Christmas A Christian festival or Pagan Carnival?

Christmas is a festival that is widely celebrated by Christendom; unfortunately, most Christians celebrates this festival out of ignorance. They are ignorant as to what they believe as Christians and what Christmas is all about. It is also a sorry state, when you hear ministers of the Gospel, in their effort to indulged in the things of the world; make comment such as Jesus is the reason for the season. This is so far from the truth. Let me take this time to inform you that Jesus Christ, the Son of Yahweh; has nothing to do with Christmas; his birth, life, death and resurrection has nothing in common with this widely celebrated festival of indulgence. As a matter of fact, the very origin of Christmas is an abomination of Elshaddai.

What is the origin of Christmas?

Before I answer this question, let me give you a little back ground information about country of Roam; the country from whence Christmas has its origin. Roam was a pagan nation and the ruler and citizen of roam, worshipped many false God; which included the elements, nature (trees) as well as the Heaven body (stars, moon, sun etc.); these along with the worship of other idol, Created an environment that give rise to many defile ceremonies and festivals. When Christianity reached the shores of Roam, the Christian religion grew in popularity among his Roman subjects.

What was unfortunate about this is, most of the Roman Christians refused to turn away from their defiled and evil practices. Instead of the Church taking a stand on the word of Yahweh holding fast to the word of God, they chose to marry paganism with Christianity. This union was a totally unholy and a spiritually unhealthy union: the Devil’s delight. For many century and up to today the lies of the Devil is not only being propagated by Roam; but most of Christendom is selling this the darkness magic of idolatry too many unsuspecting believer, which is still affecting millions of Christian.

Now let’s take some time to discuss the beginning and the origin of Christmas.

Pagan Roam had a festival, which was called Saturnalia, This festival was a tribute festival or a sacrificial carnival which was held in honor of the God of Saturn himself. It began on 17th of December and ran to the 25th day of the same month. This festival is believed to began in the year 217 BC. During this period citizen of Roam were exempted from all crimes committed; as part of the festival they indulged and participated in drunkenness, sexual misconducts, violent behavior etc.

Each Roman District was to appoint an innocent citizen and that citizen, were forced to indulged in drinking of alcohol and physical pleasure for one week, beginning on the 17th of December, then on the 25th December which was the last day of the festival; these so called enemies of Roam were all brutally murdered as a sacrifice. These acts brutality were done to destroy the forces of darkness.

The Greek writer Lucian in documenting an eyewitness account of the activities that occurred on this festival speak of drunk revelers dancing through the street naked as the sing songs, many people were raped (I would imagine men and women) in public as they indulged in many sexual acts that would have otherwise been unlawful.

In the 4th Century the church leaders in their effort to convert the masses of Pagan Roam to Christianity told the pagan Romans who were entrenched in this practice (Saturnalia) they will be able to continue to participate in Saturnalia as Christian. Here we have a situation where Believers in Jesus Christ whose core believed were in Yahweh and his government and in Jesus Christ’s sacrifice for their sin were given the right away to participate in the violation of the Law of Yahweh; the principles for which Jesus died and in the process violate their own dignity and decency as well as that of their fellow citizen. It is important for us to conclude that no man on earth neither an angel in heaven can give another permission to break Yahweh’s laws.

The American Experience:

The puritans of Massachusetts were the only people of the new world to take any meaningful action against Christmas. When the citizen of Massachusetts discovered the origin of Christmas, it became illegal for any citizen of Massachusetts to celebrate Christmas. The anti-Christmas law was enacted in 1659 was the legal instrument that make it unlawful for Christian to celebrate Christmas in that part of the country and it remained illegal for citizens to do so until 1681 when the law was repealed. For twenty two years the citizen of Massachusetts took a stand against Christmas because of it’s pagan back ground and the other pagan practices that is still associated with it.

The Roman’s Church Effort to Sanitized Saturnalia:

Later in an effort to reform the reluctant pagan and to persuade them from participating in Saturnalia; the leaders of the Roman Church (which was the world’s super power of that era), without biblical proof or other documented facts declared that the 25th December the Birthday of Jesus Christ, with the hope observers of Saturnalia would have chosen their love, respect and obedience to Yahweh and Yahweh’s son Jesus Christ thus causing a curbed in their appetite for the taste of the sinful practice of Saturnalia; but it did not.

Apart from perpetrating a verbal fraud; lying about the birth of Christ, the Leaders in the Roman Church tried many things to change the hearts of its congregants from the pagan practice of Saturnalia without success. It was a long and rough road from Saturnalia to what is celebrated today as Christmas.

In 1466 Roman Catholic Church revisited the most deprived customs of Saturnalia; as a substitute for the acts of indecencies to others and self the Jews became victims of this festival. The Pope Paul 11 Forced Jews to raced naked through the streets but not before they were forced to eat and drink to a point of discomfort; this made their naked run not only difficult but comical. This was done to and for the entertainment of Roman citizens who laugh at the nude discomfort of the Jews while mockingly taunted and threw objects at them. Later in the 18-19 Centuries the Jewish leader became the laughing stock of this festival. The Rabbis were forced to ware clownish outfit and while walking through the town citizen would laugh at and mockingly pelt objects at them.

In 1836 The Jewish community wrote a letter of protest to Pope Gregory the 16th asking him to stop the abuse of the Jews which was common around the season of Saturnalia.

The Christmas tree:

It was believed by the Greco-Roman that the Gods themselves transformed into tree and the first human was descended from a tree. It was also widely believed that the tree was magical, it roots extended into the underworld and thus the tree has access to the predominant place of the God’s of the ancestral spirit. They also believed that the branches which reach up to the heaven accessed another realm of great mystery, the predominant place of the goddesses. Birds were believed to be messengers from the gods and the fact that they nested and rear their young in tree were another sign of the holiness of the tree. The trunk of the tree was considered a bridge between the underworld where the predominant spirit of the ancestors dwell and the heaven where the Goddesses dwell.

The worship of trees had an integral part in pagan Roam’s customs, at times the trees that were to be worship were cut and took into their homes, where they were paint and beautifully decorated. This practice was also married into Christianity and was merged as a part of the Christmas tradition and is still practiced today around Saturnalia or Christmas time.

Gift Giving:

In pre-Christian Roam, the emperor of Roam compelled the most despised of the Roman citizens to bring offering and gift around the Saturnalia time. this was later adopted along with the custom of the yearly practice of the cult who followed Bishop Nickolas give gift to children on the 6th December to commemorate the death of Bishop Nicholas’ who was later granted sainthood by the Roman catholic Church.

The conclusion:

Can you in all honesty after knowing the history of Christmas find pleasure in celebrating such defile and wicked festival? Not if you are a believer in Yahweh and a follower of Jesus Christ. Given to the Roman Catholic Church, for the correct price, they can lend acceptance and sanctity to the atrocities of African slavery and Hitler’s holocaust.

Any minister of the Gospel, who tries to encourage the celebration of Christmas by infuse Christ in to dirty pagan celebration: Christmas and in the process cause the followers of the living God to indulges such celebration is no better than the Roman Catholic pries who sells indulgences such as forgiveness etc. or Jeroboam the King of Israel who lead Israel down the slippery path of idolatry for his own personal gratification and gain. As a result of Jeroboam’s selfish action, Israel became a ruin and its people were taken into captivity became slaves to the heathen nations suffering the curse of Jehovah as was outlined in Duet. 28: 16 onward; a curse which Israel endured for many centuries.

