Re : Did Shemites Got Scattered As Nations After Flood Towards The East Because Of Rebellion?

Were Shemites Also Part Of The Rebellion At Babel?

Question : You said in your post "What Language Did Adam And Eve Speak?," that 'Scholars assert the Shemites were persecuted by Nimrod, and dwelt apart' and that they were not part of the original rebellion that happened at the building of the Tower of Babel by the families of Ham and Japheth, where God confused and scattered them all in to all the world and divided the world with seas and oceans to prevent them from joining together to keep them from rebellion against Him. My question is, If the Shemites did not partake at all in the rebellion against God in the building of the Tower of Babel under Nimrod as assumed that they dwelt separately, why the names of their genealogies were given in Gen 10 and explained like this at the end, "31 These were the sons of Shem, according to their families, according to their languages, in their lands, according to their nations. 32 These were the families of the sons of Noah, according to their generations, in their nations; and from these the nations were divided on the earth after the flood." (Gen 10:31-32). In other words, were these Shemites were also the part of the rebellion at the tower of Babel that they were divided on the earth as nations after the flood and got scattered towards "the mountain of the east." (Gen 10:30)?

Answer : Greetings to you in Jesus name! We know that in the days of Peleg the earth was divided as the present five continents we see (Gen 10:25), before that the world had plains and mountains on one side and the group of seas on the other side from the days of creation and I believe that the flood would have altered it to some extent but the final division was done intentionally by God to keep men from rebelling against Him and therefore grope for the true God and find Him because of their own limitation and their heart desire to know the unknown eternal God personally (Gen 1:10; Acts 17:26-27, 23). I believe that the Shemites dwelt separately, and at least a particular line of men who were again mentioned as Shem's Descendants in Gen 11:10-27 till “Abram the Hebrew” (Ge 14:13) comes after the interlude of the scene of confusion of 'The Tower of Babel' in Gen 11:1-9, it shows that even if there are many Shemites who would have got separated and joined themselves in the rebellion of Babel, yet at large God separated this one particular line of Hebrew speaking people even up to Abraham to keep that original tongue of Hebrew to continue through them as they were godly people seeking the true God who created the heaven and the earth.

We know that when these separated line of Shemites of Terah's Descendants too started to slide down in to idolatry after a period of time along with their true belief of Yahweh Elohim (Gen 11:27-32; Jos 24:2-3; Acts 7:1-2), then God starts a new line of Hebrew speaking people who are devoted to Him through Abraham who became later the Father of this faith Household (Gen 12:1-4; Rom 4:16; Gal 3:29).

Yes as you mentioned above, this verse "these were the sons of Shem, according to their families, according to their languages, in their lands, according to their nations" (Gen 10:31) shows that many of the Shemites have been part of the rebellion at the tower of Babel and therefore got separated in to "families, languages, lands, nations..." in plurality which confirms their part in it.

But the truth here we need to understand is, God has kept a separate people and preserved the one language and one lip of the original creation which is Hebrew language for Himself and took out of those people Abraham who obeyed Him and was devoted to Him completely. The preservation of God up to “Abram the Hebrew” (Ge 14:13), where the need for genealogical continuation ends for Terah's Descendants shows that the miracle of God made these few godly people preserved as they were all originally residents of the land stretch from Mesha towards Sephar the mountain of the east (Gen 10:30).

So we know that even though many Shemites back-slide in to rebellion against God in taking part of building the Tower of Babel, yet by God highlighting some of Shem's Descendants separately after mentioning the confusion of the Tower of Babel, He has show us that a godly generation of Shemites were preserved by Him and therefore always existed speaking Hebrew language even up to Abraham the Hebrew.

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Is Hebrew The Oldest Language?

What Language Did Adam And Eve Speak?

Question : What Language did Adam and Eve Speak? Is Hebrew the Oldest Language?

Answer : Greetings to you in Jesus wonderful name! There are no answers for the question asked above, outside the Bible inference through which we can come to a strong conclusion about it. One reason we cannot say that a particular language was the one spoken by Adam and Eve right away because we were not present at that time with them (Job 38:4).

The Bible says that before God confused people's language at Babel because of their rebellion against God, "...the whole earth had one language and one speech." (Gen 11:1). Language separation in all the world happened only after this time.

So we can infer from the above that the one language that these people were speaking might have been the one language which might have come from the time of the beginning in which Adam and Eve were the first humans, out of which all humans got multiplied. Noah and all his sons must have spoken the same language that these people have spoken.

God call Himself as "The God of Shem" through the prophetic blessing of Noah to his son Shem (Gen 9:26) and said Yahweh the God of the Hebrew would "dwell in the tents of Shem" (Genesis 9:26-27), then we see that Ham the father of Canaan was cursed by God for seeing his father's nakedness and he was placed as a servant to both Shem and Japheth the other brothers. Japheth was prophetically blessed with enlargement and friendship with Shem's descendants. 


The Richness Of The Hebrew Language

McClintock and Strong’s Bible Commentary says of Shemitic (Semite) languages: "The Hebrew language takes its name from Abraham’s descendants, the Israelites, who are ethnographically called Hebrew....In the Old Testament it is poetically called the language of Canaan; Isaiah 19:18, emphatically the language of the holy land consecrated to [Yahweh] as contrasted with that of the profane Egypt. In its earliest written state it exhibits in the writings of Moses a perfection of structure which was never surpassed." Further, this commentary states that it was the descendants of Shem who spoke Hebrew and other Semitic languages, of which are listed 14 primitive dialects.

The conciseness, simplicity, energy, and fertility of the Hebrew can be seen by examining the names of the individuals appearing in the early chapters of Genesis. All are Hebrew! Adam means "red" or "ruddy." Eve (Heb. Chavah) means "life," or "lifespring." Just look at the names of other Old Testament personalities and you will see that they all have Hebrew meanings.

Hebrew Names       English Meaning

Adam                         — Man

Seth                           — Appointed
 
Enosh                        — Mortal
 
Kenan                        — Sorrow;
 
Mahalalel                    — The Blessed God
 
Jared                          — Shall come down
 
Enoch                        — Teaching
 
Methuselah                — His death shall bring
 
Lamech                     — The Despairing
 
Noah                         — Rest, or comfort.

