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Chapter One Blessed and what is it I want to be clear without misunderstanding here in this chapter. Simply because I donot want anyone to miss this as well I prayed that everyone that reads this chapter be imparted with a seed of spiritual revelation about their own lives to want to be more and more for which we were call to be. We will face this chapter in a way for which some will not understand from the beginning but by the end of this chapter the heart will be filled and the soul will leap for joy simply because now you will know, how, when, and where, that will free you and set you on fire for he Lord. Some you that is reading this book right now is feeling the outward pressure of the enemy trying to suffocate you to the point that everything within you stop growing outward and we turn back to where we come from. So that we don’t finish the course but it is time for some one to step up and bring forth the revelation of Blessed. So what is the definition of “blessed?” How did I get to be blessed? Why is this important to know? These three areas for which will be the guide line for which this chapter will be formulated to build a spiritual grid to awaken the spirit with you to activate the Heavenly Host to through the spiritual realm open your spiritual eye to see the greatness within this chapter. The definition for blessed is: adj. 1. holy; sacred 2. blissful 3. beatified 4. bringing comfort or joy –bless’ed-ly adv. –bless’ed-ness n. (The word blissful means: n. [< OE blithe, blithe] 1. great happiness 2. spiritual joy –bliss’ful adj. –bliss’ful-ly adv. –bliss’ful-ness n. And the word beatified means: (root word: beatify) vt. –fied, -fy-ing [[< L beatus, happy + facere, to make]] 1. to make blissfully happy 2. R. C. Ch. To declare (a deceased person) to be in heaven –be-at-fi-ca’-tion n. Now this is interesting because of the magnitude for which will be revealed in this particular book. So what definition is suitable to particular chapter for which we are using it? Now what is the correct application of this particular word for which the Body of Christ can walk in the power of this particular revelation. The Nelson’s Illustrated Bible Dictionary states for Bless and Blessing in its first chapter as this: the act of declaring, or wishing, God’s favor and goodness upon others. The blessing is not only the good effect of words; it also has the power to bring them to pass. In the Bible, important persons blessed those with less power or influence. The patriarchs pronounced benefits upon their children, often near their own deaths: (for example): The Bible says: And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall be fall you in the last days. Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father. Reuben, thou art my first born, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power: Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father’s bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch. Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations. O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall. Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel. Judah thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies; thy father’s children shall bow down before thee. Judah is a lion’s whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall roué him up? The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come: and unto him shall the gathering of the people be. Binding his foal unto the vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes: His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk. Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall be an haven of ships; and his border shall be unto Zidon. Issachar is a strong ass couching sown between two burdens: And he sw that rest was good, and the land that it was pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute. Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel. Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward. I have waited for thy salvation, O Lord. Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last. Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties. Naph’-ta-li is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words. Joseph is a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall: The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him: But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel) Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee; and by Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb: The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren. Benjamin shall ravin as wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil. All these are the twelve tribes of Israel: and this is it that their father spake unto them, and blessed them; every one according to his blessing he blessed them. (Genesis 49: 1-28) Even if spoken by mistake, once a blessing was given it could not be taken back (example Genesis 27) Now the very first chapter of the Nelson’s Illustrated Bible Dictionary has given us a certain aspect of blessed but clarity of exactly what it is for which you and I are searching for and need to fine. Before I go forth with the definition I want to peek your ability to guide yourselves to the answer for which is the key to the question: “What is the difference between Blessed and Blessing?” This is what this particular book is all about because for the Body of Christ to walk in the fullness of anything we first must understand and reach for the atmosphere and grab hold to the promises with in the realm of the heavens. As I ask this questions I got many different responses as well as many same responses none good not give me directly the completeness of the answer to be able to walk in the fullness of the revelation of this particular question. So let us get back to this particular section of the book. There are many examples for which we can used for the expression of blessed. From the beginning to the end of the 66 books that put together known as the Bible but to grasps the fullness of the essence of the word I want you to come with me and take a journey through the word and let it be revealed unto you. The place where we are going will play out through out this book for which we need to complete the story in order to grasps the full magnitude of the power of the purity of the Word of God. I want to take you to the Book of Psalms to the psalm of Asaph. The Bible says: Unto thee, O God, do we give thanks; unto thee do we give thanks: