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Proverbs Chapter 1 (Continued)
{Answers
. . . Solutions to the Wrong Crowd Problem}
20b~~She
{Bible doctrine} {Note: Wisdom is the application of doctrine. It is the prophet of old standing up and teaching the doctrine and then showing its proper application. The word here 'to cry' is a public speaking situation in front of a lot of people where the speaker has to shout to be heard. Wisdom cried outside. In other words, people were gathered in crowds and the prophets would tell about the great dangers coming.}
21a~~She
{doctrine} {Note: Every place in an ancient city had a place where someone could stand up on steps which formed a platform and look out over a great crowd, and there speak. In the ancient world news was broadcast from these gates. So in places where news was disseminated these people could come and hear the gospel.}
21b-22a~~She
{bible doctrine} {Note: Now here was the message given to the Jews before every crisis break came. Before the decline, before the civil war of the Jews, before the first administration of the 5th cycle of discipline in 586 BC, before the second administration in 70 AD, the Jews had three maximum crisis periods when they were about to be totally destroyed when there was the teaching of Bible doctrine. This is reproduced for us now in essence. In view here is the believer who does not love His 'Divine Viewpoint'/Word/'Bible Teaching'. They put the 'details of life' - success, family, health, social prosperity, sexual prosperity - anything ahead of God and the learning of His Word.} 22b~~The scorner delights at scorning. {Note: The scorner is a believer who takes a dim view of bible doctrine and will ridicule the person who is interested in studying the Word of God.} 22c~~And the fools hate knowledge/'bible doctrine' {da`ath}. {Note: 'Fools' is the term generally used for 'unbelievers' - but can be a believer in reversionism.}
{First
Solution - Rebound} {Note: Bible teaching is NOT always easy to hear - reproof is part of any faithful pastor's ministry - when doctrine HITS you . . . respond to the teaching . . . do not react against God or His communicator.} {Note: When you have sinned, use I John 1:9 and rebound. Second Step - the study of doctrine should be more important to you than the bread and water you eat and drink to sustain physical life. For by bread alone, a man does not sustain life, but by every Word that proceeds from His Mouth.} 23b~~I will pour out My Spirit. {Note: This is the beginning the road to recovery - filling of God the Holy Spirit AFTER rebound. Bible doctrine can only be studied and understood when in fellowship and guided by God the Holy Spirit.}
23c~~I
{God through 'His Word'} {Note: This is the ultimate: learning God's Word! It refers to the sharpening of the perceptive abilities. Learning to differentiate between God's viewpoint and any other viewpoint - yours or any other creatures! It is only God's thinking that is True Wisdom/Knowledge. It is the only viewpoint that matters.}
{Verses
24-27- Folly of Ignoring Doctrine} {Note: Specifically this is Father David but in general all communicators of the Word. And the son here is Solomon but in general all negative to the teaching of the Word}
24b~~I
stretched out my hands {Note: To stretch out his hands is a plea to change - come to God and His Word. Here we have the word and the gesture, the two things that characterize the communication of Bible doctrine in the time in which this was written, and they were rejected. A nation goes down when it rejects Bible doctrine.}
25~~But
you have set at naught all my counsel {Note: To 'set at naught' means to dismiss, to reject, to refuse. The word counsel means Bible doctrine as it was presented in the form of a reproof}
{What
Happens When Disaster Comes}
26b~~I
will mock/deride/'look my nose down upon you' {la`ag} {Note: Disaster comes to these people for one reason - because they have rejected Bible doctrine. When that happens, "I will laugh." This sounds cruel. It is until it is realized that the believer who rejects, rejects, rejects Bible doctrine is going to come to the place of disaster. In the place of disaster - maximum catastrophe - when nothing else works, then he calls upon Jehovah/God.}
{Verses
27-28: 5th Cycle of Discipline}
27b~~When
distress and anguish come upon you . . . {Note; They were not interested in God or His Word so they had no doctrine in their souls to sustain them - intake of doctrine should precede disaster, yet many wait for disaster and THEN call on God.} 28a~~But I will not answer.
28b~~They
shall seek me early {Note: When the operation of the 5th cycle of discipline came to the Jews, there was no one to help. Jeremiah saw the people go into captivity, and as the people filed by him on their way to disaster he couldn't tell them anything more. It was too late. Doctrine must be first in your life; without doctrine you can't make it.} {Note: This is the way David is describing to Solomon what is going to happen to the nation, the people that he now rules so well.}
{What
Happened} {Note: This is the important 'knowledge to understand is 'divine viewpoint' and that only comes from Bible doctrine. Bible doctrine is the key to the survival of a nation as well as the key to the individual believer's personal happiness.}
30a~~They
would have none of my counsel.
30b~~They
despised my reproof.
{Result
of Lack of Intake of Doctrine: Individually - Self-Induced Misery} {Note: This is the principal for spiritual babies - 'what you sow, so shall you reap' (for mature believers it is 'what God sows, so shall you reap'! - infinitely better). And, 'Own devices' here refer to the various mental attitude sins: fear, worry, hatred, envy, jealousy, pride, vindictiveness, etc. These are the devices of the believer who rejects doctrine. This verse is dealing with the believer who is not interested in doctrine-the person who is saved but doesn't learn any doctrine. If Bible doctrine is not first in the believer's life then he is not occupied with Christ, and therefore any disaster situation is going to bring total misery.}
{Result
of Lack of Intake of Doctrine: Collectively - National Disaster} {Note: M@shuwbah - means to 'turn away' from God and His Word. And, p@thiy means someone with a wrong set of values - no time in his busy life for God or His Word. Believers who leave the Word become 'simple minded' - return to being baby believers. When believers reject bible doctrine - collectively they destroy their own nation.}
32b~~And
the "{false} security/quietness/easiness of fools"/ {Note: This is the principal describing when a nation of deluded 'human viewpoint thinkers' decide their own thinking can 'save' their nation - so they do NOT need God and His viewpoint. So they make up their own laws to 'protect the criminal's rights', 'protect environment though it takes away the free enterprise capitalist system', 'set up equality/socialism'- welfare, and 'give away programs', 'world peace' on and on. Eventually, leaving God and His Directions via His Word will end up destroying the nation's freedom and in the end, the nation as well.}
33a~~But
whoever 'hears, listens and obeys' {shama`} {Note: How do we listen to God today? Follow His format! He gave us the written Word, the Living Word (Jesus Christ as our prototype as to how to Walk/'live righteously', and pastor-teachers to teach us the Word. All we have to do is "shama` " - hear, listen and obey.}
33b~~And
{as an individual} {Note: Ease refers to peace with happiness - inner peace and inner happiness, inner blessing which comes from the knowedge of God's divine viewpoint on life. The 'voice of Jehovah/God' today is the word/'doctrinal communication' {dabar} of God, Bible doctrine presented in the content.}
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