1976 Proverbs &

1966 Proverbs

notes from R. B. Thieme, Jr.’s classes

My notes and Syndein’s notes and table of contents (this list was incomplete and slightly inaccurate)

Bob is not actually giving the translation of each verse once completed. I am using the Holman Christian Standard Bible and adding in commentary or making a few minor changes according to Bob’s teaching.

Apparently, Bob jumps around from chapter to chapter in the 1966 study. I will keep the Proverbs chapters in order, but move Bob’s lessons around after the table of contents. In lesson 6, he is talking about a 2 chapter special, so this may not be a normal complete study, but a cobbling together of sets of lessons.

The first few lessons were quite weak when it comes to exegesis, and Bob moves pretty quickly through Proverbs, with a lot of review of some general concepts. Bob’s teaching seems to pick up around lesson #39.

1976 Proverbs is a better series, covering only Proverbs 1. The actual notes and hyperlinks will be for the 1976 series will be first; and the notes for the 1966 series will follow.

The following is a weaker series.

1976 Proverbs

notes from R. B. Thieme, Jr.’s classes

1976 Proverbs       Psalm 138:2 Prov. 8:33–36 Luke 11:37–38                  585_0001

Proverbs Introduction

Hithpael is reflexive. The Temple is represented by the real Temple of heaven.

Psalm 138:2 I myself will worship toward the Temple of Your holiness and celebrate Your Person, because of Your grace and because of Your doctrine. You have magnified Your Word [doctrinal teaching] above all Your name [Person, Personality, Essence]. Doctrine is the only thing that frees the justice of God in time to bless the believer in time.

This could be the last peace time holiday that we will have for a long time. The only way to have a good time as a believer and to have the capacity for a good time. This is Bobby’s first time home for Christmas for 4 years. Bible doctrine has to be first.

It takes doctrine to celebrate Christ.

Proverbs 8:33–36

Proverbs 8:33–36 Hear instruction, and be wise. Don't refuse it. Blessed is the man who hears me, Watching daily at my gates [the gate of the city where Bible doctrine was taught], Waiting at my door posts [Bob likes to see people waiting outside the church to get in early]. For whoever finds me [Bible doctrine], finds life, And will obtain [maturity] grace from Yahweh. But he who sins against me [turns against Bible doctrine] wrongs his own soul. All those who hate me [out and out reject of Bible doctrine] love death."

There is a lot going on in the next week or two of the holidays.

Isa. 53:12 Therefore I will distribute the plunder of victory to Him [to the Lord Jesus Christ] because of the many. Then He will distribute the plunder of victory to the great ones.

There are 3 adjustments to the justice of God. First there is salvation adjustment to the justice of God. After salvation, it turns out that we are still sinners. We are out of fellowship, in a state of grieving or the Holy Spirit. So we name our sins to Him, which is simply citing our sins to God, and because the sin was judged in the courtroom of God. That is also an instantaneous adjustment to the justice of God.

Cracking the maturity barrier allows the justice of God to bless us in time. Blessing by association, blessing of historical impact and ultimately dying blessing. These are the things which are distributed; the plunder that is distributed in phase II.

In His other states, Jesus has a royal family. The royal family of the Trinity, that of Israel, and He is King of Kings, Lord of Lords. It is this plunder, which is prophetical and it belongs to the royal family of God.

The great ones are not all believers of the Church Age, but those believers who adjustment to the justice of God through doctrine in their souls. Prior to this, he was identified with the offerings of sin. God would be unfair, unjust to give blessings unless we have the capacity to appreciate them. Apart from doctrine in the soul, there is no ability to appreciate the blessings from God. Jesus carried our sins. Christ is our security and every day is Christmas, so every day is a challenge to take in Bible doctrine.

Another important doctrinal passage is 2Peter 1:12–21 is an outstanding passage on doctrine, how doctrine is even more important than whatever it is that you see or hear.

The pastor or communicator of doctrine is the authority. No one can take in doctrine on their own. There are always those who, in their ego-trip, think that they can get it on their own. People think that there is a shortcut. There are people who have come from Australia and from Kansas (over 60 people from Kansas). Men have taken their leave at Berachah rather than to be with family.

A certain redheaded private in Portland has found a gf in Portland, but he is able to find a gf anywhere.

We live in a day of tragedy when no leader faces life realistically. 1977 is the year we will go to war with the Soviet Union or we face them off in some way. Do not throw away your confidence in doctrine. Heb. 10:36 keep on having perseverance that you might carry off for yourself the promises of blessing.

Luke 11:27 And it happened as He spoke these things, a certain woman of the company lifted up her voice and said to Him, Blessed is the womb that bore You, and the breasts which You have sucked.

This woman is merely using the womb stuff to put down Jesus Christ. She is interrupting Him and she has something to add to the whole thing. She had some followers and they were apparently deserting her for the Lord Jesus Christ. She has interrupted a message that others are listening to.

Our Lord does not back off; she made doctrine an issue. He cannot ignore that she makes an issue out of doctrine. Any woman who has children or children on her breasts are blessed above all women. It just isn’t true. There are so many problems, so many physiological changes, and this makes a woman at her worst. No sleep etc. and children want food at the weirdest times.

She is saying that, “Your mother is more important than you are because she is your mother.” Having children is not happiness. Sex was designed to express the relationship between RM/RW.

Luke 11:28 But He said, No; rather, blessed are they who hear the Word of God and keep it.

Or, “Happinesses to those who keep hearing and retaining the Word of God.” Jesus got to the real issue, which is doctrine, doctrine, doctrine.

Bob is making a prediction that, if you have taken in doctrine regularly, it will be a great holiday; and those who have been sporadic in taking in doctrine, it won’t be; and those who reject the Word of God, this holiday season will be a nightmare.

Even the Romans as unbelievers understood this. They said, “Life without learning is death.”

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Letters continue to come in to T&P. A letter of complaint from the North Pole. About OSHA and Social Security and its impact on Santa. Jimmy Carter is impersonating him and saying that he is Santa Claus. If you do not adjustment to the justice of God, the justice of God will adjust to us.

2 weeks on this book.

Proverbs 1:1 The proverbs of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel:

Certain parts of the lectures are David teaching Solomon, and Solomon took excellent notes. Some of these came directly from the notebook. 2 line poems which became meaningful. Solomon always remembered what his father taught him.

David was a great king and warrior and a great writer and fantastic poet. He knows young people have a difficult time hearing a lengthy discourse, so these things were broken down into short poems.

1:7–9 19:20–24 and 24–28? Are those written by David. Solomon was the greatest of all responders to Bible doctrine. The pattern for the Davidic proverbs found in Deut. 6:20. The soul has emotion, so this must be subject to Bible doctrine in the soul. Doctrine goes to all parts of the soul. These words which I command you today, you will teach diligently to your children. The first doctrine children should hear should come from the parents. Prep school supplements parental teaching but does not replace it. To consolidate doctrine in your own soul, you need to communicate it to others. When you rise up and when you sit down, there should be explanations as to why this discipline, why this training, etc. and you will bind this as a sign to your arm. It is a myth that quarterbacks are brilliant. Quarterbacks will some have plays on their armband. When they look at the bench are getting signals or verbal commands. There are also frontlet for the head and eyes. The verses were to be written on the doors on going in and going out. There comes a time when you expose your children to doctrine that they begin to ask questions. David was very clever; he was a genius. He used the distich to teach his children.

Apparently, Solomon did not teach this information to his son, Rehoboam, who turned out to be a prize jackass.

We are told that Solomon spoke 3000 proverbs. Solomon wrote Prov. 10:1–19:19 and 26. Agur is a collector or a gatherer of doctrinal proverbs. He perpetuated what his father started in him, and he was the most famous person when it comes to proverbs. Ecclesiastes 1:1 also called the man with the message, called Jedidah, and something else as well, and the son of discipline or son of obedience. Prov. 30 begins with the proverbs of Agur, which are those Solomon collected. The proverbs of Lemuel means that the proverbs came from God. This would mean that Solomon essentially wrote the entire book of Proverbs.

The basic proverb is a distich, which is a German word. This is a two-line poem which relates one line to another.

A synonymous distich: the second line repeats the thought of the first line, but with different words. The repetition of the concept, but in different words.

A principle followed by the illustration. Prov. 24:19 people are often worried about other people, which is being nosey. If you start to be concerned about people who are over you. The foolish woman is boisterous (the female drunk). Bob recalls the Coconut Grove where this would happen in Las Angeles. Only thing worse than a boisterous female drunk is a vomiting female drunk. A foolish woman is boisterous and knows nothing.

Antithetical distich where the second line is the opposite or the antithesis of the first line. A wise son makes a father glad, but a foolish son is a grief to his mother. Fathers are just that way, who have to brag on their child. When the kids do not turn out, the mother gets the most upset. The father will go on his way, but the mother falls apart. She is always trying to put together some scheme. Mothers never let go. The light of the righteous shines brightly (the believer who is adjustment to the justice of God),

The fool despises his father’s discipline; Bob knew what to do with Bobby when he got out of line. With a kid who is smart, life is always unfair. The kid may be smart, but he is a fool. When you do not respond to discipline, you are a fool. People in the military have the best opportunity to learn because it is likely that there will be a jackass over you. You are a fool if you don’t respond to discipline.

Wisdom is always related to accepting discipline. Foolishness is happiness to the one who lacks doctrine in the right lobe, but a man who has doctrine walks straight. All members of the royal family must have honor and integrity. Walking straight is walking with integrity.

Reversionists flee when no one is pursuing. To be a coward is the worst. This is a battle picture. He is running away even though the enemy is not in sight. The maturity adjustment to the justice of God. The antithesis is there. When you cannot think under pressure, you are a coward.

The synthetic distch, a different truth is expressed in each line, but one line is related to the second. Sins of the tongue might be hidden, but you are a liar. He who spreads slander is a fool. Many try to build their happiness on another’s unhappiness.

The integral distich. The second line completes the thought of the first line. Often it is a reason or a proof of the first line.

If you are faithful and they turn out bad, it will come back to them when they are old.

Chugging and passing out; often that means the oxygen is not getting to his brain. “This never happened to my son.” Some of you parents are living in dream world.” The people who encourage you to chug-a-lug are fools and you are a fool for engaging in this.

If you do a good job in the first 9 years, it sure gets easy after that.

As a ring of gold in a swine’s snout, very wealthy people in Beverly Hills and they often bought the affections of some young thing a piece of jewelry. Often a chippie wearing something for a duchess. So is a beautiful women who lacks taste. A woman whoh depends upon her beauty is like a pig walking around wearing something from Tiffanny’s.

The first line illustrates something in the 2^nd line. Like cold water to a weary person so is good news from a foreign land. Like a ornament of gold, so is a wise reprover to a whispering ear. Like a dog who returns to his vomit, so the fool who repeats his folly. A constant dripping on a day of steady rain and a contentious woman are alike. Like a charcoal to hot embers, so is a contentious man to kindle s6rife. Always griping, always complaining, always giving others a hard time.

Like a bad tooth or a sprained ankle

A comparative distich offers up something in the 2^nd line which is better than the first line. Better a dish of lima beans where love is than a fatted ox and hatred served with it.

Proverbs 1:1 The proverbs of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel:

1976 Proverbs              Proverbs Introduction Prov. 1:1–2                        585_0003

These are vignettes of doctrine; 2 line poems called distichs, and there are 6 basic types:

Synonymous distichs: repletion of the same thought.

Antithetical distich: second line opposite of the first.

Pettiness is one of the worst traits to be found among Americans, and Benedict Arnold became a traitor over pettiness (he was overlooked for a promotion).

Berachah Church is now being run with efficiency. Don’t ever get the idea that you need to be consulted and you are the beneficiary of it.

The last 3 lines amplify what the first 2 lines say. Do not claim honor from a king. It is better to be called up to the front, rather than to try to enforce yourself to the front.

Apply your right lobe to discipline and your ears to words of knowledge. Some people have trouble with doctrine because their parents held back discipline. Although you beat with a rod, he will not die. The person who has not been disciplined in the home will have no idea how to deal with reality and authority outside the home.

Heptastich 2 lines where next 5 lines expand upon it. Do not eat bread with an evil eye (someone who is a reversionist and a hypocrite). If you area sucker for hypocrisy, hypocrisy will cut you to ribbons and you will never know why. Unfortunately, in the KJV, there is no set up to match the poetry form.

This brings us around to Prov. 1; there are 4 paragraphs. Vv.  1–6 intro 7–9 respect for authority 10–19 distractions 20–23the importance of doctrine this is one of the 10 great chapters of the importance of Bible doctrine. .

We have a new president now, and he does not know the men’s room from the women’s room and he won’t for 6 months.

Parable, maxim, a saying; to learn doctrine under discipline.

People fall apart during periods of prosperity. So, there is the time of David followed by Solomon, great periods of time in Israel’s history, and they ended up with a lousy king, because that is what they deserved.

Proverbs 1:1 The proverbs of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel:

Now the purpose of the Proverbs. Qal infinitive construct of yadah, which means to know.

Two words for doctrine: wisdom, which is chacma, which is doctrine in the frontal lobe. This is doctrine resident in the soul; it is equivalent to ἑπίγνωσις. The second words is mousar, which is the disciplined part of doctrine. Doctrine learned under academic discipline. This is the ability to sit down concentrating on what is being taught and to concentrate on the Word, and not to move a muscle and not to talk. Not looking around to see who is here or staring at your watch. As a result, inside the brain, the neurons print information. Narcotics and marijuana wipe out your printing material in your brain.

There was one person who wiped out his brain with acid, and he could not get anything out of Bible class.

the second line is to distinguish, to discern, to understand. The Hiphil stem means to cause someone to learn, to teach. You have the congregation learning doctrine in the first line and the second line is the teaching of the pastor. There are those in other cities which are also in the congregation.

Proverbs 1:2 To know wisdom and instruction; To discern [to cause to understand, to teach] the words of understanding [a doctrinal vocabulary];

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Solomon never allowed his father’s greatness to tie him up in knots or to enter into competition with him, etc.

This is a digression from Romans, which is all about adjustment to the justice of God.

Proverbs 1:1 The proverbs of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel:

Proverbs 1:2 To know wisdom and instruction; To discern [to cause to understand, to teach] the words of understanding [a doctrinal vocabulary];

Motivation, mental attitude, desire to grasp mentally every portion of the Word of God. There is much more going on here than simply the word receive.

Doctrine assimilated the hard way. Laqaq is doctrine from self-discipline and self-sacrifice. With this is mousar, which also indicates discipline.

There are many kinds of prosperity which are involved here. This is sharing the happiness of God. Social prosperity, material prosperity, vocational prosperity, family prosperity. These are all designed for us in eternity past, tailor-made for us. We may not even know that we wanted these blessings.

Tsedeq means justice as the characteristic of a judge, the justice of a judge. All justice in the essence of God. Love is a motivating factor, but God’s love is not the basis for our salvation.

You have to bribe horses dramatically to keep from being kicked. Love does not bless you. If Bob every got a card like, “May the love of God bless you...” we’d find you a new church. The sovereignty of God makes any smart human being tremble, but it is not the source of any blessing. The omniscience of God can out think us, but this is not the source of our blessings. The power of God cannot anything for us unless it goes through the justice of God. Whether we receive from God blessing or cursing, it has to come through His justice. There is a whole realm of fundies today talking about how good they are. You will never be perfect, but we can have honor and integrity as royal family of God. Justice is fairness and even between men, justice is important. Justice means fairness. People who have those under their control, the one thing necessary is fairness and justice, in all organizations. You must be fair to everyone in the organization. Whether you like them or not, you are fair to them. You cannot simply like some people and treat them better. That is not justice. Justice is the key to human relationships.

Salvation is easy to us; it was not easy to God. Justice had to be satisfied.

Mel Brooks and Nicolson and Thieme in the backfield?

Mishpat is the other word, which is translated justice. There is no middle ground for believers; we will be blessed or we will be cursed. Mêshar is the 3^rd word, which means integrity, honor. When we adjust to the justice of God in time,

Proverbs 1:3 To receive [doctrinal] instruction in wise dealing [of the prosperity], In righteousness, justice, and equity;

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We are in the doctrine of the adjustment to the justice of God.

The love of God expresses motivation, but not function. Only justice is our point of contract.

Isa. 30:18 And so Jehovah waits to be gracious to you. And therefore He is exalted, that He may have mercy on you. For Jehovah is a God of judgment; blessed are all those who wait for Him.

There is no maturity adjustment to the justice of God apart from

10.     Adjustment and maladjustment portrayed. This doctrine will be revised after going through 5 of 6 chapters of Romans.

Eccles. 9:15 This wisdom I have seen also under the sun, and it seemed great to me.

Doctrine under the sun was good to him.

Then we have an illustration from the ancient world. A powerful king besieges a small city.

Eccles. 9:14 There was a little city, and few men in it; and a great king came against it and besieged it, and built huge bulwarks against it.

However, what is found in the city is grace oriented believer with wisdom. Here was a man who had cracked the maturity barrier in this one small town. A poor man of doctrine. He made the mature adjustment to the justice of God.

He delivered the city by his wisdom. However, no one remembers him. The doctrine of one man delivered the city. One mature believer delivers a city from a hopeless military situation. He was forgotten completely; he was the source of deliverance for the city by doctrine in his soul. He was the hero of the hour and then forgotten immediately. God did not forget him. Bob had an assistant pastor who said his doctrine changed his life, and then he cut Bob to ribbons. One man was adjustment to the justice of God; and in the end, they demonstrated their injustice. Solomon learned that only doctrine works.

Eccles. 9:15 And a poor wise man was found in it, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that poor man.

Solomon draws some conclusions. Doctrine sets you up in a relationship with the justice of God. Here is a man with doctrine and the basis of the deliverance of this city. Those in the city lived because of blessing by association.

Solomon concludes that doctrine is better than power and influence. The communication of doctrine from this person is not listened to. The mature believer was the basis for their deliverance and he is ignored.

Some of us associate with those who are negative toward doctrine.

Eccles. 9:16 And I said, Wisdom is better than strength; but the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.

The wise is the mature believer who has adjustment to the justice of God. This is one who has studied and has become wise.

The shouting of a ruler among fools describes pretty much every president that we have had in the past 50 years.

Eccles. 9:17 The words of the wise are heard in quiet more than the cry of him who rules among fools.

Doctrine is better than weapons of war. Weapons of war are necessary but inferior to Bible doctrine. There are tremendous advances in Soviet arms. What do we have to put up against them? We have just one thing. We have a country of fools. We back away and kowtow to Ruskie communism and chink communism. Osha looks to rob us more than criminals. There is one thing that is greater than weapons of war.

Eccles. 9:18 Wisdom is better than weapons of war; but one sinner [reversionist] destroys much good.

Fermentation of the perfume oil. This is a little corruption.

Eccles. 10:1 As dead flies cause the perfumer's ointment to stink and ferment; so a little folly [evil] is more rare than wisdom and than honor.

Left hand is mal-adjustment to the justice of God.

Eccles. 10:2 A man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left.

Walking along a road is normal life. His right lobe lacks doctrine. Poise pacifies those who have gone astray.

Eccles. 10:3 Yes also, in the way a fool walks, his heart fails; and he says to all that he is a fool.

Eccles. 10:4 If the spirit of the ruler rises up against you, do not leave your place; for yielding quiets great sinners.

Solomon now speaks of his own mistakes and being under the influence of evil.

Eccles. 10:5 There is an evil I have seen under the sun, like a sin which comes from a ruler's presence;

Folly is what he suffered from. Evil foolishness is set in exalted places. Many rules who are making the policies of the world and developing evil foolishness. Many times there are terrible situations because the idiots are making the policies.

Eccles. 10:6 foolishness is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place.

The welfare state is always a flop. “I have seen slaves riding on horses” which is a person who ought not to living out of his place. This is malanaderms riding around in caddies.

Eccles. 10:7 I have seen servants on horses and princes walking as servants on the earth.

Nosey and gossipy people often get themselves into trouble. Conspiratorial, gossiping vindictive people. Digging through a wall is breaking through someone’s business, and you will get bit. That is discipline from God. The pit and the snake represent divine justice from the justice of God.

Eccles. 10:8 He who digs a pit shall fall into it; and whoever breaks a hedge, a snake shall bite him.

The arrogance and the inadequate who want to construct a conspiracy against someone else. If you are cutting a stone out of a quarrey and it is above you, it can fall on your head. This is a real busy body.

Eccles. 10:9 Whoever removes stones shall be hurt with them. He who splits wood shall be endangered by it.

Another analogy. The ax is dull and he does not sharpen it; then he must exert more strength. Doctrine has the advantage of giving success.

Eccles. 10:10 If the iron is blunt, and he does not whet the edge, then he must put more strength to it. But wisdom is profitable to direct.

If the poisonous snake strikes before being charmed, there is no profit to the charmer. This is analogous to a conspiracy backfiring.

You cannot remove the fangs.

Eccles. 10:11 Surely the snake will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better.

Words from a doctrinal person are gracious; but a fool will open his mouth and cause all kinds of problems and he swallows himself and he is gone. Another way of saying, he put his foot in his mouth.

Eccles. 10:12 The words of a wise mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow him.

There is reversionism and folly and the end of his talking is evil and madness. When they use their tongue like a weapon, they are in a state of madness.

This ends the study of the adjustment to the justice of God.

Eccles. 10:13 The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness; and the end of his talk is wicked madness.

The rest of Eccles. 10 not covered.

Eccles. 10:14 A fool also makes many words; a man knows not what they shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?

Eccles. 10:15 The labor of fools wearies him, because he does not know how to go to the city.

Eccles. 10:16 Woe to you, O land, when your king is a child and your leaders eat in the morning.

Eccles. 10:17 Blessed are you, O land, when your king is the son of nobles, and your leaders eat in due time, for strength, and not for drunkenness!

Eccles. 10:18 By slothfulness the building decays; and through lowering of the hands the house leaks.

Eccles. 10:19 Bread is made for laughter, and wine makes merry; but silver answers all things.

Eccles. 10:20 Do not curse a king, no, not in your thought; and do not curse the rich in your bedroom; for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which has wings shall tell the matter.

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Adjustment to the justice of God was covered as related to v. 3. Salvation adjustment to the justice of God is an instant adjustment to the justice of God. The second is rebound where we cite the sins that we have committed. The one in view here is cracking the maturity barrier. Supergrace A and B is the secondary place of blessing; in ultra super grace, we please and glorify Jesus Christ.

Maladjustment to the justice of God is rejecting salvation, rejecting rebound, rejecting spiritual growth. Eccles. 9:13–10:13 chronicles the recovery of Solomon.

Bob goes back to the passage.

Eccles. 9:13–18 This wisdom I have seen also under the sun, and it seemed great to me. There was a little city, and few men in it; and a great king came against it and besieged it, and built huge bulwarks against it. And a poor wise man was found in it, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that poor man. And I said, Wisdom is better than strength; but the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard. The words of the wise are heard in quiet more than the cry of him who rules among fools. Wisdom is better than weapons of war; but one sinner destroys much good.

The doctrines of the wise communicator are heard in academic discipline (in quietness) rather than the shouting of rulers among fools.

