No Condemnation (3)

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3)            Every word of John 5:24 points to the Christian’s possession of everlasting life. It begins with “verily, verily” of Hebrew origin; it is amen (a-meen’): ‘1. (properly) firm. 2. (figuratively) trustworthy. 3. (adverbially) surely. 4. (often as interjection) so be it.’ The Bible makes it clear to us that Jesus Himself is the Amen. Twice couch of ‘verily’ is an attestation of its veridicality. ‘Word’ is logos (lo’-ğos): ‘1. a word, something said (including the thought). 2. (specially, with the article in John) the Word of God (capitalized), the Divine Expression, the Creator, the Word of Yahweh.’ Logos is the totality of God’s mind. The personalization of Logos makes Jesus truly divine and he must be very God of very God. Only God can promise everlasting life, therefore, its promise is divine. It exempts from ‘condemnation’ and passes the redeemed into zōē – God’s kind of life.

                It is the right of the redeemed. God’s purpose and oath guarantees it. The grace of God sustains this zōē. Faith and hope in the gospel give him the right of claim; most certainly the grace of God engenders the principle of eternality in the believing soul. The fullest of its satiation is the earnest of Holy Spirit. The condemnation of Jesus Christ on the cross brings Adamic elevation under the aegis of the Divinity. By the righteousness of Christ, though the redeemed comes before the judgment assizes of the Creator, his acquitment stands as sure as the existence of the LORD God, the ultimate Judge Himself. Whoever believes in Him, Jesus, shall not be condemned but saved, absolutely.

                Though the original sin, a perpetration of the Adamic pristine parents, which should utterly destroy: for it says, “the soul that sinneth, it shall die” (Ezekiel 18:4), the New Testamentary initiation of the gratuitous zōē demands a ‘not guilty’ acquittal. The blood that speaketh better things than that of Abel has cleansed the soul erstwhile heading straight to hell, and by the indwelling intervention of the Holy Spirit, a volte-face to eternal bliss is the tenor of the act of grace, made a possibility by the declaration of justification passed on the redeemed of the Lord; secured from the irredeemable journey of the second death. All it takes for divine operation of the soteriology is “obey the didacticism of divine utterance” and the resultant effect is “passing from the Adamic dead situation to eternal life.”  Hallelujah!

                This is the difference between the redeemed and the unregenerate, captured in the words of the Eternal Word of God, found in John 3:18 “He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.” The curse that came upon sin has continued to plague mankind. The unregenerate is, thereby, condemned already, indeed. The wise who opened his ears, believed the evangelism of the gospel and decided to receive Jesus, the Author of zōē as Lord and Saivour, to him is the applicability of the Scriptural grace of Romans 8:1 “There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.”

                Why is there no condemnation to the believing Christians of God’s redemption? It says, “My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: 28) And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand” (John 10:27-28). This is the bottom line: “…and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.” This is what it says in Romans 8:2 “For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.” As a true born again Christian, one has passed from death to life. 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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JIHADISM MUST CONTINUE TO THRIVE (7)

“…and the seventh day ye shall compass the city seven times…” [Joshua 6:4]

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7)            Prophet Muhammad hacked a foxy ingeniosity by the use of a perversion of the Christian Bible to give a false façade to Islam. Where did Muhammad get the idea of one God? Deuteronomy 6:4-7 “Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: 5) And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. 6) And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: 7) And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.” God’s instruction and warning to Israel are in verses 14-15 “Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people which are round about you; 15) (For the LORD thy God is a jealous God among you) lest the anger of the LORD thy God be kindled against thee, and destroy thee from off the face of the earth.”

Jihad must continue to thrive.

                God did not send Israel on an embarkation of religious slaughter. Islam fundamentalism is on a sanguineous mission of religious expansion; why should it be dressed in a sanguinary toga? Islam fundamentalism loves religion more than salvation of the soul. ‘Religion’ appears 98 times, while its cognate ‘religious’ is written 6 times in the Qur’an which makes a total of 104 times in an Islamic Book which is about a third in the size of the New Testament alone. The entire Bible – of more than 780,000 words – does not have ‘religion’ and ‘religious’ more than seven times. The Bible is much more concerned about the salvation of the Adamic lost soul.

Jews remain in God’s calendar

                The yearly sacrificial ritual of animal slaughter intended to serve as remittance of the sins of Moslems is Bible based.   In Genesis 22:1-13, verses 1-3 and 6 read. “And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am.

2) And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.

3) And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him. 6) And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife; and they went both of them together.”

Abraham agreed to give Isaac to the LORD, so, God gave His only begotten Son.

                God never intended to embark on human sacrifice. He was only testing Abraham and to find the legalism to offer the Second Member of the Godhead in the substitutionary Golgotha crucifixion. The Bible, if you read it well, says that, “And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son” and that wood is the type and shadow of the cross that Jesus would bear to save the world. After the Golgotha experience, there was no need for any sacrifice for the forgiveness of sin – John 3:!6. Islamic annual sacrificial ram, cow and camel – the last (camel) being an Old Testamentary unclean animal – of Muhammad’s Islam proves to be a Janus-faced religion. Muslims will tell you that they believe only the Old Testament of the Bible, fine. But let us read what it makes of Muhammadan cleanness of the camel. Leviticus 11:4 “Nevertheless these shall ye not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the hoof: as the camel, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you.” Too unclean was the camel even for sacrificial rites. Muhammad loved what Jehovah deemed unclean.

