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"The Called" by God, the Mountain Mover and shaker: Read and what's your view

"The Called" by God, the Mountain Mover and shaker: Read and what's your view

Right from the days of John the Baptist, the Kingdom of God suffers violence and only the violent takes it by force. This is according to Matthew 11:12
Note that:
"The kingdom of God" means "Heaven"
"suffers violence" means suffers persecutions, killings etc.
"the violent" are the never relenting true/good servants of God (true/good Christians).
"Takes it" means gains eternal life and the heavenly glory attached to it (makes Heaven).
"by force" means never relenting (that is, the same "bad" unrelenting zeal/force with which the evil ones do all they do to stop you from making heaven is the same level or more "good" unrelenting zeal/force you need to use to stop the evil ones from causing you to lose eternal life (that is, heaven)

(1) How Daniel (the Dreamer and interpreter) and his three friends got to Babylon and worked closely with the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar was under a very disastrous circumstance but they still survived because they obeyed the Laws of Moses (that is, the laws given to Moses by God) and God was truly with them:


(A) They carried away the Treasures of the Temple of God (including the bronze objects that King Solomon made for the temple and all other important Temple treasures) kept over time in Jerusalem to Babylonia. The gold, silver and bronze objects in the temple of God were all carried away.

(B) Then, God's temple in Jerusalem was burnt down.

(C) The Jerusalem's rich and important people's houses (FOR INSTANCE: THE ROYAL FAMILY PALACE, THE NOBLE FAMILIES HOUSES ETC.) were burnt down to ashes.

(D) All the Jerusalem's rich and important people (FOR INSTANCE: THE ROYAL FAMILY, THE NOBLE FAMILIES, ETC.) were carried away to Babylon by King Nebuchadnezzar's adviser and commander of his army called Nebuzaradan; as prisoners/slaves of war.

(E) Judah (One of the twelve tribes of Israel) was left with the poorest people who were made to work tiredlessly on the vineyard and fields of Jerusalem for King Nebuchadnezzar to take the harvests.

(F) It was on the 10th day of 5th month of the 19th year of King Nebucadnezzar's rule in Babylon and je lived IN THE CITY OF RIBLAH IN THE TERRITORY OF HAMATH IN BABYLONIA.

(G) It was the 3rd year of King Jehoiachin's rule in Jerusalem and he lived IN THE CITY OF JUDAH IN JERUSALEM BEFORE THE ATTACK BY NEBUZARADAN (WHO WAS SENT BY KING NEBUCHADNEZZAR OF BABYLONIA). King Jehoiachin spent three years as King in Jerusalem but spent his next 37 years in Babylonia prison until Evilmerodach showed him kindness and released him from prison. After King Jehoiachin was released by King Evilmerodach of BABYLONIA on the 25th day of the 12th month of the 37th year after King Jehoiachin of Judah became a Babylonia prisoner in the hands of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia:
(i) King Jehoiachin of Judah was given a position and of greater honour than the other Kings of other nations who were also in exile at BABYLONIA.
(ii) King Jehoiachin no longer wore Babylon prison clothes.
(iii) King Jehoiachin dined at the BABYLONIA King's table for the rest of his life here on earth (for as long as he lived here on earth).
(iv) He was given a regular allowance for his needs everyday (each day) for as long as he lived here on earth (for the rest of his life here on earth).

(H) Thus, King Nebuchadnezzar had already ruled as a King in Babylonia for 16 years before King Jehoiachin came into powered as a King in the Judah (in Jerusalem).

(I) King Nebuchadnezzar took a total of 4,600 people of Judah (in Jerusalem) for three consecutive times that he attacked Jerusalem through His adviser and commander of army called Nebuzaradan as shown in the Bible passage below:
(i) 3,023 people were carried away to Babylonia from Jerusalem by Nebuzaradan in the 7th year of King Nebuchadnezzar's rule in Babylonia.
(ii) 832 people were carried away to Babylonia from Jerusalem by Nebuzaradan in the 18th year of King Nebuchadnezzar's rule in Babylonia.
(iii) 745 people were carried away to Babylonia from Jerusalem by Nebuzaradan in the 23rd year of King Nebuchadnezzar's rule in Babylonia.