The Plan of Man's Salvation Made Manifested

Christendom is not a city but a movement that was started by Yahweh through his son Jesus Christ. Although Christendom started about three thousand plus years ago, it has its roots even before the world was created. The all knowing God: Elshaddai knew before he created the universe of the fall of his earthly creation: human; he also knew of the betrayal of his chief angel Lucifer, who was later renamed Satan or the Devil. Although Elshaddai knew that his created being would have betray his love, his thrust and misuse the power he entrusted to them; he took his time and with love he created them; he elevated them to the post they held and blessed them with many powers and responsibilities.

When the first human couple turn their backs on their all loving, all powerful Creator, Yahweh was not caught by surprised and took the time to activate the plan which was designed from the foundation of the world. This was the plan of salvation. Elshaddai did not only designed the plan of salvation which was designed to restore us back to our original stature and purpose; he also prepare a place (part of our physical reward) for us and this place was prepared from the time the foundation of the world was laid. This information can be found in Matthew 25: 34,“Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the creation of the world.

This is how considerate my father Yahweh is; he not only designed the plan that will facilitate man's salvation he had already design and put in place the physical aspect of man reward even before man was made. Yahweh knew what man had to go through, he knew the pain, the suffering, the unnecessary heart aches and shame we had to face. This knowledge broke the heart of the creator; each time a flower die the heart of Yahweh was broken, whenever one of his dumb creatures die his heart broke, but when the consequence of and for sin cause man to experience sorrow, pain and death caused the loving creator unbearable mental pain; he actually feel what we felt and because he is perfect, holy and righteous the pain was/is intensified to a magnitude that we will never understand.

What Yahweh was required to do for the redemption of mankind was asking too much. A being that was infinitely superior to human kind, had to sacrificed his son; to ensure man's redemption and to spear the inhabitants of earth the awful consequences for sins. In speaking of what Jesus Christ the holy son of Yahweh had to go through Isiah said these word in Isiah 52: 3-5; He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. 4Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. 5But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

The above text describes the physical pain and rejection the Son of Yahweh went through in order to secure the salvation of human kind, Jesus had to be demoted to a life form far lower than those who bow before his throne daily in worship to him; and this was done in order to secure man's salvation; however he did this without losing the quality that made him God. he took on the form and lifestyle of the lowest common denominator of creation; and had to dwell in the cesspool that is earth. man will never gain an understanding of the nature of the sacrifice Elshaddai volunteer to make, when he designed the plan of salvation but more so; when that plan was implemented to save man.

Jesus came to earth and suffered the unjust, shameless, agony; that was not fitting for an innocent man, but was administered to a perfect God, at the hands of those whom he came to save. This horrific injustice was perpetrated, while all of heaven and the other un-fallen worlds view the with disbelief how earth inhabitants treated their creator. If given the opportunity, the angel of heaven, would have rescued their creator from the hands of the earth inhabitants; both spirit and human and in the process bring destruction to earth and it inhabitants ending this whole shameful affair.

But unlike Lucifer and his angels and the original inhabitants of the earth, the angels of heaven was obedient to their father's instruction and stood by helplessly, shackled into inactivity by their obedience to their creator; they looking on in disbelief, as the Lord of heaven's Army; the one who care for them, who love them; in whose presence they existed and dwell in eternal bliss; were degraded at the hands of man while he tried to lovingly reconcile man to himself.

The angel of heaven only knew, the action of Yahweh; translate into love, but the could not and still cannot comprehend the magnitude of this love that the living God: Elshaddai, have for such beings, beings that knows not gratitude. If the angels who were made higher than us do not understand the level, the nature; the origin and the intensity of the love Yahweh has dedicated to us humans; it is useless that human try to understand such love. What we as recipient of such incomprehensible love can do, is to express our gratitude to Yahweh, by being wholly obedient to his will and by unconditionally; offering our frail, broken and sin corrupted love to him. This will be a sign of our appreciation, for all he had done for us and for loving us so immensely; that he offered all that he was, all that he had and all that he loved to express is love for us. 

1 Timothy 2: 5-6; For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; 6Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.

The Prodigal Son

In Luke 15:11-24 Jesus speak a parable, about a father who had two sons, this man was a man of substance, he was a man of means, if you pay attention to the story, which is often refer to as the prodigal son or the wasteful spending son. Here the names of the persons were not given; this is so because this story was a story that did not address a particular situation but one that addressed a popular condition of life.

Here we have a situation where the younger of the two sons went boldly to his father and make a request of his father; this request was an uncommon request, the younger son requested that his father share up his belonging and he give to him that which would later come to him. He wanted his share now.

You have to understand that a good parent knows where the heart of their child lay. A diligent parent, an honest parent can tell you what their child will and will not do. This is so because the parents have the experiences dealing with that child and we are/were endowed with the responsibility of shaping their behaviors, and molding their character.

The father in this story knew where his sons heart were, he also knew why his son came to him requesting his inheritance; however, even though his father knew, why his son wanted his inheritance, he did not withheld it from him. His father divided his holding and give to the younger son, what he requested. You would have though, if the father is sharing up his wealth; he would have given the older son his share also, but he did not. The question that must be asked is: Why didn’t he give to the older son that which was coming to him? It is because the older son did not desire his inheritance at that time, he understood that his father was building an empire for him and his brother, he also understood his role in the scheme of things: which was to work hand in hand with his father in building the empire, for soon they will inherit the empire; but most of all he appreciated the life his father had prepared and provided for him.

The younger of the two could not see, that which his older brother saw so clearly; hence the reason he prematurely requested his share of his fathers promise to him at the time that he did.

I am sure that the question may have come into your mind; why did the father choose to go against common practice and divide his possession and give it to the younger son his share of the accumulation, even though he knew what his sons intention was? 

Yes the father knew what his younger son’s intentions were. We as parents, if we are honest with ourselves when it comes to our children; we will admit that we know what our children are capable of; after all we were/are responsible for molding their minds; we are also responsible for the influences we exposed them to and we are endowed with the responsibility of supervising and caring for our children for most of their life. So we have knowledge of who our children are and what our children intent are, their goals and there objectives; we know what they will do and what they are capable of doing.

We have asked if the father knew what his sons intentions were, why did he give his son his inheritance and allow him to go and indulged in the things of the world? You see the son did not have to leave home to go into the world. The son was dwelling in the world right in the sterility of his father’s home. What do I mean by this? The bible said in Proverbs 23:7 “for as a man think in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.” Here we see that the younger son was in the sterility of his father’s home yet he was in the world.

Very often we try to save our children from themselves, and in doing so, we prevent them from finding their way; from understanding the world around them, we prevent them from understanding themselves and from coming to a true appreciation of what you have provide for them. We do this not because it is the best thing for the child; but because of what people will say, or because we cannot understand the path they choose to take.

There are many people who are in the church, participating in church activities, officiating in an official capacity but they are dwelling in the world. Not that they are going out drinking, parting etc. but deep down in their hearts, they want to do these things that characterized the world. As a result; they day dream of participating in such activities and at night when they go to sleep they also dream of participating in the activities of the world.

