I wasn’t in the mood to do this today, but I heard a particular pastor preaching exactly what I read this morning. (https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1KtrYgezLN/) So I said, no, no, no, I have to speak about this today.
So, as you know, have you ever felt like you hear someone speaking and then it’s almost as if the person is saying what you would say? Or it speaks to you, right? They say, “iron sharpens iron.” There are some people that you— you know how when John the Baptist was in the stomach and he heard Mary, he kicked. (Luke 1: 41 – 44)
David loved Jonathan as his own soul (1 Samuel 18: 1).
That’s how you feel like when you come near someone who is like fire, and then you have a fire sensation. Yeah, that’s how I feel about this man’s preaching. So I’m going to leave his preaching up here. I don’t tend to agree with him on everything, but on a majority of things, I definitely think that, yes, I see that he’s doing the Lord’s work. And that’s what I’m uploading, and that’s why I have the video up here.
Daniel 10:8 talks about the comeliness of Daniel. And obviously, you know, a lot of people will talk about this because this is what he was talking about in the whole video. And I read it this morning, but I didn’t feel like talking about it today. But then I saw his video, and I was like, okay, no, I have to talk about it.
So Daniel, in Daniel 10:8, even fasted. He had no pleasant bread, neither did anything pleasant come into his mouth. He didn’t eat any flesh, any wine, for about three whole weeks, just to be able to see visions. He lost strength, and then his comeliness was turned into corruption. I mean, Daniel was like the Bible—the cleanliness of the cleanest priest that you could ever find—and yet he had corruption in him.
Because this is what I was talking about: Daniel was somebody who abstained from everything abstainable. He was the only one that reached for holiness to the point they said he was always in a trance, and yet he had corruption in him. Because it reminds me of what King David says: “Iniquity was I fashioned, and in sin was I conceived.”
Even the best efforts of human beings to be holy—it’s not like it’s in vain, but it just goes to show that there’s a fruitless effort in it. Not that it’s bad, it’s just that there is a fruitless effort in it.
So there’s none as holy as Christ. And scripture says that even Jesus, as our high priest, purified himself. And even though Daniel set his heart to understand and chastened himself, he still had corruption—comeliness turned to corruption. And then Jesus had none of these things, even in the grave.
You know, after this, somebody came, appeared to Daniel, and touched his lips and gave him strength. And the man was the Son of Man that appeared to Daniel and touched him, and he got himself back. And he showed him the scriptures of truth and showed him things that were to come. And this was how Daniel 11, which was the things that were supposed to happen in the latter days, was brought to light.
You know, I don’t want to expatiate on everything I read this morning, but this is like the summary of it.
I was supposed to mention that, you know, scripture says that his body was not corrupt, that he was raised incorruptible—an incorruptible body. He was sown in corruption, raised in an incorruptible body. And because he took on our sin, right, he was sown in corruption, raised in an incorruptible body. But at the time of his resurrection, he had none of those things imputed to him, meaning that God didn’t even allow him to see corruption.
I mean, Jesus couldn’t see corruption—the Holy One. How much more? But we, obviously, our human body will see corruption.
Every time I see this pastor, he says the things I’m supposed to say. I don’t know if this is normal.
1 Corinthians 15:22–23 (KJV):
22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.
No matter how far a man goes in holiness (like Daniel), he cannot escape corruption.
But Christ, being the Holy One, not only avoided corruption but defeated it,
and through Him, others can be raised incorruptible.