NIGERIA, LIKE ISRAEL, IS GOD’S CLIENT NATION [2]

Messianic Judaism

Jesus is the Governor of nations [Ps. 22:28; Rev. 11:15].

2)            Could jihadism be an institution of Jehovah God? It is the core of Islamic expansion. Jihadism is the evangelical machinery of Mohammedan Islam. Jihadism is pure terrorism. It cannot be the way of the Divinity. This is how the soteriological expansion is biblically instituted; Mark 16:15 “And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.” Another Scripture documents, “And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. 19) Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: 20) Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen” [Matthew 28:18-20].

Shekau, Boko Haram leader

                This is one of the jihadic understandings of the Qur’an, found in the hadith of Sunan Abu Dawood, Jihad (Kitab Al-Jihad) Book 15, Hadith 56. “Narrated ‘Anas ibn Malik: The Prophet (pbuh) said: Three things are the roots of faith: to refrain from (killing) a person who utters, “There is no god but Allah” and not to declare him unbeliever whatever sin he commits, and not to excommunicate him from Islam for his any action; and jihad will be performed continuously since the day Allah sent me as a prophet until the day the last member of my community will fight with the Dajjal (Antichrist). The tyranny of any tyrant and the justice of any just (ruler) will not invalidate it. One must have faith in Divine decree.”

                It is understood that there is no way jihad will not spill blood. Which of these two revelations Matthew 28:18-20 together with Mark 16:15 on one hand, and Book 15, hadith 56 of Sunan Abu Dawood on Jihad exudes peace, especially, in the biblical peace of Philippians 4:7 “And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus”? Let us not forget that the Antichrist is not yet here, therefore Islamic jihad is still legitimate these days, according to quranic prophecy.

Grandfather of Nigerian Fulani jihadism

                For more than a decade since ‘Boko Haram’ of Mohammedan jihadism began to terrorise Nigeria, the government of President Muhammadu Buhari has never declared the obnoxious activities of Boko Haram as a terrorist one –not even for once. They have not only pillaged but sacked villages; vandalized agricultural farmlands; kidnapped for ransom running into about a trillion naira; raped the girls and wives of communities; abducted children, wives and daughters; broken into schools to abduct defenceless students; set up unconstitutional parallel Local Government Councils; levied taxes and continue to threaten, terrorise with impunity. Buhari has never, for once, seen them for what they are: TERRORISTS! Boko Haram was once named the third worst terrorist group, internationally. Buhari said nothing.

                Under the governance of President Muhammadu Buhari, it is incessantly becoming a crime to ventilate a political inconvenience. The Fulani is President Buhari’s large puss-filled boil under his armpit, so, when you poke at any Fulani atrocity, you have needled his nursing inflammation! The man hates criticisms against his government. Should it be difficult, for these reasons, to view President Buhari, a Fulani man, an accomplice to these Fulani atrocities? Muhammadu Buhari has forgotten that he presides over the nation of Nigeria as a minister of Jehovah, the true Governor of nations [Psalm 22:28].

Sheik Ahmed Gumi

                A former military officer, now an Islamic teacher, Sheik Ahmed Gumi, has severally fronted for the AK-47 wielding Fulani herding terrorists. These cattle herders will lead their animals into private farmlands and feed them with the crops of farms they never cultivated. Any attempt to question their evil plundering propensity has always received the replies from their murderous, heavy AK-47 bullets. Massacre. Today, foodstuffs have gone the way of skyrocketing all because farmers are afraid to do what they know best: farm the rich land –of Nigeria. Sheik Gumi is asking that the government should pardon the Boko Haram terrorists, who, according to him, became marauding jihadists because they had become impoverished. Gumi said, “They are ready to lay down arms for amnesty”. Gumi knows their hideouts. The government would not lift a finger to root them out! Gumi was asked, “Should you not be arrested for fronting for the payments for the cattle herders’ ransom?” You want to know his unabashed answer? “Who will do that, do the government people not attend the meetings –of how much they want as ransom— with me?” So, Gumi and the presidency are the ones enriching the evil business of Fulani cattle herders.

Samuel Ladoke Akintola

                It is crystal clear that Buhari’s government is following the Ahmadu Bello’s script of their great grandfather of jihadism, Othman Dan Fodio. Their deliberate acts are inhibiting the spread of the gospel of our Lord Jesus. Christians of the northern parts of Nigeria attend church services at their own peril. Safety is now the most essential commodity. The government of Buhari knows what to do. For reasons of former President Obasanjo’s coinage: Fulanisation (i.e. wanting to turn Nigeria into a Fulani State a la Islam), the president will not do anything, but, will maintain the status quo. The One whose client is Nigeria will ‘neither sleep nor slumber’ [Psalm 121:4]. Amen.

