Posted on 08/07/2019 6:35:51 AM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress
“Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.) So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him” (Proverbs 7:12-13 KJV).
“She caught him, and kissed him,” that’s the “kiss of death.” Before it’s all over with the young man will be dead. In Luke 22:48, Judas Iscariot also delivered a kiss of death when he “betrayed the son of man with a kiss.” This strange woman betrayed this young boy with a kiss. She suckered him in, allured him in, and before it was all over with took his life from him. She caught him and kissed him and was impudently bold.
You see her on billboards all over the country and on ads where you see women that are just shamelessly bold. They don’t care how much they reveal, they don’t care what they say, they are not the least bit embarrassed about it. She caught him and said, “I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows” (Proverbs 7:14 KJV).
“But if the sacrifice of his offering be a vow, or a voluntary offering, it shall be eaten the same day that he offereth his sacrifice: and on the morrow also the remainder of it shall be eaten” (Leviticus 7:16 KJV).
Here we see what is happening. If she is a Jew, and she payed her vow, she is to eat that offering the very same day and the next.
Sin can be, and is often, very deceptive. Sin can be religious. This woman, who pictures Babylon (Revelation 17), the apostate church that suckers people into Protestantism, can be very religious—but very dangerous. Almost anyone in America that you talk to has at one time or another gone to a mainline Protestant denomination or some Catholic denomination, and yet, very few of them know anything about how to be saved. They’ve been suckered into religion, but they have never been saved. Sin can be religious, which is what verse 13 shows us with the peace offerings and paying of vows.
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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