Wisdom is personified as a lady

Proverbs 8:1-11

Like the forbidden woman talked about in chapter 7:5, Wisdom is personified as a lady, but unlike the forbidden woman Wisdom’s invitation is public, and her desires are spiritual, not sexual and following her leads to life, not death.

Wisdom is a creation, and we are told in Scripture that she works with God to create the universe, now the forbidden woman is also a creation of the evil one, the old serpent, or thief that is talked about in John 10:10.  He is about destruction, about death to anything good and holy, and that includes you, your marriage, your family, and the foundation on which the United States was founded.

A man I had great respect for just passed from this earth, but he left us a warning let me share it with you.  The Enemy Amongst Us!
By Charles Krauthammer, New York Post — March 6, 2018

“I do not understand how living in a country with its democracy established more than 200 years ago, and now, for the first time in history, suddenly we have one of our former presidents set up a group called “Organizing for Action” (OFA).

OFA is 30,000+ strong and working to disrupt everything that our current president’s administration is trying to do. This organization goes against our Democracy, and it is an operation that will destroy our way of governing. It goes against our Constitution, our laws, and the processes established over 200 years ago. If it is allowed to proceed, then we will be living in chaos very much like third world countries are run.”

In the first four verses, we see Wisdom calling out from all the very public places in the full light of day, and her call is to all who will seek understanding and live.  Verse five is so needed today in a world full of knowledge and technology beyond most of our understanding.  “Learn to be shrewd, you who are inexperienced; develop common sense, you who are foolish.”

Do not become a name caller, but a thinker, understand that lies are from the evil one, and God is Truth.  Learning to be shrewd, if that word bothers you change it to discerning, it’s the same word meaning, or perceptive.  Once more because I understand my need of understanding I’m returning to history, not Fox News or the New York Times, or my local newspaper, but historical accounts not the revision history of today.  It is also driving me deeper into what is the truth, for I like the apostle Paul do believe we are living in the last days and should be looking for Jesus’ soon return.  For many that put me in the camp of the foolish, I’m ok with that, but I’m not pulling that from thin air, but from God’s word.

In Paul’s second letter to Timothy chapter 3:1-5 “But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.”  I also wanted you to ponder on verse 7, “always learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth.”

That is the world I observe today, but that is not all in Matthew 24:6-8, “And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not alarmed, for this must take place, but the end is not yet.  For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places.  All these are but the beginning of the birth pains.”  Picking up Jesus words in verses 9-14, “Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and put you to death, and you will be hated by all nations for my name's sake.  And then many will fall away and betray one another and hate one another.  And many false prophets will arise and lead many astray.  And because lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold.  But the one who endures to the end will be saved.  And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.”

The good news is that both Pioneer Bible Translators and Wycliffe Bible Translators’ have very close timetables to when they believe the written gospel could be substantially completed by 2025.  Protestant translators expect to have the Bible — or at least some of it — written in every one of the world’s 6,909 spoken languages.  Some parts of this taken from the Denver Post and part from a meeting Jan and I attended with the Pioneer Bible Translators.

Now let me wrap up with this word from Wisdom found in Proverbs 8:6-11, “Listen, for I speak of noble things, and what my lips say is right.  For my mouth tells the truth, and wickedness is detestable to my lips.  All the words of my mouth are righteous; none of them are deceptive or perverse.  All of them are clear to the perceptive, and right to those who discover knowledge.  Accept my instruction instead of silver, and knowledge rather than pure gold.  For wisdom is better than jewels, and nothing desirable can compare with it.”

From the Back Porch,

Bob Rice