) religious qualification, or (objectively) miraculous faculty.’ The next word ‘calling’ is klēsis (klay’-sis): ‘an invitation.’ This is a call to the Divine feast: invitation to embrace salvation of God. The first communion of the New Testamentary establishment was of scriptural recording between Jesus Christ and His disciple friends.                                                             

                The Lord made the ‘call’ when He pronounced a universality of an invitation attributable only to Divine utterance in Matthew 11:28, “Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” Only God can give rest. Now, the words ‘without repentance’ is ametamelētos (am-et-am-el’-ay-tos) ‘not repentant of, unregretted –or better still– irrevocable.’ God will never feel sorry or regret as far as this friendship is concerned. It is an entente cordiale between the Redeemer and His redeemed preciousness. Our natural birth is unbelievably sinful (Psalm 51:5), ergo, disqualified to be the friend of the King of kings and Lord of all lords, the Saviour even the Almighty. Somewhere in Isaiah it says that “all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags;” where the ‘filthy’ is `ed (ayd): ‘1. the menstrual flux (as periodical). 2. (by implication) (in plural) soiling;’ and ‘rags’ beged (behg’-ed) is: ‘1.  a covering. 2. clothing. 3. (also) treachery or pillage.’ The ‘filthy rags’ of our nature most definitely alienates us from any association with the purity of the Divinity. Jesus, notwithstanding, the putrefaction of our being, decided to make us His eternal friends.

“Let us make man in our image after our likeness”

                Were we not very close to His Divinity in Eden? At creation we were made in the image and after the likeness of God (Genesis 1:26). ‘Likeness’ in the Hebrew is dmuwth (dem-ooth’), a feminine noun reminding us of how the first woman had to be brought to the man, it means: ‘1. resemblance. 2. (concretely) model, shape. 3. (adverbially) like.’ The ‘image,’ tselem (tseh’-lem) is interestingly a masculine noun. It has these definitions: ‘1. a phantom. 2. (figuratively) illusion, resemblance. 3. (hence) a representative figure. 4. (especially) an idol.’ The ‘mage’ of God was what we did lose as a result of the original sin. While the ‘likeness’ is in reference to the anthropomorphism of Divinity, the ‘image’ is in actual fact a Person: Christ (2Cor 4:4). And that points to the rationale of using tselem, a masculine gender! Having got us born again, we have recovered the lost ‘image’ of Jehovah in Himself i.e. Jesus Christ our good Friend! Amen!  

These two verses of Colossians 1:21-22, “And you, that ‘were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled 22) In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:” tell me unequivocally that the reconciling Redeemer is the Consummator of this Divine friendship. The relationship is truly an entente cordiale: for the original sin did sequester our Eden fellowship with the LORD God. The Greek for ‘reconciled’ is apokatallassō (ap-ok-at-al-las’-so): ‘to reconcile completely; to reconcile back again; bring back a former state of harmony.’ Just for saving us, should we be left as the slaves of Jesus forever, would that not be a thing to be eternally grateful for? For an inexplicable reason, in spite of all that we owe Him, the love of Jesus chose us. He forgave all our iniquitous acts. He washed us clean just for the actualization of His intended friendship.                                                                                                                                                       

He is the Friend that sticks to you for all eternity. How I do arrive at this fact is in the definition of ‘present,’ paristēmi or paristanō (par-is’-tay-mee) ‘to stand beside, that is, (transitively) to exhibit, proffer, (specifically) recommend, (figuratively) substantiate; or (intransitively) to be at hand (or ready), aid.’ Our friendship is an engenderment of the free salvation wrought on the cross of Calvary. Jesus had always loved me. One of the reasons Jesus, of very God the very God, died for me was to befriend me! Astounding! Is it not?

                Astounding it is to understand that Jesus, the King of kings and the Lord of lords, is my bosom Friend. Hallelujah!                                                                                                                                                                                                        Thank You, Jesus, for being my friend! O How I love Jesus: for He first loved me. Praise the LORD!

                You can choose to be another friend of Jesus. Get born again. Meaning it from your heart, say this prayer:

“Dear heavenly Father, I come to You now in the name of Jesus Christ. I believe in my heart that Jesus is the Son of God. I believe that Jesus died on the cross for my sin. I believe that You raised Him from the dead. I confess with my mouth that Jesus is Lord and I receive Him now as my Lord and my Saviour. I give God all the glory. Amen!”   