Sunday Igboho

                A Yoruba man, popularly called Sunday Igboho has been agitating for Yoruba –of the West— split from Nigeria since the North is bent on throwing the southern Nigerians into political slavery. Another man of the Igbo stock, Nnamdi Kanu is doing everything to aid an Eastern secession from Nigeria. Buhari did not find it difficult to get these individuals arrested. Buhari branded Sunday and Nnamdi, his Eastern counterpart, terrorists. The question is: if Boko Haram that has killed hundreds of thousands, forced schools’ close down, made the Northern States terribly ungovernable –including his, the President’s home State, Katsina State—, is allowed to continue these Satanism, but Sunday Igboho and Nnamdi Kanu must be clamped down, where is equity? Leah Sharibu is still in their custody! Gumi is walking freely, a Boko Haram hero.

                Muhammadu Buhari is psychologically or pathologically troubled by the existence of Nnamdi Kanu and Sunday Igboho who are of the Eastern and Western parts of Nigeria respectively; but is it not mind troubling that the annihilating drive of Boko Haram and the cruelty of Fulani cattle herders give the president sweet, daily sleep. Jihadism is at work. Granted that Sunday Igboho and, especially, Nnamdi Kanu do get overboard in their activities, how come the nefarious deeds of the Fulani herders receive not the heavy hands of the government of Buhari?

                The charge against Sunday Igboho is that of arms stockpiling: probably to topple Buhari’s government.

Chief Obafemi Awolowo

                Chief Obafemi Awolowo, the first Premier of Western Region, was arrested for the same treasonable offence (in the ‘60’s), the arms were widely believed to have been falsely buried close to Chief Awolowo’s property to implicate him in order to get him out of the way. Chief Obafemi Awolowo bagged a ten-year jail term. What happened? While in jail, the military, led by Major Nzeogwu, struck. What did they do? The coupists killed all those they considered big politicians. The Prime Minister, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, the de facto leader of the ruling political party, Ahmadu Bello, Finance Minister, Festus Okotie-Eboh and the Western Region Premier, Samuel Ladoke Akintola among eleven others were assassinated. Widely believed was the fact that if Awolowo was not serving the jail term, he would have been shot dead too!

Major Nzeogwu

                Of recent, the members of Muhammadu Buhari led APC (All Progressive Congress) governing political party, believe that the opposition party PDP (People’s Democratic Party), is wrong in saying that insecurity has bedeviled the country like never before now. APC’s stand against the phenomenal reality is a deliberate obfuscation. Truth is meant to illuminate minds constructively and progressively. Any man who resorts to tergiversation is an apostle of sheer cruelty. A truth hiding individual is a promoter of Satanism. Buhari has every buck of these atrocities stopping at his presidential desk. Buhari is guilty! Muhammadu Buhari, if you had done the right thing, no Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho or the likes of Nnamdi Kanu would dream of seceding from Nigeria –a land flowing with milk and honey! If Nebuchadnezzar could change, so can Buhari.  

                The absolute truth here is that the Lord God, the Governor of the nations, has begun to walk through Nigeria. So, I say to the Most High, concerning Nigeria, my beloved country, “Rise up, LORD, and let thine enemies be scattered; and let them that hate thee flee before thee” [Numbers 10:35]. Amen!

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NIGERIA, LIKE ISRAEL, IS GOD’S CLIENT NATION [1]

President Muhammadu Buhari

                The resident will, in heart of the Creator, has always been the reason for the divine choices He makes. The object of His choice ineluctably receives the enablement of Divinity for fructification. The day He bent down over an inconsequential sparged dust, meant to bring Adam into existence, it was pellucid that the LORD God was up to something. Curiosity got the worst of Lucifer. Adam was given two breaths of lives to the devil’s chagrin. God’s act of, “breathed into his nostrils the breath of life” of Genesis 2:7, in the Hebraic understanding is actually, ‘breath of lives’. Man had received the licence to act and speak on the behalf of the Almighty. Rather than kill them for disobedience to His word, the LORD God made another law called “the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus” (Romans 8:2) when He used the two animals whose deaths are prognosticative of the ultimate sacrifice –of the cross. The soteriology became a lucidity.

Othman Dan Fodio

                Any soul whose heart pants, as the hart’s after water, towards the will of God receives His rapt attention. The same soul, by the reason of the ‘revived spirit’ of the “breath  of lives” experience, compels the LORD God to make this soulish being His divine business. There must be rapture of the Christians; a similitude of it, ergo, was displayed by taking of a saint of the antediluvian age, Enoch, exempting him from the natural death known to the sinful occupants of the terra firma. God proved that He had always been faithful. He made the survival of mankind a possibility; knowing fully well that some are truly His, eight antediluvian saints led by Noah were miraculously kept in the ark, together with domesticated and dangerous beasts, for a total one hundred and ninety days.

