Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, say now to the rebellious house, know ye not what these things mean? tell them, behold, the king of Babylon is come to Jerusalem, and hath taken the king thereof, and the princes thereof, and led them with him to Babylon; and hath taken of the king’s seed, and made a covenant with him, and hath taken an oath of him: he hath also taken the mighty of the land: that the kingdom might be base, that it might not lift itself up, but that by keeping of his covenant it might stand. But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and much people. Shall he prosper? Shall he escape that doeth such things? Or shall he break the covenant, and be delivered? As I live, says the Lord God, surely in the place where the king dwells that made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he brakes, even with him in the midst of Babylon he shall die. Ezekiel 17:11-16.
And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenant breakers…Romans 1:28-31.
Eight years back at Toulouse, I was called to pray for a lady who has just given birth to a new baby girl of less than three months old who has taken leave of her senses – her head gone nuts – mad. In the course of praying for her, the demon spoke out from her that she has broken covenant with him and he won’t go out or leave her. Who are you, I asked, and what is the covenant she made and did not respect with you, I interrogated? Then, the unclean spirit made mentioned of the name of a man she promised to marry while she was living in another city before she moved down to Toulouse to date another man and give birth to the new born baby girl against the vow with the former sinner’s man friend. They made incision on their skin to lick each other’s blood, and they also exchanged ring as the token of the bond which she kept up in a place where no one can see except herself. Unconscious, but she was saying or made all this confession known as the deliverance ministration (Mark 16:17) was going on – but it was the evil spirit speaking through her. After a while, I paused from the ministration and asked her certain questions about the words reveals by the evil spirit which she didn’t denied any of them. I also asked her about the ring which she finally brought out. I asked her to repent and to confess her wickedness, though she was not born again at that time: to renounce and denounce the covenant made with the man she promised to marry but failed to honor her word by the blood of Christ which she did. Finally, we went back for the ministration and the evil spirit departed from her body and she got delivered. Thus, she got saved by Christ to start coming to church. You also can break loose and free from every ungodly promise and from any evil covenant made in ignorant with the ungodly and sinners by repentance through the blood of Jesus as you give your life to him as your Lord and Savior. Note: every unlawful sexual contact and intimacy with unbelievers, animal, object, pornography or oneself (fornication, adultery, homosexual, lesbian bestiality, masturbation) bring us into an unconscious bond and covenant with Satan in the spirit: though it may appears in the physical realm as nothing, but just casual sexual pleasure, but an evil door is opened to demonic trafficking, link and access into your life by breaking the covenant of the holiness of God in your life: know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? For two, says he, shall be one flesh. (1 Corinthians 6:15-20): but he that is joined with the Lord is one spirit with the Lord. Flee sexual sin: every sin that a man commits is outside the body, but he that commits fornication sin or other sexual sins does so against his own body – this is crucifying Christ the second time, whose body you are. This is trampling the blood of the covenant – the blood of Christ which sanctifies us under feet. This is to waste the price of redemption, the betrayal of Christ and of the blood of the everlasting covenant. If you seek deliverance from evil covenant and bondage, write me at latterhouseglory@gmail.com
Covenant breaking of any sort, even if it is not diabolical to involve blood lick or blood exchange or periodic sacrifice (s) made to Satan, is of a great implication and consequence if the treaty is not strictly respected and followed. Fools are full of words (set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips: in the multitude of words sin is not lacking, but he who restrains his lips is wise. Psalms 141:4. Proverbs 10:19) and are playful with their words of empty promises. To them, they are just having a fun – boisterous joviality (as a mad man who casts firebrands, arrows, and death, so is the man that deceives his neighbor, and says, am not I in sport? Proverbs 26:18-19), not very serious with what they say, but just say it to have your trust, so they never think of any implication of their unfulfilled words. Very often, they character will tell you not to take them very seriously because they refused to consider the importance and seriousness of any conversation or what that is to other person. Promises are heartwarming and brighten hope; it’s so powerful that the bible warns against any idle – wasteful word, lest we be judged before God by such things as false promises, whereby false hope is given to others and be condemned in the day of judgment. Matthew 12:36-37.
