ADAM (3)

Dining solely from the WORD of God

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3)            Many times I find myself struggling to fathom the outcome of a “what if”. I ask myself, “What if Adam gave relentless thumbs down to his wife’s illicit offer of, ‘take, eat’, of the forbidden edible?” Most definitely, his irreproachability would not have drawn attraction to God’s judgment of Adam, the male’s, deed. This now is the distressing question; what would have happened to Adam’s wife of sin? Sin has no cohabitation with righteousness. Would she have been banished from Eden, and by extension, the earth? Would that have been the end of Adam’s days of probation? Would God have established a law to enable her cleansing, culminating in giving the woman a second chance as it is of the born again Christian. Selah!

The Woman tilted away from righteousness

                The truth is that if Adam had stood responsibly Gibraltar-like in his responsibility of “dress it and keep it” of Genesis 2:15, where ‘dress’,‛âbad (aw-bad’) means: ‘to work, serve or till’; ‘keep’, shâmar (shaw-mar’) is: ‘guard, have charge of, and protect;’ unless the LORD God decided to promulgate another law to save Adam’s sin polluted wife, I see not why the divine promulgated “the soul that sinneth it shall die” of Ezekiel 18:4, would not be applied. If by one man God’s word was successfully put to work and got truly protected, Adam, the man, would have brought to perfection, Christ’s soteriological role. She, who willfully sinned, would have been gathered together with the spirit behind the stealthy meandering evil who asked, “Hath God said ‘Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden’?” to hell, I believe,  putting an end to Satanism.

                Adam, if you had just done that you would have been our champion, pristine father and the grand teacher of the express Word of God. Jesus Christ would not have had to go through the gruesome Golgotha crucifixion to save the world. Adam, the whole world would be cheering you as the king of earthly kings. The gold you could not lay your fallen nature on would be extracted with no sweat at all. Other rich minerals of the earth would be at our disposal for the good of all. Would there have been the mad rush for the selfish mining of the earth’s rich resources? I think not. The Adamic elevation of God’s intent would have commenced much quicker. Eden, the cradle of Adamic birth would be the capital of the entire globe. Your obedience to Jehovah would have banished Lucifer and his foul disembodied spirits from the world.

The celestial angelic conflict

                There will be no war; in fact the only war story will be that of the angelic conflict ignited by Lucifer’s inordinate crave, countered by archangel Michael, in heaven. The people of the world will be full of praises to you, Grandfather Adam, for vetoing chaotic bourne of Satanism.

                Maybe every week, month or annually will be the gathering of Adam’s progenies in Eden, paying homage to the father of humanity, and of course, the LORD God, Jehovah Jesus, should be there to welcome us to the Household of God, receiving the latria due to our God, Maker, Sustainer, the Alpha and Omega, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty. Hallelujah! Amen, Amen, blessing and glory, wisdom, thanksgiving and honour, power and might be unto the LORD, for ever and ever Amen.

These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness (Revelation 3:14)

                Who is the Amen? “And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;” so does Jesus reveals Himself in Revelation 3:14. The Scripture unfolds in the Pauline 2Corinthians 1:19-20  19) “For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, even by me and Silvanus and Timotheus, was not yea and nay, but in him was yea. 20) For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.” This is the reason why we should be very careful what teachings we imbibe into our spiritual system. Most, so called, pastors are really working, not in God’s vineyard but rather, in the fruitless wilderness of Satanism. Honestly, if Satan, God’s archenemy, will not recruit people to work against God’s goodness it will surprise me; and I think Lucifer will be stupider than I think he is if he would not make any effort to pursue his fiendish craft.

                Did the Devil not mention ‘God’ in his Eden temptation? Was there any rapport between Lucifer and the LORD God? No, it is absolutely God forbidden notion! Check what they preach in absolute juxtaposition to the Scripture; if you do not see the correlative facticity, please, do yourself a divine favour, jettison that revelation, which Adam paid dearly for.

                In the commission of the original sin, Adam, you failed to uphold, and failed to do serious work in the defence of the Amen, the only Truth of God’s revelation to mankind. Amen.

                Getting born again is a conscious effort on the part of an individual. Get born again. Say this sinner’s 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!” 

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ADAM (2)

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2)            Adam, maybe if you had continued in your spiritual innocence for about a thousand years or probably less the LORD God would have walked into the Garden as He was wont to and would have proudly brought magnificent garments fit for His son and daughter, putting an end to Adamic nudity, and forever. Adam, you blew it! You failed to please the heavenly Father. You did not look into the future, to dwell on the unpalatable consequences of aiding and abetting disobedience of Genesis 2:17 “But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.”