                Genesis 9:1, “And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.” On account of this blessedness the evil of Genesis 9:24 “And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him;” the LORD God would not allow Noah to place a direct curse upon his second son, Ham. “And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren” (Genesis 9:25).

Chief Festus Okotie-Eboh

                What does the backward act of Shem and Japheth prognosticate? Genesis 9:23 “And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father’s nakedness.” The backward movement points to the global apostasy of the human race. Shem must do something about it. Through him the Saviour will enter our world and Shem, i.e. Israel, will be the first to proclaim the gospel of the grace, bringing to reality “the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus” into phenomenality. Amen. That God must make spiritual contact with Israel is seen in Adam’s scamper to the fig tree to be sheltered from ignominy. Israel is metaphorically called the “fig tree” [Hosea 9:10]. Israel must be the first to receive this salvation: for it says “first to the Jew, then to the Gentiles” (Romans 1:16).

Tafawa Balewa

                Japheth, through Europe, his progeny, having enlarged the spread of the salvation of Jesus Christ, Ham, the father of the so called ‘Black race,’ must attend to God’s soteriological business, this end time. Nigeria is not only the most populous of the African continent, it has so many very prominent ecclesiastical ministers of the gospel. Ecclesiastically, it has at least three of the world’s largest auditoriums for Church worship. It is a very rich country like Israel, of Shem and Europe of Japheth. The first named colour of the Scripture is ‘green’. Nigeria is well known for this colour (green, white, green) of her flag.

IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu

Nnamdi Kanu

                Lucifer made an incursion into Eden garden to prevent Adam from exercising his ordained role for God. Israel was well troubled by the enemy of Jesus for hosting the prophetic Emmanuel –Jesus. The true Church –the Body of Christ— was hunted for teaching the truth. The first man to tread an incursive jihadism into the land of Nigeria was Othman Dan Fodio, born in December 15, 1754, and died in April 20, 1817. His intention was to turn Nigeria into an Islamic State, contrary to the wish of Jehovah, to whom Nigeria is a client nation. Othman Dan Fodio could not go farther than the Northern part of the entire land mass of Nigeria. The reason is quite simple: God had His willing children located in the Southern part of His client nation. The North of Nigeria, since independence, had continued to remain the backward region.

Sir Ahmadu Bello

                Some days after independence, this statement was credited to the first and only Premier of the Northern Region of Nigeria, ”The new nation called Nigeria should be an estate of our grandfather, Othman Dan Fodio. We must ruthlessly prevent a change of power. We must use the minorities in the North as willing tools and South as conquered territories and never allow their future.”
-SIR AHMADU BELLO, October 12, 1960.

                And since then the North had believed, so erroneously, that the political governance of Nigeria is the birthright of the Fulani oligarchy with the full backing of Othman Dan Fodio’s spirit of jihadism.

           Jihad.

Jihad is about spilling the blood of a non-Muslim

                Could jihadism be an institution of Jehovah God? It is the core of Islamic expansion. Jihadism is the evangelical machinery of Muhammadan Islam. Jihadism is pure terrorism. It cannot be the way of the Jehovah God. This is how the soteriological expansion is biblically instituted; Mark 16:15 “And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.” Another Scripture documents, “And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. 19) Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: 20) Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen” [Matthew 28:18-20].

(…to be concluded…)

Which Is, And Which Was, And Which Is To Come (1)

THE ETERNAL FATHER

1)            Nowhere else is the corporeality of Divine Personage, regarding the Eternal One, ushered into the ocular experience of the natural eye, other than the Book of Revelation chapter four verse two. “And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne” [Revelation 4:2]. Seated in an altitudinous height of awesome jaw breaking enigma, the nacreous gush of His administration a spellbound demonstration, the angelic paean of, “which was, and which is, and which is to come,” in adoration, engulfed the entire celestial realm. Amen!                                                                 

The epical Island of Patmos experience

                “John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace be unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne” [Revelation 1:4]. This is in reference to the Eternal Father. Two chapters away from this verse couches, “And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come” [Revelation 4:8]. The angelic host never ceases to offer this panegyrical worship to the Eternal Father. The word ‘which’ is ho (ho) ‘(including the feminine he (hay), and the neuter to (to) in all their inflections); it is defined as (definite article) the.’

                The verb ‘is,’ is the Greek on (own’): ‘(including the feminine ousa (oo’-sah), and the neuter on (on)), means: ‘being [present participle of eimi –eternal existence].’ The conjunction ‘and’ iskai (kai’): ‘and, also, even, so then, too, etc.’ The auxiliary ‘was’ isen (ayn): ‘I (thou, etc.) was (wast or were).’ The phrasal ‘is to come’ is the Greek erchomai (er’-khom-ai) ‘to come or go.’ The epithet ‘which is, and which was, and which is to come’ in the Greek is ὅ ὤν καί ὅ ἦν καί ὅ ερχόμενος which is transliterated: ho on kai ho en kai ho erchomenos (hoh’ own’ kai’ hoh’ ayn` kai’ hoh’ er-khom’-en-os), it is a proper noun, meaning: ‘the one being and the one that was and the one coming, i.e. the Eternal.’