Words matter and it counts a lot to God, the invisible witness in every conversation. Malachi 2:14. Thoughtful and reasonable men don’t just promise anything until they take their time, thoroughly contemplate to consider the pros and cons of the action or commitment it involves before they utter any word in the form of a promise or any engagement – therefore, be careful and thoughtful in every conversation, let your words be few, not to give any word you are not sure or ready to keep, lest you become a liar, deceiver, betrayal and covenant breaker, afterward find yourself in a trouble. To give a word or promise is all Satan is awaiting from your mouth to ensnare or to bring you into any form of bondage and accusation before God (1 Kings 20:33) if you should fail to be the man of your word. The simple, foolish, ignorant and over-sentimental people are always in a hurry to give or make any promise or oath just to appear nice and good like king Saul made one before the armies of Israel in the absence of Jonathan who acted contrary to the king’s vow but was spared from the consequence of it because it was made in his absence. 1Samuel 14-29.  
Do not give your word or promise to be punctual, submissive, honest and faithful just to come into people’s lives or get their job opportunity when you rightly know inside of you that you are not what you say, but just buying time before you have your way to show your real deceptive and manipulative being that you are – that’s covenant breaking and could be catastrophe for you before men on this side of the planet, and before God in eternity. Sometimes, just a word of promise brings a peaceful end to all strife to assure the other party that all shall be well as long as we continue to abide by our word: but war can easily brake out and death could ensue if the promise made is not kept. Was this not the cause of the premature death of Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite of Bahurim who kept not to his word not to depart from Jerusalem all the days of his life that he might continue to live?  The shortness or longevity of his life is depended on the integrity of his heart to keep to the word made before King Solomon, but his desire and pursuit after material and financial recuperation made him to ignore his own word before the king, thus he died for his iniquity. 1 Kings 2:36-46.
As for God, he is ever faithful and steadfast to the words of the covenant of promises with us in Christ Jesus (but unto the wicked God says, what hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou should take my covenant in thy mouth? Seeing thou hate instruction, and cast my words behind thee. When you saw a thief, then thou consented with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers. You give your mouth to evil, and thy tongue frames deceit. Thou sit and speak against thy brother; thou slander your own mother’s son. These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thought that I was altogether such a one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before your eyes. Psalms 50:16-21), if we continue to keep his statutes, commandments, judgments and his word to do them: but if we despise and disregard to live by any of the word of his covenant, we become a covenant breaker because we would not bring every thought in us to the obedience of Christ in submission to him against the quarrel of the vengeance of his covenant – he that keeps the commandment keeps his own soul; but he that despises his ways shall die. Leviticus 26:25. Proverbs 19:16. 
A promise is a promise, so they say, and so it is. A promise is more or less a covenant (accord, deal and bargain) that is considered unbreakable by both parties – between God and man: between two friends: between siblings or family members or generation: between a man and his wife: between groups of people with common pursuits and interests etc.…but you can change camp to the Lord’s side through repentance while you denounce and renounce to rebel against any wicked covenant of darkness and unrighteousness with Satan and his agents. Covenant is not entered into lightly, but can be broken only on the pain of death in the case of a marriage covenant, or if there is a breach of promise or trust on the part of a party involve, freeing the other from its obligation and binding. Sometimes, the death of one party does not arguably nullify the validity of the covenant as we see in the case of the covenant between David and Jonathan his friend: the agreement made between both of them overrules the termination of the covenant by the death of Absalom (and thou shall not only while yet I live show me the kindness of the Lord, that I die not: but also thou shall not cut off thy kindness from my house for ever: no, not when the Lord hath cut off the enemies of David everyone from the face of the earth. So, Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, Let the Lord even require it at the hand of David’s enemies.1 Samuel 20:14-16), that while king David was avenging the breach of one oath, he was careful not to break another in the cause of duty. 2 Samuel 21:7.
