SPY DISCIPLE (EPISODE 10)

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Inasmuch as many had taken in hand to set in order a narrative of those things which were fulfilled among those of Paul’s time, it seemed good to Paul also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to likewise write to them an orderly account that they may know the certainty of those things in which they were instructed. It is global knowledge that Paul’s account in that regard saw those of his time becoming privy to the things in which they were instructed, even following those instructions to the letter, except for beasts of Ephesus who have no share in God’s eternal covenant. The absence of the likes of Paul in Sodom and Gomorrah saw God thus decrying the abominations of those cities: “because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grave, I will go down now and see whether they have done altogether according to the outcry against it that has come to Me; and if not, I will know.” Consequently, two angels, coming to Sodom based on that, confirmed that indeed, those cities had done all according to the outcry against them that had gone to God...but not before they were seen by Lot who was sitting at the gate of Sodom—who, on seeing them, rose to meet them and bowed himself with his face toward the ground. Such reverence earned him favor with the angels concerning an out of context request he'd made for them to not overthrow a nearby city which had been marked for destruction so he'd find succor therein—since the city he was to flee to—was a bit far away.

Abraham, who had had talks with God concerning the destruction of Sodom, rising early the next morning to the place where he had stood before the Lord, looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah and toward all the land of the plane. What he saw, unlike the previous day, was the smoke of the land which went up like the vapor of a furnace...a terrible sight to have beheld, though not as terrible as those that Jacob beheld which ought to have been his undoing. Jacob kept seeing and beholding sights that ought to have been his undoing. As it turned out, those sights only became his doing. Firstly, he saw God face to face at Peniel; yet his life was spared. Secondly, he saw his twin brother, Esau, who he had tricked out of his birthright and wasn’t pounced on—in vengeance like he'd feared would happen. But Dinah, Jacob’s only daughter, wasn’t so lucky, as, having gone out to see the daughters of the land of Shechem, the son of Hamor the Hivite, who was prince of the country, saw her and raped the hell out of her…only to fall madly in love with her. That made him hold his father’s entire land to ransom just to walk down the aisle with her. Unfortunately, he, his father, and their entire land only succeeded in walking down graves: no thanks to Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, who wouldn’t tolerate their sister being trodden underfoot like that. Howbeit, that didn’t prevent her from plunging into oblivion afterwards, as there'd been no further biblical account of her except in reference to that tragic flaw...a deplorable aftermath of her unadvised sightseeing.

Like they say, there’s more to life than meets the eyes. It's also said that: “not all that glitters is gold.” Lot wasn’t privy to these words of the wise when he, before the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, lifted his eyes and saw all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere like the garden of the Lord and like the land of Egypt. So he coveted it to what would have been his doom if not for divine intervention. But Abraham, who wouldn’t nurse such covetousness in his heart, was offered a blank cheque by God upon his separation from Lot, being told to lift his eyes and look from the place where he was—northward, southward, eastward, and westward; that all the land he saw would be given to him and his descendants forever. The devil also came upon Jesus with a blank cheque of that sort, taking Him up on an exceedingly high mountain, showing Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory, and saying to Him, “all these things I’ll give to You if You fall down and worship me.” Abraham had looked and beheld lands that were given to him and his descendants forever. But Jesus wouldn’t look to behold the kingdoms the devil showed to him; nor would He consider the glory of those kingdoms...not to mention falling down to worship the devil for the kingdoms.

However, many today, like Eve, having warmed up to conversations with devils, have been shown similitude of such kingdoms and asked to bow in satanic worship for them...which they obliged like Eve did with the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, having beheld and judged the fruit of that tree to be good for food, pleasant to the eyes, and desirable to make one wise. Like Eve, such persons have taken of such fruits and eaten, also giving them to their companions like Eve did to Adam. Wasn’t that when the eyes of both of them popped open and they saw their nakedness, which, prior to then, was concealed from the eyes of them both?

Sowing fig leaves to make coverings for themselves didn’t conceal their nakedness, neither has the fashionable fashions of fashionistas across centuries served that purpose…accounting for humanities’ reproachable nakedness with endless efforts being made to conceal it, even to the detriment and hurt of those devoid of understanding. When “sons of God” cast their eyes on “daughters of men” to behold their astonishing beauties, for which reason they yield to the temptation of taking wives for themselves from among them, thus conceiving and birthing giants, how does one conceal that? Many have attempted to see to such concealments. Many have also determined to uncover such concealments. This has given rise to a kind of “hide and seek” contest, a sort of “police and thief” game—which is supposed to be fun. Quite sadly, the detrimental aspects of such concealments has seen seekers embracing diverse paranormal means to squarely tackle the destructive diabolism deployed to foster those concealments.

