18.3.23

God, The Mighty Man in Battle (STORY TIME): Read and what's your view

God, The Mighty Man in Battle (STORY TIME): Read and what's your view

(1) The mourning widow Judith cut off the head of the wicked Assyrian General Holofernes (who was a threat to her people) by the Grace, Strength and Power of God through night prayers and also praying silently while carrying out the exceptional action of cutting his head when she was alone with him. She took the head to her people for them to see and praise the Name of God Almighty who gave them great victory while on the verge of a battle to the amazement of many men. She also achieved this by following God's commandment (in the olden days Before Christ) even while with Holofernes. People must learn that you don't just go around threatening the True children of God. God is still God.

According to Judith 13: 1-17
'FINALLY WHEN IT GOT LATE, THE GUESTS EXCUSED THEMSELVES AND LEFT. BAGOAS THEN CLOSED UP THE TENT FROM THE OUTSIDE AND PREVENTED HOLOFERNES' SERVANTS FROM GOING IN. SO THEY ALL WENT TO BED; EVERYONE WAS VERY TIRED BECAUSE THE BANQUET HAS LASTED SO LONG. JUDITH WAS LEFT ALONE IN THE TENT WITH HOLOFERNES WHO WAS LYING DRUNK ON HIS BED. JUDITH'S SLAVE WOMAN WAS WAITING OUTSIDE THE TENT FOR JUDITH TO GO AND PRAY, AS SHE HAD DONE EACH NIGHT. JUDITH HAD ALSO TOLD BAGOAS THAT SHE WOULD BE GOING OUT TO PRAY AS USUAL. ALL THE GUESTS AND SERVANTS WERE NOW GONE, AND JUDITH AND HOLOFERNES WERE ALONE IN THE TENT. JUDITH STOOD BY HOLOFERNES' BED AND PRAYED SILENTLY, "O LORD, GOD ALMIGHTY, HELP ME WITH WHAT I AM ABOUT TO DO FOR THE GLORY OF JERUSALEM. NOW IS THE TIME TO RESCUE YOUR CHOSEN PEOPLE AND TO HELP ME CARRY OUT MY PLAN TO DESTROY THE ENEMIES WHO ARE THREATENING US." JUDITH WENT TO THE BED POST BY HOLOFERNES' HEAD AND TOOK DOWN HIS SWORD. SHE CAME CLOSER, SEIZED HOLOFERNES BY THE HAIR OF HIS HEAD, AND SAID, "O LORD, GOD OF ISRAEL, GIVE ME STRENGTH NOW." THEN JUDITH RAISED THE SWORD AND STRUCK HIM TWICE ON THE NECK AS HARD AS SHE COULD, CHOPPING OFF HIS HEAD. SHE ROLLED HIS BODY OFF THE BED AND TOOK DOWN THE BED AND TOOK DOWN THE MOSQUITO NET FROM THE BEDPOSTS. THEN SHE CAME OUT AND GAVE HOLOFERNES' HEAD TO HER SLAVE, WHO PUT IT IN THE FOOD BAG. THEN THE TWO WOMEN LEFT TOGETHER, AS THEY ALWAYS DID WHEN THEY WENT TO PRAY. AFTER THEY HAD WALKED THROUGH THE ASSYRIAN CAMP, THEY CROSSED THE VALLEY AND WENT UP THE MOUNTAINSIDE UNTIL THEY CAME TO GATES OF BETHULIA. WHEN THEY WERE A SHORT DISTANCE AWAY, JUDITH CALLED OUT TO THE GUARDS AT THE GATE "OPEN THE GATE! OPEN THE GATE! OUR GOD IS STILL WITH US. TODAY HE HAS ONCE AGAIN SHOWN HIS STRENGTH IN ISRAEL AND USED HIS POWER AGAINST OUR ENEMIES." WHEN THE MEN HEARD HER VOICE, THEY HURRIED DOWN TO THE GATES AND CALLED FOR THE TOWN OFFICIALS. EVERYONE, YOUNG AND OLD, RAN TOGETHER TO THE GATE. NO ONE COULD BELIEVE THAT JUDITH HAD COME BACK. THEY OPENED THE GATE FOR HER AND HER SLAVE AND WELCOMED THEM. THEN, WHEN THEY HAD LIT A FIRE TO GIVE SOME LIGHT AND HAD GATHERED AROUND THE TWO WOMEN, JUDITH SHOUTED, "PRAISE GOD, GIVE HIM PRAISE! PRAISE GOD, WHO HAS NOT HELD BACK HIS MERCY FROM THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL. TONIGHT HE HAS USED ME TO DESTROY OUR ENEMIES." SHE THEN TOOK THE HEAD OUT OF THE FOOD BAG AND SHOWED IT TO THE PEOPLE, "HERE," SHE SAID, "IS THE HEAD OF HOLOFERNES, THE GENERAL OF THE ASSYRIAN ARMY, AND HERE IS THE MOSQUITO NET FROM HIS BED, WHERE HE LAY IN A DRUNKEN STUPOR. THE LORD HAS USED A WOMAN TO KILL HIM. AS THE LORD LIVES, I SWEAR THAT HOLOFERNES NEVER TOUCHED ME, ALTHOUGH MY BEAUTY DECEIVED HIM AND BROUGHT HIM TO HIS RUIN. I WAS NOT DEFILED OR DISGRACED; THE LORD TOOK CARE OF ME THROUGH IT ALL." EVERYONE IN THE CITY WAS UTTERLY AMAZED. THEY BOWED DOWN AND WORSHIPPED GOD, PRAYING TOGETHER, "OUR GOD, YOU ARE WORTHY OF GREAT PRAISE. TODAY YOU HAVE TRIUMPHED OVER THE ENEMIES OF YOUR PEOPLE."

(2) The story of Noah and the flood that God used to destroy the evil mankind in the olden days. In this present world, we are all, in a way, the surviving generation of Noah and his saved family members. God hates evil. All the generations of Adam and Eve were destroyed (killed) by the flood sent by God except Noah and his family members who were in the boat (some call it an ark) that Noah built as God directed him. Human beings did a lot of violent things everywhere in those days which prompted God to make such a decision. SIMPLE AND SHORT!

QUESTION: DID YOU NOTICE THAT AT THE AGE OF 600 YEARS, BASED ON THE BIBLE, THE INSTRUCTIONS GOD GAVE NOAH NEVER MENTIONED THAT HE HAD ANY GRANDCHILD AT ALL? 
NOAH HAD: 
(A) A WIFE 
(B) THREE SONS (CALLED SHEM, HAM, AND JAPHETH) 
(C) HIS SONS' RESPECTIVE WIVES.

ONE OF THE MEANINGS OF THE ABOVE ๐Ÿ‘†: IT MEANS THAT NONE OF NOAH'S GRAND CHILDREN EXISTED BEFORE THE WORLD WAS DESTROYED BY THE FLOOD GOD SENT, SO, THEY NEVER SAW THAT VERY WICKED AND EVIL WORLD AND NEVER LEARNT ANYTHING FROM THAT WORLD. ALL THEY LEARNT WAS FROM NOAH, HIS WIFE, HIS SONS AND HIS SONS' WIVES. AND HIS GRANDCHILDREN PASSED THE KNOWLEDGE FORM GENERATION ONTO ANOTHER GENERATION AND SO ON AND SO FORTH AND HERE WE ARE, THE LATEST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD (WE ARE IN THE WORLD BUT WE ARE NOT OF THIS WORLD). SIMPLE THE SHORT!

According to Genesis 6: 9-22; Genesis 7:1-10
'THIS IS THE STORY OF NOAH. HE HAD THREE SONS, SHEM, HAM, JAPHETH. NOAH HAD NO FAULTS AND WAS THE ONLY GOOD MAN OF HIS TIME. HE LIVED IN FELLOWSHIP WITH GOD, BUT EVERYONE ELSE WAS EVIL IN GOD'S SIGHT, AND VIOLENCE HAD SPREAD EVERYWHERE. GOD LOOKED AT THE WORLD AND SAW THAT IT WAS EVIL, FOR THE PEOPLE WERE ALL LIVING EVIL LIVES. GOD SAID TO NOAH, "I HAVE DECIDED TO PUT AN END TO ALL MAN KIND. I WILL DESTROY THEM COMPLETELY, BECAUSE THE WORLD IS FULL OF THEIR VIOLENT DEEDS. BUILD A BOAT FOR YOURSELF OUT OF GOOD TIMBER, MAKE ROOMS IN IT AND COVER IT WITH TAR INSIDE AND OUT. MAKE IT 133 METRES LONG, 22 METRES WIDE, AND 13 METRES HIGH. MAKE A ROOF FOR THE BOAT AND LEAVE A SPACE OF 44 CENTIMETRES BETWEEN THE ROOF AND THE SIDES. BUILD IT WITH THREE DECKS AND PUT A DOOR IN THE SIDE. I AM GOING TO SEND A FLOOD ON THE EARTH TO DESTROY EVERY LIVING BEING. EVERYTHING ON THE EARTH WILL DIE, BUT I WILL MAKE A COVENANT WITH YOU. GO INTO THE BOAT WITH YOUR WIFE, YOUR SONS, AND THEIR WIVES. TAKE INTO THE BOAT WITH YOU A MALE AND A FEMALE OF EVERY KIND OF ANIMAL AND OF EVERY KIND OF BIRD, IN ORDER TO KEEP THEM ALIVE. TAKE ALONG ALL KINDS OF FOOD FOR YOU AND FOR THEM. NOAH DID EVERYTHING THAT GOD COMMANDED. THE LORD SAID TO NOAH, "GO INTO THE BOAT WITH YOUR WHOLE FAMILY; I HAVE FOUND THAT YOU ARE THE ONLY ONE IN ALL THE WORLD WHO DOES WHAT IS RIGHT. TAKE WITH YOU SEVEN PAIRS OF EACH KIND OF RITUALLY CLEAN ANIMAL, BUT ONLY ONE PAIR OF EACH KIND OF UNCLEAN ANIMAL. TAKE ALSO SEVEN PAIRS OF EACH BIRD. DO THIS SO THAT EVERY KIND OF ANIMAL AND BIRD WILL BE KEPT ALIVE TO REPRODUCE AGAIN ON THE EARTH. SEVEN DAYS FROM NOW I AM GOING TO SEND RAIN THAT WILL FALL FOR FORTY DAYS AND NIGHTS, IN ORDER TO DESTROY ALL THE LIVING BEINGS THAT I HAVE MADE." AND NOAH DID EVERYTHING THAT THE LORD COMMANDED. NOAH WAS 600 YEARS OLD WHEN THE FLOOD CAME ON THE EARTH. HE AND HIS WIFE, AND HIS SONS AND THEIR WIVES, WENT INTO THE BOAT TO ESCAPE THE FLOOD. A MALE AND FEMALE OF EVERY KIND OF ANIMAL AND BIRD, WHETHER RITUALLY CLEAN OR UNCLEAN, WENT INTO THE BOAT WITH NOAH, AS GOD HAS COMMANDED. SEVEN DAYS LATER THE FLOOD CAME.


(3) Judas finished those who mocked God and His digiligent people in the olden days. Their threat on the people of God led to their death. The priests and the people went into prayers because our Heavenly Father was been mocked by the heathen and they finally saw and felt pepper through Judas, his army of soldiers and their neighbors by the Grace and Mighty Power of God Almighty. Nicanor (the loud mouthed, insulting, not God fearing and boastful man) was the first to be killed on the battlefield before his army was killed. You cannot mock God and His people and go scot free. Stop threatening the true people/children of God as it is not good for your own sake. Its outcome will be bad for you if you threaten the true children of God. God is still God!

QUESTION AND THE LIKELY ANSWER: WHO KNOWS  THIS, CAN ONE SAY THAT ONE LAHK =ONE MILLION IN TODAY'S WORLD? THEN, IF YES, ONE CAN ALSO SAY THAT ONE LAHK EIGHTY FIVE THOUSAND SOLDIERS THAT ONLY ONE ANGEL OF GOD KILLED, BASED ON THE HOLY BIBLE, IS THE SAME AS ONE MILLION, EIGHTY FIVE THOUSAND SOLDIERS ๐Ÿ˜ณ. JUST SAYING!