That's rather remarkable:

Man (is) appointed mortal sorrow; (but) the Blessed God shall come down teaching (that) His death shall bring (the) despairing rest.

Here we see from the name of Adam to Noah, the Gospel is hidden within the names of the genealogy in Genesis! No one can do such wonderful alignment of the true message of the Gospel in the meaning of the names of the people lived, except God who gave them their names according to the times they lived prophetically conveying the future message of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We can come to understand from these mysteries, that Hebrew was the language of the beginning of all mankind.

 
Shemites And The Hebrew Language

The lineage of Shem is the key showing that Hebrew is the heavenly language that has come from God to Adam and Eve. Shem means, "name" in Hebrew, and it was the Shemites (Semites) who continued with Hebrew as the language of their name with which they called themselves. Noah called Yahweh the "Elohim of Shem," and said Yahweh would "dwell in the tents of Shem," Genesis 9:26-27. Yahweh, is of course the mighty one of the Hebrews! Names do not change but remain the same from language to language. Neither should names be translated. Yahweh is the Mighty One of the Hebrews, and His Name is the same no matter what language is spoken.

We find this confirming statement in The New Bible Dictionary, J. D. Douglas, editor: "Hebrew belongs to the western group of Semitic languages (the word Semitic is formed from the name of Shem, Noah’s eldest son)," p. 710.

Shem, whose native tongue must have been Hebrew, lived 98 years during his Great-grandfather Methuselah’s time. Remember, the earth was one language at this time. Shem had nearly 100 years to carry on a discourse with, and receive instruction from his great-grandfather. Methuselah lived and shared a 243-year span with Adam, and another 600 years with Noah. Noah lived 350 years after the flood, and died only two years before the birth of Abraham. Noah’s son Shem lived until Abraham was 150 years old, and Isaac was 50 years of age. So there is no denying how Abram was called as “Abram the Hebrew” (Ge 14:13).

Here is more confirmation: we find in Genesis 10:21 that Shem is the father of all the children of Eber. From "Eber" we get the word "Hebrew" (NIV note on Gen. 10:21; Companion Bible note on Gen. 10:24, among others). Eber was a Hebrew and spoke Hebrew. So did his great-grandfather Shem. Parents always pass down their language to their children, and so on. Shem would speak the same language that his great-grandfather Methuselah spoke, with whom he shared 98 years of his life in the homeland. Methuselah would speak the Hebrew language that Adam spoke, with whom he shared 243 years of his life.

 
World Divided But Shemites Remain

God brings the story of division of all languages as an interlude as how the world has got divided by languages, and then starts the descendants of Shem which He separates and highlights after this confusion to make us infer and understand that by the end of all confusion (Gen 11), God has separated this pure language people who have been from the beginning to start with one man among them all who feared Him and He promised him to make him a great nation for His own glory (Gen 12:1-3).

Abraham obeyed God and thus God calls Him as “Abram the Hebrew” (Ge 14:13), who, in turn, was descended from Noah’s son Shem (Ge 11:10-26). No other language God calls by name anywhere in the Scripture to identify a particular person who speaks it, but Abram was identified by the language he spoke to make us understand that God found a man among the whole earth [i.e. which years and centuries before spoke that one language and one speech] a just man who obeyed Him wholeheartedly to carry on the honor of carrying the title of the people of the language of the beginning or the God who spoke this Shem's language.

We know from Gen 10:32, 25, "32 These were the families of the sons of Noah, according to their generations, in their nations; and from these the nations were divided on the earth after the flood...25 To Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided; and his brother’s name was Joktan."

So according to the above verses, the confusion and scattering all over the world by languages in Gen 11:1-9 have happened after Noah's flood in Gen 10:25 where God the Lord in the days of Peleg not only confused the language of all the earth and from Babel He scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth, but also He finally divided the earth in the way we see today with five different continents so that it will be hard for the people of one nation to cross the ocean and enter in to another nation of another continent with another language to join hands in rebellion of idolatry against the Creator God (Acts 17:26-27).

The families of Ham and Japheth settled in the plains and seacoasts. The descendants of Shem, however, did not dwell in the plains of Shinar, but settled toward the mountains in the hill country of Mesha: "And their dwelling was from Mesha, as you go unto Sephar a mount of the east." (Gen. 10:30). This is one of the clue we have where the sons of Shem were settled, (i.e.) away from the rebellious Tower builders. So the Shemites stayed in the high country, much as did Abraham later, Genesis 13:6-12. They were not in the area of the Tower of Babel. Genesis 10 tells of Nimrod, the son of Cush, the son of Ham, who began his kingdom in Babel in the land of Shinar, verse 10. Construction of the Tower of Babel was the project of sons of Ham and Japheth (Gen 10:5), under the directions of Nimrod (Gen 10:8-12). Scholars assert the Shemites were persecuted by Nimrod, and dwelt apart (Beechick, Adam and His Kin, page 118-123). Children learn the language of their parents, so the Shemites who worshiped Yahweh God till Abraham were those Hebrew speaking people in whose time Shem the father of Shemites too lived. Shem lived actually 98 years before the flood, 502 years after the flood, and 75 years after Abraham entered Canaan. I believe God separated Abraham from the other Shemites because they started to slide down in to idolatry around that time even after knowing the true God Elohim as their Creator and Yahweh as their Lord (Joshua 24:2-3; Ezek 16:2-3).

 
God Foresaw Israel Speaking Hebrew When The World Got Divided

We know the Bible says in Deut 32:7-8, "7 “ Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations. Ask your father, and he will show you; Your elders, and they will tell you: 8 When the Most High divided their inheritance to the nations, when He separated the sons of Adam, He set the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the children of Israel. 9 For the LORD’s portion is His people; Jacob is the place of His inheritance."