Recall what ensued when Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian whom she'd borne to Abraham scoffing Isaac? She sent her and Ishmael away. In the course of their journey, Hagar, having gotten close to losing Ishmael, went and sat down across from him at a distance of about a bowshot; saying to herself: “let me not see the death of the boy.” So she sat opposite him, lifted her voice, and wept. But God opened her eyes and she saw a well from which she drew water and gave to the lad to drink. That’s how the lad survived death. Likewise, God has opened the eyes of many in this day and age, making them privy to unimaginable concealments too dreadful to reveal to the unseeing. But certain conglomerate peoples of cognitive universes, known to have devised means by which motives at the core of men’s hearts can be determined without an outpouring of the Spirit of God, uncovering those concealments, held not back in relaying their awful findings to the unseeing and those devoid of good understanding, hence their absurd revelatory exposé which has made for perception.
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WOMEN
Leah’s eyes were delicate, but Rachel was beautiful of form and appearance. Yet it was Rachel who envied Leah when she saw that she bore Jacob no children. Leah, when she saw that she had stopped bearing children, took Zilpah her maid and gave her to Jacob as wife just to clap back at Rachel for having done same. Jacob wouldn’t object to any of it, for which reason he bore sons who wouldn’t think twice before convening to put a hit on the star of the family to their father’s deep hurt: his beloved Joseph, without whom they would have been wiped off the face of the earth. Unless the God of Jacob, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac—had been with Joseph, surely, his witchy brothers would have truncated his glorious destiny...just as Laban would have done to Jacob by sending him away empty-handed after twenty years of genuine service to him. Wasn’t it on account of Jacob’s proximity with God that he came upon a revelation that made it such that it came to pass that, whenever the stronger of Laban’s livestock conceived, Jacob placed rods before the eyes of those livestock in order for them to conceive among those rods and make for his enrichment since Laban had mapped out a wicked strategy to shut him out of his due benevolence for twenty years of service? Hadn’t God, in line with that, told Jacob to lift his eyes and see the miracle that made all the rams which leap on the flocks to be streaked, speckled, and gray-spotted because he’d seen all that Laban had done to him?” It’s that same proximity with God that saw the cheating Laban thus acknowledging God’s hand upon Jacob: “please stay, if I have found favor in your eyes, for I have learned by experience that God has blessed me for your sake.”

MEN
We still can’t believe that when Joseph’s brothers saw that their father loved him more than them all, they hated him and could not speak peaceably to him. The same Joseph who found favor in the sight of an Egyptian and served him such that the Egyptian made him overseer of his entire house? Even putting all that he had under Joseph’s authority? Then there’s Pharaoh who presented Joseph to all Egypt as being more discerning and wise than all Egypt because he gave interpretations to his dreams. Same dream that—when Joseph had and told his own brothers, they hated him even more? But since trouble, like the devil, roams to and fro the earth seeking whom to devour, it leveraged the instrumentality of Potiphar’s wife to extend its footprint to Joseph from where his brothers stopped. Casting her longing eyes on him, she required him to lie with her in an adulterous union. His refusal landed him in jail where he continued the good work of interpreting dreams. Wasn’t that how he got out to become the second most influential person on earth?

WOMEN
Yet when he saw those same brothers of his over a decade later, he recognized them, though he initially acted as a stranger to them and spoke roughly to them. But guess what? His brothers didn’t recognize him. What filled their heads was their belly concerns, for which reason—when Joseph asked them, “where do you come from?” all they could think to answer was: “from the land of Canaan to buy food.” Joseph, not being given to partial or total memory loss like his brothers, recalled at that point the dreams he’d dreamed about them, eventually distinguishing himself from them in terms of nobleness by saying to them: “as for you, you meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, in order to bring it about as it is this day, to save many people alive.” But thanks to God who makes masterpieces out of messes, Jacob’s spirit, which had been and remained deeply hurt on account of his perceived demise of his beloved son, got revived when word of Joseph’s aliveness and fortune was brought to him by his sons, especially when he saw the carts which Joseph had sent to carry him to Egypt. Upon beholding his son again in Egypt, with great fulfillment he declared, “now let me die, since I have seen your face, because you are still alive.” But when his brothers saw that their father was dead, they again convened to wonder if Joseph will repay them for the evil they did to him. Unlike them, Joseph was more concerned about their wellbeing in that strange land.