Eccles. 10:1–13 As dead flies cause the perfumer's ointment to stink and ferment; so a little folly is more rare than wisdom and than honor. A man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left. Yes also, in the way a fool walks [even in normal life], his heart fails; and he says to all that he is a fool. If the spirit of the ruler rises up against you, do not leave your place; for yielding quiets great sinners [poise pacifies those who have gone astray]. There is an evil I have seen under the sun, like a sin which comes from a ruler's presence; foolishness is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place [the people who are qualified to run things are in low places; those who are fools are in charge]. I have seen servants on horses and princes walking as servants on the earth [result of the welfare state]. He who digs a pit shall fall into it; and whoever breaks a hedge [intruding on someone’s privacy], a snake shall bite him. Whoever removes stones shall be hurt with them. He who splits wood shall be endangered by it. If the iron is blunt [the ax is dull; no doctrine during a crisis], and he does not whet the edge, then he must put more strength to it. But wisdom is profitable to direct. Surely the snake will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better. The words of a wise mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow him. The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness; and the end of his talk is wicked madness [evil insanity].

If you do not have doctrine, then no matter what sort of a thing you have set up, it will not deliver you out of a crisis.

The justice of God is the source of all blessing and cursing for the believer. Whichever way it goes, God loves you. God loves you when you adjust to the justice of God. God loves you is your are maladjusted to His justice. Whom the Lord loves, He chastens and skins alive with a whip.

Bible doctrine is preparing us fall all things.

Prov. 1:1–3 The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel; to know wisdom and instruction; to recognize the words of understanding; to receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and uprightness;

It is justice or judgment, but always with integrity. The simple is used later for a female reversionist. It means to be easily enticed; it means to be silly, stupid, foolish. It means to be led away or astray. This is a person who is led away from doctrine and will not even admit that he is a believer, because he is ashamed of his faith and of Jesus Christ.

What is given to them is arma. We all have attractive friends; they kept us out of Bible class and they enthralled us with their gossip and personality; and they have no inner resources, no honor, no integrity and no faithfulness.

The idea is to take someone who is in...to apply doctrine to experience. The young man here is between say, 18 and 30, which is the great era of distraction. Such a person has a greater time to offer up excuses to skip Bible class.

Common sense from doctrine; the ability to take any situation in life, no matter how adverse or prosperous and to maintain perfect stability within it. Having maximum doctrine in the soul means one can function properly in life.

Proverbs 1:4 To give prudence [prudence, sagacity; ability to regulate oneself based upon doctrine] to the simple, Knowledge and discretion [common sense] to the young man:

This book is to help people adjust to the justice of God in time. If we are alive, God has a purpose for our lives. Proverbs is a book of spiritual momentum. The great word is Christian spizzerinctum. You understand all kinds of people and you treat them well and you enjoy people; you have capacity for life and you can even enjoy the Christmas holidays.

These pithy poems are to learn wisdom and doctrine and to learn the vocabulary of doctrine.

This means we are ready to launch into some proverbs. Up until now, we have simply been dealing with the lengthy introduction.

There must be a very important reason for learning doctrine.

Vv. 5–6 is the next poem. Listening means you actually listen to them. We have all discussed topics with people and they spend all your talking time forming arguments in their own head; their rebuttal to whatever you are saying.

You listen to the content and obey. This is the concept of right pastor and right congregation. This is officer to enlisted man. There is always a system of authority in everything in life. There is always this concept of authority. Hearing is what it takes to get doctrine into the soul. You learn the principles of academic discipline, and you do not look around to watch others.

Bob teaches a little manners. That is violating the principle of shama. You do not learn by looking around. The example of the guy at Berachah who opened up his briefcase and threw up into it.

People say that IQ’s are fixed, and that is erroneous. Bob recalls a classic lady from St. Louis, a 4^th grade dropout. She developed a vocabulary and found that that she had the most phenomenal mentality and quickness of mind. When your vocabulary is limited, your thinking is also limited. With these words you think and categorize. No one is born smart. A baby with a potentially high IQ and if they are limited to a few words, they will never advance. You must have words with which to think.

When boxers can be draft dodgers and still make money, Bob got tired of boxing. Now Bob is talking about a quarterback and Jim Otus? There is something wrong when people do not have enough of a vocabulary to think with. A wise believer with multiply doctrine.

The illustration of eating fish with bones. If you don’t understand it, you set it aside like the bones of a fish. The only way to get to the high ground; the only way to adjustment to the justice of God. They all go together. You do not grow spiritually by witnessing or praying or by doing great things for God. None of these things can even get close to blessing. God must maintain His integrity. We need one thing for growth: spiritual food, which is Bible doctrine. Spiritual food goes to the soul, through the ear.

Doctrine is something that you receive. No matter what your IQ is, all you need is the filling of the Holy Spirit and the resultant concentration, and the persistence, and eventually you will break through.

The art of leadership is the art of common sense.

Proverbs 1:5 That the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; That the man of understanding may attain [get, acquire] to sound counsel [common sense for leadership]:

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Bob describes what it is like for Halloween back then. They would carry a handful of flower, ring the bell, and throw it on the one who answers the door. This is movie night? Is Bob teaching Saturday night?

There has been a build up of 200 divisions along eastern Europe. They are well-equipped infantry; most paratroops divisions in the world. Military superiority and the best Navy, except for aircraft carriers. However, they have surface-to-surface missiles. They have a great defense system.

Russians do not know if we are as dumb as we seem to be, or playing dumb, like a fox. 15 divisions in NATO, 3 or 4 are first-rate. 200–270 Russian divisions. Dutch divisions in NATO are unionized. Russia needs an agreement with China in order to attack Europe. However, even without China and Russia, we are completely surrounded by communist nations.

We are antagonistic to anticommunist nations like Rhodesia and South Africa. Once you corner chromium, this ruins the U.S. military machine. Only found in Russia and Rhodesia. We have never stockpiled chrome. You have to have chrome for steel, and we have never even stockpiled it.

Adjustment to the justice of God is the basis of all that we are studying. God’s righteousness and His soverignty and His eternal life are not sources of our blessings. The secondary zone of blessing is supergrace a and supergrace b, which is no man’s land. Then we ove into the ultimate, which is ultra super grace. We free in maturity the justice of God.

A believer under intensive discipline is used by God to ambush other believers.

Prov. 1:1–3 The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel; to know wisdom and instruction; to recognize the words of understanding; to receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and uprightness;

Proverbs 1:4 To give prudence [prudence, sagacity; ability to regulate oneself based upon doctrine] to the simple, Knowledge and discretion [common sense] to the young man:

Proverbs 1:5 That the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; That the man of understanding may attain [get, acquire] to sound counsel [common sense for leadership]:

Some were posted at Fort Benning, but never attended the Fx there.

Bob has been introduced to a book as to how we should have fought in Vietnam. The Devil’s Guard.

An aphorism is a concise statement of doctrine.

Doctrine without understanding doctrine is an enigma.

Proverbs 1:6 To understand [teach] a proverb, and parables [aphorism], The words and riddles of the wise [wise teachers].

We can endure a lot of things; we can respect a lot of things, but without spiritual growth, we do not...

The authority of Bible doctrine.

As people become more emotional, they tend to get more interested in love. However, the key to love is respect. You have no respect for anyone unless you actually know them. You cannot learn doctrine by just saying, “I respect doctrine.” God always uses communicators.

Pastors study on how to be nice to people. You must learn to respect the authority of your pastor. You will listen to a D.I. A pastor ought to never try to make people feel sorry for him. There is not instant respect for the Lord. You need to be taught to respect God.

You cannot go to your Bible or books and determine how to learn how to be a good Christian. The acceptance or rejection of Bible doctrine as taught by a pastor-teacher.

Proverbs 1:7 The fear [awe or respect] of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; But the foolish despise wisdom [applied doctrine] and instruction [discipline, teaching with authority].

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Christmas eve.

A group of men, the continental army, which included Alexander Hamilton and James Monroe and George Washington. These men did not have uniforms. There were about 2400 of them and they had wrapped rags on their feet; they had not shoes. A person was mysteriously captured and released. Washington had the greatest spy operation of the war. 2000 Hessions were across the Delaware? river. Washington was waiting on the wagons, and they never showed up. The supplies get into the wrong hands. We supplied 2 armies and the Vietcong today is the 4^th largest army in the world, and we turned over the largest armed cache in all of military history, and this was done without any struggle. The entire wagon train was captured by the British. The men were not so much hungry as they were cold, even though they had not eaten for days. On this same night, some boats were gotten. There was a day delay hoping for the wagons to show. Many men went without ammunition. They had bayonets. They crossed the Delaware River and there was a fog and a mist. 9 miles north of Trenton, they came across unseen. They marched 9 miles in the direction of Trenton.

No one has figured out Abraham Hunt. He was the postmaster of NJ and he was on friendly terms with both Americans and the British. His house was untouched, whether there were Americans or Brits. 15 years later, he was still the most popular resident in Trenton. A servant came in and handed him a note, and he put it into his pocket. It said that Washington was coming across the river. There was blood in the snow, Americans walking in the snow. 2 men froze to death. He did not read this message until he was nearly ready to die?

1000 Hessions were killed? Washington then moved around the flank and hit Princeton, and the Brits moved out of NJ and back into NY. This turned the direction of the war.

Bob tore out a few pages of the Saturday Evening Post written by a Chaplain in the U.S. army. He could speak excellent German and he was assigned to the Nazi chiefs during the war trials. “I walk with the Nazi chiefs” and he was able to lead one to the Lord before they died. Others were already Christians. He tells about their last Christmas Eve. He went to each cell and invited all of the to his Christmas service. Some refused to go. He asked the chaplain, “Can a man be patriotic and still practice Christianity?” The chaplain read the Christmas story from Luke. One said, “We never took time to celebrate Christmas and to think of its meaning.” Someone said, “How can you preach the gospel without bringing in politics?” Another came who had never attended services regularly. Herman Goering came because he was bored. His daughter was a believer and begged him to believe in Jesus Christ by letter.

This describes how each went to his death. Bob reads this at Christmas time to get such a beautiful perspective.

There are so many distortions of Christmas.

167 b.c. around Christmas. The Jews were being enslaved by the Syrians? It was a great empire. It was ruled by Antiochus Epiphanies He put up an image of Zeus in the Temple and a statue in the Holy of Holies and pigs were offered as sacrifices. This horrified the Jews. It shocked them. The Jews protested, so Antiochuss gathered 10,000 Jewish children and offered them up with the pigs.

Matthias stepped up with a knife and did not sacrifice a pig but killed the king’s messenger. His sons defeated many of the great generals. 4 years of warfare, which the Jews won. They instituted Hanukkuh. They sang hymns and people roating in and out of the Temple, and they began Dec. 25 and kept going to Jan. 1^st. They celebrated being delivered in such a wonderful way.

The glory of the Lord shined about them. The gigantic tower and courtyard were filled with light. The angel said to them, “Do not fear. I bring you good news.”

All babies are wrapped in swaddling clothes, so that is not a great sign. He was wrapped in bandages, in grave bandages. These are grave clothes.

Then there was an honor parade; an angelic march by.

Luke 2:7–14 And she brought forth her son, the First-born, and wrapped Him, and laid Him in a manger-- because there was no room for them in the inn. And in the same country there were shepherds living in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And lo, the angel of the Lord came on them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them. And they were grievously afraid. And the angel said to them, Do not fear. For behold, I give to you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For to you is born today, in the city of David, a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. And this is a sign to you. You will find the babe wrapped, lying in a manger. And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host, praising God and saying, “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth prosperity in men with whom God is well pleased.”

This is where we want to be, where we please God.

Luke 2:15–18 And it happened as the angels departed from them into Heaven, the shepherds said to one another, Indeed, let us go to Bethlehem and see this thing which has happened, which the Lord made known to us. And hurrying they came and sought out both Mary and Joseph, and the babe lying in the manger. And seeing, they publicly told about the word spoken to them concerning this Child. And all those who heard marveled about the things spoken to them by the shepherds.

These shepherds lacked religiosity.

This is the Christmas story, in Luke, but it is not the whole story.

When the shepherds were gathering in the courtyard with their flocks on that cold night, in that abandoned courtyard. Not too far away was a large parade for Hanukkah.

John 10:22 Jesus is in Jerusalem celebrating this feast, and He gives the shepherd discourse. The doctrinal types went to Bethlehem. He was 33 years old when He uttered these words. The shepherds showed up. They had no religion. God could reveal information to them.

John 10:22–23 And the Feast of Dedication took place at Jerusalem, and it was winter. And Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon's Porch.

He gives the great shepherd discourage. “I know them and they know Me.”

This brings us back around to Proverbs 1:8

Proverbs 1:1–7 Proverbs {mashal} of Solomon, Son of David, King of Israel. To know {yada`} wisdom {chokmah} and doctrine/instruction {muwcar}. To teach/'cause to perceive' {biyn} the vocabulary {'emer} of doctrine {biynah}. To receive {Lâqach} the 'doctrinal instruction of wisdom' {muwcar sakal}. To give 'silly ones'/'the stupid' {reversionists} . . . sagacity/'something of value'. To give young man {na`ar} knowledge {of doctrine} {da`ath} and discretion/'common sense wisdom'/concentration. A wise one {chakam} will 'hear, listen, and obey' {shama`} and increase doctrine {leqach} And the one receiving understanding {of doctrine} {biyn} will 'acquire common sense for leadership'/ 'have principals on which to be successful'. {idiom: literally: 'will attain unto wise counsel'} To understand a proverb and its interpretation . . . the words/'doctrinal communications' {dabar} of the wise teachers and their 'spiritual discourses'/enigma's/'advanced doctrines' Respect {yir'ah} for Jehovah/God is the beginning of the knowledge {of doctrine} But 'stupid ones'/fools {'evil} despise {buwz} both 'application of doctrine' {chokmah} and 'training under discipline' {muwcar}.

These proverbs were able to bring Solomon to the throne with spiritual maturity.

Shama means to listen under authority; it means to listen with a system of discipline. A real tough basic system when a D.I. lays it on you.

Bobby was faithfully taught doctrine every day. He didn’t always like it, but he listened. He got doctrine in the home. This convinced Bob that ladies have natural ability in teaching. Do not forsake the doctrinal teaching of your mother. The mother of Solomon was Bathsheba, maligned by the Baptists. She is one of the 4 women mentioned in the genealogy of Jesus Christ. It is rare to mention any woman in a genealogy. These are great women. Bathsheba was a wonderful believer when David found her. She had a very famous grandfather, Ahithophel. He was a magnificent believer. He was the wisest counselor that David had. He was a man of great doctrine. Uriah the Hittite was his son-in-law.

David had to get Hushai to help him and to get him to foil the advice of Ahithophel. He did not have the army or anything. If Absalom listened to Ahithophel, the revolution would have succeeded. Hushai always gave the opposite advice.

Bathsheba taught all 4 of her sons by David. Solomon had the advantage of learning doctrine from his mother. A mother can do things with her son that no one else can do. He learns a tender love and regard for his mother. This makes the difference between a gentleman and a jackass. You learn authority with doctrine. Solomon learned from his father and his mother. The system of doctrinal teaching is ideal for teaching doctrine. If the kids enjoy teaching, the adults enjoy it as well. The result will be prosperity in the life.

Proverbs 1:8 My son, listen to your father's instruction, And don't forsake your mother's teaching [torah, which is doctrinal teaching]:

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Eccl. 12:1-14 Review of supergrace2 blessings and supergrace3 rewards

Proverbs 1:1–8 Proverbs {mashal} of Solomon, Son of David, King of Israel. To know {yada`} wisdom {chokmah} and doctrine/instruction {muwcar}. To teach/'cause to perceive' {biyn} the vocabulary {'emer} of doctrine {biynah}. To receive {Lâqach} the 'doctrinal instruction of wisdom' {muwcar sakal}. To give 'silly ones'/'the stupid' {reversionists} . . . sagacity/'something of value'. To give young man {na`ar} knowledge {of doctrine} {da`ath} and discretion/'common sense wisdom'/concentration. A wise one {chakam} will 'hear, listen, and obey' {shama`} and increase doctrine {leqach} And the one receiving understanding {of doctrine} {biyn} will 'acquire common sense for leadership'/ 'have principals on which to be successful'. {idiom: literally: 'will attain unto wise counsel'} To understand a proverb and its interpretation . . . the words/'doctrinal communications' {dabar} of the wise teachers and their 'spiritual discourses'/enigma's/'advanced doctrines' Respect {yir'ah} for Jehovah/God is the beginning of the knowledge {of doctrine} But 'stupid ones'/fools {'evil} despise {buwz} both 'application of doctrine' {chokmah} and 'training under discipline' {muwcar}. My son, listen to your father's instruction, And don't forsake your mother's teaching [torah, which is doctrinal teaching]:

In most ancient armies, such a wreath is a sign of prominence or reward or prosperity. It was the concept of reward, blessing, or prosperity. All blessing from God comes through His blessing. It all begins at the cross, where all of our sins were poured out upon Him and judged.

In the secondary zone we also please God as well as glorify Him. This is the grace reward for adjustment to the justice of God. Spiritual blessings, temporal blessing, blessing by association, historical impact, dying blessings. We must crack the maturity barrier in order to free God’s justice to bless us. No one can love God or love Jesus Christ until they make the maximum adjustment to the justice of God.

If we don’t go to war with the communists, then we will be blackmailed by the communists.

Freedom from slavery to the circumstances of life. For some of you, you will see this as a very unpleasant circumstance. Success includes recognition or promotion in one sphere of life. Cultural prosperity, establishment prosperity, professional prosperity,

those in the periphery of the supergrace believer are blessed by their association, and this can include many activities. One mature believer can turn around an entire business. One mature believer in a country can deliver a nation under certain conditions. There is a professional periphery. A mature believer in a school can turn around a school. One mature believer in a police force or in a military organization, or a buck private in the worst organization in the world can turn it around. You can turn around your whole bowling league. Mission boards, deacon boards. Hospitals. No congregation can exceed the growth of the pastor. The ebb and flow of history does not effect a nation preserved by a mature believer. Some like David and Abraham affect every generation of history.

Ultra super grace like Jeremiah, Paul, Isaiah, David were great in every generation. Dying blessing. Only 2 ways for the believer to die.

First phrase is blessing related to decorations. The wreath is not received in tie, but in eternity. Surpassing grace is reward and blessing above and beyond. Surpassing grace is the maximum blessing in time and eternity. It comes from taking in doctrine daily. If you receive these decorations and the blessings which go with them. Every believer receive his efficiency rating. All judgment is given to the Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is God. As sovereignty, He reserves the right to judge each one of us. In love, He is still going to be fair. Love must be related to justice. Omniscience means that He knows all of the facts about any one of us. He cannot change or go soft or be emotional about any one of us. There is reward or loss of reward. This is all about this tremendous thing which will happen in the future.

Proverbs 1:9 For they [doctrines] will be a garland to grace [a wreath of grace about] your head, And chains around your neck.

1Cor. 9:24–27 Do you not know that those running in a race all run, but one receives the prize? So run, that you may obtain. And everyone who strives for the mastery is temperate in all things. Then those truly that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible. So then I run, not as if I were uncertain. And so I fight, not as one who beats the air. But I buffet my body, and lead it captive, lest proclaiming to others I myself might be rejected.

You may have spent an entire lifetime doing good deeds and being nice; but all of this human good is going to be burned. You will not be decorated. You do not hustle for God, but it is a matter of Bible doctrine.

All believers have an objective. We are to take in doctrine daily and not to give up. The adjustment to the justice of God in the highest area; we run with an objective. Doctrine is a matter of kill or be killed. There is no equality in eternity. Everyone has a resurrection body and we all have eternal life and perfect righteousness; but after that it is all inequality.

Bob gives his congregation a boxing lesson.

The alpha cross is I have completed the course; I have guarded the doctrine resident in my soul. In the future, a crown of adjustment to the justice of God is reserved for me, which the Lord will award me in that day.

Do not fear the things that you are about to be tested; you will be tested for 10 days, and I will give you the crown of life. This is for great testing.

the oak leaf cluster for the pastor-teacher who gets to maturity and leads his congregation there as well.

Paul speaks of his happiness and his victory crown. In this way, keep on be stabilized by the Lord. 1Thess. 2:19 who is our confidence or our crown? Is it not you? You are our glory and our happiness.

1Peter 5:4 receiving the unfading crown of glory.

1429 the order of the golden fleece. This was the suspending of a high decoration around the neck.

Proverbs 1:9 For they will be a garland to grace your head, And chains [a neck decoration signifying great reward] around your neck.

Solomon began his rulership as an ultra super grace believer. All the way to the building of the Temple, Solomon maintained his maturity. The believer who has no pleasure in his life is the believer who lacks Bible doctrine.

Eccles. 12:1 Remember now your Creator in the days of your youth, while the evil days [days of adversity] do not come, nor the years draw near, when you shall say, I have no pleasure in them.

These are the days of adversity.

Eccles. 12:2 So long as the sun [logistical grace], or the light [doctrine], or the moon [rw], or the stars [these are all blessings from God], are darkened, or the clouds return after rain [rain is the blessing of a nation],

Now we are looking at the age of a woman.

Eccles. 12:3 in the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble [the hands tremble], and the strong men [legs] are bowed, and the grinders [teeth] cease because there are few, and those who look out of the windows [the eyes] are darkened,

Eccles. 12:4 and the doors shall be shut in the streets [reduced social life], when the sound of the grinding is low [indigestion], and you shall rise up at the voice of a bird [insomnia], and all the daughters of music are silenced [deafness];

Eccles. 12:5 also they are afraid of the high place [altiphobia], and terrors along the way, and the almond tree shall blossom [no capacity for life], and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goes to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets [they anticipate your death or you have died];

Eccles. 12:6 or ever the silver cord is not loosed, or the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is broken at the fountain [cardio vascular system], or the wheel broken at the cistern [mechanic failure of the heart];

Eccles. 12:7 then the dust shall return to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall return to God who gave it.

What happens when you get to old age without doctrine.

Eccles. 12:8 Vanity of vanities, says the preacher; all is vanity.

The man with the message had doctrine at one time; and he taught doctrine to the people. Proverbs is such a pithy book. He went through the mill. Ultra super grace believer, fell back, and he developed some common sense doctrines for all of us.

Eccles. 12:9 And more than that, the preacher was wise; he still taught the people knowledge. Yes, he listened, and looked, and set in order many proverbs.

A description of proverbs

Eccles. 12:10 The preacher sought to find out pleasing words; and words of truth written by the upright.

Stabilized.

Eccles. 12:11 The words of the wise are like goads; yes, their collected words are like nails driven home; they are given from one Shepherd.

There is no end to the making of many books. Much study wears out the flesh; this is the study of human viewpoint. Too much wearies the flesh.

Eccles. 12:12 And further, by these, my son, be warned: The making of many books has no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh.

This is the complete man.

Eccles. 12:13 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter. Fear God, and keep His commandments. For this is the whole duty of man.

God will bring all things to judgment. These will be human good and divine good. All those things that are hidden, good or evil.

Eccles. 12:14 For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it is good, or whether evil.

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An unusual judge named Milet; and Bob reads his citation.

The great problem of crime today is drug addiction. Many people get into crime to support their drug addiction. They tend to get involved in muggings, robberies, etc. Permissive standards which permitted so many to get involved in drug addiction. 2 young people from Berachah got involved in drugs and they are walking imbeciles. Drugs destroy the mind and they leave a vegetable behind.

Liberals are soft on crime just as they are soft on communism. Anyone who is a professional police officer has a tremendously difficult job today. Congress is always passing laws for the 1%, for the idiots; children who open up medicine cases.

There was a time when every crime figure who came to Houston was met by a law enforcement official and put right back on the plane and sent back.

