List of Some Beautiful Songs for you in the Holy Bible: Read and what's your view

List of Some Beautiful Songs for you in the Holy Bible: Read and what's your view

Strong Men and Women of God have been singing for ages now. Hope you like singing? Check out these biblical songs/hymns below, most especially, the lyrics and their meanings....

(1) Song of Songs (Songs of King Solomon):

The woman asks the man of her heart and dreams to close his own heart to any other love but hers which means that she acknowledges that there are other women that love him. She also makes a request that he should not to sleep with any other woman but her. Romantic love and passion is described as been as powerful as death itself. The siblings of the young lady boasts about her nice stature, shape and beauty and are very ready to protect her from men depending on what the situation may require while the man she loves glories in his wealth. King Solomon had a real estate business in which he rented pieces of land on his vineyard to farmers for good sums of money. The woman warns that her love for him is not because of his money/wealth because if he had tried to buy her love with his money, he would have gotten only contempt by all means possible but now all he has from her asides from her existing love for him is peace and contentment because even if he is wealthy, he got her by merit and God's mighty grace and not because of his immense wealth. If the woman claims she has found peace and contentment, it simply means the man now has peace and contentment from her because that is what she has to offer to him totally asides from her romantic love and passion.

NOTE THAT: 

(I) THE WOMAN USES NICE KEYWORDS QUALIFY THE MAN SHE LOVES LIKE:

(A) MY LOVE 

(B) MY LOVER 

(II) THE MAN USES NICE KEYWORD TO QUALIFY THE WOMAN HE LOVES LIKE "MY LOVE."

According to Song of Songs 8: 5-14

THE WOMEN SINGS:

WHO IS THIS COMING FROM THE DESERT, ARM IN ARM WITH HER LOVER?

THE WOMAN SINGS: 

UNDER THE APPLE TREE I WOKE YOU, IN THE PLACE WHERE YOU WERE BORN. CLOSE YOUR HEART TO EVERY LOVE BUT MINE; HOLD NO ONE IN YOUR ARMS BUT ME. LOVE IS AS POWERFUL AS DEATH; PASSION IS AS STRONG AS DEATH ITSELF. IT BURSTS INTO FLAME AND BURNS LIKE A RAGING FIRE. WATER CANNOT PUT IT OUT; NO FLOOD CAN DROWN IT. BUT IF ANYONE TRIED TO BUY LOVE WITH WEALTH, CONTEMPT IS ALL THEY WOULD GET.

THE WOMEN'S BROTHERS SINGS:

WE HAVE A YOUNG SISTER, AND HER BREASTS ARE STILL SMALL. WHAT WILL WE DO FOR HER WHEN A YOUNG MAN COMES COURTING? IF SHE IS A WALL, WE WILL BUILD HER A SILVER TOWER. BUT IF SHE IS A GATE, WE WILL PROTECT HER WITH PANELS OF CEDAR.

THE WOMAN SINGS: 

I AM A WALL, AND MY BREASTS ARE ITS TOWERS. MY LOVER KNOWS THAT WITH HIM I FIND CONTENTMENT AND PEACE.

THE MAN SINGS:

SOLOMON HAS A VINEYARD IN A PLACE CALLED BAAL HAMON. THERE ARE FARMERS WHO RENT IT FROM HIM; EACH ONE PAYS A THOUSAND SILVER COINS. SOLOMON IS WELCOME TO HIS THOUSAND COINS, AND THE FARMERS TO TWO HUNDRED AS THEIR SHARE; I HAVE A VINEYARD OF MY OWN! LET ME HEAR YOUR VOICE FROM THE GARDEN, MY LOVE; MY COMPANIONS ARE WAITING TO HEAR YOU SPEAK.

THE WOMAN SINGS: 

COME TO ME, MY LOVER, LIKE A GAZELLE, LIKE A YOUNG STAG ON THE MOUNTAINS WHERE SPICES GROW.

(2) Psalms of the Israelites:

God exists and is everywhere (whether water, land, sky etc). Anyone who sings or recites this song praises God with his/her heart and soul. He or she acknowledges that God created Heaven and earth and also beautified them with all we have and see in our surroundings. God Almighty controls nature and how all the contents of Heaven and earth, including we human beings, behave/survive always. All that God has ever made depends on him for food, the air they breathe, etc. He gives new life to those alive in this world and also, gives new life in form of new born babies. Anyone who sings or recites this hymn rededicates his/her life to God Almighty while promising to sing His praises until his/her last breath and also, prays that all the sinners in this world must be destroyed and all the wicked must die just as the Israelites sang in the days of old. Praise God!!!

NOTE THAT:

(A) PART OF THIS PARTICULAR SONG/HYMN SAYS TO GOD: "YOU CREATED THE MOON TO MARK THE MONTHS; THE SUN KNOWS THE TIME TO SET."

(B) WE ARE ALL MADE FROM DUST AND UNTO DUST WE SHALL RETURN ONCE GOD TAKES OUR BREATH AWAY FROM US.

(C) BASED ON THIS HOLY BIBLE HYMN/SONG, GRASSES ARE EATEN BY CATTLE WHILE PLANTS ARE CONSUMED/EATEN BY HUMAN BEINGS. AFTER EATING PLANTS, HUMANS HAVE STRENGTH TO GROW CROPS AND PRODUCE:

(I) WINE TO MAKE THEM HAPPY

(II) OLIVE OIL TO MAKE THEM CHEERFUL

(III) BREAD TO GIVE THEM MORE STRENGTH.

(D) WHOEVER SINGS THIS SONG ACKNOWLEDGES THAT HIS OR HER GLADNESS COMES FROM GOD.

(E) THIS SONG SIMPLY APPRECIATES GOD ALMIGHTY HIMSELF AND ALL THAT HE CREATED.

According to Psalm 104: 1-35

PRAISE THE LORD, MY SOUL! O LORD, MY GOD, HOW GREAT YOU ARE! YOU ARE CLOTHED WITH MAJESTY AND GLORY; YOU COVER YOURSELF WITH LIGHT. YOU HAVE SPREAD OUT THE HEAVENS LIKE A TENT AND BUILT YOUR HOME ON THE WATERS ABOVE. YOU USE THE CLOUDS AS YOUR CHARIOT AND RIDE ON THE WINGS OF THE WIND. YOU USE THE WINDS AS YOUR MESSENGERS AND FLASHES OF LIGHTNING AS YOUR SERVANTS. YOU HAVE SET THE EARTH FIRMLY ON ITS FOUNDATIONS, AND IT WILL NEVER BE MOVED. YOU PLACED THE OCEAN OVER IT LIKE A ROBE, AND THE WATER COVERED THE MOUNTAINS. WHEN YOU REBUKED THE WATERS, THEY FLED; THEY RUSHED AWAY WHEN THEY HEARD YOUR SHOUT OF COMMAND. THEY FLOWED OVER THE MOUNTAINS AND INTO THE VALLEYS, TO THE PLACE YOU HAD MADE FOR THEM. YOU SET A BOUNDARY THEY CAN NEVER PASS, TO KEEP THEM FROM COVERING THE EARTH AGAIN. YOU MAKE SPRINGS FLOW IN THE VALLEYS, AND RIVERS RUN BETWEEN THE HILLS. THEY PROVIDE WATER FOR THE WILD ANIMALS; THERE THE WILD DONKEYS QUENCH THEIR THIRST. IN THE TREES NEAR BY, THE BIRDS MAKE THEIR NESTS AND SING. FROM THE SKY YOU SEND RAIN ON THE HILLS, AND THE EARTH IS FILLED WITH YOUR BLESSINGS. YOU MAKE GRASS GROW FOR THE CATTLE AND PLANTS FOR HUMAN BEINGS TO USE, SO THAT THEY CAN GROW THEIR CROPS AND PRODUCE WINE TO MAKE THEM HAPPY, OLIVE OIL TO MAKE THEM CHEERFUL, AND BREAD TO GIVE THEM STRENGTH. THE CEDARS OF LEBANON GET PLENTY OF RAIN - THE LORD'S OWN TREES, WHICH HE PLANTED. THERE THE BIRDS BUILD THEIR NESTS; THE STORKS NEST IN THE FIR TREES. THE WILD GOATS LIVE IN THE HIGH MOUNTAINS, AND THE ROCK- BADGERS HIDE IN THE CLIFFS. YOU CREATED THE MOON TO MARK THE MONTHS; THE SUN KNOWS THE TIME TO SET. YOU MADE THE NIGHT, AND IN THE DARKNESS ALL THE WILD ANIMALS COME OUT. THE YOUNG LIONS ROAR WHILE THEY HUNT, LOOKING FOR THE FOOD THAT GOD PROVIDES. WHEN THE SUN RISES, THEY GO BACK AND LIE DOWN IN THEIR DENS. THEN PEOPLE GO OUT TO DO THEIR WORK AND KEEP WORKING UNTIL EVENING. LORD, YOU HAVE MADE SO MANY THINGS! HOW WISELY YOU MADE THEM ALL! THE EARTH IS FILLED WITH YOUR CREATURES. THERE IS THE OCEAN, LARGE AND WIDE WHERE COUNTLESS CREATURES LIVE, LARGE AND SMALL ALIKE. THE SHIPS SAIL ON IT, AND IN IT PLAYS LEVIATHAN, THE SEA MONSTER WHICH YOU MADE. ALL OF THEM DEPEND ON YOU TO GIVE THEM FOOD  WHEN THEY NEED IT. YOU GIVE IT TO THEM, AND THEY EAT IT; YOU PROVIDE FOOD, AND THEY ARE AFRAID WHEN YOU TAKE AWAY YOUR BREATH, THEY DIE AND GO BACK TO THE DUST FROM WHICH THEY CAME. BUT WHEN YOU GIVE THEM BREATH, THEY ARE CREATED; YOU GIVE NEW LIFE TO THE EARTH. MAY THE GLORY OF THE LORD LAST FOR EVER! MAY THE LORD BE HAPPY WITH WHAT HE HAS MADE! HE LOOKS AT THE EARTH, AND IT TREMBLES; HE TOUCHES THE MOUNTAINS, AND THEY POUR OUT SMOKE.  I WILL SING TO THE LORD ALL MY LIFE; AS LONG AS I LIVE I WILL SING PRAISES TO MY GOD. MAY HE BE PLEASED WITH MY SONG, FOR MY GLADNESS COMES FROM HIM. MAY SINNERS BE DESTROYED FROM THE EARTH; MAY THE WICKED BE NO MORE. PRAISE THE LORD, MY SOUL! PRAISE THE LORD!

(3) Songs of the Israelites, Moses and Miriam:

This song mainly praises God Almighty as a Mighty Man in battle, a great warrior and a great defender mainly because God Almighty divided the red sea to allow the saved/rescued Israelites get to the other side of  the sea and they all crossed to the other end safely but the Egyptians who were still pursuing them in order to kill and/or enslave them tried passing through the same path in between the red Sea and they met their deaths as God closed the path/way He made so, the water swallowed and drowned them(the then enemies of Israelites). 

Relating to this Story and Song Remember that: "The Egyptians you see today, you shall see them no more."

NOTE THAT: 

(A) IN THIS SONG, THE ISRAELITES AND MOSES CLAIMED THAT THEY HAD WEALTH EVEN WHILE BEING THE SLAVES OF THE EGYPTIANS.

(B) THE EGYPTIANS SIGNIFIES THOSE VERY WEALTHY PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT CONTENTED WITH WHAT THEY HAVE BUT STILL WANT TO SNATCH AND STILL THE WEALTH OR BELONGINGS OF SOMEONE THAT WORKS FOR THEM OR SOMEONE THAT IS FAR BENEATH THEM IN TERMS OF MATERIAL WEALTH.

According to Exodus 15: 1-21

MOSES AND THE ISRAELITES SANG:

THEN MOSES AND THE ISRAELITES SANG THIS SONG TO THE LORD:

I WILL SING TO THE LORD, BECAUSE HE HAS WON A GLORIOUS VICTORY; HE HAS THROWN THE HORSES AND THEIR RIDERS INTO THE SEA. THE LORD IS MY STRONG DEFENDER; HE IS THE ONE WHO HAS SAVED ME. HE IS MY GOD, AND I WILL PRAISE HIM, MY FATHER'S GOD, AND I WILL SING ABOUT HIS GREATNESS. THE LORD IS A WARRIOR; THE LORD IS HIS NAME. HE THREW EGYPT'S ARMY AND ITS CHARIOTS INTO THE SEA; THE BEST OF ITS OFFICERS WERE DROWNED IN THE RED SEA. THE DEEP SEA COVERED THEM; THEY SANK TO THE BOTTOM LIKE A STONE. YOUR RIGHT HAND, LORD, IS AWESOME IN POWER; IT BREAKS THE ENEMY IN PIECES. IN MAJESTIC TRIUMPH YOU OVERTHROW YOUR FOES; YOUR ANGER BLAZES OUT AND BURNS THEM UP LIKE STRAW. YOU BLEW ON THE SEA AND THE WATER PILED UP HIGH; IT STOOD UP STRAIGHT LIKE A WALL; THE DEEPEST PART OF THE SEA BECAME SOLID. THE ENEMY SAID, "I WILL PURSUE THEM AND CATCH THEM; I WILL DIVIDE THEIR WEALTH AND TAKE ALL I WANT; I WILL DRAW MY SWORD AND TAKE ALL THEY HAVE." BUT ONE BREATH FROM YOU, LORD, AND THE EGYPTIANS WERE DROWNED; THEY SANK LIKE LEAD IN THE TERRIBLE WATER. LORD, WHO AMONG THE GODS IS LIKE YOU? WHO IS LIKE YOU, WONDERFUL IN HOLINESS? WHO CAN WORK MIRACLES AND MIGHTY ACTS LIKE YOURS? YOU STRETCHED OUT YOUR RIGHT HAND, AND THE EARTH SWALLOWED OUR ENEMIES. FAITHFUL TO YOUR PROMISE, YOU LED THE PEOPLE YOU HAD RESCUED; BY YOUR STRENGTH YOU GUIDED THEM TO YOUR SACRED LAND. THE NATIONS HAVE HEARD, AND THEY TREMBLE WITH FEAR; THE PHILISTINES ARE SEIZED WITH TERROR. THE LEADERS OF EDOM ARE TERRIFIED; MOAB'S MIGHTY MEN ARE TREMBLING; THE PEOPLE OF CANAAN LOSE THEIR COURAGE. TERROR AND DREAD FALL UPON THEM. THEY SEE YOUR STRENGTH, O LORD, AND STAND HELPLESS WITH FEAR UNTIL YOUR PEOPLE HAVE MARCHED PAST - THE PEOPLE YOU SET FREE FROM SLAVERY. YOU BRING THEM IN AND PLANT THEM ON YOUR MOUNTAIN, THE PLACE THAT YOU, LORD, HAVE CHOSEN FOR YOUR HOME, THE TEMPLE THAT YOU YOURSELF HAVE BUILT. YOU, LORD, WILL BE KING FOR EVER AND EVER. THE ISRAELITES WALKED THROUGH THE SEA ON DRY GROUND. BUT WHEN THE EGYPTIAN CHARIOTS WITH THEIR HORSES AND DRIVERS WENT INTO THE SEA, THE LORD BROUGHT THE WATER BACK, AND IT COVERED THEM.

THE PROPHET MIRIAM, AARON'S SISTER, TOOK HER TAMBOURINE, AND ALL THE WOMEN FOLLOWED HER, PLAYING TAMBOURINES AND DANCING. MIRIAM SANG FOR THEM:

"SING TO THE LORD, BECAUSE HE HAS WON A GLORIOUS VICTORY; HE HAS THROWN THE HORSES AND THEIR RIDERS INTO THE SEA."

 

(4) Songs of the Three Young Men (They were Daniel's friends called Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah also known as Shedrach, Meshach and Abednego):

This song of praise was sang to God Almighty for saving them from the burning furnace they were thrown into. Even if those who actually threw them into the very hot burning furnace (because the King commanded them to do so) got burnt up, Hananiah (Shedrach), Mishael (Meshach) and Azariah (Abednego) remained unharmed because God protected them right inside the burning furnace. This song mainly lists many creatures/creations of God and asks all the creations which includes nature to help them give praise to God Almighty on their behalf for this great miraculous rescue from the depth of the furnace even as they were still inside it. They also called on everyone around the world, most especially, the people that belong to the Household of the Lord God (that is, all kinds of people that do the will of God) to sing God's praises and honour to Him all the days of their lives and forevermore. Death has no power over God's people/children unless He allows or assigns it to be so. GOD PROTECTS HIS PEOPLE FROM ALL DANGERS. GOD IS LOVE. PRAISE GOD!!!