Here in the above verses Moses writes and conveys that when the Lord divided the boundaries of the nations of the sons of Adam during the confusion of Babel as we have seen above, God prophetically foresaw the Hebrew people and their numbers which would increase at any point of time in the future, and according to the number of the children of Israel He separated the sons of Adam and their boundaries for them to live in all the world. In others words, these were people chosen by the Lord for Himself as these Israel people were called as "The Lord's portion...His people...place of His inheritance," which again leads us easily to infer that the one language that the world has spoken in the past was retained by God in His people group which speaks Hebrew language in the portion of land He has given them.

In the Book of Exodus they were called in Egypt by their language as "Hebrew midwives....Hebrew women...Hebrews' children...Hebrew men" (Exo 1:15, 19; 2:6-7, 13). When God gave a written revelation of Himself and His creation, He gave it to Moses in the Hebrew language to make us understand that it was the language of the beginning of the whole world (Mark 10:3; Luke 24:27; John 1:17). Moses must have had access to patriarchal records and must have compiled it in order, preserved by being written on clay tablets and handed down from father to son via the line of Adam—Seth—Noah—Shem—Abraham—Isaac—Jacob, etc., as there are 11 verses in Genesis which read, 'These are the generations [Hebrew: toledoth = 'origins' or by extension 'record of the origins'] of…'The Jewish people, from earliest biblical times to the present day, have always regarded this portion of Genesis as the true record of their nation's history. So all of the above people must have spoken and also have written the records in Hebrew language for Moses to do all the compilation under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit.

The Ten Commandments were written with the finger of Elohim on two tables of stone and then given to Moses. They were written in the Hebrew language. Israel stood before Mount Sinai and listened as Yahweh spoke in a language they could understand.

Moses wrote the first five books of the Bible in Hebrew. This helped unify the Israelite's and also establish Hebrew is the language of the Temple and worship in the synagogues.

"These are the generations of...." which are described 11 times in Genesis always conveys a written record passed on generation after generation because the word "generation" is a translation of the Hebrew toledoth, and it means essentially "origins," or, by extension, "records of the origins." And so we can easily infer how Moses would have been able to compile the Book of Beginning which is Genesis (Gen 2:4; 5:1; 6:9; 10:1; 11:10; 11:27; 25:12; 25:19; 36:1; 36:9; 37:2).

Thus it is probable that the Book of Genesis was written originally by actual eyewitnesses of the events reported therein except Adam who must have had the revelation of the creation of God conveyed by God to him in a vision and must have written it as he was the perfect adult son of God in the beginning (Luke 3:38). Adam was no cave-man who evolved and learned his language by grunts and grins! Adam knew enough horticulture “to dress and to keep” the Garden of Eden (Genesis 2:15), and ample intelligence to recognize and name the distinct kinds of animals (Genesis 2:19). He (and Eve) could converse with God without ever having learned an alphabet, and there is no reason to suppose that he was not fully skilled in writing also, with which we can infer that the first language of God must have been Hebrew with which God wrote the whole written revelation of Himself presently known as the Old Testament and gave it to the whole world through this Hebrew nation (Eph 2:11-12; John 4:22; Isa 65:1).

 
How Could Hebrew Be The Language Of The Beginning?

Here is how Hebrew could be the language of the beginning, (1) "The generations of the heavens and the earth" (Genesis 1:1-2:4), (2) "The book of the generations of Adam" (Genesis 2:4b-5:1), (3) "The generations of Noah" (Genesis 5:1b-6:9), (4) "The generations of the sons of Noah" (Genesis 6:9b-10:1), (5) "The generations of Shem" (Genesis 10:1b-11:10), (6) "The generations of Terah" (Genesis 11:10b-11:27), (7) "The generations of Isaac" (Genesis 11:27b-25:19), (8) "The generations of Jacob" (Genesis 25:19b-37:2) and (9) "The generations of the Sons of Jacob" (Genesis 37:2b-Exodus 1:1). Because all of these above people come in the same line and same language group for a long time, they were able to pass on their genealogy to one generation after the other to the time of Moses who collected it all and have compiled it under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit.

God said that He will restore the pure Hebrew language to the nation of Israel once again after they were scattered in all the world, through the promise given by Him in Zep 3:9, "For then I will restore to the peoples a pure language, that they all may call on the name of the LORD, to serve Him with one accord." The Living Bible says, “At that time I will change the speech of my returning people to pure Hebrew so that all can worship the Lord together.” The above verse is being fulfilled in our generation after the regathering of all Jews from all the world who immigrated in to it with all the different languages of the whole world, but now you can walk through those cities in Israel where you hear them speak one language, and it’s Hebrew. This shows that God wanted always the nation of Israel to identify with the language of Hebrew because that was the language with which God spoke in the beginning to create the world and communicate with human beings and He wants to retain that over the portion of the land which He calls as "The Lord's portion...His people...place of His inheritance." Hence we infer in to this question to deduce that there has always been a particular people in all generation speaking Hebrew the language of the beginning through which Abram came and did speak the Shem’s language unaffected when God confused the language of the disapproved people at Babel (Gen 11:5-9).

"In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt speak the language of Canaan, and swear to Yahweh of hosts..." (Isaiah 19:18). The Living Bible, among others, declares that the language of Canaan is Hebrew. Those who want to know the Lord in those days of Jesus Christ thousand years of His earthly kingdom and want to keep themselves from rebellion for which wrath of God will be sent towards them (Zephaniah 3:8; Zech 14:16-19), they will learn Hebrew and will constantly obey the decree and orders of the King of kings and Lord of lords (Rev 19:11-16), who is Yahweh the mighty one of Israel!

The law of God will go out of the Millennium temple of Jesus Christ to the whole world in Hebrew (Isa 2:3; Mic 4:2). Hallelujah! GLORY TO "The God of the Hebrews" (Exo 5:3)! Of course as old as the God of the Hebrews Himself is in this world, so is the language in itself in this world. As God is the beginning and the end of all things, the Hebrew language which was the one world language before the Babel confusion which brought in all different languages of the world, so I believe that during the millennial reign of Jesus Christ with which the present earth will end at the end of it (2 Peter 3:10-13), so once again the one world language of the Millennium will be the Hebrew language, at least in enforcement!