                In the verses of 10-13 we have. “And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son. 11) And the angel of the LORD called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I. 12) And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me. 13) And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son.” If Abraham was ready to obey the word of God and to sacrifice his only available son, in whom he was well pleased, God was eternally ready to give up His only begotten Son. God is the Jehovah of legality. The ram represents the Lamb of God. Amen.Speaking strictly out of faith is what we read of Abraham’s answer to Isaac in Genesis 22:8 “And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.”

“Thrice in the year shall all your men children appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel.”

                Why do you think Moslems visit Mecca for the annual pilgrimage? Muhammad definitely got it from the Bible. Luke 2:41-42 “Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover. 42) And when he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem after the custom of the feast.” This pilgrimage is God’s command to Israel. Exodus 34:23 “Thrice in the year shall all your men children appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel.” Do they walk round the Ka’aba seven times?  Joshua 6:2-4 “And the LORD said unto Joshua, See, I have given into thine hand Jericho, and the king thereof, and the mighty men of valour. 3) And ye shall compass the city, all ye men of war, and go round about the city once. Thus shalt thou do six days. 4) And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of rams’ horns: and the seventh day ye shall compass the city seven times, and the priests shall blow with the trumpets.” Does Islam teach alms giving? John 13:29 “For some of them thought, because Judas had the bag, that Jesus had said unto him, Buy those things that we have need of against the feast; or, that he should give something to the poor.”

                 Muhammad instituted zakat – Hebraic tithing – which is strictly biblical. Leviticus 27:30 “And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land, or of the fruit of the tree, is the LORD’S: it is holy unto the LORD.” Malachi 3:8-10 “Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings. 9) Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation. 10) Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.”

                Muhammad needed to employ the Christian protocollary documentation to sway scripturally untutored people of Arabian stock to his side; he also needed it to show Israel that he knew the God of Abraham. Muhammad believed in associating himself with demons, believing there are repentant, good jinns. These and many more of Islamism is what Muhammad designed to make nonsense of the Bible, Jewry and especially Christianity.   

                You can be part of the winning Christianity of Jesus Christ. Get born again by saying this sinners’ 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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JIHADISM MUST CONTINUE TO THRIVE (5)

Usman dan Fodio

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5)            Usman dan Fodio (15^th December, 1754 – 20^th April, 1817) loved jihad and he worked so assiduously to Islamize the Northern Region of Nigeria. His mission was not just to establish good governance but to force Islam on the people; like Muhammad he eliminated opposition to Islamization. According to Wikipedia (abridged) titled: Usman dan Fodio, His teacher, Jibril ibn Umar, was a powerful intellectual and religious leader at the time, who was a staunch proponent of Jihad. Usman dan Fodio led a major episode of a movement described as the Fula jihads in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. Uthman was also very influenced by the mushahada or mystical visions he was having. In 1789 a vision led him to believe he had the power to work miracles, and to teach his own mystical wird, or litany. Ɗan Fodio later had visions of Abdul Qadir Gilani, the founder of the Qadiri tariqah, an ascension to heaven, where he was initiated into the Qadiriyya and the spiritual lineage of the Prophet.

Emirs were installed in the towns where Othman dan Fodio’s Islamic jihad conquered

                By 1808, Usman had defeated the rulers of Gobir, Kano, Katsina, and other Hausa Kingdoms. [24] After only a few years of the Fulani War, Usman found himself in command of the Hausa state, the Fulani Empire. The Sokoto Caliphate had become the largest state south of Sahara at the time. In 1812, the caliphate’s administration was reorganized, with Usman’s son Muhammed Bello and brother Abdullahi dan Fodio carried on the jihad and took care of the western and eastern governance respectively. [25] Around this time, Usman returned to teaching and writing about Islam. Usman also worked to establish an efficient government grounded in Islamic law.

Usman ɗan Fodio descended from Saudi Arabian Quraysh

                The Sokoto Caliphate was a combination of an Islamic state and a modified Hausa monarchy. Muhammed Bello introduced Islamic administration, Muslim judges, market inspectors, and prayer leaders were appointed, and an Islamic tax and land system was instituted with revenues on the land considered kharaj and the fees levied on individual subjects called jizya, as in classical Islamic times.

                Usman wrote: “The government of a country is the government of its king without question. If the king is a Muslim, his land is Muslim; if he is an unbeliever, his land is a land of unbelievers. In these circumstances it is obligatory for anyone to leave it for another country.”

                Going by Usman dan Fodio’s philosophic understanding, should he not have left Nigeria for another country like Saudi Arabia? Rather than co-exist with the people peacefully, he resorted to Muhammadan jihadism.