According to Songs of Three Young Men 1: 23-68

"THE KING'S SERVANTS WHO HAD THROWN THE THREE MEN INTO THE FURNACE KEPT THE FIRE HOT BY FEEDING IT WITH OIL, TAR, FLAX, AND BRUSHWOOD. THE FLAMES BLAZED UP TO A HEIGHT OF MORE THAN TWENTY METRES AND EVEN SPREAD OUT AND BURNT UP THE BABYLONIANS STANDING NEAR THE FURNACE. BUT AN ANGEL OF THE LORD CAME DOWN INTO THE FIRE WHERE THE THREE MEN WERE. HE PUSHED ASIDE THE FLAMES SO THAT IT FELT AS IF A COOL BREEZE WERE BLOWING, AND THE FIRE  DID NOT TOUCH THE MEN AT ALL OR HURT THEM IN ANY WAY."

THE SONG ITSELF 👇😍

THERE IN THE FURNACE THE THREE YOUNG MEN AGAIN STARTED SINGING TOGETHER IN PRAISE OF GOD:

WE PRAISE YOU, O LORD, THE GOD OF OUR ANCESTORS. MAY YOUR GLORIOUS, HOLY NAME BE HELD IN HONOUR AND REVERENCE FOREVER AND MAY YOUR HOLY PRESENCE BE PRAISED IN THAT TEMPLE, WHERE YOU SIT ON YOUR HEAVENLY THRONE ABOVE THE WINGED CREATURES  AND LOOK DOWN TO THE WORLD OF THE DEAD. MAY YOU BE PRAISED AND HONOURED FOREVER. MAY YOU BE PRAISED AS  YOU SIT ON YOUR ROYAL THRONE. MAY HYMNS BE SUNG TO YOUR GLORY FOREVER. MAY YOU BE PRAISED IN THE DOME OF THE HEAVENS. MAY HYMNS BE SUNG TO YOUR GLORY FOREVER. 

PRAISE THE LORD, ALL CREATION; 

"SING HIS PRAISE AND HONOUR HIM FOREVER."

 

PRAISE THE LORD, SKIES ABOVE; 

"SING HIS PRAISE AND HONOUR HIM FOREVER." 

PRAISE THE LORD, ALL ANGELS OF THE LORD;

"SING HIS PRAISE AND HONOUR HIM FOREVER."

 

PRAISE THE LORD, ALL WATERS ABOVE THE SKY; 

"SING HIS PRAISE AND HONOUR HIM FOREVER."

PRAISE THE LORD, ALL HEAVENLY POWERS;

"SING HIS PRAISE AND HONOUR HIM FOREVER."

PRAISE THE LORD, SUN AND MOON; 

"SING HIS PRAISE AND HONOUR HIM FOREVER."

PRAISE THE LORD, STARS OF HEAVEN; 

"SING HIS PRAISE AND HONOUR HIM FOREVER."

PRAISE THE LORD, RAIN AND DEW;

"SING HIS PRAISE AND HONOUR HIM FOREVER."

PRAISE THE LORD, ALL WINDS;

"SING HIS PRAISE AND HONOUR HIM FOREVER."

PRAISE THE LORD, FIRE AND HEAT;

"SING HIS PRAISE AND HONOUR HIM FOREVER."

PRAISE THE LORD, BITTER COLD AND SCORCHING HEAT;

"SING HIS PRAISE AND HONOUR HIM FOREVER."

PRAISE THE LORD, DEWS AND SNOWS;

"SING HIS PRAISE AND HONOUR HIM FOREVER."

PRAISE THE LORD, NIGHTS AND DAYS; 

"SING HIS PRAISE AND HONOUR HIM FOREVER."

PRAISE THE LORD, DAYLIGHT AND DARKNESS;

"SING HIS PRAISE AND HONOUR HIM FOREVER."

PRAISE THE LORD, ICE AND COLD;

"SING HIS PRAISE AND HONOUR HIM FOREVER."

PRAISE THE LORD, FROST AND SNOW;

"SING HIS PRAISE AND HONOUR HIM FOREVER."

PRAISE THE LORD, LIGHTNING AND STORM CLOUDS;

"SING HIS PRAISE AND HONOUR HIM FOREVER."

LET THE EARTH PRAISE THE LORD;

"SING HIS PRAISE AND HONOUR HIM FOREVER."

PRAISE THE LORD, MOUNTAINS AND HILLS;

"SING HIS PRAISE AND HONOUR HIM FOREVER."

PRAISE THE LORD, EVERYTHING THAT GROWS;

"SING HIS PRAISE AND HONOUR HIM FOREVER."

PRAISE THE LORD, LAKES AND RIVERS; 

"SING HIS PRAISE AND HONOUR HIM FOREVER."

PRAISE THE LORD, SPRINGS OF WATER;

"SING HIS PRAISE AND HONOUR HIM FOREVER."

PRAISE THE LORD, WHALES AND SEA CREATURES;

"SING HIS PRAISE AND HONOUR HIM FOREVER."

PRAISE THE LORD, ALL BIRDS;

"SING HIS PRAISE AND HONOUR HIM FOREVER."

PRAISE THE LORD, ALL CATTLE AND WILD ANIMALS;

"SING HIS PRAISE AND HONOUR HIM FOREVER."

PRAISE THE LORD; ALL PEOPLE ON EARTH;

"SING HIS PRAISE AND HONOUR HIM FOREVER."

PRAISE THE LORD, PEOPLE OF ISRAEL;

"SING HIS PRAISE AND HONOUR HIM FOREVER."

PRAISE THE LORD, PRIESTS OF THE LORD;

"SING HIS PRAISE AND HONOUR HIM FOREVER."

PRAISE THE LORD, SERVANTS OF THE LORD;

"SING HIS PRAISE AND HONOUR HIM FOREVER."

PRAISE THE LORD, ALL FAITHFUL PEOPLE;

"SING HIS PRAISE AND HONOUR HIM FOREVER."

PRAISE THE LORD, ALL WHO ARE HUMBLE AND HOLY;

"SING HIS PRAISE AND HONOUR HIM FOREVER."

PRAISE THE LORD, HANANIAH, AZARIAH, AND MISHAEL;

"SING HIS PRAISE AND HONOUR HIM FOREVER."

HE RESCUED US FROM THE WORLD OF THE DEAD AND SAVED US FROM THE POWER OF DEATH. HE BROUGHT US OUT FROM THE BURNING FURNACE AND SAVED US FROM THE FIRE. 

GIVE THANKS TO THE LORD, FOR HE IS GOOD 

"AND HIS MERCY LASTS FOREVER."

PRAISE THE LORD, ALL WHO WORSHIP HIM; SING PRAISE TO THE GOD OF GODS AND GIVE HIM THANKS, 

"FOR HIS MERCY LASTS FOREVER."

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What say you?

I SUGGEST YOU SAY THIS: "SING HIS PRAISE AND HONOUR HIM FOREVER"

What's on your mind?

SING A SONG OF PRAISE TODAY!!!

SING A LOVELY/BEAUTIFUL SONG TO YOUR SPOUSE/BETTER HALF/MISSING RIB/BONE OF YOUR BONES/LOVE/WIFE/HUSBAND TOO!

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Make no Mistake, Vengeance still Fully Exist (STORY TIME): Read and what's your view

Make no Mistake, Vengeance still Fully Exist (STORY TIME): Read and what's your view

"Vengeance is mine," says the Lord.

(1) God of Heaven and earth is now for everyone who believes and accepts Him, whether you are black or white, Jewish or not, tall or short, rich or poor etc. This story of Cornelius and Simon Peter says it all. The good that you do today or have done before will be remembered one day by God for Him to give/grant you an excellent reward even while you still alive on earth. His blessings, people and angels will just locate you with good news and also listen to your cries just like, what a wonderful reward and many more goodies just like that! God answers the good prayers of His own people at a good and perfect time.

NOTE THAT: 

(A) THE DISCIPLES OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, LIKE SIMON PETER, STILL FOLLOWED THE JEWISH LAWS OF THE SCRIPTURES (LAWS OF MOSES AND THE LIKES), FOR INSTANCE, NOT EATING WHAT WERE CONSIDERED UNCLEAN IN ORDER NOT TO BE MADE UNCLEAN BUT HE WAS ADMONISHED/COUNSELLED BY GOD IN A TRANCE/VISION ABOUT THIS PRACTICE AFTER JESUS HAD DIED AND RESURRECTED FROM THE DEAD.

(B) WE CAN LOGICALLY SAY THAT IN THE OLDEN DAYS, CHRISTIANS WERE ALSO JEWISH PEOPLE THAT FOLLOWED JESUS CHRIST AND BEHAVED LIKE HIM TO AN EXTENT.

(C) SIXTH HOUR MEANS 06:00AM WHILE NINTH HOUR MEANS 09:00AM

(D) WHEN A TRUE MINISTER OR CHILD OF GOD IS PREACHING THE WORD OF GOD, JUST LIKE SIMON PETER DID IN CORNELIUS HOUSE, THE HOLY SPIRIT CAN DECIDE TO FALL ON ALL WHO HEARS THE WORD OF GOD.

(E) EVEN AFTER RECEIVING THE HOLY SPIRIT, SIMON PETER HAD TO BAPTIZE CORNELIUS AND HIS HOUSEHOLD JUST AS JOHN, THE BAPTIST (THE SON OF ELIZABETH AND ZECHARIAH) BAPTISED JESUS CHRIST ALSO. THIS MEANS THAT ALL THE PEOPLE THAT HEARD THE WORD OF GOD IN CORNELIUS HOUSE WERE ALL FILLED WITH THE SAME HOLY SPIRIT THAT CAME UPON THE DISCIPLES OF JESUS CHRIST ON THE DAY OF PENTECOST EVEN BEFORE THEY GOT BAPTIZED BY SIMON PETER. SIMON PETER TESTIFIED WITH HIS MOUTH THAT SINCE THEY HAD ALREADY RECEIVED THE HOLY SPIRIT BY THE POWER OF THE WORD OF GOD SPOKEN BY HIS TRUE SERVANT THEN NOTHING AND NO ONE CAN STOP THEIR BAPTISM. 

I SAY "WHEN GOD SAYS YES, NOBODY CAN SAY NO.

 

According to Acts 10: 1-48

'AT CAESAREA THERE WAS A MAN NAMED CORNELIUS, A CENTURION OF WHAT WAS KNOWN AS THE ITALIAN COHORT, A DEVOUT MAN WHO FEARED GOD WITH ALL HIS HOUSEHOLD, GAVE ALMS GENEROUSLY TO THE PEOPLE, AND PRAYED CONTINUALLY TO GOD. ABOUT THE NINTH HOUR OF THE DAY HE SAW CLEARLY IN A VISION AN ANGEL OF GOD COME IN AND SAY TO HIM, "CORNELIUS." AND HE STARED AT HIM IN TERROR AND SAID, "WHAT IS IT, LORD?" AND HE SAID TO HIM, "YOUR PRAYERS AND YOUR ALMS HAVE ASCENDED AS A MEMORIAL BEFORE GOD. "AND NOW SEND MEN TO JOPPA AND BRING ONE SIMON WHO IS CALLED PETER. "HE IS LODGING WITH ONE SIMON, A TANNER, WHOSE HOUSE IS BY THE SEA." WHEN THE ANGEL WHO SPOKE TO HIM HAD DEPARTED, HE CALLED TWO OF HIS SERVANTS AND A DEVOUT SOLDIER FROM AMONG THOSE WHO ATTENDED HIM, AND HAVING RELATED EVERYTHING TO THEM, HE SENT THEM TO JOPPA. THE NEXT DAY, AS THEY WERE ON THEIR JOURNEY AND APPROACHING THE CITY, PETER WENT UP ON THE HOUSETOP ABOUT THE SIXTH HOUR TO PRAY. AND HE BECAME HUNGRY AND WANTED SOMETHING TO EAT, BUT WHILE THEY WERE PREPARING IT, HE FELL INTO A TRANCE AND SAW THE HEAVENS OPENED AND SOMETHING LIKE A GREAT SHEET DESCENDING, BEING LET DOWN BY ITS FOUR CORNERS UPON THE EARTH. IN IT WERE ALL KINDS OF ANIMALS AND REPTILES AND BIRDS OF THE AIR. AND THERE CAME A VOICE TO HIM: "RISE, PETER, KILL AND EAT." BUT PETER SAID, "BY NO MEANS, LORD, FOR I HAVE NEVER EATEN ANYTHING THAT IS COMMON OR UNCLEAN." AND THE VOICE CAME TO HIM AGAIN A SECOND TIME, "WHAT GOD HAS MADE CLEAN, DO NOT CALL COMMON." THIS HAPPENED THREE TIMES, AND THE THING WAS TAKEN UP AT ONCE TO HEAVEN. NOW WHILE PETER WAS INWARDLY PERPLEXED AS TO WHAT THE VISION THAT HE HAD SEEN MIGHT MEAN, BEHOLD, THE MEN WHO WERE SENT BY CORNELIUS, HAVING MADE INQUIRY FOR SIMON'S HOUSE, STOOD AT THE GATE AND CALLED OUT TO ASK WHETHER SIMON WHO WAS CALLED PETER WAS LODGING THERE. AND WHILE PETER WAS PONDERING THE VISION, THE SPIRIT SAID TO HIM, "BEHOLD, THREE MEN ARE LOOKING FOR YOU. "RISE AND GO DOWN AND ACCOMPANY THEM WITHOUT HESITATION, FOR I HAVE SENT THEM." AND PETER WENT DOWN TO THE MEN AND SAID, "I AM THE ONE YOU ARE LOOKING FOR. WHAT IS THE REASON FOR YOUR COMING?" AND THEY SAID, "CORNELIUS, A CENTURION, AND UPRIGHT AND GOD-FEARING MAN, WHO IS WELL SPOKEN OF BY THE WHOLE JEWISH NATION, WAS DIRECTED BY A HOLY ANGEL TO SEND FOR YOU TO COME TO HIS HOUSE AND TO HEAR WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY." SO HE INVITED THEM IN TO BE HIS GUESTS. THE NEXT DAY HE ROSE AND WENT AWAY WITH THEM, AND SOME OF THE BROTHERS FROM JOPPA ACCOMPANIED HIM. AND ON THE FOLLOWING DAY THEY ENTERED CAESAREA. CORNELIUS WAS EXPECTING THEM AND HAD CALLED TOGETHER HIS RELATIVES AND CLOSE FRIENDS. WHEN PETER ENTERED, CORNELIUS MET HIM AND FELL DOWN AT HIS FEET AND WORSHIPPED HIM. BUT PETER LIFTED HIM UP, SAYING, "STAND UP; I TOO AM A MAN." AND AS HE TALKED WITH HIM, HE WENT IN AND FOUND MANY PERSONS GATHERED. AND HE SAID TO THEM, "YOU YOURSELVES KNOW HOW UNLAWFUL IT IS FOR A JEW TO ASSOCIATE WITH OR TO VISIT ANYONE OF ANOTHER NATION, BUT GOD HAS SHOWN ME THAT I SHOULD NOT CALL ANY PERSON COMMON OR UNCLEAN. "SO WHEN I WAS SENT FOR, I CAME WITHOUT OBJECTION. I ASK THEN WHY YOU SENT FOR ME." AND CORNELIUS SAID, "FOUR DAYS AGO, ABOUT THIS HOUR, I WAS PRAYING IN MY HOUSE AT THE NINTH HOUR, AND BEHOLD, A MAN STOOD BEFORE ME IN BRIGHT CLOTHING "AND SAID, 'CORNELIUS, YOUR PRAYER HAS BEEN HEARD AND YOUR ALMS HAVE BEEN REMEMBERED BEFORE GOD. "SEND THEREFORE TO JOPPA AND ASK FOR SIMON WHO IS CALLED PETER. HE IS LODGING IN THE HOUSE OF SIMON, A TANNER, BY THE SEA." "SO I SENT FOR YOU AT ONCE AND YOU HAVE BEEN KIND ENOUGH TO COME. NOW THEREFORE WE ARE ALL HERE IN THE PRESENCE OF GOD TO HEAR ALL THAT YOU HAVE BEEN COMMANDED BY THE LORD." SO PETER OPENED HIS MOUTH AND SAID: "TRULY I UNDERSTAND THAT GOD SHOWS NO PARTIALITY, BUT IN EVERY NATION ANYONE WHO FEARS HIM AND DOES WHAT IS RIGHT IS ACCEPTABLE TO HIM. "AS FOR THE WORD THAT HE SENT TO ISRAEL, PREACHING GOOD NEWS OF PEACE THROUGH JESUS CHRIST (HE IS LORD OF ALL), YOU YOURSELVES KNOW WHAT HAPPENED THROUGHOUT ALL JUDEA, BEGINNING FROM GALILEE AFTER THE BAPTISM THAT JOHN PROCLAIMED: HOW GOD ANOINTED JESUS OF NAZARETH WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT AND WITH POWER. HE WENT ABOUT DOING GOOD AND HEALING ALL WHO WERE OPPRESSED BY THE DEVIL, FOR GOD WAS WITH HIM. AND WE ARE WITNESSES OF ALL THAT HE DID BOTH IN THE COUNTRY OF THE JEWS AND IN JERUSALEM. THEY PUT HIM TO DEATH BY HANGING HIM ON A TREE, BUT GOD RAISED HIM ON THE THIRD DAY AND MADE HIM TO APPEAR, NOT TO ALL THE PEOPLE BUT TO US WHO HAD BEEN CHOSEN BY GOD AS WITNESSES, WHO ATE AND DRANK WITH HIM AFTER HE ROSE FROM THE DEAD. AND HE COMMANDED US TO PREACH TO THE PEOPLE AND TO TESTIFY THAT HE IS THE ONE APPOINTED BY GOD TO BE JUDGE OF THE LIVING AND THE DEAD. TO HIM ALL THE PROPHETS BEAR WITNESS THAT EVERYONE WHO BELIEVES IN HIM RECEIVES FORGIVENESS OF SINS THROUGH HIS NAME. WHILE PETER WAS STILL SAYING THESE THINGS, THE HOLY SPIRIT FELL ON ALL WHO HEARD THE WORD. AND THE BELIEVERS FROM AMONG THE CIRCUMCISED WHO HAD COME WITH PETER WERE AMAZED, BECAUSE THE GIFT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT WAS POURED OUT EVEN ON THE GENTILES. FOR THEY WERE HEARING THEM SPEAKING IN TONGUES AND EXTOLLING GOD. THEN PETER DECLARED, "CAN ANYONE WITHHOLD WATER FOR BAPTIZING THESE PEOPLE, WHO HAVE RECEIVED THE HOLY SPIRIT JUST AS WE HAVE?" AND HE COMMANDED THEM TO BE BAPTIZED IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST. THEN THEY ASKED HIM TO REMAIN FOR SOME DAYS.'