MEN
Unlike his uncle, Esau—when he saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him to Padan Aram to take a wife from there after swindling him, and that—as Isaac blessed Jacob, he charged him to not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan because of their unruliness, and especially that Jacob had obeyed his parents and left for Padan Aram like the obedient son he was. Wasn't that when Esau, seeing that the unruly daughters of Canaan didn't please his Dad, went ahead to grace his store of wives with those very women just to get at his Dad for sending Jacob away so he’d elude his vengeance? Jacob embarked on that safe journey nonetheless and was most favorably welcomed by the sight of Rachel on arrival, fulfilling the purpose of that journey in line with his parents’ intention for the journey…not until Laban became so unwelcoming such that Jacob convened with Rachel and Leah to fill them in on how their father’s countenance had ceased from being favorable toward him as before, for which reason Laban could afford to so want to strip Jacob of all things to the point of putting it to Jacob that Jacob's wives were his daughters, that Jacob’s kids were his kids, and that Jacob’s flock were his flock. He even blurted to Jacob that all that Jacob saw were his. Imagine the likeness! But then...

WOMEN
It’s not out of place to allude that if Esau, in the heat of his anger towards Jacob, was in Balak’s position and disposed to the likes of Balaam, would’ve beckoned on him to curse Jacob for him like Balak did. But wouldn’t Balaam, taking up his oracle, spewing the utterance of the man whose eyes are opened, the utterance of him who hears the words of God, who sees the vision of the Almighty, who falls down with eyes wide open, have only foreseen how lovely Jacob's tents were? And how lovely Jacob’s dwellings were? Wouldn’t his futuristic spiritual ears only have listened to hear God’s proclamation to Israel decades later, saying; “see, I have set the land before you; go in and possess the land which the Lord swore to your fathers—to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—to give to them and their descendants after them?” Even if he advanced further into the future to become privy to the slavery of Israel in Egypt, which may have come off as the repercussion of Jacob’s betrayal, he would have gone even further to hear God tell Moses to go and gather the elders of Israel together and tell them that the God of their fathers had appeared to him to say how he’d visited and seen what’s done to Israel in Egypt; and had avowed to bring them up out of the affliction of Egypt to a land flowing with milk and honey. He would have heard God call to Moses afterwards from the mountain to tell him to remind the house of Jacob what he did to the Egyptians and how he bore them on eagles’ wings and brought them to Himself, promising that, if they obeyed His voice and kept His covenant, they would be a special treasure to Him above all people.

MEN
In order words, it’d have been nothing but curses causeless...destined to not stand; everything turning into testimonies, beauties for ashes, blessings upon blessings!

WOMEN
Unlike it was for Ham, the father of Canaan, who, seeing his father’s nakedness, incurred a curse for irreverently whispering of it to his two brothers. Wasn’t that why the Israelites could afford to knock giants out of the land of Canaan and take over the land? But for Shem and Japheth who took a garment, laid it on both their shoulders and went backward to cover their father’s nakedness, heartfelt blessings were pronounced on them because they turned their faces away so they wouldn’t see their father’s nakedness. It was the curse upon Canaan that made Abraham to commission Eliezer who ruled over all he had—to find Isaac a wife outside Canaan, making him swear that he won’t take a wife for Isaac from the daughters of Canaan. Having dwelt among them, he had known them to be accursed daughters…unfit for holy matrimony, not to mention being co-custodians of Abrahamic blessings. Think about it: an accursed woman marrying a blessed man? Daughters of Canaan arguably wouldn’t reach for a veil to cover themselves upon lifting their eyes to behold their groom-to-be. Aren’t they the ones who seduced angels, conceived by those angels, and birthed giants? Is that a feat that one achieves being veiled? But Rebekah, lifting her eyes to behold Isaac, didn’t just take a veil to cover herself. She immediately assumed the role of the Holy Spirit in Isaac’s life, becoming a comforter per excellence to him, especially having lost his loving mother whose vacuum that had been to fill. Rebekah took it further by following Isaac into his mother’s tent to become his darling wife...many thanks to the oldest servant of Abraham’s house who had sought her out for Isaac just as Abraham requested.

