Posted on 11/07/2020 6:15:02 AM PST by Pilgrim's Progress
“For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding, Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house, In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night” (Proverbs 7:6-9 KJV).
TODAY’S VERSE:
“For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding, Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house, In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night” (Proverbs 7:6-9 KJV).
Okay, this is either Solomon looking out the window of his palace, or God is looking out of the windows of heaven.
“And beheld among the simple ones,” that’s the ones spoken of here: “How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?” (Proverbs 1:22 KJV). Simple, stupid people that refuse to listen to truth,
“I discerned among the youths,” isn’t it interesting that the simple ones are among the youth? “. . . a young man void of understanding,” vain, empty-headed. “Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,” now we want to keep our feet out of that way—if you know that is the wrong kind of house, and the wrong kind of place, a man is a fool to walk by it. If a man walks by a place, knowing what it is, it’s a good bet he is looking for something. An alcoholic is a fool to walk a certain way to home if their happens to be a bar located on that street—he needs to find a different way.
“. . . and he went the way to her house, In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night,” this verse can be applied to the church age as well, for we have all four watches of the day. In the twilight (up to 500 A.D.), in the evening (up to 1000 A.D.), in the black (up to 1500 A.D.) and dark night (it is darkest just before the dawn, when the daystar arises. One day soon the sun is going to shine in that great Millennial kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Here then is a simple, young man devoid of any brain cells going along the path he knows will lead to sin. In his folly he is not interested in the wisdom which says that he needs to find another way to where he is going—because where he is going—is up to no good. Here, then, we have a word to the wise. Take heed!
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