(2) God will fight for us all, who have now been called and chosen as His own, one day. Just be still, pray, believe and know that God is still God and He remaineth the same yesterday, today and forever more no matter the upcoming or existing turbulence.

According to Psalms 46: 1-11

'GOD IS OUR REFUGE AND STRENGTH, A VERY PRESENT HELP IN TROUBLE. THEREFORE WE WILL NOT FEAR THOUGH THE EARTH GIVES WAY, THOUGH THE MOUNTAINS BE MOVED INTO THE HEART OF THE SEA, THOUGH ITS WATERS ROAR AND FOAM, THOUGH THE MOUNTAINS TREMBLE AT ITS SWELLING. THERE IS A RIVER WHOSE STREAMS MAKE GLAD THE CITY OF GOD, THE HOLY HABITATION OF THE MOST HIGH. GOD IS IN THE MIDST OF HER; SHE SHALL NOT BE MOVED; GOD WILL HELP HER WHEN MORNING DAWNS. THE NATIONS RAGE, THE KINGDOMS TOTTER, HE UTTERS HIS VOICE, THE EARTH MELTS. THE LORD OF HOSTS IS WITH US; THE GOD OF JACOB IS OUR FORTRESS. COME, BEHOLD THE WORKS OF THE LORD, HOW HE HAS BROUGHT DESOLATIONS ON THE EARTH. HE MAKES WARS CEASE TO THE END OF THE EARTH; HE BREAKS THE BOW AND SHATTERS THE SPEAR; HE BURNS THE CHARIOTS WITH FIRE. BE STILL, AND KNOW THAT I AM GOD. I WILL BE EXALTED AMONG THE NATIONS, I WILL BE EXALTED IN THE EARTH!" THE LORD OF HOSTS IS WITH US, THE GOD OF JACOB IS OUR FORTRESS.'

(3) The work of God should not be by force for it is done with Faith, Grace and utmostly, Love. No one should be forced to work for God because a true worker of God in His Vineyard works through Grace, Faith and Love and in return gets benefits/incentives from God for a job well done in God's name.

NOTE THAT: 

(A) BASED ON THE BIBLE PASSAGE BELOW, THE PREACHING OF THE WORD OF GOD CAN MAKE ONE TO BE FAMOUS AND ALSO TRAVEL AROUND THE WORLD.

(B) BASED ON THIS BIBLE PASSAGE BELOW, NO ONE SAYS YOU SHOULD GIVE OUT EVERY GOOD THING YOU HAVE NOW AT ALL TO OTHERS AND BE WITHOUT NOTHING, THEN OTHERS WILL BE ENJOYING ALL YOU HAD AND YOU WILL BE LACKING AND SUFFERING. WHAT WE ARE BEING TOLD TO DO IS THAT EVEN FROM THE VERY LITTLE OR THE PLENTY MATERIAL THINGS WE HAVE, WE SHOULD MAKE SURE THAT THOSE IN NEED BENEFIT IN ONE WAY OR THE OTHER FROM IT.

(C) THE WORD 'BROTHERS' USED IN THIS BIBLE PASSAGE BELOW DOESN'T MEAN BLOOD BROTHERS. WHAT ACTUALLY CONNECTS THEM HERE IS THE CHURCH AND MOST ESPECIALLY, THE SPREADING OF THE WORD OF GOD.

According to 2 Corinthians 8: 1-24

'WE WANT YOU TO KNOW, BROTHERS, ABOUT THE GRACE OF GOD THAT HAS BEEN GIVEN AMONG THE CHURCHES OF MACEDONIA, FOR IN A SEVERE TEST OF AFFLICTION, THEIR ABUNDANCE OF JOY AND THEIR EXTREME POVERTY HAVE OVERFLOWED IN A WEALTH OF GENEROSITY ON THEIR PART. FOR THEY GAVE ACCORDING TO THEIR MEANS, AS I CAN TESTIFY, AND BEYOND THEIR MEANS, AS I CAN TESTIFY, AND BEYOND THEIR MEANS, OF THEIR OWN ACCORD, BEGGING US EARNESTLY FOR THE FAVOR OF TAKING PART IN THE RELIEF OF SAINTS - AND THIS, NOT AS WE EXPECTED, BUT THEY GAVE THEMSELVES FIRST TO THE LORD AND THEN BY THE WILL OF GOD TO US. ACCORDINGLY, WE URGED TITUS THAT AS HE HAD STARTED, SO HE SHOULD COMPLETE AMONG YOU THIS ACT OF GRACE. BUT AS YOU EXCEL IN EVERYTHING - IN FAITH, IN SPEECH, IN KNOWLEDGE, IN ALL EARNESTNESS, AND IN OUR LOVE FOR YOU - SEE THAT YOU EXCEL IN THIS ACT OF GRACE ALSO. I SAY THIS NOT AS A COMMAND, BUT TO PROVE BY THE EARNESTNESS OF OTHERS THAT YOUR LOVE ALSO IS GENUINE. FOR YOU KNOW THE GRACE OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, THAT THOUGH HE WAS RICH, YET FOR YOUR SAKE HE BECAME POOR, SO THAT YOU BY HIS POVERTY MIGHT BECOME RICH. AND IN THIS MATTER I GIVE MY JUDGEMENT: THIS BENEFITS YOU, WHO A YEAR AGO STARTED NOT ONLY TO DO THIS WORK BUT ALSO TO DESIRE TO DO IT. SO NOW FINISH DOING IT AS WELL, SO THAT YOUR READINESS IN DESIRING IT MAY BE MATCHED BY YOUR COMPLETING IT OUT OF WHAT YOU HAVE. FOR I DO NOT MEAN THAT OTHERS SHOULD BE EASED AND YOU BURDENED, BUT THAT AS A MATTER OF FAIRNESS. YOUR ABUNDANCE AT THE PRESENT TIME SHOULD SUPPLY THEIR NEED, SO THAT THEIR ABUNDANCE MAY SUPPLY YOUR NEED, THAT THERE MAY BE FAIRNESS. AS IT IS WRITTEN, "WHOEVER GATHERED MUCH HAD NOTHING LEFT OVER, AND WHOEVER GATHERED LITTLE HAD NO LACK." BUT THANKS BE TO GOD, WHO PUT INTO THE HEART OF TITUS THE SAME EARNEST CARE I HAVE FOR YOU. FOR HE NOT ONLY ACCEPTED OUR APPEAL, BUT BEING HIMSELF VERY EARNEST HE IS GOING TO YOU OF HIS OWN ACCORD. WITH HIM WE ARE SENDING THE BROTHER WHO IS FAMOUS AMONG ALL THE CHURCHES FOR HIS PREACHING OF THE GOSPEL. AND NOT ONLY THAT, BUT HE HAS BEEN APPOINTED BY THE CHURCHES TO TRAVEL WITH US AS WE CARRY OUT THIS ACT OF GRACE THAT IS BEING MINISTERED BY US, FOR THE GLORY OF THE LORD HIMSELF AND TO SHOW OUR GOOD WILL. WE TAKE THIS COURSE SO THAT NO ONE SHOULD BLAME US ABOUT THIS GENEROUS GIFT THAT IS BEING ADMINISTERED BY US, FOR WE AIM AT WHAT IS HONORABLE NOT ONLY IN THE LORD'S SIGHT BUT ALSO IN THE SIGHT OF MAN. AND WITH THEM WE ARE SENDING OUR BROTHER WHOM WE HAVE OFTEN TESTED AND FOUND EARNEST IN MANY MATTERS, BUT WHO IS NOW MORE EARNEST THAN EVER BECAUSE OF HIS GREAT CONFIDENCE IN YOU. AS FOR TITUS, HE IS MY PARTNER AND FELLOW WORKER FOR YOUR BENEFIT. AND AS FOR OUR BROTHERS, THEY ARE MESSENGERS OF THE CHURCHES, THE GLORY OF CHRIST. SO GIVE PROOF BEFORE THE CHURCHES OF YOUR LOVE AND OF OUR BOASTING ABOUT YOU TO THESE MEN.'

(4) God will send His Angels to direct and protect you and those you love even in the face of fear, death and immense/great troubles. Joseph took the role of being an earthly father to our Lord Jesus Christ (God, the Son) whom Virgin Mary conceived by the Power of the Holy Spirit and God was in their lives to protect and guide them even in their pain and joy. Joseph and Virgin Mary were true workers of God and they will forever be remembered in a good light for this God's work acceptance on their own part. Virgin Mary accepted to be the mother of Jesus Christ (God, the Son). Joseph agreed to go ahead and marry the pregnant Virgin Mary, thus, becoming the earthly father of Jesus Christ.

NOTE THAT: 

(A) ACCEPTING THE CALL TO DO GOD'S WORK  DOES NOT MEAN THAT THERE WILL BE NO OBSTACLES, TRIALS AND/OR TRIBULATIONS ON THE WAY. "JESUS IS THE WAY, THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE."

(B) NO MATTER HOW MANY OF THEM GATHERS EVEN IF THEY ARE AS PLENTY AS MANY NATIONS, GOD HAS A WAY OF SAVING HIS OWN PEOPLE UNTIL THE APPOINTED TIME FOR THEIR HOMECOMING (DEATH). HEROD (A WICKED KILLER OF DESTINY) GATHERED ALL THE CHIEF PRIESTS AND ALL THE SCRIBES OF THE PEOPLE IN THE WHOLE LAND WHEN JESUS CHRIST WAS STILL A CHILD/BABY, YET HE COULD NOT KILL OR EVEN HARM JESUS CHRIST AT ALL.

According to Matthew 2: 1-23

'NOW AFTER JESUS WAS BORN IN BETHLEHEM OF JUDEA IN THE DAYS OF HEROD THE KING, BEHOLD, WISE MEN FROM THE EAST CAME TO JERUSALEM, SAYING, "WHERE IS HE WHO HAS BEEN BORN KING OF THE JEWS? FOR WE SAW HIS STAR WHEN IT ROSE IN THE EAST AND HAVE COME TO WORSHIP HIM." WHEN HEROD THE KING HEARD THIS, HE WAS TROUBLED, AND ALL JERUSALEM WITH HIM; AND ASSEMBLING ALL THE CHIEF PRIESTS AND SCRIBES OF THE PEOPLE, HE INQUIRED OF THEM WHERE THE CHRIST WAS TO BE BORN. THEY TOLD HIM, "IN BETHLEHEM OF JUDEA, FOR SO IT IS WRITTEN BY THE PROPHET: "AND YOU, O BETHLEHEM, IN THE LAND OF JUDAH, ARE BY NO MEANS LEAST AMONG THE RULERS OF JUDAH; FOR FROM YOU SHALL COME A RULER WHO WILL SHEPHERD MY PEOPLE ISRAEL." THEN HEROD SUMMONED THE WISE MEN SECRETLY AND ASCERTAINED FROM THEM WHAT TIME THE STAR HAD APPEARED. AND HE SENT THEM TO BETHLEHEM, SAYING, "GO AND SEARCH DILIGENTLY FOR THE CHILD, AND WHEN YOU HAVE FOUND HIM, BRING ME WORD, THAT I TOO MAY COME AND WORSHIP HIM." AFTER LISTENING TO THE KING, THEY WENT ON THEIR WAY. AND BEHOLD, THE STAR THAT THEY HAD SEEN WHEN IT ROSE IN THE EAST WENT BEFORE THEM UNTIL IT CAME TO REST OVER THE PLACE WHERE THE CHILD WAS. WHEN THEY SAW THE STAR, THEY REJOICED EXCEEDINGLY WITH GREAT JOY. AND GOING INTO THE HOUSE THEY SAW THE CHILD WITH MARY HIS MOTHER, AND THEY FELL DOWN AND WORSHIPPED HIM. THEN, OPENING THEIR TREASURES, THEY OFFERED HIM GIFTS, GOLD AND FRANKINCENSE AND MYRRH. AND BEING WARNED IN A DREAM NOT TO RETURN TO HEROD, THEY DEPARTED TO THEIR OWN COUNTRY BY ANOTHER WAY. NOW WHEN THEY HAD DEPARTED, BEHOLD, AN ANGEL OF THE LORD APPEARED TO JOSEPH IN A DREAM AND SAID, "RISE, TAKE THE CHILD AND HIS MOTHER, AND FLEE TO EGYPT, AND REMAIN THERE UNTIL I TELL YOU, FOR HEROD IS ABOUT TO SEARCH FOR THE CHILD, TO DESTROY HIM." AND HE ROSE AND TOOK THE CHILD AND HIS MOTHER BY NIGHT AND DEPARTED TO EGYPT AND REMAINED THERE UNTIL THE DEATH OF HEROD. THIS WAS TO FULFILL WHAT THE LORD HAD SPOKEN BY THE PROPHET, "OUT OF EGYPT I CALLED MY SON." THEN HEROD, WHEN HE SAW THAT HE HAD BEEN TRICKED BY THE WISE MEN, BECAME FURIOUS, AND HE SENT AND KILLED ALL THE MALE CHILDREN IN BETHLEHEM AND IN ALL THAT REGION WHO WERE TWO YEARS OLD OR UNDER, ACCORDING TO THE TIME THAT HE HAD ASCERTAINED FROM THE WISE MEN. 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.'