We are only as good as we make good of our word: king David kept to his promise made to Jonathan after the demise of his dear friend, that he would be kind to his children and posterity after him though he be dead, let us also be as good as our word, both to the living and to the dead, though they are no more among us – and David said, is there yet any that is left of the house of Saul, that I may show him kindness for Jonathan’s sake? 2 Samuel 9:1. Whenever you give your word, either to God (and she said unto him, my father, if thou hast opened thy mouth unto the Lord, do to me according to that which hath proceeded out of thy mouth; forasmuch as the Lord hath taken vengeance for thee of your enemies, even of the children of Ammon. Judges 11:30-31. Ecclesiastes 5:4) or to man (when I therefore was thus minded, did I use lightness? or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be yea yea, and nay nay? But as God is true, our word toward you was not yea and nay. For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, even by me and Silvanus and Timothy were not yea and nay, but in him was yea. 2 Corinthians 1:17-19), we should do exactly as we’ve spoken because of our worth, honor and reputation is at stake if we don’t, unless the people with whom we have dealings with have done something wrong to breach the promise: but if there is no fault or foul play on the part of the hopeful as an excuse for us to nullify the validity of the promise, we should not deflate thoughts hopes, dreams and expectations.
God considers a covenant or promise as binding; therefore, let your yes be yes, and your no should be no. Though men may say you are unreliable, undependable and unrealistic, but the Most Upright will hold you responsible and judge you of lying, manipulation and deception against others. If someone ask you to give or make a promise, do not give your word to make any promise if you are not very sure you will fulfill it; to give or make an unfulfilled promise without any reason of withdrawal as breach on the part of the hopeful can be consequential as the act of betrayal against the heart which is broken by the disappointment of given a false hope, able to bring the unfaithful into strange spiritual or physical problems – a curse causeless shall not come. Proverbs 26:2.
We must be serious and sober in all our interaction and dealings with other people –believer and unbelievers alike: be circumspect and guarded in any communication, bargain, accord, deal, contract and pact: these things are not only legally implicating if a signed document is involved, nonetheless, they are spiritually sacred (and she said unto them, get you to the mountain, lest the pursuers meet you; and hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers be returned: and afterward may ye go your way. And the men said unto her, we will be blameless of this your oath which thou hast made us swear. Behold, when we come into the land, thou shall bind this line of scarlet thread in the window which thou didst let us down by: and thou shall bring thy father, and thy mother, and thy brethren, and all your father’s household, home unto thee. And it shall be, that whosoever shall go out of the doors of thy house into the street, his blood shall be upon his head, and we will be guiltless: and whosoever shall be with thee in the house, his blood shall be on our head, if any hand be upon him. And if thou utter our business, then we will be quit of your oath which thou hast made us to swear. And she said, according unto your words, so be it. And she sent them away, and they departed: and she bound the scarlet line in the window. Joshua 9:9-16): and (b) spiritually binding (and when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph speak unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, if now I have found grace in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying, my father made me swear, saying, lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shall thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again. And Pharaoh said, go up, and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear. Genesis 50:4-6) and (c) spiritually implicating if it is not respected such as king Saul foolishly broke the covenant Joshua made not to destroy the Gibeonites, but to allow them to live among the children of Israel as hewers of wood and drawers of water for the children and nation of Israel as perpetual servants for their deception of which the leaders of Israel fell into because they hastily made a deal and failed to inquire wisely of God before they made such deal and gave them promise to live among the children of Israel forever (Joshua 9:15-27), but in his carnal zeal without God’s guidance to please the children of Israel, king Saul brought a curse on the land long before the time David began to reign as king by slaying some of the Gibeonites living peacefully to serve them – then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David enquired of the Lord. And the Lord answered, it is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites. And the king called the Gibeonites, and said unto them; (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn unto them: and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal to the children of Israel and Judah.) Wherefore David said unto the Gibeonites, what shall I do for you? And wherewith shall I make the atonement that ye may bless the inheritance of the Lord? And the Gibeonites said unto him, we will have no silver nor gold of Saul, nor of his house; neither for us shall thou kill any man in Israel. And he said, what ye shall say, that will I do for you. And they answered the king, the man that consumed us, and that devised against us that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the coasts of Israel, let seven men of his sons be delivered unto us, and we will hang them up unto the Lord in Gibeah of Saul, whom the Lord did choose. And the king said, I will give them. But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of the Lord’s oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul. But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bares unto Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she brought up for Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite. And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the hill before the Lord: and they fell all seven together, and were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, in the beginning of barley harvest. 2 Samuel 21:1-9.
