ATTUNEMENT OF A MAN OF GOD

DANIEL 4:19

[Daniel 4:19 AKJV] — "Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was astonished for one hour, and his thoughts troubled him. The king spoke, and said, Belteshazzar, let not the dream, or the interpretation thereof, trouble you. Belteshazzar answered and said, My lord, the dream be to them that hate you, and the interpretation thereof to your enemies."

[Daniel 4:19 FBV] — When Daniel (also called Belteshazzar) heard this, he was upset for a while, disturbed as he thought about it. The king told him, “Belteshazzar, don't be worried about the dream and what it means.” “My Lord, I only wish this dream was for those who hate you and the explanation for your enemies,” Daniel replied.



Daniel too was troubled by that dream (vision) of the king: but his disturbance was not arising from lacking capacity to comprehend, understand or interpret the dream (vision) meaning (unlike the case with the others disturbed/troubled by it before Daniel); instead, Daniel's disturbance (troubling) arose from understanding or knowing the meaning (interpretation) and message but lacking capacity to alter (change), prevent or redirect the application or implication of the dream (vision) away from his lord (Nebuchadnezzar) to apply to the enemies (haters) of his lord.

What a vision? If you hear or see it without knowing its meaning you are in trouble, and if you hear or see it knowing its meaning or message you are also in trouble and responsibility is on you to help save or warn those who are in danger thereof or targeted. So the only way to avoid trouble that comes with either not knowing or knowing the meaning of such visions (mysteries) is by never hearing or seeing them (unawareness/cluelessness). Yet even with that, ignorance or lack of knowledge destroys the oblivious (clueless).

Nevertheless, such troubling or fears like Daniel had in the bible verse above was neither from God nor endorsed by God. It does not always please God when we find His messages fearful, disturbing and scary, when in reality and in truth the messages of God are glorious, wonderful, attractive, full of wisdom and riches: our fallen nature sees His Truths as bitter, when His Truths are sweeter than honey. So God doesn't play mind games with us, but reality and truth: God is Fearful, and the Fear of God is the Beginning of true Wisdom; but also and more so, God is Love, and the Love of God is the Height of true Wisdom.

We saw the Watcher (holy one) from heaven come and speak that message to the king in dream without the Watcher being troubled or disturbed by the message to the king. If the holy one from heaven was not disturbed/troubled by the message, and the Holy Spirit in Daniel was not disturbed/troubled by the message, then Daniel being disturbed or troubled by the message was according to his flesh (carnal) and not according to the Holy Spirit or Holy Ones in heaven (spiritual).

So Nebuchadnezzar himself was more aligned with the Holy Spirit than Daniel was in this very bible verse, because Nebuchadnezzar exhorted Daniel to not allow either the dream or its interpretation (message) to trouble him.

You see that even men of God that are supposed to be spiritually minded sometimes are out of alignment with the Lord and His Spirit when those men of God are aligning and approaching with human methods and human compassion. You know how some doctors and nurses are trained to subdue some natural feelings for patients or sick ones in the sight of their blood and pains in order to administer to them the proper and right treatment that would cure them and help them better. That's how ministers and men of God must subdue in their approach human compassion (sympathy) to administer divine solutions to the problems and needs of men. The Lord has told us that human compassion many times worked contrary to human oppression in solving people's problems. And that even He Himself (Jesus) did not heal or improved everyone He had human compassion for when He walked the earth even though He had the power to just wave His Hand and remove all poverty, all sickness and all pains/troubles, in all human, and He had the compassion or urge to do so, yet He did move by human compassion but subjected Himself to the Will or Spirit of His Father. He feels our pains and sufferings because He's full of both human and divine Compassion and Love; and He even weeps for us with groanings and intercessions, yet He does not take laws into His Hand either to act out of compassion (positively) or to act out of condemnation (negatively) by taking laws into His Hand without His Father's Will and Spirit leading Him no matter the fact that all power in heaven and earth is wield by Him (The Lord Jesus Christ).

