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  • QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS with PASTOR IFE ADETONA (1)

    QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS with PASTOR IFE ADETONA (1)

    Question 1:Why did the Lord want to kill Moses in Exodus 4:24?

    Answer: Great question. Let’s read the scripture:

    > Exodus 4:24 (KJV): “And it came to pass by the way in the inn, that the Lord met him, and sought to kill him.”

    Now, if you read further, you’ll notice a switch in the terminology:
    > “Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son… so He let him go…”

    Here, the capital “LORD” is later referred to as “He”, indicating possibly an angelic representation of God. In the Old Testament, the term “Angel of the Lord” is often used interchangeably to refer to a an angwho speaks with the authority of God.

    Isaiah 63:9 refers to “the angel of His presence”, which some interpret as the same divine figure that interacts with humanity on behalf of God. Some believe this angel is a pre-incarnate appearance of Christ; others see it as a specific angel assigned to represent God’s presence.

    The Lord (or the angel) sought to kill Moses because Moses had neglected to circumcise his son—a direct violation of the covenant God gave Abraham. This wasn’t just cultural; it was a divine command. Moses’ wife, Zipporah, resisted due to her Midianite background, but when she saw Moses’ life was at stake, she complied.

    This was not just punishment, but a divine action to preserve covenant integrity before Moses could lead Israel.

    Question 2:What is the difference between grace and truth, and how do they relate?

    Answer: This question arises from scriptures like:

    John 1:14: “…full of grace and truth.”

    John 1:17: “For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.”

    Let’s use an analogy:

    Imagine “law” as a system that says: “You must pass JAMB to gain admission.”

    Then a new president comes and says: “You don’t need JAMB anymore; just be willing to learn.”

    Both groups of students end up in the same class. Some still boast about their JAMB results, but in reality, JAMB was removed.

    Grace is the new policy—getting admission (salvation) without writing JAMB (law). Truth is the clarification that this new system was always God’s original plan.

    So grace gives unmerited favor; truth affirms that this method is authentic and was always intended. Grace and truth work together—not against each other.

    Question 3:If we are seated far above principalities, why do demons still access and oppress believers?

    Answer: Excellent point. Spiritually, we are seated with Christ far above principalities (Ephesians 2:6), but physically, we still live in a fallen world governed by spiritual laws.

    Think of it like buildings on reclaimed land (e.g., sand-filled waters in Lagos). The water is still there underneath, but engineers have systems to manage it.

    Believers are like those buildings. Spiritually, they stand above demonic influences. But without proper spiritual control systems—understanding, authority, faith, and maturity—those demonic “waters” can still seep in.

    Even Paul mentioned a “messenger of Satan” afflicting him (2 Corinthians 12:7), and Jesus Himself said:

    > “In this world, you will have tribulation, but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.” (John 16:33)

    So yes, demons have limited access on Earth because the Earth is still under the influence of the enemy until full redemption at Christ’s return. But we are empowered to overcome by knowing our authority.

    Question 4:Why are people not struck dead today like Ananias and Sapphira? Has grace made God change?

    Answer: Let’s break this down:

    1. Did God kill Ananias and Sapphira directly?

    Not necessarily. The text implies Peter may have acted in zeal, and the deaths were a consequence of that spiritual atmosphere. Peter wasn’t shocked by their deaths. He seemed to expect them.

    2. Has God changed?

    No. Hebrews 13:8 says Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

    However, the administration of His judgment differs in dispensations. In the Old Testament, judgment was often swift to uphold covenantal purity. In the New Testament, under grace, God is patient, not wanting anyone to perish (2 Peter 3:9).

    3. Does grace mean no consequences?

    No. It means there’s mercy, but also discipline. God still judges, but He now does it with the goal of restoration, not destruction.

    Question 5:God is a jealous God. Yet jealousy isn’t a fruit of the Spirit. Should Christians be jealous?

    Answer: God’s jealousy is holy and righteous—a deep passion to protect His relationship with His people, not envy or insecurity.

    Human jealousy, as described in Galatians 5, is usually rooted in sin—envy, selfishness, or comparison.

    So, no, Christians should not model carnal jealousy. But we can have godly zeal, a passionate commitment to God’s ways and His people.

    Question 6:Can God kill?

    Answer: Yes, He can, but the question is: Does He delight in killing?

    Absolutely not. Ezekiel 33:11 says, “I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked.”

    There are instances in scripture where God allowed or commanded death, but always for justice, covenant, or protection of His purpose. Under grace, He still has the power to judge, but His mercy delays destruction.