According to 1 Maccabees 7: 33-50
'SOME TIME LATER NICANOR WENT TO MOUNT ZION. SOME OF THE PRIESTS LEFT THE TEMPLE AND, ALONG WITH SOME OF THE LEADERS OF THE PEOPLE, WENT TO WELCOME HIM WITH WORDS OF PEACE AND TO SHOW HIM THE BURNT OFFERING THAT WAS BEING SACRIFICED ON BEHALF OF THE KING. BUT HE RIDICULED THEM AND MADE THEM CEREMONIALLY UNCLEAN BY SPITTING ON THEM. HE SPOKE PROUDLY AND ANGRILY THREATENED THEM WITH AN OATH, "UNLESS JUDAS AND HIS ARMY ARE SURRENDERED TO ME IMMEDIATELY, I WILL BURN HIS TEMPLE DOWN AS SOON AS I RETURN FROM MY VICTORY." AND HE LEFT IN A RAGE. THE PRIESTS WENT INTO THE COURTYARD AND STOOD FACING THE ALTAR AND THE TEMPLE. THEY STARTED WEEPING AND PRAYED, LORD, YOU CHOSE THIS TEMPLE TO BEAR YOUR NAME AND BE A PLACE OF PRAYER AND INTERCESSION FOR YOUR PEOPLE. NOW, TAKE VENGEANCE ON THIS MAN AND HIS ARMY, LET THEM DIE IN BATTLE. REMEMBER HOW THEY SPOKE EVIL OF YOU, AND LET NONE OF THEM SURVIVE." NICANOR LEFT JERUSALEM AND SET UP HIS HEADQUARTERS AT BETH HORON, WHERE THE SYRIAN ARMY JOINED HIM. MEANWHILE, JUDAS SET UP CAMP AT ADASA WITH THREE THOUSAND MEN. THERE JUDAS PRAYED, "LORD, THE SCRIPTURES TELL US THAT WHEN A KING SENT MESSENGERS TO INSULT YOU, YOUR ANGEL WENT OUT AND KILLED ONE LAKH EIGHTY FIVE THOUSAND OF THEIR SOLDIERS. NOW, IN THE SAME WAY, CRUSH THIS ARMY BEFORE US TODAY AND LET EVERYONE KNOW THAT NICANOR IS BEING PUNISHED BECAUSE HE INSULTED YOUR HOLY TEMPLE. PUNISH HIM AS HIS WICKEDNESS DESERVES." THE ARMIES MET IN BATTLE ON THE THIRTEENTH DAY OF THE MONTH OF ADAR, AND NICANOR'S ARMY WAS DEFEATED. NICANOR HIMSELF WAS THE FIRST TO BE KILLED IN THE BATTLE, AND WHEN HIS SOLDIERS SAW THAT HE WAS DEAD, THEY THREW DOWN THEIR WEAPONS AND FLED. THE JEWS PURSUED THEM ALL DAY LONG FROM ADASA TO GEZER. AS THEY FOLLOWED, THEY KEPT SOUNDING THE CALL TO BATTLE ON THE TRUMPETS, AND FROM THE SURROUNDING VILLAGES OF JUDEA PEOPLE CAME OUT AND ATTACKED THE FLEEING ENEMY FROM THE SIDES. THIS FORCED THEM BACK TOWARDS THE JEWS WHO WERE CHASING THEM AND ALL THE ENEMY WERE KILLED IN THE FIGHT. NOT ONE OF THEM SURVIVED. THE JEWS TOOK THE LOOT AND THEN CUT OFF NICANOR'S HEAD AND HIS RIGHT ARM, WHICH HE HAD EXTENDED SO ARROGANTLY. THEY BROUGHT HIS HEAD AND HIS ARM TO BE PUT ON DISPLAY OUTSIDE JERUSALEM. THERE WAS GREAT REJOICING AMONG THE JEWS. THEY SET THAT DAY ASIDE AS A SPECIAL DAY OF CELEBRATION, AND DECREED THAT THE THIRTEENTH DAY OF ADAR SHOULD BE OBSERVED AS AN ANNUAL DAY OF CELEBRATION. THERE WAS PEACE IN THE LAND OF JUDEA FOR A LITTLE WHILE.'


(4) The death of the faithful servants/people of God normally leaves a significant mark behind on this earth/world no matter how hard and painful their exit/death might have been. EVEN IN THE DARKEST MOMENTS OF TRUE CHRISTIANS, PEOPLE WILL TESTIFY THAT JESUS CHRIST IS THEIR LORD AND PERSONAL SAVIOR.
THREE MAIN WOMEN FOLLOWED JESUS CHRIST WHILE HELPING HIM AS THEY COULD THROUGH OUT HIS CROSS JOURNEY:
(A) MARY MAGDALENE (B) MARY THE MOTHER OF JAMES AND JOSEPH
(C) THE WIFE OF ZEBEDEE.

REMEMBER THAT: 

(I) THE SONS OF ZEBEDEE IN THE BIBLE ARE CALLED JAMES AND JOHN.

(II) JOSEPH OF ARIMATHEA, WHO CARRIED THE BODY OF CHRIST JESUS WAS NOT ONE OF THE KNOWN DISCIPLES OF JESUS CHRIST AT THAT TIME. HE WAS A RICH MAN OF THE COUNCIL THAT CONDEMNED AND CRUCIFIED JESUS CHRIST, THE DIFFERENCE IS THAT HE NEVER SUPPORTED THEIR ACTIONS. SO, THE LEAST HE COULD DO WAS TO ASK FOR JESUS DEAD BODY FROM PILATE TO GIVE HIM A BEFITTING BURIAL OF A PROMINENT MAN IN THE SOCIETY. JOSEPH OF ARIMATHEA USED HIS MONEY, ASSET, AND CONNECTIONS WISELY TO SECURE THIS EVEN IF IT WAS AFTER JESUS' DEATH HE SUMMONED COURAGE AND ACHIEVED IT.

(III) THE DEAD RIGHTEOUS PEOPLE ROSE FROM THE DEAD IMMEDIATELY JESUS CHRIST DIED, PEOPLE SAW THESE RISEN PEOPLE. JESUS CHRIST ROSE THE RIGHTEOUS FROM THE DEAD IMMEDIATELY HE DIED.

(IV) JESUS CHRIST ROSE FROM THE DEAD THREE DAYS AFTER HE ROSE THE RIGHTEOUS DEAD PEOPLE FROM THE DEAD.

(V) IT CAN BE SAID THAT THE RESURRECTION OF THE RIGHTEOUS DEAD PEOPLE HAS ALREADY STARTED SINCE THE DEATH OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST.

According to Matthew 27:45-56
'AT NOON THE WHOLE COUNTRY WAS COVERED WITH DARKNESS, WHICH LASTED FOR THREE HOURS. AT ABOUT THREE O'CLOCK JESUS CRIED OUT WITH A LOUD SHOUT, ELI, ELI, LEMA SABACHTHANI? WHICH MEANS, "MY GOD, MY GOD, WHY DID YOU ABANDON ME?" SOME OF THE PEOPLE STANDING THERE HEARD HIM AND SAID, "HE IS CALLING FOR ELIJAH!" ONE OF THEM RAN UP AT ONCE, TOOK A SPONGE, SOAKED IT IN CHEAP WINE, PUT IT ON THE END OF A STICK, AND TRIED TO MAKE HIM DRINK IT. BUT THE OTHERS SAID, "WAIT, LIKE US SEE IF ELIJAH IS COMING TO SAVE HIM!" JESUS AGAIN GAVE A LOUD CRY AND BREATHED HIS LAST. THEN THE CURTAIN HANGING IN THE TEMPLE WAS TORN IN TWO FROM TOP TO BOTTOM. THE EARTH SHOOK, THE ROCKS SPLIT APART, THE GRAVES BROKE OPEN, AND MANY OF GOD'S PEOPLE WHO HAD DIED WERE RAISED TO LIFE. THEY LEFT THE GRAVES, AND AFTER JESUS ROSE FROM DEATH, THEY WENT INTO THE HOLY CITY, WHERE MANY PEOPLE SAW THEM. WHEN THE ARMY OFFICER AND THE SOLDIERS WITH HIM WHO WERE WATCHING JESUS SAW THE EARTH-QUAKE AND EVERYTHING ELSE THAT HAPPENED, THEY WERE TERRIFIED AND SAID, "HE REALLY WAS THE SON OF GOD!" THERE WERE MANY WOMEN THERE, LOOKING ON FROM A DISTANCE, WHO HAD FOLLOWED JESUS FROM GALILEE AND HELPED HIM. AMONG THEM WERE MARY MAGDALENE, MARY THE MOTHER OF JAMES AND JOSEPH, AND THE WIFE OF ZEBEDEE.'


According to Luke 23: 44-56
'IT WAS ABOUT TWELVE O'CLOCK WHEN THE SUN STOPPED SHINING AND DARKNESS COVERED THE WHOLE COUNTRY UNTIL THREE O'CLOCK; AND THE CURTAIN HANGING IN THE TEMPLE WAS TORN IN TWO. JESUS CRIED OUT IN A LOUD VOICE, "FATHER! IN YOUR HANDS I PLACE MY SPIRIT!" HE SAID THIS AND DIED. THE ARMY OFFICER SAW WHAT HAPPENED, AND HE PRAISED GOD, SAYING, CERTAINLY HE WAS A GOOD MAN!" WHEN THE PEOPLE WHO HAD GATHERED THERE TO WATCH THE SPECTACLE SAW WHAT HAPPENED, THEY ALL WENT BACK HOME, BEATING THEIR BREASTS IN SORROW. ALL THOSE WHO KNEW JESUS PERSONALLY, INCLUDING THE WOMEN WHO HAD FOLLOWED HIM FROM GALILEE, STOOD AT A DISTANCE TO WATCH. THERE WAS A MAN NAMED JOSEPH FROM ARIMATHEA, A TOWN IN JUDEA. HE WAS A GOOD AND HONOURABLE MAN, WHO WAS WAITING FOR THE COMING OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD. ALTHOUGH HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE COUNCIL, HE HAD NOT AGREED WITH THEIR DECISION AND ACTION. HE WENT INTO THE PRESENCE OF PILATE AND ASKED FOR THE BODY OF JESUS. THEN HE TOOK THE BODY DOWN, WRAPPED IT IN A LINEN SHEET, AND PLACED IT IN A TOMB WHICH HAD NEVER BEEN USED. IT WAS FRIDAY, AND THE SABBATH WAS ABOUT TO BEGIN. THE WOMEN WHO HAD FOLLOWED JESUS FROM GALILEE WENT WITH JOSEPH AND SAW THE TOMB AND HOW JESUS' BODY WAS PLACED IN IT. THEN THEY WENT BACK HOME AND PREPARED THE SPICES AND PERFUMES FOR THE BODY. ON THE SABBATH THEY RESTED, AS THE LAW COMMANDED.'

(5) King Herod (who is an enemy of God) tried to use the Information of the Scriptures (that is, the Word of God) to defeat and kill Jesus Christ (who is the Messiah) upon His birth into this world but God is still God. King Herod failed woefully as He could not kill the baby Jesus Christ even at such a tender age (a less than one year old baby Jesus Christ).