We all know the story very well, soon after the younger son received his inheritance, he left home, and spent his whole inheritance on foolish living. Just as his money ran out, there came a famine and the son ended up feeding pigs for a living. His conditions were so bad that he was reduced to eating the food that was prepared for the pigs. 

In verse 17 of Luke 15: When he finally came to his senses, this is telling me because his heart was always in the world, and he was not focusing that which was good and true he was not in his right senses.

• So when he asked his father for his inheritance he was not in his right senses
• When he pack his stuff and leave home he was not in his right senses
• When he choose the place where he was going to settle he was not in his right senses
• When he indulged in his ungodly living he was not in his right senses
• When he had chosen to invest his time efforts and energy to care for pigs he was not in his right senses.

When he finally came to his senses he said to himself, ‘At home even the hired servants have food enough to spare, and here I am dying of hunger! 18 I will go home to my father and say, “Father, I have sinned against both heaven and you, 19 and I am no longer worthy of being called your son. Please take me on as a hired servant.”

Here we noticed that although times and adverse circumstances have destroyed the mountain of pride the younger son had; the mountain of pride that give him the courage to demanded his inheritance from his father, the pride that cause him to pack up his things and left home; the mountain of pride that cause him to foolishly spend his money on extravagant living.

Here we see when the younger son’s return home, his father welcoming him with open arms and celebration.

But then the older and faithful son heard about the celebration his father was having in honor of his rebellious brother’s return home and he brought the reality as it stood to his father attention.

The older brother was angry and would not go in.

Many people questioned the attitude of the older son, about the whole state of affair and they ridicule that older brother. Let us look at this part of the story from another prospective.

When we have something that we cherish and we thing we are in danger of losing that thing; we have a right to get angry. Do you remember Jacob and Esau; you see the length at which Jacob and his mother went to get the inheritance of his father, for with the inheritance came a particular blessing. Do you see how angry Esau became, when he learnt that he had lost his inheritance? We have an inheritance that Yahweh had promised to us and personally; if I am of the opinion that anyone is going to take my inheritance from me I will be angry also. What was good is that the older son did not allow his anger to shut him down but he let his feelings be known to the father.

He said father I have stayed at home with you all these years, and you have never even throw me a party in appreciation of my loyalty; however my younger brother came home after wasting his inheritance and you are having a party for him.

The father explained and reassured the older and the loyal son that this celebration does not, will not affect his blessings, the love he had for him; his appreciation for loyal service or his inheritance. We are to be honest with Yahweh, and tell him exactly how we feel about a particular situation; it is not as if he does not already know the emotions we are experiencing and the thoughts we are entertaining. So we are to question him when we do not understand what is happening, for the Most High God has the answer to all of our questioning.

There are six vital lessons that came out in this discourse and they are:

1. Any time we come to a place where we are unable to distinguish between that which is not good for us from that which is not good for us; then we are not in our right senses.

2. Tells the story of God unconditional love and accepting of us sinner.

3. Each of us do not learn in the same manner; the older son learn from observation the prodigal son had to go out there and suffer for him to understand the value of what his father had worked so hard to provide for him.

4. There are many ways that we must take to come to an understanding of who Yahweh is and what he will do for us.

5. It was o.k for the son to question that which he do not understand; especially when he were seeking answers and or clarity. God is not afraid of our honest questions for he has the correct answers; what he hates however is when we presumptuously or conceitedly asking questions.

6. No one is more important than us regardless of our situation.

The Price of Disobedience: Mockery and Ridicule

Solomon's temple: From Anthopology of the Church

The temple of God: is often refers to a place where people come to worship Yahweh or Jehovah. It is also believe that the spirit of God is present in his temple/church. It is advised that Jehovah’s subjects should conduct themselves in certain decorum whilst in the temple of the living God.

It is also true that when we are in the presence of the Holy and the only true God we ought to show reverence to his presence, his holiness, his power and his beauty because he is worthy of such. He does not demand it but he requests it. When we think of the state of man, when compare to Yahweh. Even at mans best we were still lower than the ordinary angels.

It is important that we understand that reverence cannot be forced, planned, organized or enforced; reverence has to be acquired through a love relationship and an understanding of who Yahweh is. When we have an understanding of who he is, it is only them will our behaviors and actions be transform to that which is fitting for a God of Jehovah’s status.

I have seen people fainted when they were in the presence of Michael Jackson. You see these people have elevated Michael Jackson to the status of a god. What was exceptionally special about Michael Jackson, Yes he could sing and he could dance. There are millions of people who could sing and dance just as good as Michael Jackson. At times Michael Jackson will put on disguise and venture out into the public and no one will even know that he was there; they may have spoken to him, bump into him, shake his hands; even served him and nothing out of the ordinary happened. Nothing happened because he was ordinary. He had no special powers, the words he sang were created, ordained and given to him to sing; the dance steps he preformed were not unique to him, the moon walk was preformed by many before him; included Cab Calloway in 1932, Bill Dailey in 1955 and a hose of other performers; however, when Michael Jackson did it the first time on live TV and it was seen by millions of people he was given the credit for that dance move.

although Michael Jackson was popular he was just an ordinary man just like you and me.

However; when the holy, sinless awesome angels in heaven entered Yahweh’s physical presence, they were instantly teleported into a dimension of never before felt ecstasy that left them in a state of glorious acknowledgement. These angel that is before Yahweh shout day and night without stopping; Holy, Holy, Holy Lord God Almighty, the one who always was, who is and who is to come.

it is important to note, that when these angels are in Yahweh presence they have no need for anything but to praise Yahweh for days unending. This is so because in Yahweh's presence there is fullness of Joy, on ending ecstasy.

At the same time twenty and four elders join the worship they emits their throne cast their crown before Yahweh and shout: You are worthy, O lord our God, to receive Glory and honor and power; for you create everything and they exist because you created what you please.

It is important to note that Yahweh’s spirit is every where, it does not leave the streets and go into the churches; Yah’s spirit is already with us and within us

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 said “don’t you realize that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and was given to you by God? You do not belong to yourself, for God bought you with a high price. So you must honor God with your body.”

Here we see that the church/temple that Yahweh is interested in was the temple of the body. In 1 Kings 9: Yahweh appear to King Solomon just after he had dedicated the Beautiful temple of God at the dedication Solomon said a powerful pray, So Jehovah said to Salomon, I heard the prayer you offered up to me.

1 Kings 9:3-8 speak of the condition under which he is to going continue to honor and continue to dwell in the temple Israel have built and dedicated to him 3. “I have heard your prayer and your plea, which you have made before me. I have consecrated this house that you have built, by putting my name there forever. My eyes and my heart will be there for all time. 4 And as for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, with integrity of heart and uprightness, doing according to all that I have commanded you, and keeping my statutes and my rules, 5 then I will establish your royal throne over Israel forever, as I promised David your father, saying, ‘You shall not lack a man on the throne of Israel.’ 6 But if you turn aside from following me, you or your children, and do not keep my commandments and my statutes that I have set before you, but go and serve other gods and worship them, 7 then I will cut off Israel from the land that I have given them, and the house that I have consecrated for my name I will cast out of my sight, and Israel will become a proverb and a byword among all peoples. 8 I will make Israel an object of mockery and ridicule among the nations. 8And though this Temple is impressive now, all who pass by will be appalled and will shake their heads in amazement. They will ask, ‘Why did the Lord do such terrible things to this land and to this Temple?’