    Now, there is no tribe of people that ever died in the Old Testament whose cup wasn’t full. God said, “I want to go to Sodom again.” The angel of the Lord’s presence said, “I want to go to Sodom and Gomorrah to see if the things I heard are true.”

    Why was God checking Sodom? Yet Israel, the most sinful people on earth, remained. Do you know why God allowed the Israelites to spend 430 years in Egypt? It was because He wanted to give the people of Canaan a chance to repent. He was watching to see if their generation would turn away from sin.

    But they did not. So God planned, “I will replace these people with the Israelites, and they will teach righteousness to the whole world. That way, there would be no need to kill anyone anymore.”But that plan didn’t work.God then said, “Okay, for the sin of man, which gives permission…”

    On God’s Justice and the Accuser:

    There is also an accuser—Satan—who goes to God and says, “These people are supposed to die.”

    God will ask, “Why?”

    Satan responds, “Because in your book, it says the soul that sins shall die.”

    God replies, “But they have paid for their sins.”

    Then Satan asks, “Who paid for them?”

    And God says, “I will send my Son to pay.”

    Jesus says, “In the meantime…” Remember, Abraham once said to God, “Will the Judge of all the earth not do what is just?” This doesn’t mean “will He kill or spare,” it means “will He do what is right.”

    So the killings in the Old Testament were according to the law of God.

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    Analogy of a Judge:

    If a judge sentences a criminal to death by hanging, who killed the person?

    Was it the judge? Was it the law?

    The law killed him—it was the consequence of his sin.

    So if you become a judge and someone is guilty, but you set them free unjustly, that’s wrong. That’s not justice.

    God is just—yesterday, today, and forever. Whether that judgment favors you or not, He remains just.

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    On Men of God Killing People:

    The issue of a man of God killing people is complex. Sometimes demons may be involved; sometimes angels.

    Take Elijah as an example. When he saw the 51 people, he said, “If I be a man of God, let fire come down.”

    God didn’t necessarily ask Elijah to do that, even if the people were guilty. Their main sin wasn’t talking to Elijah—it was the inherited sin of Adam. But Elijah pronounced judgment by his own wisdom.

    Because of that, Elijah wasn’t allowed to live long.

    Even David, though he fought battles for God, was not allowed to build the temple because of the blood on his hands.

    So prophets who curse or call down judgment may see results, but they often don’t live long. Unless they are very poor and their curses are more like complaints—but generally, strong ones who curse or call down judgment don’t live long.

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    On God’s Jealousy:

    Now, you asked about jealousy. If someone has a husband or wife and that spouse cheats, is the other person not permitted to be jealous?

    So when God says, “I am a jealous God,” it means He doesn’t want you to have another god beside Him. It’s like a man who has a wife and the wife has a side guy—of course, the man is permitted to be jealous.

    God is jealous for us. We’ve claimed to be His own. He’s our husband—we are His bride. He has every right to be jealous.

    But this jealousy is not about money or riches. God isn’t jealous because you passed an exam. God doesn’t compare Himself with humans like that.

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  • YOM KIPPUR

    YOM KIPPUR

    The word “Yom” is an Hebrew word which means “Day“. Kippur means “Atonement“. Merging both words, we then have Day of Atonement.

    Yom Kippur is a Jewish day to atone for misdeeds and become cleansed and purified from them. On this day, the Jews observe this feast with a long fast and intensive prayer but our focus today is how the atonement is being made.

    ELEMENTS OF THE ATONEMENT

    1. An High Priest: He is the one that makes all the necessary procedures for the atonement.
    2. A Bull and a Ram: for the covering of the priest’s sins and that of his family.
    3. Two Goats : one for the Israelites’ sin offering and the other as a scape goat which will be sent to the wilderness.
    4. One Ram: for the Israelites’ atonement as well.
    5. Incense: the smoky perfume that covers the mercy seat.

    PROCEDURE

    1. Aaron will first offer for himself and his family a bull and a ram offering which is for the cleansing of sins. Leviticus 16:11
    2. He shall then take the incense with him (incense is like a pounded coil, which when put into fire gives a smoky perfume) to the mercy seat so that he can make atonement for his sin. The smoke is going to cover the whole house that when God looks down from the mercy seat He will only see a cloud and an inviting aroma and this will allow Aaron to offer sacrifices for his own sin and that of his family. Leviticus 16:12
    3. After doing this, he will go out start the process of the Israelites’ atonement. He will start by casting a lot and killing the one that the lot falls on for the sacrifice and send the other one to the wilderness of Azazel. Leviticus 16:8-10,14
    4. He shall sprinkle the blood of the slain goat for the remission of the people’s sin and shall burn the rest of the animal whose blood was taken off. Leviticus 16:15

    JESUS IN THE PICTURE

    1. Jesus is the High Priest, He’s Holy and blameless, He doesn’t need to make any sacrifice for Himself before He can have access to the Father.