My son, is David speaking to Solomon. David has seen the serious repercussions of not handling crime properly. The rape of Tamar and then a killing followed this rape.

Solomon could have easily been attracted to crime because he had ways to beat the repercussions of it.

There are those who will be offered this or that when it comes to crime and dishonesty. You need doctrine so that you are incorruptible. The believer must be constantly alert to the seduction of crime.

Proverbs 1:10 My son, if sinners [a reference to crime rather than to other types of sinning] entice [seek to seduce] you, don't consent [do not be willing].

They first win you as a friend; there is this pleasing personality, attractive personality; they win you as a friend first, and then lead you into crime.

People with pleasing personalities often use violence to solve their problems. They suggest to us that violence is the solution to all problems. The philosophy of violence as well. They use violence to get what they want. When they make a rapid advance through Prussia and they decided to let 5 or 6 divisions in there to rape the women as a reward for the boys. Melanoderms are impressed by violence. Communists threaten us with violence; and that is the only thing that they understand. Greater violence.

They laugh at Kissinger. All this palaver means nothing to them.

Proverbs 1:11 If they say, "Come with us, Let's lay in wait for blood; Let's lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;

Many things that you swallow you also destroy. There was a moccasin that Balderdash and his son are eating. Elkhounds have to have big strong teeth. Pillar which holds up a porch; he eats these things. They destroy these things.

They are claiming ability here to murder without leaving a clue. This is the thinking of the criminal mind.

A cistern is used as an ancient jail, if the cistern is dry. The only way to defeat a criminal is to beat violence with superior violence.

Proverbs 1:12 Let's swallow them up alive like Sheol, And whole, like those who go down into the pit [cistern].

They plan to rob an entire family and to take all that they have. They will throw the people into a cistern.

Proverbs 1:13 We'll find all valuable wealth. We'll fill our houses with spoil.

Final verse; we will acquire all kinds of additional wealth. If you join up with us, we will have one purse. Join us and we will share. Throw in your lot with us; join the gang.

There is always some dishonest cop somewhere who wants to entice others into crime.

Proverbs 1:14 You shall cast your lot among us. We'll all have one purse."

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Proverbs 1:1–14 The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel; to know wisdom and instruction; to recognize the words of understanding; to receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and uprightness; to give sense to the simple, knowledge and judgment to the young man; the wise hears and increases learning; and understanding ones get wisdom; to understand a proverb and its meaning; the words of the wise, and their acute sayings. The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge; but fools despise wisdom and instruction. My son, hear the instruction of your father, and forsake not the law of your mother; for they shall be an ornament of grace to your head and chains around your neck. My son, if sinners lure you, do not be willing. If they say, Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, we will watch secretly for the innocent without cause; let us swallow them up alive as the grave, and whole, as those who go down into the pit; we shall find all precious goods; we shall fill our houses with plunder; cast in your lot among us, and let us have one purse.

Whenever you decide that you are going to go with doctrine, you are going to be challenged. The next two verses will deal with the distraction of evil. Criminal reversionism and all sorts of evil. We are looking at Solomon’s notes here from his father’s teaching. Qal imperfect + negative + yalak, which means to walk, to march, to move in a specific direction. This is discouraging association with specific people because eventually, you take up their values and ideas. Associate with people negative toward doctrine, that will be your way of life as well.

Whoever distracts you from doctrine is the wrong crowd; and they will be attractive to you. It is no contest if the wrong crowd is unattractive. Warning discipline, intensive discipline and dying discipline. Just follow your nose. We all face decisions, and these decisions can make or break us. Break step and get out of there. Obviously, there is no temptation if the fast crowd is unattractive.

Proverbs 1:15 My son, don't walk in the way [modus operandi, modus vivendi] with them. Keep your foot from their path,

They run quickly to do evil. They are emotional about it. Whenever you are attracted to someone and some group, you are emotionally involved. All legitimate temptations in this field have a real emotional tug. The first issue is attraction and the second is the principle of evil.

The arrogant and the inadequate is an emotional attraction and a principle of attraction. One man’s temptation is not another’s temptation. We all have different areas of weakness.

The arrogant is always the initiator; the inadequate is always the responder. This can be 2 males, 2 females, or a male and a female; this is a category #3 attraction. This is based upon emotion and reversionism. The arrogant is the strong personality, the inadequate is the weak personality. They are attracted to a similar antagonism. When they get together, they run down their mutual dislike. They find someone who offends them both. One is aggressive and arrogant; and one is jealous, petty and inadequate. It is a compliment when some people do not like you. That is a good thing at times.

Sometimes you start up a mutual admiration society, and you turn on your spouse.

About 95% of legislation has been evil over the past 100 years. When you use legislation to invade privacy and to destroy freedom, you are in for a very serious time.

Love does not think evil. The filling of the Spirit and doctrine in the soul do not think evil. Sincere do-goobers practice evil every day. EPA and OSHA are evil. Syndicated crime and unions are evil. The answer is doctrine. You cannot fight evil using evil; they will just join in together and form more evil.

You cannot solve things with personal violence. The last time Bob almost got out of the car to hit someone, Bobby stopped him. At some time, each one of us will get on a crusade; we will go out to change the world. Crusades are a distraction to taking in doctrine.

Integrity means that you cannot be bought; you cannot be bribed. Integrity is the root of all evils. Every form of evil has a price; you can be bribed. If you are influenced by evil, you will not adjustment to the justice of God. Beloved, do not be imitators of the evil. Be imitators of the absolute good. The one doing the evil is not seen of God.

Evil comes in many forms; attempts to abolish the problems of the world apart from doctrine and establishment; it includes social security and the welfare state; the government policy of curtailing the military; the catering to minorities, all systems of Christian function outside of the local church,

Proverbs 1:16 For their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood.

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Bob talks about a missionary in Africa was forced out for various things. We are probably at the worst period of missionary groups today. Doctrine is not there; they are corrupted by legalism, reversionism, etc. Bart had problems because he stayed close to the Word. Bob challenged him to form a mission board as a haven for those who are grace oriented. So He formed grace operations. Bart Browning (his talk is edited out).

Maybe if you take him out and get a margarita in him or something, he might even tell you what some of these mission boards have done to him. He was told by a mission board to give up the tapes or give up the mission field. The things which are taught in Berachah have been taught by orthodox ministers in the past.

The justice of God must be free to bless us. As these sins were judged by the justice of God, the way of salvation was open, so that we could be instantly adjusted to the justice of God.

We enter supergrace A and supergrace B and eventually ultra super grace. We are in the secondary zone of blessing; and in ultra super grace, we are in the primary zone of blessing.

Here, we are studying the impediments to spiritual advance.

A person from Berachah went to the Philippines out of a denomination went there and found out just how phony it all was. He then checked out and joined the United States army. People will be kicked out of their missions because they are grace oriented, so this new mission board will become a haven for such missionaries.

There is blessing by association and there is cursing by association, which will be a topic of study. There are people coming into Berachah from the midwest or from the two coasts or from Australia. Those who have done this have avoided cursing by association.

Too many women with no authority over them. If you get involved with people like this, you will be cursed by your association with them.

1977 will be a year of disaster. The Russians have a tremendous buildup of their military. For the first time, the Soviet Union has assumed that they have the upper hand. SAC was one of the greatest deterrents of all time. He have given them all of te information that we need. Our country can take a missile and drop it on a dime.

You can associate with unbelievers even, if they adhere to the laws of divine establishment. However, you do not associate with vindictive believers. Once reversionism takes over, there is the terrible discipline and the monstrous things that happen to those associated with them.

When someone says no to the cross, to the justice of God can only provide condemnation; they are judged for their human good. There is no way out of the Lake of Fire. The justice of God is only free to give salvation to those who believe in Jesus Christ.

Temporal adjustment to the justice of God is the rebound technique. We name our sins and are forgiven in time and restored to fellowship. The real blessing comes with paragraph SG2 at spiritual maturity. The issue is doctrine. If we adjustment to the justice of God, then the justice of God is free to bless us. If we are maladjusted to the justice of God, then the justice of God is free to curse us.

Below is a bird with great power and great strength in flight. This is like a great hawk or a buzzard or an eagle. Someone here is out there trying to capture some of the great birds. They have a stake and bait and there is a net spread out over the top.

These are powerful birds, and they fly down, they see the bait, but they do not see the net. The bait is any distraction to Bible doctrine. Some of you may be sitting next to bait tonight or contemplating bait after Bible class. It is analogous to reversionism and evil; failure to adjust to the justice of God.

Every believer has the ability to become lord of the wings. You have this great power with great potentialities. You can soar high, but you get caught in the net when you see the bait and make a play for it. The bird which accepts the bait is trapped and destroyed. This destroys the potentiality of spiritual growth. Only doctrine can protect the great bird.

We can hope that the net is spread in vain for you. Satan knows how to distract us, and he will put these things in a net. One man’s meat is another man’s poison. We all have different areas of poison. We will all be attacked.

Are you prepared for the possibly disastrous things which may befall our country? If it were not for the Vietnam war, the Soviets could not catch up to us. Vietnam was a politicians war. Westmoreland said, “President Johnson said no outhouse will be bombed without our permission.” LBJ thought that the key to war is having politicians running it. The Russians were able to get our equipment and study it and build upon it. They would send in teams to acquire these things. So, it looks like this year is the year. We enter into every war without being prepared. We sacrifice our men in war. War equipment requires great free enterprise and manufacturing. Our industry potential has been destroyed. Some of us have been sheltered. There will be an influx of people and we don’t need to run around and build another building. Some are already moving in the direction of that bait.

This is the transitional verse in the chapter. Our attitude toward Bible doctrine as a believer is key here. If we are adjusted to the justice of God, then God is free to bless us, no matter what the historical climate can be.

Proverbs 1:17 For in vain is the net spread out in the sight of any bird [in the eyes of any lords of wings]:

Some of us have been trained for ambushes, or those in the armed forces have been involved in actual ambushes, on one side or the other. When you are maladjusted to the justice of God, then you will trap yourself. When you get into the arrogant and the inadequate relationship, you will be hurting yourself.

God’s justice is only able to manifest itself in discipline of us.

Proverbs 1:18 But these lay wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives.

1976 Proverbs                            Proverbs 1:18b–21                                     585_0013

When communists go to war, they use everyone...children, grandparents. Even women and children were holding guns and involved. In one place, a medic, clearly wearing a medic and he was saving a small girl, and he was cut down by Vietcong who could see who he was, what he was doing, and they killed both him and the child.

A granny who used a grenade, even though she had been essentially ignored. 2 weeks after this, there were photographs of these that showed up in Communist papers, including a photograph of the grandmother.

A group of terrorists were grabbed up, 16 and younger, all with weapons and all well-versed with communist ideology. He spared their lives and gave them a wacking of a lifetime. They became wimpering children. Beaten and stripped until they could take no more.

Other snipers, who were women and children, were killed and portrayed by communists as innocents. However, all people in a communist locale, all must fight.

The majority of all booby traps were made by noncombatants and set by noncombatants. 2000 French lives lost to these.

More examples of children and women being used to kill and or attack soldiers. You have to be on the spot to actually understand this. European and American women have no concept of how Asian women and children are used in war.

FDR actually greenlighted some communist propaganda about German brutality.

I am not sure where this article came from or who wrote it. We live a relatively sheltered life in Houston, but it is not like that out in the rest of the world.

Proverbs 1:1–1 7 The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel; to know wisdom and instruction; to recognize the words of understanding; to receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and uprightness; to give sense to the silly ones, knowledge and judgment to the young man; the wise believer hears and increases learning; and understanding ones get wisdom; to understand a proverb and its meaning; the words of the wise teachers, and their acute sayings. The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge; but fools despise wisdom and instruction [doctrine and discipline]. My son, hear the instruction of your father, and forsake not the law of your mother; for they shall be an wreath of grace to your head and chains around your neck. My son, if sinners [criminals] lure you, do not be willing. If they say, Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, we will watch secretly for the innocent without cause; let us swallow them up alive as the grave, and whole, as those who go down into the pit; we shall find all precious goods; we shall fill our houses with plunder; cast in your lot among us, and let us have one purse. My son, don't walk in the way [modus operandi, modus vivendi] with them. Withdraw your foot from their path, For their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood. For in vain is the net spread out in the sight of any bird [in the eyes of any lords of wings]:

category #1 adjustment to the justice of God; all of out contact with God is through His justice. Our sins were poured out on Him and the justice of God judged those sins. We make an instant adjustment when we believe in Him. The justice of God is the integrity of God insofar as the human race is concerned. The justice of God must be free to bless us. Our sins are blessed when we approach the cross, including absolute righteousness and eternal life.

Category #2 adjustment to the justice of God. We get out of fellowship by sin or sins. These sins were judged on the cross by the justice of God. All of our sins were judged. The Bible says, “If we name our sins, He is just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” You can have a great big smile on your face and name your sin to God. You can be maladjusted by not naming your sins; or by adding something to the naming of your sins. You cannot earn forgiveness.

Goofy idea that once you find out that your unknown sins are, then you must confess them as well. Do not promise God anything. You make decisions on a daily basis.

Category #2 adjustment is rebound.

4^th major point is category #3 maladjustment. The rejection of Bible doctrine. This is to fail to attain diskaiosunê. This refers to the thinking of the judge. The rest of this will deal with this subject and pick this up in the future.

Apparently we will not cover the rest of v. 18?

Proverbs 1:18 But these lay wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives.

To acquire unjust gain. The arrogant and the inadequate.

The life or the soul of the owner is taken away.

Proverbs 1:19 So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain. It takes away the life of its owners.

This begins a new paragraph for the rest of the chapter, with is doctrine and maladjustment to the justice of God. Cachma, which is ἑπίγνωσις.

Doctrine shouts out in the open door auditorium. You have to should to be heard by anyone. Doctrine shouts out from an open auditorium. The speaker was rarely seen in such set ups. In an amphitheater, the speaker could be seen. They were designed for that. Even in England in the 18^th century this was the case. There are a couple of open seats in Berachah right now.

Bible doctrine is always available. If you are positive, then God will provide. There is always the self-discipline which is required. Some only want to hear prophecy others RM/RW all day long.

She is doctrine here. Nathan is here. It is the voice, and the issue is the content. The content of doctrine is in the voice. Doctrine utters her voice in the forum. That is the place where people assemble. That is where all of the shops are in the ancient world. Rome had one of the most famous forums in history. The Agoura of Athens. Doctrine shouts in the open air auditorium; she gives her voice...

God makes it possible for us to adjust to His justice. There is justification by maturity. Works in james is the result of maturity.

Proverbs 1:20 Wisdom calls aloud in the street. She utters her voice in the public squares.

She calls out over the head of great confusion, which means, where there are crowds. There is a noisy crowd gathered somewhere. There are places where doctrine is taught. There are people who meet around a tape recorder; and there are people who hear Bob right now. Doctrine can be learned in a small group or in a large group. Doctrine shouts out in places of a great crowd.

There is discipline in a crowd, so doctrine can be heard. Without it, there is no discipline.

There are several places where people are, so several places where doctrine can be taught. She shouts in the places of greatest gatherings. She communicates her doctrines at the openings of the gates in the cities. City gates were generally very massive affairs and there would be a fortified tower right there. Because of the pillars of these great walls, just inside the walls would be a place where newscasters would come in and give the news or various announcements, etc. These are gathering places for people. This is like a city auditorium.

Proverbs 1:21 She calls at the head of noisy places [doctrine shouts out in a large crowd]. At the entrance of the city gates, she utters her words:

there is a rare tristich in the next few lines. It is designed to present 3 points. Some things can only be categorized with 3 points. There is no excuse for not getting doctrine. You may not see the person. This is a 3 point conclusion. Newscasters would come in just inside the gate and give out the interesting announcements. Laws that have been passed, the weather, information about other lands. Sometimes you only hear the voice and you do not see the person.

It was a great shock to Bob that there were so many who had no interest in Bible doctrine.

1976 Proverbs                    Proverbs 1:22 Eccles. 6:1–5                             585_0014

Proverbs 1:1–21 The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel; to know wisdom and doctrine; to recognize the words of understanding [to teach the vocabulary of doctrine]; to receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and uprightness; to give sense to the silly ones, knowledge and judgment to the young man; the wise believer hears and increases learning; and understanding ones get wisdom; to understand a proverb and its meaning; the words of the wise teachers, and their acute sayings. The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge; but fools despise wisdom and instruction [doctrine and discipline]. My son, hear the instruction of your father, and forsake not the law of your mother; for they shall be an wreath of grace to your head and chains around your neck. My son, if sinners [criminals] lure you, do not be willing. If they say, Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, we will watch secretly for the innocent without cause; let us swallow them up alive as the grave, and whole, as those who go down into the pit; we shall find all precious goods; we shall fill our houses with plunder; cast in your lot among us, and let us have one purse. My son, don't walk in the way [modus operandi, modus vivendi] with them. Withdraw your foot from their path, For their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood. For in vain is the net spread out in the sight of any bird [in the eyes of any lords of wings]: But these lay wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives. So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain. It takes away the life of its owners. Wisdom calls aloud in the street. She utters her voice in the public squares. She calls at the head of noisy places [doctrine shouts out in a large crowd]. At the entrance of the city gates, she utters her words:

Ancient world rhymes meter; English rhymes words. Some of the best dressed people today dress simply. Sometimes, the greatest automobiles have a simple design. This can mean elegance. Loving simplicity can simply be good taste.

Wives nagging husbands, how long indicates that there will be time before you wake up and fly right. The plan is not difficult. Adjustment to the justice of God is not difficult to grasp.

A defective word, pathaim. There is nothing within us that God wants. We do not have the personality, intelligence, etc. Defective noun here. Then a verb for love. Then the masculine singular noun which refers to ignorance. When you reject Bible doctrine, you are the world’s dumbest jackass. This describes the first 3 stages of reversionism: reaction, frantic search for happiness, and operation boomerang.

When a stupid person begins thinking, the thought pattern is stupid babbling. Another sphere of reversionism where you ridicule doctrine. People in that church never work for God; they never witness.

Orion is big and powerful and they cannot move; they are chained to the sky. This is someone with power and ability, but was chained by depending upon their power and ability and personality. They depended upon their own human ability. Their strength becomes their weakness.

Stupid fools are suffering from scar tissue of the soul and reverse process reversionism. They have rejected what God has provided by total adjustment to the justice of God.

Proverbs 1:22 "How long, you stupid ones, will you love ignorance [with regards to doctrine]? How long will mockers [scorners] delight themselves in mockery [scorning], And stupid fools hate Bible doctrine?

These questions are the reason why so many people get away from Bible doctrine. The justice of God is only free to give them divine discipline.

Solomon knew all about reversionism and all of the steps of reversionism.

Examples given in Eccles. 6

Eccles. 6:1 There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is great [common] among men [believers]:

Solomon now describes himself. This is his story early on in his life in becoming king over Israel. He was in the primary zone at one time when he pleased God.

Solomon took a nosedive into reversionism, and God gave the great foods to a foreigner.

Eccles. 6:2 a man to whom God has given riches, wealth [a believer who had been blessed greatly by God], and honor, so that he lacks nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God does not give him power to eat of it, but a stranger eats it. This is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

Some speculation on Solomon’s part. Solomon retained all of these fantastic blessings, but he was unable to enjoy them. They are no fun if you are minus capacity for life. He lost doctrine when in reversionism. The blessings were there, but he did not enjoy it. Wealth, women, success, power, etc., and he did not enjoy these things.

He determines that it is better to be miscarried than a person. Solomon had the greatest of everything; he had castles, ranches, women, money, food; and then he says, better to be a miscarriage than a person.

Eccles. 6:3 If a man fathers a hundred, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, and his soul is not filled with good, and also is for him no burial; I say, a miscarriage is better than he.

A fetus or an embryo involved in a miscarriage is not a person. If it comes out in darkness and his name is covered with darkness.

Eccles. 6:4 For he comes in with vanity and goes out in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness [by obscurity].

The miscarriage never sees the sun; he does not know anything. Until God gives life, there is no life. If you have a miscarriage and a funeral, Bob says you had a funeral over nothing. Better to be a miscarriage than a believer in reversionism.

Eccles. 6:5 Also he has not seen the sun, nor known anything. This one has more rest than the other.

1976 Proverbs                 Proverbs 1:23a Eccles. 6:1–12                           585_0015

Proverbs 1:1–22 The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel; to know wisdom and doctrine; to recognize the words of understanding [to teach the vocabulary of doctrine]; to receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and uprightness; to give sense to the silly ones, knowledge [sagacity] and judgment to the young man; the wise believer hears and increases learning; and understanding ones get wisdom; to understand a proverb and its meaning; the words of the wise teachers, and their acute sayings. The fear/respect of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge; but fools despise wisdom and instruction [doctrine and discipline]. My son, hear the instruction of your father, and forsake not the law of your mother; for they shall be an wreath of grace to your head and chains [of honor] around your neck. My son, if sinners [criminals] lure you, do not be willing. If they say, Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, we will watch secretly for the innocent without cause; let us swallow them up alive as the grave, and whole, as those who go down into the pit; we shall find all precious goods; we shall fill our houses with plunder; throw in your lot among us, and let us have one purse. My son, don't walk in the way [modus operandi, modus vivendi] with them. Withdraw your foot from their path, For their feet run to evil. They hurry [rush impetuously] to shed blood. For in vain is the net spread out in the sight of any bird [in the eyes of any lords of wings]: But these lay wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly [lay snares] for their own lives. So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain. It takes away the life of its owners. Wisdom calls aloud in the street [an open place]. She utters her voice in the public squares. She calls at the head of noisy places [doctrine shouts out in a large crowd]. At the entrance of the city gates, she utters her words: "How long, you stupid ones, will you love ignorance [with regards to doctrine]? How long will mockers [scorners] delight themselves in mockery [scorning], And stupid fools hate Bible doctrine?

Adjustments to the justice of God. When we are maladjusted to the justice of God, then we have the problems of divine discipline and the 8 stages of reversionism. Sometimes we are kept alive to be a test to others; to be a trial to others. This is the most horrible, painful thing there is. One person in a firm can bless a firm; one person in a company can bless a company.

We receive doctrinal instruction for prosperity.

Hypersensitivity, rejecting the authority of your pastor-teacher; operation vengeance, etc. can all be part of the reaction stage. The stupid ones in stage 1 and 2 (frantic search for happiness). There can be antagonism, resentment, etc. All a part of negative volition toward doctrine.

Stage 3 is the blackout of the soul. When evil comes into the soul, this is where we get conscientious objectors. The new head of the CIA is previously a C.O.

Back to Ecclesiastes:

Eccles. 6:1 There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is great [common] among men [believers]:

v. 2 is referring to himself, who has adjusted to the justice of God. He was in supergrace A and B and ultra super grace. He received fantastic wealth and power.

Eccles. 6:2 a man to whom God has given riches, wealth [a believer who had been blessed greatly by God], and honor, so that he lacks nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God does not give him power to eat of it, but a stranger eats it. This is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

Many children is a great blessing.

Eccles. 6:3 If a man fathers a hundred, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, and his soul is not filled with good, and also is for him no burial; I say [I therefore conclude], a miscarriage is better than he.

It is better to be a miscarriage than a person, if that person is in reversionism.

Eccles. 6:4 For he comes in with vanity [in vain] and goes out in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness [by obscurity].

This is how awful divine discipline is for a person in reversionism.