In our likeness and image

                How could you not remember the son of whom you were, Adam? You completely forgot that your creation took not only the likeness, but the divine image of the Most High Jehovah. “And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth” (Genesis 1:26). The word ‘likeness’, demûth (dem-ooth’) in Hebrew, means: ‘resemblance; concretely model, shape;’ pointing to the physiological quiddity of the Divinity Himself. The uniqueness of your creation is appropriately couched in Psalm 139:14 “I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.” Yare’ (yaw-ray’) is the Hebrew for ‘fearfully’ meaning ‘1. to fear. 2. (morally) to revere. 3. (causative) to frighten.’ The word ‘wonderfully’ is palah (paw-law’): ‘to distinguish.’ You may be walking in total nudity, the gospel truth is that you surpass even the empyreal angels in magnificence. You are what no angelic being is: the cynosure of the creationism. The Adamic creature is an evangelist, prophet, exercises full authority of the sacerdotal office, pastor and king. In the Adamic elevation dwells the Holy Spirit of Jehovah.

He had always walked into Eden.

                The other word, ‘image’ is tselem (tseh’-lem): ‘to shade; a phantom, that is, (figuratively) illusion, resemblance; hence a representative figure, especially an idol.’ Adam, the anatomical externality of your existence takes after the limbs, torso, neck and dome of every Member of the Godhead: for it reads, “in our image: and after our likeness;” using plural personal pronouns of the Trinity. The image of the Divine Ones is irrefragably of Christ. 2Corinthians 4:4 “In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.” Colossians 1:13-17 “Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son: 14) In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins: 15) Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: 16) For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: 17) And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.”

Adam: blessed with the image of his Creator (Genesis 1:26)

                Colossians 3:9-11 “Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; 10) And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him: 11) Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.” Hebrews 1:1-3 “God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, 2) Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;  3) Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;”  Therefore, Adam, being so much endowed, you are inexcusably guilty.

Do not be partners with Lucifer in hell; get born again.

                Getting born again is a conscious effort on the part of an individual. Get born again. Say this sinner’s 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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ADAM (1)

1)            I heard very clearly the empyreal soliloquy of Divine paternalism saying, “Oh Adam! Adam, Adam, Adam. Of you I desired to create a new species of intelligence. I breathed My divine essence into you on your day of creation. Adam, I did not only give you the beheld physiological properties of the Creator, I endowed you with what no intelligent being has: My Image. My Image is to serve as a constant reminder of the blessed son of whom you are. Do you not realize that I allowed the nascency of your existence to portray nakedness in order to enable you prove the scriptural veracity of Psalm 8:2 ‘Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger’?”  The LORD God continued, “In your nakedness you seem very vulnerably feeble and quite unintelligently unlettered. You were my perfect bait. Lucifer’s audacity would not let him see the treasured knowledge implanted in your soul. What the Devil’s egregious stupidity perceived was a nudity of a nondescript, youngest creature in creation, – unbeknown to his derailment, is the eternal masterpiece of creationism –ergo, he thought it would be easy to get you unseated. Your seemingly vulnerability was your deadly weapon.” Like David, you realized your mistake, quite unlike Lucifer. There is the probability that Lucifer was jealous of what you are. You are what no angelic being is: the cynosure of the creationism. The Adamic creature is an evangelist, prophet, exercising full authority of the sacerdotal office, pastor and king. In the Adamic elevation dwells the Holy Spirit of Jehovah.

Sinless Adam: cynosure of creation.

                My understanding of this divine exposition is that, all Adam needed was to have done a proper arrangement of the facts that had been put together (knowledge) in him. The proper arrangement of knowledge (understanding) was what you should have applied well: for the end of understanding is its application (wisdom). You never lacked wisdom, Adam, you just decided not to use it. Your lackadaisicalness was an importation of an obnoxious knowledge which killed you.

            That instructions from Lucifer is pollutive knowledge; a contamination of divine funtionality to the existence of any created being. There was no way you could have handled it successfully. You were not yet ready to undo the pollution he spread by his chicanery. Only the derailment of the lost ones toy with this satanic knowledge of good and of evil; it polluted Lucifer and turned him into a freak: the Devil. Amen.