(5) The real governing authorities are the Ministers of God who are not fake but are terror to bad conducts. This simply means that when you are in high authority you have to do what's right by God's standard. All upright high authorities are automatically working for God and carrying out God's instructions on earth as it is done in Heaven, thus, they are called the real Ministers of God Almighty. Do you remember this part of the Lord's prayer: "YOUR WILL BE DONE ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN?" We know that God also asks us to forgive those who do wrongs against us but if you are truly of God you will not deliberately wrong your neighbor in the first place/instance because "love does no wrong to neighbor therefore love is the fulfilling of Law." God is Love. These real governing authorities that are called workers of God (not workers of iniquities), servants of God and avengers who carry out God's wrath on wrongdoers. For instance, there is prison with hard labour on this earth (in this life) just as we have hell fire after this life which are both means of punishment or wrath for evil-doers, and not innocent people. Praise the Lord!!

NOTE THAT: 

(A) BASED ON THE BIBLE PASSAGE BELOW, IF YOU ARE IN A POSITION THAT IS NOT YOURS THEN YOU ARE JUST OCCUPYING ANOTHER PERSON'S SPACE BECAUSE GOD IS JUST ALLOWING YOU TO RULE WHEREVER YOU MAY BE. BECAUSE NOTHING HAPPENS IN THIS WORLD WITHOUT GOD KNOWING ABOUT IT. 

(B) BASED ON THE BIBLE PASSAGE BELOW, EVEN AS WE ARE ALL ASKED TO OBEY GOVERNING AUTHORITIES, GOD'S CONSEQUENCES AND WRATH ALSO AWAITS THOSE WHO OBEY EVIL GOVERNING AUTHORITIES.

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(C) BASED ON THIS BIBLE PASSAGE, IF YOU ARE NOT A TERROR TO BAD CONDUCT AND YOU TERRORIZE GOOD CONDUCTS THEN YOU ARE NOT A RULER. SIMPLE AND SHORT.

(D) BASED ON THIS BIBLE PASSAGE, WHENEVER AND WHEREVER YOU SEE A RULER (THAT IS, SOMEONE THAT TERRORIZES BAD CONDUCT, AND NOT GOOD CONDUCT), DO GOOD ALWAYS AND HE/SHE WILL ALWAYS APPROVE OF YOU AS THE GOVERNING AUTHORITY THAT HE OR SHE IS.

(E) BASED ON THIS BIBLE PASSAGE, THE ONLY THING YOU OWE ANYONE IN THIS LIFE/WORLD IS TO LOVE EACH OTHER BECAUSE LOVE FULFILS THE LAW. LOVE FOR GOD AND PEOPLE. GOD IS LOVE. 

According to Romans 13: 1-14

'LET EVERY PERSON BE SUBJECT TO THE GOVERNING AUTHORITIES. FOR THERE IS NO AUTHORITY EXCEPT FROM GOD, THOSE THAT EXIST HAVE BEEN INSTITUTED BY GOD. THEREFORE WHOEVER RESISTS THE AUTHORITIES RESISTS WHAT GOD HAS APPOINTED, AND THOSE WHO RESIST WILL INCUR JUDGEMENT. FOR RULERS ARE NOT A TERROR TO GOOD CONDUCT, BUT TO BAD. WOULD YOU HAVE NO FEAR OF THE ONE WHO IS IN AUTHORITY? THEN DO WHAT IS GOOD, AND YOU WILL RECEIVE HIS APPROVAL, FOR HE IS GOD'S SERVANT FOR YOUR GOOD. BUT IF YOU DO WRONG, BE AFRAID, FOR HE DOES NOT BEAR THE SWORD IN VAIN. FOR HE IS THE SERVANT OF GOD, AN AVENGER WHO CARRIES OUT GOD'S WRATH ON THE WRONG-DOER. THEREFORE ONE MUST BE IN SUBJECTION, NOT ONLY TO AVOID GOD'S WRATH BUT ALSO FOR THE SAKE OF CONSCIENCE. FOR BECAUSE OF THIS YOU ALSO PAY TAXES, FOR THE AUTHORITIES ARE MINISTERS OF GOD, ATTENDING TO THIS VERY THING. PAY TO ALL WHAT IS OWED TO THEM: TAXES TO WHOM TAXES ARE OWED, REVENUE TO WHOM REVENUE IS OWED, RESPECT TO WHOM RESPECT IS OWED, HONOR TO WHOM HONOR IS OWED. OWE NO ONE ANYTHING, EXCEPT TO LOVE EACH OTHER, FOR THE ONE WHO LOVES ANOTHER HAS FULFILLED THE LAW. FOR THE COMMANDMENTS, "YOU SHALL NOT COMMIT ADULTERY, YOU SHALL NOT MURDER, YOU SHALL NOT STEAL, YOU SHALL NOT COVET," AND ANY OTHER COMMANDMENT, ARE SUMMED UP IN THIS WORD: "YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF." LOVE DOES NO WRONG TO A NEIGHBOR; THEREFORE LOVE IS THE FULFILLING OF THE LAW. BESIDES THIS YOU KNOW THE TIME, THAT THE HOUR HAS COME FOR YOU TO WAKE FROM SLEEP. FOR SALVATION IS NEARER TO US NOW THAN WHEN WE FIRST BELIEVED. THE NIGHT IS FAR GONE; THE DAY IS AT HAND. SO THEN LET US CAST OFF THE WORKS OF DARKNESS AND PUT ON THE ARMOR OF LIGHT. LET US WALK PROPERLY AS IN THE DAYTIME, NOT IN ORGIES AND DRUNKENNESS, NOT IN SEXUAL IMMORALITY AND SENSUALITY, NOT IN QUARRELING AND JEALOUSY. BUT PUT ON THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, AND MAKE NO PROVISION FOR THE FLESH, TO GRATIFY ITS DESIRES.'

(6) God will shock your enemies because He will use the evil they do or have done to you to accomplish the greatness He has already planned for you. In this story here below, the chief priests thought they were ending Jesus Christ's Life and existence here on earth but they failed even in His death on the Cross of Calvary because He resurrected with His whole body three days after His death and His reign over everyone will have no end. Jesus Christ (God, the Son) even ate and digested this same type of food we eat here on earth with his disciples even after His death and resurrection. God is good!!!

NOTE THAT: 

(A) BASED ON THIS BIBLE PASSAGE BELOW, DO NOT BE SLOW TO BELIEVE THE PROPHESIES OF TRUE PROPHETS/PROPHETESSES OF GOD BECAUSE OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST SEES SUCH PEOPLE AS FOOLISH PEOPLE/ONES.

(B) BY THE WAY, I BELIEVE THAT SINCE THE MOST FREQUENT MEAL JESUS CHRIST WAS SAID TO HAVE EATEN IN THE HOLY BIBLE BEFORE AND AFTER HIS HOLY DEATH ON THE CROSS OF CALVARY  IS BREAD AND FISH SO THAT MUST BE HIS FAVORITE MEAL. EVERYTHING ABOUT MY LORD JESUS CHRIST IS HOLY AND SACRED.

(C) BASED ON THIS BIBLE PASSAGE BELOW, JESUS CHRIST GREETED PEOPLE BY SAYING "PEACE TO YOU" AND, THUS, ALSO TAUGHT HIS DISCIPLES TO DO SO TOO. SO IT IS NOT WRONG IF EVERYONE LEARNS TO SAY "PEACE BE UNTO YOU" ONCE IN AWHILE OR EVERYTIME TO EACH OTHER. AS TRUE AND GOOD CHRISTIANS LET US ALL TRY TO INCULCATE THE HABIT OF GREETING EACH OTHER BY SAYING "PEACE BE UNTO YOU" AS JESUS CHRIST HAS TAUGHT US TO DO IN THE HOLY BIBLE SO THAT PEACE SHALL TRULY REIGN IN THE LIVES OF THOSE WHO ACCEPT US AND THE WORD OF GOD WE CARRY AND ALSO SPREAD AROUND THE WORLD. PEACE BE UNTO YOU!!!

(D) BASED ON THIS BIBLE PASSAGE, "THE ELEVEN" MEANS THE TWELVE APOSTLES EXCEPT JUDAS ISCARIOT WHO HAD ALREADY DIED BY THEN (JUDAS ISCARIOT COMMITTED SUICIDE BY HANGING BEFORE OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST WHOM HE BETRAYED WAS CONDEMNED AND CRUCIFIED)

(E) BASED ON THIS BIBLE PASSAGE, GOD IS CLOTHED IN MAJESTY TO FORGIVE REPENTED SINNERS AND HE ALSO PROMISES TO CLOTH ALL FOLLOWERS/DISCIPLES OF JESUS CHRIST (CALLED THE TRUE/REAL CHRISTIANS) WITH THE POWER ON HIGH (THAT IS, THE HOLY SPIRIT JUST LIKE THE DAY OF PENTECOST).

(F) AS FOR ALL THOSE RESEARCHERS OR WHATEVER PROFESSION YOU MIGHT BELONG TO THAT ARE STILL LOOKING FOR THE PHYSICAL BODY, BONES AND/OR ANY OTHER REMAINS OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST (GOD, THE SON), JUST KNOW THAT YOU HAVE FAILED WOEFULLY SINCE YESTERDAY, YOU ARE FAILING TODAY AND YOU SHALL STILL FAIL PERTAINING THIS TOMORROW AND FOREVER MORE BECAUSE, BASED ON THIS HOLY BIBLE PASSAGE BELOW, JESUS CHRIST ROSE FROM THE DEAD WITH HIS BODY AND BONES AND ANY OTHER BODY PART YOU CAN THINK OF. AND HE WAS CARRIED INTO HEAVEN WITH HIS BODY AND BONES AND ALL THE BODY PARTS. EVEN IF YOU ARE MAGICIANS, JUST STOP DISBELIEVING! THE DEAD BODY THAT MARY MAGDALENE AND THE OTHER WOMEN DID NOT SEE THERE IN HIS TOMB/GRAVE AFTER THREE DAYS BACK THEN, THE DEAD BODY THAT SIMON PETER AND THE OTHER APOSTLES/DISCIPLES DID NOT SEE IN HIS TOMB/GRAVE JUST AFTER THREE DAYS AFTER HIS BURIAL BECAUSE HE ROSE FROM THE DEAD WITH ALL HIS BODY PARTS IS WHAT YOU PEOPLE ARE NOW LOOKING FOR AFTER HOW MANY DECADES AND CENTURIES!!!! I AM SORRY FOR YOU! BELIEVE NOW OR YOU SHALL REMAIN UNFRUITFUL IN YOUR WILD GOOSE CHASE! TO GOOD CHRISTIANS/BELIEVERS, PEACE BE UNTO YOU!

(G) IN THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD, THERE IS FULLNESS OF JOY AND BLESSINGS.

According to Luke 24: 13-53

'THAT VERY DAY TWO OF THEM WERE GOING TO A VILLAGE NAMED EMMAUS, ABOUT SEVEN MILES FROM JERUSALEM, AND THEY WERE TALKING WITH EACH OTHER ABOUT ALL THESE THINGS THAT HAD HAPPENED. WHILE THEY WERE TALKING AND DISCUSSING TOGETHER, JESUS HIMSELF DREW NEAR AND WENT WITH THEM. BUT THEIR EYES WERE KEPT FROM RECOGNIZING HIM. AND HE SAID TO THEM, "WHAT IS THIS CONVERSATION THAT YOU ARE HOLDING WITH EACH OTHER AS YOU WALK?" AND THEY STOOD STILL, LOOKING SAD. THEN ONE OF THEM, NAMED CLEOPAS, ANSWERED HIM, "ARE YOU THE ONLY VISITOR TO JERUSALEM WHO DOES NOT KNOW THE THINGS THAT HAVE HAPPENED THERE IN THESE DAYS?" AND HE SAID TO THEM, "WHAT THINGS?" AND THEY SAID TO HIM, "CONCERNING JESUS OF NAZARETH, A MAN WHO WAS A PROPHET MIGHTY IN DEED AND WORD BEFORE GOD AND ALL THE PEOPLE, AND HOW OUR CHIEF PRIESTS AND RULERS DELIVERED HIM UP TO BE CONDEMNED TO DEATH, AND CRUCIFIED HIM. BUT WE HAD HOPED THAT HE WAS THE ONE TO REDEEM ISRAEL. YES, AND BESIDES ALL THIS, IT IS NOW THE THIRD DAY SINCE THESE THINGS HAPPENED. MOREOVER, SOME WOMEN OF OUR COMPANY AMAZED US. THEY WERE AT THE TOMB EARLY IN THE MORNING, AND WHEN THEY DID NOT FIND HIS BODY, THEY CAME BACK SAYING THAT THEY HAD EVEN SEEN A VISION OF ANGELS, WHO SAID THAT HE WAS ALIVE. "SOME OF THOSE WHO WERE WITH US WENT TO THE TOMB AND FOUND IT JUST AS THE WOMEN HAD SAID, BUT HIM THEY DID NOT SEE." AND HE SAID TO THEM, "O FOOLISH ONES, AND SLOW OF HEART TO BELIEVE ALL THAT THE PROPHETS HAVE SPOKEN! WAS IT NOT NECESSARY THAT THE CHRIST SHOULD SUFFER THESE THINGS AND ENTER INTO HIS GLORY?" AND BEGINNING WITH MOSES AND ALL THE PROPHETS, HE INTERPRETED TO THEM IN ALL THE SCRIPTURES THE THINGS CONCERNING HIMSELF. SO THEY DREW NEAR TO THE VILLAGE TO WHICH THEY WERE GOING. HE ACTED AS IF HE WERE GOING FARTHER, BUT THEY URGED HIM STRONGLY , SAYING, "STAY WITH US, FOR IT IS TOWARD EVENING AND THE DAY IS NOW FAR SPENT." SO HE WENT IN TO STAY WITH THEM. WHEN HE WAS AT TABLE WITH THEM, HE TOOK THE BREAD AND BLESSED AND BROKE IT AND GAVE IT TO THEM. AND THEIR EYES WERE OPENED, AND THEY RECOGNIZED HIM. AND HE VANISHED FROM THEIR SIGHT. THEY SAID TO EACH OTHER, "DID NOT OUR HEARTS BURN WITHIN US WHILE HE TALKED TO US ON THE ROAD, WHILE HE OPENED TO US THE SCRIPTURES?" AND THEY ROSE THAT SAME HOUR AND RETURNED TO JERUSALEM. AND THEY FOUND THE ELEVEN AND THOSE WHO WERE WITH THEM GATHERED TOGETHER, SAYING, "THE LORD HAS RISEN INDEED, AND HAS APPEARED TO SIMON!" THEN THEY TOLD WHAT HAD HAPPENED ON THE ROAD, AND HOW HE WAS KNOWN TO THEM IN THE BREAKING OF THE BREAD. AS THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT THESE THINGS, JESUS HIMSELF STOOD AMONG THEM, AND SAID TO THEM, "PEACE TO YOU!" BUT THEY WERE STARTLED AND FRIGHTENED AND THOUGHT THEY SAW A SPIRIT. AND HE SAID TO THEM, "WHY ARE YOU TROUBLED, AND WHY DO DOUBTS ARISE IN YOUR HEARTS? SEE MY HANDS AND MY FEET, THAT IT IS I MYSELF. TOUCH ME, AND SEE. FOR A SPIRIT DOES NOT HAVE FLESH AND BONES AS YOU SEE THAT I HAVE." AND WHEN HE HAD SAID THIS, HE SHOWED THEM HIS HANDS AND HIS FEET. AND WHILE THEY STILL DISBELIEVED FOR JOY AND WERE MARVELING, HE SAID TO THEM, "HAVE YOU ANYTHING HERE TO EAT?" THEY GAVE HIM A PIECE OF BROILED FISH, AND HE TOOK IT AND ATE BEFORE THEM. THEN HE SAID TO THEM, "THESE ARE MY WORDS THAT I SPOKE TO YOU WHILE I WAS STILL WITH YOU, THAT EVERYTHING WRITTEN ABOUT ME  IN THE LAW OF MOSES AND THE PROPHETS AND THE PSALMS MUST BE FULFILLED." THEN HE OPENED THEIR MINDS TO UNDERSTAND THE SCRIPTURES. AND SAID TO THEM, "THUS IT IS WRITTEN, THAT THE CHRIST SHOULD SUFFER AND ON THE THIRD DAY RISE FROM THE DEAD, AND THAT REPENTANCE AND FORGIVENESS OF SINS SHOULD BE PROCLAIMED IN HIS NAME TO ALL NATIONS, BEGINNING FROM JERUSALEM. "YOU ARE WITNESSES OF THESE THINGS. AND BEHOLD, I AM SENDING THE PROMISE OF MY FATHER UPON YOU. BUT STAY IN THE CITY UNTIL YOU ARE CLOTHED WITH THE POWER FROM ON HIGH."  THEN HE LED THEM OUT AS FAR AS BETHANY, AND LIFTING UP HIS HANDS HE BLESSED THEM. WHILE HE BLESSED THEM, HE PARTED FROM THEM AND WAS CARRIED UP INTO HEAVEN. AND THEY WORSHIPPED HIM AND RETURNED TO JERUSALEM WITH GREAT JOY, AND WERE CONTINUALLY IN THE TEMPLE BLESSING GOD.'

