Heralds Digest

  “ Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, Whose hope is in the Lord his God, The Lord shall reign forever— Your God, O Zion, to all generations. Praise the Lord! ” Psalms 146 : 5 , 10 NKJV Even in the human economy, hope is freaky because its demands are fundamentally unattainable by the ordinary. Most people hope only in the status and not really in the person of the character. Their hope in a celebrity lasts as long as the celebrity gives acceptable performances or lives out their dreams. Likewise, true hope in the Lord is not dependent on the handouts from the throne of grace; it is based on absolute faith in His prominence and providence, even while His promises hang in the balance. Yes, the status and circumstances of most believers’ expectations can change; but God remains unchanged from generations to generations. With holy hope in God, believers are consistently fascinated by the fresh access to the throne of grace for fresh revelation of His purposes and pl...

  “ These are the ones who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are the ones who follow the Lamb wherever He goes. These were redeemed from among men, being firstfruits to God and to the Lamb. ” Revelation 14 : 4 NKJV In our days of chatGPT and google maps, following the lamb lane can only navigate to somewhere like Golden, Colorado in the U.S. and London in the UK. To all carnal minds, the lamb lane is misconstrued as the rejection of the senses of men on morality, modality and methodologies. The revelation of Jesus Christ to Apostle John about the 144,000 redeemed elders represents those who followed closely the lamb lane, irrespective of its narrowness and strictness. These redeemed believers are those who will be satisfied with wherever Jesus wants them to go, rather than just following their self-will and logical lanes in life. Actually, it is unfortunate that advances in human knowledge, social class, and political privileges make many people fight the ...

  “ Blessed be the Lord God of our fathers, who has put such a thing as this in the king’s heart, to beautify the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem, and has extended mercy to me before the king and his counselors, and before all the king’s mighty princes. So I was encouraged, as the hand of the Lord my God was upon me; and I gathered leading men of Israel to go up with me .” Ezra 7 : 27 - 28 NKJV It is important to see the great connection between the heart of king Artaxerxes and the hand of the Lord upon Ezra. Obviously, it shows that the true battles of life are not fought with the fists of human hands; but rather by the lifting up of holy hands. It all started by the acknowledgement of Ezra’s engagement with the Lord: “ For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the Law of the Lord, and to do it, and to teach statutes and ordinances in Israel (Ezra 7 : 10 )”. He knew that it wasn’t in vain that the scriptures say elsewhere that “ The king’s heart is in the hand of the Lord...

  “ Then King Darius issued a decree, and a search was made in the archives, where the treasures were stored in Babylon…For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the Law of the Lord, and to do it, and to teach statutes and ordinances in Israel.”   Ezra 6:1; 7 : 10 NKJV It is believed that the trust in the principle of sincerity makes the human justice system come up with the axiom “ ignorance is not an excuse !”. This implies that the concept of “I don’t know!” is always not tenable; and anyone who really wants to know will definitely search and get informed. For example, when king Darius wanted to know the facts about the rebuilding of the temple in Jerusalem, he supported his sincerity with a decree-backed search warrant into the treasury and the truth surfaced. Unfortunately, in the absence of sincerity, we give spurious excuses for our inaction, injustices, indifference, and indiscipline at homes, workplaces, and the society. Whereas, a sincere search is not complicated….i...

  “ Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; And His greatness is unsearchable. Men shall speak of the might of Your awesome acts, And I will declare Your greatness. They shall utter the memory of Your great goodness, And shall sing of Your righteousness .” Psalms 145 : 3 , 6 - 7 NKJV The praise of the great goodness of God is no doubt the ridicule of the woeful wickedness of the enemy. And the longstanding strategy of the enemy in our homes, assemblies and societies is the skillful embargoes against the praise of the great goodness of God. For the mere fact of life’s survival throughout the schemes and activities in the year 2025 up until this moment, it implies that God has manifested His great goodness against the enemy’s strategy of exclusion, extinction, and extermination in believers’ homes, businesses, and professions. Unfortunately, many so-called believers are readily hired to promote the woeful wickedness of the enemy and to undermine the praise of the great goodn...

  “ Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the descendants of the captivity were building the temple of the Lord God of Israel, they came to Zerubbabel and the heads of the fathers’ houses, and said to them, “Let us build with you, for we seek your God as you do; and we have sacrificed to Him since the days of Esarhaddon king of Assyria, who brought us here.” But Zerubbabel and Jeshua and the rest of the heads of the fathers’ houses of Israel said to them, “You may do nothing with us to build a house for our God; but we alone will build to the Lord God of Israel, as King Cyrus the king of Persia has commanded us.” ” Ezra 4 : 1 - 3 NKJV Everyone knows that any house building project requires lots of help and human labourers, and a reasonable building contractor will readily accept and use all offers of labour dispassionately. Zerubbabel stood out as an exception to the concept of ‘use all labour-offer ’ building contractors. He refused the offers from ‘the adver...

  “ The One who gives salvation to kings, Who delivers David His servant From the deadly sword. Rescue me and deliver me from the hand of foreigners, Whose mouth speaks lying words, And whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood —” Psalms 144 : 10 - 11 NKJV Had king David not exposed to wilderness experience and foreigners’ falsehood in his earthly kingship, he would have been stranded by the limit of earthly salvation to kings. However, real life experiences taught David that God is “ The One who gives salvation to kings “; and He is the only source of faultless freedom to believers today. When He promised those who come to Him freedom or rest, it is important to underscore that His freedom or rest is faultless, full, and free from fraudulent practices. While an experience of delay is often required to perfect the restoration of all stolen property and inheritance into their rightful positions, the offer of faultless freedom from the Lord is a gift from the omnipotent, omnisc...