                You should have not allowed your fallen woman to pollute your heart with the weakness that led to your compromising stance. You should have given her a flinty warning to, “Stay away from me!” You should have told Adam the female, “By going against the word of my mouth, you have cut yourself away from the LORD God.” Adam, theologically, stood as the oracle of the LORD God. He was the Eden creature vested with the afflatus of divine protocol. Just like the Israelites who craved for an earthly royalty, the Eden woman rejected the LORD God when she ate of the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil as against the instruction of her husband. Your stupid stunt, Madam Adam, only exacerbated Adamic humiliation. Your act was jeopardous to our existence.

                I expect Adam to save himself from the calamitous contagion of the woman’s tilt. Some may be of the thought that, casting away his wife would paint a very callous picture of this Eden husband. Not so at all. Adam, it would have been very wise to have separated yourself, not for the spiritual security of your person, but solely for the LORD, your God. One’s laudative stand before Jesus is the most important factor. Jesus taught in Matthew 5:29, “And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee:” and in conclusion He went on, “for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.” The woman of Adam had become an offence that must be plucked out. The words ‘plucked out’ is the Greek, exaireo (ex-ai-reh’-o) ‘1. (actively) to tear out 2. (middle voice) to select 3. (figuratively) to release.’

                Adam, should you not have waited till the daily ‘cool of the evening’ fellowship with the divine Visitant? Genesis 3:8 “And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day…” Rather than wash your hands clean from that anomaly, Adam, did you not plunge into it, the same way the exuberance of a kid runs into an Olympic size pool for a childish swim? It was quite beyond you, Adam, to think that you could do something about the disobedient stunt the woman pulled. Sinfulness is a problem that can only be solved by divine intervention. Only Jehovah can save, therefore, it is beyond your human capability. The original sin of Adamic commission, putting an end to the dispensational period of innocence, it opened the door for the taunt of the Devil, who whispered into your polluted ears, “How can you, the head of humanity be moving about nakedly like animals of the world?” The quiddity of sinfulness taught Adam to feel an ungodly shame, hitherto quite unknown to Eden occupation.

Divine Laws: means to Adamic elevation

                Getting born again is a conscious effort on the part of an individual. Get born again. Say this sinner’s 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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LUCIFER’S DESIRE TO BE GOD (3)

“…every precious stone was thy covering…”

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3)            Did this angelic splendour ever ask himself if his position, as the head of the angelic host, was not probationary? Maniacal salivation comes from incorrigibly avaricious mentality. That crave becomes an entrapment of opiumism; and in the case of the angels of the Rainbow Administration, Lucifer was eternally hooked on that spiritual negativism, with no second chance of spiritual salubrity. Lucifer’s desideration resulted in eternality of doom!

                Ezekiel 28:12-15 12) “Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. 13) Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created. 14) Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. 15) Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.”

The world is a wilderness under Lucifer

                Lucifer, could you not have made excellent use of the talents of these precious stones of your making, giving thanks and adoration to the Giver of life? You are not different from the foolish servant who buried his talent meant for God’s business. The Devil abandoned his official duty, chasing after the mirage of deification. Lucifer, why would you dare to second-guess God’s omniscient decision? What told you that the Creator does not know what is good for every one of the billions of His creationism? Did it occur to you that the thought of your mind was iniquitous to the perfection of your angelic being, that what you were chasing was the egregiousness of a craver?

                Isaiah 14:12-17 “How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! 13) For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: 14) I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. 15) Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit. 16) They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; 17) That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?” And by the time of the Incarnation, Jesus, when He was tempted of the Devil, it was no longer a beautiful Eden Garden. Satan had become the false god of the world, a world he could not care for; a wilderness it had become, unfortunately.

The Rapture will cause great cataclysm of satanic rule

                He did not stop weakening the good world of God’s creation. He had got his devilish desire; he could not even try to maintain a smidgeon level of the status quo. No wonder he was not allowed to become a member of the Godhead. Lucifer did not, from Scriptural documentation, plead for mercy. Well, granted the fact that angels do not have a second chance, nothing stops the LORD God not to make another law to emancipate angelic act of missing the divine mark. The Word of God clearly states in Matthew 26:28, “For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.”  Exegetical explanation of this verse is the Pauline, “For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second” (Hebrews 8:7).

                 Sin robs one of all hopes, even the ones that stand good chances of activation. Adam behaved in this similitude, because Scripture did not report his plead for the original sin. Unlike Lucifer, whom I believe the LORD knew that he would not change at all, Adam, today, continues to walk to the Christian Church altar, praying the prayer of salvation. Lucifer could not envisage the future role of his crave. How could he, when he is not omniscient? Could he have seen what goes on everywhere simultaneously? He has not the faculty of the Omnipresence. Lucifer secretly, without permission, tampered with the knowledge of good and evil, and to his chagrin he lacked the enhancement of omnipotence to navigate through omniscience to traverse the labyrinth of the knowledge of good and evil. Lucifer, you failed. Amen.