According to Matthew 2: 1-15
'JESUS WAS BORN IN THE TOWN OF BETHLEHEM IN JUDEA, DURING THE TIME WHEN HEROD WAS KING. SOON AFTERWARDS, SOME MEN WHO STUDIED THE STARS CAME FROM THE EAST TO JERUSALEM AND ASKED, "WHERE IS THE BABY BORN TO BE THE KING OF THE JEWS? WE SAW HIS STAR WHEN IT CAME UP IN THE EAST, AND WE HAVE COME TO WORSHIP HIM." WHEN KING HEROD HEARD ABOUT THIS HE WAS VERY UPSET, AND SO WAS EVERYONE ELSE IN JERUSALEM . HE CALLED TOGETHER ALL THE CHIEF PRIESTS AND THE TEACHERS OF THE LAW AND ASKED THEM, "WHERE WILL THE MESSIAH BE BORN?" "IN THE TOWN OF BETHLEHEM IN JUDEA," THEY ANSWERED. "FOR THIS IS WHAT THE PROPHET WROTE: "BETHLEHEM IN THE LAND OF JUDAH, YOU ARE BY NO MEANS THE LEAST OF THE LEADING CITIES OF JUDAH; FOR FROM YOU WILL COME A LEADER WHO WILL GUIDE MY PEOPLE ISRAEL." SO HEROD CALLED THE VISITORS FROM THE EAST TO A SECRET MEETING AND FOUND OUT FROM THEM THE EXACT TIME THE STAR HAD APPEARED. THEN HE SENT THEM TO BETHLEHEM WITH THESE INSTRUCTIONS: "GO AND MAKE A CAREFUL SEARCH FOR THE CHILD, AND WHEN YOU FIND HIM, LET ME KNOW, SO THAT I TOO MAY GO AND WORSHIP HIM." AND SO THEY LEFT, AND ON THEIR WAY THEY SAW THE SAME STAR THEY HAD SEEN IN THE EAST. WHEN THEY SAW IT, HOW HAPPY THEY WERE, WHAT JOY WAS THEIRS! IT WENT AHEAD OF THEM UNTIL IT STOPPED OVER THE PLACE WHERE THE CHILD WAS. THEY WENT INTO THE HOUSE, AND WHEN THEY SAW THE CHILD WITH HIS MOTHER MARY, THEY KNELT DOWN AND WORSHIPPED HIM. THEY BROUGHT OUT THEIR GIFTS OF GOLD, FRANKINCENSE, AND MYRRH, AND PRESENTED THEM TO HIM. THEN THEY RETURNED TO THEIR COUNTRY BY ANOTHER ROAD, SINCE GOD HAD WARNED THEM IN A DREAM NOT TO GO BACK TO HEROD. AFTER THEY HAD LEFT, AN ANGEL OF THE LORD APPEARED IN A DREAM TO JOSEPH AND SAID, "HEROD WILL BE LOOKING FOR THE CHILD IN ORDER TO KILL HIM. SO GET UP, TAKE THE CHILD AND HIS MOTHER AND ESCAPE TO EGYPT AND STAY THERE UNTIL I TELL YOU TO LEAVE." JOSEPH GOT UP, TOOK THE CHILD AND HIS MOTHER, AND LEFT DURING THE NIGHT FOR EGYPT, WHERE HE STAYED UNTIL HEROD DIED. THIS WAS DONE TO MAKE WHAT THE LORD HAD SAID THROUGH THE PROPHET COME TRUE, "I CALLED MY SON OUT OF EGYPT."

(6) We are Free (Free borns) through our Lord Jesus Christ. One bad raw egg broken and mixed up with other good broken raw eggs in order to make a fried egg paste can give it a bad taste even if the main aim is to quench hunger, the taste could be so bad that no one will be able to eat it and if anyone eats it, it may cause bad/ill health. Follow the teachings of Christ Jesus totally and it shall be well with you. Faith, Hope and love is a wonderful and productive combination when you are in Christ Jesus. The Grace of God should be your preferred criteria for you to be put right with God. If you choose trying to meet up with obeying all the Laws of God all by yourself without the Grace of God, be sure that it will fail because no man on earth is perfect. SIMPLE AND SHORT! GOD IS GOOD!!!

SEE HOW IT WORKS: THE LAWS OF GOD ARE OBEYED BY THE GRACE OF GOD, AND NOT BY YOUR HUMANLY POWER.  WE HOPE THAT GOD WILL SAVE US THROUGH HIS GRACE. THE POWER OF GOD'S SPIRIT GIVES HIS GRACE TO THOSE WHO BELIEVE (THAT IS, THOSE WHO HAVE FAITH). AND FAITH WORKS THROUGH THE  LOVE IS US. HAVING LOVE IN YOU IS THE HIGHEST COMMANDMENT BECAUSE IT CONTAINS ALL THE LAWS OF GOD, AND GOD IS LOVE. THUS, IF GOD IS IN YOU, YOU AUTOMATICALLY HAVE LOVE, FAITH, POWER, GRACE, HOPE AND FINALLY, OBEYING HIS LAWS WON'T BE A PROBLEM BECAUSE OF ALL THESE LISTED VIRTUES OF GOD IN YOU. HAVING THESE VIRTUES OF GOD IN US IS BETTER THAN BEING EMPTY INSIDE AND TRYING TO JUST OBEY THE LAWS OF GOD ONLY. WE ARE FREE BORNS (FREE) THROUGH CHRIST JESUS. BASED ON PAUL IN THE BIBLE, MAY GOD PUNISH ANY MAN WHO PREACHES ANYTHING ASIDES THE CORRECT WORD OF GOD NO MATTER WHO IT MAY BE.

According to Galatians 5: 1-15
'FREEDOM IS WHAT WE HAVE - CHRIST HAS SET US FREE! STAND, THEN, AS FREE PEOPLE, AND DO NOT ALLOW YOURSELVES TO BECOME SLAVES AGAIN. LISTEN! I, PAUL, TELL YOU THAT IF YOU ALLOW YOURSELVES TO BE CIRCUMCISED, IT MEANS THAT CHRIST IS OF NO USE TO YOU AT ALL. ONCE MORE I WARN ANY MAN WHO ALLOWS HIMSELF TO BE CIRCUMCISED THAT HE IS OBLIGED TO OBEY THE WHOLE LAW. THOSE OF YOU WHO TRY TO BE PUT RIGHT WITH GOD BY OBEYING THE LAW HAVE CUT YOURSELVES OFF FROM CHRIST. YOU ARE OUTSIDE GOD'S GRACE. AS FOR US, OUR HOPE IS THAT GOD WILL PUT US RIGHT WITH HIM; AND THIS IS WHAT WE WAIT FOR BY THE POWER OF GOD'S SPIRIT WORKING THROUGH OUR FAITH. FOR WHEN WE ARE IN UNION WITH CHRIST JESUS, NEITHER CIRCUMCISION NOR THE LACK  OF IT MAKES ANY DIFFERENCE AT ALL; WHAT MATTERS IS FAITH THAT WORKS THROUGH LOVE. YOU WERE DOING SO WELL! WHO MADE YOU STOP OBEYING THE TRUTH? HOW DID HE PERSUADE YOU? IT WAS NOT DONE BY GOD, WHO CALLS YOU. "IT TAKES ONLY A LITTLE YEAST TO MAKE THE WHOLE BATCH OF DOUGH RISE," AS THEY SAY. BUT I STILL FEEL CONFIDENT ABOUT YOU. OUR LIFE IN UNION WITH THE LORD MAKES ME CONFIDENT THAT YOU WILL NOT TAKE A DIFFERENT VIEW AND THAT THE MAN WHO IS UPSETTING YOU, WHOEVER HE IS, WILL BE PUNISHED BY GOD. BUT AS FOR ME, MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS, IF I CONTINUE TO PREACH THAT CIRCUMCISION IS NECESSARY, WHY AM I STILL BEING PERSECUTED? IF THAT WERE TRUE, THEN MY PREACHING ABOUT THE CROSS OF CHRIST WOULD CAUSE NO TROUBLE. I WISH THAT THE PEOPLE WHO ARE UPSETTING YOU WOULD GO ALL THE WAY; LET THEM GO ON AND CASTRATE THEMSELVES! AS FOR YOU, MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS, YOU WERE CALLED TO BE FREE. BUT DO NOT LET THIS FREEDOM BECOME AN EXCUSE FOR LETTING YOUR PHYSICAL DESIRES CONTROL YOU. INSTEAD, LET LOVE MAKE YOU SERVE ONE ANOTHER. FOR THE WHOLE LAW IS SUMMED UP IN ONE COMMANDMENT: "LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOU LOVE YOURSELF." BUT IF YOU ACT LIKE WILD ANIMALS, HURTING AND HARMING EACH OTHER, THEN WATCH OUT, OR YOU WILL COMPLETELY DESTROY ONE ANOTHER."


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17.3.23

The Miracle of Christianity as we are in the world but are not of this world: Read and what's your view

The Miracle of Christianity as we are in the world but are not of this world: Read and what's your view

1) Women were the first to spread the Good News of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. They told this Good News to Peter and some other disciples who did not believe her so Peter had to go and see the empty tomb by Himself in order to believe. Strong women of God are dedicated women of God that follows Jesus even in the hardest moments and are still willing to do more for Jesus Christ even when all hope seems to be lost and dead. STRONG WOMEN OF GOD ARE DARING HUMAN BEINGS. When the men of God were nowhere to be found, they still followed Jesus Christ up to His tomb (grave).
WHO FIRST SPREAD THE WORD OF GOD AFTER HIS RESURRECTION FROM THE DEAD?๐Ÿ‘‡
(A) MARY MAGDALENE
(B) JOANNA
(C) MARY, THE MOTHER OF JAMES 
(D) OTHER WOMEN WITH THEM

NOTE THAT THE NUMBER OF THE OTHER WOMEN WAS NOT SPECIFIED, WHAT IF IT LOOKED LIKE A PEACEFUL PROTEST GROUP, SMALL OR BIG PEACEFUL PROTEST GROUP? MARRIED AND SINGLE WOMEN MUST HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN THIS GROUP OF WOMEN WHO WERE THE FIRST HUMAN BEINGS (PARTICULARLY, THE CHILDREN OF GOD) ON EARTH WHO BORE TRUE WITNESS (WITHOUT LIES) TO THE RESURRECTION OF CHRIST JESUS๐Ÿ‘†.

According to Luke 23: 54-56; Luke 24: 1-12
"It was the day of Preparation, and the Sabbath was beginning. THE WOMEN WHO HAD COME WITH HIM FROM GALILEE FOLLOWED AND SAW THE TOMB AND HOW HIS BODY WAS LAID. THEN THEY RETURNED AND PREPARED SPICED AND OINTMENTS. ON THE SABBATH THEY RESTED ACCORDING TO THE COMMANDMENT. BUT ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK, AT EARLY DAWN, THEY WENT TO THE TOMB, TAKING THE SPICED THEY HAD PREPARED. AND THEY FOUND THE STONE ROLLED AWAY FROM THE TOMB, BUT WHEN THEY WENT IN THEY DID NOT FIND THE BODY OF THE LORD JESUS. WHILE THEY WERE PERPLEXED ABOUT THIS, BEHOLD, TWO MEN STOOD BY THEM IN DAZZLING APPAREL. AND AS THEY WERE FRIGHTENED AND BOWED THEIR FACES TO THE GROUND, THE MEN SAID TO THEM, WHY DO YOU SEEK THE LIVING AMONG THE DEAD? HE IS NOT HERE, BUT HAS RISEN. REMEMBER HOW HE TOLD YOU, WHILE HE WAS STILL IN GALILEE, THAT THE SON OF MAN MUST BE DELIVERED INTO THE HANDS OF SINFUL MEN AND BE CRUCIFIED AND ON THE THIRD DAY RISE. AND THEY REMEMBERED HIS WORDS, AND RETURNING FROM THE TOMB THEY TOLD ALL THESE THINGS TO THE ELEVEN AND TO ALL THE REST. NOW IT WAS MARY MAGDALENE AND JOANNA AND MARY THE MOTHER OF JAMES AND THE OTHER WOMEN WITH THEM WHO TOLD THESE THINGS TO THE APOSTLES, BUT THESE WORDS SEEMED TO THEM AN IDLE TALE, AND THEY DID NOT BELIEVE THEM. BUT PETER ROSE AND RAN TO THE TOMB, STOOPING AND LOOKING IN, HE SAW THE LINEN CLOTHS BY THEMSELVES; AND HE WENT HOME MARVELING AT WHAT HAD HAPPENED.

NOTE THAT๐Ÿ‘†: "THE ELEVEN" MENTIONED IN THE ABOVE BIBLE PASSAGE WERE ALL OF THE TWELVE APOSTLES OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST EXCEPT "JUDAS ISCARIOT."

2) More proof that women can see visions, women can see angels, women can hear from God, women know the Good News etc: A young female virgin, called Mary, believed Angel Gabriel when he came to her with the message of God about the birth of Jesus Christ through her, she believed him and also accepted the task even if she knew that no one would believe her if she told them. It took the Angel of God to tell Joseph in a dream for him to believe. That was how hard and impossible that task must have seemed. Who would believe a Virgin will conceive, they would have tagged Mary, the Mother of God, a prostitute and a wayward woman if care was not taken. But she believed God will not allow her live in shame and followed God's plan for her till the end.

