TODAY’S DEVOTION TUESDAY 30th DECEMBER 2025)
“Do not be wise in your own eyes; Fear the LORD and depart from evil. It will be health to your flesh, and strength to your bones.
Honor the LORD with your possessions, and with the first fruits of all your increase; So your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will overflow with new wine.”
Proverbs 3:7-10 NKJV
WELCOME TO THE 364TH DAY OF OUR YEAR OF VICTORY
With just one more day to the end of this year, what can we say other than, to God be the glory!!
Our counting of days, weeks, months and years has been according to the Gregorian calendar not the calendar God gave to the Hebrew Nation. Exodus 12 tells us how God chose the beginning of months for them, unlike other nations. It says:
“Now the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, “This month shall be your beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year to you.
Exodus 12:1-2 NKJV
There is no other nation under Heaven that had this privilege with God because there was no other ancestor under Heaven who walked with the Pre incarnate Christ like the ancestor of the Hebrew Nation, Father Abraham.
A nation that God chose when their year should begin has the most accurate calendar on the face of the earth. That is why all of us who uses the Gregorian calendar do miss certain seasons released by Heaven; especially seasons God visits the earth, according to the book of Psalms.
One unique thing about the Hebrew nation is how it was formed and cultured by the hand of the LORD. It is the only nation under Heaven whose traditions and practices were given by the LORD.
They were like a missionary nation for the salvation of the entire human race. That explains why the dragon has stirred many nations from time to time, to either kill, steal from them, or destroy them.
The nation of Israel has been hated by many other nations from generation to generation, with so many lies and evil taught even in schools about them. The book of Revelation 12 further reveals the reason when it depicted them as the woman who brought forth Christ, the man-child, and ultimately the Church.
THE WORSE FOR ISREAL IS YET TO COME. THE BIBLE TEACHES THAT THE NATION WILL BE PERSECUTED UNTIL THE RESTORATION OF ALL THINGS.
It also depicted other things but this one, in my view, stood out. Paul said they received the word of the LORD (oracles of GOD) for us by the hands of angels. The only sad thing is they did not keep what they received, neither did they transit when the reason for all the dealings God had with them showed up.
Yes, the reason God related with Israel, from the time of Abraham when the nation never existed, to the time of Moses, and then the time of the kings that reigned over them, and the prophets who prophesied to them, down to the time of John the Baptist; was to bring them to Christ; and ultimately the spiritual kingdom of GOD. Jesus Himself put it this way:
“The law and the prophets were until John. Since that time the kingdom of God has been preached, and everyone is pressing into it.”
Luke 16:16 NKJV
The law and the prophets were God’s tutors to bring them to Christ, and ultimately, use them to put Christ in the rest of the lost world. But there are so many portions of the Bible that tells us that this failed in many respects. It failed when most of them, in their unbelief, refused to accept the LORD Jesus Christ when He came as man as the Messiah, thereby resisting the transition from Judaism birthed by Moses to Christianity birth by Jesus Christ.
Majority of them held on to the Moses they knew and never accepted the Christ the prophets spoke about. If you read the gospels, you will find the many attempts people like Paul made to explain this transition to them. But they will rather beat them up, chase them out of cities and accused them of coming to destroy their walk with God.
IN FACT, JESUS, AS MAN, WAS KILLED BECAUSE OF THAT. THEY KILLED HIM BECAUSE THEY FELT HE WAS A THREAT TO JUDAISM.
Though God used that to save us (the lost man) from eternal damnation, their reason for killing Him was because Judaism had become a great money-spinning religion to them, and a political seat for negotiating with the Roman government ruling over Isreal then and the acquisition of Power for the High Priest and his gang. Jesus was seen as a threat to all that.
The two factors perfectly helped the gang to lord over the Jews and make money from their followers, even to the point of using religious practices to rob and steal from them. At one time Jesus had to enter the temple to do what was considered unthinkable to stop the steal. The Bible says:
“Then Jesus went into the temple of God and drove out all those who bought and sold in the temple and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves. And He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a ‘den of thieves.’ ”
Then the blind and the lame came to Him in the temple, and He healed them.
But when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful things that He did, and the children crying out in the temple and saying, “Hosanna to the Son of David!” they were indignant.”
Matthew 21:12-15 NKJV
In the days of this story, the spiritual leaders of the day made a lot of money from the innocent followers who came to seek the LORD using practices and teachings from things God told Israel to do under Moses. They did that without telling them that the days of those practices had come to an end, since the reason for the practices (Christ) had arrived.
They deliberately kept them blind because of the money that was coming to them from the spiritual blindness of the people.
Wait a minute, is that not what our money-sinking preachers are doing today? If you look at the Matthew 21:12-15 scripture, you will find out what the enemy was hindering in the life of the souls that the temple was established to bring to Christ.
He was hindering GOD’s glory from breaking out among them to take away blindness, and other defects that were on their lives. The Bible says as soon as Jesus cleansed the temple of the practices and the stealing that was going on, God broke out among them and healed those with physical effects of their spiritual defects.
THIS IS BEING REPEATED NOWADAYS. THAT DEFECT REPRESENTS THE DEFECTS OF A LIFE OF SIN THAT IS ON EVERY HUMAN BEING ON EARTH.
We do not need a prophet to tell us that the church of God has been commercialized using teachings extracted from Judaism, the way the activities of the temple were commercialized in the days of this story, using teachings and practices extracted from what God gave to Moses to teach the nation.
Teachings like redemption of first born and many others, and practices like using oil, salt, water etc. to pray and many others have made so many preachers rich, thereby hindering the outbreak of His glory among seekers of God to take away the spiritual defects of sins.