                Getting born again is a conscious effort on the part of an individual. Get born again. Say this sinner’s 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!” 

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LUCIFER’S DESIRE TO BE GOD (2)

The dark lord of Satanism

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2)            Let us check another scriptural account in Ezekiel chapter 28 where the twelfth verse clearly states, “Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD;” and wondering how you would want to fail to believe that this was not intended for the king of Tyrus. Who was this king? Biblical accuracy will make him Ethbaal (‘with Baal’), or Ithobalus (‘Baal with him’) of 1Kings 16:31, king of Sidon, Jezebel’s father. He was the priest of Astarte. Murdered Pheles, 50 years after Hiram’s death, and usurped the throne of Tyre for 32 years, 940-908 B.C.; and the truth is that even if he truly “sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty”, that epithet was never meant for king of Tyre, with whom Baal of Satanism was solidly with.

The Garden of Eden

                Was Ethbaal ever in Eden? He was too young to intrude the Eden Garden, notwithstanding the mythical belief of Jewish Rabbins that Ethbaal was Hiram, who lived for one thousand years. Scriptural connectivity will put Lucifer in Eden, not the king of Tyre. Every description of this entity of Ezekiel’s prophecy points much farther away from Ethbaal. Verse 13 deals with the precious stones, tabrets and pipes of his creation. While verse 14 describes him as “the anointed cherub that covereth;” the next verse reveals, “Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created,” A cherub is a celestial angelic being of God’s Rainbow Administration. Is Jezebel’s father Lucifer, who fell as lightning from heaven? To be perfect in all ways of an individual is to be sinless. King of Tyre, like any other human, was born in iniquity and was conceived in sinfulness. Lucifer began his celestial life without sin – the only reason for “perfect in thy ways”.

                The creation of Lucifer comes with the Hebraic word bârâ’ (baw-raw’) which is ‘created’ found in verses 13 and 15. It is not the ‘make’ of ‛âśâh (aw-saw’): ‘create from an existing material’; it is not the ‘formed’ of yâtsar (yaw-tsar’): ‘fashion; squeeze into form, mould into shape (like the potter does).’ It is not the architectural ‘made’ of bânâh (baw-naw’): ‘build’; this bârâ’ means ‘to create out of nothing’, ex nihilo as the Greek puts it. The king of Tyre was a product of biological process of procreation, hence, a product of ‛âśâh. Lucifer, created out nothing, being a purely spirit being, is unarguably of bârâ’.

Historically, when did Lucifer fall from heaven? Could it be when Jesus made mention of his fall in the gospels; maybe it was at the time Prophet Ezekiel’s utterance of Chapter 28, verses 12 to 15; or could it be at the time of Prophet Isaiah’s vaticination of chapter 14 verse 12? None of the above has the answer. Revelation 12:7-9 7) “And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, 8) And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. 9) And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.”

                 It happened a long, long time ago. It took place a very long time before Adam’s creation.

                The malfunctioning mind of Lucifer failed to grok the implications of his evil action. Lucifer toyed with an acidic desiderative mirage and foolishly unaware of the carcinogenicity of the treasonous implications of his deification attempt, it ate dangerously through his being. He probably saw through the merciful nature of the Godhead but he forgot that his free moral agency activation did not align with moral and legal terms of the Rainbow Administration of the empyrean Majesty. Angels are not favoured with the grace of forgiveness. When you are bent on a course of action without due consideration for the terms of moral rectitude, you are definitely embarking on destructive cruise. His salivatory bourne took his angelic eyes off the existential quiddity of the Members of the Godhead.          

Lucifer, the light bearer is now the lord of darkness.

                He did not even realize what the mere contemplation had caused: a stupid oozing drool from his lips. The beclouding stupidity of his bizarre desideration failed to point out the fact that each of the Beings of the Divinity is the Almighty, an uncreated Entity of eternality. Lucifer forgot that his existence came from the creative – bârâ’ –lips of his Creator. Son of the Morning, how could you be detached from the perfection of your making, and from the fact that you did not, like Jehovah, come into being by your own power? Your angelic sonship to the LORD God is not biological; it is not capable of rendering your son-placing a cultural equality with the Eternal Father, as it is obtained traditionally. It is the LORD’s call to create equality with Him, not ever yours – an object of creationism. Out of nothing, Satan the Devil, you came from; how could you not remember your bârâ’ nativity? Your stupidity has sentenced you back into nothingness. An entity of creationism cannot aspire to the status of worshipped God – it is a spiritual aberration. You must have the unparalleled qualifications of the three O’s – Omniscience, Omnipotence and Omnipresence – to receive the latria due to the ‘Ělôhı̂ym. The omniscience of the Godhead will not advance into the entertainment of hereticism. The Godhead, with Lucifer as a member, will, no doubt, mar Divinity with a freakish clown.