According to Luke 1: 26-38
'IN THE SIXTH MONTH THE ANGEL GABRIEL WAS SENT FROM GOD TO THE CITY OF GALILEE NAMED NAZARETH, TO A VIRGIN BETROTHED TO A MAN WHOSE NAME WAS JOSEPH OF THE HOUSE OF DAVID. AND THE VIRGIN'S NAME WAS MARY. AND HE CAME TO HER AND SAID, GREETINGS, O FAVORED ONE, THE LORD IS WITH YOU!" BUT SHE WAS GREATLY TROUBLED AT THE SAYING, AND TRIED TO DISCERN WHAT SORT OF GREETING THIS MIGHT BE. AND THE ANGEL SAID TO HER, DO NOT BE AFRAID, MARY, FOR YOU HAVE FOUND FAVOR WITH GOD. AND BEHOLD, YOU WILL CONCEIVE IN YOUR WOMB AND BEAR A SON, AND YOU SHALL CALL HIS NAME JESUS. HE WILL BE GREAT AND WILL BE CALLED THE SON OF THE MOST HIGH. AND THE LORD GOD WILL GIVE TO HIM THE THRONE OF HIS FATHER DAVID. AND HE WILL REIGN OVER THE HOUSE OF JACOB FOREVER, AND OF HIS KINGDOM THERE WILL BE NO END. AND MARY SAID TO THE ANGEL, "HOW WILL THIS BE, SINCE I AM A VIRGIN?" AND THE ANGEL ANSWERED HER, THE HOLY SPIRIT WILL COME UPON YOU, AND THE POWER OF THE MOST HIGH WILL OVERSHADOW YOU; THEREFORE THE CHILD TO BE BORN WILL BE CALLED HOLY-THE SON OF GOD. AND BEHOLD, YOUR RELATIVE ELIZABETH IN HER OLD AGE HAS ALSO CONCEIVED A SON, AND THIS IS THE SIXTH MONTH WITH HER WHO WAS CALLED BARREN."FOR NOTHING WILL BE IMPOSSIBLE WITH GOD." AND MARY SAID, "BEHOLD, I AM THE SERVANT OF THE LORD; LET IT BE TO ME ACCORDING TO YOUR WORD." AND THE ANGEL DEPARTED FROM HER.

3) Mary Magdalene saw Jesus Christ first before any man did. Jesus Christ is God, the Son. She saw God, the Son even if she was a woman but just like others who later saw Jesus Christ after His death, she did not recognize Him immediately until He allowed her to recognize Him. The fact is Based on the Holy Bible we know and read, Mary Magdalene saw Jesus Christ first in her weeping and great sorrows of feeling that she had lost our Lord Jesus Christ, her Great Lord and Master to the hands of cruel death and humiliation. The pain and sorrows was too much for her to bear so Jesus Christ Himself had to appear to her in a simple poor man's form (this was why she thought he was just an ordinary Gardner and not some rich graveside visitor) to console his bereaved friend. 

(a) Mary Magdalene first announced His resurrection only that she didn't know where Jesus was after seeing the empty tomb.

(b) Mary Magdalene first saw Jesus Christ before the others like Simon Peter and the rest and she announced it to them. 
NOTE THAT MARY MAGDALENE NEVER KEEPS QUIET WHEN IT COMES TO THE MESSAGE OF THE LORD WHETHER IT IS LOOKING BAD OR GOOD TO OTHERS even if they don't believe her.

(c) Our Risen Lord Jesus Christ told Mary Magdalene that His Heavenly Father (who is God, the Father) is her (that is, Mary Magdalene's) Father.

(d) Mary Magdalene was also told by Our Risen Lord Jesus Christ that His God (that is, God the Father because we already know now that Jesus Christ is God, the Son) is already her God.

(e) Each time Mary Magdalene went to spread the Good News of the Risen Lord Jesus Christ she made sure to start from the existing children of God (the disciples and, most especially, the apostles). She told them the truth she witnessed of Jesus Christ in details without any compromise but with the intent to spread the Good News as expected of her already.

According to John 20: 1- 18
NOW ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK MARY MAGDALENE CAME TO THE TOMB EARLY, WHILE IT WAS STILL DARK, AND SAW THAT THE STONE HAD BEEN TAKEN AWAY FROM THE TOMB. SO SHE RAN AND WENT TO SIMON PETER AND THE OTHER DISCIPLE, THE ONE WHOM JESUS LOVED, AND SAID TO THEM, "THEY HAVE TAKEN THE LORD OUT OF THE TOMB, AND WE DO NOT KNOW WHERE THEY HAVE LAID HIM." SO PETER WENT OUT WITH THE OTHER DISCIPLE, AND THEY WERE GOING TOWARD THE TOMB. BOTH OF THEM WERE RUNNING TOGETHER, BUT THE OTHER DISCIPLE OUTRAN PETER AND REACHED THE TOMB FIRST. AND STOOPING TO LOOK IN, HE SAW THE LINEN CLOTHS LYING THERE, BUT HE DID NOT GO IN. THEN SIMON PETER CAME, FOLLOWING HIM, AND WENT INTO THE TOMB. HE SAW THE LINEN CLOTHS LYING THERE, AND THE FACE CLOTH, WHICH HAD BEEN ON JESUS' HEAD, NOT LYING WITH THE LINEN CLOTHS BUT FOLDED UP IN A PLACE BY ITSELF. THEN THE OTHER DISCIPLE, WHO HAD REACHED THE TOMB FIRST, ALSO WENT IN, AND HE SAW AND BELIEVED; FOR AS YET THEY DID NOT UNDERSTAND THE SCRIPTURE, THAT HE MUST RISE FROM THE DEAD. THEN THE DISCIPLES WENT BACK TO THEIR HOMES. BUT MARY STOOD WEEPING OUTSIDE THE TOMB, AND AS SHE WEPT SHE STOOPED TO LOOK INTO THE TOMB. AND SHE SAW TWO ANGELS IN WHITE, SITTING WHERE THE BODY OF JESUS HAD LAIN, ONE AT THE HEAD AND ONE AT THE FEET. THEY SAID TO HER, "WOMAN, WHY ARE YOU WEEPING?" SHE SAID TO THEM, "THEY HAVE TAKEN AWAY MY LORD, AND I DO NOT KNOW WHERE THEY HAVE LAID HIM." HAVING SAID THIS, SHE TURNED AROUND AND SAW JESUS STANDING, BUT SHE DID NOT KNOW THAT IT WAS JESUS. JESUS SAID TO HER, "WOMAN, WHY ARE YOU WEEPING? WHOM ARE YOU SEEKING?" SUPPOSING HIM TO BE THE GARDENER, SHE SAID TO HIM, "SIR, IF YOU HAVE CARRIED HIM AWAY, TELL ME WHERE YOU HAVE LAID HIM, AND I WILL TAKE HIM AWAY." JESUS SAID TO HER, "MARY," SHE TURNED AND SAID TO HIM IN ARAMAIC, "RABBONI" (WHICH MEANS TEACHER). JESUS SAID TO HER, "DO NOT CLING TO ME, FOR I HAVE NOT YET ASCENDED TO THE FATHER; BUT GO TO MY BROTHERS AND SAY TO THEM, "I AM ASCENDING TO MY FATHER AND YOUR FATHER, TO MY GOD AND YOUR GOD." MARY MAGDALENE WENT TO ANNOUNCE TO THE DISCIPLES, " I HAVE SEEN THE LORD"-AND THAT HE HAD SAID THESE THINGS TO HER.


4) Based on the Holy Bible, the Virgin Mary first experienced the HOLY SPIRIT when Jesus Christ, her baby was conceived through this same Holy Spirit. She became filled with the Holy Spirit even before Jesus Christ was born. Note that Jesus Christ is the reason why she got filled with the Holy Spirit in the first place. Her presence in turn filled another woman called Elizabeth, the barren wife of Zechariah, who recently got pregnant with John the Baptist, with the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit made Elizabeth cry out for joy.

{For me as the writer, I say: O MY GOD! God is good oooo. Women have been blessed with the Holy Spirit even before Jesus Christ was born through God}.

According to Luke 1: 39-56
'IN THOSE DAYS MARY AROSE AND WENT WITH HASTE INTO THE HILL COUNTRY, TO A TOWN IN JUDAH, AND SHE ENTERED THE HOUSE OF ZECHARIAH AND GREETED ELIZABETH. AND WHEN ELIZABETH HEARD THE GREETING OF MARY, THE BABY LEAPED IN HER WOMB. AND ELIZABETH WAS FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT, AND SHE EXCLAIMED WITH A LOUD CRY, "BLESSED ARE YOU AMONG WOMEN, AND BLESSED IS THE FRUIT OF YOUR WOMB! AND WHY IS THIS GRANTED TO ME THAT THE MOTHER OF MY LORD SHOULD COME TO ME? FOR BEHOLD, WHEN THE SOUND OF YOUR GREETING CAME TO MY EARS, THE BABY IN MY WOMB LEAPED FOR JOY. "AND BLESSED IS SHE WHO BELIEVED THAT THERE WOULD BE A FULFILLMENT OF WHAT WAS SPOKEN TO HER FROM THE LORD." AND MARY SAID, "MY SOUL MAGNIFIES THE LORD, AND MY SPIRIT REJOICES IN GOD MY SAVIOR, FOR HE HAS LOOKED ON THE HUMBLE ESTATE OF HIS SERVANT. FOR BEHOLD, FROM NOW ON ALL GENERATIONS WILL CALL ME BLESSED; FOR HE WHO IS MIGHTY HAS DONE GREAT THINGS FOR ME, AND HOLY IS HIS NAME. AND HIS MERCY IS FOR THOSE WHO FEAR HIM FROM GENERATION AND GENERATION. HE HAS SHOWN STRENGTH WITH HIS ARM; HE HAS SCATTERED THE PROUD IN THE THOUGHTS OF THEIR HEARTS; HE HAS BROUGHT DOWN THE MIGHTY FROM THEIR THRONES AND EXALTED THOSE OF HUMBLE ESTATE; HE HAS FILLED THE HUNGRY WITH GOOD THINGS, AND THE RICH HE HAS SENT AWAY EMPTY. HE HAS HELPED HIS SERVANT ISRAEL, IN REMEMBRANCE OF HIS MERCY, AS HE SPOKE TO OUR FATHERS, TO ABRAHAM AND TO HIS OFFSPRING FOREVER." AND MARY REMAINED WITH HER ABOUT THREE MONTHS AND RETURNED TO HER HOME.

5) The Holy Spirit is meant for all women also. Old and young, slim or fat etc..Women/Female servants of God spread the word of God by the Great Power of the Holy Spirit. All women can call upon the Lord God by themselves and get saved. 

Note that๐Ÿ‘‡: 

(a) The Holy Spirit also filled the women too early in the morning alongside the other disciples at the third hour of the day which we all know as 3:00am

(b) Real Prophetesses exist by the power of the Holy Spirit just the same way as the Male Prophets.

(c) Females can be servants of God just like Males can be servants of God.

(d) Women of God (Female servants of God) can also perform miracles, signs and wonders through the Power of the Holy Spirit.

According to Acts 2: 15-21
"FOR THESE PEOPLE ARE NOT DRUNK, AS YOU SUPPOSE, SINCE IT IS ONLY THE THIRD HOUR OF THE DAY. BUT THIS IS WHAT WAS UTTERED THROUGH THE "PROPHET JOEL": AND IN THE LAST DAYS IT SHALL BE, GOD DECLARES, THAT I WILL POUR OUT MY SPIRIT ON ALL FLESH, AND YOUR SONS AND YOUR DAUGHTERS SHALL PROPHESY, AND YOUR YOUNG MEN SHALL SEE VISIONS AND YOUR OLD MEN SHALL DREAM DREAMS, EVEN ON MY MALE SERVANTS AND MY FEMALE SERVANTS IN THOSE DAYS I WILL POUR OUT MY SPIRIT, AND THEY SHALL PROPHESY. AND I WILL SHOW WONDERS IN THE HEAVENS ABOVE AND SIGNS ON THE EARTH BELOW, BLOOD, AND FIRE, AND VAPOUR; THE SUN SHALL BE TURNED TO DARKNESS AND THE MOON TO BLOOD, BEFORE THE DAY OF THE LORD COMES, THE GREAT AND MAGNIFICENT DAY, AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS THAT EVERYONE WHO CALLS UPON THE NAME OF THE LORD SHALL BE SAVED.


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16.3.23

Where is Judas Iscariot now, The Once upon a time Disciple of Jesus Christ who Betrayed Him? : Read and what's your view

Where is Judas Iscariot now, The Once upon a time Disciple of Jesus Christ who Betrayed Him? : Read and what's your view

The Journey of Judas Iscariot as told in the Holy Bible, that most of us already know about, is exactly as written below ๐Ÿ‘‡:

(1) Be careful of who you decide to bless with high positions as they may turn back to bite you and try to make a ridicule of such positions unlike others given the same or bigger opportunities and platforms. "But you can never be more careful than Jesus Christ Himself who Judas Iscariot betrayed."