                Do your studies well to find out how the Emirates of Northern Nigeria emerged. They were of jihadic establishments. You cannot wage jihadism without spilling the blood of anyone who would not chorus, “Allah is the greatest, and Muhammad is his prophet.”

Islamic Emirs replaced traditional Northern Nigerian kings to promote Dan Fodio’s jihad

                On the Qadiriyya initiation, Vanguard newspaper of October 11, 2013, write-up reads in part:“The Qaddirriyya Order was founded in Baghdad in the 12th Century AD by the Sheikh Abd- al-Qadir al-Jilani (d. 1166 AD). It became the most popular mystic brotherhood in Asia from whence it spread to other parts of the Islamic world, including the western Sudan.

His mystical experience

Related is this passage from Al-Wird (Litany), a work by Uthman dan Fodio: “When I reached the age of forty years, five months and a few nights, God Most High drew me near to Him and I found there, the master of human being and jinn our master Mohammed may the peace and blessings  of God  Most High be with him, together with his Companions, the Prophets and the Saints; they welcomed me and seated me amongst themselves.

Then the saviour of human being and jinn, my master Abd al Qadir al Jilani came with  a green cloth decorated with the inscription:  ‘There is no god but God Most High and Mohammed is the Messenger of God Most High’.

Demons are foul spirits

                Two people are addressed as saviour of human being and jinn from the above Vanguard newspaper of October 11, 2013. They are Prophet Muhammad (Allah’s sole Islamic Prophet) andAbd al Qadir al Jilani (founder of the Qaddirriyya Order). Jinns are absolutely lost spiritually, according to the Bible. Jinns are ‘demons’ which is aptly described as ‘evil supernatural beings.’ This is the reason why Jesus never allowed them speak anything on His behalf. Demons are foul spirits who work hand in hand with Lucifer. They are beyond salvation, theologically speaking. How they are able to find their way into Allah’s salvation is something Qur’an cannot truly explain to satisfy the theological facticity of the Christian Scriptures.

                Abdullahi dan Fodio, brother of Shehu ɗan Fodio stated that their family are part Fulani, and part Arabs, they are Arabs through Uqba ibn Nafi who was an Arab Muslim of the Umayyad branch of the Quraysh, and hence, a member of the family of the Prophet, Uqba ibn Nafi allegedly married a Fulani woman called Bajjumangbu through which the Torodbe family of Usman ɗan Fodio descended.

                We know what to expect from a descendant of Muhammad. The Islamic bond to Allah’s prophet must of necessity keep the flag of jihad flying. As long as Muhammadan jihad keeps resonating in the Islamic mind, blood must continue to flow to the sanguinary glory of Allah!

                You can be part of the winning Christianity of Jesus Christ. Get born again by saying this sinners’ 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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ADAMIC ELEVATION [9]

“Notwithstanding the king’s word prevailed against Joab…” (2Samuel 24:4)

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9)            Dâvid or Dâvı̂yd (daw-veed’) is the Hebrew for ‘David’ meaning: ‘beloved or loving’. Divine rapprochement with David makes Adam an object of His dear love. When your heart directs enamouredness towards an individual, you most definitely want to engage the object of your affection affectionately by making gregarious contacts of verbalism with your object of agapē – Greek word for ‘unconditional love’. A brilliant, beautiful and most apropos definition of agapē by one man of God, is: ‘A love called out of the heart of the lover, on account of the value the lover has placed upon the object of his love’. This is what God did to engender the effusion of the microcosm of the entire Scripture: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3:16). The propitiatory use of the two animals in lieu of the death sentence hanging on sin-soaked Adam the male and the female testifies of the agapē about to be lavished on the elevation of Adamic restoration. Even when David sinned against Jehovah by numbering Israel, David asked for forgiveness; and the love that God had sworn to pamper David with, made Jehovah to forgive His beloved Adamic creature.

The fall of Adam was not the end of Adamic glory.

                The Adamic pristine couple was not robed in the animal skins just for the thrill and fun of Christmas clothing purchased for the children. It was a grand connectivity with the soteriology. It was purely sacrificial. The Bible does not disclose how many lambs, goats or rams were slaughtered. But it is quite clear that it was for the Eden couple. The number two, being the Scriptural numerology for witness and of testimony, they stood in prognostication of the True Lamb of God – Adam being of His image. As far as God was concerned, salvation had come to mankind, even in his sinfulness. It is on account of this facticity that one Pauline couch reads, “But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8). And because it is solely the choice of Divinity, one should understand why it also says, “Not of works, lest any man should boast” (Ephesians 2:9).

                One very good reason that called for the Adamic elevation was the need for God to give Himself the legality to put Lucifer away for good. When you read something like God ‘being needy’ for whatever it is, it is never in the sense of Divine bankruptcy or shortcoming. Jehovah has all He needs or wants from eternality of the past to the futuristic periods of eternity. In all aspects, God wields absolute perfection. Sitting under Scriptural exegetical didacticism of God’s need for anything simply points to the facticity that pictures the humble stance of Divinity, assuming the status of cognitive operational reality known of Adamic level.