                Getting born again is a conscious effort on the part of an individual. Get born again. Say this sinner’s 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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LUCIFER’S DESIRE TO BE GOD (1)

Lucifer’s ungodly desire led to his destruction.

1)            Lucifer, most definitely, did not have a smidgeon of what he was driving himself into when he summoned all the anomalous presumptuousness dwelling in his foulness to effect the Scriptural documentation of “For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: 14) I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High” (Isaiah 14:13-14). It was an unprecedented, boldacious and sacrilegious intrusion into the Divinity of the Trinity. Surprisingly many Bible commentaries fail to see this prophecy as having revealed the Devil’s name as Lucifer, to whom the doom is fittingly directed. The following Bible commentators have helped me a great deal in my researches, but on Lucifer of Isaiah 14:12, I have to disagree totally with them.

Satan the loser

                *John Gill “How art thou fallen from heaven… This is not to be understood of the fall of Satan, and the apostate angels, from their first estate, when they were cast down from heaven to hell, though there may be an allusion to it;” and also, “O Lucifer, son of the morning! alluding to the star Venus, which is the phosphorus or morning star, which ushers in the light of the morning, and shows that day is at hand; by which is meant, not Satan, who is never in Scripture called Lucifer,”

                *From Barnes Commentary, the thirteenth verse does not agree that Lucifer of Satanism is meant. “I will ascend into heaven – Nothing could more strikingly show the arrogance of the monarch of Babylon than this impious design. The meaning is, that he intended to set himself up as supreme; he designed that all should pay homage to him; be did not intend to acknowledge the authority of God.”

                *Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary hardly believes the verse relates to Satan. “Lucifer—“day star.” A title truly belonging to Christ (Re 22:16), “the bright and morning star,” and therefore hereafter to be assumed by Antichrist.”

                *Does Keil & Delitzsch Commentary sees the prophetic utterance as Satan’s doom? “Lucifer, as a name given to the devil, was derived from this passage, which the fathers (and lately Stier) interpreted, without any warrant whatever, as relating to the apostasy and punishment of the angelic leaders.” I do not see it so.

“I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven” (Luke 10:18).

                *From Adam Clarke’s Commentary: “And although the context speaks explicitly concerning Nebuchadnezzar, yet this has been, I know not why, applied to the chief of the fallen angels, who is most incongruously denominated Lucifer, (the bringer of light!) an epithet as common to him as those of Satan and Devil. That the Holy Spirit by his prophets should call this arch-enemy of God and man the light-bringer would be strange indeed. But the truth is, the text speaks nothing at all concerning Satan nor his fall, nor the occasion of that fall, which many divines have with great confidence deduced from this text.”

                This is the English Annotations on the Holy Bible stand of Matthew Poole. “O Lucifer; which properly is a bright and eminent star, which ushers in the sun and the morning; but is here metaphorically taken for the high and mighty king of Babylon. And it is a very usual thing, both in prophetical and in profane writers, to describe the princes and potentates of the world under the title of the sun or stars of heaven. Some understand this place of the devil; to whom indeed it may be mystically applied; but as he is never called by this name in Scripture, so it cannot be literally meant of him, but of the king of Babylon, as is undeniably evident from the whole context, which certainly speaks of one and the same person, and describes him as plainly as words can do it.”

                What is scripturally clear is that a reading between the lines of God’s protocol will unmask the leader of the first coup d’etat, Satan the Devil, to be the one whose true sobriquet is Lucifer. Like my Pastor, Reverend Chris Okotie, will always say, everything goes back to Genesis; so to Genesis chapter three we start this exegetical trip of exposing Lucifer – I have always told him, “I’m going to expose you!” At the commitment of the original sin, God’s main object of judgement was the nailing of the evil spirit behind the serpentine meandering intrusion of God’s house: Eden. God did not go to Satan directly, He went to Adam who pointed to his wife, who in turn confessed in verse thirteen, “The serpent beguiled me and I did eat.”

                Getting born again is a conscious effort on the part of an individual. Get born again. Say this sinner’s 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!” 