                There are many entities that receive worship in the present days of human existence. These entities of idolatry are imposters. Jehovah is the only One true God whose existence transcends the days of creationism. We all are in existence just because He ‘is.’ The heavenly Father ‘is,’ not as a result of the ratiocination of any other being. He does not emanate from the fantasy of ratiocinatio. Jehovah is the very ‘is’ of existence. Amen. His Being is the cause of our being. ‘Which is,’ from its definition means, ‘The Eternal Being.’

                ‘Which was’ takes the epithetical stance to another complete dimension. The ‘was’ is made of two expressions. The first is ēn (ane): ‘an imperfect tense of (eime -eternal being) i.e. I (thou, etc.) was (wast or were).’ The second is the above ho ōn ho ēn ho erchomenos: it is a phrase combining (ho [ho] ‘the’) with the present participle and imperfect of (eime)and the present participle of (erchomai (er’-khom-ahee): ‘to come’) by means of kai (kahee). The grammatical stance of the Greek ‘was’ defines ‘which was’ thus: ‘The Being from eternal past’; ‘I that existed from the eternity past when nothing was, save I AM.’ How old is the ‘which was’? He is too old to be captured by the numerology of scientific valuation. No number, as long as it has a calculable value, can reveal the chronology of His historical existence. The transcendentalism of ‘which was’ brings every imagined chronological eon before His throne of adoration! The Ancient of days!!     

                Rid your mind of unscriptural thoughts. Get born again. Say this simple prayer, believing it with all your heart. Say:

“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…)

THE END-TIME MARK OF THE ANTICHRIST (IX)

And we shall reign with him a thousand years [Revelation 20:6].

(IX)      Christians cannot be made to experience the flagitious rule of the Antichrist, because His words are, “I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it” (Mat 16:18). The verbal ‘prevail against’ is the Greek word katischuo (kat-iy-schï ’-ō) ‘to have power over, to overpower, to overcome; to come to one’s full strength.’ The exhortatory words of Jesus say that Christians cannot be devastated by the force of the enemy. Amen!

The Holy Spirit filled Christians will be led to heaven in the rapture

                The Lord Jesus will show up twice in the seven weeks. Not touching the earth, His first appearance takes place in the middle of the seven weeks, –to remove the Church at the rapture. The next thing would be a global broadcast from the capital of the world! It would be something like, “Enemies of a peaceful earth must be rounded up and be punished.” The Antichrist is the spiritual progeny of Satan, the father of lies, ergo, he will find it facilely colorable to blame perceived enemies from Mars or wherever. This will give birth to branding. The number of his name is 666. It will be borne by all, great and small. This will prove that he, the son of perdition, owns the world and all its inhabitants, fronting for Lucifer, the god of this world.

                The truth, however, is that he cannot exercise his evil force to receive latria from us –the born-again Christians. Why? “For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.” [2Thess 2:7]. The Lord Jesus is the ‘restrainer,’ the Greek word, katechō (kat-ekh’-o), for ‘letteth.’

This branding of 666 is for non-believers of soteriology

                The body of Christ will not allow the devil to have his branding of her. Abominable! The second time will be at the end of the seventh week, after the Antichrist has perfectly unleashed his terror of the tribulation. Then comes Jesus and His Bride, to fulfil the thousand years of true peace. The fulfilment of the seven remaining weeks are strictly eschatological. The Antichrist’s 3 ½ years peace treaty is an event that unveils the true identity of Satan’s son of perdition. He (the Antichrist) has not yet done that, ergo, he cannot give anyone the mark of 666. Adamic historicity is yet to record any global reign of peace, for forty-two weeks, by any man or woman on this earth.

                Using the Scriptures to buttress His teaching, Jesus maintained: “and the scripture cannot be broken;” in John 10:35. The word ‘broken’ is luo (lï ’-ō) ‘1. to loosen, release. Undo; repeal; annul; 2. (by usage) to break (a law or treaty). 3. (by extension) to tear down (break down into unusable parts). 4. (of bonds) to dissolve. 5. (maritally) to divorce. I have shown copiously from the word of God that the Christian can neither lose his salvation nor be forced to receive the 666 mark of perdition. If the divine afflatus, as couched by the hand of Daniel is of vaticinal accuracy, then it is pellucid enough to see that the giving of the mark of the Beast cannot be given to anyone now (10^th July, 2020). Jesus, the Word of God

made an asseverative, “For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled” (Matt 5:18).