Eccles. 6:6 Yea, though he live twice a thousand years, yet he has seen no good [no blessings from the justice of God]. Do not all go to one place?

Equality only goes as far as a resurrection body, without a sin nature and without human good. There is no pain in heaven, regrets, etc. Life must have something beyond human achievement. No one every achieved like Solomon. 1000 women in his harem. He had the lowest crime rate of any kingdom in that era. There is no soul satisfaction apart from Bible doctrine.

Eccles. 6:7 All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.

The man with doctrine over the reversionist.

Eccles. 6:8 For what has the wise more than the fool? What gain has the poor who knows how to walk before the living?

Eccles. 6:9 Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.

God already knows what is going to happen. It has all been named already. If you do not adjustment to the justice of God, then you will be disciplined.

Eccles. 6:10 That which has been is named already, and it is known that he is man. And he is not able to contend with Him who is mightier than he.

What is the advantage to man?

Eccles. 6:11 For there are many things that increase vanity, and what is man the better?

What will follow him in the next generation? He will depart; he will be out of the picture; what has he accomplished, what has he left behind?

Eccles. 6:12 For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends as a shadow? For who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

Turn back from reversionism is a jussive and you have the option not to turn back. Recovery demands consistent intake of the Word of God.

The Hebrew language dative case here; because of, is what is meant. Justice of God adjust to the reversionism of the believer. Divine discipline is designed to guide a believer from sin and reversionism to spiritually. Some how to put their fingers into the fire in order to learn. You can accept a message or you can learn by hurting. All grace action has to come through channels.

Proverbs 1:23 Turn at my reproof. Behold, I will pour out my spirit on you. I will make known my words to you.

This sounds like New Year’s Eve. Bob is telling them to break.

1976 Proverbs                  Proverbs 1:23b Rev. 3:15-21                             585_0016

turn back from reversionism because of My divine discipline.

Rev. 3:15 You cannot escape the justice of God, no matter where you go to. This will close out this year. Bob sees the next year as being war. There is a treaty between the Soviets and China. 75 divisions will be freed up for this reason. They will have air superiority for at least 3 days, which we may be able to change. We have had for many years, president after president who is liberal and jealous. There have been men of great integrity and courage in business, and presidents have rejected them. This industry saved us in WWII. Our industry provided ships, aircraft, tanks, etc. We rearmed all of our allies as well. We have become a kitten because of Osha and the EPA and other such organizations.

We believe that we can simply sacrifice our troops, like those in Germany. We could face dramatic changes in this world. We will very possibly be attacked. Any death is honorable than to surrender to the evil system of communism. This is no time to be caught in reversionism.

The challenge comes in Rev. 3.

Rev. 3:15 I know [God’s omniscience] your works, that you are neither cold [unbeliever] nor hot [the advancing believer]. I would that you were cold or hot.

The growing believer can face any difficulty in life.

Rev. 3:16 So because you are lukewarm [reversionism], and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth.

Vomit is discipline from the justice of God to those who are reversionists.

Rev. 3:17 Because you say [allege], I am rich and increased with goods [bsed on free enterprise] and have need of nothing, and do not know that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked,

you may have retained many of your blessings, but you have no capacity to enjoy these things. You do not know that you are miserable, pitiful and destitute.

Jesus tells them to purchase gold from Jesus. This is spiritual capital. This is doctrine in the soul. The doctrine we receive today has held to the test of time. Doctrine will continue to be in the Word of God. Doctrine has stood the test of time.

Rich is maturity adjustment to the justice of God. So are white robes. That is honor and integrity.

Clothing means separation from evil. Eye salve God punishes and disciplines those whom He loves. This is discipline for the reversionist. That is maladjustment to the justice of God. If we adjust to the justice of God, then we have blessing. If not, it is cursing.

Rev. 3:18 I counsel you to buy from Me gold purified by fire, so that you may be rich; and white clothing, so that you may be clothed, and so that the shame of your nakedness does not appear. And anoint your eyes with eye salve, so that you may see.

Zaluo means to become hot, to become boiling. The reversionist has to decide whether to take in doctrine or not. This is am imperative mood, requiring that we take action. A complete change of mind is what is being called for.

Rev. 3:19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten; therefore be zealous and repent.

V. 20 is directed toward the believer. He is not cold or hot. Perfect tense here, where Jesus stands at the door, completed action. The believer is out of fellowship. God is on the outside and we are on the inside. As long as we are alive, God appeals to us.

Stand is in the perfect tense and knock is in the present tense. Hear is in the aorist tense, and it refers to any point in time when a person chooses to hear the Word of God. Open is also the aorist tense, and, again, this is all related to free will. Jesus coming in and dining indicates fellowship.

Rev. 3:20 Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will dine with him and he with Me.

The lukewarm believer adjusts to the justice of God. For some of us, ‘77 might be the year of our departure. There is greater blessing on the other side. There is blessing which far exceeds anything that we can imagine.

Jesus is King of Kings and Lord of Lords, and He lacked a royal family, which will be provided with Church Age believers. Some will spend their time hustling in the energy of the flesh. The only thing that counts is doctrine in the soul. The justice of God cannot be ignored and it cannot be unfair.

Jesus called God the Father the God of doctrine, which is found in the psalms. It is doctrine that must carry us.

Rev. 3:21 To him who overcomes I will grant to sit with Me in My throne, even as I also overcame and have sat down with My Father in His throne.

Proverbs 1:23 Turn at my reproof. Behold, I will pour out my spirit on you. I will make known my words to you.

1976 Proverbs                            Proverbs 1:23b–25                                     585_0017

the background for this chapter is the concept of the justice of God, which will also be a part of the study of the book of Romans, which Bob is around to start (this is 1/2/77). In our dispensation, we are all priests. We fulfill a function in the family of God. We name our sins and God forgives us these sins. Penance is blasphemy.

There must be academic discipline. Organizations involved in witnessing only, and they often run around and witness, yet lack everything else that we need to know.

The call is for them to turn back from reversionism. The result is, God will pour out His Spirit. The first Person of the Trinity is called a Father because He sends His Son. The Holy Spirit is designed to receive no glory; He is to glorify Jesus Christ; He is not to glorify Himself. Holy rollers are always trying to glorify God the Holy Spirit. The believer who makes the rebound adjustment to the justice of God is not able to take doctrine in on a regular basis.

A period of time on the earth when there were only gentiles. It was perfect environment minus the old sin nature. The time of human government, and there are only gentiles on the earth.

Then we have the dispensation of the 4^th race. The race is formed and becomes a family.

Jesus, being seated at the right hand of God begins a new dispensation. The Jewish age is not yet over. But there must be a royal family to complement Jesus sitting at the right hand of the Father.

There are 36 things the justice of God is free to give us, which include +R. To live with God, we must be as good as God is. The Holy Spirit does 5 things for us at salvation. He is the agent of regeneration. He causes us to be born into the family of God. This is Old and New Testament. In the Church Age, we are royal family of God. In order for us to be royalty, God the Holy Spirit places us into union of Jesus Christ as He is seated at the right hand of the Father. The one baptism is a dry baptism, which is the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Filling of the Holy Spirit is the Holy Spirit guiding our soul; indwelling of the Holy Spirit is the Holy Spirit living in our bodies. This means there can be no demon possession. One sin from the old sin nature means that we are out of fellowship. Carnality or reversionism takes us out of the control of the Spirit. We get out of fellowship with sin, and back in through rebound. A king places his seal on something which is valuable, which means that thing belongs exclusively to the king. It is of value to the king. Then there is the distribution of spiritual gifts. Now, we do not need to know much about our spiritual gift in order for it to function. It will naturally function when we are spiritual mature. Spirituality and carnality are mutually exclusive, just as walking in light and walking in darkness. There are no degrees with respect to spiritually.

The filling of the Holy Spirit produces the character of Christ. Partnership with divine essence, imitation of God, glorification of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Gap is what is in view here. It is the ministry of God the Holy Spirit to make gap function. It is by Him we are able to assimilate Bible doctrine. It is the means by which Bible doctrine goes from the page of the Word of God to our right lobes. Filling of the Holy Spirit acts as our spiritual I.Q.

Anyone who is consistently filled with the Spirit, such a person will have result from learning doctrine and growing. He becomes effective in witnessing. 2Cor. 3. Rom. 8:14–16 there is no effective ministry by God the Holy Spirit apart from the filling of the Holy Spirit. All effective prayer is accomplished by means of the Holy Spirit.

Many have distorted the ministry of the Holy Spirit today. Emotion or ecstatics are not a part of the working of the Holy Spirit. This is a factor in the Millennium. All of us are led by the Spirit. Ecstatics are not a part of the picture. An emotional response does not signify the filling of the Holy Spirit. Ezek. 36:16 these passages will all be fulfilled in the Millennium.

The means and results are often confused by believers. Means is the rebound; the power is the 3^rd Person of the Trinity; and the result is spiritually. A person out of fellowship cannot yield to God. The power involved is the Holy Spirit. Spiritually by yielding is common in many spiritual circles today. This is a misconception; it is a distortion.

Spiritually by imitation or by wearing certain types of clothes or having a certain demeanor. Using cosmetics or abstaining from their use, none of this is related to spiritually. Facial expressions are even construed as being spiritually, and this is either forced or personality. Rom. 6 believer claims to be crucified or attempts to be crucified. Taboo is forbidden activity. Taboos are legalistic, and they are impositions upon the Word of God. Christianity and religion are not the same. Christian way of life is a supernatural way of life, which demands a supernatural empowerment.

Bob originally cooperated with some local churches. There was going to be a swimming party and one of the pastors asked if Bob believed in mixed bathing. Bob accused the pastor of having a very dirty mind and that he undressed every woman that he saw. Going swimming without girls around; there would be something wrong with that.

Spiritually by ecstatics is a monopoly of the emotional. The holy rollers, victorious life crowd, etc. What is regarded as spiritual experience is often some stage of reversionism.

Program spiritually is attending a church, participating in this or that function of the church; and you get so many points for this or that.

Pouring out of the Spirit is the rebound part.

Proverbs 1:23 Turn at my reproof [turn back from reversionism because of My punishment]. Behold, I will pour out My Spirit on you. I will make known My words to you [I will teach you My doctrines].

It is discipline that often turns people around. The calling is always the teaching of doctrine. However, this person is refusing or rejecting the truth. It can be apathy, antagonism, or a number of different things. Willfully distracted.

God allows the full function of volition; He is a gentleman.

Proverbs 1:24 Because I have called, and you have refused; I have stretched out [extended] my hand, and no one has paid attention;

You have to be somewhat sensitive in the relationship. Warnings from the judge. The judge warns by discipline. We cannot be taught by academic discipline, so we must learn the hard way. First the warning stage of discipline where Jesus stands at the door knocking.

Proverbs 1:25 But you have ignored all my counsel, And wanted none of my reproof; [you did not want my warning]

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Currently, the greatest country in the world is Rhodesia. He got married one day, and then went to Rhodesia for a honeymoon.

He apparently gave a talk and that was edited out.

It is typical of our policy to give in to evil communist countries. We tolerate and support the UN, which is a clearing house for communist activity. Rhodesia is fighting for their lives against communism, and we are contributing to their downfall. Kissinger is supporting the destruction of Rhodesia. We are, in our foreign policy, an immoral nation. We continue to be immoral and evil in our foreign policy.

Proverbs 1:1–25 The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel; to know wisdom and doctrine; to recognize the words of understanding [to teach the vocabulary of doctrine]; to receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and uprightness; to give sense to the silly ones, knowledge [sagacity] and judgment to the young man; the wise believer hears and increases learning; and understanding ones get wisdom; to understand a proverb and its meaning; the words of the wise teachers, and their acute sayings. The fear/respect of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge; but fools despise wisdom and instruction [doctrine and discipline]. My son, hear the instruction of your father, and forsake not the law of your mother; for they shall be an wreath of grace to your head and chains [of honor] around your neck. My son, if sinners [criminals] lure you, do not be willing. If they say, Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, we will watch secretly for the innocent without cause; let us swallow them up alive as the grave, and whole, as those who go down into the pit; we shall find all precious goods; we shall fill our houses with plunder; throw in your lot among us, and let us have one purse. My son, don't walk in the way [modus operandi, modus vivendi] with them. Withdraw your foot from their path, For their feet run to evil. They hurry [rush impetuously] to shed blood. For in vain is the net spread out in the sight of any bird [in the eyes of any lords of wings]: But these lay wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly [lay snares] for their own lives. So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain. It takes away the life of its owners. Wisdom calls aloud in the street [an open place]. She utters her voice in the public squares. She calls at the head of noisy places [doctrine shouts out in a large crowd]. At the entrance of the city gates, she utters her words: "How long, you stupid ones, will you love ignorance [with regards to doctrine]? How long will mockers [scorners] delight themselves in mockery [scorning], And stupid fools hate Bible doctrine? Turn at my reproof [turn back from reversionism because of My punishment]. Behold, I will pour out My Spirit on you. I will make known My words to you [I will teach you My doctrines]. Because I have called, and you have refused; I have stretched out [extended] my hand, and no one has paid attention; But you have ignored all my counsel, And wanted none of my reproof; [you did not want my warning]

Bob talks about a football game where he would have stomped all over one of the football players for his arrogance. Ignoramus in every sense of the word.

What better way to describe God’s discipline than to laugh with derision. It hurts the person with this mocking laugh. It is designed to hurt and break up the individual. It is designed to awaken the soul to the spiritual need of the soul. God does not mock; He does not counter with derision.

Proverbs 1:26 I also will laugh at your disaster. I will mock when calamity overtakes you;

Then you pass the point of no return. This is the person dying the sin unto death. The person adjusted to the justice of God has no fear at death, because this is dying grace. The greatest of blessings is dying grace. Shawah ke which is like a violence storm; a hurricane; a force 10 storm. One day, the sea is calm. Then suddenly a storm comes up, out of nowhere. When your time comes to die as a reversionist, it is a shock. And you realize what a horrible mess you have made of your life. Hurricanes in the ancient world take you by surprise. It will suddenly change course and take you by surprise.

All men who have been turned at some time face distress. The most implacable enemies in the world are female.

Proverbs 1:27 When calamity [dying dread] overtakes you like a storm, When your disaster comes on like a whirlwind; When distress and anguish [personal pressure] come on you.

This summarizes the principle of the justice of God adjusting to the believer. The reversionistic believer cannot adjust to the justice of God. In the days to come, you cannot afford to have these things come along.

1976 Proverbs                             Proverbs 1:28–30                                      585_0019

Bob originally planned to do a chapter in Romans and then go back and do a chapter of Proverbs. Apparently, that did not happen.

Proverbs 1:1–27 The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel; to know wisdom and doctrine; to recognize the words of understanding [to teach the vocabulary of doctrine]; to receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and uprightness; to give sense to the silly ones, knowledge [sagacity] and judgment to the young man; the wise believer hears and increases learning; and understanding ones get wisdom [will acquire common sense for leadership]; to understand a proverb and its meaning; the words of the wise teachers, and their acute sayings. The fear/respect of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge; but fools despise wisdom and instruction [doctrine and discipline]. My son, hear the instruction of your father [David], and forsake not the law of your mother [Bathsheba]; for they shall be an wreath of grace to your head and chains [of honor] around your neck. My son, if sinners [criminals] lure you, do not be willing. If they say, Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, we will watch secretly for the innocent without cause; let us swallow them up alive as the grave, and whole, as those who go down into the pit; we shall find all precious goods; we shall fill our houses with plunder; throw in your lot among us, and let us have one purse. My son, don't walk in the way [modus operandi, modus vivendi] with them. Withdraw your foot from their path, For their feet run to evil. They hurry [rush impetuously] to shed blood. For in vain is the net spread out in the sight of any bird [in the eyes of any lords of wings]: But these lay wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly [lay snares] for their own lives. So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for [unjust] gain. It takes away the life of its owners. Wisdom calls aloud in the street [an open place]. She utters her voice in the public squares. She calls at the head of noisy places [doctrine shouts out in a large crowd]. At the entrance of the city gates, she utters her words: "How long, you stupid ones, will you love ignorance [with regards to doctrine]? How long will mockers [scorners] delight themselves in mockery [scorning], And stupid fools hate Bible doctrine? Turn at my reproof [turn back from reversionism because of My punishment]. Behold, I will pour out My Spirit on you. I will make known My words to you [I will teach you My doctrines]. Because I have called, and you have refused; I have stretched out [extended] my hand, and no one has paid attention; But you have ignored all my counsel, And wanted none of my reproof; [you did not want my warning] I also will laugh at your disaster. I will mock when calamity overtakes you; When calamity [dying dread] overtakes you like a storm, When your disaster comes on like a whirlwind; When distress and anguish [personal pressure] come on you.

Prayer is not a panacea; it does not solve or answer everything; especially if you lack Bible doctrine. There are rules for prayer. God never hears or answers the prayers of the reversionistic believer. All divine discipline and blessing come from the justice of God. God’s justice cannot be compromised in any way. There is instant forgiveness at naming one’s sins to God.

Supergrace A and supergrace B, and the ultra super grace, where God is glorified and pleased. The result is, the justice of God is free to give us the greatest things in life. In these spheres, prayer life has a fantastic dynamic. Even the positive believer who is advancing, he can make great use of prayer. Violate one rule and you are out. God the Father is in the prayer-answering business.

Those who talk the most about prayer are those who understand the least about it. In reversionism, this is maladjustment to the justice of God.

God does not answer each and every prayer. A reversionist is not going to turn his life around. Here is a reversionistic prayer for help. God is not sentimental. He does not hear this emotional screech and pay it any mind. These are not mentally or spiritually mature.

It is gall to call for help, when you have chosen to go against His will. There are many decisions in recovery. The only thing the reversionist can produce is human good and evil, both of which are rejected by the justice of God. Rebound and the decision to repent (turn your thinking around).

Stall recovery in a plane does not involve any pleading with God. Prayer does not solve that problem. They will seek Me early, but they will not find Me. Paragogic hê means you are going in the right direction; the paragogic nun means you are going in the wrong direction.

Here we have sincerity and emotion and they are all worked up. People who are in trouble want to monopolize all of your time. A pastor cannot take up the slack for their spiritual loss nor can he overlay his own spiritual growth on them. Counseling just gives these people attention, when they need doctrine. The counselor becomes the crutch for these loosers.

Bob wasted 5 years counseling, and it never made any difference. The only thing that made any real difference is doctrine. The people in counseling need to get under the teaching of Bible doctrine.

God does not every compromise His justice. He does not give instant help to someone caterwauling about their reversionism, then Bob would be wasting his time teaching Bible doctrine.

Proverbs 1:28 Then will they [reversionists] call on me [knowledge, wisdom], but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me;

God says, you call and scream, and I will not hear you. That is a compromise of My justice. That is a let down for hundreds of thousands of people who are positive toward Bible doctrine.

Communism is a system of bullying. There was an American who was clubbed together with sticks right at the North/South Korean borders. You cannot treat criminals with sweetness and light. They understand a greater force. Part of being a pastor is being hard-nosed when you have to. There are some people that you must run off.

Do you think that God ought to compromise His standards, when you gut it out in Bible class night after night, and this weak believer came only when it was convenient or was completely disinterested in God.

The completely despised knowledge. Because that, they hated some doctrine. There is always a little bit of fear and respect from the woman to the man. Many of you only understand that emotional thing you call love, but you do not understand respect and fear.

Proverbs 1:29 Because they hated knowledge, And didn't choose the fear/respect of Yahweh.

Negative volition toward divine discipline. There are 2 ways to learn anything, the easy way and the hard way. You can listen to what your mother says, and not get burned; or, when you are told no, you touch it.

Horses have to learn everything the hard way. They must learn everything by feeling.

The word translated counsel is etsah, and it means learning by discipline, learning by having a bit in your mouth. Some kids will stop sucking their thumbs when told to, others need to have a pepper sauce poured on it, and some just need their thumbs cut off.

Intensive discipline, and this is apparently by God?

God uses some believers to discipline others. This is one reason God keeps some reversionists alive.

Proverbs 1:30 They wanted none of my counsel [instruction by discipline]. They despised [to deride and reject] all my reproof [intensive discipline].

This is a bit difficult to determine, are we still speaking about wisdom or have we somehow begun talking about God? Or, is truth and God seen here as equivalent, as in, God is truth?

1976 Proverbs                                Proverbs 1:31                                         585_0020

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Self-induced misery from maladjustment to the justice of God. Discipline may not appear to be spiritual, and it rarely is. Self-induced misery gives us a clue. You finally conclude, if you have any sense left, that, to make yourself miserable is ridiculous and highly in consistent with your own intelligence. Reversionism does not adjust to the justice of God. God is perfect and all of His characteristics are perfect. He simply wants us to hurt enough to make us realize that we are out of synch with His plan. Some of us are so hardheaded that it takes awhile before God gets our attention. They will eat the consequences of their own way.

God is your best friend in maturity and you are your worst enemy in reversionism. min moetsa which should be translated, consequently, with their evil conspiracies.

Reversionists are troublemakers and conspirators wherever they are found. A reversionistic believer is a dishonorable person. He also receives discipline from God. As goes the believers, so goes the nation. Evil conspiracies in business and in social life. In military organizations. The establishment authority of a nation is destroyed and this leads to a national degeneration. All conspiracy is related to evil.

You have the evil in your soul; you are just looking for some place to drop it.

Proverbs 1:31 Therefore they will eat of the fruit [production, consequences] of their own way, And be filled with their own schemes [Consequently, they are satiated with their evil conspiracies].

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Might be the last night with Proverbs 1. From this nation has gone the gospel from our nation. We have been a haven for the Jews. Some business filed on OSHA, which is an organization which is one of the evils of our nation. This is a ray of light; but it is not a very large beam as of yet.

The cycles of discipline are based on the fact that Jesus Christ controls history through the function and the essence of deity. He controls history permissively, permitting the Angelic Conflict to be perpetuated and concluded in human history. Good and evil have yet to be judged.

Only the masters could cut loose their slaves; the federal government did not have that authority.

We are in greater slavery today that at any time in our past. We have no choice with regards to certain things in housing, transportation, under the Satanic evil, the greatest good for the greatest number.

Under the principle of the 5^th cycle of discipline, we are looking at apostasy, evil, Deut. 28 and Lev. 26 are the 2 chapters which deal with the fifth cycle of discipline.

There has been talk of a public execution as of late. Almost everyone interviewed and shown has said, “Oh, no, that’s a terrible thing; we can’t have that.” One person slipped through and said it would be a good thing.

Capital punishment is the way to control crime. Fear of execution; fear of loss of life; criminals fear violence which is greater than their own violence.

The majority of people do not go along with these idiotic comments on the news; but the news goes out and finds these people, to make you think that this is the norm. We need executions where the criminal is drawn and quartered on color tv.

The Soviet Union is the greatest criminal organization in the world. When a captain in the military was killed by North Korea, we should have dropped a bomb. You impress violent people with a greater violence.

Your property isn’t safe; your person isn’t safe. Salisbury, Rhodesia, you can walk down any street and be safe. Rhodesia has the lowest crime rate in the world. 2 or 3 murders there last year. They are anti-communist; anti-terrorist. Blacks and whites are both happy with the government there. Our evil press has taken advantage of their freedom and has distorted this. We are about due for national discipline.

No president has upheld his oath of office. North Vietnam is the 4^th most powerful nation in the world today because of LBJ; it is his policy which has given them so much of our military equipment.