The Holy Spirit: seated in the holy of holies

                One ministering colleague of mine once said that some Christians believe that among the Trinity, the Holy Spirit is the humblest, in that He is so humble that He does so many good things but does not even reveal Himself. But that allusion does not hold scriptural water at all. My exasperation is, “The Holy Spirit, the humblest?” There is no such superlative comparativeness among the Members of the Godhead. The thought of it alone is tantamount to theological incongruity, alien to the protocolary stance of Scripture. The Three Members are eternally equal in essence. God, therefore, exhibits humility as He does things like this to enable the rational man to understand divine affability.

                The LORD God is God of legality. For the legal terms to be met He must bring Lucifer to the Divine court of justice and the facts of satanic culpability. God would not allow Lucifer to have a fourth chance: four, which is creation in Scriptural numerology, will give him a divine status – which he possesses not – Lucifer can only be made to have three opportunities. In heaven, he had an opportunity to spread the goodness of the Creator. He did not; he filled the angelic reasoning with calumnious putsch against the rainbow administration of celestial Majesty. Kicked out of heaven, there were beings on earth before the eventual creation of Adamic intelligent beings. The subtlety of Satanism and the attendant tergiversation swayed the sympathy of the beings of that age, giving their spiritual support in the ominous acceptance of Luciferian rule. The earth was brought under water as an annihilating punishment.

                For billions of years, no doubt, the chaotic scene of the earth remained until the re-creationism of Genesis 1:2. The Hebrew word, tôhû (to’-hoo) meaning: ‘formlessness, confusion, unreality, emptiness; to lie waste; a desolation (of surface), that is, desert; figuratively a worthless thing; adverbially in vain;’ is the proof of the cataclysmic catastrophe that marked the situation in which God said, “Let there be light.” The ‘Light’ was actually Himself. Christ had to create Adam as the headship of the earth, and in the likeness and image of Himself, so that satanic incursion and the attendant destructive attempt of God’s Eden viceroy was another putsch against God’s anointed. This third time evil perpetration makes Lucifer an incorrigibly perfect manifestation of God’s enemy.

His death was to elevate the fallen Adam

                Why did Jesus decide to die the cross of Calvary? His death was to elevate the fallen Adam, and never to undo the fall of the angelic participation of the empyreal coup d’état, whose confinement still remain in Tartarus. The Golgotha crucifixion was a grand design to web Lucifer. How do I know that he fell for it? 1Corinthians 2:7-8 “But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory: 8) Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.” Paul went on in the next verse to show for who He had died. “But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him” (1Corinthians 2:9). What marks a Christian out is his love and service to the cause of Jesus Christ. John 14:15 “If ye love me, keep my commandments.” Then inJohn 14:21, “He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.” The race of Adam that Satan thought he had successfully brought into sin and waiting to be thrown into annihilation has been graciously glorified. What a God of mercy He is! What a God of mercy Jehovah is! He forgives iniquity, forgives transgressions; preserves mercy for thousands. By this new and living way the elevation of Adam is perfected. Amen!

                Spiritual acquittal and discharge takes place only when one is born again. To be born again, say, with all your heart, this simple prayer:

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

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OBEDIENCE AND SUBMISSION [six]

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6)            2Thessalonians 1:8 “In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:” is the ominous fate awaiting unruly rejection of God’s command. That nothing seems to happen when we commit certain evil deeds cannot be interpreted to mean that God is either unaware or is unconcerned. Sooner than later, judgment comes, knocking ominously at the life of the evil doer.

                2Thessalonians 3:14 “And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed.” Scriptural epistles are contents of Holy Spirit’s breathed didacticism. They are Divine instructions that accompany us in our earthly journeys. Repudiation of scriptural establishments renders such perpetrators elements of anathema.    

“be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates”

                Titus 3:1 “Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work,” is the divine charge to His children. Authorities of governance are ministers of the Most High – whether they are God’s children or not. Disrespect to them is a direct confrontation with the Creator, who has appointed them. The word ‘principalities’ is arche (ar-chee’): ‘1. (properly abstract) a commencement. 2. (concretely) chief (in various applications of order, time, place, or rank).’ Exousia (e-xou-siy’-a) is the Greek for ‘powers’. It means ‘1. authority, privilege, permission, the right to do something. 2. (subjectively) force, capacity, competency, freedom. 3. (objectively) mastery (concretely, magistrate, superhuman, potentate, token of control), delegated influence.’ The next to be obeyed is ‘magistrates’, which is peitharcheo (pei-thar-che’-ō): ‘1. to be persuaded by a ruler. 2. (genitive case) to submit to authority. 3. (by analogy) to conform to advice.’

“And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation…” (Hebrews 5:9)

                In chief order of state administration in the Apostolic days is the Roman emperor. Kings, Presidents and Prime Ministers will, in these days pass for the arche, who hold executive posts of national administrations. Governors of States (holding executive office could be arche), their equivalents, Federal Ministers and State Commissioners, to whom powers are delegated are the exousia. The legislative arm of the Roman Senate could be in this official role. Court judges are the peitharcheo. The three tiers or arms of government, no doubt, got its establishment here. The Bible will not allow us to obey them when they ask us to do things contrary to the word of God.

