Posted on 08/06/2022 12:30:53 AM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress
“He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers; Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord” (Proverbs 6:13-14 KJV).
“He winketh with his eyes,” when two men are plotting against a third man, who is in their presence, they will use the wink of the eye—a nonverbal message—to say, “I’m lying to this guy.” “. . . he speaketh with his feet,” his mouth is saying one thing, but his feet tell you the truth. You can tell which way he is going by his feet “run to evil” (Proverbs 1:16, Isaiah 59:7), “their feet are swift to shed blood” (Romans 3:15). “. . . he teacheth with his fingers,” the mouth (vs. 12), the eyes, the feet, and the fingers are the tools of communication with the wicked man.
All the trouble a man will ever have in his life will come from those four things. The eyes, the mouth, the finger, and the feet.
- The feet will take you to the place where he can do wickedness. - The hands are the instrument of mischief. - The eyes are never full, they are always looking for something new—the gate for lusts. - The tongue is a world of iniquity.
“Frowardness is in his heart,” the perverseness is not only in his mouth, but in his heart. He is a purely defiled man. “Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled” (Titus 1:15 KJV). This man is a serpent.
“. . .he deviseth mischief continually,” to invent or produce. Notice that in verses 12-13, that those are outward things. In verse 14, we get to the inward nature of the man. “he soweth discord,” that is to produce disagreement, to break harmony, and break covenants. He will shake hands in agreement with you but will cross his fingers behind his back—because he knows he has not intention of keeping his agreements. These men are the reason we need written contracts in America today, and not like it was back in our great-grandparents day when a man’s word was his bond.
Do you know what the Antichrist eventually does with Israel? He breaks his covenant with them. In fact, he breaks a covenant that he didn’t even establish. I know some believe he did, but he does. Daniel 9 says that he does form a covenant with Israel for one week—but it wasn’t him that did it—in the first half of the Tribulation he is the man of sin, but later on in the Tribulation, after the church goes up, and before the Second Advent, the Antichrist actually comes into being in his full manifestation as the son of perdition, the Antichrist, the man of sin, and the wicked one, when? When does he actually begin that time, or reign? It happens in the middle, not at the beginning. The full-fledged Satan-incarnate doesn’t take place until the middle of the Tribulation period. He only has three-and-a-half years to operate.
This man is slain in the middle of the Tribulation and his soul goes to hell, and that is when the person of Satan enters his body and assumes the role of the Antichrist. The body of the man is still there but not the soul. He has a new soul, Satan, and a new spirit, Apollyon—and that’s the one that breaks the covenant.
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Amen. Great post today, thank you.
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