We have no right to tell any nation at any time how to run their business. There are great violations of majority rule in the Soviet Union and in China; yet we are not telling them that they need to let majority rule. Yet, we turn around and tell little countries like Rhodesia to let the majority rule.

The soviets bully you, every time they check your passport. However, the people in Rhodesia are happy to check your passport. We face terrible discipline. Bob is concerned about national discipline because that will bring back all of the kooks into the

Our founding fathers said you can’t solve problems with legislation. This is always limited and ought to be confined to criminal activity. Let’s say the passed a law saying, “You must be nice to everyone.” Then you will see how limited the power of legislation is.

The law cannot make the air clean and people have their freedom infringed upon.

Bob liked Spanish detective stories, but there is no reason to have a ballot in Spanish. Everyone who comes here must learn the language first.

The UN is an old woman which has messed up its life and is trying to tell everyone else how to be.

The unbeliever can adjust to the justice of God through observing the laws of divine establishment. It is recognizing the freedom and privacy of others. To be a supporter of law enforcement.

French indo-China; they did a lot better job administering that nation than the Vietnamese have. The people in South American are jealous of us. The Canadians are changing radically.

Having enemies is not a problem. Bob has enemies that he does not know. He has gobs of people who despise him. He has always had enemies. Having enemies is a way of life. He does not seek enemies nor does he back off. He does not solicit enemies; he just talks and it happens.

Bob liked the documentary of New York. Prostitutes moved in, police arrested them, and the judges let them back out. They took over the neighborhood.

The United States has always been envied. People with castles are not as well off as we are with our airconditioning and our heating.

Lev. 26:16 I will also do this to you: I will even appoint terror over you, consumption, and burning fever, consuming the eyes and causing sorrow of heart. And you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

Lev. 26:17 And I will set My face against you, and you shall be slain before your enemies. They that hate you shall reign over you. And you shall flee when none pursues you.

Lev. 26:18 And if you will not yet listen to Me for all this, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.

Lev. 26:19 And I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your heaven like iron and your earth like bronze.

Lev. 26:20 And your strength shall be spent in vain. For your land shall not yield its increase, neither shall the trees of the field yield their fruits.

Lev. 26:21 And if you walk contrary to Me, and will not listen to Me, I will bring seven times more plagues on you according to your sins.

Lions will invade a village when they are hungry and start attacking those there. Wild animals means that there is lawlessness. Your only protection is to be stronger than someone else.

No more establishment system.

Lev. 26:22 I will also send wild beasts among you, who shall bereave you. And I will destroy your cattle, and make you few. And your highways shall be deserted.

4^th cycle of discipline. There is always the chance of turning things around.

Many of you have spent a long time on your house and suddenly, all of that is gone. And no one has anything and the country becomes a jungle.

Lev. 26:23 And if you will not be reformed by Me by these things, but will still walk contrary to Me,

Lev. 26:24 then I will walk contrary to you and will punish you seven times more for your sins.

This is crime. Sometimes the sword refers to crime and sometimes to the military.

There are all of these Assyrian kings applying the 4^th and 5^th cycles of discipline.

Grace always precedes judgment. Many warnings came from great people. Jeremiah gave warning and Isaiah did, and Jesus did, and Paul did.

Lev. 26:25 And I will bring a sword on you that shall execute the vengeance of the covenant. And when you are gathered inside your cities, I will send the plague among you. And you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

Lev. 26:26 When I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight. And you shall eat and not be satisfied.

5^th cycle of discipline. There is a terrible condition described.

Lev. 26:27 And if you will not for all of this listen to Me, but will walk contrary to Me,

Lev. 26:28 then I will walk contrary to you also in fury. And I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.

Very abnormal circumstances described here.

An example of a woman who killed her own child to eat. Some came alone, smelling the food, and tortured her to find out where the food was. They found it, ate the rest of the baby, and then killed her and ate her.

When people are hungry, they will do anything for food. When a population is hungry, they will do anything for food. They will kill you and eat you.

Sherman’s march through Georgia was one of the most gruesome things in our history. He made war on women and children. He was a disgrace to his uniform. This was the most degraded that we have been.

Lev. 26:29 And you shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters you shall eat.

They were distracted with idols. God’s soul would despise them. This is the essence of God; total disdain.

Lev. 26:30 And I will destroy your high places and cut down your images, and throw your carcasses on the carcasses of your idols, and My soul shall despise you.

The Jews ignored their Sabbatical years.

Lev. 26:31 And I will make your cities waste and cause your sanctuaries to be deserted. And I will not smell the savor of your sweet odors.

Lev. 26:32 And I will turn the land into wasteland. And your enemies who dwell in it shall be astonished at it.

Lev. 26:33 And I will scatter you among the nations, and will draw out a sword after you. And your land shall be waste, and your cities waste.

Lev. 26:34 Then shall the land enjoy its sabbaths, as long as it lies waste, and you are in your enemies' land; then shall the land rest and enjoy its sabbaths.

Lev. 26:35 As long as it lies waste it shall rest, because it did not rest in your sabbaths when you lived on it.

Lev. 26:36 And on those of you that are left I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. And the sound of a driven leaf shall chase them, and they shall flee as if fleeing from a sword. And they shall fall when none pursues.

You will not have the means to stand up against your enemies. David bypassed being disciplined by his enemies. He preferred being disciplined by God. The Mongolian animals in Russia and the Chicoms. They have schools where they learn systems of torture.

Lev. 26:37 And they shall fall on one another, as if it were before a sword, when none pursues. And you shall have no power to stand before your enemies.

Lev. 26:38 And you shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.

Lev. 26:39 And they that are left of you shall putrefy in their iniquity in the lands of your enemies. And also they shall putrefy with them in the iniquities of their fathers.

Lev. 26:40 If they shall confess their wilfulness and the wilfulness of their fathers, with their sin which they sinned against Me, and that also they have walked contrary to Me,

Proverbs 1:32 For the backsliding of the simple will kill them. The careless ease of fools will destroy them.

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Max Rafferty was a few years ahead of Bob in school. His latest book is Max Rafferty on education. One chapter is the 12 labors. 2 formidable conditioners: behavioristic people to make kids compliant under all conditions; and those who rule out any books of true interest. Sawdust sandwiches. Our 3^rd graders receive about a third of the words the Russians teach their kids.

Nearly all European languages have some basis in Latin. Max and Bob learned to speak English via Latin they they learned in high school.

Main activity right now in Russia is dispersing their population. Their estimate is a loss of 10 million where we will lose 100 million. He thinks the attack by the Russians will be bacterial.

Don MacIlve around Rhodesia. Enormous amounts of wheat are being exported through Portland, OR.

The 5^th Cycle of Discipline in a nation other than Israel. The Assyrian crisis.

Ezek. 31:3 Think of Assyria, a cedar in Lebanon, with beautiful branches and shady foliage, and of lofty height. Its top was among the clouds. The waters caused it to grow; the underground springs made it tall, directing their rivers all around the place where the tree was planted and sending their channels to all the trees of the field. Therefore the cedar became greater in height than all the trees of the field. Its branches multiplied, and its boughs grew long as it spread them out because of the plentiful water. All the birds of the sky nested in its branches, and all the animals of the field gave birth beneath its boughs; all the great nations lived in its shade. It was beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its limbs, for its roots extended to abundant water. The cedars in God's garden could not rival it; the pine trees couldn't compare with its branches, nor could the plane trees match its boughs. No tree in the garden of God could compare with it in beauty. I made it beautiful with its many limbs, and all the trees of Eden, which were in God's garden, envied it. "Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Since it became great in height and set its top among the clouds, and it grew proud on account of its height, I determined to hand it over to a ruler of nations; he would surely deal with it. I banished it because of its wickedness. Foreigners, ruthless men from the nations, cut it down and left it lying. Its limbs fell on the mountains and in every valley; its boughs lay broken in all the earth's ravines. All the peoples of the earth left its shade and abandoned it. All the birds of the sky nested on its fallen trunk, and all the animals of the field were among its boughs. This happened so that no trees planted beside water would become great in height and set their tops among the clouds, and so that no other well-watered trees would reach them in height. For they have all been consigned to death, to the underworld, among the people who descend to the Pit. "This is what the Lord GOD says: I caused grieving on the day the cedar went down to Sheol. I closed off the underground deep because of it: I held back the rivers of the deep, and its abundant waters were restrained. I made Lebanon mourn on account of it, and all the trees of the field fainted because of it.

Destruction of the birds of the sky. Our federal government has come up with all kinds of goofy things to protect the birds. Steel shot rather than lead shot. Rationed out how many ducks and geese and what kinds. Never been a problem when hunters were simply allowed to go out and hunt. A nation of hunters is a vigorous nation.

Therefore, you have stumbled in the daylight. Doctrine is still available, but you would not hear it. My nation is destroyed from lack of knowledge of doctrine. Since you have neglected.

When you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then recognize that their desolation is at hand. Let those in Judæa flee to the mountains and do not let those in the country enter into Jerusalem. Whoa to those who are pregnant or nurse babies in those days. There will be a divine wrath on those people.

The final couple verses deal with the fifth cycle of discipline. Meshuvah is a defection and it comes to mean reversionism. As goes the believer, so goes the nation. The believer going to the high ground means prosperity for the nation.

The reversionist is an abnormal person. Reversionism is a state of abnormality. The normal believer is advancing. He can be carnal or spiritual at any moment. Here he is called a stupid person or a reversionist.

To kill is the fifth cycle of discipline. For reversionism of the silly ones (believers who reject Bible doctrine). As goes the believer, so goes the nation. If the believer is in reversionism, the nation is destroyed. Just as a few mature believers can preserve a nation; some reversionists can destroy a nation.

Negative volition results in maladjustment to the justice of God.

Prosperity or security. Fools are reversionists here. Fools in the sense of having great power and authority and ability, but no capacity for life.

Lack of freedom, low military budget, ridicule of police officers are examples of a reversionist nation.

The security of fools will destroy them. This ought to be a motto on the door of the social security office.

Proverbs 1:32 For the backsliding [reversionism or apostasy] of the simple will kill them. The careless ease [security] of fools will destroy them.

No such thing as a totally discouraging situation for the believer. The first 2 lines speak of disaster and the 2^nd 2 lines speak of blessing. Listening under strict authority; the function of gap. This is the solution; this is the hope. This requires maturity adjustment to the justice of God.

Proverbs 1:33 But whoever listens to me [doctrine] will dwell securely, And will be at ease [will rest in security or continue in security], without fear of harm."

Each chapter in Proverbs is a self-contained unit.

Proverbs 1:1–33 The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel; to know wisdom and doctrine [this states the purpose]; to recognize the words of understanding [to teach the vocabulary of doctrine]; to receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and uprightness; to give sense to the silly ones, knowledge [sagacity] and judgment to the young man; the wise believer hears and increases learning; and understanding ones get wisdom [will acquire common sense for leadership]; to understand a proverb and its meaning [aphorism]; the words of the wise teachers, and their acute sayings. The fear/respect of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge; but fools despise wisdom and instruction [doctrine and discipline]. My son, hear the instruction of your father [David], and forsake not the law [instruction] of your mother [Bathsheba]; for they shall be an wreath of grace to your head and chains [of honor] around your neck. My son, if sinners [criminals] lure you, do not be willing. If they say, Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, we will watch secretly for the innocent without cause; let us swallow them up alive as the grave, and whole, as those who go down into the pit [prison]; we shall find all precious goods; we shall fill our houses with plunder; throw in your lot among us, and let us have one purse. My son, don't walk in the way [modus operandi, modus vivendi] with them. Withdraw your foot from their path, For their feet run to evil. They hurry [rush impetuously] to shed blood. For in vain is the net spread out in the sight of any bird [in the eyes of any lords of wings]: But these lay wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly [lay snares] for their own lives. So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for [unjust] gain. It takes away the life of its owners [capital punishment]. Wisdom calls aloud in the street [an open place]. She utters her voice in the public squares. She calls at the head of noisy places [doctrine shouts out in a large crowd]. At the entrance of the city gates, she utters her words: "How long, you stupid ones, will you love ignorance [with regards to doctrine]? How long will mockers [scorners] delight themselves in mockery [scorning], And stupid fools hate Bible doctrine? Turn at my reproof [turn back from reversionism because of My punishment]. Behold, I will pour out My Spirit on you. I will make known [teach] My words [doctrines] to you [I will teach you My doctrines]. Because I have called, and you have refused; I have stretched out [extended] my hand, and no one has paid attention; But you have ignored all my counsel, And wanted none of my reproof; [you did not want my warning] I also will laugh at your disaster. I will mock when calamity overtakes you; When calamity [dying dread] overtakes you like a storm, When your disaster comes on like a whirlwind; When distress and anguish [personal pressure] come on you. Then will they [reversionists] call on me [knowledge, wisdom], but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me; Because they hated knowledge [of doctrine], And didn't choose the fear/respect of Yahweh. They wanted none of my counsel [instruction by discipline]. They despised [to deride and reject] all my reproof [intensive discipline]. For the backsliding [reversionism or apostasy] of the simple will kill them. The careless ease [security] of fools will destroy them. But whoever listens to me [doctrine] will dwell securely, And will be at ease [will rest in security or continue in security], without fear of harm [from the dread of evil]."

1966 Proverbs

notes from R. B. Thieme, Jr.’s classes

1966 Proverbs                         Proverbs Introduction                                  584_0001

The word for Proverb is taken from 'mashal' which is the Hebrew word 'to rule'. A proverb is a doctrine which rules and governs the life of a believer. This is doctrine especially prepared for young people. It is 2 lines of a poem.

What is good for a teen is good for an adult.

David recovers from the Absalom rebellion, so he begins to teach his child Solomon, his 2^nd child by Bathsheba.

The book of Proverbs was written for teenagers - to teach them doctrine through a proverb (poetry of two lines). Proverbs is the collection of Solomon's teaching from David to him and then from him to his son Rehoboam. RBT also teaches that Solomon also used two pseudo-names in Proverbs - Agur and King Lemuel.

In Proverbs Chapter 1:7-19, Proverbs Chapter 19:20-24, and in Proverbs Chapter 27-29, we have three sections in which David actually taught Solomon. Solomon wrote them down and kept them. We have Solomon's notes from his father's teaching. In other words, David taught doctrine to Solomon. And those sections are designed for teenagers, and the key in each case is, 'My son.' which is repeated several times.

Proverbs Chapter 1:10 through Chapter 19:19 Solomon probably wrote himself. This is doctrine which he received in teaching or figured out.

And, in Chapter 30 we have Agur's wisdom, and Agur is probably a pseudonym for Solomon, or else he was an actual king who taught Solomon. Then in Proverbs 31 we have two King Lemuels' wisdom, and Lemuel was either a friend of Solomon who taught Solomon or another pseudonym for Solomon.

The greatest ability for a writer is to be able to express lucid thought in poetic form. Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides were 3 great Greek writers. Works of genius. Solomon also has equally genius work.

These proverbs are written as prose, which is Hebrew poetry. It is easier to teach teens this way. You teach everything in 2 lines. Proverbs, in this sense, is a work of literary genius.

Next, there are three thrusts in the Book of Proverbs:

1. Divine Good (production under the energy of the Spirit) versus Human Good (production under the energy of the flesh).

2. Man shall not live by bread alone. As the human body needs food, it is God's command that a believer's spirit 'lives' by the Bread and Water of the Word. This means that in your list of priorities in life, God and His Word must be first in your life or you will not have the capacity to truly enjoy the 'details of life'. With doctrine, you can lose the details and still have inner happiness. Without doctrine, you can have all the details of life and still be frustrated and miserable and eaten up with mental attitude sins - no capacity for love, friendship, wealth, etc.

3. The last issue of Proverbs is that the mental attitude sins are the WORST sins. They all manufacture self-induced misery! Arrogance, jealousy, envy, strife, anger, bitterness, implacability, judging, self-righteousness, are the worst and hurt YOURSELF the most! And, when you act on these sins - to slander, gossip, interfere (doctrine of the long nose), revolt against legitimate authority, murder (they had it coming), steal (if I were not so poor I would not have to), etc. - all these sins started with a mental attitude sin.

Finally, The book of Proverbs is 'chakmah literature' or 'wisdom literature' (along with three other books - Job, Psalms, and Ecclesiastes). And, Proverbs is 'structured poetry'. In it are groupings of lines. The first grouping is called a 'distich'.

A two-line verse. The Germans were the greatest students of Hebrew and Greek. Some love to savor a new term.

A distich is two lines of poetry.

There are 6 basic types of distiches in Proverbs (Yea . . . even a 7^th):

Next, we also have 4 line proverbs called a Tetrastich with similar structures above (for example: the first two lines can be synonymous with the second two lines). Prov. 24:3–4 A house is built by wisdom, and it is established by understanding; by knowledge the rooms are filled with every precious and beautiful treasure.

Synthetic and some other kind.

And we have 6 line proverbs. In a 'Six -line proverb', the first two lines form the subject and the next four lines amplify the subject. Prov. 23:12–14 Apply yourself to instruction and listen to words of knowledge. Don't withhold correction from a youth; if you beat him with a rod, he will not die. Strike him with a rod, and you will rescue his life from Sheol. With doctrine, you will know how to discipline your child. Your discipline will rescue your child from hell. Once he gets to the teenage, you have had it. If you have not gotten any doctrine into them, then your children will shake you up for the rest of your life.

And we have a Pentastich. In a Pentastich the last three lines give the reason for the first two lines - five lines in total - subject in first two lines with amplification in last three lines. Do not eat bread with the person with the evil eye (avoid those believers with mental attitude sins) neither desire his dainty meats. (Give such a one a wide berth) there are those who will do things for you, and they will resent doing it and they will mumble and grumble and groan about it. Mental attitude sins; give them a good wide berth. The morsel which you have eaten, you will vomit up. If their vindictiveness overflows to you, it hits your stomach first and you cannot digest your food. ...and you will lose your sweet words. Idiom for losing your own sweetness. Loving believers does not mean that you have to have anything to do with them. You can get along fine without associating with some people.

And we have a 'Heptastich'. A 7 line proverb. The first two lines are expanded by the next five lines. Prov. 23:6–8

Finally, we have the 'Octastich'. There is only one - Proverbs 6:16-19. You have two lines and then it is amplified by the next 6 lines. Proverbs is one of the greatest books in the Bible for doctrine for the believer.

Stay away from mental attitude sins. Prov.6:16–19 Six things the LORD hates; in fact, seven are detestable to Him: arrogant eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that plots wicked schemes, feet eager to run to evil, a lying witness who gives false testimony, and one who stirs up trouble among brothers. Only one high on the list of an overt sin; which is murder.

1966 Proverbs                                   Prov. 1:1–6                                           584_0002

to rule, to govern is the verb from which proverb comes from.

Bob’s dad half-proverbs: “Dammit, use your head” and sometimes he would add, “That’s what it’s for.” Bob learned a lot of wonderful things from his father.

These proverbs are David teaching his son, Solomon. Solomon has remembered these proverbs and he wrote them down.

A review of the 6 types.

RBT also found a Tristich - a three line proverb. There are only a few - Proverbs 24:27; 25:13. The first line is the illustration and that is amplified by the next lines.

Chapter 1

{Chapters 1-24: Primarily for Teenagers} what you learn as a teenager you can often use for the rest of your life.

{Title}

1~~ Proverbs {mashal} of Solomon, Son of David, King of Israel.

{Note: The book of proverbs is Solomon's collection of sayings. They are not all his original sayings. Solomon was the second son of David by Bathsheba (the first child of David's rape of Bathsheba died). Mashal means to rule or govern. A proverb is a rule by which you should run your life.}

Prov. 1:1 The proverbs of Solomon son of David, king of Israel:

The greatest heritage of all is being able to leave that which is true, doctrine, with your children. Doctrine carried Jesus Christ through the 3 hours of bearing our sins.

{Verses 2-7: Purpose}

2a~~To know {yada`}

wisdom {chokmah}: chokmah - 'means to have it pounded in' - the way you teach children to have manners - repetition of the same principal - inculcation. You keep at it and it eventually sinks in. Military training is like this. You train them again and again to do the same thing. You do it until you can do it in your sleep. Use doctrine until you can teach them and it is ingrained in them.

and doctrine/instruction {muwcar}. And, muwcar - 'to train by discipline' - to teach under authority will teach the principal of respect for authority - that child will respect authority for life - if this is not taught the child will not respect others, their property, their rights - a bad start in life. Again, it is going over and over the same principles. A football coach taught his kids to do a few things well. They learned only a half-dozen plays, but they learned them well. Muwcar means to train by discipline; to train with authority.

The family is the most basic training unit; it is the basic preparation for life. It is not school or any advanced training of any type.

In every society, there is a teenage gang that rejects all 5 of these, and proverbs calls them the wrong crowd. They are lawless; they have no respect for the property or privacy of others or for their rights. They usually fun in a crowd. Example of Hell’s Angels. They took over a small town in CA. A motorcycle gang will surround a car and rob them and rape any women in the car. Very difficult to control them.

The wrong crowd is composed of teenagers who do not follow these principles.

Wisdom and instruction includes keeping them away from the wrong crowd. There are parents who want something better for their children. They might move into an expensive neighborhood so their kids will meet nice kids. Wealthy kids and poor children can suffer from a failure in these 5 areas.

Parents try to substitute circumstances for Bible doctrine. They think the right environment will fix things. There is no substitute for Bible doctrine.

2b~~To teach/'cause to perceive' {biyn} this is getting information into your brain, so you retain this.

the vocabulary {'emer}

of doctrine {biynah}.

{Note: Biyn - Hiphil stem - means 'to get the information metabolized into your mentality'. It is the transfer of knowledge from the book (where it does you no good) to where it can be used when needed. And biynah - 'doctrine in the right lobe' - is the noun form of biyn above.}

Prov. 1:2 For gaining wisdom and being instructed; for understanding insightful sayings;

3~~To receive {laqach}

the 'doctrinal instruction of wisdom' {muwcar sakal}

  {3 Circumstances of Application follow:}

righteousness/justice {tsedeq}

'divine institutions'/judgment {mishpat}. We should understand all 4.

'but always with integrity'/'and equity' {meyshar}.

{Note: Laqach means 'to get and clearly pass on in a manner in which it can be understood'. Muwcar sakal means 'bible doctrine in the frontal lobe applied to experience' - wisdom from doctrine. Tsedeq is referring to your general motus operandi in life. And, mishpat is referring to the 4 divine institutions and how they operate. Finally, meyshar means personal integrity. It is the same as 'your Word should be your Bond'.}

Prov. 1:3 for receiving wise instruction in righteousness, justice, and integrity;

4a~~To give 'silly ones'/'the stupid' {reversionists} . . .

sagacity/'something of value'.

{Note: Some children are more teachable than others - you may have to go over some things in different ways and over it and over it again - but doctrine will give even the simplest of Children something of value.} To give even the stupid a scale of values. You can teach the principles of Bible doctrine in the home to any level. It is not the environment or college education which makes the different, but doctrine in the frontal lob.

{Now for the Teenager} This is when the teenager is at his most dangerous point. The most critical period of human life is the teenage. Teachers should simply make use of the concentration which parents inculcated into the child.

4b~~To give young man {na`ar}

knowledge {of doctrine} {da`ath}

and discretion/'common sense wisdom'/concentration.