According to Matthew 7:6-11
DO NOT GIVE DOGS WHAT IS HOLY, AND DO NOT THROW YOUR PEARLS BEFORE PIGS, LEST THEY TRAMPLE THEM UNDERFOOT AND TURN TO ATTACK YOU. Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

(2) Judas Iscariot was one of the first twelve disciples of Christ Jesus known as the TWELVE APOSTLES but he ended up misusing this gracious position and opportunity given to him by Jesus Christ. JESUS CHRIST EVEN PROMOTED JUDAS ISCARIOT FROM BEING A NORMAL DISCIPLE TO ONE OF THE TWELVE APOSTLES because he had more than 'twelve disciples' (students/learners).

According to Luke 6:12-16
In these days he went out to the mountain to pray, and all night he continued in prayer to God. AND WHEN DAY CAME, HE CALLED HIS DISCIPLES AND CHOSE FROM THEM TWELVE, WHOM HE NAMED APOSTLES: Simon, whom he named Peter, and Andrew his brother, and James and John, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon who was called the Zealot, and JUDAS THE SON OF JAMES, AND JUDAS ISCARIOT, WHO BECAME A TRAITOR.

(3) On the Child (Jesus Christ) dedication day, the Great man of God called Simeon in the Holy Bible had already warned and prophesied to the Virgin, Mary, that a sword will pierce her heart referring to how someone as close to Jesus Christ as one of the apostles, called Judas Iscariot, will betray her son by handing Him over to those who hate Him who ended up crucifying Him on the Cross of Calvary in the future as prophesied to her.

According to Luke 2: 25-35
"Now there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon, and this man was righteous and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him. And it had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not see death before he had seen the Lord's Christ. And he came in the Spirit into the temple, and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for Him according to the custom of the Law, he took Him up in his arms and blessed God and said, Lord, now you are letting your servant depart in peace, according to your word; for my eyes have seen your salvation that you have prepared in the presence of all peoples, a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and for glory to your people Israel. And His father and His mother marveled at what was said about Him. And Simeon blessed them and said to Mary His mother, "BEHOLD, THIS CHILD IS APPOINTED FOR THE FALL AND RISING OF MANY IN ISRAEL, AND FOR A SIGN THAT IS OPPOSED (AND A SWORD WILL PIERCE THROUGH YOUR OWN SOUL ALSO), SO THAT THOUGHTS FROM MANY HEARTS MAY BE REVEALED."

(4) Judas Iscariot was an enraged jealous apostle and also greedy for money. The last things that happened before he finally met with the evil ochestrators and killers of Our Lord Christ Jesus says and shows it all๐Ÿ‘‡:
(a) JESUS CHRIST WAS ANOINTED WITH EXPENSIVE OINTMENT BY A WOMAN IN THE PRESENCE OF MANY.
(b) JESUS CHRIST PROMISED THE WOMAN THAT SHE WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN BECAUSE OF THIS SINGULAR ACTION OF HERS.
(c) PEOPLE ESTIMATED THAT THE AMOUNT OF THE OINTMENT WAS HIGH SO HER ACTION WAS REGARDED AS A WASTE OF RESOURCES BY THESE GREEDY PEOPLE.
(d) THE NEXT THING WAS THAT JUDAS ISCARIOT WENT AHEAD AND BETRAYED HIM. Read this Bible passage ๐Ÿ‘‡:

According to Mark 14: 1-10
It was now two days before the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread. And the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how to arrest him by stealth and kill Him, for they said, "Not during the feast, lest there be an uproar from the people." And while he was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he was reclining at table, a woman came with an alabaster flask of ointment of pure nard, very costly, and she broke the flask and poured it over his head. There were some who said to themselves indignantly, Why was the ointment wasted like that? For this ointment could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and given to the poor. And they scolded her. But Jesus said, Leave her alone. Why do you trouble her? She has done a beautiful thing to me. For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you want, you can do good for them. But you will not always have me. She has done what she could; she has anointed my body beforehand for burial. And truly, I say to you, whatever the gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will be told in memory of her. THEN JUDAS ISCARIOT, WHO WAS ONE OF THE TWELVE, WENT TO THE CHIEF PRIESTS IN ORDER TO BETRAY HIM TO THEM.

(5) God (the Word who is Jesus Christ Himself) placed a curse on Judas Iscariot and even referred to him as "A BORN BY MISTAKE" on the PASSOVER DAY. JESUS CHRIST (WHO IS ALSO KNOWN AS GOD, THE SON) KNEW THAT IT WAS ONE OF HIS OWN CLOSE TWELVE DISCIPLES (APOSTLES) WHO SHARES MEALS (DINES) WITH HIM TOO THAT HAS STARTED THE JOURNEY OF BETRAYAL AGAINST HIM ALREADY. 

According to Mark 14: 16- 21
And the disciples set out and went to the city and found it just as He had told them, and they prepared the Passover. And when it was evening,  he came with the twelve. And as they were reclining at table and eating, JESUS SAID, "TRULY, I SAY TO YOU, ONE OF YOU WILL BETRAY ME, ONE WHO IS EATING WITH ME." THEY BEGAN TO BE SORROWFUL AND TO SAY TO HIM ONE AFTER ANOTHER, "IS IT I?" HE SAID TO THEM, IT IS ONE OF THE TWELVE, ONE WHO IS DIPPING BREAD INTO THE DISH WITH ME. FOR THE SON OF MAN GOES AS IT IS WRITTEN OF HIM, BUT WOE TO THAT MAN BY WHOM THE SON OF MAN IS BETRAYED! IT WOULD HAVE BEEN BETTER FOR THAT MAN IF HE HAD NOT BEEN BORN.

(6) Satan entered Judas Iscariot even after taking what we Christians call in this day and time "THE HOLY COMMUNION" from Jesus Christ because Judas Iscariot was an evil man. Judas Iscariot was such a person that no one suspected him as someone who can do something like that (betraying his LORD AND MASTER). So whether you are a priest, a big well known pastor, bishop, a church elder, deacon, deaconess and so on and so forth if you betray Jesus Christ or plan on betraying Jesus Christ and/or His Real people (the real Christians), what will enter you after you take the "Holy Communion" which is meant to be in memory of Jesus Christ is the Devil and not "Holy Spirit" because you are pure evil and you know it. Be very careful with this particular Word of God. To be fore warned is to be fore armed. God no dey fear you. For instance, imagine that one person you feel is so gentle, nice, kind etc and you know and are so sure that if Jesus Christ Himself comes down from Heaven or invites you over to Heaven for a short while and tells you that this same person will do this kind of evil thing, you will not believe it all. Yes and yes again, that was the kind of person Judas Iscariot was and that was why they did not believe Jesus Christ when He told them the truth to their face. Jesus referred to them as Little children because He was still with them. They were not suspicious of Judas Iscariot at all. JUDAS ISCARIOT WAS THE FAKEST FRIEND, MONEY MANAGER AND PARTNER OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST WHILE ON EARTH.

According to John 13:26-33
Jesus answered, "IT IS HE TO WHOM I WILL GIVE THIS MORSEL OF BREAD WHEN I HAVE DIPPED IT." SO WHEN HE HAD DIPPED THE MORSEL, HE GAVE IT TO JUDAS, THE SON OF SIMON ISCARIOT. THEN AFTER HE HAD TAKEN THE MORSEL, SATAN ENTERED INTO HIM. JESUS SAID TO HIM, "WHAT YOU ARE GOING TO DO, DO QUICKLY." NOW NO ONE AT THE TABLE KNEW WHY HE SAID THIS TO HIM. SOME THOUGHT THAT, BECAUSE JUDAS HAD THE MONEY BAG, JESUS WAS TELLING HIM "BUY WHAT WE NEED FOR THE FEAST," OR THAT HE SHOULD GIVE SOMETHING TO THE POOR. SO, AFTER RECEIVING THE MORSEL OF BREAD, HE IMMEDIATELY WENT OUT. AND IT WAS NIGHT. WHEN HE HAD GONE OUT, JESUS SAID, NOW IS THE SON OF MAN GLORIFIED, AND GOD IS GLORIFIED IN HIM. IF GOD IS GLORIFIED IN HIM, GOD WILL ALSO GLORIFY HIM IN HIMSELF, AND GLORIFY HIM AT ONCE. 'LITTLE CHILDREN, YET A LITTLE WHILE I AM WITH YOU. YOU WILL SEEK ME, AND JUST AS I SAID TO THE JEWS, SO NOW I ALSO SAY TO YOU, WHERE I AM GOING YOU CANNOT COME.'


ONE OF THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN SIMON PETER AND JUDAS ISCARIOT IS AS FOLLOWS ๐Ÿ‘‡:
JUDAS ISCARIOT PLANNED THE EVIL OUT OF JEALOUSY, GREED AND SO ON AND SO FORTH BY HIMSELF AND IN CONJUNCTION WITH JESUS' ENEMIES. HE WAS READY TO DO HIS WORST TO JESUS CHRIST AND EVEN PARTICIPATED IN THE PREPARATION OF THE PASSOVER AND ATE WHAT CHRIST JESUS GAVE HIM ON THAT PASSOVER DAY ( NOW REFERRED TO AS COMMUNION IN MEMORY OF JESUS CHRIST) IN PRETENSE OF ONENESS, LOYALTY AND FRIENDSHIP.

WHILE,

SIMON PETER WAS PREPARED TO FIGHT FOR JESUS CHRIST OUT OF THE IMMENSE LOVE HE FELT FOR CHRIST JESUS. SIMON PETER WAS SO SURE THAT HE CAN NEVER DENY JESUS CHRIST EVEN IF JESUS CHRIST KNEW THAT IT WOULD HAPPEN AND EVEN TOLD HIM BUT THE FEAR OF WHAT SUDDENLY HAPPENED DURING THE PASSOVER (THE LAST SUPPER) TOOK OVER HIM AND HE DENIED JESUS CHRIST THREE TIMES AND CHANGED TO THE RIGHT PART IMMEDIATELY HE REGAINED HIS RIGHT SENSES.

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Your trouble/wahala dey learn where Jesus Christ dey (Pidgin English): Read and what's your view

Your trouble/wahala dey learn where Jesus Christ dey (Pidgin English): Read and what's your view

Let's see the explanations of this topic in English and from the Holy Bible perspective too.

(1) We have earthly prisons on earth but God also has prepared a fiery furnace (hell fire) for all who are condemned by Him after this life. And the prisons of this world does not determine for God who He should put in the fiery furnace (hell fire).

According to Matthew 13: 38-44
"The field is the world, and the good seed is the sons of the kingdom. The weeds are the sons of the evil one, AND THE ENEMY WHO SOWED THEM IS THE DEVIL. THE HARVEST IS THE END OF THE AGE, AND THE REAPERS ARE ANGELS. JUST AS THE WEEDS ARE GATHERED AND BURNED WITH FIRE, SO WILL IT BE AT THE END OF THE AGE. THE SON OF MAN WILL SEND HIS ANGELS, AND THEY WILL GATHER OUT OF HIS KINGDOM ALL CAUSES OF SIN AND ALL LAW-BREAKERS, AND THROW THEM INTO THE FIERY FURNACE. IN THAT PLACE THERE WILL BE WEEPING AND GNASHING OF TEETH. THEN THE RIGHTEOUS WILL SHINE LIKE THE SUN IN THE KINGDOM OF THEIR FATHER. HE WHO HAS EARS, LET HIM HEAR. The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and covered up. Then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field."

(2) When you say that it is over your dead body that a child of God's destiny will be fulfilled then you have to prepare because you will die by God's will and He will tell that person that he or she should rest easy that you are gone and forgotten to disturb him or her no more. You can't stop God for any reason whatsoever. He is God.