for hat thy name is near thy wondrous works declare. When I shall receive the congregation I will judge uprightly. The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved; I bear up the pillars of it Selah. I said unto the fools Deal not foolishly: and to the wicked, lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck. For promotion cometh neither from the east, not from the west, nor from the south. But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and sitteth up another. For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup, and the wine is red: it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them. But I will declare for ever; I will sing praises to the God of Jacob. All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted. (Psalm 75) Now this particular Psalm 75 is a reminder to the people of Israel of a particular event that happen in the course of Asaph life that had to be written about that holds the very thing that this book was birth from. I want you to realize that being impregnate with birth is to bring forth the combination of what is within that has to come outward. The revelation will be something with substance as a child comes forth on the day of birth. Something to hold on to that grows due to the attention and feeding of the thing which grows to the point of being to big to carry so you have to let it go to bring forth enlightenment unto the people that comes forth in contact with. You see the power which is based in the word of God is captured in the revelation of the word of God. The actual principle for which we can apply within our lives. The understanding of the application is the principle that lays the foundation for which we can walk on and bring forth the power to help us carry this into the world. I want you to follow me through this story this history this foundation for which will reveal the revelation for you and I can carry unto the people of God and bring forth a birthing of revelation that will lay the foundation for which we can take the principle into the world. This particular Psalm refers back to an act or events that happen in the Book of 2Kings. Before we get into the story let gather a few facts about the book of 2Kings. The two Old Testament books that recount the history of God’s Chosen People during four turbulent centuries from 970 to 587B. C. The narratives in these books of history are organized around the various kings who reigned during these centuries, thus explaining the titles by which the books are known. The first half of first Kings traces the life of Solomon, under his leadership Israel rised to the peak of her size and glory. Solomon’s great accomplishments, including the unsurpassed splendor of the temple which he constructs in Jerusalem, bring him world wide fame and respect. However Solomon’s zeal for God diminishes in his later years, as pagan wives turn his heart away form worship in the temple of God. As a result, the King with the divided heart leaves behind a divided kingdom. For the next century the Book of First Kings traces the twin histories of two sets of Kings nations of disobedient people, who are growing in different to God’s prophets and precepts. The Book of Second Kings continues the drama in First Kings the tragic history of two nations on a collision course with captivity. The author systematically traces the reigning monarchs of Israel and Judah, first by carrying one nation’s history forward, then retracing the same period for he other nation. Nineteen consecutive evil Kings rule in Israel, leading to the captivity by Assyria. (After the establishment 930 B. C.) Of two Jewish kingdoms (Israel and Judah) in Palestine only the ten northern tribes constituting the kingdom of Israel was known as Israelites. When Israel was conquered by the Assyrians (721 B. C.) Its population was absorbed by other people and the term Israelites came to refer to those who were still distinctively Jewish the descendants of the Kingdom of Judah. The picture is some what brighter in Judah where godly kings occasionally emerge to reform the evils of their predecessors. In the end, however, sin out weighs righteousness and Judah is marched off to Babylon. Now a little history on Asaph name means Jehovah has gathered which many men was named for that in the Old Testament. The father of Joah a Levite and the son of Berachiah the Gershonite. Asaph sounded the cymbals before the Ark of the Covenant when it was moved from the house of Obed-Edom to Jerusalem. Asaph family became one of the three families given responsibility for music and song in the Temple. Following the captivity, 128 singers form this family returned from Babylon and conducted the singing when the foundations of Zerubbabel’s temple were laid. A recorder for the tribe of Judah for which was Twelve Psalms (Psalms 50: 73-83) are attributed to the family of Asaph. Now we have gathered just a little information let us go to the book of 2Kings the 18th chapter and let see what the Bible says: Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against all the fenced cities of Judah, and took them. And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to Lachish, saying, I have offended; return from me; that which thou puttest on me will I bear. And the king of Assyria appointed unto Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold. And Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the house of the Lord, and in the treasures of the ling’s house. At that time did Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of the temple of the Lord, and from the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria. And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshalkeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great hose against Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller’s field. And when they had called to the king, there came out to them Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which was over the house hold, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder. And Rabshakeh said unto them speak ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein thou trustest? Thou sayest, (but they are but vain words,) I have counsel and strength for the war. Now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me? Now behold, thou trustest upon the staff of this bruised reed, even upon Egypt, on which if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt unto all that trust on him. But if ye say unto me, We trust in the Lord our God: is not that he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and