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.
(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!!!!
Say this prayer below willingly and purposely now 👇:
"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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