MEN
Such a lovely union that was...so lovely that, having journeyed to the land of the Philistines, Abimelech king of the Philistines, looking through a window, saw Isaac showing endearment to Rebekah and coveted the sight his lusty eyes beheld. But just like the daughters of Canaan, he was unfit for the likes of Rebekah...according to God’s standard—who appeared to him in a dream to so sternly warn him against following up on that covetousness. That, however, didn’t stop Judah, the great-great grand-father of Jesus from marrying and having carnal knowledge of the daughter of a certain Canaanite upon setting eyes on her. Neither did God withhold justice from Er, a product of that union—for acting wickedly in the sight of the Lord by practicing coitus interruptus on his wife to keep from having children with her. The same was the case with the other products of that union who faced justice for the same undoing until Tamar became widowed and only hoped on being inherited yet again by the last surviving product of Judah’s union with a daughter of Canaan. But Judah played safe by ridding his family of Tamar, intending for the worst to become of her like it had of his sons on account of her. Tamar, noticing things for what they were—since Judah’s last surviving son had become grown but not made to inherit her as promised, took off her widow’s garments, covered herself with a veil like Rebekah did, and sat in an open place to lay ambush for Judah. Judah, though being the great-great-grand-father of Jesus, saw her and thought she was a harlot: no discernment whatsoever…simply because she had covered her face. It would have been better if he only misjudged her by judging the book by its cover. He actually solicited for her services and had it lavishly, attaining a feat his own sons couldn’t...with the same girl. Wasn’t it about three months later; that Judah was told that Tamar had played the harlot and was with child by harlotry? What did he do upon learning of that? He hypocritically asked for her to be burned...only to soon find that he’s shamefully on the other end of that harlotry! Like Jesus, he wept!

WOMEN
It is for this reason that Jesus says that many who are first will be last, and many who are last will be first. Is it not lawful for us to do what we wish with our own things? Why are certain people so intent on calling the shots for others? Even subjecting others to rejection for not heeding those calls because others deem themselves as only being answerable to more worthy calls which puts them in the positions of calling the shots too? Are the eyes of certain people evil because others are ambitious too? The last will indeed be first and the first will be the last, for many are called but few chosen. After all, hasn’t one of God’s doings which is superbly marvelous in our eyes been the stone which the builders rejected becoming the chief cornerstone?

MEN
Scribes and Pharisees who sit in Moses’ seat! But like Jesus cautioned, we’ll observe and do what they tell us. But we’ll not do according to their works because they do not practice what they preach! They are like Jerusalem who kill prophets and stone those sent to them! How often we had wanted to gather their children together as hens gather their chicks under their wings! But they were not willing! Now see! Their houses are left to them desolate! Worst off, they shall see us no more till they acknowledge that blessed are they that come in the name of the Lord! We will continue to take heed that no one deceives us…for many like them will come in Jesus’ name, claiming to be the Christ and will deceive many. That’s why we are watchful for the “abomination of desolation standing in the holy place,” spoken of by Daniel the prophet, so that, like those in Judea—spoken of in the bible—who are supposed to flee to the mountains, we may flee to where we are supposed to.

WOMEN
Normally, they should be known by their fruits. But it takes time to discern fruits. However, an easy way to know them is by their speech: it betrays them…just as Peter’s speech betrayed him when he denied Jesus before those who said to him: “surely you also are one of them. Your speech betrays you.” They keep wondering why we are more spiritually perceptive than them! Isn’t it because they are outside and the secret of the kingdom of God is only given to us because we’re inside? To those on the outside, everything is said in parables so that they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven! In order words, even God considers them undeserving of his forgiveness! A well-deserved unforgiveness, we would say, for, like the Pharisees of Jesus’ time, holding firmly to the traditions of men, they find fault in meagre issues like the Jewish custom of not washing hands in a special way before eating, failing to perceive that whatever enters a man from the outside cannot defile him because it does not enter his heart but his stomach and is emitted as shit, thus purifying all edibles. Rather, it is what comes out of a man that defiles the man, as it is from within, from out of the heart of men—that evil thoughts proceed...and adulteries, and fornications, and murders, and thefts, and covetousness, and wickedness, and deceit, and lewdness, and an evil eye, and blasphemy, and pride, and foolishness, and lots more: many of which are identifiable with them! Having eyes, do they not see? And having ears, do they really not hear?

MEN
They’re too proud to admit to being unseeing and unhearing. But thanks be to God who has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts, put down the mighty from their thrones, exalted the lowly, filled the hungry with good things, and sent the rich away empty. If only they had known the things that make for their peace! But those things are hidden from their eyes! Days will come upon them when their enemies will build embankments around them, surround and close them in on every side, level them and their children within them to the ground! They will not be left in them one stone upon another...for they did not know the time of their visitation because they were playing around! Who lights a lamp and covers it with a vessel or puts it under beds? Don’t those who light lamps set them on lampstands? So that those who enter may see the light? But these lots light lamps, cover them with vessels, and put them under beds, being of the illusion that their ugly secrets will elude the light and be kept from revealing, trivializing the fact that there’s nothing hidden that won’t come to light and be known. The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore, when the eye is good, the whole body is full of light. But when the eye is bad, the body is full of darkness. They better take heed that the light which is in them is not darkness! Scribes and Pharisees! Hypocrites! They are like graves which are not seen! Therefore, unsuspecting folks who walk over them, not being aware of them, are foully made to suffer undue consequences for walking over them! The days will come when they will desire to see one of the days of those of us of this community who, like Noah, opened the doors of the ark of God and beckoned on them to hop in and escape the coming wrath of God. But they won’t see it! However, God will say to us like He said to Noah, “come into the ark with your households because I’ve seen that you are righteous before Me in this generation.” Hallelujah!

