The Easiest Way To Clean A Sword Drenched In Human Blood -By Joe Dauda

A sword drenched in human blood is (metaphorically speaking) the sword of a murderer. Unfortunately for us living at this time of earth’s history, if murder used to be a horrible activity strictly reserved for war and highly unusual assassinations or intense robbery attacks, it is no longer the case. Things have changed drastically and murder is now common and reminiscent of the violence that filled the earth just before the worldwide flood recorded in Genesis Chapter 7.

If you have ever murdered a human being (whether out of provocation or as a criminal, a bandit or terrorist or government official (mis)using lawful authority) you are in a special type of trouble with the Creator of human life. 

Professor Ladipo Adamolekun is almost 80 years old. I remember what he told me during an interview session with him about 4 years ago. He told me that, when they were in primary school, they used to sing a song. Part of the lyrics of that song says something like: “don’t step on that little ant because you cannot create it.” How true!

Neither the little ant nor the giant elephant, nor man (made in the image of God) can be created by any man. And scientists have probably quietly accepted this fact because it seems they are no longer trying to create human life. What they now want to do is elongate human life. And that is what transhumanism is all about; but that is not the topic for today.

If you are guilty of the murder of a man, or woman, or boy or girl or child of whatever sex, you are in a special type of trouble because you have taken what you cannot replace. As posited in my article titled Fools and published a few weeks ago the common denominator of all false religions is the absurd idea that one’s evil can be resolved by that person’s good acts. The sin of murder is perhaps the best case to be made in showing how invalid such an ideology is. So, if you are a murderer, do not be deceived by anyone: you cannot undo your wickedness by giving out money to poor people or establishing an NGO to cater for widows, or paying the school fees of the children of indigent compatriots. 

Your only option is to be forgiven;

Freely forgiven.

By the Creator you have offended.

This may seem grossly unfair to the victim(s) of the murderer: still, it is not my ideology; it is the ideology of the One Who opens and no man can shut; and Who shuts, and no man can open. 

One of the most stubborn kings that ever walked this earth was king Nebuchadnezzar. To make matters worse, he was extremely powerful. Nebuchadnezzar was an emperor — a king of kings — and his dominion was “to the end of the earth”; Daniel 4:22. Nebuchadnezzar’s stubbornness was legendary especially because he exhibited it towards God, also known as the Most High. 

In warning Nebuchadnezzar to change his ways, Daniel seemed to have said what he wasn’t really saying:

Daniel 4:27
Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thy iniquities by shewing mercy to the poor; if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquility.

The above counsel from the beloved prophet seems to suggest that Nebuchadnezzar could undo his wickedness by acts of mercy and acts of righteousness. But the correct protocol is to repent first; else, all the acts of righteousness will actually provoke God to more anger because they will stink.

Isaiah 64:6
But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousness are as filthy rags;

When was the last time you saw a filthy rag?

Did you want it near you?

Although God is willing to freely forgive any murderer that comes to his senses (any murderer that reasons with God and understands his crime and need for forgiveness), repentance is the key.

Isaiah 1:18
Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

Fortunately for the murderer, scarlet is a colour the Bible associates with the shedding of blood and God Himself is promising in Isaiah 1:18 that the murderer will receive free forgiveness — if the murderer reasons together with God and repents. In indicting the fallen church (called Babylon in the Book of Revelation) the Bible associates the scarlet colour of that church with the murder of the saints of God. Note that, in prophecy, except otherwise indicated, a woman is used to symbolize a church.

Revelation 17:4, 6
And the woman was arrayed in . . . scarlet colour. . . And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus:

At least one of God’s very good friends was a murderer. But he utterly repented of his wickedness. You can read about his prayer of repentance in Psalms 51.

Would you also repent and receive God’s free forgiveness?

Nebuchadnezzar did more evil than you could ever do. But hear him: 

Daniel 4:34-37
[34]And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation:
[35]And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?
[36]At the same time my reason returned unto me; and for the glory of my kingdom, mine honour and brightness returned unto me; and my counsellors and my lords sought unto me; and I was established in my kingdom, and excellent majesty was added unto me.
[37]Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.

How about king Manasseh?

Behold his wickedness 

2 Kings 21:16
Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; beside his sin wherewith he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in the sight of the LORD.

And behold the amazing grace of God in Manasseh’s life

2 Chronicles 33:10-13
[10]And the LORD spake to Manasseh, and to his people: but they would not hearken.
[11]Wherefore the LORD brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.
[12]And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,
[13]And prayed unto him: and he was intreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD he was God.

As you can see, apart from David and Nebuchadnezzar, there will be a handful of other murderers in the kingdom of God.

What is your excuse?

May God have mercy on all of us.