                What happens in 1Thessalonians 4:16, where it reads, “For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:” is the time of His appearing, only for the rapture of the saints, born again Christians. The first verse of the second chapter of 2Thessalonians Pauline teaching speaks of the gathering of the Christians. Guess what ‘gathering together’ of 2Thessalonians 2:1 is? It is episunagoge (e-piy-sïn-a-ğō-ǰee’), meaning: ‘1. a complete gathering. 2. (especially) a Christian meeting (reoccuring for worship).’ Every true born again Christian must be removed. This is quite different from what obtains in 2Thessalonians 2:8, “And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:” where the Antichrist, his followers and the false prophets will go into annihilation.

The conquered foe

                Before the destruction of the lawless, son of perdition, Revelation 13:1-8 relates the evil activities of the ultimate Antichrist. Verse 7 reads, “And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.” And this verse marks the last or second 3 ½ years of the son of Satan’s seven allotted years. We the redeemed children of God would have gone to stay in heaven, enjoying the fullness of the Father’s joy.

Even the beast must play by the rules

                After the seventh year Revelation 19:19-20 reads, “And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army. 20) And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.” This verse has a corroboration in the above 2Thessalonians 2:8.

Folks, this is why you just must be born again (John 3:7) before your earthly time is up! Pray the prayer of all prayers: the one that gets you born again. Are you ready? It must come from the core of your heart and believing every word. Here we go; say:

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 in my heart that Jesus died for my sins. I believe that You raised Him from the dead (for my justification). I confess with my mouth that Jesus is Lord, and I receive Him as my Lord and Saviour. I give God all the glory. Amen!

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THE END-TIME MARK OF THE ANTICHRIST (I)

(I)          I am truly flabbergasted, each time, to hear and read of the fears prevalent among my Christian brethren, concerning the mark of the Beast –the Antichrist. “They want to use this coronavirus pandemic to inject the chip of the 666-mark into the bodies of unsuspecting populace!” Others warn people not to step out at a particular period of the day, saying, “The powers that be have decided to spray the mark of the Beast into the atmosphere, employing the strength of the 5G internet network.” One evangelist even said, in an article, that the LORD Jesus had told her to tell Christians to get ready to flee to safe places. Reason? The Antichrist had already given the directive to his apostles to forcibly start engraving the mark on people, especially, the Christians. The great tribulation, according to the article, has begun; and Christians, according to what Jesus had told her, are billed to partake of the eschatological tribulation. True is the word of God which says, “My people perish for lack of knowledge.”

   The article even stated that, Jesus Christ told her that Christians should be careful lest they should receive the mark and enter into eternal perdition! Unbelievable! Should we not be careful to whom we give our attentive ears? Merely saying that Jesus said it does not mean that Jesus truly did say it. The disciples asked Jesus about the end time and He taught it to them in the Book of Matthew.

   “And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet” (Matthew 24:6). The turbulence of Covid-19, of wars and of social aberrancy definitely do not actuate the flagitious hegemonism of the Antichrist. It is merely a precursor to his eventual inauguration. How do I know this fact? Jesus was pellucid with the eschatological addendum: “for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.“          

Spirit-filled Christians will not partake of great tribulation

                As at today, the 10^th of July, 2020, the Antichrist, the son of satanic perdition cannot give the mark of his name to anybody. It is not possible. And it is simply because it is not yet his time. The LORD God is in absolute control of global occurrences. Verses 13 and 14 of Matthew chapter 24 reads: “But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved. 14) And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.”

                Verse 13 does not, in any way, underpin the 5^th point of Arminianism, which states that: “believers are able to resist sin but are not beyond the possibility of falling from grace;” simply because one cannot lose one’s toga of soteriology. Romans 11:29 clearly teaches: “For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.” The Greek for ‘without repentance’ is ametameletos (a-me-ta-me’-lee-tos) means ‘irrevocable.’ Those who must endure are the ones who never received Jesus as Lord and Saviour before the rapture, who must, painfully, pay with their blood, unfortunately. Ephesians 2:8-9 “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: 9) Not of works, lest any man should boast.” Kauchaomai (kaf-cha’-o-mai) is the Greek for ‘boast,’ meaning: ‘to glory, vaunt.’

