Posted on 03/08/2022 9:59:55 PM PST by Pilgrim's Progress
“She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table” (Proverbs 9:2 KJV).
“She hath killed her beasts,” you find beasts in the Tribulation (Revelation chapter 13). I don’t know about the church doing that, I don’t even know about Israel doing that. Now, the Lord Jesus Christ does that. He kills both the beast (Antichrist) and the false prophet in Revelation chapter 19. We can also apply this allegorically. When you get to building a good home for God, God will keep the beasts (boogeymen) away from the door.
She is also providing food. Christ provides food for us. Supernatural food was provided for the children of Israel in the wilderness—manna. In like manner, He provides supernatural food for His church. It also comes down from heaven, “For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven” (Psa 119:89 KJV). It’s a heavenly Book!
A missionary on deputation approached a pastor about presenting his work in his church. He told the preacher that he uses an ASV and the King James Bible to study. The preacher informed him that he could not present his mission in his church because they reserve that privilege to those that exclusively use the King James Version. Most missionaries have access to many churches, but those that by faith use the KJB are limited in where they can be invited.
The missionary accepted that decision but did have one question about the questionnaire he had been sent from the church. Question 1 asked, “Do you believe that the King James Bible is infallible?” He said, “You know, I never really thought about that. Man, that has really put me in a corner.” He said, “I have always believed that the Bible is infallible.” The preacher asked, “Yes, but which one?” They talked for about an hour, but the young missionary could not come to grips with the fact that the Bible is a supernatural book.
God not only supplied the children of Israel with supernatural bread, but He has also supplied the church with supernatural bread from heaven. Even in the Tribulation, God is going to feed the saints, “Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness” (Psa 74:14 KJV). God is in the habit of supplying bread to his people.
Wilbur M. Smith tells this story of D. L. Moody:
“In the fall of 1871, when Moody was speaking in Brooklyn; his congregation dropped to eighteen. Moody despised failure. And then one night, after the service was over, some unnamed woman quietly said to him, “We have plenty of preaching in Brooklyn; but if you will tell us something about the Bible, it will be blessed to us.”
“That broke his unfruitful methods forever. The next afternoon he gave a simple Bible reading, and the ravishing, sweet fires of God at once came down. He had a heart for nothing now but the glory of the Word.
“One November night of that year (he was thirty-four), he walked the streets of New York, sobbing, “O God, why don't You compel me to walk close to Thee always? Deliver me from myself! Take absolute sway! Give. me Thy Holy Spirit!”
“So mightily did the spirit of God come upon him that he had to rush to the home of a nearby friend and ask for a room where he could be alone, where there followed hours of which it is unlawful to speak; and he seldom did.”
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By reading this one verse you do not know who “she” is; nor would you know from the commentary. From verse 1 “she” is wisdom.
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