How might one today countermand Jehovah's Word?
We have an example in the Genesis account, set by satan himself, how one today could become guilty of countermanding, a statement, Law or command, of Jehovah God.
Jehovah had told the pair in the Garden: "If you eat of the Tree of the Knowledge of good and evil, you will surely die." In conversation with the Woman Eve, who informed satan that God told them not to touch that Tree, that If they did, they would positively die." Right away satan contradicts Jehovah's words, and tells her, she will "not positively die." With those words satan revoked, or resinded, or cancelled out the words Jehovah had clearly spoken to the Woman; and by doing so, elevated himself over and above Jehovah God. Making himself God! Since the Pair allowed themselves to be misled by satan, and did his bidding rather that Jehovah's, their worship now reverted over to satan the devil, making satan the god of the World, by countermanding the words of Jehovah God. As a direct result of that Mankind has experience 6000 years of pain suffering and death. A terrible lesson is learned from that. How very serious a matter it is to contradict or countermand anything Jehovah has spoken.
Since, as I said, satan is god of this World now, it would follow, like Eve was misled, and did his bidding, satan would have those today he has misled, follow their god's lead, and countermand or contradict Jehovah's word at this time. Just how might that be seen? We know, and now, why, Jesus called satan "a liar, and the Father of the Lie." Being a Father, naturally he would have Children, who like their Father would be liars like him; and Like their Father would not hesitate to contradict or countermand Jahovah's word to day, by teaching doctrines of demon's.
We might begin this by looking at how Jehovah has clearly identified himself as being, and compare the following scriptures with the doctrine of the Trinity: "One God in three Persons"
10 "You are my witnesses," declares the LORD,
"and my servant whom I have chosen,
so that you may know and believe me
and understand that I am he.
Before me no god was formed,
nor will there be one after me." {Isaiah 43:10 NIV}
8 "Do not tremble, do not be afraid.
Did I not proclaim this and foretell it long ago?
You are my witnesses. Is there any God besides me? No, there is no other Rock; I know not one."{Isaiah 44:8 NIV}
4 "Since ancient times no one has heard,
no ear has perceived, no eye has seen any God besides you,
who acts on behalf of those who wait for him."{Isaiah 64:4 NIV}
10 "Have we not all one Father Did not one God create us? Why do we profane the covenant of our fathers by breaking faith with one another?"{Malachi 2:10 NIV}
29"The most important one," answered Jesus, "is this: 'Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one." {Mark 12:29 NIV}
32"Well said, teacher," the man replied. "You are right in saying that God is one and there is no other but him." {Mark 12:32 NIV}
19"Why do you call me good?" Jesus answered. "No one is good—except God alone." {Luke 18:19 NIV}
2 "There is no one holy like the LORD;
there is no one besides you;
there is no Rock like our God." {1 Samuel 2:1 NIV}
22 "How great you are, O Sovereign LORD! There is no one like you, and there is no God but you, as we have heard with our own ears." {2 Samuel 7:22 NIV}
20 "There is no one like you, O LORD, and there is no God but you, as we have heard with our own ears." {1 Chronicles 17:20 NIV}
25 "To whom will you compare me?
Or who is my equal?" says the Holy One"{Isaiah 40:25 NIV}.
"To whom will you compare me or count me equal?
To whom will you liken me that we may be compared?"
14 '"or this time I will send the full force of my plagues against you and against your officials and your people, so you may know that there is no one like me in all the earth." {Exodus 9:14 NIV}
19 "Like a lion coming up from Jordan's thickets
to a rich pastureland,
I will chase Edom from its land in an instant.
Who is the chosen one I will appoint for this?
Who is like me and who can challenge me?
And what shepherd can stand against me?"{Jeremiah 49:19 NIV}
As you read the preceding list, did you see how in any way Jehovah referred to himself as One God in three Persons?
"To Whom will you compare me." "Who is like me?" "No one like me." "No Equal." None to compare." "No eye has seen any God like you." "No other Rock! I know not one."