hath said to Judah and Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem? Now therefore, I pray thee, give pledges to my lord the king of Assyria, and I will deliver thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them. How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master’s servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen? Am I now come up with out the Lord against this place to destroy it. Then said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebna and Joah unto Rabshakeh Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and talk not with us in the Jews language in the ears of the people that are on the wall. But Rabshakeh said unto them, Hath my master sent me to thy master and to thee to speak these words? Hath he not sent me to the men which sit on the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you? Then Rabshakeh stood and cried with a loud voice in the Jews language, and spake, saying, Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria: Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver you our of his hands: Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the Lord, saying, The Lord will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria. Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me, and then eat ye everyman of his own vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his cistern: Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of oil olive and of honey, that ye may live, and not die: and hearken not unto Hezekiah, when he persuadeth you, saying, The Lord will deliver us. Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered at all his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria? Where are the gods of Hamath and of Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah? Have they delivered Samaria out of mine hand? Who are they among all the gods of the countries that have delivered their country out of mine hand, that the Lord should deliver Jerusalem out of mine hand? But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king’s commandment was, saying, Answer him not. Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent and told him the words of Rabshakeh. And it came to pass, when King Hezekiah heard it tha the rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the Lord. And he sent Eliakim which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz. (2Kings 18:13-37; 19: 1-2) Now we are just going to deal with this part of the recorded Word of the Lord for obtaining the fullness of the chapter fullness for which you and I are looking for. This is in order to walk into the revelation of what exactly blessed is. There is something in the atmosphere for which you have not put there yourself but the reason it is there if for you and because of you. Interesting how God works giving and placing things for us at the cost of His glory to edify us to bring forth the glory for which He has bestowed within us to shine above all things here on earth. Before we get into the fullness of “What is Blessed?” let us gather a little information on the kings that are mention here. Hezekiah means Jehovah is strength, the 13th king of Judah. Born the son of Ahaz by Abi, daughter of Zechariah, Hezekiah became known as one of Judah’s godly kings. That an ungodly man like Ahaz could have such a godly son can only be attributed to the grace of God. (Ahaz had turn the kingdom over to idolatry; but upon his accession to the throne, Hezekiah firmly and courageously initiated religious reform. The Bible says: Now it came to pass in, in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign. Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign; and he reign twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name also was Abi, the daughter of Zachariah. And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that David his father did. He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brazen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan. (2Kings 18: 1-4) Ahaz promoted the worship of Molech, with its pagan rites of human sacrifice. The Bible says: Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: but he did not that which was right in the sight of the Lord like David his father: For he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made also molten images for Baalim. Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burnt his children in the fire, after the abominations of the heathen whom the Lord had cast out before the children of Israel. He sacrificed also and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree. (2Chronicles 28: 1-4) He came under further pagan influence at Damascus where he had gone to meet Tiglath-Pileser III seeing a pagan altar there, he commanded Uriah the priest at Jerusalem to build a copy of it. He then established it as the official place of the bronze altar. (He is also contributed of the Sun Dial for which was constructed in his reign) King Ahaz was the same that Isaiah announcement of the promised Immanuel was made: The Bible says: Moreover the Lord spake again unto Ahaz, saying, Ask thee a sign of the Lord thy God: ask it either in the depth, or in the height above. But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the Lord. And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will ye weary men, but will ye weary my God also? Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. Butter and honey shall he ear, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good. For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings. The Lord shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father’s house, days that have come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king of Assyria. (Isaiah 7: 10-17) His death he was buried without honor in Jerusalem. He was not deemed worthy of a burial in the royal tombs: And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city, even in Jerusalem: but they brought him not into the sepulchres of the kings of Israel: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead. (2Chronicles 28:27)) Now a little information on the king of Assyria Sennacherib names mean: sin [moon-god] reign 705-681 B. C. and was most definitely recognized for his military campaigns against southern kingdom of Judah. He was the son and successor of Sargon II and was succeeded by his son Esarhaddon in 681 B. C. after reigning for twenty four years. His military campaigns in the west caused a great deal of controversy because of the Bible account. This