(J) FROM THE BIBLE PASSAGE, NEBUZARADAN TOOK 74 IMPORTANT PERSONS FROM THE CITY OF JUDAH IN JERUSALEM TO KING NEBUCHADNEZZAR OF BABYLONIA, WHO WAS IN THE CITY OF RIBLAH IN THE TERRITORY OF HAMATH WHERE THE KING HAD THEM BEATEN AND PUT TO DEATH. NAMELY:
(i) SERAIAH THE HIGH PRIEST.
(ii) ZEPHANIAH THE PRIEST NEXT IN RANK, (iii) THE THREE OTHER IMPORTANT TEMPLE OFFICIALS.
(iv) THE OFFICER WHO HAD BEEN IN COMMAND OF THE TROOPS OF JERUSALEM (IN JUDAH).
(v) SEVEN OF THE KING JEHOIAKIM'S PERSONAL ADVISERS WHO WERE STILL IN THE CITY OF JUDAH IN JERUSALEM 
(vi) THE COMMANDER'S ASSISTANT, WHO WAS IN CHARGE OF MILITARY RECORDS. 
(vii) SIXTY OTHER IMPORTANT MEN.

(K) WITH THIS TYPE OF BIBLE HISTORY OF KILLINGS, LOOTING, ENSLAVERY, IMPRISONMENT, TORTURE/BEATINGS, TEMPLE BURNING WITH FIRE, BURNING DOWN OF THE PALACE AND OTHER MAGNIFICENT HOUSES,  ETC; IT IS OBVIOUS THAT KING NEBUCHADNEZZAR NEVER LIKED JERUSALEM AND ITS PEOPLE TOO.

(L) KING EVILMERODACH TREATED ALL THE KINGS IN EXILE AT BABYLONIA (WHEN HE WAS KING OF BABYLONIA) WITH RESPECT AND HONOUR.