There were many sick and needy people in the Lord's community among His relations, and though the Lord Jesus was anointed with the Holy Ghost and went about doing good and healing all, yet He did not heal all of them in His own country. There were many widows and orphans in Israel in the days of Elijah, and he had the word of power to relieve them of their hunger and penury, yet he was not sent by God to any of the widow and orphanage home in Israel but sent to travel out of Israel to a widow and orphanage home outside Israel among the Sidonians. There were many lepers in Israel including those lepers that found food for the starving country, but Elisha that had the power to heal did not heal any leper in the entire Israel except lepers from Syria (Naaman).

I'm not talking to you as an ordinary man about compassion, because God already commanded you to have compassion for your neighbor as a good Samaritan. But if you are bearing the anointing and power of God or a man of God, the rules about showing or having compassion are different from ordinary people's rules. As a man of God, you can abuse the anointing or grace of God on you by human compassion or sympathy just as Saul's second disobedience was having compassion on some Amalekites and was thus rejected from being king; which is why some pastors out of compassion are preaching and prophesying prosperity, miracles and healing messages to the people in need but in a spiritual perspective those pastors are doing more damage by their compassionate and comfortable ministrations than they intended. This is not saying all compassionate or comfortable messages or ministerations are doing so. Rather I'm saying let even your compassion and desire for the prosperity, blessings, healings and miracles of your people or congregation be led by the Will and Spirit of God.

As a man of God, if you remove consequences (responsibilities) of people's actions and replace consequences with compassion, you fail as a true man of God. However, you can have someone, especially the Lord Jesus, to share consequences of other people's actions, but they must also share partly or know the consequences even when another man carries the weight for them. That's the greatest compassion a man of God shows to anyone - Declaring the consequences of their actions and then making them behold or see the Lord Jesus who suffers or the people who suffer these. This just as the Lord could have just remove the suffering in the world by compassion or return Adam back into the Garden without the sufferings: but instead of expressing such kind of love or compassion, the Love of God was expressed by His Son coming to suffer the consequences on men's behalf: Thus both Consequences and Compassion were fulfilled in His Cross.

Not like Daniel did in the top Bible verse above, wherein Daniel was showing compassion to his lord, Nebuchadnezzar, but removing consequences from him and putting the consequences of Nebuchadnezzar's sins on the haters or enemies of Nebuchadnezzar by wishing or praying the application of that dream should be to the enemies and haters of Nebuchadnezzar instead of to Nebuchadnezzar. In some way, what Daniel was saying to his lord Nebuchadnezzar in this bible verse above was like what Peter was saying to his Lord Jesus, saying God forbid those things (sufferings/humiliation/death) from befalling You (Jesus) as prophesied or revealed by the Lord (Matthew 16:21-23).

Do you think Peter is more loving or more compassionate than the Father God towards the Lord Jesus Christ the Son of God? Do you think Daniel is more loving or more compassionate than God towards the king Nebuchadnezzar? Do you think you are more or more compassionate than God towards any man?

Now supposing this wish or prayer of Daniel came through, and that dream or vision of Nebuchadnezzar was then applied to his enemies or haters, leaving Nebuchadnezzar to continue as he is by the compassion and intercession of Daniel without consequences on Nebuchadnezzar's pride and wickedness: That means the king of pride would not have been stopped or humiliated from arrogating all the glory to himself and to the power of his own majesty. Meaning he would not have known or seen the power of God or the Kingdom of God because the living would not have known that there's a Most High above this great king, and that the Most High rules even beyond how much that king rules in the kingdoms of men, and the Most High is the True King-Maker. Neither would Nebuchadnezzar the king repent and convert into the faith because Daniel's prayer/wish prevented and deflected this heavenly vision out of compassion for his boss and lord or out of opportunity of staying supportive and relevant in his office and job under his boss.

On the flip side, those enemies or haters of Daniel's boss would have become the beasts, suffered seven years with beast's understanding, and then regain better understanding of the Kingdom of God and the rules of the most High, and because they became most humbled or basest among men, the Most High who set the basest or most humbled of men over the kingdoms of men would have set the enemies and haters of Nebuchadnezzar over the kingdoms of men instead of Nebuchadnezzar. Therefore Daniel shall witness how another base or humble one that was actually an enemy or hater of his boss, Nebuchadnezzar, shall become set over the kingdoms of men as the leader of the Medo-Persian empire.

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