                Hebrews 5:9 “And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;” and this is in reference to the humanity of the incarnate Christ, who as a man, went through the sufferings of Adamic realities of sinfulness, not that He committed any sin, but that He had to partake of human frailties, and having accomplished through the obedience of His own word, those who will obey God, through His accomplishments, they are endowed with the eternality of salvation. The words ‘made perfect’ is teleioō (tel-i-o’-o) ‘to complete, that is, (literally) accomplish, or (figuratively) consummate (in character). What is ‘author’? It is aitios (ah’-ee-tee-os): ‘causative, that is, (concretely) a causer.’ Aitios is the same as aiteō (ahee-teh’-o) which means: ‘to ask, beg, call for, crave, desire, require.’

“And being made perfect…(Hebrews 5:9)

                Now, the significance of teleioō is the accomplishment of a set goal. The consummation of this bourne is the death, burial and most importantly, the ultimate resurrection. This divine substitutionary death of the cross attracted divine legitimacy of Christ’s Authorship of the soteriological cause. Jesus Christ, therefore, is the sole cause of eternal salvation. Disobedience to the finished work of the cross leads, ultimately, to the eternality of hellish death. If the Bible says, “For all have sinned”, it does include every living intelligent being on the terra firma. If Jesus obeyed the set rules of salvation, those who wish to partake of this spiritual salvageability must show obedience as well.

                Hebrews 11:8, “By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.” Imagine if father Abraham had not obeyed God’s instruction, who would have spoken a word about him? Obedience stood Abraham out. Abraham has the enviable title of ‘Father of faith’ all because he chose to believe and obey the word of God. We should likewise obey God’s word, whether it makes religious, psychological or philosophical sense or not.

Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise [Mat 21:16]

Say this prayer, meaning it with all your heart:

“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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UNVEILING THE SECOND MEMBER OF THE GODHEAD [eight]

THE WORD OF GOD

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                The ‘Son’ is revealed in John 3:13 “And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.” John 3:16-17, “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17) For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.” Conclusion of His Sonship is in 1John 4:10-14 “Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 13) Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit. 14) And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.”

“The government shall be upon HIS shoulders”

                Of the Isaiah 9:6 ‘government’ of Jesus, there are some verses. Jeremiah 23:5-6 “Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth. 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.” Zechariah 9:9 “Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.” Matthew 28:18-20 “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.”

“…a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom” [Hebrews 1:8]

                Ephesians 1:20-22 “Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places, 21) Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come: 22) And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,” and Psalm 110:1-4 “The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool. 2) The LORD shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion: rule thou in the midst of thine enemies. 3) Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth. 4) The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.” Confer Isaiah 22:21-22; Psalm 2:6-12; Zechariah 6:12-13; Matthew 11:27; 1Corinthians 15:25 and Revelation 19:16.

The Possessor of the sceptre of righteousness

                In Jeremiah 23 verse 6, the BRANCH, that is Jesus Christ, is revealed as The LORD Our Righteousness. ‘LORD’ in capitals is always the divine name of the God of the Bible, JEHOVAH, meaning ‘self-existing GOD’ i.e. ONE who is, by HIS own power. If the Christ is, by His own power, it, therefore, is crystal clear that He was never a being of creationism. Very God of very God is the Lord Jesus in divine revelation.

                Zechariah 9:9 calls Him the KING of Jerusalem. Jerusalem is a representation of Israel, God’s own people, where the LORD God is their King, under the theocratic economy. As the God of Israel, the Christ is Jehovah Jesus. He comes with ‘salvation’, which in Hebrew is yasha` (yaw-shah’): ‘1. (properly) to be open, wide or free from captivity. 2. (by implication) to be safe. 3. (causatively) to rescue or succor.’ This kind of salvation is spiritual and only God can administer it.

                In Matthew 28:18-20, three things: omnipotence, co-equality with the Father and ubiquity are revealed concerning Him. His authority transcends the terra firma of humanity, it includes heaven itself. This means angelic host and the elders whose seats form a semicircle around the celestial throne bow down to Jesus’ authority. The baptism formula evokes the presence of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit; and this is the Trinity. As a Member of the Trinity, Jesus Christ is co-equal with the Father in His Divinity. His ubiquity is seen in the fact that wherever the disciples go across the universe, He is with each one of them at the same time.

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       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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Lucifer’s Smoothness of Shenanigan (4)

“…till iniquity was found in thee.” [Ezekiel 28:15]

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4)            Two Peterine revelations prove who these beings are. 2Peter 2:4-5 “For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; 5) And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;” and the word ‘ungodly’ is the Hebrew asebēs(as-eb-ace’): ‘irreverent, that is, (by extension) impious or wicked.’ The second Scripture is 1Peter 3:19-20 “By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison; 20) Which sometime were disobedient when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.”