{Note: m@zimmah means focusing your thinking on 'something of value'.}

Prov. 1:4 for teaching shrewdness to the inexperienced, knowledge and discretion to a young man--

5a~~A wise one {chakam} This person has the motivation to learn.

will 'hear, listen, and obey' {shama`}

and increase doctrine {leqach}.

{Note: Chakam - a person motivated to concentrate and learn doctrine.}

5b~~And the one receiving understanding {of doctrine} {biyn}

will 'acquire common sense for leadership'/

'have principals on which to be successful'.

  {idiom: literally: 'will attain unto wise counsel'}

Prov. 1:5 a wise man [motivated to learn] will listen and increase his learning, and a discerning man will obtain guidance--

6~~To understand a proverb and its interpretation . . .

the words/'doctrinal communications' {dabar} of the wise teachers

and their 'spiritual discourses'/enigma's/'advanced doctrines'.

Doctrine is built upon doctrine. You cannot do algebra until you have first learned simple math. There must be the principle of respect for authority. No teenager will stay away from the wrong crowd unless they have respect for authority. Many do not want to get into trouble, but they get in with the wrong crowd. They get in with those without any authority-orientation. We have wrong crowds all over and these teens are the citizens of tomorrow.

There are more teens involved in crime than ever before in history; teens in jail and teens with police records. We have never had more programs for teens and all of these many programs for teens.

Teenagers from lovely home with nice parents are being involved like never before in violence and crime. Teens can makes decisions that will not just ruin their lives, but, on a widespread scale, ruin the country.

Basically, teenagers are the same; they are half boy, half man; half girl, half woman. There is always that rebelliousness in them.

Gangster syndicates are getting children to do their work for them. Every young person can be hooked under marijuana.

Prov. 1:6 for understanding a proverb or a parable, the words of the wise, and their riddles.

Next passage is going to be one of the most pertinent passages for us today. Israel was split because of the wrong crowd concept. The whole split came because of these teens who follow the wrong crowd.

1966 Proverbs                                  Prov. 1:7–19                                          584_0003

Over 2 million teens have criminal records at this time. Some teens are weak and gravitate toward the wrong crowd. There has always been a wrong crowd. The Hell’s Angels in the California area. Some getting with the drinking crowd and they get in over the heads. The only way to break up a wrong crowd is the principle of authority. There is the authority of God. The book of Proverbs. The authority of the pastor-teacher, who teaches Bible doctrine. The authority of human volition, The authority of parents. When the parents have not used their authority properly in a national entity, the country can be destroyed. Lawless apostate types who went out under the 1^st 5^th cycle of discipline. Other authorities given, like the coach and teacher.

Two are emphasized here; the authority of Bible doctrine and the authority of parents.

{Verses 7-9: Respect for Authority}

{Verse 7: Respect the Authority of Bible Doctrine}

7a~~Respect {yir'ah} for Jehovah/God

is the beginning of the knowledge {of doctrine}.

{Note: Yir'ah - literally means 'awe' - and the phrase comes to mean 'Occupation with Christ'.} Here, you want to know what He thinks. When you are in love, you want to be with them and you want to know what they think and how they think. Some people can be very attractive, but they are repugnant as company.

Occupation with Christ stimulates interest in Bible doctrine.

Whether you have loved ones, sex, or whatever; but you enjoy it when you have doctrine; and you are fine when it is taken away from you.

Your moment by moment inner happiness is dependent upon Bible doctrine. You can have money and enjoy it, or not have money, and enjoy it.

7b~~But 'stupid ones'/fools {'eviyl}

despise {buwz} both 'application of doctrine' {chokmah} This means to put your foot on something; to kick it; to despise it. The believer who is a fool despises doctrine. The stupid believer rejects doctrine and its application. Parents use to say, “I can’t come to Bible class because of my children.” You need Bible doctrine to establish the authority of the parent in the home.

and 'training under discipline' {muwcar}.

{Note: 'Eviyl is a word stronger than 'fool'. It refers here to anyone who has any detail of life set up as more important than God and His Word in their scale of values. And Buwz means to put your foot on something and kick it - this can be mentally or physically. Finally, chokmah is 'wisdom' or 'application of doctrine'.}

Prov. 1:7 The fear of the LORD [occupation with Christ] is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise [step on, kick against] wisdom and instruction.

For some of you parents, it is too late.

The secret to maintaining a country is every parent instilling discipline in their children. Bob is advocating “parent power.” Kids need training and discipline.

Rehoboam got in with the wrong crowd and this broke up the country.

{Verses 8-9: A 'Synonymous Distich' (David taught Solomon . . . here recorded by Solomon)}

{Verse 8-9: Respect the Authority of Parents}

8a~~Hear, listen and obey {shama`}

my son, the 'teachings under discipline' {muwcar - plural}

of your father {David}.

It is often the mother who knows the most doctrine, and she is in charge of teaching the children. Deut. 6:4–9 parents were to teach doctrine constantly and to use training aids.

Bob is learning a lot of parents and children during the teen class. The girls are the worst. This is 25% doctrine and 75% manners. But there are some with great interest in doctrine, and that reflects upon the parents.

{Note: Shama` means to concentrate under strict authority - to hear, listen, concentrate, and obey. Parents should teach doctrine to their children and children should listen!}

8b~~And do not forsake the 'doctrinal instructions'/law {towrah}

of your mother {Bathsheba}.

{Note: Towrah means again teaching of doctrine. This time referring to 'the Law' (Deuteronomy 6:4-9) which explained to the parents how to teach doctrine.}

Prov. 1:8 Listen, my son, to your father's instruction, and don't reject your mother's teaching,

The child who listens to doctrine will become a wonderful person. He has on his head a crown of grace. The female has a necklace of gems. A crown of grace is an idiom for someone being a wonderful person, a succesful adult.

9a~~Because these/they {doctrines resident in the soul that were taught by your parents}

are a 'wreath/crown of grace' {livyah chen} around your head. The crown means success.

{Note: RBT says this part refers to the male - and is an idiom for a 'successful adult'.}

9b~~And a 'neck-chain {of honor}' {`anaq}. This is a valuable necklace about the neck. suspended from the throat. If the kids get this doctrine, so that these children learn and understand the Word of God. These are the noblemen of Christianity.

{Note: RBT says this part refers to the female - and is another idiom for a 'successful female adult'.}

People move all around town in order to get their children with the right kind of kids. There is a wrong crowd no matter where you go. Sometimes a right crowd is made up of one child who stands up with doctrine.

Prov. 1:9 for they will be a garland of grace on your head and a gold chain around your neck.

After the 3^rd Punic war, many Romans moved into the cities and got involved with the wrong crowd. Some parents send their children to a military school to keep them from the wrong crowd.

{Verses 10-19: Enticement of the Wrong Crowd and How it can Destroy a Nation}

10~~ My son {David to Solomon}, if sinners { chatta'} 'entice you under pressure'/'seek to seduce you' {pathah} . . .do not be willing.

One boy told of a crowd who kept trying to get him to smoke. Bob illustrates with some theatrics. Any teen who smokes is an utter clod. It is a sign of weakness; it is a sign of lack of character. It destroys femininity. Bob thinks that smoking women ought to smoke a corn cob pipe or cigars.

{Note: Chatta' here is in the intensive form. It is referring to a crowd who makes a habit of sinning. And pathah here is also in the Piel intensive stem. Here using peer pressure to join them so you are not a 'square' - be a regular guy - or to call you a coward - taunting that 'you are afraid to break the law with them' type thing.}

Prov. 1:10 My son, if sinners entice you, don't be persuaded.

Proverbs was written nearly 3000 years ago and the wrong crowd has not changed. The wrong crowd gets together with tire chains and they beat him up. Waiting for blood is waiting for an innocent to do violence to.

{Verses 11-19: Activities of the Wrong Crowd Mentioned}

11~~If they shall say, "Go along with us, let us 'use violence' . . . let us 'ambush the innocent without a reason'.

{Note: 'Use violence' is an idiom. It is literally 'lay wait for blood'. This is all the 'we are a tough gang argument' - 'join us to beat up people' - mob violence.}

Don’t ever become part of a mob for any reason. A mob is cowardly. They are a frightened organization. The wrong crowd attempts to gain ascendancy in their neighborhood.

Prov. 1:11 If they say--"Come with us! Let's set an ambush and kill someone. Let's attack some innocent person just for fun!

{More Violence}

12~~Let us 'beat them up so badly it is like they are dead though still alive' and like healthy ones that go 'to prison'/'down into the pit'.

{Note: To beat them up badly is another idiom: literally 'swallow them up alive as the grave'. And the verse means they intend to brutalize anyone in their vicinity}

Prov. 1:12 Let's swallow them alive, like Sheol, still healthy as they go down to the Pit.

{Now More Lawlessness - Robbery}

13~~ We shall acquire all kinds of precious wealth, we shall fill our houses with plunder/spoil {something robbed}.

Prov. 1:13 We'll find all kinds of valuable property and fill our houses with plunder.

One purse is socialism. We are one big happy family. When you are with the wrong crowd, you are responsible for what they do en masse.

{More Anti-'God's Laws for Establishment' - Socialism of these Criminals}

14~~Throw in your lot with us, one purse shall be for all of us."

Prov. 1:14 Throw in your lot with us, and we'll all share our money"--

You can make decisions as a teen that will ruin your future.

{Verses 15-16:David's Warning Against Joining Them}

15~~My son, do not Walk in the Way with them, withdraw your foot from their path.

{Note: This warns NOT to have a pattern of life similar to theirs - stay away from them and their ways.}

Prov. 1:15 my son, don't travel that road with them or set foot on their path,

16~~For their feet hurry to evil, and they rush impetuously to shed blood.

Prov. 1:16 because their feet run toward trouble and they hurry to commit murder.

To catch birds, there was some kind of a trip stick and a net would fall to the ground over the bird and capture it. Even a smart bird can see the net. The smart teenager looks up and sees the net and says no.

{Illustration}

17~~For the net is spread out in vain in the eyes of all 'Large Birds of Prey' { ba`al kanaph}.

{Note: This is an idiom: for eagles, hawks, vultures - literally 'Lords of the Wings' - the analogy is of trying to set a trap to catch one of the big birds - the wrong crowd will try to trap teenagers by offering 'grain' (success, power, money) - and the net is set in vain if the smart bird sees the trap and avoids it.}

Prov. 1:17 It is foolish to spread a net where any bird can see it,

{Verses 18-19: Wrong Crowd Destroys itself}

18a~~But they ambush their own blood. {those who live by lawless violence, die by lawless violence}

18b~~They lay snares for their own lives {self-induced misery}. {they are the ones secretly trying to hurt or steal - but it is them who will be hurt and taken into custody}

Bob grew up in a place where the people have great privileges. One of his friends drank and drove into a telephone pole and killed himself. If you are smart, you look up and see the net. One way or another, teens through doctrine or opinion of parents, make good decisions and our country has a wonderful new generation.

Prov. 1:18 but they set an ambush to kill themselves; they attack their own lives.

19~~So are the Ways of every one that is greedy for gain which takes away the life of the owners thereof. {you get into the wrong crowd, you destroy yourself - maybe early death or, as likely, the destruction of a chance for a good productive life under God's laws}

{Note: Greedy people often lose their lives in their frantic search for money.}

 {Answers . . . Solutions to the Wrong Crowd Problem}

{Warning in the Days before that Great Civil War came to Israel (within 20 years the 10 Tribes to the North become one Entity and the 2 Tribes to the South become Another National Entity)}

Prov. 1:19 Such are the paths of all who pursue gain dishonestly; it takes the lives of those who profit from it.

1966 Proverbs                                 Prov. 1:20–27                                         584_0004

The principles of doctrine never change in the Bible. The divine institutions are given. Volition, marriage, family and nationalism. There are many approaches to the destruction or the success of a nation. They are all covered in the pages of the Word of God. Nations continue to exist as long as the human race exists, nations are constantly in flux. We think our nation is the greatest in the world, and this is true today. Nations eventually deteriorate until they no longer exist. Often, some war from without will finish off the job. The people are not the same in the United States any more. We have done everything to destroy ourselves. Our foreign policy from FDR on is very destructive. This is the foreign policy which destroyed the Athenian empire. Our give-away programs, the mental attitude of our state department, the policies which we have formulated, have lent themselves to destruction. We have allowed 3 countries to be swallowed up by communism.

No national entity has ever survived socialism. Our educational system today is contributing to our destruction. Our system of economy is set on self destruction. Our whole concept of limited war brings out this very principle. General Twining, the former chief of staff wrote this book about the military destruction of our country. Since WWII we have done nothing right. We demonstrated in WWII that we can still fight an all-out war; but we have demonstrated since then that we can do nothing right. Why are we still here? We are here in spite of socialism and communism. In spite of all these things. Every generation of teenagers become eventually the citizens of tomorrow.

There has been a succession of presidents whose policies from the executive branch lead to self-destruction. We are in a critical period of our history. The key to every generation is the kids coming up. They can turn a nation around; we can go from bad to good, rather than bad to worse. But this can only be done with Bible doctrine.

Teens face their greatest challenge and danger in going with the wrong crowd. In every generation, there is always the wrong crowd. Bob can remember all kinds of pressures from the wrong crowd; and he beat up members of the wrong crowd. Bob’s dad out of the side of his mouth, you’re a sucker to run with them. Bob’s dad was called once when Bob knocked out the teeth of another kid with a board.

We often say that the teens today are worse than before. The teens of this generation do not hold the record of having the longest hair. This actually occurred before the War Between the States. This is where the concept of state’s rights was lost.

In military life, the hair got shorter after the War Between the States. Proverbs is written to the teenagers and how to avoid civil war. Also how a national entity on the way down can recover. It all begins with Bible doctrine; that is the preservative of the national entity.

Under Jonah, there was a great revival in the Assyrian empire, and the results of Bible doctrine were still being found in the Assyrian empire 200 years later. There are no Assyrians today and no Chaldeans today.

The Persian empire became a great empire, and there were believers in high places. The Roman empire was preserved for 300 years.

3 times in Great Britain’s history the country was at the point of self-destruction; and 3 times, there was a great revival and the learning of Bible doctrine. They took nations from 3 continents out of the dark ages and millions of people are in heaven today because of the colonialism of Great Britain. College professors hate the Victorian era and colonialism; but this was a great time. The Britains who gave up these other countries, millions of Blacks are no longer being saved; millions of them are being destroyed by Blacks. There is no more cruel person in the world than an African ruling over another African. The UN is destroying the lives of Africans today and keeping them from evangelism. To make it worse, we are about to place our sovereignty under the United Nations. Many of these people would like to have the British back.

The great empires have stood upon Bible doctrine. The last stand of freedom is the United States. However, in every way, we are destroying the freedoms of others. The only way to stop this whole process is revival.

Proverbs anticipates the coming of the fifth cycle of discipline for the southern kingdom. They had many warnings. These prophets warned the people to come back to God.

The gospel and the Word of God is heard on the street.

20a~~Wisdom/'application of doctrine to life's experiences' cried 'outside'/without. {Examples: Anticipating messages of Isaiah and Jeremiah and Hosea}

20b~~She {Bible doctrine} utters her voice in the streets. {Exposing people to bible doctrine . . . but they are not listening}

{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.}

Prov. 1:20 Wisdom calls out in the street; she raises her voice in the public squares.

21a~~She {doctrine} cried in the chief place of concourse . . . in the openings of the gates.

{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.}

This was the message given to the Jews before every crisis.

Prov. 1:21 She cries out above the commotion; she speaks at the entrance of the city gates:

21b-22a~~She {Bible doctrine} uttered her words, {saying} 22~~ "How long, you stupid/simple ones, 'will you reject Bible doctrine?' {idiom: literally: 'will you love simplicity/stupidity?'} We have several words which would cover the meaning of this Hebrew word, but it would distract you. Bob could add one word to stupid to convey what this word means.

{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.}

“Many of you have innocuous pleasures.” If you have Bible doctrine, you can enjoy your pleasures; if your pleasures faze out Bible doctrine, then you will be miserable with your pleasures. If you have Bible doctrine, you can enjoy sex. If Bible doctrine is paramount, you can enjoy the details of life; and if you lose them, you can still enjoy your life.

The details of life are more important than the Bible doctrine. This person is also contributing to the destruction of his own national entity.

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.} you despise doctrinal information.

Prov. 1:22 "How long, foolish [stupid] ones, will you love ignorance [stupidity]? How long will you mockers enjoy mocking and you fools hate knowledge?

{First Solution - Rebound} this give the impact for doctrine. Turning around is rebound. There must be something to fill in the gaps, so that is turning toward doctrine. Doctrine must become your life. It must be first. It only takes a handful of believers to have impact for Jesus Christ. The unbeliever sees hypocrisy. When you offer something which is phony; something which does not line up with Bible doctrine, then it has no impact whatsoever.

23a~~'Keep on turning back'/'rebound {shuwb - change of mental attitude} at my reproof/correction.

{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.}

The day that Bob is unable to give out a little reproof, then he will disappear.

{Note: When you have sinned, use 1John 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.}

The whole war on poverty is just the expression of human good. The idea of helping this or that person and making everyone equal is human good. This is as destructive force to a nation as is national sinfulness.

23c~~I {God through 'His Word'} will make known {yada`} my words/'doctrinal communications' {dabar} {to you}."

{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.}

This is the ultimate; learning God’s Words. Apart from rebound, your life with continue to revolve around the details of life. Calling here actually means to preach. Solomon as a teenager learned a lot of doctrine; but he did refuse after awhile.

Prov. 1:23 If you turn to my discipline, then I will pour out my spirit on you and teach you my words.

{Verses 24-27- Folly of Ignoring Doctrine}

24a~~ Because . . . I have proclaimed/preached {qara'} . . . and you refused it.

{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 and no one regarded it."

{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.}

Prov. 1:24 Since I called out and you refused, extended my hand and no one paid attention,

25~~But you have set at naught all my counsel and you did not desire my reproof.

{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}

You would have nothing to do with my reproof.

Prov. 1:25 since you neglected all my counsel and did not accept my correction,

{What Happens When Disaster Comes}

26a~~I will laugh at your calamity/disaster {'eyd}.

26b~~I will mock/deride/'look my nose down upon you' {la`ag} when your fear shall come.

{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.} they will face disaster and God will then laugh at their calamity and mock them when terror strikes them.

Jeremiah taught and he was mocked. In many chapters of Jeremiah, they laughed at him and he laughed at them. If Jeremiah hadn’t laughed at them, he would have cracked up. When people constantly reject doctrine, their ministers need a sense of humor.

The Roman soldier who loved this crimson bag that he found and threw away the rocks inside, which were diamonds, rubies and emeralds.

Prov. 1:26 I, in turn, will laugh at your calamity. I will mock [to deride in the sense of looking down your nose at someone, someone who could have done fine because they had doctrine available to them] when terror strikes you,

{Verses 27-28: describes the 5th Cycle of Discipline}

27a~~When your fear comes as desolation {refers to the destruction of a nation} and your destruction comes as a whirlwind . . .

Jeremiah watched the people walk by him;; they are in shackles, and Jeremiah has no message for them; he has no help for them. When these thing happen to you and you scream for help and you go for help, remember you carry your help in your frontal lobe or you have no help.

Bob’s disasters; USC lost last week.

When these disasters come, you can no longer call up Bob on the phone. You carry the answers in your frontal lobe. If doctrine is paramount and these are only details, then no details of life can disturb you.

27b~~When distress and anguish come upon you . . . then shall they call upon Me {God}.

{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.}

Prov. 1:27 when terror strikes you like a storm and your calamity comes like a whirlwind, when trouble and stress overcome you.

1966 Proverbs                               Prov. 1:29–33a                                        584_0005

We will begin in Hosea 4.

Transportation advances and logistics have changed dramatically as of late. The principles of strategy and tactics have been developed over a long period of time; however, these changes change everything.

Politicians could do all kinds of stupid things to the military in the past because of the limitations of transportation.

The Assyrian empire was one of the strongest empires in world history. They lasted 1000 years and went 200 years without losing a battle. They went down because they neglected their military.

Rome rose as a great empire because of its military as Greek was going down. We, as a national entity, are going down, because of the things which we are doing which will contribute to our downfall. Because we are located so far away from everyone else, we could be isolationists.

This will be the pattern of our downfall. The intervention of civilians into military activity that we are setting ourselves up for defeat. Also, the national council of churches is destructive to our military as well.

There are many types of internal failures. National disintegration do to lack of the utilization of doctrine.

The Jews fell into this pattern and they had neglected their military. They had almost phrased their military out.

Hosea is viewing this situation right before the Jews of the northern kingdom are going under the fifth cycle of discipline. This is the true cause of their destruction.

This is Sargon II who will attack them.

Mother is used here to describe the basic structure of society. There is no prophet to declare Bible doctrine.

Government interference destroys personal initiative. They have decreed death by taxation. We are attempting to destroy our industry with taxation. We are trying to put government into industry. Some of the worst brains with regard to business exist in our government. We are going into mediocrity as a result.

We are passing laws to regulate everything but breathing. There are things which law can do and cannot do.

Hosea 4:5 You will stumble by day; the prophet will also stumble with you by night. And I will destroy your mother.

We have the rise of liberalism, and, at first this was not apparent because they did not attack education, but now they are in education.

In the Woodrow Wilson regime, a professor became president. Nothing worse than a liberal professor becoming president. Now we have liberals in the classroom and liberals in government.

Political liberalism is opposed to the laws of divine establishment. We have had liberals who use the military in order to enforce their political outlook, like the idea of limited war.

Behind all of this is a departure of Bible doctrine.

Rejecting Bible doctrine is what destroyed the northern kingdom. You have forgotten the law of your God, so I will forget your sons. This is the doom of any nation which has had any relationship with God in the past.

Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will reject you from serving as My priest. Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your sons.

Hosea 6:5 This is why I have used the prophets to cut them down; I have killed them with the words of My mouth. My judgment strikes like lightning.

People hear doctrine and this is associated with animal sacrifices.

Knowledge of doctrine is knowledge of God. They rejected all of this. A nation of religionists and those who depended upon rituals.

Hosea 6:6 For I desire loyalty and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

Fear is no basis for making decisions. When people panic in high or low places, then a nation falls.

When the Germans began to move into Norway, there were orders not to fire on the enemy There was confusion and betrayal. Their band marched up and down the streets playing Deutschland and Norway thought this was a huge number of Germans.

French conquered in 90 days.

This is always precede by fear. The French were frightened by the breakthrough of the Panzers. The Panzers were in their own backyard, but the line was 75 miles the other direction.

{Verses 27-28: describes the 5th Cycle of Discipline}

27a~~When your fear comes as desolation {refers to the destruction of a nation} and your destruction comes as a whirlwind . . .

They have their eyes on things and on people and on the difficult situation. During a period of relative peace, they could have absorbed Bible doctrine, but they refused to.

27b~~When distress and anguish come upon you . . . then shall they call upon Me {God}.

{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.}

Prov. 1:27 when terror strikes you like a storm and your calamity comes like a whirlwind, when trouble and stress overcome you.

I don’t think v. 28 was really covered in this hour.

28a~~But I will not answer.

28b~~They shall seek me early

but they shall not find Me.

{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.}

Prov. 1:28 Then they will call me, but I won't answer; they will search for me, but won't find me.

{What Happened}

29~~For that they hated knowledge {da`ath} and did not choose the fear/'respect of the authority of' Jehovah/God. {Occupation with the Lord - Having Him First in your Priorities}

as goes the believer in a national entity, so goes the entire nation.

They do not choose occupation with the Lord. Negative volition over a period of time leads to national disaster.

