Posted on 04/01/2020 6:22:23 AM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress
“My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause” (Proverbs 1:10-11 KJV).
They want to lurk about in the dark, what it is they want us to lay in wait for is blood. When a person is guilty of murder in the Bible, it says that blood shall be shed for blood. God told Noah in Genesis 9 that if a man sheds another’s blood, that by man that man’s blood shall be shed. When Cain slew Abel, he was guilty of the blood of Abel. His blood was upon his hand.
“. . . let us lay wait for blood,” now the Bible is going to teach you something here in the next 8-10 verses that nobody in America knows anything about, especially about advertising. Now, you wouldn’t think that, but we are about to see the subtilty and the tragedy of radio, newspapers, magazines, television advertising, and even catalogs.
“Come with us, let us lay wait for blood,” we automatically think of a bunch of hoodlums waiting in the dark waiting to jump on some guy and steal his wallet. In a sense, that could be it, but there are more kinds of devilment in the world than just that kind. But there are folks that have ways to con you and trick you out of your money. Do you know that your salary is? It is your livelihood. It’s how you make your living. Well, if someone can trick you out of your money, what have they done to your ability to live? It is guilty of blood. If someone unjustly, or improperly, or wrongly take your living or your livelihood from you to where you can’t make a living, they could be guilty of your blood.
All that advertisement is determined to do is to get you to buy something that you don’t need. You haven’t figured that out yet? Advertising is a market to sell products. Does anyone need to tell you when it is time to eat food? We could get along fine without advertising. You could still get everything you “need” without advertising. They just exist to get you to buy the things you “want.” And often it is under false pretenses. How many of their “gotta-have-it” products actually do what they claim they do? They tell you that you just gotta have something and if you don’t have, such-and-such will happen! You won’t be the envy of the neighborhood!
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Darkness is prowling around seeking to devour
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