May Jesus Christ (God, the Son) lift up His wonderful hands to bless us (His children) in His Name. Amen!!!! 

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"THE GRACE OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, THE LOVE OF GOD AND THE SWEET FELLOWSHIP OF THE HOLY SPIRIT ABIDE WITH US NOW AND FOREVER MORE! AMEN!!!

PRAISE THE LORD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Invite Jesus Christ to come, stay and eat with you even as He has died and risen from the dead with His body as He lives forever and evermore now: Read and what's your view

Invite Jesus Christ to come, stay and eat with you even as He has died and risen from the dead with His body as He lives forever and evermore now: Read and what's your view

(1) What pleases God the most is undying true love because God is undying true love. You can also add honesty, being just and in humble fellowship/presence with our God Almighty. There is no real enjoyment outside God Almighty because He promises ruin, unsatisfaction and destruction to those who believe they can achieve anything without Him (God Almighty). The Holy Bible asks us to to make sure to obey high authority but not evil High authorities like King Omri, King Ahab and so on and so forth. The Holy Bible asks us not to follow or do what such evil high authorities does because there is great and immense punishments for all who follow the instructions of evil authorities and/or copy them. The policies of such evil high authorities are trash only. God is still good.

According to Micah 6: 6-16

'WHAT SHALL I BRING TO THE LORD, THE GOD OF HEAVEN, WHEN I COME TO WORSHIP HIM? SHALL I BRING THE BEST CALVES TO BURN AS OFFERINGS TO HIM? WILL THE LORD BE PLEASED IF I BRING HIM THOUSANDS OF SHEEP OR ENDLESS STREAMS OF OLIVE OIL? SHALL I OFFER HIM MY FIRSTBORN CHILD TO PAY FOR MY SINS? NO, THE LORD HAS TOLD US WHAT IS GOOD. WHAT HE REQUIRES OF US IS THIS: TO DO WHAT IS JUST, TO SHOW CONSTANT LOVE, AND TO LIVE IN HUMBLE FELLOWSHIP WITH OUR GOD. IT IS WISE TO FEAR THE LORD. HE CALLS TO THE CITY, "LISTEN, YOU PEOPLE WHO ASSEMBLE IN THE CITY. IN THE HOUSES OF EVIL PEOPLE ARE TREASURES WHICH THEY GOT DISHONESTLY. THEY USE FALSE MEASURES, A THING THAT I HATE. HOW CAN I FORGIVE THOSE WHO USE FALSE SCALES AND WEIGHT? YOUR RICH PEOPLE EXPLOIT THE POOR, AND ALL OF YOU ARE LIARS. SO I HAVE ALREADY BEGUN YOUR RUIN AND DESTRUCTION BECAUSE OF YOUR SINS. YOU WILL EAT, BUT NOT BE SATISFIED - IN FACT YOU WILL STILL BE HUNGRY. YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO SAVE THEM; ANYTHING YOU DO SAVE I WILL DESTROY IN WAR. YOU WILL SOW CORN, BUT NOT HARVEST THE CROP. YOU WILL PRESS OIL FROM OLIVES, BUT NEVER BE ABLE TO USE IT. YOU WILL MAKE WINE, BUT NEVER DRINK IT. THIS WILL HAPPEN BECAUSE YOU HAVE FOLLOWED THE EVIL PRACTICES OF KING OMRI AND OF HIS SON, KING AHAB. YOU HAVE CONTINUED THEIR POLICIES, AND SO I WILL BRING YOU TO RUIN, AND EVERYONE WILL DESPISE YOU. PEOPLE EVERYWHERE WILL TREAT YOU WITH CONTEMPT.'

(2) Jesus Christ can come to you and minister/talk to you even while you are eating on your dining table or elsewhere as long as you are called and/or chosen by Him. For His disciples had not yet believed those that told them that they had seen Jesus Christ after His death so he had to appear to them while they were eating to scold and correct them, thus sending them into the world to spread the Word of God about His Life and Resurrection also.

NOTE THAT: 

(A) "ELEVEN DISCIPLES" HERE MEAN THE TWELVE DISCIPLES/APOSTLES EXCLUDING JUDAS ISCARIOT WHO DIED NOT LONG BEFORE JESUS CHRIST'S DEATH BY COMMITTING SUICIDE BY HANGING. JUDAS ISCARIOT WAS THE ONES THAT BETRAYED JESUS CHRIST TO HIS EVENTUAL KILLERS AND MURDERERS.

(B) ALL THE MAIN PROMISES OF JESUS CHRIST TO ALL WHO BELIEVES (THAT IS, EVERY ONE WHO BELIEVES ALSO CALLED BELIEVERS) IN THE HOLY GOSPEL ABOUT HIS LIFE , INSTRUCTIONS AND RESURRECTION IS IN THE FACT THAT THEY WILL ALL BE ABLE TO PERFORM MIRACLES. FOR EXAMPLE:

(I) THEY WILL DRIVE OUT DEMONS USING JESUS CHRIST'S NAME.

(II) THEY WILL SPEAK IN STRANGE TONGUES.

(III) IF THEY PICK UP SNAKES OR DRINK ANY POISON, THEY WILL NOT BE HARMED.

(IV) THEY WILL PLACE THEIR HANDS ON SICK PEOPLE, WHO WILL GET WELL.

According to Mark 16: 14-18

'LAST OF ALL, JESUS APPEARED TO THE ELEVEN DISCIPLES AS THEY WERE EATING. HE SCOLDED THEM, BECAUSE THEY DID NOT HAVE FAITH AND BECAUSE THEY WERE TOO STUBBORN TO BELIEVE THOSE WHO HAD SEEN HIM ALIVE. HE SAID TO THEM, "GO THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE WORLD AND PREACH THE GOSPEL TO THE HUMAN RACE. WHOEVER BELIEVES AND IS BAPTIZED WILL BE SAVED; WHOEVER DOES NOT BELIEVE WILL BE CONDEMNED. BELIEVERS WILL BE GIVEN THE POWER TO PERFORM MIRACLES: THEY WILL DRIVE OUT DEMONS IN MY NAME; THEY WILL SPEAK IN STRANGE TONGUES; IF THEY PICK UP SNAKES OR DRINK ANY POISON, THEY WILL NOT BE HARMED; THEY WILL PLACE THEIR HANDS ON SICK PEOPLE, WHO WILL GET WELL."

(3) While celebrating, eating and drinking make sure to invite Jesus Christ and those who are followers of Christ Jesus and He will honour your invitation to your own advantage because all that seems impossible to achieve will become possible. This can also be interpreted to mean that when things are still good, rosy and wonderful for you just make sure that you are invite Jesus Christ into your life to receive the glory He deserves in your life so that when things wants to turn bad for you and your people, Mary His Mother and/or His Holy angels can interceed for you and He will take actions that will favour you. 

Note that: Before this wedding, Jesus Christ had not performed any well known miracles, so the couple did not know whom they invited fully but Virgin Mary knew her son, so she asked for the miracle instead even if the wedded couple did not know about capability of Jesus Christ. The request was made to Jesus Christ without their knowledge all they need do was invite Jesus Christ so He was present there already. The total of about 600litres of 6 empty jars were available there for something else and the servants of the couple were around and Jesus Christ used them to bless the couple by asking them to fill the six empty jars with water which means that God can use the lowest of peoples that work for you to help you and dry your upcoming tears or stop an impending doom in your life as long as they follow Jesus Christ's instructions. Jesus Christ's blessings and miracles in your life is better than what mere humans can do for you and honest people will confirm it that you have received an uncommon/unusual miracle even if the blessings of Jesus Christ gets to you or touches your life through your lowest servants or your highest workers. Learn to give all Glory to Him! Praise God!

According to John 2: 1-12

TWO DAYS LATER THERE WAS A WEDDING IN THE TOWN OF CANA IN GALILEE. JESUS' MOTHER WAS THERE, AND JESUS AND HIS DISCIPLES HAD ALSO  BEEN INVITED TO THE WEDDING. WHEN THE WINE HAD GIVEN OUT, JESUS' MOTHER SAID TO HIM, "THEY HAVE NO WINE LEFT." "YOU MUST NOT TELL ME WHAT TO DO," JESUS REPLIED. "MY TIME HAS NOT YET COME." JESUS' MOTHER THEN TOLD THE SERVANTS, "DO WHATEVER HE TELLS YOU." THE JEWS HAVE RULES ABOUT RITUAL WASHING, AND FOR THIS PURPOSE SIX STONE  WATER JARS WERE THERE, EACH ONE LARGE ENOUGH TO HOLD ABOUT A HUNDRED LITRES. JESUS SAID TO THE SERVANTS, "FILL THESE JARS WITH WATER," THEY FILLED THEM TO THE BRIM, AND THEN HE TOLD THEM, "NOW DRAW SOME WATER OUT AND TAKE IT TO THE MAN IN CHARGE OF THE FEAST." THEY TOOK HIM THE WATER, WHICH NOW HAD TURNED INTO WINE, AND HE TASTED IT. HE DID NOT KNOW WHERE THIS WINE HAD COME FROM (BUT, OF COURSE, THE SERVANTS WHO HAD DRAWN OUT THE WATER KNEW); SO HE CALLED THE BRIDEGROOM AND SAID TO HIM, "EVERYONE ELSE SERVES THE BEST WINE FIRST, AND AFTER THE GUESTS HAVE HAD PLENTY TO DRINK, HE SERVES THE ORDINARY WINE. BUT YOU HAVE KEPT THE BEST WINE UNTIL NOW!" JESUS PERFORMED THIS FIRST MIRACLE IN CANA IN GALILEE; THERE HE REVEALED HIS GLORY, AND HIS DISCIPLES BELIEVED IN HIM. AFTER THIS, JESUS AND HIS MOTHER, BROTHERS, AND DISCIPLES WENT TO CAPERNAUM AND STAYED THERE A FEW DAYS.

(4) Jesus Christ had to rise from the dead and ascend into Heaven for the Holy Spirit to come upon all His followers/disciples. Do you remember Jesus Christ side was pierced by one of the soldiers to confirm and make sure that he was really dead on the Cross of Calvary?

NOTE THAT: THESE "BROTHERS" REFERRED TO HERE ARE CERTAINLY NOT ONE OF HIS DISCIPLES BUT THEY WERE CLOSE ENOUGH TO HIM FOR THEM TO BE REFERRED TO AS "HIS BROTHERS." FOR THESE BROTHERS OF HIS SAID TO HIM, "LEAVE THIS PLACE AND GO TO JUDEA, SO THAT YOUR FOLLOWERS WILL SEE THE THINGS THAT YOU ARE DOING." MOREOVER THE HOLY BIBLE SAYS, "NOT EVEN HIS BROTHERS BELIEVED IN HIM, AND AS FAR AS WE KNOW." THERE ARE SEVERAL PLACES WE WERE TOLD THAT HIS APOSTLES BELIEVED IN HIM AND HIS MIRACLES. SO IF THESE BROTHERS WERE NOT HIS FOLLOWERS AND THEY WERE NOT YET BELIEVERS NOT TO TALK OF BEING THE TWELVE APOSTLES BACK THEN. HOW WERE THESE BROTHERS RELATED TO HIM BECAUSE IF THEY WERE HIS REAL BLOOD BROTHERS, ONE OR MORE OF HIS THESE SUPPOSED BLOOD BROTHERS SHOULD HAVE BEEN THERE ALL THROUGH HIS TRIALS WITH THE PHARISEES, PILATE ETC, DURING HIS CONDEMNATION BY HIS SWORN ENEMIES, CRUCIFIXION ON THE CROSS OF CALVARY AND/OR EVEN AFTER HIS DEATH, IT WAS ONLY VIRGIN MARY FROM HIS BLOOD FAMILY THAT WAS NOTED IN THE HOLY BIBLE TO THE EXTENT THAT HE HAD TO GIVE HIS MOTHER ANOTHER SON, BY ASKING THEM TO TAKE EACH OTHER AS MOTHER AND SON. IT TOOK ONLY JOSEPH OF ARIMATHEA AND NICODEMUS TO BURY OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. IF THESE BROTHERS WERE BLOOD BROTHERS, THEY WOULD HAVE SHOWN THEIR FACE SOMEHOW AT LEAST AFTER HIS DEATH. WITH ALL THIS, FOR ME I CAN SAY THAT JESUS CHRIST HAD NO REAL LIFE BLOOD BROTHERS FROM EITHER HIS MOTHER MARY AND/OR HIS FOSTER/ADOPTED FATHER JOSEPH, THE CARPENTER? UNLESS YOU TELL ME HIS BLOOD BROTHERS WERE GHOSTS THAT NO ONE SAW EVEN WHEN PEOPLE SAW ALL THE RIGHTEOUS PEOPLE THAT JESUS CHRIST RESURRECTED FROM THE DEAD IMMEDIATELY AFTER HE DIED. THEREFORE, ONE CAN SAY THAT JESUS CHRIST HAD NO REAL BLOOD BROTHERS.

According to John 7: 1-15

'AFTER THIS, JESUS TRAVELLED IN GALILEE; HE DID NOT WANT TO TRAVEL IN JUDEA, BECAUSE THE JEWISH AUTHORITIES THERE WERE WANTING TO KILL HIM. THE TIME FOR THE FESTIVAL OF SHELTERS WAS NEAR, SO JESUS' BROTHERS SAID TO HIM, "LEAVE THIS PLACE AND GO TO JUDEA, SO THAT YOUR FOLLOWERS WILL SEE THE THINGS THAT YOU ARE DOING. NO ONE HIDES WHAT HE IS DOING IF HE WANTS TO BE WELL KNOWN. SINCE YOU ARE DOING THESE THINGS, LET THE WHOLE WORLD KNOW ABOUT YOU!" (NOT EVEN HIS BROTHERS BELIEVED IN HIM.) JESUS SAID TO THEM, "THE RIGHT TIME FOR ME HAS NOT YET COME. ANY TIME IS RIGHT FOR YOU. THE WORLD CANNOT HATE YOU, BUT IT HATES ME, BECAUSE I KEEP TELLING IT THAT ITS WAYS ARE BAD. YOU GO ON TO THE FESTIVAL, BECAUSE THE RIGHT TIME HAS NOT COME FOR ME." HE SAID THIS, AND THEN STAYED ON IN GALILEE. AFTER HIS BROTHERS HAD GONE TO THE FESTIVAL, JESUS ALSO WENT; HOWEVER, HE DID NOT GO OPENLY, BUT SECRETLY. THE JEWISH AUTHORITIES WERE LOOKING FOR HIM AT THE FESTIVAL. "WHERE IS HE?" THEY ASKED. THERE WAS MUCH WHISPERING ABOUT HIM IN THE CROWD. "HE IS A GOOD MAN," SOME PEOPLE SAID. "NO," OTHERS SAID, "HE IS MISLEADING THE PEOPLE." BUT NO ONE TALKED ABOUT HIM OPENLY, BECAUSE THEY WERE AFRAID OF THE JEWISH AUTHORITIES. THE FESTIVAL WAS NEARLY HALF OVER WHEN JESUS WENT TO THE TEMPLE AND BEGAN TEACHING. THE JEWISH AUTHORITIES WERE GREATLY SURPRISED AND SAID, "HOW DOES THIS MAN KNOW SO MUCH WHEN HE HAS NEVER HAD ANY TRAINING?"