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Five Steps To Keep In Mind To Understand God's Salvation

Called Of God Or We Choose God?

Question : The issue we see in many Scripture is, it seems that God decided whom He wanted to save as this is the way it seems to read, and in other Scriptures it seems to say that all men are responsible for their own salvation. The ‘called’ of God, example Romans 1:6, "among whom you also are the called of Jesus Christ" is something that suggests the former. In the same Chapter of Rom 1:16 it says, "the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes," which suggests the later point. Then what about Romans 8:29-30? Does God saves the one who He has called already to save or we choose to get saved by our own will?

Answer : It is a marvelous mystery of God to understand the preaching of the word of God through which God saves people,...the mystery which has been hidden from the past ages and generations, but has now been manifested to His saints through the proclamation of the gospel (Col 1:26). God sends a messenger of His usually a human or even a angel or even a vision or a dream with the gospel content to make people understand His love for them, and to make them accept themselves as sinners in need of the Savior Jesus which qualifies them to be written in the Book of life of which according to God in His mind is already having a original in which their names are already written in it (Acts 10:4-5, 19-22; 9:3-9; 22:7-9, 14; 26:13-19; Rom 10:14-15; 1 Cor 1:21; 2 Cor 5:20; Rev 13:8). In the city of Corinth and its surrounding area when Paul was discouraged because of not having much result in specific Jews not accepting the Gospel but Gentiles ready to receive him, God spoke to him personally saying He had still many people to whom Gospel should be preached in order for them to be saved (Acts 18:9-10), which shows that God saves whom He already knew will be saved. God sends angelic ministry to the areas in the earth where people are marked for salvation, who are expected to receive the gospel of salvation and then saves them when the time comes for them to believe and receive the gospel by faith (Heb 1:14).

This marvelous mystery of God to chose people before the foundation of the world to save them in Christ Jesus and make them the Bride of Christ which is explained and quoted in part in all the various verses of the Bible individually, one at a time, can be summed up as a whole in the solid chunk of verses in a single place mainly in Rom 8:29-30 (1 Peter 1:20; Eph 1:4; 5:32).

Rom 8:29-30 says, " 29 For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. 30 Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified."

The following terms if we catch hold of, then we can certainly identify that certain terms were used individually at certain places to reveal a part of the whole and not the whole itself,

1) God Foreknew — It is a term that describes that God knew by His omniscience who are all the people He will save through faith even from before the foundation of the world (Rev 17:8). To this Almighty omniscient God, nothing of human reactions or doings ever surprises Him because He knows the end from the beginning and even has foretold to us all that we might believe Him and receive Him as the God who created the whole universe with His purpose (Isa 46:10; 48:5; 45:18; John 16:1, 4, 33; 13:19; 14:29). In other words, before the first man Adam breathed (Gen 2:7; Rom 5:12), God knew to the day of the destruction of this present earth through fire, who are all going to be saved from their sins through accepting His invitation to be saved (2 Peter 3:10, 12).

2) God Predestined — It is to determine (an outcome or course of events) in advance by divine will. This is a term that God not only knows what is going to happen at the end, but how He is going to fulfill His already prepared plan which He will keep working on the right set-time to fulfill it His way (Isa 48:3). The Bible says that Christ came in to the world to fulfill God's plan of salvation, not one minute before or after God's set time, but exactly at God's appointed time of predestination (Gal 4:4). We all receive God's salvation in the day He has chosen to visit us and in the same way God saves others (1 Peter 2:12; 2 Cor 6:1-2). God agreed beforehand to forgive all of our sins and prepared the point of time in which we will receive His salvation event through believing Jesus and become conformed to His image thereafter as a brethren to Him.

3) God Called — We are called to salvation on the day God intervened to touch us in this finite time and space where we receive Him (Matt 22:14). Those who choose God's salvation are those who are called and chosen (Rev 17:14). In other words, the saved believers were able to choose God's way when they were called, because they have been chosen by God beforehand to take a positive choice to receive God's salvation by being drawn by His Love which He showed towards them in Christ Jesus (Eph 1:4; 1 John 4:19). The day someone receives God's salvation is the day God calls Him.

4) God Justified — This word 'justified' emphasizes that the day we believed and received Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior to be sealed by the Holy Spirit as a guarantee of salvation until the day of our resurrection (Rom 10:9-10, 11-13; 1 Cor 12:3; Eph 1:13-14), we were forgiven of all our past, present and future sins by God having declared us as innocent of all charges because Jesus paid the ransom for us in full (Heb 10:17-18; Eph 5:32; John 19:30; 1 Tim 2:6). In other words, we are made clean forever from our sins by God 'just as if we have never sinned' at all. God sees us free of all condemnation for our sins once we are saved (Rom 8:1).

5) God Glorified — God chooses to see us from the day we were saved to the day we will die on this earth in a determined way like we will be on the day we will stand rewarded by God in His Kingdom, with the Glory and the Power for all our works done by us through His Grace (2 Peter 3:14-15; 2 Tim 2:12; 1 Cor 14:41, 43; 3:11, 14).

If we keep these above concepts in our mind collectively, we will not be confused when Scripture speaks about these concept individually as though it is the only one, as it can't be when all have been done equally by God for us and He has made sure that we will receive all the benefits of it in the days to come.

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Pagan Cults Will Always Deceive Those Who Go Beyond The Word Of God

Is Krishna The Same God As Jesus Christ?

Question : I would like to ask you another question, and I think maybe you might know a lot about this because you live in India. Somebody in the street has handed me a book about "Krishna Consciousness", the name Krishna immediately made me think about "Christ". I had a look at the book, and realized that it is quite difficult to understand, and very different from the Bible. Is Krishna the same God as Jesus Christ?

Answer : Greetings in Jesus mighty name! One time I was traveling in a train in India, and I found some westerners taking these books and tracts and distributing to all local people in the train who were amazed to see them do that. I tried to talk with one of them and started to share the gospel with him, but sadly I found that he was in a state of deception to have accepted the lie that krishna which is a local pagan deity of India to be Christ.