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When dealing with systems that are unrepentantly evil, one must come to the point of understanding that such systems are structured to do exactly what they do: evil. The greater part of progress is the desire to progress, and dreams come true when desire transforms into substantial action. These community men and women, recounting the events of their lives, recall proceedings from days when drought consumed them and caused sleep to depart from their eyes. A group of seekers had done to them like unrighteous persons spoken of—by Jesus as being sure to meet unfavorable judgment for being wolves in sheep’s clothing, having given no food to them when they were hungry, nor drink when they were thirsty, nor taken them in when they were strangers, nor clothed them when they were naked, not to mention visiting them when they were sick and in prison. They had coveted neighbors’ houses, wives, servants, and so on. They had despised those who the Lord called by name and filled with the Spirit of God, wisdom, understanding, knowledge, and all manner of workmanship to design artistic works. They had made gods to go before them, since, in their opinion, the ones who played roles of shepherds, bridging the gap between God and them, had become so lost in God that they no longer fathomed what had become of those lots on account their love for God.

They hadn’t taken heed to themselves…so they made covenants with inhabitants of godless lands and got ensnared by their godlessness. As a consequence, they opened up their spirits to alien givers and suppliers of alien ideas via imaginations. They didn’t have to do a thing to get those ideas than lend their minds to diverse alien frequencies which supplied them all manners and sorts except scriptures. Were they only accustomed to ideas? Those ideas fostered their cheating of neighbors, robbing of neighbors, and undue withholding of wages of hired workers. It had fostered injustice in judgment, partiality to the poor, and dishonor of the mighty. It had seen them lying carnally with women betrothed to men and unfree for such endeavors...yet they suffered no scourging as consequence. They had turned to mediums. They had turned to diverse familiar spirits, prostituting themselves with those mediums and spirits, very eligible to have God’s face set against them and to be cut off from God’s people.

They had taken their brothers’ wives and uncovered their brothers’ nakedness, incurring curses of childlessness. They belong to the category of the eight spies sent by Moses to spy the land of Canaan—who returned with a bad report. In the days when the community people had the revival of the community in view, they actually concurred that, indeed, the revival would transform the community into a land that flows with milk and honey. Nevertheless, they magnified the gods of the land as strong, fortified, and large...even likening them to the descendants of Anak. They further considered themselves grasshoppers in comparison to those gods. But these community men and women, like Caleb, had quieted them before the community people, assuring that the revival was sure to oust those gods, notwithstanding the gigantic descendants of Anak that actually operated hand-in-hand with those gods, in whose sight the seekers had assumed themselves to come off as grasshoppers to. But God took delight in the community, ousted those gods and their trustees, and rendered it a land which flows with milk and honey indeed. God’s statutes and judgments were taught them, which they carefully observed wisely and understandingly in the sight of other communities who, learning of them, likened them to a great nation, blessed with wise and understanding people.

Commendably, they took heed to themselves and diligently kept themselves lest they forget the things their eyes had seen in the course of the revival while battling with beasts of Ephesus to oust them from the land. They took heed lest the statutes they learnt departs from their hearts. And they did well to teach those statutes to their children and grandchildren. They wouldn’t lift their eyes to heaven to behold all the host of heaven and feel driven to worship and serve them. But a particular group amongst them stood out oddly: the seekers, who constitute the conglomerate peoples of cognitive universes that devise means by which motives at the core of men’s hearts can be determined without an outpouring of God’s Spirit, who’d been to the community men and women like the Philistines were to Isaac in their land. Not only did God look down to see that the seekers were stiff-necked and sought to blot out their name from under heaven, only making a great and mighty nation out of the community faithfuls, it just so happened that, on the verge of that destruction, like the brood of vipers who paid John the Baptist a visit at the Jordan to get baptized, the seekers emerged on the scene and got treated to extended reprimands by the men and women of the community to whom, as earlier said, they ill-treated like the Philistines did to Isaac in their land. So the community men and women welcomed them like John did to those he tagged brood of vipers. Though the seekers answered unwisely at the initial point, they eventually made wise utterances that saw the men and women of the community coming to view them as no longer being far from the kingdom of God. But not before responding to the seekers like persons they had hoped on to come through for them but didn't. So they lashed out at them severely.

