The man was dead, not alive!
“These things says He who has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars: ‘I know your works, that you have a name that you are alive, but you are dead.’”
– Revelation 3:1 NKJV
[Philippians 3:13,14] This one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
[Judges 8:27] And Gideon made an ephod … which thing became a snare unto Gideon, and to his house.
A person can be led astray. “So Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err, and to do worse than the heathen, whom the Lord had destroyed before the children of Israel.” – 2 Chronicles 33:9
The view is very limited. “He requested for himself that he might die.” – 1 Kings 19:4 (KJV)
[Acts 12:11] And when Peter was come to himself, he said, Now I know of a surety, that the Lord hath sent his angel, and hath delivered me out of the hand of Herod.
God knew in advance. “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God.” – Exodus 20:8-10 KJV