                Matthew 24:15, “When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:).” This verse, credited to the Lord, Himself, points to a particular world event, when we can say unequivocally that the Antichrist and his afflictive agenda is a reality. That is when the mark will be branded on the people of the world. He will enter into the holy of holies of the Jerusalem Temple and nothing will happen to him, even though he is not the High Priest. Nothing will happen to him because he is “that Wicked one who will be revealed” (2Thess 2:8). The Greek for ‘wicked’ is: anomos (a’-no-mos) meaning: ‘1. lawless. 2. (negatively) not subject to (the Jewish) law. 3. (by implication) a Gentile. 4. (positively) wicked.’ The Jewish law of Jehovah does not affect him because of his different breed of humanity. Confer these verses: 2Thessalonians 2:3-4; Daniel 9:27, 11:31; 12:11

                “For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. 22) And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened” [Matthew 24:21-22]. Let us look at some of these words. ‘Tribulation’ is the Greek word, thlipsis (thliy’-psis) meaning: ‘pressure.’ It comes from a root word thlibo (thliy’-ɓō) ‘1. to compress. 2. to squeeze. 3. to press hard. 4. (passively) to be hard pressed. 5. to pinch. 6. (figuratively) to press in against, to crush (in a crowd).’ The next is ‘shortened’ koloboo (ko-lo-ɓo’-ō) ‘1. to dock. 2. (figuratively) abridge.’

                ‘Flesh’ is sarx (sarx’) ‘1. flesh (as stripped of the skin). 2. (strictly) the meat of an animal (as food). 3. (by extension) the body (as opposed to the soul (or spirit), or as the symbol of what is external, or as the means of kindred). 4. (by implication) human nature (with its frailties (physically or morally) and passions). 5. (specially) a human being (as such).’ ‘Saved’ is the Greek, sozo (sō’-zō) ‘to save, i.e. deliver or protect.’ The last word for treatment is ‘Elect,’ eklektos (ek-lek-tos’) meaning:‘1. select. 2. (by implication) favorite.’ God knows that if the Antichrist should be allowed to use the whole seven remaining years of the 70 weeks, even those whom the Lord had preserved for the soteriology would not be able to endure the tribulation. (…to be continued…)

Folks, this is why you just must be born again (John 3:7) before your earthly time is up! Pray the prayer of all prayers: the one that gets you born again. Are you ready? It must come from the core of your heart, and believing every word. Here we go; say:

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 in my heart that Jesus died for my sins. I believe that You raised Him from the dead (for my justification). I confess with my mouth that Jesus is Lord, and I receive Him as my Lord and Saviour. I give God all the glory. Amen!

 (…to be continued…)

SOTERIOLOGY MINUS JESUS [IV]

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IV) A conscious belief effort, on the part of an individual, in Christ, is never a mere act. It is a pleasing act of faith expended, based on the will of the Creator which magnetises a divine reward of eternal consequence. That person gets endowed with God’s very life of eternity. Minus Jesus, salvific actuation of empyreal ascendancy is unequivocally infeasible. The word ‘abideth’ is meno (me’-nō): ‘1. to remain. 2. (in a place) to abide, to stay. 3. (of expectancy) to await. 4. (in a state) to continue. 5. (in a task) to endure. 6. (of a relationship) to exist permanently in, inseparably united (inhere, adhere).’ This is the reason why people will go to hell (uncomfortable to my mind though) for all eternity: their rejection of the finished work of Jesus, on the cross. The truth is: when we get to heaven, we will know why.

“Which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.”

Pauline Christological exegesis is quite unambiguous in 1Corinthians 3:11, “For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.” The word ‘foundation’ is themelios (the-me’-liy-os): ‘something put down, i.e. a substructure (of a building, etc.).’ Does this verse not veto the Mohammedan, Hindu, Buddhistic and other aboriginal religions of the world for failing to accept the Lordship of Jesus Christ? It says, categorically, “For other foundation can no man lay;” simply because the antecedently laid foundation is the Owner of all that is found in existence, and the Creator of all. He is the Almighty. Jesus is ‘which is, and which was, and which is to come.’ Does the Bible not say, “He is before all things” [Colossians 1:17]; and does the Lord Jesus not asseverate, “I am the Alpha and the Omega……the Almighty” [Rev. 1:8]?

“…for without me ye can do nothing” John 15:5

1Timothy 2:5-6 “For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; 6) Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.” There is not more than one God –the Father of lights— and the interceding Personage between this one God and mankind is not more than one Jesus Christ. Mesites (me-siy’-tees) is the Greek word for ‘mediator’ and it is: ‘1. a go-between. 2. (simply) a spokesman. 3. (by implication) a reconciler (intercessor);’ while ‘ransom,’ is antilutron (an-tiy’-lï-tron), meaning: ‘a redemption-price, ransom.’ Having paid the price of man’s salvation in full, no other person can claim to possess a religious solution to man’s ascension to paradisiac bliss. To this end it was so important for Jesus to pronounce in John 10:8 “All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them.” Most definitely, all those who came after His earthly sojourn, and reject the Lordship of Jesus are thieves and robbers of the souls of men.

”Abide in me, and I in you” John 15:4.