The ‘spirits in prison’ are the first putschists in heaven; they heard Noah but were bent on the destruction of the Adamic race by polluting the earth, making it too unholy for the Incarnation. When Jesus Christ went down to hell preaching at the time of this Scripture (1Peter 1:19), it was the preaching of ‘time’s up’ impending doom for the angelic occupants of the deepest part of hell.

“Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan” [Matthew 4:10]

                 Those were, no doubt, the angels who married the daughters of mankind. Satanism had weakened the spiritual stance of mankind which made the angels too irresistible for them to say no to them. Lucifer had a very good reason for the conjugal relationship between the fallen angels and daughters of Adam. The offspring of their union led to the procreation of half-men-half-fallen-angels, whose pollution of mankind could affect the holy birth of the expected Messiah, Jesus Christ. The eventual Incarnation albeit put Satan’s smooth shenanigan in eternal trouble, he did not stop his evil deeds.

                Genesis 19:4-5 “But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter: 5) And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them.” Is it not the same method of using man to achieve his satanic crave that is being unfolded in the lives of this Sodomized land? Satan’s malice aforethought, no doubt, was to goad them to display wanton amatory drive towards the annihilating choice for angels of the living God. Every satanic initiation is targeted at the destruction of the initiate, who thinks he has become a recipient of arcane power. Their forefathers, they thought, had enjoyed homosexuality all their lives; its continuance would be traditional.

Homosexualism is of Satanism; it caused the annihilation of Sodom and Gomorrah.

                There was something remarkable – exhilaratingly exotic – about these bright looking strangers, their pestiferous crave told them. The minds of perverts always want to be the first to taste of an iniquity. Prideful – unfortunately so – is the heart that deflowers innocent lasses. The smoothness of this shenanigan is certainly not the end of the story. It is God’s story, ergo, it must end in His salvific favour. The historical facticity of the death and the consequent resurrection of Jesus Christ embolden us to wield the exclamation, “Death is swallowed up in victory!” 1Corinthians 15:55-57 “O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? 56) The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. 57) But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.” Like the bestiality of Lucifer’s impulsive destructiveness of the dragon in him, death has continued to prick mankind, with his steel pointed goad, into hell and triumphantly so, claiming his victory over the incessant deaths of the Adamic progeny. In the preceding 54^th verse of 1Corinthians chapter 15, the Greek translation of ‘swallowed up’ is katapino (ka-ta-piy’-nō), meaning: ’to drink down, i.e. gulp entire’.

Satanism – the director of sin.

                Lucifer goads man into sinning. Sin is actually the prodding device. The enabling strength of the effectiveness comes from the canonical laws of the Bible. The Bible – of our determined shun –  is the very volume of protocol that Satan had always used to paint us in the ominous guilt before the throne of celestial assizes. “But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.” This is the crescendo of the matter of satanic shenanigan.

Only an incorrigibly insane being would dare tempt God, his CREATOR [Matthew 4:1-11].

                The second Man, also called the last Adam must meet with the Devil for another talk. Lucifer talked man into submitting to his shenanigan. Remember I said, earlier on, that the obnoxious opportunity given to Lucifer’s talk is the bane of man’s woes? Well, the Son of Man must have to talk with the Devil. It took place in the wilderness. Shame on you, Lucifer, you could not even keep the fruitfulness of the garden clean. The erstwhile luxuriant Eden, four thousand years later had become an aridity of fruitless wildness of uninhabitable forest. And the stage was staged. He thought he would have it easy feeding Jesus who was very hungry by the time of the meeting, owing to the forty days’ fast. Remember how he was able to feed the woman of his evil intentions?

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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Lucifer’s Smoothness of Shenanigan (1)

         Lucifer is the father of lies [John 8:44]

1)            It is spiritually strategic to be informed that this fallen, demented Lucifer cannot force anyone into Satanism. The Divine rule against devilry idolatry makes it null and void for him, Lucifer, to force anyone into accepting his dissimulation. “He comes,” as Reverend Chris Okotie taught in his Sunday Service of 17th January, 2021, “to change your nature.” “What”, I want to ask, “is the nature that Satanism is bent on changing?” It is spelt explicitly in Genesis 1:26 “And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:” where the ‘image’ is the Hebraic tselem (tseh’-lem). Tselem, interestingly is a masculine noun, making it an object of dominion. It means: ‘1. a phantom. 2. (figuratively) illusion, resemblance. 3. (hence) a representative figure. 4. (especially) an idol.’

Sinless Adam and Eve

                Definition 2 which best fits, in this context, makes Adam the creature who has the endowment of his Creator’s resemblance. The 3rd definition of ‘a representative figure’ makes Adam God’s viceroy on earth. As the head of the Eden family he is also the priest of the world. Overcome by jealousy, Lucifer swore to employ every plot of Satanism to engender the reversal of the Eden status quo towards his own insane apotheosis. He knew that he could not just walk up to Adam and tell him, “Give me your hegemonic political and sacerdotal roles, I am in need of them.” Since direct confrontation stood an abortive chance, prevaricating machinations, therefore, should see him through to victory if he could get to make the Woman to speak weakly for her husband, lord and priest – Adam the male. Circumvention of Satanism, unfortunately did pay off.