Now let us examine what Jehovah said to Solomon. First Yahweh expressed his gratitude that Solomon had built a place for his people to worship and offer sacrifice in. He also declared that he had sanctify, consecrate and attached his name on the edifice; however, Jehovah made it clear that he may reject Israel and this beautiful temple Israel had built to his honor if the king and the people refuse to continually obey his commandment and worship other Gods he will:

1. Uproot Israel from the land that he have given to them.
2. Yah will reject the temple that he (God) have make holy to honor his name.
3. Yah will make Israel the object of mockery and ridicule.
4. All who pass by will be appalled and shake their head in amazement.
5. And they will asked why did Yahweh did such a thing to this land and his kingdom?

And the world will know it is because they have abandon Yahweh and worship other God.

History have recorded the uprooting of Israel and the destruction of the temple that Solomon built to Yah’s honor and this was so destroyed because of Solomon backsliding and Israel’s continued backsliding.

Yahweh said that his words will not go fort without accomplishing its objective but it will accomplished every thing I say.

Yahweh outlined the conditions which Israel were to meet in order to have Yahweh’s continued protection and favor, Solomon and Israel also though that Yahweh would have been satisfy with their pass loyalty and the wonderful temple, but He do not. Yahweh expects a consistent and continual loyalty nothing else will do.

It is important to note that there are rewards for being faithful to him, reward that will catapult us into the hemisphere of dignity, and honor.

So if you are obsess with your church or your temple and the life of the members and leaders are not right with Yahweh, then Yahweh will cause those people to be reduced to mockery and ridicule.

Yah will never asked us to do anything that are beyond out ability to perform, but when we are unable to genuinely meet Jehovah’s expectation he have promised to be there to see us through.

David and Goliath the Battle for God

In the book of 1st Samuel the 17 Chapter, a story is told there that most people knows and enjoy. This is one of those feel good stories that give us the reassurance that good will always triumph over evil; this is the story of David and Goliath. Although the main theme in this story as they all are in every bible story and that is: Good will in the end triumph over bad, righteousness over evil and love over hate. There are some very important and practical lessons of life to be derived from this story.

Today I will try to bring out a few lessons that I found buried, within this feel good true story. Let us take a look at the first part of this story and see what golden nugget are there waiting for us to learn from.

Here we see a situation arose, where the Philistine gathered their army to attack Israel, it is important for me to trouble your memory now, if we can remember well, the Philistines had a long history with Israel, they had many battles against each other. In most of those battles, Israel defeated the pagan Philistine. The philistine also knew when Israel was faithful to Jehovah: the God of the Israel, he fights their battle for them and he did he have never lost a fight.

It is also important to understand that all of the surrounding nations, knew of the God of the Israelites, they also knew that he is powerful beyond measure and he don’t hesitate to use his power on his people’s behalf. They also knew that Jehovah will cause Israel to suffer defeat when they fail to honor him, when they go whoring and or worshiping other Gods. So with this in mind Israel’s neighbors, made an extra effort to maintain piece with Israel especially when Israel lived as God wanted them to. They fear Israel's God will exhort vengeance on them. They also knew under what condition Jehovah will not intervene on Israel’s behalf.

Here we see, without provocation, the philistine gather their army to war against Israel. We know there was bad blood between both nations but the question that must be answered is; why at this time in Israel’s history, the Philistine choose to provoke Israel to war?

It was a risky move on the part of the Philistine, to start a war with Israel but it was a risk they were willing to take. Let me tell you why it was risky. Israel was the ideal under dog, in that, each time they went to war they fought against nations that was bigger, stronger, with more sophisticated weapons of war, yet Israel was always victorious say for a few occasions when Jehovah fail to show up and ensure Israel’s victory; this was because they had backslide and turn away from their deliverer. An example of Yah's working on Israel's behalf was that incident that occurred Israel crossed the Jordon and all of the surrounding nations heard how Israel defeated the well fortified nation if Jericho, causing the mighty walls of that city to fall without hands. As a result all became afraid of Israel and Israel’s God.

Another fact we must come to terms which is: the nations around knew what the God of Israel expected of his chosen people, they also knew that Jehovah warn them not to expect his favor when they turn there backs on him and follow after other Gods.

So the lingering question that is yet to be answered is: why is it that at such a time as this time did the Philistine chose to rage war against Israel? To one who was not verse in the knowledge of Jehovah it was a terrible time for the philistine to start a war against Israel but to the informed it was the perfect opening for the Philistine to do so and win.

You see, the Philistine knew about the affairs of Israel, they knew that Yahweh had rejected the king of Israel, and therefore there were a possibility that Yahweh may cause the defeat and captivity of Israel because of the present condition of Israel.

Another point we must also take note of, the Philistine had mustered or gather their army for battle, and Israel did the same. In other words the Philistine was set out for an all out war, the engagement of army against army. However; midway the philistine saw it fit, to change the terms of engagement or the rules of battle. In stead of an all out war which entailed the violent confrontation of armies, they change the game to a one on one. They knew they had an unbeatable giant, a champion of war; they also knew there was no one in Israel with the skills, the strength, the sophisticated weapon and the knowledge  of Goliath of Gath had, who was capable of defeating their champion.

Like the philistines there are people in our lives who share the same space with us, who are sitting in the wings, patiently waiting for things to go wrong in our lives; when such things happens, they show up doing all in their power to make our conditions worst. They will choose to fight in manner that is new to us. They may bring up petty things; put a new spin on them, to make our already difficult times even more severe.

The lessons we ought to learn from the first part of story are:

1. You have to be aware of the type of people around you; especially in time of trouble. There are people among you, who will take advantage of your unfortunate situation and push you further into the abyss that is intended to suffocate and kill you.
2. When you think your conditions are private very often your enemies are fully aware of your situations.
3. Don’t expect those who dislike or hate you to play fair, but expect them to do all that is in their power for orchestrate and secure your destruction.

Because of the fact that we are unable to read the minds of others, it is truly hard to know if the people who cheered for us in the good times, will cheer for us in the bad times. We must be careful, for what we may consider cheers may actually be shouts of scorn and mockery.

Here we see that the pagan Philistines, not only chose to fight against God’s army when they think that Jehovah’s people were at there weakest stage, they change the rules of the fight without warning and they changed the rules and method of engagement to there advantage. From the looks of things, a victory for the Philistine was assured, it is either the philistines were going to win by default or Goliath was going to massacre some poor Israelite.

The Israelis were afraid to confront the Giant; they felt, because Jehovah had publicly renounced King Saul, there was no way they could have won the challenge against the Philistine champion. No one, not even the king was willing to risk his life in a battle; they believed they were doomed to lose. As a result of their belief, Israel was not willing to whole heatedly follow a leader who was doom to lose. As a matter of fact; no one was willing to sacrifice there life to fight a losing battle, for a king who was already rejected by God. We must remember this challenge was a fight to the death. The fight were to continue until one man was dead and the only way, to ensure the death of the loser and to confirm a victory, was the beheading of the loser by the victor.

The odds were highly stocked against Israel in this bottle, When Goliath came out, the Israelite Soldiers took one look at the size of the man they were expected to fight and became very afraid, when they saw his weapons and his full body armor they were sore afraid but when they heard the tidings/stories that were circulated within the Israelites camp about Goliath. The rumors made things worst. they learn of his unbeaten records, in war and in man to man combat against some of the most skilled men of war to have walk the earth; they heard of his fighting skills, the weight of the coat Goliath he wore that was made of mails that weighed one hundred and twenty five pounds; the fact that the tip of his spare weighed twenty five pounds. A combination of all these things reaffirmed the fear the men had and they became even more afraid.