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Soteriology: Eternal Design Of Divinity (four)

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4)            Luke 13:6-9 6 “He spake also this parable; A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came and sought fruit thereon, and found none. 7)Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground? 8) And he answering said unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it: 9) And if it bear fruit, well: and if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down.” God would not give the emblematic four of creationism to man or Israel. The LORD is the Author of creation, therefore, the Dresser of Israel must step into the divine responsibility of four to engender fruitfulness. Man cannot save himself. Only God wields the miraculous power of soteriology.

                In Peter, we see wobbly Israel as he fell in the denial of his Master and was restored with the charge of, “Feed My sheep.” Peter, being one of the stones that builds the Church, making him a type of a Christian, and for the indubitable reason that Shem must preach the gospel of Jesus Christ, this puts Israel inevitably in God’s calendar. In Paul, Israel in the gentile, diasporic Europe must enlarge the spread of the gospel; and by an uncanny subtlety of divine fashioning, Ham must be brought to calculated relevance. All these have been planned from the beginning.

                John 10:16 “And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.” Obviously the Jewish apostles of the Lord Jesus were unaware of the eternality of the counsel of the Godhead. The Church of the Living God is the ground and pillar of salvation. First to the Jew, then the Gentile, and when they come together in one faith, one baptism and one Spirit, it is the Divine dream coming to eternal fruition. Amen.

                Colossians 1:24-26 24) “Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the church: 25) Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God; 26) Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:” and the saints are none other than the redeemed, according to the eternal design. The Church has always been God’s trump card to judge the malicious stance of Satanism.

                Ephesians 3:8-11 8) “Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ; 9) And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ: 10) To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God, 11) According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord:” by whose nature of Divinity we can boldly walk to the empyrean assizes of the Majesty. The Spirit of the Saviour dwells richly in us, which accounts for our unwavering confidence.

                Soteriology is not an afterthought, on the part of the Godhead; the established conclusion of it had been an eternality of His design. If after the creation of intelligent beings, God decided, to save or destroy souls in hell, as Calvinistic lapsarianism erroneously see it – in its ludicrous egregiousness –, does it not portray Jehovah’s established omniscient faculty fact as a mere ruse, an absolute mirage! Before the creation of time, no doubt, the Members of the Godhead had decided what to do, having by foreknowledge faculty of their omniscience, seen what would unfold, had made up their minds on what should be obtained. The Godhead had fixed the T&C pertaining to salvation. They were not toying with the intended free will of the creationism proposed intelligent beings. It will definitely be quiet sadistic on the part of the eternally sinless Godhead to fashion, intentionally, intelligent beings out of the creationism just for hellish cast. If God should commit one smidgeon of sin, He becomes eternally a disciple of Satanism. The goodness of the Fashioner of creationism will not afford it. Even if He decided to sin, He could easily purge Himself, but the eternality of truthfulness maintains that the LORD GOD will not let it happen for goodness’ sake! Amen.

                Getting born again is a conscious effort on the part of an individual. Get born again. Say this sinner’s 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!” 

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Soteriology: Eternal Design Of Divinity (three)

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3)            God decided that man should save mankind. Adamic flesh could not do it alone, therefore, the Incarnation: that was a divine masterstroke. Tying Himself to the destiny of Adam, reality brought Divinity to the full picture of taking the leading role in the salvation, why not? Is it not the soteriology? Who is the Author of soteriology? He is the Word of God, who from the eternity past has been in the bosom of the Eternal Father. Together with the Holy Spirit the Trinity had decided that the True Light that lights the life of every entity of Adamic procreation, and without Him was not anything made that is found in creationism must die to bring everlasting life to mankind to enable a second chance.

                When God limited the direct progenies of Noah to three sons, it was Israel, in Shem; Europe, residing in Japheth; and in an end time publication of the gospel of the evangelism of salvation finding its conclusion in Africa (specifically of Nigeria, I believe) of Ham. Three is the Divine number of perfect manifestation: For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one” (1John 5:7). God’s counsel must prevail; hence, three must branch out of Noah – God’s rest. He would not allow a fourth child, and because four stands for creation, man must not be given the right to create from the depth of sinfulness, being accorded the legality to create. Man’s fallen nature will never lack the manipulations of Satanism.

“…and they sewed fig leaves together…” (Genesis 3:7).