1John 5:11-12 11 “And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12) He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.” God has given us a ‘record’ which in Greek is marturia (mar-tï-riy’-a) meaning: ‘evidence given (judicially or genitive case).’ The spiritual location of our eternal life is hid in none other than the Lord Jesus! Amen. In none other is the life of God resident. Only Jesus can save, most evidently.
Revelation 7:9-10 “After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands; 10) And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.” When you find yourself in heaven, the truth of Jesus’ Lordship is too glaring; there is no deception, ergo, everyone is happy to worship Him in truth. The celestial reverential stance of all its inhabitants is before God the Father and of the Son. That makes Jesus as divine as the Father. Equality.

He is in custody of the Book of Life

Revelation 20:15, “And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.” The ones who refuse to get born again do not have any part in Jesus, ergo, not members of the mystical body of Christ. There is security of this salvation. Revelation 3:5, “He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.” Herein lies the veracity of the security of the soteriology; Jesus says, “and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father…” Truly, only Jesus can save.

Get born again. Say this simple prayer, believing it with all your heart. Say:

“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!”

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SOTERIOLOGY MINUS JESUS [III]

“…all things were created by him, and for him:” [Colossians 1:16]

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III) 2Corinthians 13:8 “For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.” The first word of this verse, ‘for’ is gar (ğar’), ‘a primary particle assigning a reason.’ The active ‘can do’ is the Greek word dunamai (d̮ï ’-na-mai). It means ‘to be able or possible.’ The word ‘nothing’ comes from an ou (ou): ‘no; not (with definite article); none; not the one; neither; nor;’ and tis (tiys’) –an interrogative pronoun—: ‘some or any person or object [enclitic indefinite pronoun].’ The word ‘truth’ is aletheia (a-lee’-thei-a): ‘truth, reality.’ The conjunction ‘but’ is alla (al-la’): ‘1. (properly) other things. 2. (adverbially) contrariwise (in many relations).’ The second ‘for’ is a different huper (hï-per’), a preposition, in this context is: ‘(causal) on behalf (of); (by extension, rarely) concerning.’

The truth is a personage. It is the reality of Divinity. The Divinity is the Almighty Author of creationism. Nothing, absolutely, comes close to Him in power, authority, wisdom, supremacy and senescence. The physical personality of the truth comes to manifestation in John 14:6, “Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” The Greek for ‘way’ is hodos (ho-d̮os') ‘1. a road. 2. (by implication) a progress (the route, act or distance). 3. (figuratively) a mode or means.’ How can Jesus be the mode, means, road or the progression to the celestial bliss and not be very God of very God? As the ‘Truth’ (aletheia), Jesus is the physical ‘reality’ of Divinity. ‘Life,’ in this verse, is zoe: ‘God’s immortal kind of life.’  

“For God so loved the world…” John 3:16

Peterine kergma affirms soteriology in Acts 10:42-43 “And he commanded us to preach unto the people, and to testify that it is he which was ordained of God to be the Judge of quick and dead. 43) To him give all the prophets witness, that through his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins.” The noun ‘remission’ is the Greek aphesis (a’-fe-sis) ‘1. a removal. 2. (figuratively) a pardon, a release (from guilt and penalty).’ Almost all the prophets foretold the Messianic reality. Acts 26:22 says, “…prophets and Moses did say should come:” Isaiah 53:11 has, “…for he shall bear their iniquities.” Jeremiah 31:34 promises “…and I will remember their sin no more;” Daniel 9:24 ”…And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut of…”

The finger that wrote the 10 Commandments wrote on the ground to save

Part of Ezekiel 36:25-26 reads, “Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness.” Micah 7:18, “Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage…” Zechariah 13:1, “In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness.” Malachi 4:2 “But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings;…” (confer Luke 24:25-27; Luke 24:44-46; John 1:45; John 5:39; John 5:40; 1Pet 1:11; Rev 19:10).

“…and without him was not any thing made that was made” [John 1:3]

The Bible says, in John 3:36, “He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.” What is ‘believeth’? It is pisteuo (piy-stev’-ō) ‘1. to trust (in, upon, or with respect to, a person or thing), i.e. credit. 2. (passively) to be convinced. 3. (also) to entrust (especially with one’s spiritual well-being to Christ).’ The auxiliary ‘hath’ is, echo (e’-chō) σχέω scheo (sche’-ō) [alternate form, certain tenses only]: ‘to hold (such as possession, ability, contiguity, relation, or condition).’ Belief in Christ gives you a possession. What possession?
‘Everlasting’ is aionios (ai-ō’-niy-os): ‘perpetual (also used of past time, or past and future as well);’ and ‘life’ is zoe (zō-ee’) ‘1. life†. (more than merely the present physical or natural life). 2. life-above.’ Belief in Christ puts in your possession, the eternal life of Jehovah. Praise the Lord!