What was unknown to the philistine and most of Israel was; although Yahweh had publicly rejected King Saul as King of all Israel, he did not leave Israel without leadership; for in secret, Jehovah had already caused the anointing of David: Son of Jessie, to be the King of all Israel. Although David was just a child, Israel was not without God appointed, God anointed leadership.

Because of the situation that existed in Israel, Goliath came out and laugh in the face of God’s chosen people. For forty days the Giant did this, He mocked Jehovah people, and as a result of the cowardly behavior that was displayed by the Israelites, the entire Philistine army laughed at the chosen children of God. This taunting was not embarrassing enough to motivate any one to defend the honor of Israel their nation or to defend the honor of Jehovah, there God who had declared Israel his chosen people.

In the camp of Israel there were a boy, that boy was David son Of Jessie. David was shocked at what he saw and heard. He was disturbed at the fear that held the entire army of Jehovah captive, even his brother whom he looked up to, exhibited the sicken cowardly behavior. David became perturbed when he heard the pagan Philistine, defy and mock the Army of the living God. It was right there and then that David decided in his heart that he was going to fight that Giant, defend Yahweh’s honor and save the pride of his nation Israel and there were nothing anyone could have done to detour David from his intended mission.

David was ushered to the king and there the child declared his intention. The King was shocked at the courage of the lad and although he knows that such a battle was not design for children and such a child should not have been allowed to participate in such. King Saul chose to neglect his responsibility and save his behind but in doing so he actually sentenced David to death. The proof that Saul knew this was evident when David expressed his intent to fight Goliath Saul said in verse 33 of 1 Samuel 17: Don’t be ridiculous!” Saul replied. “There’s no way you can fight this Philistine and possibly win! You’re only a boy, and he’s been a man of war since his youth.”

This statement was totally true David was too young, he had no experience in the art of war and he had no armor or weapon of war yet Goliath his opponent had mastered such art. It was too late to teach David the art of war, how to wield a sword, how to use a shield in his defense, how to throw a spear with deadly accuracy and how to evade the attacks of the skillful Giant.

It is important to note that no self respecting Leader or king will ever endanger the life of a child in the way Saul endangered David life. The arena wherein David was allowed to go and confront such grave danger was no place for a child and Saul knew that. It was the responsibility of the King to take on the challenge if no one in his ranks, was up to meet such a challenge.

The Naivety of the child, his love for Jehovah and his disgusts at the whole series of events he witnessed; gave David an unshakable faith that cause his eyes to be blinded to the size of the Giant; the lad ears were deft to all of the rumors he have heard of Goliath skills, as well as his own inability to adequately participate in such an event.

But David also know that he was anointed by the Host High God and that Giant was not, He knew he had challenged a lion and a bear and killed them in battle but the Giant did not, he was a member of the chosen people of God and Goliath was not, He was destined to be King of over all Israel and Goliath was not. Instead of focusing at the things, skills and experience he did not have, David focused on that which he had. David declared to King Saul: The LORD who rescued me from the claws of the lion and the bear will rescue me from this Philistine!”

As we go on deeper into the experience of David as it relates to him accepting the challenge against Goliath, we will note that David only had his Sheppard’s rod, his Sheppard’s bag, a sling and three Stones.

It is important to note that each day Goliath came out of the Philistine’s camp to issue the challenge he came out equipped to do battle against Israel’s best. He always had his official shield bearer running ahead of him, Goliath was always dressed in full body armor; he always had his sword and his Javelin. Goliath being an experience man of war, did not took nothing for granted, he was fully outfitted bronze helmet and all.

Let us take a realistic look at the reality that confronted David. Here we have a Giant 9 feet tall, wearing full body armor which includes a bronze helmet. The helmet that made up the head protection of the armor covered the entire face, head and the neck of the wearer. The helmet had just enough space for the wearer’s eyes so they can see.

How David was was to accomplish this impossible task, well on his own it was impossible but with Jehovah all thing even the impossible is possible. The story went on to say that David place a stone into his sling and swung it, the Stone hit Goliath on his forehead or should I say, the stone struck Goliath’s helmet in the area of his forehead, then the Giant fell to the ground. David did not have the strength to hit the Giant on his helmet and fell him, it was Jehovah who fell the Giant however because of David’s faith Jehovah allow him to get the credit.

The stone connecting to Goliath’s helmet threw him off balance and caused him to fell to the ground, it is important to note that the stone did not kill the Giant. It is important to note that it was after Goliath fell to the ground that David ran to the fallen Giant, took his sword and kill him then cut off the pagan, Philistine Champion’s head; as is recorded in verse 50.

It is important that we know, that this whole experience and David’s victory served as Yahweh’s way of introducing David to Israel and the entire world, as the Next King of Israel. This experience moved David from a literal unknown to becoming a house hold name in all of Israel as well as in all of the surrounding nations.

Behind The Scenes: The Devil Cast Out & The Fall Of Man.

There is much information that was left out of Lucifer’s fall from his high and lofty position in heaven, to what he was reduced to; after he led a failed revolt against The Heavenly Throne of Jehovah. What happened when he was cast down to the earth? How did the “Prince of the Morning” fell from heaven and what were the conditions of his stay on the earth? Isaiah 14: 12-15, gives us an indirect glimpse into this saga. “O shining star, son of the morning! You have been thrown down to the earth, you who destroyed the nations of the world. 13For you said to yourself, ‘I will ascend to heaven and set my throne above God’s stars. I will preside on the mountain of the gods far away in the north. e 14I will climb to the highest heavens and be like the Most High.’ 15Instead, you will be brought down to the place of the dead, down to its lowest depths.”

Although the above bible text gives us a brief on what occurred when Satan was expelled from the heavenly realms, there are still tons of unanswered questions. Most people will say that Yah did not give answer to these questions because it is not for us to know the answer to these questions. However; I believe that the great creator God, who knows all things and has the answer to all questions that man could ever ask; is more than willing and able to supply the necessary answers.

Let us go to the book of Genesis,  and there we will particularly examine the fall of man; while we do that, we will also solicit the Holy Spirit to help us in understanding, as well as; to clear up some of the ambiguities that are found there. Genesis chapter 1-2: dealt with the Creation of the heaven and the earth and all that in them is. It also saw the very first instruction that God give to man, which was a warning not to eat of a particular tree in the Garden of Eden. Gen. 2: 16-17 But the LORD God warned man, “You may freely eat the fruit of every tree in the garden— 17except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. If you eat its fruit, you are sure to die.”

Later on in Genesis 3: 1-7 One day the Devil asked the woman, “Did God really say you must not eat the fruit from any of the trees in the garden?”

2“Of course we may eat fruit from the trees in the garden,” the woman replied. 3“It’s only the fruit from the tree in the middle of the garden that we are not allowed to eat. God said, ‘You must not eat it or even touch it; if you do, you will die.’”

4“You won’t die!” the serpent replied to the woman. 5“God knows that your eyes will be opened as soon as you eat it, and you will be like God, knowing both good and evil.”