{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.}

Prov. 1:29 Because they hated knowledge, didn't choose to fear the LORD,

30a~~They would have none of my counsel. {referring to the negative volition to God and His Word}

30b~~They despised my reproof. {could not stand being told their ways were wrong}

Prov. 1:30 were not interested in my counsel, and rejected all my correction,

{Result of Lack of Intake of Doctrine: Individually - Self-Induced Misery}

31~~Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own Way and be filled with their own devices.

The believer does not learn any of the techniques or anything about Jesus Christ. The believer unaware of faith rest or of the filling of the Holy Spirit, and he therefore has no impact in life.

{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.}

Money, pleasure, friends, health, happiness are all details of life. Some happiness is success; for others, it is sex. Your happiness, if it depends upon Bible doctrine, is preserved; if it depends upon the details of life, then remove those things and you are miserable. Doctrine must be first. If doctrine is not first, then you have a system of self-induced misery.

Envy, jealousy, pride, vindictiveness. Filling of the Holy Spirit means leaving it in the Lord’s hands.

The tongues crowd is a system of self-hypnosis.

The first result of doctrine is an individual result. If Bible doctrine is not paramount in your way, then you will be filled with misery.

There is a terrible falling apart.

Prov. 1:31 they will eat the fruit of their way and be glutted with their own schemes [a reference to various mental attitude sins].

There is a collective result. That is, a nation goes down when the people of that nation go down.

Exhilaration. A crowd can get excited and exhilarated because of winning of football game, and then, the next Monday, they are down again.

{Result of Lack of Intake of Doctrine: Collectively - National Disaster} 32a~~For the apostasy {m@shuwbah} of the '{spiritually} simple' { p@thiy} shall slay them.

{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"/ 'security of fools' {shalvah k@ciyl} shall destroy them.

{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.}

The new deal and the great society are Satanic in their outlook; they expect to solve man’s problems by perfect environment. No one can create perfect environment. In the meantime, this is personal and individual.

Bob wants to develop one concept. The most important holiday in our country ought to be Armistice day. People have given their lives on battlefields so that we have our freedom. Nov. 11^th was Armistice day at the end of WWI.

Today, we are fighting a limited war in Vietnam so that politicians may further their own aims.

Our scientists almost stopped because of atomic weapons, although the Russians were pursuing this as well. “Let’s not go in for anything that would win a war.”

Bob gives a list of different types who oppose the use of nuclear weapons. These are 6 categories who actually exist and fulfill to the letter, the phrase in v. 32. The security of fools or the plans of fools. They reject the basis for national security.

Neither Liberty nor Safety is the book.

This is a gloomy situation. The individual believer and the nation.

Prov. 1:32 For the waywardness of the inexperienced [the simple, the stupid] will kill them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them.

We can’t stop right here and we are right in the middle.

The voice of the Lord is Bible doctrine. The solution to all of our problems is Bible doctrine.

33a~~But whoever 'hears, listens and obeys' {shama`} to Me {God via His Word} . . . shall dwell in security.

{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} he shall be 'at ease'/tranquil from the dangers/disaster/fear of evil.

{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.}

Prov. 1:33 But whoever listens to me will live securely [peace with happiness] and be free from the fear of danger."

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Bob skips Prov. 2 and moves into Prov. 3 in lesson 006.

 {David to Solomon}

1``My son, if you accept my doctrines {'emer}, and treasure/'store up' my commandments

Prov. 2:1 My son, if you accept my words and store up my commands within you,

2``If you make your ear attentive to wisdom/'bible doctrine applied to experience' {chokmah}, and apply your 'right lobe'/heart to discernment {tabuwn} . . .

Prov. 2:2 listening closely to wisdom and directing your heart to understanding;

3``If you call to doctrine {biynah - 'doctrine in the right lobe'}, and cry aloud to discernment {tabuwn} . . .

Prov. 2:3 furthermore, if you call out to insight and lift your voice to understanding,

4``If you seek her as you do silver, {doctrine - the primary Hebrew word for doctrine is famine so 'she' is used often for doctrine the analogy is the male being the aggressor and seeking out the female- doctrine.} and search for her {doctrine} as for treasures . . .

Prov. 2:4 if you seek it like silver and search for it like hidden treasure,

5``Then you shall perceive/understand {biyn} the respect/'awe of' Jehovah/God {an idiom for being Occupied in your thinking with the God and His Word} and attain/find the knowledge {da`ath} of 'Elohiym/Godhead.

Prov. 2:5 then you will understand the fear of the LORD and discover the knowledge of God.

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6``For Jehovah/God gives wisdom/'application of doctrine' {chokmah}. {nathan - the verb of grace - He gives it without 'strings'} Knowledge and understanding are 'out of His Mouth' {peh}.

Prov. 2:6 For the LORD gives wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding.

7``He 'lays up'/'treasures up' 'sound wisdom' {tuwshiyah} for the righteous/upright {yashar}.He is a shield to those who 'Walk righteously'/'live blamelessly'.

Prov. 2:7 He stores up success for the upright; He is a shield for those who live with integrity

8``He guards the paths of justice . . . protecting the Way of 'those loyal to Him'/'His faithful ones' {chaciyd}.

Prov. 2:8 so that He may guard the paths of justice and protect the way of His loyal followers.

9``You will then understand righteousness/justice {tsedeq - referring to your general motus operendi in life} 'divine institutions'/judgment {mishpat - referring to the 4 divine institutions and how they operate} 'but always with integrity'/'and equity' {meyshar - means personal integrity - your Word should be your Bond} . . . every good Path/'course of living {as unto God}'.

Prov. 2:9 Then you will understand righteousness, justice, and integrity--every good path.

10~~For doctrine/wisdom/chokmah {divine viewpoint from the intake of the Word} will enter into your 'right lobe'/heart, and knowledge {of doctrine} will be pleasant to your soul.

Prov. 2:10 For wisdom will enter your mind, and knowledge will delight your heart.

11-14~~Application {of doctrine} will guard you. Understanding {of doctrine} will watch over you . . .

Prov. 2:11 Discretion will watch over you, and understanding will guard you,

12~~

To deliver you from the Way of evil . . . From the man who speaks distorted things {anything that is against the divine viewpoint expressed in the Word of God} . . .

Prov. 2:12 rescuing you from the way of evil--from the one who says perverse things,

13~~

Who leave the Ways of Righteousness . . .

To wander in the Ways of darkness/'dark-out of the soul' . . .

Prov. 2:13 from those who abandon the right paths to walk in ways of darkness,

14~~

Who delight in doing evil . . . And find happiness in the distortions of evil.

Prov. 2:14 from those who enjoy doing evil and celebrate perversity,

15`` Whose ways . . .{are} crooked and distorted in their paths. {do not follow the righteous Way of God - as expressed in the principals of bible doctrine}

Prov. 2:15 whose paths are crooked, and whose ways are devious.

16``She {knowledge of bible doctrine through study of His Word} will save/deliver you from the 'strange woman' . . . {in context here is 'false doctrine' - but has physical application as well} even from the stranger 'who flatters with her words'/'whose talk is smooth'.

{Note: A person without doctrine in their soul usually is arrogant

and self-centered. A person with false doctrine easily seduces this type of person to follow them. The Phallic cult was one that used beautiful women to seduce men into 'sex in conjunction with idolatry'.}

Prov. 2:16 It will rescue you from a forbidden woman, from a stranger with her flattering talk,

17``Who forsakes the companion/guide { 'alluwph} of her youth . . . and forgets the covenant/contract {b@riyth} of her 'Elohiym/Godhead.

{Note: This 'lady of false doctrine' leaves the teaching of her youth, forsakes God, and follows other ideas or gods - or really any substitute for God and His teaching.}

Prov. 2:17 who abandons the companion of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God;

18``Her house sinks down to Death . . . And her paths/course leads to the dead/shades/'spirits of the dead' {rapha'}.

Prov. 2:18 for her house sinks down to death and her ways to the land of the departed spirits.

19``All that go to her {teachers of false doctrine} can not return . . . Neither can they find again the paths of life. {referring to coming back to God and His Truth and Walking in the Righteous Ways of God - they become deluded. They believe the lie and reject God. Each time they reject God, scare tissue goes on their souls, until they no longer have the ability to believe the Truth - then they have hardness of heart and are ready to die the

  sin unto death.}

Prov. 2:19 None return who go to her; none reach the paths of life.

20``So, Walk/follow in the Way of the good . . . And keep/guard {shamar} the paths of the righteous/just. {what you consider valuable you guard - so value the doctrine in your soul and keep it always}

Prov. 2:20 So follow the way of good people, and keep to the paths of the righteous.

21``For the upright will inhabit the land/earth {'erets} . . . And the 'spiritually mature'/'those who demonstrate integrity' {tamiym - understanding and applying divine viewpoint to experiences in life} shall remain in it.

Prov. 2:21 For the upright will inhabit the land, and those of integrity will remain in it;

22``While the wicked shall vanish/'be cut off' from the land/earth . . . And the treacherous {bagad} shall be rooted out of it.

Prov. 2:22 but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the treacherous uprooted from it.

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1966 Proverbs                                  Prov. 3:1–20                                          584_0006

First half of a 2 night series. What David taught Solomon in chapter 3 and what Solomon. taught Rehoboam taught

{Principal from Deuteronomy 6:6-9: Parents Should Teach their Children Doctrine}. You can destroy a nation in 4 generations.

{Verses 1:10 - the Wages of Doctrine - David to Solomon}

we find my son used in several verses, which tells us that this is David to Solomon.

1~~My son, forget not my law/doctrine; but let your heart/'right lobe' keep/guard my commandments/precepts/ 'categories of doctrines' {mitzvah}.

The heart never refers to emotions in the Bible. This never refers to any emotional experience. Here is a father who is teaching his son Solomon. He failed with Absalom, his favorite son, so he is giving it another shot with Solomon.

Prov. 3:1 My son, don't forget my teaching [Bible doctrine], but let your heart [the frontal lobe; the thinking part of the mind] keep my commands;

there are 3 results: a longer life, prosperity and inner happiness. A full life is an abundant life; a maximum amount of time with inner happiness. Peace is inner happiness producing stability of mentality.

2~~For length of days, and 'years of life'/long life, and prosperity/peace/'inner happiness' . . . they {the 'precepts of doctrines' in your soul} shall add to you.

There are marvelous results in the life of the believer who takes in Bible doctrine. He will have a marvelous and wonderful life.

{Note: Remember God's perfect timing. It is not necessarily a long life as we think of it, but from God's viewpoint, a full life. One that is abundant and lived under inner happiness.}

Prov. 3:2 for they will bring you many days, a full life, and well-being.

Next is the importance of knowing doctrine.

3a~~Do not let mercy/'grace in action' {checed} and doctrine/truth {'emeth} leave you.

3b~~Bind them about your neck.

{Note: Many people carried their signet rings around the neck - so doctrine is "God's signet ring" by which we cash God's checks.}

The believer is saved by grace and he will live by grace. He does not live by legalism. Legalism is man doing the work, and God accepts it gratefully; grace is, God does the work and man receives it.

Love, joy and peace is the result of the filling of the Holy Spirit. Mercy goes back to the character of the person. You treat them on the basis of your character, not theirs.

3c~~Write them upon the "tablets of your heart/'right lobe' ".

{Note: means to study doctrine, take notes, review the notes and metabolize the doctrine in the thinking part of your soul.}

A signet ring was used to write checks. Most carried this signet ring around their necks. Doctrine is the signet ring that we use to write checks on God’s account. It is doctrine in the frontal lobe which gives us the ability to cash these checks.

Prov. 3:3 Never let loyalty and faithfulness leave you. Tie them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart.

Our relationship with others depends entirely upon what goes on in our mind.

Matsah means to arrive at a destination. We arrive at God’s grace and we live there.

There is the idea that, being a good Christian means that you need to be some kind of a kook; maybe sloppy in your dress or a holy vocabulary. They think that you must have a sincere expression and they screw up their face until they have some sort of a corkscrew appearance.

Some of these have a lousy personality and that is why others do not like them. Believers and unbelievers both do not care for them. Bible schools graduate 50 to 90% of people like this. Doctrine is not taught in Bible institutes or in Christian schools. They get a lot of watch your language and stuff like that. They come out and no one likes them. Proverbs wades through all of this silly business.

Christians go in for this vicious, phoney mind; and spite and other mental attitude sins. The permanent results come from Bible doctrine.

4~~So {a result} shall you find grace/favor {chen} and good understanding {towb sekel} {about the will/design/plan of God} in the sight of 'Elohim/Godhead and {in the sight of} man.

Someone who used a holy roller to help him find oil; so he walked around until he had a feeling.

Prov. 3:4 Then you will find grace and high regard [good understanding] in the sight of God and man.

{Verses 5-6: Doctrine is the basis of Divine Guidance} You must have Bible doctrine in the frontal lobe.

You cannot live the Christian life and be filled with all kinds of mental attitude sins, like worry or fear. The antithesis of worry and fear is trust.

5a~~Trust {batach means to take your problems and dump them upon God} in Jehovah/God with all your 'right lobe'/heart.

 {Note: Batach refers to the 'Faith Rest Technique'. Originally it was a wrestler's term - to 'body slam your troubles to God'. We all start with 'human viewpoint'. From the bible, we learn 'divine viewpoint'. Lean on the Lord and His Word. Then you will know how to Walk in the Righteous Ways of God.}

You have to think doctrine. It is God that solves man’s problems.

5b~~And do not lean on your 'own doctrine'/'human viewpoint thinking' {biynah}.

Prov. 3:5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not rely on your own understanding;

6~~In all of your Ways . . . know {yada`} Him {God}, therefore, He shall level {yashar} your paths'.

The things that counts is to know doctrine. Morality is not the Christian way of life.

You cannot know Christ or love Him apart from doctrine in your soul. That is the only way you can be occupied with Him.

{Note: This means that doctrine is paramount in your life when you know God. And how do you 'know God?' . . . by knowing His Thinking - which is in written form today - means to study bible doctrine. Finally, without God you have mountains in your paths - He will cut the barrier down to your size.}

You can enjoy the details of life as long as you have doctrine. Whether you keep them or lose them, you still have doctrine in your soul.

The problems appear to be mountains off in the distance, but we get there, and God has leveled them so that we can easily pass over them.

Prov. 3:6 think about Him in all your ways, and He will guide you on the right paths.

{Verses 7-8: Protection from Mental Attitude Sins}

7a~~Be not 'wise' {chakam} in your own eyes.

{Note: This is an idiom for pride and arrogance - and the whole string of mental attitude sins.} fear, worry, vindictiveness, jealousy, spite, hatred; the greatest enemy in the area of sinfulness is in the mind.

You cannot emote your way out of this.

7b~~Respect/'Be in awe of' Jehovah/God. {principal of 'Occupation with Christ'}

7c~~And depart from 'the evil'. {the Spirit filled life - salvation, rebound when necessary, take in doctrine, apply it to life - overcomes evil, which here is emphasizing your own 'old sin nature'}

Prov. 3:7 Don't consider yourself to be wise; fear the LORD and turn away from evil.

The absence of mental attitude sins means a healthier body. Sometimes medicine today will treat the psyche in order for the body to do better.

8a~~It shall 'lead to a healthy body'. {idiom: literally: 'health to your navel'}

8b~~And 'strength in your body'. {idiom again: literally: 'marrow to your bones'}.

{Note: The absence of arrogance and other mental attitude sins protects the physical body as well as your spiritual condition.}

Prov. 3:8 This will be healing for your body and strengthening for your bones.

{Verses 9-10: Doctrine Motivates Giving} No one should give unless they understand it. Unbelievers should not give money. Bob sometimes gets these checks and when it is an unbeliever, then the money is turned back to him. Giving is for the believer only.

We are told here to honor God with our substance but it does not say tithe here. Tithing is taxation. Often tithes is put together with offerings. Tithing was a system of income tax. They paid a tenth to maintain the Levitical tribe, most people give God a tithe as a bribe. People think they can bribe God with these measly 10%

Smart people should not be penalized; successful people should not be penalized. There was another tithe for the feasts and sacrifices. Then, every 3^rd year, a tithe for the poor.

Deut. 18:1-5 offerings are to be from believers only.

A denomination tried to castigate Bob for his teaching on tithing; and they claimed they would have no money if people believed what Bob is teaching.

The doctrine is to come first; money is a detail and secondary. It is not money you need; it is doctrine that you need.

Abram paid Melchizedek 10% and he was considered a citizen. He could have kept the money, but did not. He became a citizen with the bread and wine.

9~~Glorify {kabad} Jehovah/God with your substance {hown}, and with the firstfruits of all your increase.

{Note: There is no glory if your free will is not involved - you must want to give because He gave FIRST. The word INCREASE is the key. The only reason any believer ever 'increases' is because of God!}

Prov. 3:9 Honor the LORD with your possessions and with the first produce of your entire harvest;

{Note: The verse does not say 'tithes'. Tithing is NOT giving - it is taxation and is not a part of spiritual giving. Taxation was for believer and unbeliever alike in Israel. So 'tithes' was closer to our Income Tax situation today. Churches have NO RIGHT to ask you for a certain percentage! You give as God has graced you! And, if you are not a believer, you have no right to give! Spiritual giving is a PRIVILEGE for believers only and the amount is between the believer and the Lord and is no one else's business - period! They ask for a percentage out of ignorance and those who pay . . . pay out of ignorance of bible doctrine. Ignorance plus ignorance does not equal wisdom.}

10~~So shall your barns be filled with plenty {material prosperity}, and your presses shall burst out with new wine. {two idioms for business prosperity}

Prov. 3:10 then your barns will be completely filled, and your vats will overflow with new wine.

 {Verses 11-20: Blessings of Grace}

{Verses 11-12: First Blessing of Grace is Discipline}

{Quoted in Hebrews Chapter 12:5}

11a~~My son, do not reject the discipline of Jehovah/God.

11b~~Therefore, do not loath His punishment.

If we got from God what we deserve, we’ve be dead. Bob on a football injury didn’t feel anything. When he was shot, he had a seering pain and then he didn’t feel anything.

Prov. 3:11 Do not despise the LORD's instruction, my son, and do not loathe His discipline;

12~~For whom Jehovah/God loves He judges {yakach} . . . even as a father to the son in whom He delights {ratsah}.

{Note: How does God judge us? He judges by punitive actions. God treats us in grace even when He disciplines us. The very fact you are alive and suffering is Grace. If He gave any of us what we deserved, we would be dead and not hurting anymore!}

Bob’s father always told him, “This will hurt you more than it hurts me.” But Bob never bought it. Bob did not understand this until he had to swat Bobby.

Prov. 3:12 for the LORD disciplines the one He loves, just as a father, the son he delights in.

{Proverbs Chapter 3: 13-18 See Revelation Chapter 2:7}

3:13~~Happinesses . . . to the man who finds wisdom and the man that gains understanding {of doctrine} {tabuwn}.

{Note: Wisdom here is chokmah and would be epignosis in the Greek. Happiness STARTS with understanding doctrine! There are TWO types of happiness - 1) Inward - inner happiness and 2) Overt happiness. Both bound up in one package - doctrine in your soul}

Wisdom is the application of doctrine.

Prov. 3:13 Happy is a man who finds wisdom and who acquires understanding,

14~~For 'its profit'/'the acquisition of it' {cachar} {the 'it' is wisdom - which is the only knowledge that means anything - God's Divine Viewpoint} . . . is better than the profit/acquisition of money . . . and its gain {t@buw'ah} . . . than fine gold. {believers should seek to gain doctrine, like most people seek to gain Gold!}

Prov. 3:14 for she is more profitable than silver, and her revenue is better than gold.

She refers to doctrine.

{Verses 15-18: Doctrine is from God's Grace}

15a~~She {doctrine} is more precious than jewels/rubies {paniyn}. {not only a sign of wealth but of enjoyment of the things from wealth}

15b~~And nothing {no detail of life - health, money, pleasure, success, popularity, loved ones} can compare to her {Bible doctrine}.

{Note: You can wipe out all details of life and still have happiness if you have the capacity for happiness in your life. But without the capacity for happiness that comes from doctrine, you will not be happy with any or all of these things.}

Prov. 3:15 She is more precious than jewels; nothing you desire compares with her.

 16a~~Long life is in her right hand. {concept of a FULL life as well as a long life. Doctrine can be the basis of long life - but it will be the basis for a full, happy, contented life.}

16b~~And in her {doctrine's} left hand are riches and honor. {You always get the right hand. But sometimes, you get the left hand 'in time' also. This refers to riches and rewards in time by advancing to spiritual maturity. There will also be rewards in eternity future for the spiritually mature believer.}

Prov. 3:16 Long life is in her right hand; in her left, riches and honor.

17a~~Her {Doctrine's} Ways are pleasant ways.

17b~~And her paths are pleasantness/prosperity/'mental stability' {no`am}.

Prov. 3:17 Her ways are pleasant, and all her paths, peaceful.

{See Revelation Chapter 2:7}

18a~~ She {Doctrine} is a tree of life to them that lay hold of her. {Those who study and retain doctrine}

18b~~'And happy are all that hold her'/'Receiving inner happiness . . . the one who hangs on to her {doctrine}'. {Those with doctrine resident in the soul}

{Note: The tree of life in the garden is prohibited after the fall. Now doctrine is the tree of life. The key to happiness. The secret to happiness in this life is to 'eat of the tree of life' - resident and function in the Divine Dynasphere.}

Prov. 3:18 She is a tree of life to those who embrace her, and those who hold on to her are happy.

{Verses 19-20: The Plan of God from Grace}

19a~~Jehovah/God by wisdom {Wisdom is 'His Thinking' - 'His Viewpoint' - 'His Word' - and the Word became Flesh - Jehovah here is Jesus Christ - and it refers to His Thinking - He 'thought' and the Earth came into existence} has established/'laid the foundation of' the Earth.

By His mind, Jesus Christ established the heavens.

19b~~By understanding, He has established the heavens.

{Note: The universe's creation was the mental operation of His mind - His Omniscience combined then with his Omnipotence and the universe was created - and we have His Mind in writing - bible doctrine.}

Prov. 3:19 The LORD founded the earth by wisdom and established the heavens by understanding.

20~~By His knowledge {the Omniscience of Jesus Christ} the waters are divided and the clouds drop down the dew. {Two idioms for prosperity under an agricultural society - rain - but what is the source of this prosperity? The thinking of God.}

If we have doctrine, we may or may not have doctrine; but we have the source.

Prov. 3:20 By His knowledge the watery depths broke open, and the clouds dripped with dew.

1966 Proverbs                                 Prov. 3:21–35                                         584_0007

A great part of this book is David teaching his son Solomon; and the next chapter is Solomon teaching his son Rehoboam.

{Verses 21-35: Impact of Bible Doctrine}

{Verses 21-22: Importance of Application of Doctrine

21a~~My son let not them {principals of Bible doctrine} depart from your eyes.

There is inner happiness and overt happiness, both of which are a result of learning Bible doctrine. The inner mental happiness is Bible doctrine in the soul. Everything else in life is a detail. The tribe of Asher gets its name from happiness. David was running from Absalom, and he realized, while he had lost everything, he still had Bible doctrine. He lost his palaces, his wives, his great status symbols. Psalms 3, 4, 23 are all about David fleeing from Absalom.

Bob goes back and reviews Happinesses to those who pursue Bible doctrine. This is from the previous lesson. She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her. Bible doctrine was in the mind of God before he created the universe and while He reorganized the earth for mankind. We have Bible doctrine available to us.