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MEN
Why have you come to us—since you hate us and had sent us away from you? Is it because you’ve seen that the Lord is with us? When the revival of this community was in view, your concerns revolved around oath-taking for one thing or the other! We know your sentiments! But hear us: there won’t be any oath between us! We will make no covenant with you over anything! But listen: whoever commits sin is a slave of sin! And a slave does not abide in the house forever! But a son abides forever! You better tilt towards the Son so He’d make you free indeed! No one does anything in secret while he himself seeks to be known openly. You oppose us because our words have no place in you. We speak the words of our Father. But you do the deeds of your father…like marveling with prostitution and having children born of fornication. Isn’t that why you frown at the light that has come into the world? Because you love darkness more than the light? And because your deeds are evil? Of course, everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light—lest their deeds be exposed. But those who practice the truth come to the light—so that their deeds may be clearly seen and known to have been done in God. It just beats our imagination what makes you show up amongst us: a people you greatly dislike. What have you come to see? Reeds shaken by winds? Or persons clothed in soft garments? Do gorgeously-dressed people not live in luxury? Or found in kings’ courts? Or something of those sorts? What exactly have you come out to see? Saints? To behold specks in our eyes while not being privy to planks in your own eyes? To offer to remove specks from our eyes while condoning planks in your own eyes? First remove planks from your own eyes! Then you’ll see clearly to remove specks from our eyes if any! If you really consider us blind, can the blind lead the blind? Wouldn’t they both fall into ditches? Or you want our listening ears? For all we know, it is truth and scriptures that are to be proclaimed to the hearing! As you require our listening ears, is it truth and scriptures you want to proclaim? That it may be fulfilled to the hearing? Why not do like Jesus, then? He never clamored for listening ears! He simply found scriptures that had been proclaimed and reiterated on them to the hearing...not forcing people to listen to him! Didn’t Jesus, closing the book, giving it back to the attendant, sitting down, and having the eyes of all in the synagogue fixed on Him, say to them: “today this Scripture is fulfilled in your hearing?” Why exactly have you come to us?

SEEKERS
We are no more in doubt that the Spirit of the Lord is upon you because He has anointed you to preach the gospel to the poor, to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, and to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord. But do not think in your hearts that it is because of your righteousness that God ousted the gods of this land on the wings of revival for you to now possess the land. Otherwise the Lord’s anger may be aroused against you and He may make this land a wilderness for you to wander in until all the generation that nurtures that thought in their hearts are dead and gone! Rather, acknowledge that it is because of the wickedness of those gods that God ousted them. Doesn’t God ask that—if a stranger dwells with you in your land, you shall not mistreat him? Doesn’t he ask for the stranger who dwells among you to be to you as one born among you? Doesn’t he require you to love him as yourself? We are no strangers, yet you deride us this way! What, then, is likely to be your attitude towards strangers amongst us and those whose footprints are likely to extend to this terrain? Do not the eagles gather together wherever the carcass is? You take great pride in having become heirs of God’s kingdom who have become very rich! But didn’t Jesus say that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God? It is only hoped by us that you are not merely people who honor God with your lips while your hearts are far from Him because—that would be you worshipping God in vain while your teachings would be merely human rules. And you would no longer be lights of the world, nor cities that are set on hills which cannot be hidden, nor lamps that, when lighted, ought not to be put under baskets but on lampstands—that it may give light to all who are in the house. Therefore, let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven. We know that your charitable deeds ought to be done in secret—that your Father who sees in secret may reward you openly. But we welcome those charitable deeds being done openly so that we may witness them and vet that you truly have God’s love in you and not merely practicing religion. After all, isn’t love expressed in giving? Of diverse gifts? Even the wise men, on trailing Jesus’ star to Him in a manger, fell down, worshiped Him, opened their treasures, and presented him gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh.