Esau was a game hunter – a man of the field, but little did the first son of Isaac and Rebecca realized that there is nothing playful about life which should not be played with than to fight it out, and to run the race and walk the pilgrim journey to heaven in a sober and steadfast spirit: but Esau was playful with his life, and playful with his words, and thus was playful with the glory and blessings of his destiny before the serious –business minded Jacob. What is my birthright to me, he answered back to Jacob his younger brother who request for the transfer of the right of the firstborn by just what appears to be a mere conversation in an exchange for a morsel of bread?
A promise is a promise, and a deal is a deal. Words spoken are like spilled water on the ground which cannot be gathered up again, as Esau, by his own word, lost his birthright and the blessings of the first born to Jacob his younger brother through the simple conversation of words exchanged between them, even though it appears he really not meant his word and promise made before his younger brother (and Esau said to Jacob, feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore, was his name called Edom. And Jacob said, sell me this day thy birthright. And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit shall this birthright do to me? And Jacob said, swear to me this day; and he swear unto him: and he sold his birthright unto Jacob. Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentils; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus, Esau despised his birthright. Genesis 30-34), but Esau continue to live and did not die that same day as he thought he would before eating the red pottage after he sold his birthright: the transaction damage was sealed in the spirit realm and it was too late for Esau to repair the damage done to his own destiny by his mouth or words though he sought back the blessings carefully with tears as Isaac his father said to him, I have blessed him, and he shall be blessed indeed. Behold, I have made him thy lord, and all his brethren have I given to him for servants; and with corn and wine have I sustained him: and what shall I do now unto thee, my son? Genesis 27: 33-37.
Though Esau was sufficiently blessed and had enough in his life (and he said, what meanest thou by all this drove which I met? And he said, these are to find grace in the sight of my lord. And Esau said, I have enough, my brother; keep that thou hast unto thyself. And Jacob said, Nay, I pray thee, if now I have found grace in thy sight, then receive my present at my hand: for therefore I have seen thy face, as though I had seen the face of God, and thou were pleased with me. Take, I pray thee, my blessing that is brought to thee; because God hath dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough. And he urged him, and he took it. Genesis 33:8-11), his father equally prophesied of his future deliverance from his youngest brother’s dominion (and Isaac his father answered and said unto him, behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above; and by thy sword shall thou live, and shall serve thy brother; and it shall come to pass when thou shall have the dominion, that thou shall break his yoke from off thy neck. And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, the days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob. Genesis 27:39-41), yet, he was a covenant breaker because he kept not to the promise made in peace with his youngest brother, but keep the old hatred with malice he had for Jacob and his descendants for the blessings of the birthright stolen from him to pursue him with sword and the Edomites would not cease to fight against the interest of the children of Israel: but whose fault is it – if you are wise, you will be wise for yourself, but if you are foolish, you alone shall bear it. Proverbs 9:12. God have this to say to Esau and the Edomites (his descendants after him) to what appears to be a perpetual, generational and hereditary cruelty and violence against the children of Israel and the entire house of Jacob: thus says the Lord; For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he did pursue his brother with the sword, and did cast off all pity, and his anger did tear perpetually, and he kept his wrath forever. Amos 1:11.