    Hebrews 7:27
    [27]Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people’s: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.

    1. The incense was grounded, beaten and battered and this represents how Jesus was beaten, battered, shattered and battered at the cross so as to grant us access to the Father.
    2. Jesus is also the slain goat that covers the Israelites’ sin but He is still alive.
    3. Jesus is the scape goat that was sent to the wilderness but He went to the wilderness (grave) and returned to give us the gift of righteousness.

    Can you see how wise our God is? Jesus remains the only way out of life’s troubles and outside of Him, nobody can be saved.

    Are you saved? Type “Thank you Jesus for saving me”. And if you’re not saved, then confess Him as your Lord and Savior.

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  • THE BLOOD 2( The Ultimate Price for Redemption)

    THE BLOOD 2( The Ultimate Price for Redemption)

    You’re welcome to Healingnexusblog again.

    We are still on our YESHUA series. And today, we shall be considering The Mystery of Redemption.

    THE INNOCENT LAMB
    God’s standard for redemption has stood sure since the beginning of the world and the standard is that without remission of blood, there is no covering for sin. When Adam and Eve sinned in the garden of Eden, they both used fig leaves as a covering for themselves but that alone could not cover their sins, God Himself had to kill an innocent lamb and use its skin to cover their nakedness.

    Genesis 3:21
    [21]Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.

    The innocent lamb was a typology of the blood of Jesus that was shed for our sins; even when He knew no sin, He died for us.

    CAIN AND ABEL
    What about the case of Cain and Abel? God had to receive the sacrifice of Abel and reject that of Cain because Abel’s sacrifice came through the path of the blood of an innocent sheep meanwhile that of Cain was just tilled from the ground.

    Genesis 4:2-4
    [2]And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
    [3]And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD.
    [4]And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering:

    THE MYSTERY OF REDEMPTION

    1. Change in Family Lineage
    2. Transfer of ownership
    3. Change in Kingdom
    4. Rescue from Curse of law
    1. CHANGE IN FAMILY LINEAGE
      Romans 8:29
      [29]For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

    After we accepted the work of Christ via the blood, what happened in the Spirit realm was that we had the very gene of Jesus. We now have His blood running in us, whatever that is happening to the family we belonged to by blood is not permitted to happen to us again, because we are now in the family of Jesus. Generational curses, sickness, failure and whatnot are blood related, and if we cannot find it in Jesus, then we are not permitted to operate in it.

    One of Jesus’ disciples told Jesus that His family members were calling Him and Jesus replied by saying that His actual family members are those that have been saved, i.e., they belong to the family of God (and family is a group of people that are blood related).

    Matthew 12:46-50
    [46]While he yet talked to the people, behold, his mother and his brethren stood without, desiring to speak with him.
    [47]Then one said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to speak with thee.
    [48]But he answered and said unto him that told him, Who is my mother? and who are my brethren?
    [49]And he stretched forth his hand toward his disciples, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren!
    [50]For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.

    1. TRANSFER OF OWNERSHIP
      At the point of salvation, there is a divine exchange that happens. Jesus paid our ransom to the devil and rescued us from its coven, so we have no business with the devil again neither can it have any authority on us again.
      Consider a rice seller, when he sells the rice to you, can he tell you what you are to use the rice to cook, whether it is in fried, jollof or white form? No… Because the rice doesn’t belong to the seller again. Before salvation, we belonged to the devil then he had final say over our lives. It (the devil) can determine to inflict you with sickness today and affliction tomorrow but we now belong to a good Father after salvation, this was possible through the payment of the Blood.
    5. CHANGE IN KINGDOM
    6. the Local Government Chairman of a territory speak any how to the National president? Did I hear you say No? Correct.
    7. The chairman dares not speak anyhow to the president, because the president has more authority than he does. Same thing for us as believers, we are seated with Christ in the heavenly places. We are both at the ‘presidency’ seat, no demon or devil that’s under us can dare afflict us with anything in their kingdom.

    Colossians 1:13
    [13]Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:

    These are the mysteries of redemption…The knowledge of these will make you reign over the devil and his cohort.
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