Like satan theTrinitarians countermand Jehovah's word, clearly contradicting how Jehovah has revealed himself to be, as One single God, with no equal. Not three God's in one God.
His own Son attested to the truth of this, for Jesus himself said there was only one that was good, and he made it a point to tell them it wasn't himself.
What about those who teach the immortality of the human soul? Was Adam created with an immortal soul? Because for us to have an immortal soul Adam would have had to have one. The reason being everything Adam possessed he passed on to all Mankind. What, though, was it he passed on to all of us?
7"And Jehovah Elohim formed Man, dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and Man became a living soul." {Genesis 2:7 DT}
45"Thus also it is written, The first man Adam became a living soul; the last Adam a quickening spirit."{1 Corinthians 15:45 DT}
So, the first Man Adam wasn't given a Soul! He was created as such. How do we now he was in no way immortal? Nor could he have been? The next scripture explains that:
22 "And the LORD God said, "The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever." 23 So the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken. 24 After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life." {Genesis 3:22-24 NIV}
Adam was cut off from the Tree of life, and to ensure he didn't get to it Jehovah placed a Cherubin Angel with a flaming sword to gaurd that Tree from Adam so that he would, or never could ever reach it.
Right there in the Garden of Eden, the trampling of divine sovereignty began, that Jesus mentioned at Luke 21:24 when satan the devil countermanded the clear words of Jehovah God, and in so doing, came himself to be, god of this World. Adam and Eve were his first two worshippers, having misled Eve as he did.
Adam was created a Mortal Soul subject to death, and because of his disobedience, now, we all are dying creatures. "If you touch that Tree you will positively die." He touched it! He died! The Soul died!
Those that teach this immortal Soul Doctrine are also countermanding Jehovah's clear statements of truth, and in that the soul dies those teaching the Hell-Fire Doctrine are also countermanding Jehovah's clear statements of truth, because if there's no immortal soul, and the soul can and does die there's nothing to be tormented in any fiery Hell. It is as Jehovah said it was to Adam:
19 "By the sweat of your face
you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground,
for out of it you were taken; for you are dust,
and to dust you shall return." {Genesis 3:19 ESV }
So, all of us, like Adam, when we die we return to the dust. The dust cannot be tormented in any fiery Hot place, called Hell. "For dust you are, and to dust you will return."
29 "When You hide Your face,
they are terrified;
when You take away their breath,
they die and return to the dust." {Psalm 104:29 HCSB}
4 "Hisbreath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; In that very day his thoughts perish." {Psalm 146:4 ASV}
5 "For the living know that they will die, but the dead don't know anything. There is no longer a reward for them because the memory of them is forgotten." {Eccl;esiastes 9:5 HCSB}
10 "Whatever your hands find to do, do with [all] your strength, because there isno work, planning, knowledge, or wisdom in Sheol where you are going." {Ecclesiastes 9:10 HCSB}
When we die, we become incapable of breathing, when we can no longer breath, we die, and as Jehovah told the perfect Man Adam, back to the dust we go. When our thoughts perish, we don't know anything in the common grave which the Hebrew word Sheol denotes. From there we, hopefully, await the resurrection from the grave. {John 5:28,29} {Acts 24:15}
satan, those that teach the Trinity, the Immortal Soul, the Torment in a Fiery Hell, will all join hands when satan and his demons are thrown into the Lake of Fire. For stepping out of their assigned place, and countermanding, or contradicting the spoken words of Jehovah God. {Matthew 25:41} {Revelation 20:7-10}
Noun
1.countermand - a contrarycommand cancelling or reversing a previous command
bid, bidding, command, dictation - an authoritative direction or instruction to do something Verb1.countermand - cancel officially; "He revoked the ban on smoking"; "lift an embargo"; "vacate a death sentence"
repeal, rescind, annul, revoke, vacate, reverse, overturn, lift
go back on, renege, renege on, renegue on - fail to fulfill a promise or obligation; "She backed out of her promise"
strike down, cancel - declare null and void; make ineffective; "Cancel the election results"; "strike down a law"