 (Concluded)

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IT IS A FLABBERGAST THAT JESUS IS MY FRIEND (two)

Emmanuel (God with) us is truly our eternal Friend!

2)            John 15:15 begins with, “Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth:” The first word ‘henceforth’ ouketi (ou-ke’-tiy) is: ‘not yet, no longer.’ The next word, ‘servants’ is doulos (d̮ou’-los) means: ‘1. (involuntarily) a slave. 2. (of necessity) a bond-servant. 3. (figuratively) a voluntary, fully devoted servant.’ The verb ‘knoweth’ is eido (ei’-d̮ō): ‘1. (properly) to see (but not limited to the eye). 2. (by implication, in the perfect tense only) to personally know (i.e. to have seen or have experienced something by firsthand observation). 3. (by extension) to personally know how (to do). 4. (also) to see how (it is done).’

As friends of Jesus Christ we have experiential knowledge of God’s protocol. Through the agency of the Holy Spirit we gain entrance to the throne of God. We ask whatsoever we desire as long as it is in consonance with the will of the Father. We talk to God directly in the name of our dear Friend, Jesus. We are empowered to come against the evil will of demons and their kahuna, the omnimalevolent Lucifer. In Matthew 17:20 nothing shall be impossible for us to perform, including the removal of offending mountains. In Luke 17:6 our faith in Jesus has enabled us to pluck trees even from their roots and they will obey when told to be hurled into the sea. Hallelujah!

                Our friendship with the Lord Jesus is a wonderment. No angel boasts of this unknown familiarity. Not even the closest: the awesome foursome (as Rev. Chris Okotie loves to call them) who maintain a glorious aerobatic existence around God’s throne, of course, not Michael, the foremost warrior angel or the well-known Gabriel who stands before the throne. Heaven will, no doubt, celebrate this Divine friendship. O how blessed are the Christians! Hallelujah!                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4) To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, 5) Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time” [1Peter 1:3-5]. ‘Lively’ is zao (zaō’), meaning: ‘to live.’ ‘Hope’ is elpis (el-piys’): ‘1. (properly) expectation (not from presumption or forcefulness nor a feeling, but from a posture of trust having sound reason for the expectation). 2. (explicitly) The Expectation of Resurrection through Jesus (Messiah) unto Eternal Life and Glorification alongside Him. 3. (abstractly or concretely) confidence. 4. (by weakened analogy) an expectant hope (with anticipation). 5. (improperly, by further weakening) merely a hope, a wishing for, a wanting (without reason of expectation). 6. (note) the modern English use of the word “hope” is a weakened context (a mere whisper) of what is meant by this biblical Greek word.’  The hope of a ceaseless friendship with Jesus is a flabbergasting, lively reality.

   His banner over me is love

“For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day” [2Timothy 1:12]. The verb ‘persuaded’ is peithō: ‘to be induced to believe: to have faith: in a thing; to believe; to be persuaded of a thing concerning a person; to listen to, obey, yield to, comply with.’ Pauline persuasion is of general application. It is every Christian’s article of faith: a principle accepted as valid and authoritative. Jesus will keep this friendship intact. ‘Keep’ is phulasso (foo-las’-so), meaning: ‘1. to watch, i.e. be on guard 2. (by implication) to preserve, obey, avoid.’ Jesus does not only stand on guard to ensure the continuance of our friendship, He practically preserves the sanctity of the friendly relationship. Amen. ‘Committed’ is paratheke (par-ath-ay’-kay) ‘1. a deposit 2. (figuratively) trust.’ Our belief in this flabbergasting relationship is a deposit of faith in the Lord, who in turn ensures the perpetuity of this glory.                               

                You can choose to be another friend of Jesus. Get born again. Meaning it from your heart, say this prayer:

“Dear heavenly Father, I come to You now in the name of Jesus Christ. I believe in my heart that Jesus is the Son of God. I believe that Jesus died on the cross for my sin. I believe that You raised Him from the dead. I confess with my mouth that Jesus is Lord and I receive Him now as my Lord and my Saviour. I give God all the glory. Amen!”    