Fig tree emblem

                Jeremiah 24:1-7 1) “The LORD shewed me, and, behold, two baskets of figs were set before the temple of the LORD, after that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the carpenters and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon. 2) One basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are first ripe: and the other basket had very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad. 3) Then said the LORD unto me, What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the evil, very evil, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil. 4) Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 5) Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Like these good figs, so will I acknowledge them that are carried away captive of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans for their good. 6) For I will set mine eyes upon them for good, and I will bring them again to this land: and I will build them, and not pull them down; and I will plant them, and not pluck them up. 7) And I will give them an heart to know me, that I am the LORD: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall return unto me with their whole heart.”

                The heart of the believer is where the journey to salvation begins. Why would God tell Abraham to sacrifice his Isaac to Him? It is just because the Divine Ones had purposed, in the eternity past, that the Christ will give Himself a ransom for as many as would come to Him for salvation. Mark 10:45 “For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.” These are the words of Jesus. 1Timothy 2:5-6 5) “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.” Israel, according to this verse, will be called God’s ‘people’, the Hebrew interpretation of which is: am (am): ‘nation; members of one’s people, compatriots, country-men and specifically, ‘tribe’. Of the redeemed is the Peterine Holy Spirit’s inspired, “But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: 10) Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy” (1Peter 2:9-10).

                The recipient of God’s salvation is an eternally established soul, fix firmly in God’s love. This is the reason why He made the promise, “I will plant them, and not pluck them up”. The Word of God, Jesus made the asseveration, 28) “And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. 29) My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand” (John 10:28-29).

                Hosea 9:10 “I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they went to Baalpeor, and separated themselves unto that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved.” Israel, indeed, is the scriptural ‘fig tree’.

                Getting born again is a conscious effort on the part of an individual. Get born again. Say this sinner’s 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!” 

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Soteriology: Eternal Design Of Divinity (two)

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2)            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 word ‘Wicked’, representative of an individual being, is the Greek anomos (an’-om-os): ‘destitute of (the Mosaic) law; a violator of the law, lawless, without law, that is, (negatively) not subject to (the Jewish) law; (by implication a Gentile), or (positively) wicked’. The only way one can oppose God is simply sit in opposition to His Word. The Antichrist stands, an egregious recusant against the word of the goodness of the LORD God. Opposition to God carries one sentence: annihilation. He had always hidden himself, not wanting to be labeled ‘evil’ but he will not be able to remain in the masquerade of secret societies and the deceptive, philanthropic heroism. The word ‘revealed’ is apokaluptō (ap-ok-al-oop’-to) meaning: ‘to take off the cover, that is, disclose.’ The author of Satanism cannot hide his identity, not from the Lord of creation.

                Revelation 20:4-6 4) “And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. 5) But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. 6) Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.” Who are the “they” that “sat upon them” – thrones? They are the ones to whom soteriological design of eternal consequence was made. The saints of Jesus constitute the mystical body of Christ – the Christians. How do I know that the revelatory vaticination concerning those on majestic seats in heaven are the Christians?

                Over five centuries before the birth of Jesus Christ on terra firma, Prophet Daniel wrote, “But the saints of the most High shall take the kingdom, and possess the kingdom for ever, even for ever and ever” (Daniel 7:18). From eternal past God had decided to save those who would walk with Him. Matthew 19:28 “And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.” Two exegetical facts are drawn from this verse.

                Judgment of Israel must be exclusively intended for the disbelieving religious bigotry displayed by the Jews. Those who gave Jesus – who committed no sin – up for crucifixion and who failed to ask God for forgiveness in the name of Jesus will face judgment. The second scriptural approach points to Christians as seated in the heavenly assizes to judge Adamic sinfulness. 1Corinthians 6:2, “Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? And if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?” This Pauline admonition is intended to inculcate in Christians, the nobility of their adjudicatory role, ergo, it is expected of Christianity to be seen leading by good examples.

This is Israel after the flesh

                Spiritual Israel is quite different from Israel after the order of carnality. I have two scriptures to buttress this fact. 1Corinthians 10:18 “Behold Israel after the flesh: are not they which eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar?” If the Word of God does see some as Israel of carnality, definitely, there must be spiritual Israel. There was a divine need to enter Adamic depravity into a new testamentary order. Does it not asseverate, “For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second” (Hebrews 8:7). Soteriology is the perfection of true salvation. The first testament took away sin temporarily; the second testament is the soteriology – eternal design of the Divinity; meant only for as many as are led by the Spirit to become Christians who walk with God. Galatians 6:16 reads, “And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God.” Israel of God is the true Israel, the called, ready to forsake all, washed in the blood of Jesus clean; and be called the children of the Most High. Romans 9:6 “Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:” because in the new dispensation of Adamic elevation, you must be born again. Israel in the flesh is the present day geographical State of backslidden Jews. Many of them do not still believe in the Golgotha atonement.

