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The book of Acts of the Apostles chapter seventeen verse thirty talks about a time of ignorance among the Gentiles that God had decided to wink at. Scripture says those times of ignorance, God has winked at. Another version says he has overlooked. I took time to study this scripture because I have realized over time that Ministers of God – we Ministers of God - have a way of using that scripture to justify some acts that I do not altogether agree to in the context of what the Spirit through Paul is talking about. Now, we understand that in that particular scenario, which applies to all human race, Apostle Paul was bringing them from somewhere to another sphere of living altogether. He addressed the fact that they were idol worshippers which was very obvious – but he was explaining to them that they could quit and when they leave idol worshipping, they come into the kingdom and that period of idol worshipping, God has categorized to be a period of ignorance. But we know that when a...

CHAPTER FIVE “Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech” Gen 11:7 “And suddenly, there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind...” Acts 2:2 THE DIVINE INTERVENTION MANKIND WAS ON A ROAD to self-destruction by her quest to live apart from her source. We would here consider the stepping in of the community of the God-head. You would recall that at the event of man’s creation, the same conversation ensued. “ Then God said, let us make man in our image...” (Gen. 1:26) This erection is needed to be stopped by a loving Father. Every structure not founded on the Eternal Rock will surely be pulled down. The pathway to the restoration of man would never be blocked. We find here the answer to why there are so many languages on the earth and why the human race spread so rapidly across the earth after the flood. In both cases above, there was a divine intervention - as w...

God's love is universal and His thoughts are higher CHAPTER FOUR “ And they said, ‘Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower whose top is in the heavens, let us make a name for ourselves” Gen 11:4 “When the Day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all with one accord in one place” Acts 2:1 THE QUEST IN WHOSE NAME ARE YE GATHERED? Every structure that is not erected in the name of the Lord would surely be pulled down. In the previous chapter, we clarified the coming together to ‘make’ by mankind as well as another coming together to ‘make’ which was an absolute work of the Lord. A good illustration is in the construction of a house. The first requirement is to put together the bricks and other materials that would be needed for the construction. In recent times, the blocks have to be moulded (made) into shape. That would be closely followed by the building process. Mankind (in her fallen state) came together to build a ...

God's love is universal and His thoughts are higher CHAPTER THREE “ Then they said to one another, come let us make...” Gen 11:3 “These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication...” Acts 1:14 HEART MATTERS – MOTIVE HOW QUICKLY THE MEN reasoned with one another and decided to embark on a massive construction. How often we like to make bricks for ourselves as well. A closer look into that verse paints a clear picture of the heart of the fallen man. They had brick for ‘stone’, and they had asphalt for mortar. This indicates a binding together of stones with mortar - stones symbolically represent resistance. The heart of the fallen man constantly stands in resistance to the counsel of the Lord. Moses ascended to the Mount of the Lord and came back with the tablets of stone upon which the laws were inscribed. The problem was not with the written laws because we would later see in the thirty sixth chapter of the book of Ezekiel ...

God's love is universal and His thoughts are higher. CHAPTER TWO “And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the East that they found a plain in the land of Shinar and they dwelt there” Gen 11:2 “And when they had entered, they went up into the upper room where they were staying” Acts 1:13 THE DWELLING PLACE THERE REMAINS THEREFORE A REST to the people of God. For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works as God did from his. Let us labour therefore to enter that rest (Heb. 4:9-11). So many of the life-giving truth in the Word consists of two interwoven halves that cannot be separated. ‘Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest’. As for labour, it is true that there is a great deal of struggling and searching and pleading and agonizing in the process of discovering and understanding truths fitted to our needs. And much of the same pathway is trod in an effort to appropriate and enter in. All this is not in vain, it is necessary. But it is ...