According to Jeremiah 52: 12-23
ON THE TENTH DAY OF THE FIFTH MONTH OF THE NINETEENTH YEAR OF KING NEBUCHADNEZZAR OF BABYLONIA, NEBUZARADAN, ADVISER TO THE KING AND COMMANDER OF HIS ARMY, ENTERED JERUSALEM. HE BURNT DOWN THE TEMPLE, THE PALACE, AND THE HOUSES OF ALL THE IMPORTANT PEOPLE IN JERUSALEM; AND HIS SOLDIERS TORE DOWN THE CITY WALLS. THEN NEBUZARADAN TOOK AWAY TO BABYLONIA THE PEOPLE WHO WERE LEFT IN THE CITY, THE REMAINING SKILLED WORKMEN, AND THOSE WHO HAD DESERTED TO THE BABYLONIANS. BUT HE LEFT IN JUDAH SOME OF THE POOREST PEOPLE WHO OWNED NO PROPERTY, AND HE PUT THEM TO WORK IN THE VINEYARDS AND FIELDS. THE BABYLONIANS BROKE IN PIECES THE BRONZE COLUMNS AND THE CARTS THAT WERE IN THE TEMPLE, TOGETHER WITH THE LARGE BRONZE TANK, AND THEY TOOK ALL THE BRONZE TO BABYLON. THEY ALSO TOOK AWAY THE SHOVELS AND THE ASH CONTAINERS USED IN CLEANING THE ALTAR, THE TOOLS USED IN TENDING THE LAMPS, THE BOWLS USED FOR CATCHING THE BLOOD FROM THE SACRIFICES, THE BOWLS USED FOR BURNING INCENSE, AND ALL THE OTHER USED IN THE TEMPLE SERVICE. THEY TOOK AWAY EVERYTHING THAT WAS MADE OF GOLD OR SILVER: THE SMALL BOWLS, THE PANS, USED FOR CARRYING LIVE COALS, THE BOWLS FOR HOLDING THE BLOOD FROM THE SACRIFICES, THE ASH CONTAINERS, THE LAMPSTANDS, THE BOWLS USED FOR INCENSE, AND THE BOWLS USED FOR POURING OUT OFFERINGS OF WINE. THE BRONZE OBJECTS THAT KING SOLOMON HAD MADE FOR THE TEMPLE - THE TWO COLUMNS, THE CARTS, THE LARGE TANK, AND THE TWELVE BULLS THAT SUPPORTED IT - WERE TOO HEAVY TO WEIGH. THE TWO COLUMNS WERE IDENTICAL: EACH ONE WAS 8 METRES HIGH AND 5.3 METRES ROUND. THEY WERE HOLLOW, AND THE METAL WAS 75 MILLIMETRES THICK. ON TOP OF EACH COLUMN WAS A BRONZE CAPITAL 2.2 METRES HIGH, AND ALL ROUND IT WAS A GRATING DECORATED WITH POMEGRANATES, ALL OF WHICH WAS ALSO MADE OF BRONZE. ON THE GRATING OF EACH COLUMN THERE WERE A HUNDRED POMEGRANATES IN ALL, AND 96 OF THESE WERE VISIBLE FROM THE GROUND. IN ADDITION, NEBUZARADAN, THE COMMANDING OFFICER, TOOK AWAY AS PRISONERS SERAIAH THE HIGH PRIEST, ZEPHANIAH THE PRIEST NEXT IN RANK, AND THE THREE OTHER IMPORTANT TEMPLE OFFICIALS. FROM THE CITY HE TOOK THE OFFICER WHO HAD BEEN IN COMMAND OF THE TROOPS, SEVEN OF THE KING'S PERSONAL ADVISERS WHO WERE STILL IN THE CITY, THE COMMANDER'S ASSISTANT, WHO WAS IN CHARGE OF MILITARY RECORDS, AND 60 OTHER IMPORTANT MEN. NEBUZARADAN TOOK THEM TO THE KING OF BABYLONIA, WHO WAS IN THE CITY OF RIBLAH IN THE TERRITORY OF HAMATH. THERE THE KING HAD THEM BEATEN AND PUT TO DEATH. SO THE PEOPLE OF JUDAH WERE CARRIED AWAY FROM THEIR LAND TO EXILE. THIS IS THE RECORD OF THE PEOPLE THAT NEBUCHADNEZZAR TOOK AWAY AS PRISONERS: IN HIS SEVENTH YEAR AS KING HE CARRIED AWAY 3,023; IN HIS EIGHTEENTH YEAR, 832 FROM JERUSALEM; AND IN HIS 23RD YEAR, 745 - TAKEN AWAY BY NEBUZARADAN. IN ALL, 4,600 PEOPLE WERE TAKEN AWAY. IN THE YEAR THAT EVILMERODACH BECAME KING OF BABYLONIA, HE SHOWED KINDNESS TO KING JEHOIACHIN OF JUDAH BY RELEASING HIM FROM PRISON. THIS HAPPENED ON THE 25TH DAY OF THE TWELFTH MONTH OF THE 37TH  YEAR AFTER JEHOIACHIN HAD BEEN TAKEN AWAY AS A PRISONER. EVILMERODACH TREATED HIM KINDLY AND GAVE HIM A POSITION OF GREATER HONOUR THAN HE GAVE THE OTHER KINGS WHO WERE EXILES WITH HIM IN BABYLONIA. SO JEHOIACHIN WAS PERMITTED TO CHANGE FROM HIS PRISON CLOTHES AND TO DINE AT THE KING'S TABLE FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE. EACH DAY FOR AS LONG AS HE LIVED, HE WAS GIVEN A REGULAR ALLOWANCE FOR HIS NEEDS.



According to Daniel 1: 1-4
IN THE THIRD YEAR THAT JEHOIACHIN WAS KING OF JUDAH, KING NEBUCHADNEZZAR OF BABYLONIA ATTACKED JERUSALEM AND SURROUNDED THE CITY. THE LORD LET HIM CAPTURE KING JEHOIACHIN AND SEIZE SOME OF THE TEMPLE TREASURES. HE TOOK SOME PRISONERS BACK WITH HIM TO THE TEMPLE OF HIS GODS IN BABYLON, AND PUT THE CAPTURED TREASURES IN THE TEMPLE STOREROOMS. THE KING ORDERED ASHPENAZ, HIS CHIEF OFFICIAL, TO SELECT FROM AMONG THE ISRAELITE EXILES SOME YOUNG MEN OF THE ROYAL FAMILY AND OF THE NOBLE FAMILIES. THEY HAD TO BE HANDSOME, INTELLIGENT, WELL-TRAINED, QUICK TO LEARN, AND FREE FROM PHYSICAL DEFECTS , SO THAT THEY WOULD BE QUALIFIED TO SERVE IN THE ROYAL COURT. ASHPENAZ WAS TO TEACH THEM TO READ AND WRITE THE BABYLONIAN LANGUAGE.


Jesus Christ came in time, in form of human flesh through the Holy spirit and Virgin Mary, to help save human kind, most especially, the called and chosen ones of God and even if He was mostly rejected at the end of His life's journey here on Earth, He resurrected from the dead on the third day and ascended into Heaven to continue the work with His Father and He sent the Holy spirit to all His true disciples.