I personally believe that in the end times God Himself is sending these delusions to all those who do not believe and receive the truth, nor have the love of the truth within them to be saved (2 Thess 2:10-12). So these cults are actually Hindu cults who come to western shores to beguile those who do not stand on the truth and raise up donations to build huge meditation centers which are called as Ashrams. In short it is a place of religious retreat in its depth, but such places are many times used by counterfeit Swami-ji's [i.e. holy god-man] who claim themselves as god by doing some false signs and lying wonders to deceive many multitudes with their false pretense, they also practice traditional yoga which is a demonic spirit controlled activity as it goes further up, then in many places sexual orgies and idol worship goes hand in hand, and then they are used as meditation and chanting centers for Sanskrit mantra to deceive people who cannot understand it. I do not say that there are no good humans there, of course some good humans are there who try to help poor people by distributing food and use such places to quieten their consciences that cry out for the eternal true God. But God of all heavens and the earth who rules the universe, does not allow good people in to heaven but only perfect people who are clothed in His own perfect righteousness that He has distributed through His Son Jesus Christ (Matt 22:10-14).

Apostle John said, "Little children, it is the last hour; and as you have heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come, by which we know that it is the last hour." (1 John 2:18). In the hare krisna website they say, 'If one loves krishna, he must love Lord Jesus also. And if one perfectly loves Jesus he must love krishna too.' What a deception? Here first they deceitfully equate krishna to Jesus Christ and then deceive people to make them be deceived to accept their so called deity to be equal to Jesus. These are subtle tricks that many different religious people use to deceive Christians who do not know Jesus Christ in their heart personally and those who do not stand on the truth or love it. Can any so called deity in all the world can ever be equated to our Lord Jesus, by no means, by His own claim He stands apart saying that He is the only way, the truth and the life (John 14:6). Jesus Christ of the Bible is the only God-Man to ever live on this earth, He was fully God and fully Man who have become the only God appointed Mediator between humans and God (1 Tim 2:5). God has only one sinless Son to die on the Cross for the benefits of others, but He has many sons to carry the cross that He has given to carry for their own benefit of becoming like Him (1 Peter 2:24; Rom 4:25; Luke 9:23; 1 Tim 6:6; 2 Peter 1:3-4).  

Apostle Paul said even if there are so many so called gods or god, "6 yet for us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and through whom we live. 7 However, there is not in everyone that knowledge; for some, with consciousness of the idol, until now eat it as a thing offered to an idol; and their conscience, being weak, is defiled." (1 Cor 8:6-7). This shows that anyone who try to equate their gods or god to that of the eternal Deity of Jesus Christ must be rejected, because they who do it are doing it deceitfully to defile them who are not fully grounded on the truth of Jesus Christ or because of their own weak conscience which have not fully understood the truth to stand on it. The consciousness of mind that does not focus on the truth of Jesus Christ as the only begotten Son of our Father God in heaven through whom we all become His children, is only a consciousness of the idol and the spirit of Anti-Christ which are physically working through people or spiritually in one's mind that defiles the conscience itself. The uncluttered conscience is actually the lamp of the Lord for all humans according to the Bible if it is kept clean with the light of the truth without getting darkened by lies of the evil one (Prov 20:27; 1 John 4:3; 2:23).

Jesus is the only person in the entire world who said, "23 ...“If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him. 24 He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine but the Father’s who sent Me." (John 14:23-24). In other words, keeping the words and the teachings of Jesus will make God the Father who is in heaven to love the person who keeps it because Jesus claims that He and The Father in their omnipresence will come and make their presence with the one who keeps His Word because the very words that He spoke are the Words of the Father God in heaven. Jesus is the only one who accepted the love and worship of all humans because He was God and is God and forever will be God according to His own claim (Rev 1:8). According to Jesus' own words itself, he never equated himself to any god other than the One who is in Heaven who rules the whole Universe because they are one in essence even though three in persons (Matt 28:19-20), so any person who equates any other so called deity or god to be equal to Jesus or the same, their doctrine must be considered as counterfeit and immediately be rejected by those who follow the God of the Bible. Those who are not with Jesus are actually working against Him and are telling with their rejection of Jesus that His claims of exclusiveness to be the only available way to reach God and His insistence to accept Himself as the only Deity in human form to be false (Matt 12:30; Luke 11:23), so narrow is the way of faith in Jesus and broad is the way that says there are many ways to reach God (Matt 7:13-14). So choose the right way that Jesus teaches and claims exclusively to be the only truth and believe it all the days of your life to be in the right track to enjoy the abundant life of Jesus and receive the reward for your life of faith in the after life which will stay with you for eternity ahead (John 10:10; 1 John 5:13)!

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Does God Protect His Children From Consequences Of Sin?

When Christians Sin, Does God Forgive And Punish, Or Only Forgive?

Question: When Christians Sin, Does God Forgive And Punish, Or Only Forgive?

Answer : Greetings in Jesus wonderful name! We humans are all sinners by birth and not just because we sin, all of us have fallen short of the glory of God (Psa 51:5, NLT; Rom 3:23). In other words, we as humans after our forefather Adam have fallen in to voluntary transgression against God, God's requirement of righteousness none of us have been able to fulfill it for a worthy friendship with Him who is perfectly holy, perfect and pure (Rom 5:12). None of us have been able to deliver others or ourselves from our sin nature which deserves death at every turn in the eyes of God (Rom 6:23). So we were all enemies to God by our very nature that always rebels against God and never will obey Him (Rom 5:17).

But thank God for His everlasting mercies (Psa 100:5; 103:17), He sent Jesus Christ His Son at the appointed time to redeem us from the curse of the law which cannot save us from our sins (Gal 4:4; 10, 13). So Jesus has already taken the sins and curses for disobedience that we deserve upon Himself, so that by faith we could live within the blessing of Abraham by receiving the promise of the Spirit who has been given to us personally as a comforter who is just like Jesus (Gal 3:13-14; John 14:26; 15:26). Here is what has happened when Jesus chose to die for us individually because of His unconditional love towards us, "For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so that we could be made right with God [forever in spite of our sin nature that makes us enemies of God naturally if God had not reached out to us legally to make us His children in His kindness] through Christ." (2 Cor 5:21, NLT). Christ dying for our sins even before we were born is a personal demonstration of God's love towards us to embrace it and let ourselves be transformed by this amazing love (Rom 5:8; 1 Peter 2:24-25).

