Posted on 11/24/2022 11:50:58 PM PST by Pilgrim's Progress
“Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it. Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbour's house; lest he be weary of thee, and so hate thee. A man that beareth false witness against his neighbour is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow” (Proverbs 25:16).
Well, that’s just discipline there, and not overeating. “The glutton and the drunkard should come to poverty,” and here the guy eats too much. I mean, honey as good, but too much is bad for you. It's moderation, “eat so much as is sufficient for thee.” Now, the Bibles is likened into honey. The verses on moderation and temperance are found in Philippians 4:5, “Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand.” And temperance is dealt with in Galatians 5:23 as a fruit of the Spirit.
This is a rebuke against physical and spiritual gluttony. What do I mean, spiritual gluttony? There are some people that just want to study, study, study, read, read, read, study, study, study and not do anything with it. That's bad.
That's just a plain old passage about wearing out your welcome. be careful of too much Visitation. In verse 16, overindulgence and in verse 17, just too much social life.
Here again, we have the false gift in verse 14, and is similar to this. A maul is a heavy hammer to bruise or lacerate, and the man really doesn't give the man what he needs, in fact he does damage to the individual. So, the heretic doesn't help anybody, but it's not a matter of him not hurting anybody, he definitely hurts somebody with his false gospel. He doesn't give them what they need, and what he does supply to them hurts them.
“A man that beareth a false witness against his neighbor is a maul, and a sword.” This verse, verse 18 is 6x6x6. And going along verse 14, the Antichrist boasts himself, and he promises great things to the world, but he's not able to deliver. And you know what he winds up doing? The Bible talks about him breaking in pieces and devouring much flesh so when you connect 14 to 18, you have a reference of the Antichrist. His boasting is in Daniel 11:36, his promises are in Daniel 8:25—he makes big promises—you got the wind, you got the clouds, but there's no rain. But what does come of his ministry and his promises is destruction (Daniel 2:40, 7:7 and 7:13-23; and also Jeremiah 51:23-25).
So, we have a type of the Antichrist there in verse 18, which is three sixes. It is very fitting to the Antichrist: one who boasts, one who promises, but there's no rain; just destruction. and he is said to be the hammer: “How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!” (Jeremiah 50:23).
He's called the hammer, and that's probably one reason why Russia uses the hammer and sickle. The sickle is to cut down, the hammer is to break in pieces, and that's what communism does. It does not build anything. It's a tool of destruction. It destroys everything that it gets its grimy paws on. It just devours. There's just no productivity. Under pure communism what productivity they have is just a vestige, or a small element, of capitalism left in the communistic system.
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