(…to be concluded…)

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IT IS A FLABBERGAST THAT JESUS IS MY FRIEND (one)

1)            A touch on the button of friendship emotes a phenomenal gregarianism. The mere thought of friendship with a popular schoolmate evokes fantasy of emotionalism. What transpires in the realm of ecstasy is best left to imagination, when an opportunity fingers an entertainment star, a popular political giant, the wealthiest or the great pastor as a potential friend. Can I help in a reminiscence of the first time ever I struck the love deal with a girl? I was so glad; so very satisfied with this intimacy so much that the satiation it enraptured me in gave me no need, whatsoever, to eat dinner: for I was so full of joyous goodness knowing fully well that the pulchritudinous reality of this good girl is truly all mine! 

His disciples are no longer servants but His friends

                Consequently, so flabbergasted with the deluge of emotionalism I found myself when I read, almost disbelieving, the words of John 15:15, “Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.” Who are the friends of the Lord Jesus? They are the ones of John 13:5, “After that he poureth water into a bason, and began to wash the disciples’ feet, and to wipe them with the towel wherewith he was girded.” Do you have the slightest idea of what it betokens to ‘wash’ and ‘wipe’ their feet and what connotation is derived therefrom? ‘Wash’ is the Greek word niptō (nip’-to): ‘To cleanse (especially the hands or the feet or the face); ceremonially to perform ablution.’ The word ‘wipe’ is ekmassō (ek-mas’-so): ‘to knead out, that is, (by analogy) to wipe dry.’ What it does bespeak and signify is that Jesus carried out a kneading process that epitomizes the facticity of Divine gregariousness.                          

The Second Member of the Godhead: Jesus

                Is it not a mind blowing baptismal treat getting jolted into the scriptural infallibility that acknowledges your rapprochement between Jesus and you: knowing fully well this is not just anybody, but Jesus, the Word of God, the Second Member of the Godhead, the One of the epithetical ‘which is, which was, and is to come, the Almighty,’ even the LORD God of creationism? In order to bring the gregarianism into a legality of perfection, Jesus carried out a cleansing ceremony. It was more than a ceremonial wash, He wiped out every vestige of alienating abnormality. Amen!                                                                                                                                     Christ made us holy.

We became the sacredness of vessels: men of quality, chosen instruments for Divine gregariousness. Amen. One comforting joyous hope is that this friendship, authored by Him, is perfected and wholly maintained by Jesus, the Eternal Author of salvation. How can flesh and blood redeem a compromised spiritual reality? Only Jesus is the Redeemer. “Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ” [Philippians 1:6]. In classical Greek, the word ‘confident’ is πείθω with a transliteration peithō (pi’-tho), it speaks of: ‘to persuade, i.e. to induce one by words to believe; to tranquillise; to be induced to believe: to have faith: in a thing; to believe; to be persuaded of a thing concerning a person; to listen to, obey, yield to, comply with.’ By this Pauline couch, I am obedient to God’s finished work, ergo, I believe it. Amen.                                    

A Friend so close: Jesus

                The word ‘perform,’ of John 15:15 is epiteleo (ep-ee-tel-eh’-o) ‘1. to fulfill further (or completely), i.e. execute 2. (by implication) to terminate, undergo.’ The consummation of this friendship is not by any commitment of my doing. It is wholly the Lord’s doing. The implausibility of this phenomenon dazzles one with the incredulity of its uncanny pose. The Bible’s revelation to this fact, that Jesus, very God of very God, is the Performer of this phenomenal cater-cousin with Divinity simply puts my mind at rest and at the same time blows my mind in all directions of the atmospheric winds.

Jesus is Jehovah, our righteousness

You can choose to be another friend of Jesus. Get born again. Meaning it from your heart, say this prayer:

“Dear heavenly Father, I come to You now in the name of Jesus Christ. I believe in my heart that Jesus is the Son of God. I believe that Jesus died on the cross for my sin. I believe that You raised Him from the dead. I confess with my mouth that Jesus is Lord and I receive Him now as my Lord and my Saviour. I give God all the glory. Amen!”   

 (…to be continued…)

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I WILL GIVE YOU REST [part two]

Who gave the Old Testament Job the spiritual and financial rest?