Get born again. Say this simple prayer, believing it with all your heart. Say: 

“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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SOTERIOLOGY MINUS JESUS [II]

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II) The words of Jesus in John 15:5 which reads, “I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing;” speaks of divine mutuality of abidance. How can this actuation i.e. the mutuality of abidance be perfected by Jesus? It is simply because without Him there is no salvation. Without soteriological doability, the Adamic race is doomed. Who are the ‘burnt branches’ of the 6th verse? Could it be in reference to His disciples? Verse 3, which says, “Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you;” is in reference to His disciples, ergo, they could not lose their salvation.

Abiding branches are absolutely saved souls

I have here a commentary on John 15:5-6: “What did Jesus mean by these symbolic words about vine branches being burned? These words have been interpreted in at least three ways: (1) The “burned” branches are Christians who have lost their salvation. (But this contradicts many passages, e.g., 3:16,36; 5:24; 10:28-29; Rom 8:1.) (2) The “burned” branches represent Christians who will lose rewards but not salvation at the judgment seat of Christ (1 Cor 3:15). (But Jesus spoke here of dead branches; such a branch is thrown away and withers.) (3) The “burned” branches refer to professing Christians who, like Judas, are not genuinely saved and therefore are judged. Like a dead branch, a person without Christ is spiritually dead and therefore will be punished in eternal fire (cf. Matt 25:46). Judas was with Jesus; he seemed like a “branch.” But he did not have God’s life in him; therefore he departed; his destiny was like that of a dead branch. (from Bible Knowledge Commentary/Old Testament Copyright © 1983, 2000 Cook Communications Ministries; All rights reserved.)”

Soteriology wraps us, eternally, in His righteousness.

The Bible is so clear about who Jesus Christ is. Jeremiah 23:6, “In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.” I do have here an interesting commentary. “[And this is his name whereby he shall be called. THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.] I shall give the Hebrew text of this important passage: w­zeh shemow °­sher yiqr­°ow Yahweh tsidqeenuw, which the Septuagint translates as follows, Kai touto to onoma autou ho kalesei auton Kurios, Iosedek, “And this is his name which the Lord shall call him, Josedek.”

Dahler translates the text thus:
Et voici le nom dont on l’appellera:
L’Eternel, Auteur de notre felicite.
“And this is the name by which he shall be called; The Lord, the Author of our happiness.”

Dr. Blayney seems to follow the Septuagint; he translates thus, “And this is the name by which Yahweh shall call him, OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.” (Adam Clarke’s Commentary, Electronic Database. Copyright © 1996, 2003, 2005, 2006 by Biblesoft, Inc. All rights reserved.)

Adam Clarke felt for those whose contrary view see this verse as a scriptural cursor to Christ’s Divinity. I quote from his commentary, "I doubt not that some persons will be offended with me for depriving them, by this translation, of a favourite argument for proving the Divinity of our Saviour from the Old Testament. But I cannot help it; I have done it with no ill design, but purely because I think, and am morally sure, that the text, as it stands, will not properly admit of any other construction.” 

My understanding of this Scripture is that, it speaks of the Christ being the righteousness of Christians, ergo, His Divinity. Even if I have to agree with Adam Clarke, in that Christ is designated “Our Righteousness” by Yahweh, what does it bespoken? Yahweh’s use of the possessive ‘Our’ makes the Christ, the Divine Righteousness of both the Eternal Father and the Holy Spirit! Now, which is more awe inspiring, that Christ is the righteousness of Adamic humans or the righteousness of the Divinity of the Father and the Holy Spirit? So, Adam Clarke, whether this Jeremiah 23:6 says Christ is the righteousness of His body, the Church, or that of the Eternal Ones, it means the same: for Jesus Christ, by the understanding of this Scripture, is very God of very God. Amen!

Incontrovertible is the facticity that Jesus is the key to eternal salvation. Acts 4:11-12 “This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner. 12) Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.” These four verbal words, ‘was set at nought,’ from this verse, is one Greek word, exoutheneo (ex-ou-the-ne’-ō), meaning: ‘contemptible, despise, least esteemed.’ The next word is ‘head’ and it is kephale (ke-fa-lee’) which has the figurative meaning of ‘source, origin; the head (as the part most readily taken hold of) [from the primary kapto “in the sense of seizing”].’ ‘Salvation’ is soteria (sō-tee-riy’-a) ‘1. (the state of) safety. 2. (the quality of) preservation from harm and danger. 3. (properly, abstract) salvation (i.e. an act of rescue or saving). 4. (specifically) Salvation from Moral Failure and Death into Eternal Life through the Anointed-One, Jesus (Yeshua).’ While ‘name,’ onoma (o’-no-ma) is ‘authority, character,’ ‘saved’ is sozo (sō’-zō), meaning: ‘to save, i.e. deliver or protect.’

Get born again. Say this simple prayer, believing it with all your heart. Say:

“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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