Posted on 04/06/2022 11:30:30 PM 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. 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 7:10-13).
This is one of the sad things about our American culture. A lot of American ladies are not really harlots, but they dress like it, and when you advertise it—expose it—you might as well be ready to sell it. When you walk by one of the chic women’s store, don’t they have a big window where they display what they are trying to sell? If you don’t want to sell it, don’t display it. Is that unreasonable? Is that illogical? It might just be that some of these young ladies need to sit down with their brother or your dad and just kind of ask them about life, and see if they can’t enlighten you a little bit. Some of these young women are no better off than the young man who is a simpleton walking up and down the wrong street. It’s a terrible thing indeed when two simpletons of the opposite sex meet, one looking for a harlot and the other dressing like one. It’s got the recipe for disaster.
The sad reality is that most Americans learn about sex in the back alley. Men complain that they can’t find a good girl, but they refuse to go to the places where they might find one. And if they don’t get cleaned up spiritually and morally, they are not going to find a good, wise girl there either.
“. . . and subtil of heart,” someone else is subtil. “Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made” (Genesis 3:1 KJV). Rightly does our Lord tell the lost crowd that “they are of their father the devil.” Like father, like son; or like father, like daughter. She is subtil, she is full of subtilty, like the woman in Revelation, the harlot.
She is “loud, and stubborn,” very boisterous, outgoing, stubborn, which 1 Samuel says is “worse than the sin of witchcraft.” “. . . her feet abide not in her house,” she’s a busybody, not faithful, an infidel. She is unfaithful to her husband, if she is married, and she is unfaithful to her God.
“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” (Lev 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 (Rev. 17), the apostate church that suckers people in to 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.
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