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“Do not associate with those given to CHANGE; For their calamity will rise suddenly, And who knows the ruin those two can bring?” – Proverbs 24:21-22
1Cr 15:33 Do not be misled: “Bad company corrupts good character.”
That’s why his past and present associations matter.
“ THE PHILOSOPHERS HAVE ONLY INTERPRETED THE WORLD IN VARIOUS WAYS - THE POINT HOWEVER IS TO CHANGE IT
” ...Karl Marx
The LORD has spoken on Change!
Great post.
I believe the reference here is a warning against hanging out with revolutionaries.
The problem is that in the American context, the revolution is very far advanced. Those who have no regard for America’s founding principles, and who advocate policies that are in direct opposition to those principles, are largely now in charge.
And it ain’t just Democrats either.
Thanks.
I know that verse...but it didn’t hit me until your post.
Thanks!
Gooood verse for our time!!!!!!!
Also...sounds like a clear shot for McCain/Palin winning our White House!!!
Praise the Lord for His Word!!!
My NIV says “rebellious”.
Now obviously our country was formed as a sort of rebellion, but we know that this verse is talking about rebellion in the sense of disobedience against God and about being evil.
Proverbs 24 rocks.
I think it’s singularly intriguing that the 4th definition, even though it doesn’t apply for certain interpretive reasons, is “to disguise oneself”.
There is a sense in which the ‘change’ in this verse is related to disguising the actual.
I would advise caution in interpreting scripture to fit your desire.
Wow and I have to read Proverbs 24 tonite as this is the 24th day of the month. I was fasting and praying about this same issue and the election yesterday and the Holy Spirit gave me this reading. I think this spells out God’s opinion clearly on this issue. After reading and thinking on this I would not want to be some one who pulls the lever for Fauxbama.
Here it is:
Psalm 50
The Acceptable SacrificeA Psalm of Asaph.
1The mighty one, God the Lord,
speaks and summons the earth
from the rising of the sun to its setting.
2Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty,
God shines forth.
3Our God comes and does not keep silence,
before him is a devouring fire,
and a mighty tempest all around him.
4He calls to the heavens above
and to the earth, that he may judge his people:
5‘Gather to me my faithful ones,
who made a covenant with me by sacrifice!’
6The heavens declare his righteousness,
for God himself is judge.
Selah
7‘Hear, O my people, and I will speak,
O Israel, I will testify against you.
I am God, your God.
8Not for your sacrifices do I rebuke you;
your burnt-offerings are continually before me.
9I will not accept a bull from your house,
or goats from your folds.
10For every wild animal of the forest is mine,
the cattle on a thousand hills.
11I know all the birds of the air,*
and all that moves in the field is mine.
12‘If I were hungry, I would not tell you,
for the world and all that is in it is mine.
13Do I eat the flesh of bulls,
or drink the blood of goats?
14Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving,*
and pay your vows to the Most High.
15Call on me in the day of trouble;
I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me.’
16But to the wicked God says:
‘What right have you to recite my statutes,
or take my covenant on your lips?
17For you hate discipline,
and you cast my words behind you.
18You make friends with a thief when you see one,
and you keep company with adulterers.
19‘You give your mouth free rein for evil,
and your tongue frames deceit.
20You sit and speak against your kin;
you slander your own mother’s child.
21These things you have done and I have been silent;
you thought that I was one just like yourself.
But now I rebuke you, and lay the charge before you.
22‘Mark this, then, you who forget God,
or I will tear you apart, and there will be no one to deliver.
23Those who bring thanksgiving as their sacrifice honour me;
to those who go the right way*
I will show the salvation of God.’
Wow! What a sobering scripture.
Bump for others to see!
Hah, thanks.
Transliterated Word:
Shanah
Definition:
to repeat, do again, change, alter
(Qal) to change
(Niphal) to be repeated
(Piel) to change, alter
(Hithpael) to disguise oneself
King James Word Usage - Total: 22
change 7, second time 3, again 3, diverse 2, alter 1, disguise 1, doubled 1, pervert 1, preferred 1, repeateth 1, miscellaneous 1
From http://bible.crosswalk.com/Lexicons/Hebrew/heb.cgi?number=08138&version=kjv
God does manage to say the right things at the right times.