According to Matthew 2:17-23
'Then was fulfilled what was spoken by the prophet Jeremiah: A voice was heard in Ramah, weeping and loud lamentation, Rachel weeping for her children; she refused to be comforted, because they are no more." BUT WHEN HEROD DIED, BEHOLD, AN ANGEL OF THE LORD APPEARED IN A DREAM TO JOSEPH IN EGYPT, SAYING, "RISE, TAKE THE CHILD AND HIS MOTHER AND GO TO THE LAND OF ISRAEL, FOR THOSE WHO SOUGHT THE CHILD'S LIFE ARE DEAD." AND HE ROSE AND TOOK THE CHILD AND HIS MOTHER AND WENT TO THE LAND OF ISRAEL. BUT WHEN HE HEARD THAT ARCHELAUS WAS REIGNING OVER JUDEA IN PLACE OF HIS FATHER HEROD, HE WAS AFRAID TO GO THERE, AND BEING WARNED IN A DREAM HE WITHDREW TO THE DISTRICT OF GALILEE. And he went and lived in a city called Nazareth, so that what was spoken by the prophets might be fulfilled, that he would be called a Nazarene.

(3) When someone is of help and extremely good to you and you fail to pay him what's due to him, not necessarily money. You decide with your people/gang that you will frustrate your helper who is a child of God and also deal with anyone who stands with me. Wait for God's response. It will be bad for you. You can never withstand whatever He brings against you because "He is God."

According to Mark 12: 1-12
'And He began to speak to them in parables. A man planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a pit for the winepress and built a tower, and leased it to tenants and went into another country. When the season came, he sent a servant to the tenants to get from them some of the fruit of the vineyard. And they took him and beat him and sent him away empty-handed. Again he sent to them another servant, and they struck him on the head and treated him shamefully. And he sent another, and him they killed. And so with many others: some they beat, and some they killed. He had still one other, a beloved son. Finally he sent him to them, saying, "They will respect my son." But those tenants said to one another, This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours. And they took him and killed him and threw him out of the vineyard. What will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the tenants and give the vineyard to others. HAVE YOU NOT READ THIS SCRIPTURE: THE STONE THAT THE BUILDERS REJECTED HAS BECOME THE CORNERSTONE; THIS WAS THE LORD'S DOING, AND IT IS MARVELOUS IN OUR EYES? AND THEY WERE SEEKING TO ARREST HIM BUT FEARED THE PEOPLE, FOR THEY PERCEIVED THAT HE HAD TOLD THE PARABLE AGAINST THEM. SO THEY LEFT HIM AND WENT AWAY.

(4) As intelligent as you feel you might be, you do not understand all the languages in this world. You probably don't understand all the languages in your country and consequently your continent not to talk of the whole world. My guy calm down. If anybody emerges to actually understand all the languages in this world know that God gifted him or her such talent.

According to 14: 10-12
THERE ARE DOUBTLESS MANY DIFFERENT LANGUAGES IN THE WORLD, AND NONE IS WITHOUT MEANING, BUT IF I DO NOT KNOW THE MEANING OF THE LANGUAGE, I WILL BE A FOREIGNER TO THE SPEAKER AND THE SPEAKER A FOREIGNER TO ME. SO WITH YOURSELVES, SINCE YOU ARE EAGER FOR MANIFESTATIONS OF THE SPIRIT, STRIVE TO EXCEL IN BUILDING UP THE CHURCH.

(5) You can pray for yourself with this Psalms below if you wish๐Ÿ‘‡:

According to Psalms 26:1-12
"Vindicate me, O LORD, for I have walked in my intergrity, and I have trusted in the LORD without wavering. Prove me, O LORD, and try me; test my heart and my mind. For your steadfast love is before my eyes, and I walk in your faithfulness. I do not sit with men of falsehood, nor do I consort with hypocrites. I hate the assembly of evil-doers and I will not sit with the wicked. I wash my hands in innocence and go around your altar, O LORD, proclaiming thanksgiving aloud, and telling all your wondrous deeds. O LORD, I love the habitation of your house and the place where your glory dwells. Do not sweep my soul away with sinners, nor my life with bloodthirsty men, in whose hands are evil devices, and whose right hands are full of bribes. But as for me, I shall walk in my integrity; redeem me, and be gracious to me. My foot stands on level ground; in the great assembly I will bless the LORD."

(6) I know that I said you can say the prayer above in no.(5) content. If you know that you are wicked, not that evil people framed you up to make you look wicked. You know in your heart of hearts that you are wicked. This particular Bible passage right below is the one that is actually for you ๐Ÿ‘‡:

According to Psalms 50: 16-23
BUT TO THE WICKED, GOD SAYS: "WHAT RIGHT HAVE YOU TO RECITE MY STATUTES OR TAKE MY COVENANT ON YOUR LIPS?" For you hate discipline, and you cast my words behind you. If you see a thief, you are pleased with him,  and you keep company with adulterers. You give your mouth free rein for evil, and your tongue frames deceit. You sit and speak against your brother, you slander your own mother's son. These things you have done, and I have been silent; you thought that I was one like yourself. But now I rebuke you and lay the charge before you. Mark this, then, you who forget God, lest I tear you apart, and there be none to deliver! The one who offers thanksgiving as his sacrifice glorifies me; to one who orders his way rightly I will show the salvation of God!


I say make you HEAR WORD O!

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15.3.23

Self Righteousness versus Selfishness: Read and what's your view

Self Righteousness versus Selfishness: Read and what's your view

(1) Learn from God Himself through His word spoken, written or otherwise.

According to Sirach 32:14-17
"If you fear the Lord, you will accept His correction. He will bless those who get up early in the morning to pray. Study His Law, and you will master it, unless you are insincere about it, in which case you will fail. If you fear the Lord, you will know what is right, and you will be famous for your fairness. SINNERS HAVE NO USE FOR CORRECTION, AND WILL INTERPRET THE LAW TO SUIT THEMSELVES."

(2) Even slaves are to be treated as well as you wish yourself to be treated not to talk of Free borns like you and I.

According to Sirach 33: 28-31
"Work is what he needs. If he won't obey you, put him in chains. But don't be too severe with anyone, and never be unfair. IF YOU HAVE A SLAVE, TREAT HIM AS YOU WOULD WANT TO BE TREATED; YOU BOUGHT HIM WITH YOUR HARD-EARNED MONEY. TREAT HIM AS A BROTHER; YOU NEED HIM AS YOU NEED YOURSELF. IF YOU ILL-TREAT HIM AND HE RUNS AWAY, WHERE ARE YOU GOING TO LOOK FOR HIM?"

(3) Serving a Living God and standing firm on your decision is virtuous for He said that we shall have no other god but Him.

According to Bel and The Dragon 1: 23- 27
'There was also a huge dragon which the Babylonians worshipped.  One day the king said to Daniel, "You can't tell me that this god is not alive. So worship him!" "I WORSHIP THE LORD," REPLIED DANIEL. "HE IS THE ONLY LIVING GOD. AND IF YOUR MAJESTY WILL GIVE ME PERMISSION, I WILL KILL THIS DRAGON OF YOURS WITHOUT USING A SWORD OR A CLUB." "YOU HAVE MY PERMISSION," ANSWERED THE KING. SO DANIEL TOOK SOME TAR, SOME FAT, SOME HAIR AND BOILED THEM ALL TOGETHER. HE MAKE CAKE OUT OF THE MIXTURE AND FED THEM TO THE DRAGON. WHEN THE DRAGON ATE  THEM, IT SWELLED UP AND BURST OPEN. "THAT'S THE KIND OF THING YOU BABYLONIANS WORSHIP," SAID DANIEL.

(4) It is bad to deceive people especially those in High authority like Kings etc just for your selfish gain or your daily income because the aftermath of the whole deceit is dangerous or disastrous.

According to Bel and The Dragon 1: 7-13
Daniel laughed and said, "Don't be taken in, Your Majesty. This god you call Bel is nothing more than clay covered with bronze; it has never eaten or drunk anything." At this the king became angry and called in all seventy of the priests of bel. He said to them, "I warn you that you will be put to death, unless you can show me that it is bel who is eating these offerings. If you prove to me that it is bel, then I will have Daniel put to death for claiming that bel is not a god." Daniel agreed to this proposal. Then they all went with the king into bel's temple, where the priests said to the king, "Your Majesty, we will go out and let you place the food on the table and prepare the wine. When you leave, you may lock the door behind you and seal it with the royal seal. In the morning when you return, if you find that Bel has not eaten everything, you can put us to death. But if he has, Daniel will die for making false accusations against us." BUT THE PRIESTS WERE NOT WORRIED, BECAUSE THEY HAD MADE A SECRET ENTRANCE UNDERNEATH A TABLE IN THE TEMPLE, SO THAT THEY COULD GO IN EVERY NIGHT AND EAT THE OFFERINGS."

(5) Being confident in the Righteous God gives a better result than you expect and it scares the enemy to see that no matter how hard you are been pushed to the wall by them to fight, you are always ready to fight the good fight to the Glory of the name of the Lord.

According to 1 Maccabees 5: 37-49
After this, Timothy gathered another army and camped opposite Raphon, on the other side of a river. Judas sent some men to spy out the camp, and they reported back to him that all the Gentiles in the region had joined Timothy and had formed a large army. Timothy had also hired Arab mercenaries to help him, and these were camped on the other side of the river ready to attack Judas. So Judas went out to meet them in battle. AS JUDAS AND HIS ARMY CAME CLOSER TO THE WATER, TIMOTHY SAID TO HIS OFFICERS, "IF HE KEEPS ON COMING AND CROSSES THE RIVER, WE WON'T BE ABLE TO TURN BACK HIS ATTACK, AND HE WILL DEFEAT US. BUT IF HE IS AFRAID AND STOPS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE RIVER, WE WILL CROSS OVER TO ATTACK AND DEFEAT HIM. WHEN JUDAS REACHED THE BANK OF THE RIVER, HE GAVE ORDERS TO HIS OFFICERS TO LET NO ONE STOP BUT TO PUSH EVERYONE FORWARD INTO BATTLE. JUDAS WAS THE FIRST TO CROSS THE RIVER AGAINST THE ENEMY, AND ALL HIS MEN FOLLOWED HIM. THE GENTILES BROKE RANKS BEFORE THEM, THREW AWAY THEIR ARMS, AND FLED TO THE PAGAN TEMPLE AT KARNAIM. BUT JUDAS AND HIS MEN TOOK THE CITY AND BURNT DOWN THE TEMPLE WITH ALL WHO WERE IN IT. WITH KARNAIM OVERTHROWN, THE GENTILES COULD NO LONGER OFFER ANY RESISTANCE TO JUDAS. THEN JUDAS GATHERED TOGETHER ALL THE JEWS IN GILEAD TO TAKE THEM BACK TO JUDEA WITH HIM. IT WAS A LARGE GROUP OF ALL KINDS OF PEOPLE, TOGETHER WITH THEIR WIVES AND CHILDREN AND ALL THAT THEY OWNED. They went as far as Ephron, a large, well-fortified town. It was impossible to go round it on either side, and the road passed directly through the town. But the people there would not let them pass and blocked the town gates with stones. Then Judas sent a friendly message to them. "Let us pass through your territory to return home. No one will harm you, we will just pass through." But they still refused to open the gates. So Judas told everyone in the group, except the fighting men, to camp where they were.

(6) Selfishness doesn't pay. Note that that everyone takes undue wickedness meted out on people out of selfishness lightly. What would it have caused the Ephron to allow Judas, his army and the rescued ones who obviously tired to pass through their land to their homes. The didn't ask for food or shelter etc, they only asked to pass through their roads as there was no other obvious way at that time.

According to 1 Maccabees 5:50-55
The fighting men were ordered to take up their positions and attack the town. THEY FOUGHT ALL THAT DAY AND ALL NIGHT, UNTIL THEY HAD TAKEN IT. JUDAS HAD ALL THE MEN OF EPHRON PUT TO DEATH, PLUNDERED THE TOWN, AND LEVELLED IT. THEN HE AND HIS ARMY MARCHED THROUGH THE TOWN OVER THE DEAD BODIES. They crossed the Jordan into the wide plain opposite Beth Shan. Throughout the whole March Judas kept gathering up the stragglers and encouraging the people until they reached the land of Judea. With thanksgiving and rejoicing, they went up to Mount Zion and sacrificed burnt-offerings because they had returned safely without the loss of a single man. While JUDAS and JONATHAN were in GILEAD and THEIR BROTHER SIMON WAS ATTACKING PTOLEMAIS IN GALILEE...

After reading this part of this true life story above alongside the explanations, what say you? Are you still adamant to the Word of God that sheds great light into our everyday lives?