Because of what Jesus Christ has done for us on the Cross, fulfilling the just requirement of God which was death for our sins (John 19:30), now God is no more angry with us all who have believed in His Holy Sacrifice but rather have become a friend and a Father to us through Him (John 20:17). Here is what God had promised of what had happened to us when we believed Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior, "13 When you were stuck in your old sin-dead life, you were incapable of responding to God [before you accepted Christ as your Lord and Savior]. [But when you believed God's only begotten Son Jesus the Christ], God brought you alive--right along with Christ [spiritually acknowledging that you are no more in your sins anymore but have become God's child forever]! Think of it! All sins forgiven, 14 the slate wiped clean, that old arrest warrant [that says if we sin we will die has been] canceled and nailed to Christ's Cross. 15 He stripped all the [demonic] spiritual tyrants in the universe of their sham authority at the Cross and marched them naked through the streets [bringing the evil control of all of them over us to an end forever in his flesh]." (Col 2:13-14, MSG, Paraphrased For Emphasis).

1) Praise God We Have Been Forgiven Of All Our Past, Present and Even Future Sins

The Apostle Paul reveals this everlasting forgiveness of God by saying that like Christ forgave us, we must also do towards others (Col 3:13). He speaks about this forgiveness as something that has happened in the time past and not something to be done someday or everyday. This forgiveness is called as union-forgiveness, in other words, when we became God's child once and forever he has forgiven all our sins in advance (Eph 4:32). But because we have the sin nature still which will be shed by us only when we die physically, we might be coerced by it to sin and grieve God at such times (Rom 7:17, 19; Eph 4:30). In such times, God expects us to confess those sin and look towards Him for victory (1 John 1:9). This forgiveness of God is for His children to continue in fellowship with Him who is holy and sinless and is called as fellowship-forgiveness. In other words, a Father might have already known the weakness of his child, but when the child does wrong he corrects and expects the child to learn the good thing that he wants to teach and become like him in his/her character (1 John 2:1-2).

2) God Corrects Us Through Trials When We Run Away And Will Draw Us Near

So once God has forgiven all our sins, he never remembers it to punish us because Jesus has already been punished on our behalf, but rather pities us when we do sin and wrong thing that He dislikes (Psa 103:12-14). When ever God chastises his children, only out of His love He will do it for our eternal good, and He does not do the same to the unbeliever who does not have faith in Jesus Christ and who are still by their own choice living as rebels again God (Heb 12:7-8). So God through his apostolic messengers have always encouraged His children to rejoice when trials and temptations come to them, because it shows that God is in control of their lives, shaping it for a glorious future that He has pre-planned for them (James 1:2; Gal 6:9; 1 Peter 1:6-7). The bottom line is, God does not punish us because Jesus has already been punished for all our sin on our behalf, there are no more sins in us to be punished as it has already been forgiven (1 Cor 15:17). So when we go through time of trials, by faith we should never allow ourselves to think that we are punished by God, but rather God is correcting us to make us a better person for the praise, honor and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ at His Coming (1 Peter 1:7; 1 John 3:2). We should voluntarily accept such loving correction of God and submit to His ways, so that we might be purified from the impurities that stick on to our flesh and become a useful vessel for God our Master to do His good work on earth which will position us to receive great future reward in exchange (1 John 3:3; Heb 12:9; 2 Tim 2:21).

3) God Forgives, Corrects And Allows Earthly Consequences For Heavenly Gain

We know that the Lord because of His unconditional Love has already forgiven all our sins, and then because of that same love towards us He corrects us so that we have become better and better in our Character to be more and more like Him for eternity ahead which carries great eternal reward. But at the same time if we ask the question, does God protect us from the consequence of sin when we do sin. The answer is a no and a yes at the same time. Why? Say, after a person chooses to accept Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior and still gives in to sin willingly because of its enticement, God will not rescue that person from the consequence of it but rather will allow him to receive it to make him understand how much price He has paid personally by giving His own only begotten Son to rescue them from the eternal consequence of their sins which deserves death in hell fire and then will expect them to turn to Him in repentance and faith so that He could intervene in their life to turn the curse in to a blessing (Rom 8:31-32; Gen 50:20; Deut 23:5; Num 13:12). So because of the love of God towards us, when the Devils and the deceitful or evil people who work hand in hand by the fleshly impulses try their best to bring curses in to our blessed lives, God will allow it to make us purified, better and strong in our Character, but will turn it supernaturally in to a blessing for us temporally, spiritually and eternally at the end of it all. Praise the Lord! We will never be the same through the trials like before it. Through it all our Heavenly Father wants us to become mature sons and throw away our childish behaviors, so that we who suffer now will reign with Jesus Christ for eternity ahead like He reigns over the Universe now for the Glory of our Abba Father in heaven (2 Tim 2:11-12; Rev 2:7, 11, 17, 26; 3:5, 12, 21; 5:10; 21:24, 26).

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How Do We Know When Someone Has Something Against Us?

How Can We Know When Someone Is Offended Because Of No Known Reason Of Ours From Our Side? 

Question : Jesus said in Matthew 5:23-24, "23 Therefore if you bring your gift to the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you, 24 leave your gift there before the altar, and go your way. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift." My question is, we are not God to know when someone is offended because of something jealous, anger, dislike they have in their heart towards us just because we are different from what they expect us to be? How can we know that they are offended because of us? How do you explain this?

Answer : Greetings in Jesus wonderful name! When ever we see a Scripture to know its real meaning, the thumb rule is that we should see the whole context in which it is spoken and then understand to the best of our ability what it really says.