According to John 7:37-39

ON THE LAST AND MOST IMPORTANT DAY OF THE FESTIVAL JESUS STOOD UP AND SAID IN A LOUD VOICE, "WHOEVER IS THIRSTY SHOULD COME TO ME, AND WHOEVER BELIEVES IN ME SHOULD DRINK. AS THE SCRIPTURE SAYS, 'STREAMS OF LIFE-GIVING WATER WILL POUR OUT FROM HIS SIDE.' "JESUS SAID THIS ABOUT THE SPIRIT, WHICH THOSE WHO BELIEVED IN HIM WERE GOING TO RECEIVE. AT THAT TIME THE SPIRIT HAD NOT YET BEEN GIVEN, BECAUSE JESUS HAD NOT BEEN RAISED TO GLORY.

According to John 19: 31-37

THEN THE JEWISH AUTHORITIES ASKED PILATE TO ALLOW THEM TO BREAK THE LEGS OF THE MEN WHO HAD BEEN CRUCIFIED, AND TO TAKE THE BODIES DOWN FROM THE CROSSES. THEY REQUESTED THIS BECAUSE IT WAS FRIDAY, AND THEY DID NOT WANT THE BODIES TO STAY ON THE CROSSES ON THE SABBATH, SINCE THE COMING SABBATH WAS ESPECIALLY HOLY. SO THE SOLDIERS WENT AND BROKE THE LEGS OF THE FIRST MAN AND THEN OF THE OTHER MAN WHO HAD BEEN CRUCIFIED WITH JESUS. BUT WHEN THEY CAME TO JESUS, THEY SAW THAT HE WAS ALREADY DEAD, SO THEY DID NOT BREAK HIS LEGS. ONE OF THE SOLDIERS, HOWEVER, PLUNGED HIS SPEAR INTO JESUS' SIDE, AND AT ONCE BLOOD AND WATER POURED OUT. (THE ONE WHO SAW THIS HAPPEN HAS SPOKEN OF IT, SO THAT YOU ALSO MAY BELIEVE. WHAT HE SAID IS TRUE, AND HE KNOWS THAT HE SPEAKS THE TRUTH.) THIS WAS DONE TO MAKE THE SCRIPTURE COME TRUE. "NOT ONE OF HIS BONES WILL BE BROKEN." AND THERE IS ANOTHER SCRIPTURE THAT SAYS, "PEOPLE WILL LOOK AT HIM WHOM THEY PIERCED."

(5) Jesus Christ is ready and interested in us (His children and followers) having daily bread even before we ask. He is there already because we are already His disciples/followers and has learnt from Him over time. He is there even in the difficult/bad business times of His followers while they are looking for food to eat or trying to earn a living. Whether you recognize His presence and voice or not, just follow His instructions when He calls out to you even if you are yet to ask Him and with time the harvest will be incredible all in the humility of obedience because His disciples did not recognize Him until they obeyed His simple instructions and deeped the fish net where He asked them to. Jesus Christ is calling us to come and eat even if we tend to always feel that all we have including the food we eat and money we have belongs to us. Just always remember that Jesus Christ provided all you have and allowed you to have all that you have. All Glory belongs to God on High (God in Heaven). Remember God also says, "ASK AND YOU SHALL RECEIVE, SEEK AND YOU SHALL FIND, KNOCK AND THE DOOR SHALL BE OPENED UNTO YOU."

NOTE THAT: 

(A) THE PASSOVER JESUS CHRIST (GOD, THE SON) ASKED US TO DO IN MEMORY OF HIM BEFORE HIS ARREST, SENTENCE AND DEATH ON THE HOLY CROSS OF CALVARY (WHICH IS NOW CALLED HOLY COMMUNION) WAS IN FORM OF BREAD AND WINE. AFTER HIS RESURRECTION FROM THE DEAD, HE SHARED MEAL/FOOD WITH HIS DISCIPLES AGAIN BUT NOW IN FORM OF BREAD AND FISH.

(B) WHO WERE THE MAIN DISCIPLES WITH OUR RISEN LORD JESUS CHRIST DURING THE RESURRECTION BREAKING OF BREAD AND FISH? THEY WERE SEVEN IN NUMBER (JESUS CHRIST MADE THEM EIGHT IN TOTAL), NAMELY:

(I) SIMON PETER,

(II) THOMAS (CALLED THE TWIN),

(III) NATHANAEL (THE ONE FROM CANA IN GALILEE),

(IV) JAMES (THE SON OF ZEBEDEE),

(V) JOHN (THE SON OF ZEBEDEE),

(VI) TWO OTHER DISCIPLES OF JESUS CHRIST.

(C) DID YOU NOTICE THAT ALL OF THE DISCIPLES DID NOT RECOGNIZE JESUS CHRIST WHEN HE WAS AT THE EDGE OF THE SAME BOAT JUST LIKE MARY MAGDALENE DID NOT RECOGNIZE JESUS CHRIST AT FIRST AT THE GARDEN WHERE JESUS CHRIST WAS BURIED AND SHE MISTOOK HIM TO BE THE GARDENER?

(D) DID YOU NOTICE THAT IT TOOK THE DISCIPLE THAT JESUS LOVED TO RECOGNIZE HIM IN THE BOTH AS OUR LORD AND MASTER JESUS CHRIST AFTER HE SPOKE JUST LIKE MARY MAGDALENE WHO RECOGNIZED HIM IN THE GARDEN WHERE HIS DEAD BODY WAS BURIED AS OUR LORD AND MASTER JESUS CHRIST. 

(E) SIMON PETER AND THE OTHERS ON THE BOTH DID NOT RECOGNIZE JESUS CHRIST AT ALL, THEY ONLY BELIEVED WHAT THE DISCIPLE JESUS CHRIST LOVED SAID AS HE WAS THE ONE THAT TOLD THEM THAT THE PERSON GIVING THEM DIRECTIVES WAS OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. 

(F) EVEN IF SIMON PETER DID NOT KNOW OR RECOGNIZE JESUS CHRIST AT THAT POINT IN TIME, HE AND THE OTHER DISCIPLES OBEYED BLINDLY AND IT WORKED OUT WELL FOR THEM. SIMON PETER DIDN'T ASK QUESTIONS LIKE: 

(I) "WHO ARE YOU TO TEACH ME MY JOB?";

(II) "DO YOU KNOW HOW LONG I HAVE BEEN A FISHERMAN?";

(III) "DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?" and so on and so forth. They simply obeyed and deeped the net into the water to catch fish as instructed.

According to John 21: 1-14

AFTER THIS, JESUS APPEARED ONCE MORE TO HIS DISCIPLES AT LAKE TIBERIAS. THIS IS HOW IT HAPPENED. SIMON PETER, THOMAS (CALLED THE TWIN), NATHANAEL (THE ONE FROM CANA IN GALILEE), THE SONS OF ZEBEDEE, AND TWO OTHER DISCIPLES OF JESUS WERE ALL TOGETHER. SIMON PETER SAID TO THE OTHERS, "I AM GOING FISHING." "WE WILL COME WITH YOU," THEY TOLD HIM. SO THEY WENT OUT IN A BOAT, BUT ALL THAT NIGHT THEY DID NOT CATCH A THING. AS THE SUN WAS RISING, JESUS STOOD AT THE WATER'S EDGE, BUT THE DISCIPLES DID NOT KNOW THAT IT WAS JESUS. THEN HE ASKED THEM, "YOUNG MEN, HAVEN'T YOU CAUGHT ANYTHING?" "NOT A THING," THEY ANSWERED. HE SAID TO THEM, "THROW YOUR NET OUT ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE BOAT, AND YOU WILL CATCH SOME." SO THEY THREW THE NET OUT AND COULD NOT PULL IT BACK IN, BECAUSE THEY HAD CAUGHT SO MANY FISH. THE DISCIPLE WHOM JESUS LOVED SAID TO PETER, "IT IS THE LORD!" WHEN PETER HEARD THAT IT WAS THE LORD, HE WRAPPED HIS OUTER GARMENT ROUND HIM (FOR HE HAD TAKEN HIS CLOTHES OFF) AND JUMPED INTO THE WATER. THE OTHER DISCIPLES CAME TO SHORE IN THE BOAT, PULLING THE NET FULL OF FISH. THEY WERE NOT VERY FAR FROM LAND, ABOUT A HUNDRED METRES AWAY. WHEN THEY STEPPED ASHORE, THEY SAW A CHARCOAL FIRE THERE WITH FISH ON IT AND SOME BREAD. THEN JESUS SAID TO THEM, "BRING SOME OF THE FISH YOU HAVE JUST CAUGHT." SIMON PETER WENT ABROAD AND DRAGGED THE NET ASHORE FULL OF BIG FISH, 153 IN ALL; EVEN THOUGH THERE WERE SO MANY, STILL THE NET DID NOT TEAR. JESUS SAID TO THEM, "COME AND EAT." NONE OF THE DISCIPLES DARED ASK HIM, "WHO ARE YOU?" BECAUSE THEY KNEW IT WAS THE LORD. SO, JESUS WENT OVER, TOOK THE BREAD, AND GAVE IT TO THEM; HE DID THE SAME WITH THE FISH. THIS, THEN, WAS THE THIRD TIME JESUS APPEARED TO THE DISCIPLES AFTER HE WAS RAISED FROM THE DEATH.

(6) If anyone is careful with his or her ways in life, that person will still die a shameful death of guilt and pain because such a person lived and ate/dined with JESUS CHRIST in this world, in pretense no matter how much you made out of such costly pretense and such wealth from hidden/evil transactions will have no real value to you. 

NOTE THIS: 

(A) Do you remember one of Jesus Christ's disciples/apostles called Judas Iscariot who was also His money manager? Yes, Judas Iscariot had a similar fate in life with all his evil deeds. Apparently, Judas Iscariot actually died by committing suicide by hanging himself even before Jesus Christ was condemned and crucified to His death.

(B) Those chief priests were bunch of hypocrites, claiming that the money was blood money and should not be in the temple treasury: 

(I) Who gave the blood money to Judas Iscariot to betray Jesus Christ (His Master)? The Chief Priests

(II) Who lied against the Jesus Christ? The chief priests and their allies.

(III) Who instigated the crowd against our Lord Jesus Christ? The chief priests and their allies.

(IV) Which human beings made sure that Jesus Christ was sent to His death by crucifixion on the cross and even seized His dead body till evening? The chief priests and their allies.

(V) Which close member of the church betrayed Jesus Christ? Judas Iscariot

(V) Which people are first of all guilty for these wrong doings? Judas Iscariot, The chief priests and their allies

According to Matthew 27: 3-14

'WHEN JUDAS, THE TRAITOR, LEARNT THAT JESUS HAD BEEN CONDEMNED, HE REPENTED AND TOOK BACK THE 30 SILVER COINS TO THE CHIEF PRIESTS AND THE ELDERS. "I HAVE SINNED BY BETRAYING AN INNOCENT MAN TO DEATH!" HE SAID "WHAT DO WE CARE ABOUT THAT?" THEY ANSWERED. "THAT IS YOUR BUSINESS!" JUDAS THREW THE COINS DOWN IN THE TEMPLE AND LEFT; THEN HE WENT OFF AND HANGED HIMSELF. THE CHIEF PRIESTS PICKED UP THE COINS AND SAID, "THIS IS BLOOD MONEY, AND IT IS AGAINST OUR LAW TO PUT IT IN THE TEMPLE TREASURY." AFTER REACHING AN AGREEMENT ABOUT IT, THEY USED THE MONEY TO BUY POTTER'S FIELD, AS A CEMETERY FOR FOREIGNERS. THAT IS WHY THAT FIELD IS CALLED "FIELD OF BLOOD" TO THIS VERY DAY. THEN WHAT THE PROPHET JEREMIAH HAD SAID CAME TRUE: "THEY TOOK THE THIRTY SILVER COINS, THE AMOUNT THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL HAD AGREED TO PAY FOR HIM, AND USED THE MONEY TO BUY THE POTTER'S FIELD, AS THE LORD HAD COMMANDED ME." JESUS STOOD BEFORE THE ROMAN GOVERNOR, WHO QUESTIONED HIM. "ARE YOU THE KINGS OF THE JEWS?" HE ASKED. "SO YOU SAY," ANSWERED JESUS. BUT HE SAID NOTHING IN RESPONSE TO THE ACCUSATIONS OF THE CHIEF PRIESTS AND ELDERS. SO PILATE SAID TO HIM, "DON'T YOU HEAR ALL THESE THINGS THEY ACCUSE YOU OF?" BUT JESUS REFUSED TO ANSWER A SINGLE WORD, WITH THE RESULT THAT THE GOVERNOR WAS GREATLY SURPRISED.

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The Two Joseph, the Dreamers in the Holy Bible (One in the New Testament and the other in the Old Testament): Read and what's your view

The Two Joseph, the Dreamers in the Holy Bible (One in the New Testament and the other in the Old Testament): Read and what's your view

There are  two main Joseph, the dreamers in the Holy Bible:

(1) Joseph, the Carpenter (who is also the earthly father of Jesus Christ and the husband of Virgin Mary).

(2) Joseph, the Son of Jacob (Jacob is also known as Israel in the Holy Bible).

(1) The New Testament Joseph, the Carpenter received instructions from Angels of God through night dreams and he obeyed them totally (Joseph was an obedient man of God).

(A) The first dream had to do with explanations on how Virgin Mary whom he had never slept with before she got pregnant even if they were engaged to each other. And he was told by the angel of God to marry Mary which he did immediately after he woke up. Thus, Joseph the carpenter became the Father of Jesus Christ by obeying the angel of God's instruction to go ahead and marry Virgin Mary and he will always be remembered and mentioned as long as Jesus Christ and Virgin Mary are remembered. This is forever. Thank God for the life well spent of the obedient Joseph, the Carpenter.

According to Matthew 1: 18-24

'THIS WAS HOW THE BIRTH OF JESUS CHRIST TOOK PLACE. HIS MOTHER MARY WAS ENGAGED TO JOSEPH, BUT BEFORE THEY WERE MARRIED, SHE FOUND OUT THAT SHE WAS GOING TO HAVE A BABY BY THE HOLY SPIRIT. 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 SINS." NOW ALL THIS HAPPENED IN ORDER TO MAKE WHAT THE LORD HAD 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.'

(B) The second dream had to do with an angel of God appearing to Joseph, the carpenter to warn him to quickly change his family's location because Jesus Christ's enemy, king Herod, had an active plan to kill his little baby Jesus Christ. He obeyed the angel of God without asking questions and eventually Jesus Christ grew up in this world and saved the world. Those he help to save includes the righteous that lived before him as they rose from the dead the very moment Jesus Christ died on the Cross of Calvary as an adult, then those that followed Him during Him life here on earth and those that accepted after His death and even those that accepts Him after now. This is forever. Thank God for the life well spent of the obedient Joseph, the Carpenter.

According to Matthew 2: 13-18

'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." WHEN HEROD REALIZED THAT THE VISITORS FROM THE EAST HAD TRICKED HIM, HE WAS FURIOUS. HE GAVE ORDERS TO KILL ALL THE BOYS IN BETHLEHEM AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD WHO WERE TWO YEARS OLD AND YOUNGER - THIS WAS DONE IN ACCORDANCE WITH WHAT HE HAD LEARNED FROM THE VISITORS ABOUT THE TIME WHEN THE STAR HAD APPEARED. IN THIS WAY WHAT THE PROPHET JEREMIAH HAD SAID CAME TRUE: "A SOUND IS HEARD IN RAMAH, THE SOUND OF BITTER WEEPING. RACHEL IS CRYING FOR HER CHILDREN; SHE REFUSES TO BE COMFORTED, FOR THEY ARE DEAD."

(2) Joseph, the Dreamer (Son of Jacob and Rachel) in the old testament of the Holy Bible.

(A) Joseph slept and had two glorious futuristic dream (that compliments each other in meaning) which he shared with his family members when he woke up from sleep and it brought unwavering hatred from his brothers. His father (Jacob, also known as Israel), who had always shown him love more than his other brothers, also became angry at him for having  wonderful dreams of great future in his sleep. Sometimes in life the very same close people you expect to be happy for you when you share your achievable high dreams are the same ones that might turn around to hate you for it because of envy or fear of you being above them in life.