story we are going through speaks one way but the ancient Greek historian Herodotus tells of a similar incident, although he sets the scene in Egypt with thousands of field mice swarmed over them during the night, and ate their quivers, their bowstrings, and leather handles of their shields, so that on the following day, having no arms to fight with, they abandoned their position and suffered sever losses during their retreat. The mice mentioned may have been plague carrying mice could have instruments of the Lord’s judgment. The mice bearing the “Black Death” (the bubonic plague). Sennacherib began his western military campaign in 701 B. C. when Tyre and Sidon refused to pay tribute to Assyria. He marched sown the Phoenician coast and captured Sidon and many other cities. The cities that refused to submit were destroyed. After the Assyrians defeated the Egyptians, they laid siege to Lachish, along with Jerusalem. This is after he had been asked to join the rebellion against the Assyrians, but refused. During that time Sennacherib and Hezekiah went against the wise counsel of the prophet Isaiah and joined a coalition against Assyria led by Tyre and Egypt. After the destruction of his army, Sennacherib returned to Nineveh. While worshipping in the temple of his god Nisroch, he was assassinated by his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer. Now after we gathered the information maybe we are starting to see the revelation revealed before us. Let me show you something Hezekiah father came after four righteous kings of Israel but he turned from the ways of David little by little. He was secured by being blessed by God for His existence and further more was used to do things by God because he was blessed to be in the line of David of the line of Christ Jesus Himself. Some of the things within his life was magnified in their usage to bring glory unto God such as the Sun Dial. His son used that for conformation from Isaiah for which confirmed that Isaiah heard from God. But the most amazing that he was blessed to bring forth a son by the daughter of Abi daughter of Zachariah as his reign was wicked and defiled. There was something in the atmosphere for which he received without his knowledge that was in the perfect plan of God for which trickled upon him because of the covering of the promises until the fulfillment of certain events. You see we have to remember it makes no difference what the past generation action was it counted as being blessed simply because in that line the birth of you had come and the calling is upon you to bring your people back the covering of God. Simply because someone in the line of your generation placed and confirmed something in the atmosphere that came down upon you with out help or knowledge of you. So blessed is simply: “favor for which we do not deserve that bring forth comfort and joy for the perfecting the perfect plan of God.” This is very important because if we walk in that then the chains for which hinders us will fall off regardless of the situations or circumstances that is placed before us. We will not see the situation physically because the revelation for which we are walking in births not super reality of spiritual realm that covers the physical reality that gives true vision to the event. In that we command the situation because we have penetrated straight through the falsehood of the enemy illusion of control and submit our emotions and action to the greater power were we will walk through untouched. Look at how Hezekiah was surrounded by an army that was season to fight and looking to capture the city. Even though the city was fortified on of the great cities of Judah the enemy rolled up on it to take it. Sent men up to the city and told them that I have come to feed you your own bowel and drink your own piss. Regardless of the pressure which surrounded the righteous king of Judah the servant of the most High God, there was something in the atmosphere that birth a promise for which the covering of the promise was upon him. You see what the world views as trouble we view as a test for the testimony. As Hezekiah looked around he saw all the people that was under his protection trapped within the city along with him and standing for the determination with him faces the king of Assyria right there with him. You we all must realize that the measure of the circumstances do not dictate the spiritual realm the magnitude of the reaction of God. It is the receiving of the promise and walking into that which gives utterance to situations the magnitude of the revelation that releases the blessed it help. When we know the true essence of blessed our eyes are open in no longer looking at those that are lost as throw away but the blessed that have not yet come to reality that they are blessed. Remember that Hezekiah did what he could physically to handle the situation because knowing the power of the king of Assyria and the might of his army forced him to take a measure upon himself to try to resolve the situation. But the enemy used what seems to be trickery or a diversion that covered his true intention. And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to Lachish, saying I have offended; return from me: that which thou puttest on me will I bear. And the king of Assyria appointed unto Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold. And Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the house of the Lord, and in the treasures of the king’s house. At that time did Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of the temple of the Lord, and from the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria. (2Kings 18: 14-16) The king of Assyria hand place a payment upon the city and the Hezekiah took all the cities riches to the king of Assyria for which the king and something in the works unknowing to Hezekiah. The king of Assyria had placed in his mind that they did not pay the payment upfront that they were against him and that was simply unacceptable. Interesting regardless of what you think you can do to please some people it is never enough because in their spirit is something else for which you have never come to understand. As if the king of Assyria wanted more than what he claimed in the beginning and tried to place this on Hezekiah as if what I want to do is on you because you did not do what I ask. As some place on you and I that it is our fault that this happen to you because if you had of done this I would not have to do that. The adversary comes to seek and destroy by any means necessary. Next