WOMEN
Just so you know, this is no longer the era of giving “gifts!" It is the era of giving to Caesar what belongs to Caesar and giving to God what belongs to God! In cases like this where there are many Caesars, we simply give to God what belongs to God and cast other belongings abroad randomly! The Caesars can locate belongings from there that are peculiar to them and take hold of them! That's their responsibility, not ours! It is the obsession of the likes of you over gifts that gets you swearing by altars and deeming it nothing—while swearing by gifts sacrificed on those altars and feeling obliged to perform those oaths! Fools! Blind lots! Are altars not greater than gifts sacrificed on them? You are obsessed with gifts because you operate a system of leadership whereby the most upgraded fellow in a group leads the rest in accordance with the upgrade of his or her state of mind! Upgrade fostered by gifts! Therefore, the leader strives to be the most upgraded by amassing more gifts than others! In a situation where more than one fellow wants to lead, power tussle ensues! Many fellows take to several schemes and devices, playing diverse advantageous roles to stand chances with securing top spots! In the course of the tussle, poorly gifted persons open up to demonic possession just to stand chances with knocking out truly gifted fellows! When bypassed by a superior force like scriptures—which tends to be the most superior of all forces, such persons devilishly align with certain scriptures to trick gifted fellows out of the tussle like Satan did to Eve in Eden and attempted doing to Jesus after he fasted forty days and nights! Better not lay up treasures for yourselves on earth where moth and rust can destroy them and where thieves can break in and steal them! Rather, lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven where neither moth nor rust can destroy them and where thieves cannot not break in and steal them! For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also! Take your heart away from gifts and become heaven-minded! Did you say you hope we’re not merely honoring God with our lips while our hearts are far from Him? Because that would be us worshipping God in vain? And our teachings would be merely human rules? In which case we’d no longer be lights of the world nor cities on hills? How insightful of you! Isn’t the lamp of the body the eye? If your eyes are so good as for you to be that insightful, why are your bodies not full of light? And if you claim that your eyes aren’t bad, why are your bodies full of darkness? If the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness! But thank God that the people who sat in darkness have seen a great light! And upon those who sat in the region and shadow of death—light has dawned! Now we speak to you in figurative language! But time comes when we’ll no longer speak to you in figurative language but will state very ugly facts to you plainly! And if it is granted to you to become spiritually revived on account our plain speaking, good riddance! For no one can become revived based on our speaking unless it’s been granted to him by God!

SEEKERS
Truly, to whom shall we go, seeing that you have the words of eternal life? We also want to be raised up at the last day. But on the basis of the words of eternal life, not your speaking! Isn’t it the will of God that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him should have everlasting life and be raised up at the last day? Where, then, does your speaking come in? Utter anything other than the words of eternal life and we’re out! We are seekers! We’ve sought many things! Now we seek Christ! Not your speaking! If we are wrong about you as having eternal words, then it is not you we seek! Hence, our search continues! Isn’t it written that he who seeks, finds?

MEN
Most assuredly we say to you, you now seek the words of eternal life, not because you saw the signs God perform during the revival which ousted the gods of the land, but because the land now flows with milk and honey...because there’s now food in abundance to eat and get filled! Better not labor for the food which perishes! Rather, labor for the food which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of Man has made available to us here! And hey, Jesus Christ is the bread of life! He who comes to Christ shall never hunger, neither shall he who believes in Him thirst. Do not be like the priest and Levite who acted contrary to their personas towards a certain traveler who, journeying from Jerusalem to Jericho, fell among thieves, got wounded, got stripped of his clothing, and was left half dead. Didn’t the priest, coming down that road and seeing him, pass by on the other side of the road, leaving him for dead? Didn’t the Levite too, on arriving at the scene, merely look at the dying traveler and then pass by on the other side like the priest? Instead, be like the Samaritan who, as he journeyed, saw the traveler and had compassion on him, shouldering himself with the responsibility of seeing to his wellbeing. But it will take more than being seekers to cultivate such nature. You will have to become renewed, for, no one patches old garments with pieces from new garments, else the new garments tear. More so, pieces taken out of new garments hardly match old garments. In the same vein, no one puts new wine into old wineskins, else, the new wine bursts the old wineskins, the wine gets spilled, and the wineskins become ruined. New wine must be put into new wineskins in order to have both preserved.

WOMEN
None of those accursed things you’re endeared to—shall remain with you, so that God may not again turn to the fierceness of His anger and withdraw His mercy from you, nor withdraw His compassion from you and cease to multiply you. Be certain that there are no wicked thoughts in your hearts or evil in your eyes against your poor brother—so that you don’t strip him of all things and he cries to God against you. It is only in doing such right and good things in the sight of the Lord that it is well with us, evidenced in our possession of this good land which God cast out all our enemies from—so that we can have it all to ourselves and generations unborn.

SEEKERS
What about some fetish inhabitants of the land that are yet to do away with their idols? Won’t they become irritants in your eyes and thorns in your sides? Won’t they harass you in this land? What’s to become of their rejection of the Almighty?

MEN
We keep wondering how long they intend to keep rejecting the Lord God. How long will they not believe God? With all the signs God has performed among them? Isn’t God likely to strike them with pestilence and disinherit them alongside those idols they are so endeared to? Then the other communities will hear it like they heard of the great revival and will tell it abroad like they did the revival, again confirming that the Lord is indeed among us, going before us in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night. The carcasses of them and the likes of them who complain against God shall fall. They better take heed to hear the word of the Lord that—to prophets amongst us, the Lord makes Himself known in visions and speaks to us in dreams. But not so with those of us like Moses who He has found to be faithful in all His house and speaks with plainly, not in dark sayings. If they are not afraid to speak against us like certain lots who weren’t afraid to speak against Moses, it shall be to them like it was with those lots! Wasn’t Miriam struck with leprosy for jealously maligning Moses? It may not be leprosy for them. But surely a worse fate closes in on them...days when the sun will darken, the moon will withhold its light, when the stars of heaven will fall, and when the powers in the heavens will be shaken. Then they will see the Son of Man coming in the clouds with great power and glory and will weep over their inept spiritual nonchalance!