             God must always have His own people so it became necessary to birth the spiritual Israel, each individual of this mystical body having the eternal seed of fruitful Godliness in his soul. Without this species of people, God will destroy the earth. To keep the earth from destruction, His special people must have their dwelling on earth. How unsearchable is God’s wisdom, and His ways past finding out. Hallelujah!

                Getting born again is a conscious effort on the part of an individual. Get born again. Say this sinner’s 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!” 

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Soteriology: Eternal Design Of Divinity (one)

1)            Specific Terms and Conditions (T&C) are the applications of theological realities accounting for the rehabilitation of the fallen Adamic personality. The council of the Godhead, before the creation of any intelligent being, decided that this particular entity of creationism, Adam, no matter how grievous his sinfulness, should be saved. When He hollered, “Adam, where art thou” was it intended for the male Adamic person only? The answer is both yes and no. Yes in the sense that the male Adam was the head of humanity, trusted with its lordship. It is safe to be a ‘no’ as well. No, it was directed at the pristine couple. How I know this is a protocolary couch found in Genesis 1:27 “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.” Adam, from this scriptural understanding, is a generic word for a human being. What differentiates one of the pristine couple from the other is simply of their gender – Adam the male, the husband and the head of humanity, and Adam the female, the help mate created for the man in his missionary work. Jehovah did not ask to know where Adam was out of ignorance, it was a Fatherly, “Oh, you shouldn’t have ventured into this misrepresentation of your heavenly Father!”

His goings forth: from of old, from everlasting (Micah 5:2).

                The eternal Father could not have been taken by surprise. He had known this before they were created. Blessedly, God had taken precautions; was ready for this eventuality; definitely, knew He was not going to lose either of these two Adamic prototypes. The first term of conditionality intrinsically designed for his – Adam’s – survival was admittance of guilt. If Adam would not flaunt his shortcoming on earth, like Lucifer did in heaven, then the propitiatory lambs were of readiness for their restoration based purely on a T&C of fugacity. Agreeing to the perpetration of ungodly, sinful act is tantamount to asking for divine help. Arrogance will always stand in opposition to seeking divine offer of mercy.

                Right there in the Garden of Eden, the eternal designs began to take shapes. This revelation I am sharing here makes me appreciate Pastor Chris Okotie’s didactic insistence that Israel has a subtle mention in the Eden fall.

                Did God not know that Adam would fall into sin? When He walked into Eden, the first thing God did was to call out, “Adam, where art thou?” not to the destruction of the Adamic elevation, but He was on a mission of restoration of Adamic elevation, according to His eternal design – you may want to read my post titled “ADAMIC ELEVATION [1]” https://hoojewale.com/2022/08/12/adamic-elevation-1/ you will enjoy the exhaustive nine parts. Adam was not spared though, he received his due punishment. His punishment did not stop him from receiving the grace of a beneficent second chance. The second chance was the sacrificial animals of atonement which focused grandly on the cross of Calvary. Adam ran to hide himself behind the fig tree, a pointer to where the true salvation must be sourced: for Jesus Christ hanged on the tree as the Lamb of God, and as an Israelite in the consummation of soteriological actuality.

Adamic fall did not destroy man totally.

                It was important that God should be the first to evangelize the gospel of Genesis 3:15 “And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.” Divinely allowed are the two forces of good and evil. Why evil must be given an existence is simply a matter of legality. God implanted free moral agency in every intelligent being. The exploitation of freewill becomes a legality which falls under the act of divine scrutiny; and to be penalized whenever it runs contrary to God’s will. The decision of angelic beings to believe and follow the machinations of Lucifer gave Satanism its right of existence in the sight of the Majestic Judge of the celestial assizes. If Adam, when he had the dominion of the world in Eden, had completely shunned Satanism, the dream of Lucifer would have faced immediate destruction. Adam unfortunately did not realize that, if he should wield his free moral agency in disobedience to the Word of God, he definitely will be queueing himself behind evil as its supporting puppet. Evil, having been officially established on terra firma, could exist side by side with eternally established good. The evangelism of Genesis 3:15 vaticinates the eventual emergence of the Antichrist, the evil son of the Devil, who will rule the earth. The rule of this evil son, whose activities had caused the death of Jesus Christ, will not last; Jesus Christ must come a second time to utterly destroy satanic rule over the world. Daniel 2:44 “In the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.” This is a divine decision from the eternal past.

                Getting born again is a conscious effort on the part of an individual. Get born again. Say this sinner’s 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!” 

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