Here is what the context to those verses that fully reveals the deep real meaning of it, "21 “You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not murder, and whoever murders will be in danger of the judgment.’ 22 But I say to you that whoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment. And whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ shall be in danger of the council. But whoever says, ‘You fool!’ shall be in danger of hell fire. 23 Therefore if you bring your gift to the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you, 24 leave your gift there before the altar, and go your way. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift. 25 Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are on the way with him, lest your adversary deliver you to the judge, the judge hand you over to the officer, and you be thrown into prison. 26 Assuredly, I say to you, you will by no means get out of there till you have paid the last penny." (Matt 5:21-26).

In the above verses God reveals that in the Old Testament all that they were needed to do is to restrain themselves from the fruit of anger which is murder, but in the New Testament Jesus has demanded that every one who gets angry without a cause shall be in danger of God's judgment equal to that of murder itself before the Lord because every murder which is the fruit that has happened is because of the root not uprooted in the heart which is anger. 'Raca' comes from the Aramaic term 'reqa' which was a derogatory expression meaning “empty-headed,” indirectly suggesting a person's stupidity or inferiority and really mean that they are vain, empty, worthless, it is only found in Matt. 5:22. The Jews used it as a word of contempt. It is derived from a root meaning "to spit." So whoever would say 'raca' to anyone is worthy to be judged before court or council, and whoever says someone as a 'fool' is in danger of hell fire because the seed of anger which remain in a person's heart over a period of time will become as wrath which may lead to violence or even to murder someone when the evil seed have grown from being a small seed to become as a strong tree to bear fruit of the flesh through such events.

So Jesus forbids any anger from anyone without a cause, because the root of anger when it is not uprooted immediately and let loose to grow over a period of time will definitely lead to the ugly evil fruit of violence or even murder. In short, all serious sins including murder begins in the heart and bears evil fruits if it is not properly uprooted out of the heart as soon as possible by the offender through asking pardon and reconciling with the offended, it will lead to evil deeds of worst kind. Jesus dealt with the root of sin which starts in our heart and gets stronger to lead us in to more sins if it not uprooted as soon as possible, so that we could live in peace with all people as much as possible (Rom 12 :18).

Once we understand the above context in which Jesus spoke, then we come to the verses you described, "23 Therefore if you bring your gift to the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you, 24 leave your gift there before the altar, and go your way. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift." (Matt 5:23-24). When there is a 'therefore', we should automatically understand why it is 'there for', and then look to the previous message spoken for which the resultant main decision is expected of us to take and work out practically towards the result of the message positively. In that way, it shows that when we go to the presence of God to pray, praise and worship God personally, and there God shows to us that the angry words we have blurted against someone has caused offense to someone whom have got offended, immediately it does mean that God is saying to us to go to that person whom we have offended and get reconciled and then come to pray, praise and worship God which will please Him immensely. To God you worshiping in his truth through your spirit is more important to Him than worshiping Him at all (John 4:23-24). The Lord will not hear the prayer of or receive the worship of those who regard iniquity in their heart (Psa 66:18). Not only that, Jesus is saying that when we have come to know the truth that we have offended someone, immediately He tells us to even agree with the devil's valid accusation within us that we have sinned and not justify our own deeds as right after God has spoken to us clearly that we have sinned, or else if the our enemy Satan appeals before the Lord of our unrepentant attitude towards our fault, then God in His justice will deliver us to the demonic officers of mentally and physically torturous kind who will put us in to the prison of our own foolishness of unforgiveness and make us pay for it till we forgive those whom we have offended or until we die because of it which is the last penny we pay in life. In other words, unforgiveness rooted in our heart is like eating the rat poison and expecting the rat to die.

So the verse you were quoting is not speaking about someone who is offended because of something jealous, anger, dislike they have in their heart towards us just because we are different from what they expect us to be, it clearly points to a previous reference point of offense we have done intentionally or unintentionally towards someone and would have taken it as a light thing by justifying our own self which is absolutely wrong. So God will only show us or give information of truth about the offense we have previously done by offending others when we come to worship Him in His Presence, so that we could be reconciled through asking for their forgiveness sincerely from our heart. If someone is not willing to accept our sincere apology, they have to give account to God for their own unforgiveness, but as for us God will fill us with peace and love towards the offended and personally in our heart within us so that we could live peaceably as much as possible with all humans.

You are right, we are not God to know what is going on in someone else heart, but God knows all things and can even reveal someone else wrong motives towards us in His Presence, but at such times, God will give us information like that to make us continue to walk in His love towards them even though they think evil towards us which He will judge in His time when they continue to walk in unrepentant attitude (Luke 6:35-36). Every bad attitude of people towards us can be used by us to walk in Divine Love and turn those evil things to be turned in to a great heavenly reward personally for us for eternity ahead. That is why even when we get Divine information about the bad attitude of people towards us in His Presence, knowing it should make us more compassionate towards the offenders and depend on the goodness of the Divine Love of God within us to overcome such evil with good.

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Are We Hearing From The Lord Or Is It A Deception?

I Need Urgent Counsel Concerning My Job

Question : I need urgent counsel concerning my job, it has come under attack by an Absalom. They already demoted me (a conspiracy) for no fault of mine, and now they are working in lessening my salary and eventually sacking/retrenchment. I thought I should petition the main characters or go to court, but I don't know for sure that is God's will in this matter. Meanwhile the LORD promised me a bigger promotion on this job months ago and now this. Should I just endure this persecution and wait for God or should I submit my petition against them and fight them in court if need be? My wife and I have been trying to hear God on this issue, but we are hearing that we should not go ahead with the petition. But this could be a deception because they also use a whole lot of sorcery and witchcraft. We also receive visions of things like spurs (the type on cowboy boots and white rabbits on a few occasion) but most times we seem to hear in the spirit that we should lie low.