He that sows strife among the brethren of the Lord is hated by him because he seeks to break the bond of the everlasting love of God and the peace of Christ among his children (Proverbs 6:16-19): a talebearer cannot be trusted with any personal confidential issue: you dare not speak or discuss important or classify things in his presence, for such, in an twinkling of an eye declassify your confidential and personal issues before the whole world (he that goes about as a talebearer reveals secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flatters with his lips. Proverbs 11:13. 20:19). If there is a so-called child of God among the brethren of the Lord in the church going about to betray the trust confide to him or her, such is a covenant breaker (the words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly. Proverbs 18:8) for he seeks to break the heart or tarnishes the reputation of an individual in the church or break the church of God apart with his evil heart and tongue.
The brotherhood of Jesus is a sacred, spiritual and eternal institution of universal spiritual body which was founded, grounded and established by the blood of the everlasting covenant which he shed on the cross of Calvary for the forgiveness of sin and the redemption (for both he that sanctify and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren, saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of the church will I sing praise unto thee. Hebrews 2:11-12) of mankind out of every nation, kindred, tongue, color and tribes, by which we are all made accepted in the beloved. Ephesians 1:6. This brotherhood is an alliance of bond among believers with common interest in the pursuit of God’s will, glory and purposes (a) in the lives of their fellow brothers and sisters in the Lord Jesus Christ. Ephesians 4:12 (b) and to fulfill the will of God on earth who want all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of truth, even as they work as a team of one body, for one Lord, who is them all to save the lost souls on the principles of love which is not proud, which trust or believes all things, hope for all things, thinks no evil or do evil against his neighbor etc.: the brotherhood of Christ must be loved (1 Peter 2:17) and should be kept pure in all sincerity (purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us: therefore, let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. 2 Corinthian 5:7-8), while the peace therein earnestly be sought after and preserved always – endeavor to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. Ephesians 4:3.
To breach the trust of Christ love – the comfort of his love we benefit by grace from our brethren (if there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies, fulfill ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind. Philippians 2:1-2) by any act of dishonesty, an improper act of wickedness, a false walk or conduct of moral behavior which offend any of this little one which believe in Christ Jesus, is to betray the blood of the everlasting covenant by which the door of fellowship is opened unto us among his brethren. Note: not to relate with the brethren of Christ in Spirit and in truth as we ought or seems to relate with their heavenly Father in Christ Jesus is an act of deception and betrayal (did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you? I desired Titus, and with him I sent a brother. Did Titus make a gain of you? Walked we not in the same spirit? Walked we not in the same steps? Again, think you that we excuse ourselves unto you? We speak before God in Christ: but we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying. 2 Corinthians 12:17-19. Galatians 1:20): any mental, physical, spiritual, moral (backbite, character assassination or slander), financial harm to defraud, extort, or embezzle – steal or misappropriate church or brethren funds committed to your trust, marital betrayal, ministerial misrepresentation of Christ or injury done against the brethren of Christ to wound their conscience or to grieve their spirit is an injury done against him: to betray the trust given you for Christ sake among his children,  is the betrayal against Christ, worst still, it is the betrayal against the blood of the everlasting covenant by which you are sanctified. Hebrews 10:29. Brother shall betray brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death…. shall he break the covenant to escape the vengeance of eternal fire? If any of Christ brethren to whom you have done any of these things do not forgive you by your repentance before them, you will not be forgiven in heaven: worst still, if your action has made any of them to be offended and to go astray as a lost sheep for their disappointment of a covenant breaker who is likely to be a false brethren, it could have been better that a mille stone were hanged on your neck, and you were thrown into the sea as a wasted – unwanted child which may probably get you a place in heaven, than to make any one of the brethren of Christ to be offended. Matthew 18:6-10.
 
Wishing you all a very happy, prosperous and fruitful new year in the Lord in Jesus name.