6The woman was convinced. She saw that the tree was beautiful and its fruit looked delicious, and she wanted the wisdom it would give her. So she took some of the fruit and ate it. Then she gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it, too. 7At that moment their eyes were opened, and they suddenly felt shame at their nakedness.

All Satan did was to plant a seed of doubt in the mind of the woman; he knew that as long as he gets either of God’s priced possession to entertain the slightest doubt there was something he could work with. The devil knew that he can only secure his freedom by convincing the man to freely hand it over to him.

There are not much said about this detrimental event in the bible, that is not to say that the whole story was not known, after centuries of repeating the story it came to a point where all of the details did not made the story anymore interesting and thus only the bear facts remains. There is always a danger to this end, in that, when the curiosity of future generation is aroused then that which they don’t know generates much more interest than that which is known.

There was only one reference of the devil before the fall of man and that was the encounter with the woman. Jehovah being God who has a well methodical plan for man’s salvation, had to have a well thought out plan for the incarceration of the devil and the other heavenly beings that followed the devil’s instructions. The questions that immediately popped into my mind are: where were the others who were evicted from the realms of Heaven with the Devil? Did Yah allowed Satan to have his subjects with him on the earth, thus making him ruler over the fallen ones? If so, how were they to coexist with man in the same environment? Why weren’t there any reference to or about the other fallen angels?

Understanding the Creator, the all knowing and the omnipotent God: Jehovah, he had a well though out plan for the incarceration of the devil and his angels. It is no secret that it is very uncomfortable for evil to dwell in the presence of perfection and righteousness, when Lucifer fell and he took on Devilish qualities and eventually was transformed in to the devil he is to day, it became grossly uncomfortable for him to continually dwell in the environment he wanted to rule. He would have had to change all of the characteristics that made heaven, heaven in order for him to dwell and reign there. In other words the devil would have to turn the splendors of heaven, into the hell he is slowly but successfully transforming the earth into in order for him to dwell there.

Before the fall of man Satan was confined to one tree in the garden; that tree was his dungeon and he dear not set foot off of that tree. The air of earth could not support him in flight even though he had wings, the purity of the earth was capable of inflicting agonizing pain to the defile foot of the devil. Satan did not have the pleasure of interacting with those who followed him in rebellion against God; he did not have the pleasure of setting up his own kingdom with his followers as his subjects. He was confined to the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The tree was so named for the one who dwell there, was once perfect and knew all there is to know about that which was good and perfect but in his present state he is now the embodiment of evil; hence the name of the tree: the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. It is safe to say that apart from Jehovah who knows all things, there was no other creature that had knowledge of what evil was. For their loving Creator spare them the agony of experiencing such. He made all of his creatures perfect in every way, he placed them to live in a perfect environment, and he only exposed them to positive, loving influences and his perfection and righteousness.

Before Lucifer’s fall that knowledge belongs only to the all knowing God and to no one else.

Satan presence on that tree of the knowledge of good and evil had corrupted the plant and by extension the fruits that bore on that tree. Although there were not vivid sign of the contamination that had infected the tree; the tree was different from all of the trees in the Garden; the perfect eyes of both man and beast could have recognized the difference and in obedience to their Creator all stay away from that tree and its fruits.

when the woman became interested in the tree and it fruits, and she had learn the tree was not as bad as it appeared to be; as bad as they were told it was and that three were benefits to be derived from that which was forbidden, the woman blinded her eyes to the danger of the presumable deadly tree, she refused to see the differences that were once so visible to her, and she purposefully fail to remember the words of her Creator as was told to her by her husband: words that warned all of earth the tree was not Good for food and they must not touch or eat of its fruits; for the day that they do eat of the tree they should surely die.

When the woman partake of the fruit that was declared forbidden by Jehovah God, nothing happened to her or to the earth; immediately, the devil realized that he was in the same condition he was in before the woman eat of the tree. It was then Satan realized that the disobedience of the woman will have a grand effects he thought it would; for The Creator did not give dominion over his creation to the woman but to the man.

Soon after Eve had transgressed the instruction of Jehovah, she regretted touching and eating of the forbidden fruit, immediately she knew that there were going to be serious consequences even though she did not know what death was. This was so for the loving God had spare the legal inhabitants of earth the knowledge and the misery that accompanied death.


Satan knew if he were to break free from the captivity he had found himself in, he had to get the man to disobey God law and the easiest way to accomplish this, was to entice the man to eat of the fruit  of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil; which would change man from immortal to mortal. Satan then encouraged the woman to share the fruit with her husband, after all if you eat of it and you did not die, it means that he can also eat of the fruit and he will not die. She also knew that sooner or later she would have to face the Creator God, and she did not want to face Jehovah alone, so she adhere to the counsel of the Devil.

When Adam saw his wife with the fruit in her hands, he became very fearful for he knew, neither man nor beast were to touch that fruit and in the day that anyone eat of it they will die. The woman offered her husband the fruit for food, recognizing his apprehension; she took a bit of the fruit in order to prove to her husband the fruit was good for food. Adam waited for the fruit to take effect; however, when nothing happened to his wife; as a result, his apprehension began to wane; she then took the opportunity to inform her husband of the benefits that were to be derived from participating in the meal.

When Adam realized that his wife had acquired new knowledge that he did not have, she had experienced something he had not and tasted of the fruit that he had never tasted; he became jealous of the woman, and wanted to be on par with her. After all she was the product of his body, it was him God give dominion over all things. Adam did not know the tremendous fear and trepidation his wife was experiencing; however he though he was missing out on an experience his wife was enjoying. Thus in his quest to maintain control he partake of the fruit.

It was when Adam eat of the fruit that immediately the change took effect. The Devil immediately felt the change and knew that he was free from his prison, Adam immediately felt and saw his nakedness and like wise the woman. Even the animals felt the emergence of the disharmony that swept across the Garden. The Most High felt the cords of love and adoration which constantly flow from man’s heart to his and from Jehovah's heart back to the heart of mans were instantly replaced by fear.

The unfortunate events that led to the fall of earth first couple was not played out in the dark, but Jehovah and all the host of heaven looked on in utter disbelief and shame as the custodian of the earth, one who was made by Jehovah's own hands and was appointed by Jehovah himself refused to heed his creator’s command and in the process freed the devil; change his allegiance from the God of love to the father of destruction and as Adam handed over the sovereignty of the earth to him who hates their creator Jehovah; the one who was banished there from before the father's throne.

Most people believe that nothing was wrong with the tree and their dying was as a result of their disobedience to Jehovah. If you believe this you share the same believe system with the father of lie: the Devil, who also believed that Jehovah’s laws were arbitrary and not necessary; the laws of God were only a burden on holy creatures. The devil found out the hard way, for when he choose not to honor the words of the Lord his God, he paid the full price and today he is still bearing the consequence of his action.

Separation from God carries a high price. It is nothing that God does but a natural reaction to a conscious action we choose to take. When the devil rejected Jehovah as his God and refuse to bask in his glory, he suffered the natural consequence of his action. It is time that we realized Yahweh knows how he made us, he knows our deficiencies, our weaknesses and the effects such will have on us, if we do not subscribe to that which was put in place to keep such deficiencies and weakness at bay. It is like a person refusing to basked in the sunlight, eventually he or she will becomes pale and sickly. We don't have to be pale and sickly, for we are not without the knowledge as to how to remain healthy; all he have to do is adhere to the instruction of how to stay strong and healthy and all will be well.