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What has happened has happened: Read and what's your view

What has happened has happened: Read and what's your view

Few biblical passages that can give you different perspectives/meanings to the saying "What has happened has happened" are as written below๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿผ๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿผ๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿผ๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿผ๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿผ๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿผ๐Ÿค:


(1) You need to pray in your laments. Talk to God, He will respond now and even later. God determines the type of response He will give to you in different situations. MAKE SURE TO FILE COMPLAINTS TO GOD AGAINST YOUR ENEMIES BASED ON THE EVILS THAT HAS BEEN DONE. After all "what has happened has happened."

According to Lamentations 5: 1-11
"REMEMBER, O LORD, WHAT HAPPENED TO US. Look at us and see our disgrace. Our property is in the hands of strangers, foreigners are living in our homes. Our fathers have been killed by the enemy, and now our mothers are widows. We must pay for the water we drink; we must buy the wood we need for fuel. Driven hard like donkeys or camels, we are tired, but are allowed no rest. To get food enough to stay alive, we went begging to Egypt and Assyria. Our ancestors sinned, but now they are gone, and we are suffering for their sins. We are ruled by those who are not better than slaves, and no one can save us from their power. Murderers roam through the countryside; we risk our lives when we look for food. Hunger has made us burn with fever, until our skin is as hot as an oven. Our wives have been raped on Mount Zion itself; in every Judean village our daughters have been forced to submit."

(2) Wish and Pray for what you used to have and even dare to dream for more. After all "what has happened has happened."

According to Job 29: 1-11
"Job began speaking again. IF ONLY MY LIFE COULD ONCE AGAIN BE AS IT WAS WHEN GOD WATCHED OVER ME. GOD WAS ALWAYS WITH ME THEN AND GAVE ME LIGHT AS I WALKED THROUGH THE DARKNESS. THOSE WERE THE DAYS WHEN I WAS PROSPEROUS, AND THE FRIENDSHIP OF GOD PROTECTED MY HOME. Almighty God was with me then, and I was surrounded by all my children. My cows and goats gave plenty of milk, and my olive trees grew in the rockiest soil. Whenever the city elders met and I took my place among them, young men stepped aside as soon as they saw me, and old men stood up to show me respect. The leaders of the people would stop talking; even the most important men kept silent. Everyone who saw me or heard of me had good things to say about  what I had done."

(3) God knows what happened in the past, what is happening now and what will happen in the future. He reveals those things he wishes to reveal to His chosen people/ones. So, just know that God knows that "what has happened has happened"

According to 2 Kings 10: 15-17
'Jehu started out again, and on his way he was met by Jonadab son of Rechab. Jehu greeted him and said, "You and I think alike. Will you support me?" "I will," Jonadab answered. "Give me your hand, then," Jehu replied. They clasped hands, and Jehu helped him up into the chariot, saying, "Come with me and see for yourself how devoted I am to the LORD." And they rode on together to Samaria. When they arrived there, Jehu killed all of Ahab's relatives, not sparing even one. THIS IS WHAT THE LORD HAD TOLD ELIJAH WOULD HAPPEN.

(4) Pray for the will of God to be done on earth as it is been done already  in heaven because, my dear, "what has happened has happened."

According to Matthew 6: 9-11
This, then, is how you should pray: 'Our Father in heaven: May your Holy name be honoured; MAY YOUR KINGDOM COME; MAY YOUR WILL BE DONE ON EARTH AS IT IS HEAVEN. GIVE US TODAY THE FOOD WE NEED.

(5) Go to God and He will give you rest because "what has happened has happened."

According to Matthew 11: 25-30
At that time Jesus said, "Father, Lord of heaven and earth! I thank you because you have shown to the unlearned what you have hidden from the wise and learned. YES, FATHER, THIS WAS HOW YOU WANTED IT TO HAPPEN. "My Father has given me all things. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him. "COME TO ME, ALL OF YOU WHO ARE TIRED FROM CARRYING HEAVY LOADS, AND I WILL GIVE YOU REST. TAKE MY YOKE AND PUT IT ON YOU, AND LEARN FROM ME, BECAUSE I AM GENTLE AND HUMBLE IN SPIRIT; AND YOU WILL FIND REST. FOR THE YOKE I WILL GIVE YOU IS EASY, AND THE LOAD I WILL PUT ON YOU IS LIGHT."

(6) Confront (in the Holy Spirit of Christ Jesus) those who plan evil against you because they feel they should be the ones having the successes you have thereby testing your God's patience by carrying out their evil plans, most especially, those who do the evil right in front of you and feel they can trap you and get away with it. They sometimes come as wolves in sheep clothings. Tell them about the ill fate that they will encounter just as Jesus would do as the case brings itself because "what has happened has happened."

According to Matthew 12: 38-42
Then some teachers of the Law and some Pharisees spoke up. "Teacher," they said, "we want to see you perform a miracle." "HOW EVIL AND GODLESS ARE THE PEOPLE OF THIS DAY!" JESUS EXCLAIMED. "YOU  ASK ME FOR A MIRACLE? NO! 
Then He listed their curses and ill fate for that singular evil action. The request for a miracle from them here obvious had a bad intent to trap Christ or probably/possibly make a mockery of Him if He can't perform any miracle if He had tried upon their request. The Holy Bible makes us to understand that these men never liked Him for anything in the world and looks for ways to pull Him down. That was just extreme (Testing the "Power of our God with bad/evil intentions). The list of their ill fate and curses that followed till even after their death are as follows ๐Ÿ‘‡:

(A) THE ONLY MIRACLE YOU WILL BE GIVEN IS THE MIRACLE OF THE PROPHET OF JONAH. IN THE SAME WAY THAT JONAH SPENT THREE DAYS AND NIGHTS IN THE BIG FISH, SO WILL THE SON OF MAN SPEND THREE DAYS AND NIGHTS IN THE DEPTHS OF THE EARTH. 

(B) ON JUDGEMENT DAY, THE PEOPLE OF NINEVEH WILL STAND UP AND ACCUSE YOU, BECAUSE THEY TURNED FROM THEIR SINS WHEN THEY HEARD JONAH PREACH; AND I TELL YOU THAT THERE IS SOMETHING HERE GREATER THAN JONAH! 

(C) ON JUDGEMENT DAY, THE QUEEN OF SHEBA WILL STAND UP AND ACCUSE YOU,  BECAUSE SHE TRAVELLED ALL THE WAY FROM HER COUNTRY TO LISTEN TO KING SOLOMON'S WISE TEACHING; AND THERE IS SOMETHING HERE GREATER THAN SOLOMON!

Note that "JESUS CHRIST" IS MUCH GREATER THAN "KING SOLOMON" IN ALL ASPECTS.

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14.3.23

Love and Joy in Holy Matrimony Based on the Holy Bible: Read and what's your view

Love and Joy in Holy Matrimony Based on the Holy Bible: Read and what's your view

(1) Being aware that you are not the only man or woman in this world that could be interested in your love partner or spouse๐Ÿ‘‡: According to Songs of Songs also known as Songs of Solomon

Song of Songs 1:1 THE MOST BEAUTIFUL OF SONGS, BY SOLOMON.

The woman sang (Song of Songs 1: 2-3) : Your lips cover me with kisses; your love is better than wine. THERE IS A FRAGRANCE ABOUT YOU; THE SOUND OF YOUR NAME RECALLS IT. NO WOMAN COULD HELP LOVING YOU.

The man's reponse (Songs of Song 1: 8-11) : Don't you know the place, loveliest of women? Go and follow the flock; find pasture for your goats near the tents of the shepherds. YOU, MY LOVE, EXCITE MEN AS A MARE EXCITES THE STALLIONS OF PHARAOH'S CHARIOTS. Your hair is beautiful upon your cheeks and falls along your neck like jewels. But we will make for you a chain of gold with ornaments of silver.

Note that: "King Solomon was also an Excellent Musician and Lyricist. He was wise through God Himself."

(2) Duty of a woman/man in a love relationship (Holy Matrimony) ๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿผ: 

(a) For as long as you live: According to Romans 7: 1-3
"Certainly you will understand what I am about to say, my brothers and sisters, because all of you know about law. THE LAW RULES OVER PEOPLE ONLY AS LONG AS THEY LIVE. A married woman, for example is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives; but if he does, then she is free from the law that bound her to him. So then, if she lives with another man while her husband is alive, she will be called adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is legally a free woman and does not commit adultery if she marries another man."

(b) If you have committed the adultery already as a woman, don't condemn yourself for Jesus has not condemned you yet as you still have the chance to repent of such actions: According to John 8: 3-11
The teachers of the Law and the Pharisees brought in a woman who had been caught committing adultery, and they made her stand before them all. "Teacher," they said to Jesus, "this woman was caught in the very act of committing adultery. In our Law Moses commanded that such a woman must be stoned to death. NOW, WHAT DO YOU SAY?" They said this to trap Jesus, so that they could accuse him. But he bent over and wrote on the ground with his finger. As they stood there asking him questions, HE STRAIGHTENED HIMSELF UP AND SAID TO THEM, "WHICHEVER ONE OF YOU HAS COMMITTED NO SIN MAY THROW THE FIRST STONE AT HER." Then he bent over again and wrote on the ground. When they heard this, they all left, one by one, THE OLDER ONES FIRST. JESUS WAS LEFT ALONE, WITH THE WOMAN STILL STANDING THERE. HE STRAIGHTENED HIMSELF UP AND SAID TO HER, "WHERE ARE THEY? IS THERE NO ONE LEFT TO CONDEMN YOU?" "NO ONE, SIR," SHE ANSWERED. "WELL, THEN," JESUS SAID, "I DO NOT CONDEMN YOU EITHER. GO, BUT DO NOT SIN AGAIN."

(c) Real Marriage is a sacred body: According to Hebrews 13: 4-5
MARRIAGE IS TO BE HONOURED BY ALL, AND HUSBANDS AND WIVES MUST BE FAITHFUL TO EACH OTHER. God will judge those who are immoral and those who commit adultery. Keep your lives free from the love of money, and be satisfied with what you have. For God has said, "I will never leave you; I will never abandon you."

(d) The older men and women must train the younger ones by living the good life, that is, leading by example: According to Titus 2: 1-7
But you must teach what agrees with sound doctrine. INSTRUCT THE OLDER MEN TO BE SOBER, SENSIBLE, AND SELF-CONTROLLED; TO BE SOUND IN THEIR FAITH, LOVE AND ENDURANCE. IN THE SAME WAY, INSTRUCT THE OLDER WOMEN TO BEHAVE AS WOMEN SHOULD WHO LIVE A HOLY LIFE. THEY MUST TEACH WHAT IS GOOD, IN ORDER TO TRAIN THE YOUNGER WOMEN TO LOVE THEIR HUSBANDS AND CHILDREN, TO BE SELF-CONTROLLED AND PURE, AND TO BE GOOD HOUSE WIVES WHO SUBMIT TO THEIR HUSBANDS, SO THAT NO ONE WILL SPEAK EVIL OF THE MESSAGE THAT COMES FROM GOD. IN THE SAME WAY URGE THE YOUNG MEN TO BE SELF-CONTROLLED. IN ALL THINGS YOU YOURSELF MUST BE AN EXAMPLE OF GOOD BEHAVIOUR. BE SINCERE AND SERIOUS IN YOUR TEACHING.

(e) Love your wife and do not look at your wife as just a sex object to satisfy your lustful desires for her. In as much as sex is important in marriage, most especially, to procreate (to reproduce younger ones); sex is not the highest priority in marriage as a true child of God. Love for your woman/wife matters a lot: According to 1 Thessalonians 4: 1-5
Finally, our brothers and sisters, you learnt from us how you should live in order to please God. This is, of course, how you have been living. And now we beg and urge you in the name of the Lord Jesus to do even more. FOR YOU KNOW THE INSTRUCTIONS WE GAVE YOU BY THE AUTHORITY OF THE LORD JESUS. GOD WANTS YOU TO BE HOLY AND COMPLETELY FREE FROM SEXUAL IMMORALITY. EACH OF YOU MEN SHOULD KNOW HOW TO LIVE WITH HIS WIFE IN A HOLY AND HONOURABLE WAY, NOT WITH A LUSTFUL DESIRE, LIKE THE HEATHEN WHO DO NOT KNOW GOD.

(3) Sorrow may last in the night but JOY comes in the morning๐Ÿ‘‡: According to Psalms 30:5-6
For his anger lasts only a moment, but his favor lasts a lifetime; weeping may remain for a night, but rejoicing comes in the morning. When I felt secure, I said, "I will never be shaken."

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God, The Highest Counsellor: Read and what's your view

God, The Highest Counsellor: Read and what's your view

Few out of the Counsels from God Almighty are as follows ๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿผ:

(1) Fear me who can destroy the body and the soul.

