Proverbs
What if........
Proverbs is exactly what it says it is: ?
That would be proverbs, correct? Wouldn't that mean that the face value of the writing is not really the point?, but rather that it is inferring to a much deeper meaning that is hidden. Almost anyone with the ability to read can read proverbs chapter 7 at face value and understand it in its natural sense,
Solomon says
A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsel; to understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark (hidden) sayings.
Proverbs: Chapter 7
1: My
son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
2: Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.
3: Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.
4: Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy
kinswoman:
5: That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger
which flattereth with her words.
6: For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,
7: And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a
young man void of understanding,
(What if the simple one was you?)
8: Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her
house,
9: In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:
10: And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and
subtil of heart.
11: (She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:
12: Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every
corner.)
(What if this is the voice coming from the Harlot Church (Organized Religion, - Hirelings) Aren't organized religious churches usually on a corner? Think about it.
13: So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said
unto him,
14: I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows.
15: Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and
I have found thee.
(What if this meant "Ive been ordained and have a religious " Title" that proves it! and I'm out evangelizing for "MY CHURCH")
16: I have decked "MY" bed with coverings of
tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.
17: I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
18: Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace
ourselves with loves.
(What if this meant : I know the needs you have, I have needs too, and I have prepared something that I know will really satisfy the inward depths of your soul.) Jesus "death bed" was the cross, and I have redone it so that we will desire to cling to it's new "charm and sweet fragrance" together. ("organized, institutional, religion" )
19: For the good man is not at home, he is gone a long journey:
20: He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day
appointed.
(What if this meant Jesus is not here right now. He has gone on a long journey and taken of his "spiritual wages" the amount needed to pay for the propitiation of our sins. } and He won't be back until the time appointed by God. and didn't Jesus also say "There is none good but God" ? Could this also mean the good man is Jesus?)
21: With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the
flattering of her lips she forced him.
(What if this meant that the "organized religious person with the "Title" compelled you by their artful speech to become one of it's members? )
22: He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or
as a fool to the correction of the stocks;
(What if those stocks are a picture of the hand made, hand hewn, posts and beams the cross was made of {by men.} The religious, institutional, organized, system has gold plated them to wear as a charm!
(They have made those refurbished "golden" crosses quite an enchanted thing to be adored by the simple ones .)
23: Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare,
and knoweth not that it is for his life.
24: Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words
of my mouth.
25: Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.
26: For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been
slain by her.
(Do you remember where Jesus spoke of the man that had been beaten by robbers and left wounded on the road? He was taken to the inn-keeper and oil and wine were poured in his wounds,.....and the inn-keeper was asked to look after him....{The good Samaritan - The true neighbor - which seems as though it is Jesus Himself } said if he owes for anything else it would be paid for when He returned. (It would seem that Innkeeper could very well be the Holy Spirit.)
27: Her house is the way to hell, going down
to the chambers of death.
(Yes, what if it was you?)
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