Answer : Greetings to you in Jesus wonderful name! First of all we are instructed clearly by Apostle James to, " 2 ...count it all joy when we fall into various trials, 3 knowing that the testing of our faith produces patience. 4 But let patience have its perfect work, that we may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing." (James 1:2-4). Why should we count the hardship of trials as something to be joyful about? We know as a fallen human being, we all lack spiritually a lot of thing that we cannot gain any other way except through temporal earthly trials that God allows intentionally so that at the end of it we might come to know through faith and perseverance, the good end intended by the Lord to make us experientially understand that the Lord is very compassionate and merciful (James 5:11; Heb 10:35-36; Psa 103:7-8; Jer 29:11). So the sly and deceitful Absalom may be the very instrument whom God usually allows to show to His children His glory, purify and refine them (2 Samuel 15:5-6; Rom 9:17-18), and to reveal His glory before all people on the day of His judgment in which all the wrath of men will praise Him because he would have by then caught the wise in the foolishness of their craftiness (Psa 76:10; 1 Cor 3:19; Job 5:13). So I would say boldly that not only Pharoh's and Absalom's are allowed by God, but they are necessary for our spiritual promotions and eternal blessedness.

We see that the snake which was more cunning than any beast of the field was chosen by Satan in the Garden of Eden to tempt the first man and woman to fall in to sin (Gen 3:1), like that even in our times Satan chooses the wise and cunning and concentrates to bestow his resources on them to deceive them to do his will while God chooses the weak and the foolish like us to bid for His will and purpose to be done (Matt 4:8-9; 1 Cor 1:26-29). This is what is happening to you, God has allowed the wise in their own eyes to test you who is His child who depends on Him and His will to be done in your life and your family. Satan has used his agents to demote you and thus is trying to destroy your faith by bringing fear about your future existence, but God is trying to convey to you that He is in control of everything and that you need not act re-actively or in a fleshly way to try to defend yourself to keep yourself safe, but rather be meek to prove to the world that you are not weak but strong in God who actually defends for all those who are loyal to Him in their heart by being obedient to the Word of God, that proves beyond doubt to all that they rely on the Lord and not on their own fleshly wisdom or strength (Psa 46:10-11; Rom 8:31; Matt 5:5; 2 Chron 16:8-9; Isa 66:2).

Until we who are Christians are taken to court unavoidably by someone who are worldly wise in their own eyes and take the court route against us and act vengefully thinking that they can deceive men through money and prove themselves for their own advantage like a unbeliever (Isa 5:21; Prov 3:7; 26:12; 28:11), Christians should avoid court route for justice altogether by abiding to the Church council or elders and then trusting God to serve justice and act vengefully against the unrepentant (Matt 18:15-17; 1 Cor 5:5; 7:15; 1 Cor 6:1-7; Zep 3:5; Rom 12:19). When God allows you to be dragged in to court system, He knows how to defend you. In such times, we must speak out when the Holy Spirit speaks through us and we should keep quiet when the Holy Spirit keeps our mouth mute (Luke 12:11-12; Matt 10:16-23; 1 Peter 2:20-23), no matter what shaping process of hardship we go through such ordeals the result will be in the Lord's hand and we should accept things willingly as from His hand to get in to prison if we are thrown in to it or to come out positively if we are let out of it also (Gen 40:3; 41:14; 2 Chron 18:26; Jer 38:6; Matt 11:2; 14:3, 10; Acts 5:17-19; 8:3; 16:18-24, 25, 35-40), one thing is very important to maintain during such times is our positive attitude to believe that God will work all things [i.e. which includes glad, sad, mad and angry things] work together for our eternal good because we love God even through suffering wrongfully for righteousness sake and for His name sake (1 Peter 2:19; Rom 8:28). All men are fallible and sinful, to the world's standard the court route might be acceptable, but for us Christians only the justice of the Lord can suffice because it is perfect and satisfies our righteous heart immensely (Deut 32:4; Psa 9:8-9, 12, 16). So allow the Lord to work in His time and way to bring retribution, reconciliation and reward for all the loses we suffer in our lives.

I believe that the Lord is working on your behalf powerfully to bring success and victory to you and your family. Hold on to the promises He has given you. According to the Lord God Almighty, "For exaltation comes neither from the east nor from the west nor from the south. 7 But God is the Judge: He puts down one, and exalts another." (Psa 75:6). But at the same time God has clearly told in the same Chapter, "I choose the proper time, I will judge uprightly." (Psa 75:2). If you take things in your own hand, by choosing fleshly reaction you will waste the trial that has come up to you by Divine appointment, without any real benefit to avail through it (Heb 2:2-3). So if you want God to judge against all the evils that are done through Divine retribution, reconciliation and reward for the trial that has come your way by the Divine hand for your spiritual and earthly promotion, then you must learn patience to wait until God's appointed time comes to make Him judge the evil that are done against you and reward you with a promotion for your faith in Him (Heb 11:6). You and your wife are right in hearing God that you should not go ahead with the petition, this cannot be a deception because meekness cannot be a weakness as there is a strong God who has never failed even one time in the past is standing on behalf of you to defend you and make you inherit the earth (Matt 5:5, 10, 44-45, 46-48). When you lie low in the dust and ashes before God and before men for God's sake, God has promised to raise such poor and beggarly loyal heart from the dust and ash heap to set them among princes and make them inherit the throne of His eternal glory (1 Samuel 2:7-8; Rev 2:6; 3:21).

Do not worry about the evil power of sorcery and witchcraft, it cannot touch you as you are a child of God. Here are verses where God has promised to His children regarding His invincible protection against all evil for you to hold His promises in faith to make it active over your life and family, "For there is no sorcery against Jacob, nor any divination against Israel. It now must be said of Jacob and of Israel, ‘Oh, what God has done!’" (Num 23:23) and "No weapon formed against you shall prosper, and every tongue which rises against you in judgment you shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is from Me,” Says the LORD (Isa 54:17).

Whenever a vision comes that does not bring faith but instead brings fear, it should immediately be recognized as something that Satan has sent to destroy our faith and bring discouragement to make us get defeated spiritually. Thus such visions or dreams should immediately be discarded and thrown out of our mind in Jesus name and should continue to be resisted in Jesus name if the memory of it comes again. When we are sincere to walk in the highway of holiness of the Lord and are in His will to glorify His name, even if we are a fool spiritually, because of our sincere desire to please the Lord we shall not go astray and be lost away from the will of God no matter what (Isa 35:8). So having these promises, I pray that you and your family shall walk together in the highway of holiness to be a overcomer in your lives and bring great glory to the Lord!

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