Posted on 04/07/2020 6:51:15 AM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress
“And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart. (She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house . . ." (Proverbs 7:10-11).
Of those two things, the subtilty of heart is the most dangerous thing, but those two things do go together. Now, she's subtle of heart, and “the serpent [devil] was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made” (Genesis 3:1), and “Amnon had a friend, whose name was Jonadab, the son of Shimeah David’s brother; and Jonadab was a very subtil man” (2 Samuel 13:3), and “I fear, lest by any means as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ” (2 Corinthians 11:3).
Now, she was “subtil of heart,” first of all, it's a thought process.
She knows what she's doing. She's dressing like she's dressing and making herself up like she is and she's saying what she's saying and touching like she touches and blinks like she blinks for a reason; because she is “subtil of heart.” Now, some of it becomes automatic; but you need to crucify that part of flesh, ladies and gentlemen.
It says, “Behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.” There is twelve times that somebody is said to be “subtle” in the Bible, and only one time is it viewed in a positive light, and that's back in Proverbs 1:4, “to give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.”
What that shows is that there is a subtilty that is a mark of the devil. the devil still use subtilty throughout history as the verses above show, and yet here is a young man that subtle, innocent, simple, which is another word it and so a lot of these characteristics have a kind of a dual edge to them. There are two sides to it sometimes, but more often than not in the scripture it's a mark of the devil and a mark of the flesh.
Verse 11 now puts this in parenthesis: “She is loud.” There’s lots of applications for this woman. First of all, she is just a wicked woman. It's odd, isn't it, that when you get to first Timothy and first Peter what it emphasizes in a Christian woman is a quietness of spirit. She is “of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price” (1 Peter 3:4).
A loudmouth woman is a disgrace. All you need to do sometimes is to go to a family reunion where you have some folks that live over on the other side of the cross. You know, drinkers and so forth, and you go over there for a fish boil and the ladies are in the kitchen; and they are pretty much three sheets to the wind, so to speak. And they are cackling out the open window like a bunch of witches. Loud. Well, folks, one of the marks of a Christian woman that is filled with the spirit and is taking the Bible to heart is that she's quiet. She’s of a meek and quiet spirit. It’s something that comes from the Holy Spirit.
This woman in Proverbs 7 is not meek and quiet: she's loud. She's loud, and she's stubborn. Did you know that “stubborn” shows up five times in the Bible? Being stubborn will get you killed.
“She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house.”
There are times that ladies need a job, and I understand how things go, but you also understand at the same time the scriptures do say about her need to be a keeper at home and those sorts of things. Especially when the children are very young. It does not say that a man should be allergic to a vacuum cleaner, all right? And it's not stated that a guy doesn't need to know what to do with some dish soap; but at the same time there is a disturbing reversal of roles in America.
If anyone would like to be added to the ping list, please let me know either by post or by p.m.
For more books on all topics of the Bible, visit my web site at:
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.