SEEKERS
Won’t every plant that the heavenly Father hasn’t planted be pulled up by the roots? Leave them! They are blind guides! Like you questioned us earlier, if the blind lead the blind, won’t both fall into a pit? How blessed are our eyes because they now see! And our ears because they now hear! For truly, many prophets and righteous people of this community longed to see what we now see but did not, and to hear what we now hear but did not. It is undoubtedly not right to take the children’s bread and toss to the dogs. But if an exception can be made for these idol-worshipping dogs so they may eat the crumbs that fall from the table, become spiritually cleansed, and escape the tribulation, it would be a welcomed idea.
As if divinely orchestrated, the ones thus far spoken of, show up on the scene. The men and women turn their focus from the seekers to them, likewise calling their attention to their cons and pointing them to the light of God’s word to make for their doing. Like the seekers, they soon come to terms with eternal words, ceasing to be ever hearing but never understanding; and ever seeing but never perceiving. Their hearts cease to be calloused. They begin to hear with their ears. Their closed eyes become opened. Hence, they see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn to God Who couldn’t help healing them. Noticing their receptiveness, the men and women leverage the moment to win them to God.

WOMEN
If your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and cast it from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish than for your whole body to be cast into hell. When you find out who Jesus is, you find your joy...because your joy is in Jesus' presence. But be sure the Jesus you find is actually Jesus...because there are many black Jesus out there! There's the lesser light that rules by night. There's the greater light that rules by day. And there's the greatest light that rules round the clock! When you find Jesus, you become that greatest light! Receive Jesus today!

MEN
This is the Lord’s doing and it is marvelous in our eyes. Do you see the fascinations of this world? Not one of them will be left upon the other—which shall not be thrown down when the sign of the Son of Man appears in heaven—causing all tribes of the earth to mourn upon beholding Him in the clouds with power and great glory because they had set their hearts on those fascinations rather than the Son of Man. At that point, many, like the five foolish virgins, will say to Him; “Lord, open to us!” But He will answer them like He did to the virgins, outrightly denying knowing them! To all who have, more will be given and they’ll have in abundance. But from all who don’t have, even the little they seem to have will be taken from them while they themselves, like unprofitable servants, will be cast into outer darkness where there'll be weeping and gnashing of teeth. If anyone has ears to hear, let them hear and consider carefully what they hear, for the time of the coming of the Son of Man is near. So we join our women to urge you to receive Jesus today!

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The remainders, who'd joined the spy on this trip back in time, finally come upon a chance to escape damnation. Hence, alongside the ones being addressed by the men and women, they yield to God, totally forgetting that the moment isn’t live but from decades back. Howbeit, before the reality of the situation dawns on any of them, they already echo loud “Amens” to the sinners’ prayer, getting caught up in the air to heaven at last. The spy, on the other hand, was transported back to the earth to continue the good work. But since all the remainders who believed had joined him on that last trip back in time, he only had to await the last day of the seventh year when the portal through which he got transported from heaven to earth is to reopen so he’d rejoin the beloved disciple, the Lord Jesus, and the saints. In the event where certain of the unrepentant remainders become believers and covet the chance to also bail out of damnation, the spy would have the chance to take them on a trip back in time to afford them that chance. But how are they supposed to believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher? And how is one supposed to preach unless they are sent?

The spy, who had thus far shouldered the responsibility of preaching to the remainders—was not sent. It was a self-imposed rescue mission that he didn’t wish to proceed with anymore...having narrowly escaped the damnation of his own soul which had been saved and transported to heaven upon the sound of the trumpet. To have opted to risk his soul to save the remainders is a venture he’s come to consider absurd. If it was up to him, he’d be back to heaven already. But the terms and condition of the mission had it that he can only return there on the last day of the seventh year...after the great tribulation, if he makes it to that time. As the heavens would have it, he got transported back to earth...to the very location he’d have to be on the last day of the seventh year when the heavenly portal would be reopened for him to journey back to heaven. What became of the spy for the remainder of the tribulation years is known to none. But on the last day of the seventh year, he was back in heaven...to the delight of all he’d rescued and became a heavenly star to reckon with—since all he rescued lauded his courage, his valor, bravery! And so...they lived happily evermore!

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THE END.