(2)          Our ultimate blissful rest simply rests in the bosom of the Adonai God. Our several years of satanic captivity yearns for the rest that the Divinity alone can provide. Psalm 116:7, “Return unto thy rest, O my soul; for the LORD hath dealt bountifully with thee.” The psalmist, no doubt, has the deute (call of come) of Jesus in mind knowing fully well that Jesus is the Lord of eternal rest.

            It was His proper business to make this call. The oracular afflatus points this out in Isaiah 11:10 “And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious.” The fact of Gentiles’ involvement proves its universality. The invitational “all ye” deute can only be extended from the Divinity. There are other verses to confer: Eccl 2:23; Rom 7:22-25 & Gal 5:1.

            Psalm 94:13 reads, “That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked.” Who gives rest in this verse? He is found in the first verse, “O LORD God, to whom vengeance belongeth; O God, to whom vengeance belongeth, shew thyself” [Psalm 94:1]. How could Jesus say, “…and I will give you rest”? He is the Lord God of the Old Testament. 2Thessalonians 1:7, “And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,” and Hebrews 4:1 are good reference verses.

                Prior to Matthew 11:28 Jesus said “All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him” in Matthew 11:27. This verse proves the Deity of Jesus, who, ergo, has the capability to bask mankind in the rest.

            ‘All things’ is the Greek pas (pas) meaning: ‘all, any, every, the whole.’ What is given into His hand is not few stuffs. Only God can containerise the wholeness of universal riches of creationism. ‘All,’ most definitely, does not exclude all the great men of history and of future endeavours. ‘No man’ is oudeis (oo-dice’) and it means: ‘not even one (man, woman or thing), that is, none, nobody, nothing.’ All religious founders of mammoth adherence and die hard fanaticism, philosophers of colossal strides and deified emperors; all of these do not know the Father.

                ‘Knoweth’ is epiginōskō (ep-ig-in-oce’-ko): ‘to become thoroughly acquainted with, to know thoroughly; to know accurately, know absolutely well.’ Christ, the fountain of all knowledge, is the only One who can achieve this impossible feat. It must take a celestial Deity to know another Deity. None can uncover the Father save the Son. The word ‘reveal,’ apokaluptō (ap-ok-al-oop’-to) means: ‘to take off the cover, that is, disclose.’ The Father is eternal. The Son must be eternal to have an absolute knowledge of the Father of lights. Jesus did not speak as a man when He said, “…and I will give you rest.” The Christ, who is the Second Member of the Godhead, made the pronouncement that can only be uttered by the Divinity. Amen!

Unto Jesus I surrender all!

          When the Lord Jesus made the asseverative pronouncement of Matthew 12:8, “For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day;” He unveiled the deity of the Christ. Jesus reestablished the facticity of “Before Abraham was I AM!” The transcendentalism of His essence proves His authorship of time and, His epiginōskō (absolute knowledge) of the attendant history. Here in Matthew 12:8, His deity takes the Jews to the days of our pristine parents in the Garden of Eden.

The LORD of Sabbath comes from heaven

                How could He be the Lord of Sabbath and still be standing before them? This conundrum is resolved in the book of John. “And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven” [John 3:13]. He did not say to them, “Son of man which was in heaven.” Jesus, as He stood before their very eyes, was simultaneously present in heaven and on the earth. How could His physical being be a manifestation on earth and in heaven even as He spoke with them? No angel can replicate his celestial corporeality anywhere else. Only God, who alone can achieve this feat, is the One who can give this celestial rest. Jesus promises the same rest. Come to Jesus all that are heavy laden. He will give you rest. Amen!

He died to offer you His rest

                Jesus will give you rest only if you will receive His life. Get born again. Say this simple prayer:

 “Dear heavenly Father, I come to You now in the name of Jesus Christ. I believe in my heart that Jesus is the Son of God. I believe that Jesus died on the cross for my sin. I believe that You raised Him from the dead. I confess with my mouth that Jesus is Lord and I receive Him now as my Lord and my Saviour. I give God all the glory. Amen!”    

(Concluded)

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I WILL GIVE YOU REST [part one]

 1)           One hardly appreciates the mental grokking of it until one is ushered into the physical reality of basking in true rest. The human mind constantly yearns for the serenity that comes from the cessation of physical travails associated with man’s life on this terra firma. Rest, indeed, is a subjective delicacy psychogenically sought after by every individual. Man’s greatest enemy, the kahuna of task masters, Lucifer, having stumbled on the best way to bring mankind into abject subjugation, sold religious piety to the warped mentality of Adam’s progeny. True rest is absolutely nonexistent in religious toils. Jesus, ergo, had to come to man’s rescue.