According to Genesis 37:1-11

'JACOB CONTINUED TO LIVE IN THE LAND OF CANAAN, WHERE HIS FATHER HAD LIVED, AND THIS IS THE STORY OF JACOB'S FAMILY. JOSEPH, A YOUNG MAN OF SEVENTEEN, TOOK CARE OF THE SHEEP AND GOATS WITH HIS BROTHERS, THE SONS OF BILHAH AND ZILPAH, HIS FATHER'S CONCUBINES. HE BROUGHT BAD REPORTS TO HIS FATHER ABOUT WHAT HIS BROTHERS WERE DOING. JACOB LOVED JOSEPH MORE THAN ALL HIS OTHER SONS, BECAUSE HE HAD BEEN BORN TO HIM WHEN HE WAS OLD. HE MADE A LONG ROBE WITH FULL SLEEVES FOR HIM. WHEN HIS BROTHERS SAW THAT THEIR FATHER LOVED JOSEPH MORE THAN HE LOVED THEM, THEY HATED THEIR BROTHER SO MUCH THAT THEY WOULD NOT SPEAK TO HIM IN A FRIENDLY MANNER. ONE NIGHT JOSEPH HAD A DREAM, AND WHEN HE TOLD HIS BROTHERS ABOUT IT, THEY HATED HIM EVEN MORE. HE SAID, "LISTEN TO THE DREAM I HAD. WE WERE ALL IN THE FIELD TYING UP SHEAVES OF WHEAT, WHEN MY SHEAF GOT UP AND STOOD UP STRAIGHT. YOURS FORMED A CIRCLE ROUND MINE AND BOWED DOWN TO IT." "DO YOU THINK YOU ARE GOING TO BE A KING AND RULE OVER US?" HIS BROTHERS ASKED. SO THEY HATED HIM EVEN MORE BECAUSE OF HIS DREAMS AND BECAUSE OF WHAT HE SAID ABOUT THEM. THEN JOSEPH HAD ANOTHER DREAM AND SAID TO HIS BROTHERS, " I HAD ANOTHER DREAM, IN WHICH I SAW THE SUN, THE MOON, AND ELEVEN STARS BOWING DOWN TO ME." HE ALSO TOLD THE DREAM TO HIS FATHER, AND HIS FATHER SCOLDED HIM: "WHAT KIND OF A DREAM IS THAT? DO YOU THINK THAT YOUR MOTHER, YOUR BROTHERS, AND I ARE GOING TO COME AND BOW DOWN TO YOU?" JOSEPH'S BROTHERS WERE JEALOUS OF HIM, BUT HIS FATHER KEPT THINKING ABOUT THE WHOLE MATTER.'

(B) The reaction of Joseph's blood brothers (in real life) to an ordinary dream that he saw in his sleep was brutal and callous. They almost killed him but ended up selling him into slavery to the Midianites/Ishmaelites. Then they went back to their father Jacob and lied to him that Joseph was eaten/killed by wild animals and their Father mourned deeply for he loved Joseph so much.

NOTE THAT: TWO OF JOSEPH'S BROTHERS LOOKED FOR WAYS TO SAVE HIM BUT THEY ENDED UP BEING ACCOMPLICES FOR A LONG TIME AS THEY AGREED TO LIE TO THEIR FATHER AND OTHERS. 

(I) Reuben suggested that instead of killing him, they should throw in a well in the wilderness. 

(II)Judah suggested that he should be sold to the Ishmaelites/Midianites.

According to Genesis 37: 20-36

'COME ON NOW, LET'S KILL HIM AND THROW HIS BODY INTO ONE OF THE DRY WELLS. WE CAN SAY THAT A WILD ANIMAL KILLED HIM. THEN WE WILL SEE WHAT BECOMES OF HIS DREAMS." REUBEN HEARD THEM AND TRIED TO SAVE JOSEPH. 'LET'S NOT KILL HIM." HE SAID. "JUST THROW HIM INTO THIS WELL IN THE WILDERNESS, BUT DON'T HURT HIM." HE SAID THIS, PLANNING TO SAVE HIM FROM THEM AND SEND HIM BACK TO HIS FATHER. WHEN JOSEPH CAME UP TO HIS BROTHERS, THEY RIPPED OFF HIS LONG ROBE WITH FULL SLEEVES. THEN THEY TOOK HIM AND THREW HIM INTO THE WELL, WHICH WAS DRY. WHILE THEY WERE EATING, THEY SUDDENLY SAW A GROUP OF ISHMAELITES TRAVELING FROM GILEAD TO EGYPT. THEIR CAMELS WERE LOADED WITH SPICES AND RESINS. JUDAH SAID TO HIS BROTHERS, "WHAT WILL WE GAIN BY KILLING OUR BROTHER AND COVERING UP THE MURDER? LET'S SELL HIM TO THESE ISHMAELITES. THEN WE WON'T HAVE TO HURT HIM; AFTER ALL, HE IS OUR BROTHER, OUR OWN FLESH AND BLOOD." HIS BROTHERS AGREED, AND WHEN SOME MIDIANITE TRADERS CAME BY, THE BROTHERS PULLED JOSEPH OUT OF THE WELL AND SOLD HIM FOR TWENTY PIECES OF SILVER TO ISHMAELITES, WHO TOOK HIM TO EGYPT. WHEN REUBEN CAME BACK TO THE WELL AND FOUND THAT JOSEPH WAS NOT THERE, HE TORE HIS CLOTHES IN SORROW. HE RETURNED TO HIS BROTHERS AND SAID, "THE BOY IS NOT THERE! WHAT AM I GOING TO DO?" THEN THEY KILLED A GOAT AND DIPPED JOSEPH'S ROBE IN ITS BLOOD. THEY TOOK THE ROBE TO THEIR FATHER AND SAID, "WE FOUND THIS. DOES IT BELONG TO YOUR SON?" HE RECOGNIZED IT AND SAID, "YES, IT IS HIS! SOME WILD ANIMAL HAS KILLED HIM. MY SON JOSEPH HAS  BEEN TORN TO PIECES!" JACOB TORE HIS CLOTHES IN SORROW AND PUT ON SACKCLOTH. HE MOURNED FOR HIS SON A LONG TIME. ALL HIS SONS AND DAUGHTERS CAME TO COMFORT HIM, BUT HE REFUSED TO BE COMFORTED AND SAID, 'I WILL GO DOWN TO THE WORLD OF THE DEAD STILL MOURNING FOR MY SON." SO HE CONTINUED TO MOURN FOR HIS SON JOSEPH. MEANWHILE, IN EGYPT, THE MIDIANITES HAD SOLD JOSEPH TO POTIPHAR, ONE OF THE KING'S OFFICERS, WHO WAS THE CAPTAIN OF THE PALACE GUARD.'

(C) Joseph (Son of Jacob) while in slavery was blessed by God Almighty and this blessing of his also touched the life of Potiphar (his master) and his household because lived with him and worked for him. He obeyed God's commandments even while in slavery.

According to Genesis 39: 1-6

'NOW THE ISHMAELITES HAD TAKEN JOSEPH TO EGYPT AND SOLD HIM TO POTIPHAR, ONE OF THE KING'S OFFICERS, WHO WAS THE CAPTAIN OF THE PALACE GUARD. THE LORD WAS WITH JOSEPH AND MADE HIM SUCCESSFUL. HE LIVED IN THE HOUSE OF HIS EGYPTIAN MASTER, WHO SAW THAT THE LORD WAS WITH JOSEPH AND HAD MADE HIM SUCCESSFUL IN EVERYTHING HE DID. POTIPHAR WAS PLEASED WITH HIM AND MADE HIM HIS PERSONAL SERVANT; SO HE PUT HIM IN CHARGE OF HIS HOUSE AND EVERYTHING HE OWNED. FROM THEN ON, BECAUSE OF JOSEPH THE LORD BLESSED THE HOUSEHOLD OF THE EGYPTIAN AND EVERYTHING THAT HE HAD IN HIS HOUSE AND IN HIS FIELDS. POTIPHAR HANDED OVER EVERYTHING HE HAD TO THE CARE OF JOSEPH AND DID NOT CONCERN HIMSELF WITH ANYTHING EXCEPT THE FOOD HE ATE. JOSEPH WAS WELL-BUILT AND GOOD-LOOKING.'

(D) His dream came to pass in real life at the age of 30. The Joseph of the old testament (Jacob's son) was also a dream interpreter and a solution giver. His ability to interprete dreams and suggest/give solutions to issues/problems gave him a high position (Governor over all of Egypt, thus, the second in command to the King of Egypt). His elder brothers that betrayed and nearly killed him when he was younger ended up bowing to him as he saw in that his beautiful dream when he was seventeen years of age.

NOTE THAT: Joseph brothers' cruelty to him did not stop God's big plan for him from coming to pass in his life and he became the Governor of all of Egypt in a strange land called Egypt even though he was a Canaanite/an Israelite. So, the long wait while in slavery from 17 years of age till 30 years of age was painful but worth it because God was in it and with him all the way.

According to Genesis 41: 25-46

'JOSEPH SAID TO THE KING, "THE TWO DREAMS MEAN THE SAME THING; GOD HAS TOLD YOU WHAT HE IS GOING TO DO. THE SEVEN FAT COWS ARE SEVEN YEARS, AND THE SEVEN FULL EARS OF CORN ARE ALSO SEVEN YEARS; THEY HAVE THE SAME MEANING. THE SEVEN THIN COWS WHICH CAME UP LATER AND THE SEVEN THIN EARS OF CORN SCORCHED BY THE DESERT WIND ARE SEVEN YEARS OF FAMINE. IT IS JUST AS I TOLD YOU - GOD HAS SHOWN YOU WHAT HE IS GOING TO DO. THERE WILL BE SEVEN YEARS OF GREAT PLENTY IN ALL THE LAND OF EGYPT. AFTER THAT, THERE WILL BE SEVEN YEARS OF FAMINE, AND ALL THE GOOD YEARS WILL BE FORGOTTEN, BECAUSE THE FAMINE WILL RUIN THE COUNTRY. THE TIME OF PLENTY WILL BE ENTIRELY FORGOTTEN, BECAUSE THE FAMINE WHICH FOLLOWS  WILL BE SO TERRIBLE. THE REPETITION OF YOUR DREAM MEANS THAT THE MATTER IS FIXED BY GOD AND THAT HE WILL MAKE IT HAPPEN IN THE NEAR FUTURE. "NOW YOU SHOULD CHOOSE SOME MAN WITH WISDOM AND INSIGHT AND PUT HIM IN CHARGE OF THE COUNTRY. YOU MUST ALSO APPOINT OTHER OFFICIALS AND TAKE A FIFTH OF THE CROPS DURING THE SEVEN YEARS OF PLENTY. ORDER THEM TO COLLECT ALL THE FOOD DURING THE GOOD YEARS THAT ARE COMING, AND GIVE THEM AUTHORITY TO STORE UP CORN IN THE CITIES AND GUARD IT. THE FOOD WILL BE A RESERVE SUPPLY FOR THE COUNTRY DURING THE SEVEN YEARS OF FAMINE WHICH ARE GOING TO COME IN EGYPT. IN THIS WAY THE PEOPLE WILL NOT STARVE." THE KING AND HIS OFFICIALS APPROVED THIS PLAN, AND HE SAID TO THEM, "WE WILL NEVER FIND A BETTER MAN THAN JOSEPH, A MAN WHO HAS GOD'S SPIRIT IN HIM." THE KING SAID TO JOSEPH, "GOD HAS SHOWN YOU ALL THIS, SO IT IS OBVIOUS THAT YOU HAVE GREATER WISDOM AND INSIGHT  THAN ANYONE ELSE. I WILL PUT YOU IN CHARGE OF MY COUNTRY, AND ALL MY PEOPLE WILL OBEY YOUR ORDERS. YOUR AUTHORITY WILL BE SECOND ONLY TO MINE. I NOW APPOINT YOU GOVERNOR OVER ALL EGYPT." THE KING REMOVED FROM HIS FINGER THE RING ENGRAVED WITH THE ROYAL SEAL AND PUT IT ON JOSEPH'S FINGER. HE PUT A FINE LINEN ROBE ON HIM, AND PLACED A GOLD CHAIN ROUND HIS NECK. HE GAVE HIM SECOND ROYAL CHARIOT TO RIDE IN, AND HIS GUARD OF HONOUR WENT AHEAD OF HIM AND CRIED OUT, "MAKE WAY! MAKE WAY!" AND SO JOSEPH WAS APPOINTED GOVERNOR OVER ALL OF EGYPT. THE KING SAID TO HIM, "I AM THE KING - AND NO ONE IN ALL EGYPT SHALL SO MUCH AS LIFT A HAND OR A FOOT WITHOUT YOUR PERMISSION." HE GAVE JOSEPH THE EGYPTIAN NAME ZAPHENATH PANEAH, AND HE GAVE HIM A WIFE, ASENATH, THE DAUGHTER OF POTIPHERA, A PRIEST IN THE CITY OF HELIOPOLIS. JOSEPH WAS 30 YEARS OLD WHEN HE BEGAN TO SERVE THE KING OF EGYPT.'

According to Genesis 42: 1-11

WHEN JACOB LEARNT THAT THERE WAS CORN IN EGYPT, HE SAID TO HIS SONS, "WHY DON'T YOU DO SOMETHING? I HEAR THAT THERE IS CORN IN EGYPT; GO THERE AND BUY SOME TO KEEP US FROM STARVING TO DEATH." SO JOSEPH'S TEN HALF-BROTHERS WENT TO BUY CORN IN EGYPT. BUT JACOB DID NOT SEND JOSEPH'S FULL-BROTHER BENJAMIN WITH THEM, BECAUSE HE WAS AFRAID THAT SOMETHING MIGHT HAPPEN TO HIM. THE SONS OF JACOB CAME WITH OTHERS TO BUY CORN, BECAUSE THERE WAS FAMINE IN THE LAND OF CANAAN. JOSEPH, AS GOVERNOR OF THE LAND OF EGYPT, WAS SELLING CORN TO PEOPLE FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD. SO JOSEPH'S BROTHERS CAME AND BOWED DOWN BEFORE HIM WITH THEIR FACES TO THE GROUND. WHEN JOSEPH SAW HIS BROTHERS, HE RECOGNIZED THEM, BUT HE ACTED AS IF HE DID NOT KNOW THEM. HE ASKED THEM HARSHLY, "WHERE DO YOU COME FROM?" "WE HAVE COME FROM CANAAN TO BUY FOOD," THEY ANSWERED. ALTHOUGH JOSEPH RECOGNIZED HIS BROTHERS, THEY DID NOT RECOGNIZE HIM. HE REMEMBERED THE DREAMS HE HAD DREAMT ABOUT THEM AND SAID, "YOU ARE SPIES; YOU HAVE COME TO FIND OUR WHERE OUT COUNTRY IS WEAK." "NO SIR," THEY ANSWERED. "WE HAVE COME AS YOUR SLAVES, TO BUY FOOD. WE ARE ALL BROTHERS. WE ARE NOT SPIES, SIR, WE ARE HONEST MEN."

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Christ is the Savior: Read and what's your view

Christ is the Savior: Read and what's your view

(1) The Joy of the Lord is your strength. What do you care if the world ends in the year 5030 or above or below? What you must care about is the day you will die and leave this world because after death comes the final judgement on you which will determine where you will spend your eternity after you die? Once you die, it means the Kingdom of God in already at hand for you to be judged by God based on the way you lived your life on this earth throughout. Who, where, what and how is the way? Jesus Christ is the way, the truth and the life. Nobody will live forever on this earth in his/her normal human flesh but God can save your body, spirit, soul etc while you are still in your normal human body here on earth/in this world. Just do well to avoid God's punishment because His punishment is hellish in nature. For instance, do you remember that there is a fiery furnace also called hell fire? Hell fire is the ultimate and final God's punishment.

According to John 3: 31-36

'HE WHO COMES FROM ABOVE IS GREATER THAN ALL. HE WHO IS FROM THE EARTH BELONGS TO THE EARTH AND SPEAKS ABOUT EARTHLY MATTERS, BUT HE WHO COMES FROM HEAVEN IS ABOVE ALL. HE TELLS WHAT HE HAS SEEN AND HEARD, YET NO ONE ACCEPTS HIS MESSAGE. BUT WHOEVER ACCEPTS HIS MESSAGE CONFIRMS BY THIS THAT GOD IS TRUTHFUL. THE ONE WHOM GOD HAS SENT SPEAKS GOD'S WORDS, BECAUSE GOD GIVES HIM THE FULLNESS OF HIS SPIRIT. THE FATHER LOVES HIS SON AND HAS PUT EVERYTHING IN HIS POWER. WHOEVER BELIEVES IN THE SON HAS ETERNAL LIFE; WHOEVER DISOBEYS THE SON WILL NOT HAVE LIFE, BUT WILL REMAIN UNDER GOD'S PUNISHMENT.'