We must never forget that there is only one who is self sustaining and that person is Jehovah, the Creator God, The Most High; The All Powerful God all else is sustained by some aspect of his perfection. an example of this is the sun: the sun has no use on its own but it finds importance when it reflect God's glory. let us not forget that the sun has no light of its own but was placed in the heavens as a buffer that protect earth's inhabitants from the direct effects of Jehovah's brilliance.

Lets us take a look at God’s law and see which of the laws we can identify Satan as being in contravention of:

Commandment 1: you must not have any other God but me. Satan was not satisfy with Jehovah’s Deity and chooses to institute another God other than Jehovah: he set himself up as God. That was a direct violation of the first commandment.

Commandment 2: you shall not make or worship other Gods. Satan not only set himself up as a God to be worship, he also enticed all of his heavenly subordinates to accept him as a God and to worship him.

Commandment 5: Honor thy mother and thy father. Satan failed to honor Jehovah God as his father; Jehovah was the one who created, cared for, blessed him with power, provided a perfect environment for him to dwell in etc. Yet he betrayed his creator, sustainor, father and provider.

Commandment 9: “You must not testify falsely against your neighbor. Satan spread falsehood to all of his subordinates about Jehovah, his Government and the way he (Jehovah) ran his government the way he did. Unfortunately Satan shamelessly continue to spread that same falsehood to the fallen race today.

Commandment 10: “You must not covet your neighbor’s house. You must not covet your neighbor’s wife, male or female servant, ox or donkey, or anything else that belongs to your neighbor. Satan coveted or desired fro himself Jehovah’s Kingdom, His honor, His power, His worship, His perfection and His status as God and Creator of the universe and everything in it.

So you see if you believe like Satan that there were nothing wrong with the tree and there were nothing wrong with eating of it fruits, you are only buying into the devil’s first lie. Jehovah will never cause us to uphold a law or cause us to refrain from something for absolutely no reason at all; neither will he asked us to do anything unless it will be beneficial to us. To do otherwise would be selfish and spiteful and the God who created the Heaven and the earth is neither selfish and or spiteful. He (Yahweh) have proven this when he have committed his only son to die on the cross for fallen, worthless humanity, he have proven that he is not selfish and or spiteful when he refuse to immediately destroy the Devil and his followers, for plotting and participating in a siege on his kingdom, and he have proven that he is not selfish and spiteful when in stead of exacting immediate Justice on the first human couple for refusing to adhere to his instruction which was for their own benefit. In stead of destroying them he allowed his disobedient creature to life in their sinful, fallen condition in the hope of eternal redemption from their sins and restoration to their former state.

It is important to note that the beauty that Lucifer possessed were not taken away from him after he fell. We must understand that the beauty that Lucifer possessed was as a result that Yah made him perfectly, his righteousness maintained that perfection, and dwelling in the presence of his perfect creator only enhance his beauty, the glory of Good cause the precious stones which covered Lucifer to radiate with the glory that only Yahweh possesses.

So the tree of the Knowledge of good and evil possessed characteristics that was alien to man. They were so alien to man because they would not have contributed to man’s happiness but only deprived him of the happiness that he was created to enjoy; should man chose to participate in such would only destroy man’s perfection.

Adonai's (My Lord's) Desire For His Children: You and Me.

3rd John 1:2 Beloved, I wish above all things that you prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospers. 

Many people are of the opinion that Christian are to live dejected lives, and the dejection that Christians are subject to, are signs of how close they are to Yahweh; your troubles are proof of your meekness, your frustration are evidence of your faith in God and your suffering are tangible benefit of Yahweh's loves for you. If you are one who believe such things, let me tell you here and now; you have got it all wrong. All those examples are signs that you have been curse by The Creator. Jehovah will never curse his faithful children; however, this does not means that you will not experience difficult time.

So if you are experiencing the above negatives in your life, then you are to stop, reexamine your life and the relationship you have with the Most High God. It may very well be that you are experiencing such because you have strayed from your maker and your king, you may think you are OK but you may very well have back slid; you may have been neglecting your relationship with the savior and is declining into apostasy.

For it is always God’s will that we prosper and be in good health. We must not forget that Yah don’t cause his prosperity to fall on just anyone. You see whether we are serving Jehovah or not we are awarded certain of his blessing, he blesses us with life, gives us fresh air, good health and hope of better things  to ensure that the quality of our life is one that is worth living. The prosperity of Yah is a reward from God and a sign of his extended blessing. Although everyone is entitled to his extended blessing, everyone is not exposed to the extended blessings of God. In order for us to qualify for the outpouring of our father’s extended blessing, we must meet certain conditions.

Let us turn to Deut. 28: 1-2 in an effort to find out what conditions must be met in order to experience and participate in the lord’s blessing and experienced his prosperity, protection, good health etc.

Deut. 28: 1-2 This is what will happen, if thou shall hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth: And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shall hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God.

“If you shall listen diligently to the voice of the lord your God;” you are not just required to listen but you are required to listen diligently. The word diligent means: carefully carrying out a task or duty paying attention especially to detail or exactness.

So diligently listening, is to pay attention to what is being said especially paying particular attention to the details and the exactness of what is being said.

Why is it important that we listen diligently? We must listen diligently because the stakes are high; we cannot take anything for granted because the end results will determine three things which are:

1. It determines whether or not we reflected to the world or show the world that we are indeed children of God, representing him in all that we do.

2. It will determine whether or not we experience hardship and a curse life here on earth or whether we experience God's wonderful blessings on earth.

3. It is also a measuring stick that determine the degree of our love for Jehovah.

We are called upon to listen diligently to the words of Jehovah God.

The second part of the text says: to observe and to do all his commandments. Now that we have listened diligently or we have pay attention to the details and the exactness of God’s words, we are to observe and to do all his commandments not some, or those that are convenient to us but all of his commandment; when we feel foolish doing them, when people calls us name, we must do them and even when we don’t feel like; we must observe and do all of the lord’s commandment.

When you listen carefully to God’s word, paying attention to detail and the exactness of what he has said and you are careful to observe his commandment with the same diligence: paying attention to details and the exactness of his words; then the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth

This is the reward for your diligence in listening and living. You shall be set on high above all nation of the earth. God is going to elevate you where ever you are, you will have better health that the other; God’s servants always experience good health and long life, more earthly riches, see Job, Abraham, Isaac's, David, the three Hebrew boys Daniel etc. greater capacity to understand simple as well as complex things, Salomon, David, Daniel etc. you will be respected even by those who hate and despises you and you will always experience the protection of the lord.

And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God. In other words, If you shall listen and do what the lord say all of God’s blessing, what are blessings? Blessings, are God’s love and favor; So, in simple language if we listen to and obey Jehovah’s word, his love and favor will chase us and over take us where ever we go. Isn’t that wonderful?

So when other sees you, they will automatically say Psalms 1:1-3 Bless is the man that walk not in the counsel of the ungodly, who refuse to stand in the way of sinners, who cannot be convinced to sit in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and on God’s law he set aside time to meditate on them every day and every night. God will then bless him and he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, he bring forth his fruit in and out of season; his leaf shall never wither; and whatsoever he do shall prosper.

Lets us therefore visit Deut. 28:3-14 and examined some of the areas we will experience God’s blessings.