                In the accounts of Genesis chapter 3, the verses from 1 to 15 lend credence to a diablerie coercionary subtlety that got the unwary woman totally beguiled.

                The subtlety of Lucifer’s shenanigan could not be accessed from the first words of his diabolical heart when he said, “Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?” of Genesis 3:1. This took place in God’s house – Eden. And I am of the expectation that if an animal could express itself from the vocal cords, those first words of Scriptural documentation must be words of praise and of worship to the glory of the Most High. Rather, this one who had accessed the Garden in a pad and a creep of ophidian meandering, threw a negative thought at them.

                Why should this strangeness beam the darkness of illumination on physical food? The wondrous eternality of spiritual life of God’s providential beneficence jettisoned, Lucifer had come to feed them of the putrefactive darkness of Satanism. Note that he did not use the title, “LORD God” in reference to the Creator. “God” is what one reads throughout chapter one of Genesis. To make a revelation of who this Elohiym truly is, Genesis 2:4, in recapitulation of the just concluded creationism calls Him the “LORD God”. The term ‘god’, as a matter of fact, can be any object of veneration. There is only one LORD God in the universe.

Lucifer is the god of this world [2corinthians 4:4]

                Lucifer had not only come to disparage the LORD God, he had come to set himself up as god – the god of this world [2Corinthians 4:4]. Lest his choice of “LORD God” should give his shenanigan away, he would not dare to use it! The subtlety of Satanism is revealed in the play on words. It would have been tantamount to swallowing poison, using the term ‘LORD God’ simply because it will never make any sense maligning the LORD God who alone IS, by His own power. Knowing fully well that man eats the food that the soul is accustomed to; and that the soul of man receives the strength of sustainability therefrom he must feed mankind with that which will give him perfection of control over Adam.

                He wanted to change the course of Adamic life, such that they will begin to live through what he shows them, making them think more about what to eat to fill the physical stomach, than ‘looking unto Jesus Christ, the Author and the finisher of our faith’ for dependence. His probing query was traps laden words of destructiveness. The Woman, unfortunately, would not change the subject, but stupidly warmed herself to this jejune point of pedestrianism. Try eavesdropping what is termed ‘girls’ talk’ and most of them though mirthful, they lack elements of spiritual growth. Has that innocuous looking discourse not affected the Church of God today? Do Christians not go from one place to another simply because they have itching ears? The obnoxious opportunity given to Lucifer’s talk is the bane of man’s woes.

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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OPPORTUNITY: DOES IT KNOCK ONLY ONCE? [3]

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3)            Ask yourself why God blessed the first Adamic family, knowing fully well they would disappoint Him. Was it not a second chance opportunity He was offering them? To get born again is nothing short of being offered the second chance. The Author of salvation would be stepping into our world, therefore, God must of divine necessity bless them. The blessing makes it possible for opportunity to knock at the doors of the heart of believers once again. The blessing of the first parents of mankind produced the good children of Adam, culminating in the birth of Noah. It brought forth father Abraham, Isaac and Jacob; and the eventual nation of Israel.

“Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it:” (Genesis 1:28),

From Israel it is revealed, “But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting” [Micah 5:2]. The One of biblical expectation, from the days of Adam is the Emmanuel, the Son of the living God, the Word, Jehovah Tsidkenu, the Second Member of the Godhead, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty, Jesus Christ. Involvement of Jesus will, if you believe, move opportunity to knock at your service again and again. That does not mean that one should take any opportunity for granted, though.

God showed mankind how to achieve another opportunity

                That God gives us more than a second chance is a Scriptural truism. Every hour, day or eventuality up to the millionth and more is the second chance. A second chance to get it right. Before they committed any sin, the LORD God blessed them. Why? So that nothing could serve as a reversal of the bestowal of Divine blessedness. To the angelic beings of the empyreal order, it is a case of, ‘sin once and you lose your estate’. Not so regarding Adam to whom is the decoration of the eternality of the ‘image’ of God. God did not absolve Adam of the disobedient sin. He was punished. But Adam was also given a second chance to live in his estate of God’s child.

Cain shunned God’s sacrificial second opportunity

                God showed the family of Adam how to get back on to the spiritual alignment with the Creator, when He slaughtered the sacrificial crouching animals of forgiveness. When Cain committed the unruly sacrificial blunder, he rejected God’s forgiveness; probably bent on riding on the prideful horse of Liberalism slant of God’s protocol. Genesis 4:7 “If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him”. The Hebrew for ‘sin’ is chaṭṭâ’th (khat-taw-aw’): ‘sinful, sin offering’. ‘Lieth’ is râbats (raw-bats’): ‘to crouch (on all four legs folded, like a recumbent animal).’ Theological Liberalism and Reformation are antichristian. How can anyone reform God’s protocol or liberalise the Christian mind from the known and received Scriptural facticity? Cain had been brainwashed by the philosophy of Satanism, hence, his rejection of the propitiating blood of Christ to come. He became the first Antichrist. It was, ergo, very easy for him to perpetrate the first murderous sinfulness. Cain disdained the providential second chance.