This is according to Matthew 10: 28
"Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell."

(2) You can do all things in me.

This is according to Philippians 4:11–13
"Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me."

(3) Take my Mother Mary as yours too. I don't mind sharing her with you.

This is according to John 19: 26
"When Jesus saw his mother there, and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to her, “Woman, here is your son.”

(4) I am that I am, I am what I am, I am who I am and I still remain what I am and nothing can change that.

This is According to Exodus 3:14
God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’'

(5) I am a Living God and I am not a dead God.

This is according to John 11:25
"Jesus told her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Anyone who believes in me will live, even after dying."

(6) Your spouse cannot stop the plans I have for you, instead I will talk him or her into the plans I have for you. I will convince him or her to join in the plan for the greater good to happen. My Great plans for you remains the same, no one can change it. For example, this was how a young lady called Mary, the virgin, became the Mother of God and still married her bethroted, Joseph, while being physically pregnant already for a Spirit called the Holy Spirit  in the Holy Bible.

This is according to Matthew 1: 19-24
'Joseph was a man who always did what was right, but he did not want to disgrace Mary publicly; so he made plans to break the engagement privately. While he was thinking about this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, "Joseph, descendant of David, do not be afraid to take Mary to be your wife. For it is by the "HOLY SPIRIT" that she has conceived. She will have a son, and you will name him Jesus - because he will save his people from their sons." Now all this happened in order to make what the Lord has said through the prophet come true, "A virgin will become pregnant and have a son, and he will be called Immanuel" (which means, "God is with us"). SO WHEN JOSEPH WOKE UP, HE MARRIED MARY, AS THE ANGEL OF THE LORD HAD TOLD HIM TO DO. But he had no sexual relations with her before she gave birth to her son. And Joseph named him Jesus."

(7) My Kingship is not of this world.

This is according to Matthew 26: 49-54
Judas went straight to Jesus and said, "Peace be with you, Teacher," and kissed Him. Jesus answered, "Be quick about it, friend!" Then they came up, arrested Jesus, and held Him tight. ONE OF THOSE WHO WERE WITH JESUS DREW HIS SWORD AMD STRUCK AT THE HIGH PRIEST'S SLAVE, CUTTING OFF HIS EAR. "PUT YOUR SWORD BACK IN ITS PLACE," JESUS SAID TO HIM. "ALL WHO TAKE TAKE THE SWORD WILL DIE BY THE SWORD. DON'T YOU KNOW THAT I COULD CALL ON MY FATHER FOR HELP, AND AT ONCE HE WOULD SEND ME MORE THAN TWELVE ARMIES OF ANGELS? BUT IN THAT CASE, HOW COULD THE SCRIPTURE COME TRUE WHICH SAY THAT THIS IS WHAT MUST HAPPEN?

(8) I will make a way where there seems to be no way.

This is according to Isaiah 43: 15-17
'I am the LORD, your Holy God. I created you, Israel, and I am "YOUR KING". Long ago THE LORD MADE A ROAD THROUGH THE SEA, A PATH THROUGH THE SWIRLING WATERS. He led a mighty army to destruction, an army of chariots and horses. Down they fell, never to rise, snuffed out like the flame of a lamp!


(9) What God cannot do, doesn't exist.

This is according to Matthew 19: 23-30
Jesus then said to his disciples, "I assure you: it will be very hard for rich people to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. I repeat: it is much harder for a rich person to enter the Kingdom of God than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle." When the disciples heard this, they were completely amazed. "Who, then, can be saved?" they asked. Jesus looked straight at them and answered, "THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR HUMAN BEINGS, BUT FOR GOD EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE." Then Peter spoke up, "Look," he said, "we have left everything and followed you. What will we have?" Jesus said to them, "You can be sure that when the Son of Man sits on his glorious throne in THE NEW AGE, THEN YOU TWELVE FOLLOWERS OF MINE WILL ALSO SIT ON THRONES, TO RULE THE TWELVE TRIBES OF ISRAEL. AND EVERYONE WHO HAS LEFT HOUSES OR BROTHERS OR SISTERS OR FATHER OR MOTHER OR CHILDREN OR FIELDS FOR MY SAKE, WILL RECEIVE A HUNDRED TIMES MORE AND WILL BE GIVEN ETERNAL LIFE. But many who now are first will be last, and many who now are last will be first.

(10) Daily Prayers: You do not have to wait for church programs like night vigils, etc to pray. Just make sure to pray in and out of season. The Journey to Heaven requires constant communication with God, either you talk to God or God talks to you or both. That's just it.

This is according to 2 Timothy 4: 1- 5

In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and because He is coming to rule as King, I solemnly urge you to preach the message to insist upon proclaiming it (whether the time is right or not), to convince reproach, and encourage as you teach with all patience. The time will come when people will not listen to sound doctrine, but will follow their own desires and will collect for themselves more and more teachers who will tell them what they are itching to hear. THEY WILL TURN AWAY FROM LISTENING TO THE TRUTH AND GIVE THEIR ATTENTION TO LEGENDS. BUT YOU MUST KEEP CONTROL OF YOURSELF IN ALL CIRCUMSTANCES; ENDURE SUFFERING, DO THE WORK OF A PREACHER OF THE GOOD NEWS, AND PERFORM YOUR WHOLE DUTY AS A SERVANT OF GOD.

God is good always. Not sometimes but always whether in the good or the bad times.

What say you?

A THOUGHT FOR YOU TO PONDER ON: 
HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED HOW MANY ANGELS ONE ARMY OF ANGELS CONTAINS/COMPRISES, NOT TO MENTION TWELVE ARMIES OF ANGELS?



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13.3.23

The Word: Read and what's your view

The Word: Read and what's your view

Jesus Christ said in  John 14:6 – “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the father except through me.”

John 1: 1 - "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."


The Word of God is 'JESUS CHRIST': READ THIS TOO


The Word of God is 'THE WAY':

Way means "a road, track, or path for travelling along" or "a method, style, or manner of doing something; an optional or alternative form of action."

The Word of God is 'THE TRUTH':

Truth means "that which is true or in accordance with fact or reality" or "the quality or state of being true".

The Word of God is 'THE LIFE.'

Life means "the existence of an individual human being or animal" or "the condition that distinguishes animals and plants from inorganic matter, including the capacity for growth, reproduction, functional activity, and continual change preceding death."

Another Fact is that ๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿผ:

Jesus said: No one comes to the father except through me.”

Note that in this world and after this life there is either life or death, it is just that  in the After life "Life is called eternal life one has in heaven while death is called the eternal death that the lost ones have in hell."


Say this Word: FATHER, BY YOUR MERCY AND WORD. YOUR MERCY AND WORD IS TRUE.


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11.3.23

Who is God?: Read and what's your view

Who is God?: Read and what's your view

Descriptions of who God is (References from Old testaments):

(1) According to King Nebuchadnezzar in the Holy Bible (Daniel 4: 34-35; 37)
'He will rule for ever, and his kingdom will last for all time. He looks on the people of the earth as nothing; angels in heaven and people on Earth are under His control. No one can oppose His will or question what He does.' "Everything He does is right and just, and He can humble anyone who acts proudly."

(2) According to Psalms 2: 4-5
"From His throne in heaven the Lord laughs and mocks their feeble plans. Then He warns them in anger and terrifies them with His fury."

(3) King Solomon described God as the ultimate ruler and giver of wisdom and justice   (According to 1 Kings 3: 7-9):
" O LORD God, you have let me succeed my father as king, even though I am very young and don't know how to rule. Here I am among the people you have chosen to be your own, a people who are so many that they cannot be counted. So give me the wisdom I need to rule your people with justice and to know the difference between good and evil. Otherwise, how would I ever be able to rule this great people of yours?"

God's response to King Solomon  (According to 1 Kings 3: 12-14):
" I will do what you have asked. I will give you more wisdom and understanding than anyone has ever had before or will ever have again. I will also give you what you have not asked for: all your life you will have wealth and honour, more than that of any other king. And if you obey me and keep my laws and commands, as your father David did, I will give you a long life."


Descriptions of who God is (References from New testaments):

(1) God commands demons and they obey (According to Matthew 17: 17-18):
Jesus answered, "How unbelieving and wrong you people are! How long must I stay with you? How long do I have to put up with you? Bring the boy here to me!" Jesus gave a command to the demon, and it went out of the boy, and at that very moment he was healed.

(2)  The Word is God and is with God and He came to live as a human being in this world as Jesus Christ, the Father's only Son (According to John 1: 1-15):

"In the beginning the Word already existed; the Word was with God, and the Word was God. From the very beginning the Word was with God. Through Him God made all things; not one thing in all creation was made without Him. The Word was the source of life, and this life brought light to humanity. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has never put it out. God sent his messenger, a man named John who came to tell people about the light, so that all should hear the message and believe. He himself was not the light; he came to tell about the light. This was the real light - the light that comes into the world and shines on everyone. The Word was in the world, and though God made the world through Him, yet the world did not recognize Him. He came to His own country but His own people did not receive Him. Some, however, did receive Him and believed in Him; so He gave them the right to become God's children. They did not become God's children by natural means, that is, by being born as the children of a human father; God Himself was their Father. The Word became a human being and, full of grace and truth, lived among us. We saw His glory, the glory which he received as the Father's only Son. John spoke about Him. He cried out, This is the one I was talking about when I said, He comes after me, but He is greater than I am, because He is existed before I was born".

(3) He gives grace and peace (According Ephesians 1: 1-2): 
"From Paul, who by God's will is an apostle of Christ Jesus - To God's people in Ephesus, who are faithful in their life in union with Christ Jesus: May God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ give you grace and peace".

Note that God's people can be found or live anywhere e.g. Ephesus (as in the Holy Bible verse above) etc

I say God is great. 

What say you?


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10.3.23

Sadness: Read and what's your view

Sadness: Read and what's your view

In the presence of the Lord, there is fullness of joy...

He is the Joy of our Salvation...

Being sad for a second doesn't mean you are not a Christian.

The Rich can be sad, the poor can be sad.

Some say happiness is a choice. But, check out an instance whereby you lose a close loved one or watch such person struggle in pains in hospital, on an accident scene, at home, at work etc. You may not be happy at that moment but Joy comes from the Hope that comes with Salvation in Christ Jesus.

Some causes of sadness are short-lived while some last for a long time.

Yet, the Holy Bible says that it better for one to go to where people mourn than to go to where people celebrate because it helps one remember that one day everyone in one way or the other will die or leave this world. Then, it helps us shape the way we live.

After this life:
Some of the Rich go to heaven.
Some of the Rich go to hell.
Some of the poor go to heaven.
Some of the poor go to hell.

Remember the story of the Rich man and the poor man who later met each other later after they died. The poor was in heaven while the Rich in hell:

The poverty, pain, sorrow, lack of food, being forgotten by those who could enrich him and sickness etc. were not what gave him heaven, it was the perseverance in God and some other good attributes God must have seen in him.

The money of the Rich did not buy him heaven but he was extremely sad  in hell as he wished to come back to warn his rich family members but he was told that there are  enough men and women of God for them to bring down their ego and learn from. What I am particularly bringing out from the Rich family left behind is that the great pain of losing the deceased was not enough for God to write their names in the Book of life for eternal life and the deceased was still sure they will all end up in hell just like him without being told by anyone even with the sorrows in them.

Some sadness and depression could be suicidal. Just think anti-suicidal whether it was death, sickness, loss of love relationship, lack of money, ridicule in the society, tarnishing of name etc, that caused the sadness in you, always stay strong as such is life. We are told in the Bible that when these things happen to us because of our Godly choice(s) that we should be very happy (Joy of Salvation).
Secondly, we are warned that God knows the number of hairs on our hair and that we cannot create ourselves or any other full fleshed human being, so we do not have such right to take our own life.

Life can be hard in riches.

Life can be hard in poverty.

Stay strong.

Music is good to the soul but at the point of sadness, choose music that relieves you of pain and not increase lyrics wise and otherwise.

For instance, you just had the hardest love relationship break up of your life and you decide to pick songs that makes you keep remembering the person when you have not healed. Next thing, they will spread news about attempted suicide or suicide that was successful and you will just die like that and the person will move on.

Or you are still in the relationship and you can't help yourself out because you know something is missing. Sadness can be healed by Joy of Salvation (Hope in God).

Just hear me out, that's all.


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