(2) Nobody will live on this earth forever/for eternity and we all have to remember this. I am sure you know one or two persons or more that have died before now, just know that will be you one day. That's why the Heavenly race is called a personal race. Fight the good fight for your spirit, soul and body to forever belong to God Almighty. Go to where people mourn to remind you that  you too will die one day no matter the level of riches you have or the level of poverty you live in now here on earth/in this world. Human wisdom, knowledge and understanding can't help you live your life in the way that is right by God. But the wisdom that comes from God can give you wisdom, knowledge and understanding that will help you live your life in the way of the Lord. The way of the Lord is Jesus Christ. Remember that: Jesus Christ is the way the truth and the life.

According to Ecclesiastes 7: 1-29; 8:1

'A GOOD REPUTATION IS BETTER THAN EXPENSIVE PERFUME; AND THE DAY YOU DIE IS BETTER THAN THE DAY YOU ARE BORN. IT IS BETTER TO GO TO A HOME WHERE THERE IS MOURNING THAN TO ONE WHERE THERE IS A PARTY, BECAUSE THE LIVING SHOULD ALWAYS REMIND THEMSELVES THAT DEATH IS WAITING FOR US ALL. SORROW IS BETTER THAN LAUGHTER; IT MAY SADDEN YOUR FACE, BUT IT SHARPENS YOUR UNDERSTANDING. SOMEONE WHO IS ALWAYS THINKING ABOUT HAPPINESS IS A FOOL. A WISE PERSON THINKS ABOUT DEATH. IT IS BETTER TO HAVE WISE PEOPLE REPRIMAND YOU THAN TO HAVE STUPID PEOPLE SING YOUR PRAISES. WHEN A FOOL LAUGHS, IT IS LIKE THORNS CRACKLING IN A FIRE. IT DOESN'T MEAN A THING. YOU MAY BE WISE, BUT IF YOU CHEAT SOMEONE, YOU ARE ACTING LIKE A FOOL. IF YOU TAKE A BRIBE, YOU RUIN YOUR CHARACTER. THE END OF ANYTHING IS BETTER THAN ITS BEGINNING. PATIENCE IS BETTER THAN PRIDE. KEEP YOUR TEMPER UNDER CONTROL; IT IS FOOLISH TO HARBOUR A GRUDGE. NEVER ASK, "OH, WHY WERE THINGS SO MUCH BETTER IN THE OLD DAYS?" IT'S NOT AN INTELLIGENT QUESTION. EVERYONE WHO LIVES OUGHT TO BE WISE; IT IS AS GOOD AS RECEIVING AN INHERITANCE AND WILL GIVE YOU AS MUCH SECURITY AS MONEY CAN. WISDOM KEEPS YOU SAFE - THIS IS THE ADVANTAGE OF KNOWLEDGE. THINK ABOUT WHAT GOD HAS DONE. HOW CAN ANYONE STRAIGHTEN WHAT GOD HAS MADE CROOKED? WHEN THINGS ARE GOING WELL FOR YOU, BE GLAD, AND WHEN TROUBLE COMES, JUST REMEMBER: GOD SENDS BOTH HAPPINESS AND TROUBLE; YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN NEXT. MY LIFE HAS BEEN USELESS, BUT IN IT I HAVE SEEN EVERYTHING. SOME GOOD PEOPLE MAY DIE WHILE OTHERS LIVE ON, EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE EVIL. SO DON'T BE TOO GOOD OR TOO WISE - WHY KILL YOURSELF? BUT DON'T BE TOO WICKED OR TOO FOOLISH, EITHER - WHY DIE BEFORE YOU HAVE TO? AVOID BOTH EXTREMES. IF YOU HAVE REVERENCE FOR GOD, YOU WILL BE SUCCESSFUL ANYWAY. WISDOM DOES MORE FOR A PERSON THAN TEN RULERS CAN DO FOR A CITY. THERE IS NO ONE ON EARTH WHO DOES WHAT IS RIGHT ALL THE TIME AND NEVER MAKES A MISTAKE. DON'T PAY ATTENTION TO EVERYTHING PEOPLE SAY - YOU MAY HEAR YOUR SERVANT INSULTING YOU, AND YOU KNOW YOURSELF THAT YOU HAVE INSULTED OTHER PEOPLE MANY TIMES. I USED MY WISDOM TO TEST ALL OF THIS. I WAS DETERMINED TO BE WISE, BUT IT WAS BEYOND ME. HOW CAN ANYONE DISCOVER WHAT LIFE MEANS? IT IS TOO DEEP FOR US, TOO HARD TO UNDERSTAND. BUT I DEVOTED MYSELF TO KNOWLEDGE AND STUDY; I WAS DETERMINED TO FIND WISDOM AND THE ANSWERS TO MY QUESTIONS, AND TO LEARN HOW WICKED AND FOOLISH STUPIDITY IS. I FOUND SOMETHING MORE BITTER THAN DEATH - THE WOMAN WHO IS LIKE A TRAP. THE LOVE SHE OFFERS YOU WILL CATCH YOU LIKE A NET; AND HER ARMS ROUND YOU WILL HOLD YOU LIKE A CHAIN.  A MAN WHO PLEASES GOD CAN GET AWAY, BUT SHE WILL CATCH THE SINNER. YES, SAID THE PHILOSOPHER, I FOUND THIS OUT LITTLE BY LITTLE WHILE I WAS LOOKING FOR ANSWERS. I HAVE LOOKED FOR OTHER ANSWERS BUT HAVE FOUND NONE. I FOUND ONE MAN IN A THOUSAND THAT I COULD RESPECT, BUT NOT ONE WOMAN. THIS IS ALL THAT I HAVE LEARNT: GOD MADE US PLAIN AND SIMPLE, BUT WE HAVE MADE OURSELVES VERY COMPLICATED. ONLY THE WISE KNOW WHAT THINGS REALLY MEAN. WISDOM MAKES THEM SMILE AND MAKES THEIR FROWN DISAPPEAR.'

(3) No one knows tomorrow except the things that God chooses to reveal to His chosen ones. For many are called but few are chosen.

NOTE THAT: WHETHER THE RIGHTEOUS ONE IS THE ACCUSED OR THE DEFENDANT, TALKING ABOUT SET UP IN THIS LIFE/WORLD WHERE ALL THE EVIDENCES BROUGHT AGAINST YOU HAVE BEEN TAMPERED WITH AND THERE ARE FALSE WITNESSES  ("LOOK AT WHAT HAPPENS IN THE WORLD: SOMETIMES THE RIGHTEOUS GET THE PUNISHMENT OF THE WICKED, AND THE WICKED GET THE REWARD OF THE RIGHTEOUS. I SAY IT IS USELESS). REMEMBER THAT: "JESUS  CHRIST IS THE WAY, THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE."

 

According to Ecclesiastes 8: 9-17; 9: 1-2

'I SAW ALL THIS WHEN I THOUGHT ABOUT THE THINGS THAT ARE DONE IN THIS WORLD, A WORLD WHERE SOME PEOPLE HAVE POWER AND OTHERS HAVE TO SUFFER UNDER THEM. YES, I HAVE SEEN THE WICKED BURIED AND IN THEIR GRAVES, BUT ON THE WAY BACK FROM THE CEMETERY PEOPLE PRAISE THEM IN THE VERY CITY WHERE THEY DID THEIR EVIL. IT IS USELESS. WHY DO PEOPLE COMMIT CRIMES SO READILY? BECAUSE CRIME IS NOT PUNISHED QUICKLY ENOUGH. A SINNER MAY COMMIT A HUNDRED CRIMES AND STILL LIVE. OH YES, I KNOW WHAT THEY SAY: "IF YOU OBEY GOD, EVERYTHING WILL BE ALL RIGHT, BUT IT WILL NOT GO WELL FOR THE WICKED. THEIR LIFE IS LIKE A SHADOW AND THEY WILL DIE YOUNG, BECAUSE THEY DO NOT OBEY GOD." BUT THIS IS NONSENSE. LOOK AT WHAT HAPPENS IN THE WORLD: SOMETIMES THE RIGHTEOUS GET THE PUNISHMENT OF THE WICKED, AND THE WICKED GET THE REWARD OF THE RIGHTEOUS. I SAY IT IS USELESS. SO I AM CONVINCED THAT WE SHOULD ENJOY OURSELVES, BECAUSE THE ONLY PLEASURE WE HAVE IN THIS LIFE IS EATING AND DRINKING AND ENJOYING OURSELVES. WE CAN AT LEAST DO THIS AS WE LABOUR DURING THE LIFE THAT GOD HAS GIVEN US IN THIS WORLD. WHENEVER I TRIED TO BECOME WISE AND LEARN WHAT GOES ON IN THE WORLD, I REALIZED THAT YOU COULD STAY AWAKE NIGHT AND DAY AND NEVER BE ABLE TO UNDERSTAND WHAT GOD IS DOING. HOWEVER HARD YOU TRY, YOU WILL NEVER FIND OUT. THE WISE MAY CLAIM TO KNOW, BUT THEY DON'T. I THOUGHT LONG AND HARD ABOUT ALL THIS AND SAW THAT GOD CONTROLS THE ACTIONS OF WISE AND RIGHTEOUS PEOPLE, EVEN THEIR LOVE AND THEIR HATE. NO ONE KNOWS ANYTHING ABOUT WHAT LIES AHEAD.'

(4) Follow Jesus Christ (God, the Son) who is the wisest of the wisest and so can detect your wrong doings and also show you the way of righteousness and cleansing for you to be put right with Him. Also, no problem/trouble/wahala is too much for God to save you from. Remember that: "Jesus Christ is the way, the truth and the life."

Sirach 2: 1-10

'MY CHILD, IF YOU ARE GOING TO SERVE THE LORD, BE PREPARED FOR TIMES WHEN YOU WILL BE PUT TO THE TEST. BE SINCERE AND DETERMINED. KEEP CALM WHEN TROUBLE COMES. STAY WITH THE LORD; NEVER ABANDON HIM, AND YOU WILL BE PROSPEROUS AT THE END OF YOUR DAYS. ACCEPT WHATEVER HAPPENS TO YOU. EVEN IF YOU SUFFER HUMILIATION, BE PATIENT. GOLD IS TESTED BY FIRE, AND HUMAN CHARACTER IS TESTED IN THE FURNACE OF HUMILIATION. TRUST THE LORD, AND HE WILL HELP YOU. WALK STRAIGHT IN HIS WAYS, AND PUT YOUR HOPE HIM. ALL YOU THAT FEAR THE LORD, WAIT FOR HIM TO SHOW YOU HIS MERCY. DO NOT TURN AWAY FROM HIM, OR YOU WILL FALL. ALL YOU THAT FEAR THE LORD, TRUST HIM, AND YOU WILL CERTAINLY BE REWARDED. ALL YOU THAT FEAR THE LORD, LOOK FORWARD TO HIS BLESSINGS OF MERCY AND ETERNAL HAPPINESS. THINK BACK TO THE ANCIENT GENERATIONS AND CONSIDER THIS: HAS THE LORD EVER DISAPPOINTED ANYONE WHO PUT HIS HOPE IN HIM? HAS THE LORD EVER ABANDONED ANYONE WHO HELD HIM IN CONSTANT REVERENCE? HAS THE LORD EVER IGNORED ANYONE WHO PRAYED TO HIM?'

(5) Be good to the genuinely poor people through the physical things you give to them. A hungry person can still be without resentment or anger no matter how desperate his or her situation may be so, never give a hungry man a cause for resentment or anger as we are instructed in the Holy Bible. This means that: "Not every hungry man is an angry man." Something or someone else triggers the anger, bitterness or resentment. What a hungry man may have already are troubles, distress and desperation. Showing kindness instigating the poor and the less privileged in the world paves way for your future through help from unexpected/expected places/persons to you. God created both the rich and poor alike in His own image and likeness. God can bless both the rich and the poor with the Holy Spirit of Wisdom, all you need do when they talk is listen. There are things you can do that can make God love you more than your own biological mother does (These things you can do are: Don't ignore the poor; the orphans; the widows; and those that are about to be wronged by the wicked/evil ones) and, this can only come from love. God is love and He teaches us to love too. Just remember that: "Jesus Christ (God, the Son) is the way, the truth and the life."

According to Sirach 3: 30-31; 4: 1-10

'GIVING TO THE POOR CAN MAKE UP FOR SINS, JUST AS WATER CAN PUT OUT A BLAZING FIRE. ANYONE WHO RESPONDS TO OTHERS WITH ACTS OF KINDNESS IS THINKING OF THE FUTURE, BECAUSE HE WILL FIND HELP IF HE EVER FALLS ON HARD TIMES. MY CHILD DON'T PREVENT THE POOR FROM MAKING A LIVING, OR KEEP THEM WAITING IN THEIR NEED. NEVER GIVE A HUNGRY PERSON ANY CAUSE FOR RESENTMENT OR ANGER. DON'T ADD TO THE TROUBLES OF SOMEONE WHO IS ALREADY DESPERATE. IF HE IS IN NEED, DON'T PUT OFF GIVING TO HIM. DON'T REFUSE TO HELP A BEGGAR WHO IS IN DISTRESS. DON'T TURN YOUR BACK ON A POOR PERSON OR GIVE HIM ANY REASON TO CURSE YOU. IF HE BECOMES SO BITTER THAT HE DOES CURSE YOU, HIS CREATOR WILL HEAR HIS PRAYER. MAKE YOURSELF POPULAR IN THE SYNAGOGUE. BOW YOUR HEAD TO MEN OF AUTHORITY. LISTEN TO WHAT THE POOR HAVE TO SAY, AND ANSWER THEM POLITELY. PROTECT PEOPLE FROM THOSE WHO WANT TO WRONG THEM AND BE FIRM IN YOUR JUDGEMENTS. BE LIKE A FATHER TO ORPHANS, AND PROVIDE WIDOWS WITH THE HELP THEIR HUSBANDS CAN NO LONGER GIVE THEM. THEN YOU WILL BE LIKE A CHILD OF THE MOST HIGH, AND HE WILL LOVE YOU MORE THAN YOUR OWN MOTHER DOES.'

(6) Jesus Christ asked everyone to:

THIS PARTICULAR FIRST STEP MAKES PEOPLE ENTER THE ETERNAL LIFE: Keep the commandments of God.

THIS PARTICULAR SECOND STEP MAKES PEOPLE PERFECT, MOST ESPECIALLY RICH PEOPLE: (a) Give money to the genuinely poor people gives one riches in heaven, (b) then follow Jesus Christ after starting your giving to the genuinely poor journey.

According to Matthew 19: 16-21

'ONCE A MAN CAME TO JESUS. "TEACHER," HE ASKED, "WHAT GOOD THING MUST I DO TO RECEIVE ETERNAL LIFE?" "WHY DO YOU ASK ME CONCERNING WHAT IS GOOD?" ANSWERED JESUS. "THERE IS ONLY ONE WHO IS GOOD. KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS IF YOU WANT TO ENTER LIFE." "WHAT COMMAND-MENTS?" HE ASKED. JESUS ANSWERED, "DO NOT COMMIT MURDER; DO NOT COMMIT ADULTERY; DO NOT STEAL; DO NOT ACCUSE ANYONE FALSELY; RESPECT YOUR FATHER AND YOUR MOTHER; AND LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOUR AS YOU LOVE YOURSELF." "I HAVE OBEYED ALL THESE COMMANDMENTS," THE YOUNG MAN REPLIED. "WHAT ELSE DO I NEED TO DO?" JESUS SAID TO HIM, "IF YOU WANT TO BE PERFECT, GO AND SELL ALL YOU HAVE AND GIVE THE MONEY TO THE POOR, AND YOU WILL HAVE RICHES IN HEAVEN; THEN COME AND FOLLOW ME." WHEN THE YOUNG MAN HEARD THIS, HE WENT AWAY SAD, BECAUSE HE WAS VERY RICH.

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