            Matthew 11:28, “Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” This is the solution to man’s yearning for freedom from religious slavery. This rest is found nowhere else but in the Creator.

“Come unto Me….I will give you rest.”

            The verb ‘come,’ in the Greek, is deute (dyoo’-teh). It is a Greek imperative form of deuro (dyoo’-ro) –‘here’ and εἶμι eimi (‘to go’)– meaning: ‘come hither, come here, come interjection, come! come now!’ The word ‘labour,’ kopiaō (kop-ee-ah’-o) is: ‘to grow weary, tired, exhausted (with toil or burdens or grief), to feel fatigue; by implication to work hard.’ ‘Heavy laden’ is phortizō (for-tid’-zo): ‘to place a burden upon, (properly as a vessel or animal), that is, (metaphorically) to overburden with ceremony (or spiritual anxiety).’ While the pronoun ‘you,’ humas (hoo-mas’): ‘an accusative case of the 2nd person you (as the object of a verb or preposition);’ an interesting thing is that ‘give’ and ‘rest’ mean the same anapauō (an-ap-ow’-o): ‘(reflexively) to repose (literally or figuratively (be exempt), remain); by implication to refresh; of calm and patient expectation.’

I Am, the Good Shepherd: JESUS!

            Is it possible for any man to give this kind of rest to anyone? Jesus promises anyone who obeys Him, “I will anapauō you anapauō.” This is perfect rest. This is why ‘rest’ must be mentioned twice: for emphasis. Only the Creator can offer this anapauō. It is not difficult to figure out the One who can establish this safe rest which can only be celestial. The Author of this given rest is found in this Scripture, “And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made” [Genesis 2:2]. It is absolutely essential for God to choose the seventh day to institute His day of rest. Is it not the scriptural numerology for perfection? It also proves His perfect control of universal affairs.

The LORD of Sabbath showed Himself on Mount Sanai

                The Hebrew rendition of the sobriquet ‘God’ in Genesis 2:2 is a titillating ‘Ělôhı̂ym (el-o-heem’). This is ‘God’ in the plural. The singular is ‘Ě̆lôahh (el-o’-ah). God the Father will not vacate the celestial throne. The only One that makes Himself visible to human perception is the Second Member of the Godhead. The Christ. When ‘Ělôhı̂ym is employed in the introduction of God, what it simply means is that the Members of the Godhead are acting in strict consonance. Christ, in His preincarnational manifestation, came into Eden as the LORD God of creationism. He is the Author of Sabbath and the Lord of rest. Amen!

Perfect rest of the Garden of Eden

            The Hebraic ‘rested’ of Genesis 2:2 is shâbath (shaw-bath’): ‘to repose, that is, desist from exertion; used in many implied relations (causatively, figuratively or specifically).’ The One who rested on the first ever seventh day of human existence is the very One who says to restless man, “Come unto Me……and I will give you rest.”

                The Matthew 11:28 mand of ‘come’ is a divine summon of Old Testamentary understanding. Prophetic utterance of Isaiah 45:22 says, “Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.” What do I see?  It is saliency: gaping at the unraveling of the deity of Jesus. Is it not apropos that if God did make a repetition of the deute it must be by none else but God Himself? There is no recorded history of any other person offering a soteriological invitation of an eternal consequence. In another prophecy it goes thus: “Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price” (Isaiah 55:1). Confer Isaiah 53:2 & 3; John 6:37; John 7:37 & Rev 22:17.

He went about doing good (Acts 10:38)

                The scriptural reference to ‘all’ is found in, Psalm 38:4, “For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.”  This psalmodic complaint is a universal dirge of every soulish entity. Ecclesiastes 2:22 “For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?” Man’s operose emprise, geared towards spiritual relevance amounts, absolutely, to nothing unless one takes the expected steps of divine protocol that answers the imperative deute of Jesus. Amen!

                Jesus will give you rest only if you will receive His life. Get born again. Say this simple prayer:

 “Dear heavenly Father, I come to You now in the name of Jesus Christ. I believe in my heart that Jesus is the Son of God. I believe that Jesus died on the cross for my sin. I believe that You raised Him from the dead. I confess with my mouth that Jesus is Lord and I receive Him now as my Lord and my Saviour. I give God all the glory. Amen!”   