(2) Paul had to carry out the purification process because in the first place, the laws of Moses are not human ochestrated laws but laws given to all by God Almighty Himself and even though He still knew and believed the real fact that after Jesus Christ's life here on earth, death and Resurrection; we are all saved by love , faith, hope and grace. He pertook in the purification process to fulfil all righteousness just as Jesus Christ (God, the son) got baptized himself with water by John the Baptist even if John he Baptist tried to convince Him not to do so as He felt it was unnecessary being who He is (that is, Jesus Christ who is God the son). A lot of people were recently converted to Christianity in that place in those days (they still obeyed all the laws of Moses including circumcision) and they were still fed with milk and not with strong matured food so, in order not to lose the souls who were new converts to Christianity, he joined in the purification process as advised by the long existing disciples of Jesus Christ (that is, James and all the Church elders) there so, he was not a hypocrite that misled people. We, as true/good Christians, still have love, faith, hope, grace and many more in Jesus Christ with or without physical circumcision.

REMEMBER THAT: 
(I) A VOW IS TAKEN ON THE NAME OF SOMEONE HIGHER THAN THE PERSON(S) TAKING THE VOW. THERE IS NO ONE GREATER THAN GOD HIMSELF.

(II) IN THIS BIBLE PASSAGE BELOW, FOUR MEN HAD ALREADY TAKEN A VOW TO PERTAKE IN THE PURIFICATION CEREMONY (PHYSICAL CIRCUMCISION).

According to Acts 21: 17-27
WHEN WE ARRIVED IN JERUSALEM, THE BELIEVERS WELCOMED US WARMLY. THE NEXT DAY PAUL WENT WITH US TO SEE JAMES; AND ALL THE CHURCH ELDERS WERE PRESENT. PAUL GREETED THEM AND GAVE A COMPLETE REPORT OF EVERYTHING THAT GOD HAD DONE AMONG THE GENTILES THROUGH HIS WORK. AFTER HEARING HIM, THEY ALL PRAISED GOD. THEN THEY SAID, "BROTHER PAUL, YOU CAN SEE HOW MANY THOUSANDS OF JEWS HAVE BECOME BELIEVERS, AND HOW DEVOTED THEY ALL ARE TO THE LAW. THEY HAVE BEEN TOLD THAT YOU HAVE BEEN TEACHING ALL THE JEWS WHO LIVE IN GENTILE COUNTRIES TO ABANDON THE LAW OF MOSES, TELLING THEM NOT TO CIRCUMCISE THEIR CHILDREN OR FOLLOW THE JEWISH CUSTOMS. THEY ARE SURE TO HEAR THAT YOU HAVE ARRIVED. WHAT SHOULD BE DONE, THEN? THIS IS WHAT WE WANT YOU TO DO. THERE ARE FOUR MEN HERE WHO HAVE TAKEN A VOW. GO ALONG WITH THEM AND JOIN THEM IN THE CEREMONY OF PURIFICATION AND PAY THEIR EXPENSES; THEN THEY WILL BE ABLE TO SHAVE THEIR HEADS. IN THIS WAY EVERYONE WILL KNOW THAT THERE IS NO TRUTH IN ANY OF THE THINGS THAT THEY HAVE BEEN TOLD ABOUT YOU, BUT THAT YOU YOURSELF LIVE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW OF MOSES. BUT AS  FOR THE GENTILES WHO HAVE BECOME BELIEVERS, WE HAVE SENT THEM A LETTER TELLING THEM WE DECIDED THAT THEY MUST NOT EAT ANY FOOD THAT HAS BEEN OFFERED TO IDOLS, OR ANY BLOOD, OR ANY ANIMAL THAT HAS BEEN STRANGLED, AND THAT THEY MUST KEEP THEMSELVES FROM SEXUAL IMMORALITY." SO PAUL TOOK THE MEN AND THE NEXT DAY PERFORMED THE CEREMONY OF PURIFICATION WITH THEM. THEN HE WENT INTO THE TEMPLE AND GAVE NOTICE OF HOW MANY DAYS IT WOULD BE UNTIL THE END OF THE PERIOD OF PURIFICATION, WHEN A SACRIFICE WOULD BE OFFERED FOR EACH ON OF THEM.


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PRAISE THE LORD!!

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