My son is David teaching Solomon.

Note: The 'eyes' have to do with perception and application of doctrine.}

21b~~Keep sound wisdom {tuwshiyah} and discretion/'common sense wisdom'/concentration. {m@zimmah - means focusing your thinking on 'something of value'}

Doctrine must be your life. We have status symbols, money, family, health; and these are all details. You life is in doctrine; these other things are in the periphery. If your life is not Bible doctrine, then you have had it. You cannot get enough of it.

Bible doctrine attracts. It will pull people toward you.

Prov. 3:21 Maintain your competence and discretion [doctrine organize; doctrine presented categorically]. My son, don't lose sight of them.

22a~~So shall they {principals of doctrine} be life unto your soul {nephesh}.

{Note: The real life of your soul is bible doctrine - it is more important than the air you breathe}

22b~~And grace/favor {chen} around your neck. {like jewelry - it hangs around you like a beautiful necklace - grace attracts}

The believer who is squared away wears doctrine like a necklace.

{Note: If you know doctrine, then you know that doctrine is your life. The only way to know God and His Character and His Essence and His Mind, His attitude, His concept, His plan, is by studying doctrine. Without doctrine 'love' is superficial. To really love someone, you need to know the real person first - their thinking. So if you have doctrine, God and His Word is your life - all other things are the 'details of your life'.}

Prov. 3:22 They will be life for you and adornment for your neck.

{Verses 23-26: Doctrine Produces Confidence}

Life is filled with weirdos. They see you with confidence and they cannot relate. They are antagonistic toward confidence because they don’t have it. They want you to speak with round shoulders and a downcast look. However, the Word of God provides confidence.

{Note: Confidence is NOT a sin! Many will try to make it seem 'haughty' when someone shows confidence. They are applying their sins and weaknesses to the person who they are seeing and envying. Knowledge of doctrine provides confidence in all areas of their lives.}

23a~~Then you shall Walk in your Way 'with confidence'/securely {betach}.

{Note: The 'Walk' is step by step through life - the confidence comes with knowledge of God's viewpoint.} We take walking for granted; but learning to walk again is quite something and there is quite an art to it, because you are always off-balance to some degree.

23b~~And your foot shall not stumble.

{Note: This has to do with coordination - when you have confidence you can Walk straight and tall and not stumble.} One foot of the other made contact with something which throws you off.

Bob is ready for a good fight too. He is in shape. Bob makes a study of those who sit. The primary factor in walking is balance and coordination.

Prov. 3:23 Then you will go safely on your way; your foot will not stumble.

When David was fleeing from Absalom, the lowest point in his life, because Absalom was a chip off the old block. Absalom looked just like David as a young man. But David has doctrine and Absalom does not have any doctrine. When Absalom returned, David would not see him for 3 years, because he killed his half-brother. David had mental attitude sins. This caused Absalom to become bitter.

24a~~When you lie down, you shall not be afraid.

{Note: Only can be if you have doctrine in your soul and leave it up to the Lord to protect you - Faith Rest Technique}

24b~~Yes, you shall lie down, and your sleep shall be sweet.

Psalm 3 or 4; David had lost everything, but he could sleep. This is the worst night of David’s life, but he had marvelous peace and fell asleep easily.

{Note: When David was fleeing his son Absalom who revolted against him, David lost everything (Psalm 4:8) yet he could lay down and sleep as they marched away from the city. When you have doctrine, no matter how great the disaster, you will be able to lie down and sleep peacefully.}

Prov. 3:24 When you lie down, you will not be afraid; you will lie down, and your sleep will be pleasant.

25a~~Be not afraid of catastrophe/'sudden fear'.

25b~~Neither of the plots of the wicked, when it {their plotting} comes.

{Note: They do not always plot against you, but when they do, do not fear.}

All hell is plotting against us.

Prov. 3:25 Don't fear sudden danger or the ruin [plotting] of the wicked when it comes,

Jesus Christ is our confidence. He has always existed and He is omniscient. The Bible is the mind of Christ. Bible doctrine becomes our confidence. It is there and there forever.

26a~~For Jehovah/God shall be your confidence {kecel}. {Y@hovah actually is the verb 'to be' in absolute status quo - "I am . . . the Always Existing One" RBT says it is God the Son in view here}

26b~~And shall keep your foot from being trapped. {with doctrine to guide you, you do not step in a trap, pit, hole - you do what Doctrine teaches and you will avoid a lot of the pitfalls and snares in Satan's world}

This is how we keep on walking, despite all of the snares put before us.

Prov. 3:26 for the LORD will be your confidence and will keep your foot from a snare.

{Verses 27-31: The Relationships of Doctrine}

27~~'Withhold not'/'Do not restrain' good {divine good} from them to whom it is due/owed,

when it is in the power of your hand to do.

{Note: Only when in fellowship does God produce divine good through us - so first of all required is a mental attitude free of sins - that is the first thing we owe to fellow believers - to love them. And only under the power of the filling of God the Holy Spirit can we do this.}

{Note: From Romans we learn that we are to owe no man except love - this is the principal of impersonally loving other believers based on the doctrine resident in your soul - who and what YOU are, not at all related to what they are.} We owe fellow believers divine good, not hug. There is envy and spit and vindictiveness. They do not love each other when this is in their thinking. They may say 5 good things about each other, but it is phony. If you have the correct mental attitude, then you can help another believer. That is grace.

A proverbs Bob learned; a slow-paced favor is a favorless favor.

Prov. 3:27 When it is in your power, don't withhold good from the one to whom it is due.

{Avoid Mental Torture}

28~~Do not say to your neighbor, "Go away, and come again, and tomorrow I will give . . . when you have it 'by you'/'right then and there'.

{Note: This is mental torture. You can help your fellow believer right then and there, but you put him to shame by making him come back and beg. Don't do it. A Greek proverb is 'a slow paced favor is a flavorless favor'.}

The principle of privacy follows. Here, you are not to downgrade a neighbor. When you are happy and relaxed, it does not concern you what others think or feel. The minister needs this, because you have all of those in your congregation who are mad at you and many who love you. You are happy because you have Bible doctrine. Therefore, envy not.

Prov. 3:28 Don't say to your neighbor, "Go away! Come back later. I'll give it tomorrow"--when it is there with you.

{Respect the Privacy of Those in Your Periphery}

29~~Do not fabricate evil against your neighbor . . . seeing he dwells securely by you.

{Note: Here a system of lies or some other way to downgrade your neighbor - the mind your own business principal.}

Prov. 3:29 Don't plan any harm against your neighbor, for he trusts you and lives near you.

30~~Strive not with a man without cause, if he has done you no harm.

{Note: This is the 'mind your own business' principal. Do not start trouble. Also fits for the revolutionist.}

Prov. 3:30 Don't accuse anyone without cause, when he has done you no harm.

 31a~Do not {intensively} envy { qana'} the oppressor {'iysh}.

{Note: Qana' here is the Piel intensive stem meaning a lack of being relaxed - behind all the bad relationships being covered is 'mental attitude'. And, 'iysh we know from the previous verse is the one who is a bully or does not mind his own business.}

31b~~And choose none of his Ways.

{Note: Means do not 'retaliate' or bully back or spread rumors about him because he did about you.}

Prov. 3:31 Don't envy a violent man or choose any of his ways;

32a~~For the 'perverted one' {luwz} is abomination to Jehovah/God.

{Note: The person who is minus Divine Viewpoint in his soul - no doctrine - is the perverted one. They can not Walk the righteous way of God if they do not know the righteous Way of God.}

32b~~But His secret is with the righteous {yashar}.

{Note: His 'secret' is divine viewpoint - it is unknown to the unbeliever and the believer negative to the study of doctrine.}

Prov. 3:32 for the devious are detestable to the LORD, but He is a friend to the upright.

Bob seemed to jump to here from several verses back.

{Verses 33-35: Antithetical Distich Verses (In common but Opposite)}

33a~~The curse of Jehovah/God is on the house of the evil. {sin + arrogance = evil; and also, human good + arrogance = evil}

{Note: The curse of God is most frightening thing in the world!}

33b~~But He blesses the dwelling 'where there is'/of 'imputed righteousness'/'the just' {tsaddiyq}.

Solomon’s early reign was fantastic, until he got out of line.

Prov. 3:33 The LORD's curse is on the household of the wicked, but He blesses the home of the righteous;

David has doctrine, and David is the lowly, or the humble. Absalom is the scorner. David recovered and Absalom did not. God is caused to reject the scorner. Absalom was getting away, and got caught in the limb of a tree, and the wise Joab had him killed. Absalom was not in revolt to David; but he was in revolt to Bible doctrine.

34a~He {God} keeps on being caused to scorn/mock/ridicule {luwts - Hiphil imperfect} the scorner/ scoffer/'arrogant negative type' {lusts}. {luwts - means someone who is indifferent to something that is important}

34b~~But He gives grace to the humble {`anav}.

{Note: This verse is quoted in James 4:6. David failed many, many times. He was a murderer. He was a rapist. He was guilty of the half-forgiveness of Absalom. But he always returned to doctrine. His mind was so loaded up with doctrine that his thinking was very close to divine viewpoint.}

Doctrine should be your life, but if you push it away all of your life, then you no longer have a life. So God takes away your life.

Prov. 3:34 He mocks those who mock, but gives grace to the humble.

35a~~The wise {chakam} will inherit honor/glory {SuperGrace blessings}.

{Note: The spiritually mature believer is the one who is "wise" where it counts - in spiritual terms. He is the one who learns doctrine and applies it to experience.}

35b~~But fools {k@ciyl} {those in the interlocking systems of arrogance + negative to

  doctrine} carry away dishonor/shame. {shame - that which brings his life to ruin}

Absalom was carried away by shame.

David loved Bathsheba and their son Absalom. When Solomon recovered, he wrote down David’s teaching.

Prov. 3:35 The wise will inherit honor, but He holds up fools to dishonor.

Now we have Solomon trying to get the same message across of Rehoboam.

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At this point, Bob’s study jumps around. So the Syndein/Thieme site will be inserted and the lessons will be placed in the order that Proverbs is arranged. So Lesson #0008 is moved forward quite a bit because it covers Prov. 30.

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{Chapter 4 - What Solomon Taught His Son Rehoboam}

1~~'Hear, listen and obey' {shama`}, you children {ben}, the doctrine/instruction {muwcar - 'to train by discipline' - to teach under authority will teach the principal of respect for authority - that child will respect authority for life - if this is not taught the child will not respect others, their property, their rights - a bad start in life} of a father {'Abimelech}, and 'listen carefully' to know doctrine {biynah}. {biynah - 'doctrine in the right lobe'}

Listen carefully to learn good doctrine.

Prov. 4:1 Sons, hear the instruction of a father, and listen in order to know understanding.

2~~For I {Solomon} give you {Rehoboam} good doctrine/'teaching of what we believe' {leqach} . . . forsake you not my law {towrah}.

Prov. 4:2 For I give you good teaching; do not forsake my law.

3~~For I {Solomon} was my father's son {David's son}, tender and unique/only {means that after the death of Absalom, David selected him to be the next king} beloved in the sight of my mother {Bathsheba}.

Prov. 4:3 For I was my father's son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.

4~~He {David} taught me {Solomon} also, and said unto me, "Let your 'right lobe'/heart retain my words/'doctrinal communications {dabar} . . . keep my commandments {mitzvah}, and live. {meaning 'how to live the spiritual life' to live by divine viewpoint - to Walk in the Righteous Ways of God}

You will live only because Bible doctrine is first in your life.

Prov. 4:4 He also taught me, and said to me, Let your heart hold fast my words, keep my commandments and live.

5~~Get doctrine/wisdom {chokmah} {chokmah - the only wisdom that counts - doctrine resident in your soul}. . . get 'understanding of doctrine' {biynah}. {biynah - 'doctrine in the right lobe'}. Forget it {his imploring from father to son} not. Neither decline from the words/'doctrinal communications' {dabar}

of my mouth.

Prov. 4:5 Get wisdom, get understanding; forget not; nor turn away from the words of my mouth.

{Lover's Terms - 'How much 'heavy necking' have you done with doctrine?'}

6~~Forsake her {doctrine} not . . and she shall preserve you. Love her . . . {active . . . aggressive love} and she shall guard you.

These are all lover’s terms. You make love to doctrine and doctrine will carry you all of your life. Lady Luck is fickle but Lady Doctrine is dependable.

{Note: The analogy is 'right man' - the believer - pursuing after his 'right woman' - God and His Word here. In the book of Jeremiah, Jeremiah uses the analogy often for the man being adulterous to his right woman - by going into the Phallic Cult idolatry. So, here Solomon is saying to love God and His Word as you would a woman whom you love. Be aggressive. Actively pursue her (doctrine). And, the only true love starts with love in the soul. You must know a woman's soul/thinking to really love her. The same with God and His Word.}

Prov. 4:6 Do not forsake her, and she shall preserve you; love her, and she shall keep you.

7~~Wisdom/ 'application of Divine Viewpoint to experience'{chokmah} . . . is the paramount thing. Therefore get wisdom . . . and with all your getting . . . get 'understanding of Divine Viewpoint'/ 'doctrine resident in your soul' {biynah}.

Prov. 4:7 Wisdom is the main thing; get wisdom; and with all your getting get understanding.

8~~Exalt/'Esteem highly' {calal} her {doctrine} {calal - means to dress her up nicely and show her off - take her out and show her off to the world - show her a good time - take her with you wherever you go!} and she shall promote you!

She {doctrine} shall bring you to honor, when you do 'embrace her' {chabaq}. {chabaq - is stronger than embrace. It is a very descriptive word for 'making love to her'.}

{Note: This whole section is one of having a true interest in doctrine, courting her, showing her off to the world - and SHE will bring to you promotion (spiritual promotion and possibly physical promotion in time also but certainly in eternity future) and honor (both in time and eternity).}

Take doctrine with you; wine and dine her; show doctrine a good time. There are many marvelous words here for sexual love. Bob wouldn’t be embarrassed but we would be.

Prov. 4:8 Prize her, and she shall lift you up; she shall bring you to honor when you embrace her.

9~~She {doctrine} shall give to your head an ornament of grace . . . a 'crown of glory' shall she deliver to you.

{Note: This is an analogy to a 'status symbol' - a beautiful woman on the arm of a 'great man'. Have doctrine with you and be honored and 'walk with confidence' when she travels with YOU!}

Solomon was quite a lover himself; so he used a lot of these terms. “You start chasing doctrine like you chase after girls” is how he explained this to Rehoboam.

Prov. 4:9 She shall give to your hand an ornament of grace; she shall shield you with a crown of glory.

10~~'Hear, listen and obey' {shama`}, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of your life shall be many.

{Note: Doctrine is life. Doctrine should be your life. Again this is the concept of a fulfilled, happy life as opposed to a large number of years. They may come also, but God takes the mature believer at the right time - HE knows when that is.}

Prov. 4:10 Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of your life shall be many.

11~~I {Solomon} have taught you {Rehoboam} in the way of wisdom. I have led you in right paths. {Walking in the righteous Ways of God}

Prov. 4:11 I have taught you in the way of wisdom; I have led you in the right paths.

{A rebound verse quoted in Hebrews 12:13}

12~~When you go, your steps shall not be 'in distress'/'in dire straits' {yatsar}. And when you run . . . you shall not stumble.

Prov. 4:12 When you go, your steps shall not be narrowed, and when you run, you shall not stumble.

13~~'Take fast hold' {chazaq} {'take hold' is an analogy of your woman going out the door! She is walking out on you. Don't let her get away!} of doctrine/'training by discipline'/instruction {muwcar}. Let her {doctrine} not go. Keep her . . . for she {doctrine} is your life! Doctrine is running off; so grab her. Take her and keep her because doctrine is your life.

Prov. 4:13 Take fast hold of instruction; do not let go; keep her; for she is your life.

1Kings 12 Rehoboam took his advice from friends and not from Bible doctrine and this split up the kingdom.

1Kings 12:8–19 But he rejected the advice of the elders who had advised him and consulted with the young men who had grown up with him and served him. He asked them, "What message do you advise that we send back to these people who said to me, 'Lighten the yoke your father put on us'?" Then the young men who had grown up with him told him, "This is what you should say to these people who said to you, 'Your father made our yoke heavy, but you, make it lighter on us!' This is what you should tell them: 'My little finger is thicker than my father's loins! Although my father burdened you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke; my father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with barbed whips.'" So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day, as the king had ordered: "Return to me on the third day." Then the king answered the people harshly. He rejected the advice the elders had given him and spoke to them according to the young men's advice: "My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke; my father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with barbed whips." The king did not listen to the people, because the turn of events came from the LORD to carry out His word, which the LORD had spoken through Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam son of Nebat. When all Israel saw that the king had not listened to them, the people answered him: What portion do we have in David? We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse. Israel, return to your tents; David, now look after your own house! So Israel went to their tents, but Rehoboam reigned over the Israelites living in the cities of Judah. Then King Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was in charge of forced labor, but all Israel stoned him to death. King Rehoboam managed to get into the chariot and flee to Jerusalem. Israel is in rebellion against the house of David until today.

14~~Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way {manner of life} of evil men.

{Note: But this is what Rehoboam did. This is the story of I Kings 12:8. He turned down his wise counselors who had been with Solomon instead following the advice of his young friends and he divided the kingdom.}

Prov. 4:14 Enter not into the path [the way or counsel] of the wicked, and go not into the way of evil.

15~~Avoid it . . . pass not by it . . . turn from it . . . and pass away. {meaning to stay away from evil counselors - their thinking (and actions from those thoughts) will ruin you. Apparently Solomon saw that even as a teenager Rehoboam was influenced by the

  wrong crowd.}

{Description of the Wrong Crowd (in particular those who Gave Counsel to Rehoboam in I Kings 12:8)}

Prov. 4:15 Avoid it; do not pass by it; turn from it, and pass on!

16-17~~For they sleep not . . . except they have done mischief.

  {means they can not go to bed happy unless they have done

  something to harm someone}

And their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.

Prov. 4:16 For they do not sleep, except when they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away unless they cause some to fall.

17~~ For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

Prov. 4:17 For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.

Notice how death is described; a perfect day.

18~~But {in contrast to the wicked thinkers - 'but' here means 'separate from them'} the path of the just/righteous {tsaddiyq} . . . {is} as the shining light, that shines more and more unto the perfect day. {the perfect day is the day you die - and the death of the righteous is perfect - principal of dying grace}

Prov. 4:18 But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shines more and more to the perfect day.

19~~The way {manner of life} of the wicked is as darkness. They know not at what they stumble. {these people simply do not know what they are doing - Walking using your own human viewpoint means it is like you stumble through the dark all your life}

Prov. 4:19 The way of the wicked is as darkness; they know not at what they stumble.

20~~My son, attend to my words. Incline your ear unto my sayings.

Prov. 4:20 My son, listen to my words; bow down your ear to my sayings.

21~~Let them {categories of doctrine} not depart from your eyes. Keep them in the middle

of your 'right lobe'/heart {mentality of the soul}.

Prov. 4:21 Let them not depart from your eyes; keep them in the midst of your heart.

22~~For they {principals of doctrine} are life unto those that find them. And health to all their flesh.

Prov. 4:22 For they are life to those who find them, and health to all his flesh.

23~~Keep your 'right lobe'/heart with all diligence. {work hard to avoid the mental attitude sins} For out of it are the issues of life. {every issue in your life comes out of your thinking - you replace your human viewpoint with God's divine viewpoint and He can produce divine good through you. You Walk with your human viewpoint and no matter what you do (good, neutral, or bad) it is all wood, hay and stubble - and does not advance the plan of God - He is divine and only rewards that which is 'divine good' (and only He can produce divine anything - and that is produced under the energy of God the Holy Spirit).}

Prov. 4:23 Keep your heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

Rehoboam listened to his friends, who were all like this, with wicked mouths.

24~~Put away from you a perverted {`iqq@shuwth} mouth. {sins of the tongue originate from mental attitude sins - you are adding sin to sin - gossip, maligning, belittler} And perverse/deviated/crooked {l@zuwth} lips . . . put far from you. {these are Rehoboam's friends who are constantly putting down others}

Prov. 4:24 Put away from you a wicked mouth [the gossip, the maligner, the betlittler], and devious lips put far from you.

25~~Let your eyes look 'right on' {nokach}. {right on here is Occupation with Christ} Let your eyelids look straight before you.

Prov. 4:25 Let your eyes look right on, and let your eyelids look straight before you.

26~~Ponder the path of your feet. Let all your Ways {manners of life} be established.

Prov. 4:26 Ponder the path of your feet, and all your ways will be established.

The kingdom would have not been split, had Rehoboam listened to his father, Solomon.

27 Turn not to the right hand nor to the left. {idiom like we would say 'hit the nail on the head' - to be 'right on target'} Remove your foot from evil. {this means to use I John 1:9 and rebound your sins whenever you have committed a known sin - then you are back in fellowship and, in the Church Age, filled with God the Holy Spirit}

Prov. 4:27 Do not turn to the right hand nor to the left; remove your foot from evil.

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{Chaper 5 - Category 2 Love Relationship to Illustrate Pseudo-love}

1~~My son {Father to Son - David teaching Solomon},

concentrate on {qashab } 'my doctrine' {chokmah}

 {and ignore pseudo-love},

and extend your ear to my understanding

 {concentrate hard on this subject - means strict discipline in the

  assimilation of doctrine}.

{Beware of feminine divisiveness - and vice versa}

2~~For the purpose that you may guard

against feminine divisiveness . . .

 {because this is father to son - mother to daughter would have

  been vice versa}

as for knowledge that your lips may guard it

  {idiom meaning 'if you know this, you can protect against it'}.

{Note: The man is at his worst in a romantic situation and easily acts foolishly.}

3~~For distilled honey drips

from the lips of a woman

   {in reversionism - who is a nymphomaniac}

and smoother/'more flattering'

than oil is the inside of her mouth

 {we call this French kissing and also means she has

  a line to stroke the ego of a genius or a dumb person so beware}.

4~~But 'the latter end of her'/'entanglement with her'

becomes bitter like wormwood . . .

  {end of her life is bitter - or entanglement with her is bitter}

sharp as a two-edged sword.

{Note: Wormwood was used to distill the hardest liqueur made of the day - absinthe - it is so strong that it can drive you insane.}

5~~Her seductive feet

   {in this day, the women only showed their feet}

are going down unto death

   {referring to the sin unto death}.

Her sexy mincing steps embrace/'conjugal relationship with' {tamak}

the grave/Sheol { sh@'owl}.

{Note: The women's clothes of the day covered her from head down to the ankles so the feet were seductive objects. Walking was also the transportation of the day. She is collecting so many men that she is headed for the last stage of divine discipline. Little humor here. She is embracing so many men that the last one she embraces with those sexy feet is the grave!}

6~~Perhaps you should consider her manner of LIVES . . .

 {plural - refers to her sex acts - maybe three or more a day}

her manner of LIFE wavers back and forth

   {she is unfaithful and unstable} . . .

You do not understand her!

{Note: She is leading many men on and so is leading many 'lives' in the analogy. No man can understand an unfaithful, unstable woman.}

7~~Listen to me at this time {shama' - hear listen and obey},

my sons {David's sons here and all his students},

and do not deviate/pervert/depart

from the words/'doctrinal communications' {dabar} of my mouth.

8~~Be caused to keep your way of life