 (…to be concluded…)

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HE IS IN FULL CONTROL (Part five)

Faithful Abraham

 (…continued from part four…)

5)            After many years of Nimrodic temerarious worship saw an introduction of the faith endearing walk of Abraham. Abraham’s tyro walk even as it exposed the tremulousness of an abecedarian at his sight of the imposing hegemonic Egyptian Pharaoh, God, latching on the covenant He had with Abraham, got Him swinging into action. The table turned in Abraham’s favour. It was the Pharaoh who had to appease Abraham, making him very rich.

                Show wisdom. Stand on the pillar of faith and the riches of the world will be yours, just like that, in Jesus’ name!

Abraham received blessing from Melchizedek

                All that was necessary for Abraham to have was not twelve princes like Ismael. Just one Isaac was all that was required to hold the baton of patriarchy: and that puts God’s transcendence to bear on weak human affairs. Have faith. Did Joseph not make his entrance as an Egyptian slave? What happened when God involved His control in his slavery life? At the time of a huge increase in Israel’s population, it was a return bout when Egypt had metamorphosed into the superpower of the entire globe. Pharaoh’s ungodly proclivity ran him as insane as his liar-father, Lucifer. His temerity earned him his comeuppance. Amen.

                Every machination of the Antichrist must be designed to accept God’s protocol. Control! Satanism cannot, dares not operate outside God’s sanction of his evil games. The Bible says he will give the number representing his name (666) to the people he will lord it over. He must do that. His hegemonic Satanism is just seven years. He cannot exceed this. Control. The Church must experience the eschatological rapture a la Enoch’s ‘translation’ and before then the Antichrist son of Lucifer cannot set up any earthly governmental machinery over born again members of the body of Christ -the true Christians. Impossible! “Impossican’t!” (My Pastor, Rev. Chris Okotie will jocularly asseverate).

The Holy Spirit is our spiritual energy

                Our physical presence on terra firma is God’s full control over the governmental emergence of the evil antics of the son of perdition. There cannot be two masters on a ship. The stark reality is simply that our presence will make it impossible for his satanic hegemony. One prayer from true Christians will bind and cast him to the hellish abode he eventually belongs. God’s equitable jurisdiction, therefore, must allow Satan to have his evil day.

                The propriety of jurisprudence, in this context of Lucifer being the god of this world system, owing to the historical fact that Adam gave the earth to the Devil when he sinned, man’s slavery to a physical dominion of the Antichrist is a comeuppance. Even in his hegemonic stance in the eschatology of Divine calendar, Jehovah does not cease to be in control. Israel will be God’s mouthpiece. His covenant with Israel is His legality. Israel has seven more years to receive her Messiah. God’s control makes it imperative for Lucifer not to have more than seven remaining years of the Law Dispensation. Of the seven, the Antichrist must do good deeds during the first half.

Satan almost killed lovely ‘BBB,’ a wonderful blogger, but Jesus was in full control!

                Jesus took three and a half years of the seven (in His ministry of going about doing good). After the peaceful years: “For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape” [1Thessalonians 5:3] is the betiding phenomenon. Evil as never before. He will be left with only the second half of the seven years to unleash all the cruelty of the demented mind of Satan, his lost father of lies. The Divine calendar of Dispensation of Grace, having brought to its logical conclusion by the rapture of Christians, the remaining part of the suspended Dispensation of the Law is employed to deal with the Antichrist and his foul father when Israel would have to cry unto Jehovah as usual, and even to the chagrin of Israel, Jesus will be the One to show up: for He is the Jehovah –in the fullest control! Amen. Hallelujah!!

                Man has always been a bad manager of his life. Let God be in control of your life for proper management. Get born again. Say this prayer, meaning it:

“Dear heavenly Father, I come to You now in the name of Jesus Christ. I believe in my heart that Jesus is the Son of God. I believe that Jesus died on the cross for my sin. I believe that You raised Him from the dead. I confess with my mouth that Jesus is Lord and I receive Him now as my Lord and my Saviour. I give God all the glory. Amen!”       

 (Concluded)

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God forgave the first Woman -Eve.

Jehovah is in firm control