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WHY DO CHRISTIANS READ BIBLE UPSIDE DOWN?

January 10, 2024 2 min read Latunde Akin
WHY DO CHRISTIANS READ BIBLE UPSIDE DOWN?

WHY DO CHRISTIANS READ BIBLE UPSIDE DOWN?
Happy New year friends.
Just to settle this matter about first fruit and go back to my shell. This year is for more of God and less of other things.
God strictly mentioned any produce that comes first, not all set or group of all first produce. God asked or demanded sample and never everything.
Fruits ripe in batches, your first salary is never your first fruit, but your first day worth as a sign or symbol of dedication to God and not even as any gift to God.
And since your salary is a combination of a 31 day income, which comes monthly and first on every first month of year. Your first day income is the first fruit, not all monthly income. God is not looking for a faith that you cannot carry from you. He is looking for your honor to Him, and fellowship with Him.
Stop making doctrine out this,and please know that it is now a free will offering in the new testament, not mandatory.
What is mandatory is the salvation of our soul, as every believer is now a first fruit unto God. James 1:18 - In the exercise of His will He brought us forth by the word of truth, so that we would be a kind of first fruits among His creatures.
Check these old testament verses and see the real meaning of first fruit by yourself.
Exodus 34:26
"You shall bring the VERY FIRST of the first fruits of your soil into the house of the LORD your God. "You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk."
Numbers 18:12-13
"All the best of the fresh oil and all the best of the fresh wine and of the grain, the first fruits of those which they give to the LORD, I give them to you. "The FIRST RIPE fruits of all that is in their land, which they bring to the LORD, shall be yours; everyone of your household who is clean may eat it.
Ezekiel 44:30
"The FIRST of all the first fruits of every kind and every contribution of every kind, from all your contributions, shall be for the priests; you shall also give to the priest the first of your dough to cause a blessing to rest on your house.
Please mark the words in CAPITAL letters and see for yourself the right perspective. Not a whole of the first produce.
Thank you.
Yours
Latunde Akin