Samson got another opportunity

Samson misused his second chance – he had every opportunity to ask God to spare his life and to be restored as the Judge of Israel. Jonah got a second chance to preach in Nineveh. Even though he found himself inside the gargantuan jail of aquatic hopelessness, Jonah found an opportunity to plead for forgiveness. Jonah was not only forgiven he was restored to his vatic office. Peter, with curses, denied his Lord. He was restored to his apostleship when he came back – ready to serve – to the risen Saviour.

                Why does the Lord Jesus stand at the door of our hearts, knocking and expecting an opening of the door in Revelation 3:20, “Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.” The LORD God allows opportunity to knock over and over again. Only the ones who refuse or reject to heed His knocking fail to achieve success. Amen!

Praying the sinner’s prayer as it is contained in Romans 10:8-10 is the prayer of salvation that gets one born again. This settles the spiritual quarrel man has with God. To get born again, say this prayer, with all your heart:

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 for my sins. I believe that You raised Jesus Christ from the dead. I confess with my mouth that Jesus Christ is Lord. Today, I receive Jesus Christ as my Lord and my Saviour and I give God all the glory. Amen.

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Wisdom Is A Personage [1]

1)            God is said to have in His possession, wisdom, before creationism. Taken literally, does it not tend to infer that the Almighty went in search –to gain an acquisition— of wisdom to help Him in the perfection of the work of creativity? If the LORD God had to acquire wisdom to bolster His omniscience for a successful creation, does it not chime the bell of pellucidity that He never had wisdom before its acquisition? If He had to look for an enhancing tool, that tells the logicality of my reasoning faculty –hypothetically so— that what the LORD God looked for was placed there –where He found it— by a certain happenstance or another living entity. This will mean that wisdom is either older than the Creator or that the entity that placed wisdom where it was found is a contemporary of the Most High. It also means that wisdom knows the beginning of the Divinity, ergo, it is either older or boasts of coetaneous eld with the Creator.

                The eighth chapter of the scriptural Book of Proverbs begins with, “Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice?” ‘Wisdom’ is the Hebraic chokmâh (khok-maw’): ‘skill in: a) war b) administration; shrewdness and prudence in: a) religious affairs b) ethics.’ Can God be said to be looking for this skill and its attendant prudence? Nay: for these are actually His inherent attributes. Wisdom, in this chapter of the Solomonic Book of Proverbs, is personified. The distaff appropriation of ‘wisdom’ is apropos for the gentleness of reason and of the known maternal productivity. Since wisdom is hyponymical to learning and instructions couched in words, this personification should not be seen as an absurdity. It may not represent the gender of the true person but Scriptural couch can be allegoric. The Holy Spirit is described as a mother hen [Genesis 1:2] when Mosaic script says, “And the Spirit of God moved upon…..” where the ‘moved,’  râchaph (raw-khaf’) means: ‘to hover; to brood -mother hen over her eggs- by implication to be relaxed:’ The word ‘cry’ (of Proverbs 8:1) is qârâ’ (kaw-raw’): ‘to call, call out, recite, read, cry out, proclaim; encounter through the idea of accosting a person met.’

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The Word is a Personage

                 Verses one to the fourth are intimations of the universality of her call and fame. Verses five to six give evidence of her existence. The 7^th to the 9^th speak of her Excellency. The nature of her persona is mentioned in the 10^th to 14^th verses. The intimacy of verses 15 to 17 is of the power wielded by wisdom. The display of her riches is found in verses 18 to 21. The 22^nd verse speaks of the eternality of wisdom. In verse 32, ‘Wisdom’ is to be desired for the blessedness it brings.

                        ^“The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old” [Pro. 8:22]. The exactitude of the time of His first movement cannot receive a measurement of mathematical account. It must be of eternity. Nothing had been brought into creation. Wisdom says that the Creator possessed Her in the beginning of creation. Whatever or whoever was or were with the Creator must of an ineluctability be eternal as well. “¹ In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. ² The same was in the beginning with God. ³ All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. ⁴ In him was life; and the life was the light of men.” [John 1:1-4]. Reading Colossians chapter 2 from verse 1 makes it clear who the Subject of this verse is. “In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge;” reveals Colossians 2:3. Ask yourself, “Can a being of the creation of God be capable of having hidden in his being, ‘all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge?’” It is impossible! Why impossible? That being will be as knowledgeable as the Supreme Being Himself!

                “I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was” [Proverbs 8:23]. Does the Scripture agree with this Christ’s externality of Solomonic revelation? The Old Testament profers the solution in Micah 5:2 “But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.” No entity of creation has an empiric tag of everlasting to his existence. When Jesus told His hearers, “Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me“ [John 5:39]; Prophet Micah and his vaticination happened to be one of those who, through the Holy Spirit’s inspiration, got mankind ready for the Incarnation of the Divinity. Is Jesus Christ truly eternal? He made an asseveration to the fact in John 8:58, “Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.”

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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