the people for which the king of Assyria sent carried a message that I have more men than you as well as more power physically than you. We have destroyed those greater than you so what you need to do is to come over here and give yourselves unto their lord king of Assyria. This is the formula for which the enemy uses today on you and I even though we understand that we are blessed and accept the tugging of the heart or the knocking on the heart by God. The enemy is still wanting us to change that and come back over to his side by way of pressure as well as different pleasures of desire of the flesh. Here in this story it was through fear as well as death to save yourselves but if you give alliance to my lord then you will be spared. As the messenger goes on he offers what seems to be a good deal for exchange of something. The Bible says: Now therefore, I pray thee, give pledges to my lord the king of Assyria, and I will deliver thee two thousands horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them. How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master’s servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen? Am I now come up without the Lord against this place to destroy it? The Lord said to me, Go up against this land and destroy it. (2Kings 18: 22-25) Look at the response from Hezekiah men: The Bible says: Then said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebna, and Joah, unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the Syrian language: for we understand it: and talk not with in the Jews language in the ears of the people that are on the wall. But Rabshakeh said unto them, Hath my master sent me to thy master, and to thee, to speak these words? Hath he not sent me to the men which sit on the wall that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you? Then Rabshakeh stood and cried with a loud voice in the Jews language, and spake, saying, Hear the word of the great king, king of Assyria: Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver you out of his hand: Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the Lord, saying, The Lord will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria. Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me, and then eat ye every man of his own vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his cistern. Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of oil olive and of honey, that ye may live, and not die: and hearken not unto Hezekiah, when the persuadeth you saying, The Lord will deliver us. (2King: 18: 25-32) Look at how the king men of Assyria proclaim that it would be better for them to deny the king of Hezekiah for which was placed upon them a righteous king. As if the enemy comes to us with the old word it is greener on the other side but hold back the consequences for going to the other side and when you get that it is not so green and there is a lot of patches in the grass. As they are asking for a little from you but giving so much in return to us that will please our flesh but destroy our very existence plus face the wrath of God. One that not only can destroy me physically but as well spiritually. At the same time wanting to place pressure from within for which the enemy can not get there but can force you to place pressure there by who alls in the house. Understand that when the enemy begin to reply he spoke in the language for which the ones on the wall could understand. As the enemy will attack that which is in your house in there language to place pressure from within as he places pressure outwardly and together persuade you out of the will of God over to the other side. But the blessed knowing of the knowledge by growing in grace of the knowledge of Jesus Christ and knows that in the atmosphere the promises of God is there and willing and ready to pour out upon them because we have received something that we do not deserve that comes from the grace of God without our knowledge. If there is no one else there physically to press pressure then the enemy starts speaking to the old man in the language it knows to get you to return to the old ways from which it was delivered from. This is why it is very important that when delivered from something you must be ministered unto because when the enemy comes back it will bring seven stronger to come in with it. So the enemy is using physical and mental as well as engaging a spiritual attack all at once against the king of Judah. The same attacks he uses against us today. Offering false illusions to blessed that is capable of being spiritual fit with strengthening by grace through the knowledge of Jesus Christ to stand on the righteous King. Look at how the enemy continue with the attack: The Bible says: Hath any of the gods of Hamath, and of Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah? Have they delivered Samaria out of mine hand? Who are they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out of mine hand, that the Lord should deliver Jerusalem out of mine hand? (2King 18: 33-35) I want to show something in those few verses there exactly what the enemy was doing. Hamath: means fortress: An ancient city of Syria situated on the Orontes River about 125 miles not of Damascus. A main trade route connected Mesopotamia to the east with Egypt to the South. City had great influence and was spread over a wide area. Arpad: means resting place: a fortified city in northern Syria we know it as Tell Erfad which is about 25 miles north of Aleppo. Sepharvaim: a city between Hamath and Damascus a Syrian city of Sibraim. Which the people practice sacrificing of their children to their gods. Hena: known to us as Anah today a town on the Euphrates River about 25 miles from Babylon. Ivah: means sky: city-state of great wealth as well as politically connected. The enemy placed bragging rights to be have beaten those greater than Judah because of their physical position within the area. Not truly understanding that the area was blessed because of what went forth in the atmosphere but not realizing it never receive the fullness of the blessed and focus on the physical and was absorb by those around them. Just like the enemy places infront of us by placing thoughts to look at others to judge our situation to confirm us getting off the path. As well as looking backwards in our generation to those that had more than us by doing this or our friends got more by doing this or that and did not get caught so it would be alright for us for a little while.
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