Verse3 blessed shall thou be in the city, and blessed shall thou be in the field.

It matter not where you are, whether you are in the city, the field or in a heathen country Yahweh’s blessing will follow you, over take you, set you apart and make you distinguish.

4 Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kin, and the flocks of thy sheep.

God love and favor will be upon the fruits of your body: that mean your children will be blessed, the fruit of the ground and the fruit of the cattle which means your increase or income, and your kin: your family. Our family will experience blessings because of our love and obedience to and for Jehovah. You see Jehovah knows, if those who are close to us; those who fail to demonstrate their love for him, got the punishment for their disobedience to him that they deserves and become ill, got into accidents, fail at what they do, die etc. such will have a devastating negative impact on the life his faithful child, so in order to minimize the suffering to the faithful, he take care of our wicked friends and family even when they do not deserve it. Yah does this as a part of our blessing; thus saving us his faithful children the agony of the demise of those close to us.

5 Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store. When you sit down to eat you food will properly nourish your body.

6 Blessed shall thou be when thou come in, and blessed shall thou be when thou go out.

7 The LORD shall cause your enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee seven ways.

The devil will cause the wicked to hate you for no reason at all and they shall form allegiance against you to do you harm and even to take your life, they will plot and execute their wicked plans against you; however, without your effort, they: your enemies and their plans will fall by the way side, even without your knowledge that there were the devil devise plot to destroy you. Your enemies shall flee like scared pigeon from you; your good and well intended action will frighten them and they will flee from you.

8 The LORD shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and in all that you set your hand to do; and he shall bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God give thee. 9The LORD shall establish thee an holy people unto himself, as he hath sworn unto thee, if thou shall keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, and walk in his ways. 10And all people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of the LORD; and they shall be afraid of thee.

Because of your action and Jehovah God reaction the entire world will know that you are called by Yahweh’s name and you are his child and he is your God, this relationship that you have establish with Jehovah, will send fear into the hearts of man and even devils.

11 And the LORD shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the LORD swore unto thy fathers to give thee. 12The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of your hand: and thou shall lend unto many nations, and thou shall not borrow.

The lord will bless you with lots of healthy children, and he will give you more then enough means to take care of those children, you will have so much that you will be able to lend to others; even those who hate you will have to come to borrow from you and you will always have to lend.

13 And the LORD shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shall be above only, and thou shall not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the LORD thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them: 14And thou shall not go aside from any of the words which I command thee this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.

Yahweh will make you the most important and they shall always be at the top and never beneath

But all this will only come to a reality when and if we diligently listen to Jehovah’s words and do them with correctness. So don’t forfeit your opportunity to experience being the recipient of earthly riches, the protection of the conquering lion himself, the wisdom that will set you apart from all other, and a family life that will only bring joy to your heart. In order to achieve all of these things and more you must first get to know who Jehovah and his son Jesus Christ are, and after you know who they are; you must decide whether or not they are who you want to have rule over your life or not. If you choose Yahweh then you will be bless as is outlined above.

The Turth Must be Spoken: Strengthen The Bearers

There is nothing worst within the Christian community, than a person or group who proclaims their belief in or of a particular biblical principle; preach that principle and expects everyone to live that principle except them. A good example of this can be found in the Seventh Day Adventist Church. This religion is one that propagate Sabbath keeping; however, the members themselves don’t keep the Sabbath. It is true that they hold their main worship sessions on the Sabbath Day; but that is as far as it goes. They meet for church and within the walls it is business as usual. All of the church administrative business and other matter that should have been dealt with by Jehovah’s faithful during the week are left to be done on his Holy Sabbath Day.

Instead of giving back to Jehovah a little of the time he has allotted to us here on earth; our greed have also lead us to also covert his time. We take such to participates in all manner of secular activities while we neglect the commitment we made to him. It is not enough that we break the vow we make to Jehovah, by not devoting the time and the skills that are gifts from him, to do his work, but rather we consciously chooses to desecrate his holy day with such secular activities. All this is done for no other reason but to cover up our unfaithfulness to Yah, the organization and or the individual to whom we have made commitment. So we do the assignment on Yah’s Holy Sabbath Day; trying to look good before man, while we disrespect Jehovah, trample on his laws and disregard his feelings: It all boils down to our image and maintaining the same among men.

According to Genesis the Sabbath is a holy day that was set aside by yah so man will always be reminded of who he is, his role as creator, and all of the things he has promised to his children. In it, human are to set aside or come apart from all their worldly activities and focus on the awesome, wonderful, magnificent and glorious power of the Creator, Redeemer and Holy King. Nothing else should be our minds focused on this day. Our mind must acknowledge his presence; out lips must speak of his glory, his love and his power and our hands must demonstrate his love.

Sabbath keeping is one way that we demonstrates our love for and to Jehovah; we obey Yah because we love him and we love him because he first love us and even when we are not worthy of his love he has been faithful to us. He have made promises that he have never neglected to keep, he have shower us with many wonderful gifts, and he has protected us against evil even when Justice says that we should be killed. These are the reasons why I love Jehovah; these are the reasons why I take of his grace daily to demonstrate my love and my obedience for and to him.

So, when I sat in the church and I heard this young preacher asked Yah to forgive her for trampling on his holy day, and continue with a sermon that was laced with correction and corrective measures that we all should follow; I was moved by Yah to approach her and tell her about the dangerous ground she was threading on by preaching such truth. After which I wrote her the following and send it electronically to her, below is the content of what I wrote.

Hello madam Blake,

How are you? I spoke to you on Sabbath after your sermon; a sermon what I termed “a Martin Luther sermon”. I termed the sermon you preached such because like Martin Luther, your sermon on Sabbath saw you publicly pointing out the hypocrisy of the Seventh Day Adventist church; your employer and you publicly confessing your sins.

I must say it was refreshing to hear such truth coming from the pulpit at Kingsboro Temple Seventh Day Adventist Church and I was elated that Yah used you to present such timely message to his people. The sad thing about the problem on which you have shone a light is: it is a problem that is internationally institutionalized within the Seventh Day Adventist community. Such straightforwardness will anger many people and like Herod, instead of changing their ways, they will see you as a trouble maker, one who is bent on exposing their sins and spitefully causing them public and private embarrassment.

Very often when we are confronted with such dilemma we tend to forget how much we admire the stance of Daniel, the three Hebrew boys, Joseph and the other men and women who Jehovah lead and protected when they were confronted with life threatening predicament and as a results, we abandon His Majesty, the same God who saw his people through the rough times. In doing so we tend to fall prostrate before the feet of powerless man and worship him and in the same breath we consciously ignore Jehovah’s instruction but rather obeying the instruction of him who has no power at all. All this is done in an effort to save our jobs, maintain our social status and to ensure we has the almighty dollar to take care of our needs.

I was moved to bring this your attention, a fact that most preachers of truth often take for granted, which is: when you take on the responsibility to preach truth you are exposing yourself to problems either way. You may get into trouble with Jehovah if you fail to live your admonishment when he revealed his truth to you and you in turn reveal them to his people, a truth that you took upon yourself to teach his people. Or you will get into trouble with your fellow men your bosses, your peers and your adversaries when you chose to live what you preach and do just what his majesty Jehovah instructs you to do.

Let me take this opportunity to pray your strength in the lord, so he will give you the strength to keep on directing his children aright.