Posted on 10/06/2019 8:50:11 AM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress
“A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth” (Proverbs 6:12 KJV).
Verses 12-15 describes a wicked man, obviously; but more spiritually, or more prophetically, they describe THE wicked man in the Bible, the Antichrist. Notice how it starts out.
“A naughty person, a wicked man.” What he is doing is giving two descriptions for the same man. It’s not two different people. He didn’t say, “a naughty person AND a wicked man,” he said “a naughty person COMMA, and then some additional information, a wicked man.” What does that tell you about the word, naughty? It’s not so good. And in this case, the definition of naughty follows immediately—a wicked person—the Bible interprets itself!
Sometimes when we are speaking about our kids we’ll say, “Well, he’s just a boy, he’s a little naughty,” but the Bible means something entirely different than you think it means. Don’t use “naughty” to describe your children! This is how we destroy the strength and the power of the English language; the word means someone that is extremely wicked.
“A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth,” or a crooked and perverse mouth. He is crooked. You can’t get a hold of what he is saying, he doesn’t speak straight, but rather he throws those big looping curves. His speech is filled with doublespeak and double entendres. A perverse mouth. They make really good salesmen, as long as we remember, “let the buyer beware.” A salesman often knows his product isn’t worth what it is being sold for, but he works for the company and has to use their words, and not his own.
How will the Antichrist deceive the whole world? He will speak of “peace and safety,” he’ll be selling a concept. He will be using “great swelling words,” and he will do it without a weapon in his hand. I do not see any place where the Antichrist picks up a weapon, and his bow has no arrows.
Let’s read a chapter of Proverbs a day and see what God might have for us. As the Lord leads, share with us what God has shown you in a special way and by His grace let us build up a devotional repository. Let’s keep our knives and forks handy for some daily bread!
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