When the glory of God is hindered from breaking out among us, it will give birth to Christianity without godly character. That is why today we have a lot of us believers; especially most of us pastors, who fit into the Christianity described by Paul in Titus chapter one. The Bible says,
“They profess to know God [to recognize and be acquainted with Him], but by their actions they deny and disown Him. They are detestable and disobedient and worthless for good work of any kind.”
Titus 1:16 Amplified
This is a very sad development. If you look at the church today, you will find unprecedented hypocrisy and wickedness among even the most revered men of God. The system tells us to turn a blind eye out of respect for them, but God is not turning a blind eye because He is no respecter of persons. And if God is not turning a blind eye, His sons and daughters should not, His church should not but shout it at the house top and bring down the citadel of moral decay among us.
You think we have fared well under these practices extracted from Judaism and dished to ignorant souls just to keep us preachers smiling to the bank? No, we have not!
BUT THE BLESSING IS COMING!! A PEOPLE WITH THE GLORY AND MORALITY TO WRAP UP THE SIN AGE ARE BEING BORN!!
I weep in my heart for myself and the Church of our generation, for these things. But the blessing is coming. We have people who even defend heretic teachings and call those of us pointing men to the Bible truth about them all kinds of names. But the blessing is coming!!
Friend, a lot of nonsense people take for God’s word today are errors extracted from Judaism. But my hope is the blessing is coming.
Among the prominent teachings extracted from Judaism that is hindering the outbreak of God to remove our spiritual defects for the souls of men today is the teaching on first fruits, which have been intelligently presented to people, making a fool of so many.
Under this teaching the word of the LORD to Israel in the book of proverbs that says, “Honor the LORD with your possessions, and with the first fruits of all your increase; So your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will overflow with new wine” is intelligently presented to many, especially the gullible, to give the first salary of every year to one hungry or desperate ‘GOD’ who will never bless them in the new year without them doing that.
This scam has thrived for years, now it has faithful followers, and by January some will be caught in it again.
Sadly, each time we point people to this scam, we are accused of so many things. I laughed when one boy preacher threatened me with fire and brimstone. Like one of my spiritual sons put it, they defend the first fruit thing as if it is a Heaven making doctrine.
There are those who call themselves apostles who are sending all kinds of responses to me. They make me cry for those who listen to them and remind me of the spiritual leaders of Jesus’ days who were indignant for what He did at the temple.
BUT LIKE I SAID, THE BLESSING IS COMING!!! A PEOPLE OF GOD THAT THE EARTH AND THE CHURCH HAS NEVER SEEN ARE COMING.
Friend, if you think that Jesus Christ will fold His arm in our days and watch as the so-called papas and mamas extract teachings and practices from Judaism to make money from His flock, then you do not understand the mystery of prophetic patterns.
If you think there will be no glory from Heaven that will be stirred by the LORD to cry against these scammers, as they repeat the same things that the leaders did when Jesus was physically here, then you do not understand what Jesus meant when He said, “I will build my Church and the gates of hell will not prevail against it.”
God is on the move to stop the first fruit scammers.
Oh, yes, Jesus will not cease from using people like us to pull these nonsense practices down no matter what you think; He will not cease from screaming at the top of His voice in the Holy Ghost, “my house is a house of prayer but you have turned it to a den of thieves.” He will keep using us to do that until He breaks out among us to remove our spiritual defects the way He did in the temple.
Do not forget we are His temple!
But as He use us to do this, we will also see the indignation of those who are benefiting from the status quo poured upon us. Because the Bible says, “But when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful things that He did, and the children crying out in the temple and saying, “Hosanna to the Son of David!” they were indignant.”
I remember one time when someone with the title of an apostle said to me, “you know how to tear other people down.” And I responded, “You are mistaken because you are speaking out of the blindness of your heart. I have been trained by the LORD to enter the temple and overturn the ministry or table of the money changers presenting themselves as life changers, and the scammers who use teachings and practices from Judaism to make money from the seekers of GOD.”
GOD WILL NEVER ALLOW US TO FAIL IN HIS WILL FOR OUR LIVES.
The vision remains one, and that is to remove what is hindering the glory of God from breaking out in the Church, the glory that will remove the many spiritual defect in the moral lives of many, things that have turned so many believers into hypocrites.
We will not be able to help everyone of them. But we will help some. However, many others will keep attacking and throwing all kinds of words and punches on us until they sink into the consequences of their delusions.
Child of God, if you want to be part of the glorious Church that is fair as the moon, clear like the Sun and terrible like an army with banners, then you must get out of every false practice and teaching extracted from what Israel did under Judaism. You must walk away from the shadows and come into the substance!
The Bible says, “Such things are only a shadow of what is to come, and they have only symbolic value; but the substance [the reality of what is foreshadowed] belongs to Christ” (Colossians 2:17 Amplified Version). Practicing them will hinder you from coming into the fullness of God for your eternal life the way it hindered those who were at the temple in the day of Christ.
Let he that has an ear, hear what the Spirit is saying to the Churches!
MAKE THIS SCRIPTURE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR TODAY!
“But now [as things really are] Christ has in fact been raised from the dead, [and He became] the first fruits [that is, the first to be resurrected with an incorruptible, immortal body, foreshadowing the resurrection] of those who have fallen asleep [in death].
For since [it was] by a man that death came [into the world], it is also by a Man that the resurrection of the dead has come.
For just as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive. But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, then those who are Christ’s [own will be resurrected with incorruptible, immortal bodies] at His coming.
After that comes the end (completion), when He hands over the kingdom to God the Father, after He has made inoperative and abolished every ruler and every authority and power.
1 Corinthians 15:20-23 Amplified Version
